Oral Folklore New Year "Fan Wai Chapter" is coming! Let's celebrate the Year of the Tiger together

Cover news reporter Yang Fan

Years and twilight, Vientiane updates. There are still two weeks to go, the Spring Festival of the Year of the Tiger is coming, from January 17, the cover news will successively launch a series of reports on "Happy Folk Customs for the Year of the Tiger", in the form of oral folklore by famous artists, will represent the spring festival of resignation and new year, auspiciousness, reunion and peace, and prosperity and development for multi-dimensional interpretation.

The Spring Festival is not only an important carrier of the excellent traditions of Chinese culture, condensing the emotional sustenance of the Chinese people, but also synonymous with "eating, drinking and having fun", but how to play during the Spring Festival holiday, relax without indulgence? Please keep an eye on the "Happy Folk Year of the Tiger", your New Year will surely be a tiger!

Famous artists say new year customs: their Spring Festival narration is full of nostalgia

Chinese civilization is not only a bond between people, but also a kind of affection between people and heaven and earth. The Spring Festival, which is the head of the 100th Festival, evolved from the ancient times when the first year was prayed for. All things are from heaven, people are from the ancestors, pray for the age of sacrifice, worship the ancestors of heaven, and report the original against the beginning.

Cover news Since last year's "New Year's Eve" opened the "Our Festivals • Oral Folklore" cultural column, both ordinary netizens and scholars and experts have submitted articles to the column, in a warm and watery article, the folk stories they remember, whether it is the new year's customs, or the customs of mountains and rivers are told to everyone. This time, "Happy Folk Customs for the Year of the Tiger" is the "Fanwai Chapter" of this poetic column, and we have only one theme to lock, that is, the Spring Festival in the Year of the Tiger.

Dramatist Wei Minglun, famous Bashu cultural scholar Yuan Tingdong, Sichuan opera performance artist Chen Zhilin, Professor Wang Hong of the School of Literature and Journalism of Sichuan University, writer Chang Xiaohu and other famous artists will be guests in the "Happy Folk Customs of the Year of the Tiger", they will take turns to talk about the Spring Festival on shaping the spiritual connotation of Chinese, as well as their childhood New Year memories, how the Spring Festival should eat well, drink and have fun and many other aspects, and family affection and nostalgia are a topic that cannot be bypassed.

In addition, from January 18, the cover news will also launch interesting folklore posters to let everyone know our traditional New Year customs more intuitively. The sixteenth tooth of the Waxing Moon, the twenty-third festival of the Waxing Moon, the twenty-ninth of the Waxing Moon, do you know all these customs?

Is it a tiger or a "cute tiger"? Demystify the various "tigers" around the ancients

The Spring Festival is an ancient festival that has lasted for thousands of years, and many little-known Spring Festival folk customs are silent in the sea of history. We now have to write blessing characters, paste Spring Festival, eat dumplings, and go to relatives during the Spring Festival, but how did the ancients spend the Spring Festival? Xiao Yongming, president of Hunan Yuelu Academy, will also share with you the "things that happened during the Spring Festival" of our old ancestors.

2022 is the Year of the Tiger, as the only beast in the zodiac, in fact, it is very compatible with the Spring Festival, because the legend of the Spring Festival is because of the "year" of man-eating beasts. The Eastern Han Folklorist Ying Shao recorded in the "Customs and Customs", the Han Dynasty folk on the occasion of the Chinese New Year's Eve New Year, popular to draw a pair of tiger shapes on the door, as for the "Nian Beast" and the tiger what is the connection? I believe that the experts of "Happy Folk Customs for the Year of the Tiger" will say to everyone.

The tiger is also an ancient totem worshipped by Chinese, as early as 6000 to 7000 years ago, the Central Plains already had the shape of a dragon and tiger. The image of the dragon and tiger in the original tomb of Xishuipo in Puyang, Henan, is carefully arranged with mussel shells. In 2021, Sanxingdui "wakes up again to shock the world", among which there are also tiger statues with cute shapes found in the sacrificial pits, in addition to stunning gold leaf tigers: the tiger stripes in the shape of "eye" are embossed all over the body, the limbs are contracted, the tail is upturned, and the mouth is wide open, as if roaring in a confrontation with the enemy, looking fierce and majestic.

Did the ancients, including the ancestors of Bashu, worship the tiger, and finally the tiger entered the "Zodiac List"? Experts from the Sanxingdui Museum and the Chongqing Three Gorges Museum will also unveil the mystery.