Today, on the first day of the Lunar New Year, be sure to drink 2 wines, 2 things, and 3 things to avoid to increase the blessing and wealth of the family
Many of the customs and habits of the New Year began in ancient times. At the beginning of the year, in order to welcome the wind and rain, the prosperity of the six animals, and the bumper harvest, sacrificial activities are held every year, which gradually evolves into today's "Spring Festival".
New Year's Day is the first day of the new year, remember "drink 2 wines, eat 2 treasures, and avoid 3 things", everything is good in the Year of the Dragon, what does this mean?
1: New Year's Eve 2
The first is to "kill Susa": in ancient times, every New Year's Day, everyone had to drink "Tusu" wine to drive away diseases. According to legend, this is a kind of medicinal liquor invented by Hua Tuo, a famous Chinese medicine practitioner in ancient times, which is made of rhubarb, atractylodes, cinnamon branches, parsnip, pepper, aconitum and other medicinal materials mixed together and added to liquor.
As early as the Tang Dynasty, the famous Chinese medicine doctor Sun Simiao had passed on this recipe to future generations. Every December, he boiled an herb for the villagers to soak in alcohol, saying that the wine would not only ward off the plague but also prolong life.
When drinking Tu Su, the youngest in the family is the first, and the elder is the last. The ancient book says: "If the young man is old, he will congratulate him; The meaning of this sentence is that it is something to celebrate when a young person is one year older, but when he is older, it is not worth celebrating. Su Zhe once wrote a poem: "Drinking every year, I don't know it's over seventy." ”
According to the ancient books, drinking this wine on the first day has a wonderful effect: after drinking it, the whole family will not get sick. The family drinks and there is no disease within a year, but it is necessary to pay attention to "small and fine, and feed on the East".
The second is pepper and cypress wine: chili pepper is chili pepper, which has the essence of "Yuhengxing" in ancient times, and eating it can make people young and not aging; Cypress is the leaf of cypress, also known as "fairy medicine", which can dispel all kinds of diseases.
Soaking it in chili pepper and cypress water can not only dispel diseases, but also prolong life and ward off evil spirits. There is such a sentence in the "Chronicles of Jing Chu Years" of the Two Song Songs: "The first arrival ......."Each of them takes his own and offers 'a hundred poisonous things'.
The way to drink chili wine is similar to Tusu wine, it is divided according to age, and the younger the better.
2: New Year's Eve 2
One is the "five hearts": "five hearts" is also called "feeding spring plate", with several "spicy" dishes as the main body, because of the homonym of "xin" and "new", so in this year, all things recover, all things recover.
The Compendium of Materia Medica says: "Wuxin, the first day of the new year, is made by mixing vegetables such as green onions, garlic, garlic, artemisia, and mustard to welcome the new year." ”
The ancients believed that eating Wuxin on the first day of the first month can "pass through the five Tibets", which can not only ward off evil spirits and eliminate diseases, but also pray for good health and good luck in the coming year.
The second is to eat rice cakes: eating rice cakes in the new year means "high every year" and "rising step by step". In our country, people have a long history of eating rice cakes in the Spring Festival, as early as the Han Dynasty, there were names such as "rice cakes" and "glutinous cakes", and in the two Song Dynasty periods, "Qi Min Yaoshu" has the practice of rice cakes.
In the Ming and Qing dynasties, this custom was still very popular, for example, there is such a sentence in the Ming Dynasty's "Imperial Scenery and Things": "In the first month, eating dates is called the rice cake of the year." ”
The rice cakes of the Qing Dynasty are yellow and white, with different shapes, from the two-meter-wide "square head cake" to the "cake ingots" with shapes similar to ingots "tiaotou cake" and "strip half cake", and there is a kind of saying called "eat a bite on the first day of the new year, and the next year will get better and better".
3: 2 things are taboo on New Year's Day.
In addition, there are "auspicious things" such as "sticker chicken", "over-fire group", "wishing wealth and wealth", "taking willows", "shining mulberry fruits", etc., and also pray for good luck in the coming year.
Therefore, on the first day of the new year, there will definitely be a lot of taboos, such as "dirty mouth", "quarrel", "going out", "traveling far" and other taboos.
First, there is a taboo on needle fees: there is a sentence in the Song Dynasty's "Miscellaneous Notes of the Year": "Yuan a day, can not do needlework, the ancients said: 'lazy women want to be in January, gluttonous women think of cold food'." “
During the New Year's Day, if there is embroidery, it is easy to cause quarrels in the New Year; "Needle" has the meaning of "needle tip to wheat mang"; Moreover, these silk threads are always intertwined with each other, representing that they are inextricably linked. But there are also some people who feel that women in ancient times were busy all year round, and this sentence is just to make an excuse for themselves.
The second is that you can't sweep the floor: the ancients believed that the first day of the first day was the "broom star", and this unlucky person was also called the "poor god", and it was said that Jiang Ziya's adulterous wife.
If you mop the floor on the first day of the new year, it is likely to attract the "poor god", and as soon as this unlucky ghost arrives, it will be very difficult to dismiss, and he will hide somewhere and suck up the family's wealth and fortune. Even if you have to clean it, you have to start from the outside, so as not to sweep away the lucky ones and attract the unlucky gods.