Jimu news reporter Xu Ying
Correspondent Yan Jinghui
On January 27th, Wuhan Library launched the "New Year's Taste in Literature - Wuhan Spring Festival Customs Document Exhibition", inviting you to taste the most authentic, richest and warmest "New Year's Taste" of Wuhan. A thousand years ago, The Chronicle of Jingchu Indictment of The Southern Dynasty Liang Dynasty Zongyi depicted for us the original appearance of the annual customs in Wuhan; Ye Tiaoyuan's "Hankou Bamboo Branch Words" of ye Tiaoyuan a hundred years ago left a "Hankou Chronicle" for the world; the "Dianshizhai Pictorial" and "Hankou Xiaozhi" in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Ming Dynasty, which made people relive the old customs of Wuhan; contemporary local documents such as "Chu Customs and Chu Customs", "Hubei Folk Customs", and "Old Wuhan Customs" also presented the splendid and colorful Wuhan New Year customs in the new period.
The exhibition talks about the origin of Wuhan's new year customs, when the first "Jingchu Chronicle" was launched. The book is a work written by Zong Yi (c. 501-565) of the Southern Dynasty Liang Dynasty to record the seasonal customs of ancient Chu, and it is also the earliest surviving monograph in China dedicated to the seasonal seasons of ancient times. The book records the Jingchu New Year customs from the eighth day of the first month of the lunar month to the end of the first month, and many annual customs have been inherited to this day, providing rich and systematic historical materials for tracing the origin of today's Wuhan Spring Festival customs. As recorded in the book, "The furniture of the Twilight Family is dirty, which is called the Old Age Reserve." In order to enter the New Year, get together and sing, please send the year", and this Chinese New Year's Eve night in Wuhan every household to buy food, gather and drink, sleep all night, send the old year to welcome the New Year coincides, can be called the traditional customs of Wuhan area after thousands of years without changing the historical witness.
"In addition to the sound of firecrackers, the spring breeze sends warmth into Tu Su." The Spring Festival is a ceremony to worship the gods and ancestors, an expectation of retiring the old and welcoming the new, a wish for blessings and blessings, and also an inseparable nostalgia in the hearts of every Descendant of Yanhuang. Pasting spring festivals, setting off firecrackers, eating New Year's dinner, worshiping the New Year, visiting temple fairs, viewing flower lanterns, lion dances... After thousands of years of accumulation, the Spring Festival customs in Wuhan are colorful and magnificent.
In order to respond to the revitalization project of Chinese traditional festivals, carry out the theme activities of "Our Festivals" in depth, show the colorful, positive and healthy Spring Festival customs with rich value connotations, highlight the unique customs and traditional culture of Wuhan, condense the common national historical memory and emotional sustenance, guide people to understand Chinese culture and enhance the feelings of home and country, Wuhan Library selected the collection of literature resources, and received strong support from collector Ge Liang, and launched the "New Year in the Literature - Wuhan Spring Festival Customs Document Exhibition" on the first floor of the library from January 27 ", invite you to taste the most authentic, the most intense, the warmest Wuhan "New Year's taste".
The exhibition exhibits a total of more than 70 pieces of various documents, with diverse carrier forms, including classics, newspapers, albums, photos, tickets, award certificates, paper cuts, postcards, commemorative books, leaflets, etc. These documents reveal the long-standing historical accumulation of Wuhan's annual customs from different aspects, reflecting the rich and colorful Culture of Wuhan's Annual Customs with different themes, so that everyone can feel the lively, festive and auspicious atmosphere at the same time, and appreciate the inheritance and evolution of Wuhan's Annual Customs over thousands of years through the exhibition. There are also the custom paintings of "Pasting spring leagues" and "tuannian meals" full of the atmosphere of the times, expressing the good wishes of Wuhan people to welcome the spring and receive blessings; a nursery rhyme of "New Year's Greetings" sings the joyful mood of children greeting their elders for the New Year; and a series of "family portrait" photos freeze the happy moments of the reunion of every household in the New Year...
The exhibition will last until the end of February this year to accompany you through the Chinese New Year.