Old Chinese New Year sayings
Don longevity. The Spring Festival was called "Year" a hundred years ago, and it was only after Yuan Shikai determined that the first day of the first lunar month was called "Spring Festival" in three years. But after that year, the common people are still used to calling the Spring Festival the New Year, and the children still sing: "The carrots are sweet and sweet, and they want to celebrate the New Year when they see it." ”
A hundred years ago, the people of Leshan had a long New Year. From the eighth day of the lunar month to the sixteenth day of the first month of the following year, "Laba", "Chaotic Year", "Dividing the Year", "New Year's Day" (Spring Festival), "Shangjiu" and "Shangyuan" (Lantern Festival), there are sayings within 40 days, all of which are New Year's Eve.
A hundred years ago, Leshan people wanted to worship their ancestors during the New Year, praying for peace and auspiciousness. From the eighth day of the lunar month, cook "Laba porridge", "make wine and liquor and tempeh to store water for use, which is said to be undefeated". From the 24th day of the lunar month, the god of the stove was worshiped with tea and fruit, begging him to "say good things to heaven and keep peace on the earth". On Chinese New Year's Eve, go to the ancestral hall to worship the ancestors, or "share the annual meal sacrifice" at home. On the first day of the Lunar New Year, burn incense at home and worship the ancestors of heaven and earth. On the eighth day of the first month, the men, women and children of Jiacheng went to the top of the old sky at night to worship the Jade Emperor, there were many people and chaos, and there were any misdeeds between men and women, and the righteous people and gentlemen looked sideways. Before the fifteenth day of the first month, I went to the grave to sweep the grave, burned incense constantly, and bowed down endlessly, all because there were gods and ancestors in my heart.
A hundred years ago, Leshan people had a good New Year. Before Chinese New Year's Eve, the Spring Festival Lian, the New Year painting, the Jiajiang Huangdanmen God is the most popular. On Chinese New Year's Eve, "the humble and young rulers offer the honorable elders", and the honorable elders make "pillow cakes" to give back to the "humble and young". On Chinese New Year's Eve, "bonlights gather around the stove to drink and observe the New Year, burn more firecrackers and burn incense to avoid bad luck, and the young man performs the gift of the New Year". At the beginning of the Lunar New Year, "the government celebrates", and the officials all say that the New Year is for the benefit of the party. The little people went out to worship the teacher, relatives and friends, and the hand-made mouth "New Year's greetings" kept sounding, "the host also worked to eat tea and fruits". Until the fifteenth day of the Lunar New Year.
A hundred years ago, Leshan people had a festive and lively New Year. On the ninth day of the first month, the paper makes the dragon lantern, beats the gong and beats the drum to parade the street, the audience uses firecrackers to ignite the paper dragon for fun, commonly known as "burning the dragon lantern", adults and children are very happy. The Lantern Festival on the fifteenth, "from the fourteenth to the sixteenth, the lanterns will be opened, and in the case of sunshine, they will compete for their kitsch, set off fireworks, light fireworks, and advocate the noise." Scholars and girls tread on the lamp and frolicked, thinking that they were walking with all kinds of diseases". Rabbit lamps, marquee lanterns, cupola cannons, and shooting silk arrows, there is always fun to find, and to ask for an auspicious luck to eliminate disasters but diseases. As for the emergence of "evil gatherings" and breeding incidents, it is really a "tuition fee" that has to be paid for the "New Year", how can we waste food because of choking. In the evening, every family eats rice balls. In the middle of the night, the good deeds in the city steal lamps and send them to the childless family to hope that you will have a noble son early, and the countryside steals vegetables from each other but asks for a bumper harvest this year. Steal and be stolen and bring joy to your life in the new year.
The Year of the Dragon. happy new year
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Text: Tang Changshou.
Contributed by: Leshan Municipal Party History and Local History Research Office.