Although I have said goodbye to the student era, there is no winter vacation, but the New Year will still be very happy, in addition to the annual vacation, the happiest is to accompany the family on New Year's Eve, the following to share with you about the Chinese New Year's Eve New Year's Eve customs are what, welcome to read!
Chinese people have the habit of observing the New Year on Chinese New Year's Eve. Chinese New Year's Eve is brightly lit, and the whole family talks around the fireplace and stays up all night, called "Keeping the New Year". The Jin Dynasty already had the custom of keeping the year, and the "Records of the Wind and Soil" of Zhou said that the Shu people "never sleep until Chinese New Year's Eve, which is called keeping the year". As the name suggests, "keeping the new year" is waiting for the new year.
In ancient times, there were two meanings of keeping the New Year: the elderly kept the New Year as "saying goodbye to the old year", which meant cherishing time. Young people observe the age of their parents to prolong their parents' lives. Since the Han Dynasty, the time of alternation between the old and the new year is generally in the middle of the night. The "keep" of the new year means that there is nostalgia for the old year that is about to pass, and there is also hope for the upcoming new year. The custom of keeping the New Year not only has the feeling of regret and nostalgia for the passing years, but also has the meaning of placing good hopes on the coming New Year.
From ancient times to the present, "keeping the year" contains the meaning of cherishing time and cherishing life. The ancients wrote in a poem "Keeping the New Year": "Invite the Arong family to keep the New Year, and the wax torch spreads red to the blue yarn." Thirty-six years have been wasted, but since then I cherish the years. It is human nature to cherish the years, so the great poet Su Shi wrote the famous sentence of "Keeping the Year": "There will be no year next year, and I am afraid that my heart will be ruined." Work hard tonight, the boy can boast! This shows the positive significance of the Chinese New Year's Eve.
Chinese New Year's Eve is the eve of the Spring Festival, also known as the Chinese New Year's Eve. Chinese New Year's Eve is the last day of the lunar month, the eve of the Spring Festival. In the old days, it was also called "except day", "except night", "year except", "year twilight", "end of year", "twilight year", and many folk people called "Chinese New Year's Eve" or "Chinese New Year's Eve".
In our country, the people generally attach importance to the next day, which is called the "New Year's Pass". In the old days, industrialists and businessmen regarded the Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, and Chinese New Year's Eve as the three major festivals of the year, and each festival had to settle accounts, and Chinese New Year's Eve was the most important thing, sorting out the accounts of the year, verifying profits and losses, and planning for the coming year. Chinese traditional customs, Chinese New Year's Eve and Spring Festival, are connected to each other, and the customs are similar, which is actually a traditional festival. "Chinese New Year's Eve" means that the old year is here and Chinese New Year's Eve, and the new year begins tomorrow morning, and there is an auspicious sign of removing the old and clothing the new.
Eat reunion dinner, sacrifice, and keep the New Year. Keeping the New Year, that is, not sleeping on the last night of the old year, staying up late to welcome the arrival of the new year, also called Chinese New Year's Eve Keeping the New Year, commonly known as "staying up the year".
Reveal what it means to keep the New Year.
Keeping the New Year, that is, staying up late on the last night of the old year without sleeping, the custom of welcoming the arrival of the new year, also called Chinese New Year's Eve, commonly known as "staying up the year".
In ancient times, there were two meanings of keeping the New Year: the elderly kept the New Year as "saying goodbye to the old year", which meant cherishing time. Young people observe the age of their parents to prolong their parents' lives. Since the Han Dynasty, the time of alternation between the old and the new year is generally in the middle of the night.
On this night of "two years old in one night, five watches in two years", the family was reunited and gathered together. The whole family sat around, and the table was filled with refreshments and fruits. In the New Year, Apple is indispensable, which is called "peace and security". In the north, some people still have to provide a pot of rice, which is burned before the year and is offered for the New Year, which is called "every other year's rice", which means that there is leftover rice every year, and it cannot be eaten all year round, and this year it also eats the grain of the previous year. This pot of rice and millet is generally mixed with rice and millet to cook, and the Beijing saying is called "two rice rice", which is called "gold and silver rice" in order to have yellow and white, which is called "gold and silver rice" with "gold and silver, and a pot full of gold and silver". The pastries and fruits prepared by many places during the New Year are all to please an auspicious mouth: eating dates (spring comes early), eating persimmons (everything goes well), eating almonds (happy people), eating longevity fruit (immortality), and eating rice cakes (getting higher and higher year by year). On Chinese New Year's Eve, the whole family is happy while eating, talking and laughing. There are also laymen who push pai gow, roll dice, bet on studs, play mahjong, and the sound of noise and laughter converges into the climax of Chinese New Year's Eve. The all-night vigil symbolizes the exorcism of all evil plagues and diseases, and looks forward to the auspicious new year. This custom gradually prevailed later, and in the early Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin, Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, wrote a poem of "Keeping the New Year": "The cold leaves the winter snow, and the warmth brings the spring breeze." To this day, it is customary to celebrate the New Year on Chinese New Year's Eve. In ancient times, there were two meanings of keeping the New Year: the elderly kept the New Year as "saying goodbye to the old year", which meant cherishing time. Young people observe the age of their parents to prolong their parents' lives. Since the Han Dynasty, the time of alternation between the old and the new year is generally in the middle of the night. People all over the world are looking forward to the arrival of the New Year.
