On the night of Chinese New Year's Eve, be sure to open the firecrackers, and the children are not dirty, what is the right opening?
Chinese New Year's Eve is the last day of the year, also known as "year division", which means that the past year has passed and the new year has begun. Therefore, Chinese New Year's Eve is another day to remove the old cloth and the new, reunite with the family, and worship the ancestors.
Chinese New Year's Eve, remember "open the door and fire the cannon, open the door without scolding", what is opening the door? What's going on?
1.What is the custom of the Chinese New Year's Eve?
Chinese New Year's Eve, also known as "New Year's Eve", which is connected with New Year's Day, is an important moment of "the end of the year is dispersed, the end of the year is dispersed", and it is also an important moment to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new.
On Chinese New Year's Eve, families are busy preparing for the arrival of the new year, cleaning the courtyard, hanging red colors, and worshipping the ancestral spiritual seat. For a lunch meal, everyone was busy arranging a "reunion dinner".
Men, women, and children are dressed, the adults in the family give red envelopes, relatives from afar have returned, everything is ready, and they are waiting for the "Chinese New Year's Eve dinner".
In the busy work, don't forget to "paste the New Year's red", such as: Spring Festival couplets, door gods, windows, New Year's paintings, and blessing characters, all of which are used to celebrate. "Sticking New Year's Red" is also known as "Wave Spring", which means the arrival of winter and welcomes the arrival of spring.
During the Spring Festival, you must eat fish food that is "more than enough every year"; There is a "chicken" that symbolizes "auspiciousness"; There are rice cakes that symbolize "rising step by step" and vegetables that symbolize "good luck in the new year".
On the eve of the New Year, when the family is reunited, of course, the ancestors must not be forgotten. Ancestors, the source of all things", ancestor worship on New Year's Eve is also a way to inherit filial piety.
After Chinese New Year's Eve, the most important thing is to "keep the year", and keeping the year is to put the "year fire" in the house, and the family will gather in a circle, around the fire will not be extinguished, which means long life and good health.
The ancients had the saying of "resigning the year", and the young ones were to prolong the life of their parents. So, the family talked and laughed on Chinese New Year's Eve until midnight.
2. What does "Kaizheng" mean?
The so-called "Great Qingming" was originally the first day of the year, and it was also the "time of enlightenment", that is, the "beginning of the end of the year" on Chinese New Year's Eve.
The hour is equivalent to 9 o'clock to 11 o'clock tonight, and the "beginning of the end of the year" represents 12 o'clock today.
In the past, on the evening of the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, the owners of each family would set up incense offerings in advance, worship heaven and earth, worship ancestors, and first perform the opening ceremony.
As soon as the time comes, the door should be opened immediately, which is called "opening the door of wealth", which has the meaning of attracting wealth and entering the treasure; Then there are fireworks, firecrackers, for a time, the firecrackers sounded into a piece, fireworks all over the sky, there is the meaning of removing the old cloth and the new, welcoming the spring.
After doing all this, the next thing is "He Zheng", the younger generation greets the elders, and then, the old man will send out his "New Year's coin", which is the so-called "New Year's money", after which, the family can go home to sleep.
The custom of breaking the fast has a long history, for example, in the Tang Dynasty, there was a song "Open the door to offer New Year's wine, a thousand miles between the court test", and Lu You in the Song Dynasty also made "Open the door to welcome guests, and today is a hundred jobs." ”
Even today, many people still set off firecrackers in the early hours of the New Year's morning, and they may not know what "kaizheng" is, but it evolved from this custom.
3: No swearing.
According to tradition, at the end of the year, the immortals who are "resident" on the earth will return to the heavenly palace and no longer care about the affairs of the mortal world, and the stove god is the last to return. As a result, after the "stove delivery", there is the custom of "chasing the chaotic year", and there is no need to choose the auspicious day of the zodiac when you get married and do things.
The immortals have returned to the Heavenly Court and completed the "debriefing", and since Chinese New Year's Eve, they have returned to the mortal world, so after "Kaizheng", it is "receiving God" and "receiving God".
When it is time to "Jiaozi", the women of the family will get up, set off firecrackers outside, and when they are wrapped, the host will use a spoon to sprinkle the soup from the pot on the stove.
Then, he scooped some more, dipped his chopsticks in water, sprinkled some outside the house, and finally gave a tribute to the gods or ancestors, which was regarded as "receiving the gods", and the family could start eating.
This is the day of the return of the gods and their ancestors, and everyone is to welcome them with the utmost respect, so at this time, their words and deeds are very important.
Say more words of blessing, don't say bitter words, discouraged words, discouraged words, etc., of course, don't say foul words, and don't say foul words, especially at this time scolding children, unfilial old people, marital disputes, etc.
Otherwise, it will provoke the wrath of the gods, and everything will not go well in the coming year, and the financial luck will be bad, etc. This is also why older people will tell their juniors not to swear, otherwise it will bring a bad year.