Cut the window flowers
Cut the mood constantly - expectation
Cut-and-paste window flowers are one of many annual customs. The contents of the window flowers include various animals, plants, etc., such as magpie Dengmei, swallow wearing peach willow, peacock play peony, lion rolling hydrangea ball, three sheep (Yang) Kaitai, two dragon play beads, deer crane Tong Chun (six contract spring), five bats (Fu) Bo Shou, rhinoceros looking at the moon, lotus (lian) year there are fish (Yu), Mandarin duck playing water, bangs playing with golden cicadas, hehe er immortals, etc., there are many kinds of flowers, and the appearance is pleasing.
Write spring league
Endless happiness – beauty
Spring Union, also known as "Spring Paste" and "Door Pair". It depicts a beautiful image with neat, concise and exquisite words. Every Spring Festival, whether in the city or in the countryside, every household should select a pair of big red Spring Festival and paste it on the door, bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, so as to increase the festive atmosphere of the festival. For thousands of years, from brush writing to colored paper printing, the form of spring league has evolved continuously. However, the ever-changing is inseparable from its origin, and the taste of the year is Chinese forever treasured in the bones.
Sweep the dust
Endless dust - welcome
The cleaning before the Spring Festival is a traditional Chinese custom and a way to remove obscurity and welcome joy. On the day of the dust sweep, the whole family worked together to clean the house and courtyard, scrub the pots and dishes, dismantle and wash the bedding, and clean up to welcome the New Year. According to the classic records, in ancient times, there was a habit of year-end sweeping, and people expressed their willingness to get rid of Chen and the old with the help of the harmonic sounds of "dust" and "Chen".
Money
Endless hope – many blessings
In the old days, after the sacrifice of ancestors and the ceremony of greeting the gods, the family should "resign the year" together, the juniors should bow to the elders to wish the elders a long life, great blessing, and great shun, and the elders should give the younger generations red envelopes, that is, "pressing the old money", pressing the old money means "pressing the age and praying for blessings", which gives the elders a good wish for the growth of the children, hoping that they will grow up healthily.
ancestor worship
An unfinished wish – peace
The New Year's worship of ancestors is not only a tribute to the ancestors, but also to pray for the ancestors to bless the peace of the coming year. Ancestor worship is one of the oldest elements of the Spring Festival customs. The Shang Shu Shun Dian records: "On the first day of the first month, Shunge yu Wenzu. ”
Ancestor worship is generally Chinese New Year's Eve, and after sweeping the house, cleaning the courtyard, changing the door, changing peach charms, and pasting the Spring Festival, the people or the whole family goes to worship the ancestors, or hangs the relics of the ancestors on the wall of the main wall of the middle hall, arranges sacrifices, and lights incense candles for future generations to worship.
Chinese New Year's Eve keep the age
The night that cannot be kept inexhaustible - time
"I know that I invited the group to drink the New Year's wine, and the children competed with each other for the money. The sound of firecrackers is still there, and the cars and horses in Tianqu are like smoke. "Miscellaneous Poems in the Age of Yanjing" depicts the scene of the Chinese New Year's Eve celebrating in the homes of ordinary people in their homes and streets and alleys at night in the Chinese New Year's Eve of old Beijing. Chinese New Year's Eve, in ancient times, it was called "removing the age", "great division" and "great exhaustion", and the old Beijingers called it "the division of the year", "the division of the age", "the great Chinese New Year's Eve", commonly known as "Chinese New Year's Eve". The original meaning of the word "division" is "to go", extended to "easy", and the old and new are divided, that is, the meaning of alternation; the original meaning of the word "xi" is "sunset", and by extension " night". "Chinese New Year's Eve" means that the old year is removed from this night, and tomorrow is replaced by a new year.
Keeping the age, for the elderly, has a sense of passing away and cherishes the meaning of the years. For teenagers, there is a sense of new shoots and strong, and there is the intention of working hard. Keeping the age reflects the beautiful vision of family reunion, sharing family affection, and sending the old to welcome the new.
Dinner
The happiness of not eating enough - reunion
The video "The Change of Chinese New Year's Eve Rice" vividly shows the changes of ChineseChinese New Year's Eve rice in the past 40 years of reform and opening up, from satisfying food and clothing to being rich and delicious, to pursuing nutrition and health, reflecting the improvement of people's living standards. Chinese New Year's Eve meal is the "longest" meal eaten by Chinese throughout the year, and it is also the most valued family banquet in Chinese. In the 1960s and 1970s, due to the lack of materials, the food was "clean and white", and the Chinese New Year's Eve meal was the most abundant meal of the year. In the 1980s, meat, eggs, poultry, etc. were gradually enriched. In the nineties, the dishes became more diverse. Entering the twenty-first century, Western-style, farmhouses, tableshares... The way to eat Chinese New Year's Eve meal is constantly being renovated.
Bye bye
Endless etiquette – wishes
"Happy New Year" "Greetings to you". On the first day of the first lunar month, when people meet, they will exchange such New Year greetings. There are three types of traditional New Year rituals: First, prostration. When minors pay homage to their elders with higher ranks, they must prostrate themselves. The second is to bend over backwards. It is generally used by the younger generation to pay homage to the elders, commonly known as "Ji Bai". The third is to hold your fist and throw your hands. Most of them are the worship of ordinary generations. Legend has it that one day more than two thousand years AGO, Shun, the Son of Heaven, led his subordinates to worship heaven and earth. Since then, people have taken this day as the beginning of the year, called the first day of the first lunar month. The first day of the first lunar month is the beginning of the lunar year, also known as the "three yuan". This day is also the dynasty of the year, the dynasty of the moon, and the dynasty of the day, also known as the "three dynasties".