There is a widely circulated story about New Year's money. In ancient times, there was a little demon called "Zhen", who came out at 12 o'clock in the morning of the Chinese New Year's Eve and touched the head of a sleeping child with his hand, and the child often cried with fright, and then had a headache and fever, and became a fool. Therefore, every family sits with the lights on on this day and does not sleep, which is called "Shou Zhen". Later, everyone agreed to give the New Year's money before 12 o'clock in the morning on the 30th of the New Year.
There is a family where the couple have children in old age and are regarded as treasures. On the morning of the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, they were afraid that "Zheng" would harm the children, so they took out eight copper coins to play with the children. When the child was tired of playing and fell asleep, they wrapped eight copper coins in red paper and put them under the child's pillow, and the couple did not dare to close their eyes. In the middle of the night, a gust of wind blew open the door and blew out the lights, and as soon as "Zheng" reached out to touch the child's head, there was a flash of light on the pillow, which frightened "Zheng" and ran away. The next day, the couple told everyone about the use of red paper to wrap eight copper coins to scare off the "Zheng", and in the future, everyone learned to do it, and the child would be safe.
It turned out that the eight copper coins were changed by the Eight Immortals, secretly to protect the child. Because "祟" is homophonic with "year", it gradually evolved into "New Year's money". In the Ming and Qing dynasties, "the colored rope is woven into the shape of a dragon, which is called the New Year's money." Those who respect the elders and give children are also called New Year's money". Therefore, in some places, giving children New Year's money is called "string money". In modern times, it has evolved into a red paper bag of 100 copper coins to give to younger generations, meaning "long life and 100 years old". For the younger generations who have become adults, a silver dollar is placed in the red paper bag, which means "a million profits". After the currency is changed to paper money, the elders like to go to the bank to exchange the new banknotes with the face number connected to the child, wishing the child "succession and prosperity".
Where does the "New Year's money" come from? There are two legends. One is said to originate from the ancient "crushing shock". It is said that in ancient times, there was a fierce beast called "Nian", and every night after 365 days, it would come out to harm people, animals, and crops. Children are afraid, and adults use the sound of burning bamboo to drive away the "year", and comfort the children with food, that is, "crush the shock". As the years went by, it evolved into replacing food with money, and in the Song Dynasty, there was "pressure money". According to history, Wang Shaozi Nanyi, because he was carried away by the bad guys, exclaimed on the way, and was rescued by the imperial car, and Song Shenzong gave him "golden rhino money". Later, it developed into "New Year's money".
Second, it first appeared in the court of the Tang Dynasty, when there was a trend of scattered money in the palace. Wang Renyu said in "The Remains of Kaiyuan Tianbao": In the year of Tianbao of Tang Xuanzong, "The concubines of the inner court, every spring, each in the forbidden period with three to five people to throw money for the play." Wang Jian contained in "Palace Ci": "The residual powder of the makeup is not tomorrow, and the Zhaoyang flower tree is always standing." In the spring, people fight white, and the library is scattered with money first. From "throwing money for play" in spring, to "scattering money", and then developing to give "washing money". According to Sima Guang's "Zizhi Tongjian", when Yang Guifei gave birth to a child, "Xuanzong personally regarded it and liked to give the concubine money to wash her children" to congratulate her and drive away evil spirits. In the Song and Yuan dynasties, a kind of folk custom was formed. It is combined with the Spring Festival on the first day of the first month of the first month to form an early "New Year's money". But at that time, there was no currency in circulation, but only a special "New Year's money".
Every Spring Festival, the elderly often have to give the younger generations New Year's money, and use more new banknotes with serial numbers, what is the reason for this custom with a strong festive color, why use new banknotes with serial numbers, I'm afraid few people know.
