Spring Festival as a Chinese throughout the year.
The most important holidays.
Why is it called "Chinese New Year"?
What secrets are hidden in the word "year"?
The New Year is approaching, how did the ancients celebrate the New Year?
Let's take a look
The crops are ripe and the harvest is abundant
The word "year" originally had these meanings
We often say. New Year", "New Year", "This Year", "Next Year".
Year" is used as a unit of time.
Do you know the original meaning of the word "year"?
It is recorded in the first Chinese dictionary "Erya".
"Year, take a crop and a ripe".
This means that every time the crops are ripe, a year passes
It turned out in ancient times.
The word "year" refers to the ripening of crops.
How do you write the oracle bone inscription for "year"?
What is its radical?
If it is in "Shuowen Jiezi" or "Kangxi Dictionary".
Use the radical method to check the word "year".
Which radical should it belong to?
before answering this question.
Let's take a look at the oracle bone inscription of the word "year" first.
The "year" in the oracle bone inscription has "he" on the top and "people" on the bottom
Above it is "He", which is the crop.
Below is a "man" with his arms bent over
In ancient character books, the word "year" was placed in the Hebu
Netizen: Carry a good harvest of the year and go home.
It's not going to be a good New Year.
It can be seen from the glyph of "year".
It was originally meantHarvest
Tian Jiajia accounts for the climate, and it is said that this year is abundant".
Chinese spring planting, summer cultivation, autumn harvest, winter storage.
Hard work all year round.
Finally the harvest has been achieved.
Of course, we should celebrate and celebrate the holidays.
This festival is called the "year".
Cut window flowers, give pressure money, and eat Chinese New Year's Eve dinner
These rituals were also found in ancient times
Paste the word "Fu".withSpring coupletsIt is the standard for the Spring Festival.
It is also an important ceremony to welcome the Spring Festival.
The ancients were very particular about writing the word "Fu".
For example,Qing Dynasty Guo Xiu book "Fu" word tablet
The word "Fu" is written in one stroke, which means "blessing continues".
The classic couplets have a high reuse rate.
The History of the Song Dynasty records the creation of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.
"New Year's Day, Jiajie Changchun".
It is known as the "ancestor of Spring Festival couplets".
In ancient times, people used a pair of skillful hands to cut out all kinds of window grilles.
After the maturity of the paper industry in the Song Dynasty.
The art of paper-cutting is particularly prosperous.
As early as the Northern and Southern Dynasties, there were already paper-cutting.
Unearthed in the Turpan region of Xinjiang.
Paper-cut works with group patterns.
It has a history of more than 1,400 years
It means "happy reunion".
During the Chinese New Year, the elders give red envelopes.
It is one of the most ceremonial links in the eyes of children.
The New Year's money of ancient times
It's called "winning money", and it's also called "spending money".
It is shaped like a coin.
It is cast with auspicious words or auspicious patterns.
"Winning money" is not real money.
It cannot be circulated as currency.
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An object of good wishes and blessings
The ancients also had the custom of eating reunion dinners during the New Year.
It's just that the term "Chinese New Year's Eve Dinner" did not appear until the Qing Dynasty.
It is recorded in the Qing Jialu.
"On New Year's Eve, the family holds a feast, and the young and old gather
It is mostly used as auspicious language, and the name is Chinese New Year's Eve dinner
It is called family carnival".
The 12 women in the Tang Dynasty Palace Le Tu gathered for a feast.
A bottle is used in the middle of the table.
Drinks are served.
Everyone had a drink or played a musical instrument.
Happiness knows no bounds. 
In the laughter of family reunion.
There is anticipation for the New Year.
There is also a farewell to the old days.
The fireworks in the world gather the familiar flavor of the New Year.
The Chinese New Year is approaching, and share the flavor of the New Year around you
*: CCTV News Client Editor-in-charge Yan Han.