Happy New Year and a prosperous Year of the Dragon
Today is the first day of the first lunar month.
Led by the year of 100 festivals.
During the Chinese New Year. There are many customs and exquisiteness.
Do you know all these customs?
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How much do you know about New Year's customs
New Year's greetings
New Year's greetings are a traditional Chinese folk custom, which is a way for people to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new year and express good wishes to each other. In ancient times, the original meaning of the word "New Year's greeting" was to celebrate the New Year for the elderly. New Year's greetings generally start at home.
On the morning of the first day of the new year, after the younger generation gets up, they should first greet the elders and wish them a long and healthy life and all the best. After the elders are worshipped, they should distribute the "New Year's money" prepared in advance to the younger generations. After greeting the elders in the family, people should also congratulate the New Year with a smile on their faces when they go out, and exchange auspicious words such as "Wishing you prosperity", "Four Seasons Ruyi" and "Happy New Year".
An important part of the Chinese New Year is to go to the homes of friends, relatives and neighbors to congratulate the New Year. The Chinese New Year's greeting style has existed in the Han Dynasty. After the Tang and Song dynasties, it was very popular, and some people who did not have to go in person could use famous posts to congratulate. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, it was called "thorn", so the business card was also called "famous thorn". After the Ming Dynasty, many families posted a red paper bag at the door to collect the name post, called the "door book".
Eat dumplings
Eating dumplings on Chinese New Year's Eve and New Year's Day is a custom of northerners, eating dumplings on Chinese New Year's Eve, taking the meaning of "Nian Jiaozi" (good luck in the coming year), and eating dumplings on New Year's Day is to make good luck in the year.
Eat rice cakes
Eating rice cakes on the first day of the Lunar New Year means "high festivals". The style of the rice cake has a square-shaped yellow and white rice cake, which symbolizes the meaning of ** and the meaning of making a fortune in the New Year.
Drinking "ingots tea" with drinking chicken broth
The people of Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province have the custom of going to the teahouse on the first day of the Lunar New Year to drink "Yuanbao tea". The so-called "ingots tea", on the one hand, is that the tea used here is a grade higher than usual, and a "kumquat" or "green olive" is added to the tea jar at home to refer to the "ingots", symbolizing the New Year's "ingots enter the door and get rich." The second is because there is a "ingot" cut out of red paper on the tea jar, which roughly means nothing more than "fortune and treasure".
Sticker chicken
In ancient times, chickens were painted on doors and windows during the Spring Festival to drive away ghosts and evil spirits. The Jin Dynasty's "Xuanzhong Ji" talks about the aforementioned chicken on Dushuo Mountain, saying that when the sun has just risen and the first rays of sunlight shine on this big tree, the chicken crows. As soon as it crowed, the chickens crowed. Therefore, the chicken cut during the Spring Festival is actually a symbol of the chicken. However, in ancient mythology, there is also a saying that the chicken is a deformed bird.
It is said that when Emperor Yao, the friends of the side paid tribute to a kind of Chongming bird that can ward off evil spirits, and everyone welcomed the arrival of Chongming Bird, but the tribute envoy did not come every year, so people carved a wooden Chongming Bird, or put it in the portal with copper casting Chongming Bird, or painted Chongming Bird on the door and window to scare away the demons and monsters, so that they did not dare to come again. Because the heavy Ming bird resembles a chicken, it was gradually changed to painting chickens or cutting window flowers and pasting them on doors and windows, which became the source of paper-cutting art in later generations.
In ancient times, our country paid special attention to chickens and called it"The Bird of Five Virtues"。"Han Poem Biography" said that it has a crown on its head, which is Wende: there is a distance behind the foot to fight, which is martial virtue; The enemy dares to fight in front of him, it is bravery: there is food to greet the same kind, it is benevolence: the vigil does not lose time, the day will be announced, it is faith. Therefore, people not only cut chickens during the New Year, but also set the first day of the new year as the chicken day.
Gather wealth
It is said that the first day of the first lunar month is the birthday of the broom, and the broom cannot be used on this day, otherwise it will sweep away the luck and wealth, and attract the "broom star" and cause bad luck. If you have to sweep the floor, you have to sweep it from the outside to the inside. On this day, you can't throw water and garbage outside, for fear of ruining your money. Today, many places still preserve a custom, sweeping clean on Chinese New Year's Eve, not leaving a broom on the first day of the new year, not taking out garbage, preparing a large bucket to hold wastewater, and not spilling it on the day.
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