New Year's money has been around for a long time, and it was called in ancient times"Tired of winning money"、"Win over the money"、"Suppress money"、"New Year's money"In the numismatic series, it is classified as spending money. As early as the Han Dynasty, there have been New Year's money in China, with round round holes and round square holes, and the front of the money is mostly auspicious characters, such as"Go and get rid of the evil"、"Fukuyama Shoukai"、"Longevity and wealth"、"Stay fit"etc., and some of the front is Qian Wen, and the back is auspicious patterns, such as"The Big Dipper"、"Turtle snake"、"Zodiac"and other ornaments. During the Tang Dynasty, the Spring Festival was popular in the court, and people took the Spring Festival as the day of the beginning of spring and worshiped each other in the palace. At that time, there was no custom of New Year's greetings among the people. After the Song and Yuan dynasties, the Spring Festival was set as the first day of the first lunar month, and the custom of scattering money during the Spring Festival evolved into the custom of the elders giving the younger generations New Year's money. "Yanjing New Year's Chronicles: New Year's Money" records:"Threaded with colored ropes, woven into the shape of a dragon, placed at the foot of the bed, called the New Year's money. Respecting the elders and giving money to children is also known as New Year's money. "During the Ming and Qing dynasties, the elders used red ropes to string the New Year's money to send to the younger generations. **Period, the square hole round money was basically canceled, and the elders used red paper to wrap 100 copper coins as New Year's money, which was allowed"Live a long life"After the currency was changed to paper money, the elderly like to choose new banknotes with serial numbers to give to the younger generation"Good luck and ascension"Meaning, this custom of giving serial money to younger generations has continued to this day. It can be said that the custom of pressing the New Year's money has a long history, and it is the good wishes of the elders to the younger generations.
In the Qing Dynasty, there were children celebrating the New Year, and the elderly and the money were used throughout the red, and they were placed in the sleeping place, which was called "pressing the New Year's money". To **, it was popular to wrap 100 copper dollars in red paper to show "longevity and 100 years old", and paper money was used after the founding of the People's Republic of China to show blessings.
Statement 1: Give on the night of the thirtieth night of the Chinese New Year's Eve.
There is also a popular folk tale about the origin of New Year's money. Legend has it that when I was a child, there was a monster named "Zhen", who would come out every year on Chinese New Year's Eve to hurt children. In order to prevent the child from being harmed, adults will wrap copper coins in red paper and put them under the child's pillow, so that "Zheng" will not dare to hurt the child. In this way, the custom of giving children New Year's money on Chinese New Year's Eve has been followed, which is intended to protect the safety of children on Chinese New Year's Eve, make children healthy and healthy, and is a "talisman" given to children by elders, so many elders will give children New Year's money on the night of Chinese New Year's Eve to bless children with health and auspiciousness in the new year.
Claim 2: Give it on the morning of the first day of the new year.
With the development of the times, people's living standards and cognition have improved, so there are more novel views on New Year's money. In some places, people like to give New Year's money on the first day of the Lunar New Year. The first day of the Lunar New Year is a day for the younger generation to pay New Year's greetings to the elders, and after the younger generations give the elders New Year's greetings to reflect their respect for the elders, the elders will give the younger generations New Year's money, giving full play to the national culture of "respecting the elders". In addition, there is also a saying that collecting money on the first day of the new year indicates that the year will be very rich and more "wealthy", so some elders prefer to give money to the younger generation on the first day of the new year.
What's the point of paying attention to the New Year's money?
The elders give red envelopes to the younger generations, implying that they will be given good luck bags. The money in the red envelope is mainly to make children happy, and its main meaning is that it symbolizes good luck. During the Spring Festival, the elders should give the New Year's money prepared in advance to the younger generations, it is said that the New Year's money can suppress the evil, because the year is homophonic, and the younger generations receive the New Year's money to imply a safe and healthy new year. Nowadays, the custom of the elders to give the New Year's money to the younger generation is still prevalent, and the new fashion has given new content to the New Year's money, and the children's New Year's money is mainly used to buy books and school supplies, or daily necessities.
In the United States, 2,200 US dollars (about 12,125 yuan), most American parents believe that their children should not receive money if they do not give. Therefore, for Chinese families in the United States, giving their children New Year's money does not constitute a burden. It is usually a few dozen small red envelopes of 2 20 US dollars and sent to the children of relatives and colleagues to ask for good luck. Sometimes, a $1 red envelope is given to "foreign" colleagues to help them feel the New Year's spirit together.
Singapore 5 20 SGD (about 23 90 RMB).
As one of the richest countries in the world, Singapore retains the traditional virtues of frugality in life. Giving red envelopes during the New Year is originally an activity with blessing meaning. Whether it is a child from another family, or an unmarried young man or woman, as long as they come to visit the New Year, they will send a red envelope to express their blessings. What people share is more of a spiritual pleasure.
500 5000 yen (about 27 270 yuan) in Japan
The Japanese attach no less importance to celebrating the New Year than China, but there is a convention when it comes to giving out red envelopes**. The New Year's money for elementary and junior high school students generally does not exceed 270 yuan, and there is also a corresponding standard line for each age group. So every child receives the same amount of money.
The total income of most urban primary school students = ** one month's salary. Now a New Year's bag, if it is less than 500, it seems that I can't get it! In some cities, it is even equivalent to two months' salary. After two months of hard work, it is not as fast as the children's new (red) New Year (package) fast (take) happy (come) money. Giving red envelopes to children during the Chinese New Year is a symbol of auspiciousness and blessings. But the good-faced Chinese have turned the New Year's money into a "sweet burden".
The rising tide of the New Year's money has changed the flavor of the New Year. For **, passively falling into blind comparison, the New Year's money has become an unbearable burden. For children, New Year's money has also become a negative incentive for healthy growth. How much money should we give our children?