The cow resigns the old age, the tiger leaps to a new journey!
On the occasion of the arrival of the New Year of the Tiger, the celebration of the New Year throughout the country is wonderful, people remove the old cloth and the new, worship the gods and ancestors, and pray for the New Year... Straight News launched the Year of the Tiger New Year poster series "Painting new spring" to relive those classic Spring Festival folk customs with you.
New Year, we are serious!
Today is the seventh "Human Day Festival" of the first lunar month, have you eaten seven vegetable soups?
The seventh day of the first year is the day of the person, that is, the birthday of the person. According to the Book of Zhan, from the beginning of the first month, the order in which heaven created all things was "one chicken, two dogs, three pigs, four sheep, five cattle, six cattle, six horses, seven people, and eight grains", so the seventh day of the first month is the day of man. On this day, everyone celebrates their birthday, with seven kinds of vegetables, boiled into seven vegetable soups, that is, seven kinds of vegetables, boiled into miscellaneous vegetable soup, in the agricultural society, everyone hopes to eat seven vegetable soup, the next year's harvest. On this day, Hong Kong citizens like to eat and the first porridge, the so-called and the first, is the hope of the scientific examination of the champion high school. In ancient times, even the government could not execute criminals on this day, and parents could not train their children on this day.
The Sui Dynasty poem Xue Daoheng once wrote a poem expressing his wandering mood of longing to return home to reunite with his relatives on the occasion of the Spring Festival. The "Day of Man" mentioned in the title refers to the seventh day of the first lunar month.
Xue Daoheng [Sui Dynasty]
It was only seven days into the spring, and it had been two years since I left home.
After the man returned to the goose, he thought about it in front of the flower.
The hundred festivals are the first, and the customs are different. The New Year customs are slightly different across the country, what are the interesting New Year customs in your hometown, come and talk to us about it.
Poster maker 丨 Zhong Yilin
Thematic co-ordinator丨Yu Zhemin, Guo Jinchi, Li Jiayi
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