On the first day of the Chinese New Year, what kind of dumplings did the emperor eat? At the end of the year, will the emperor send red envelopes to the ministers? What New Year's wishes will the Emperor make? These secrets of the New Year in the Forbidden City have recently been revealed. The Palace Publishing House launched a "New Year's Treasure Book" from the Forbidden City- "Greeting the New Year: Celebrating the New Year in the Forbidden City". The book brings together hundreds of kinds of traditional cultural relics collected by the hospital, and carries out the most authoritative and systematic introduction and display around the Spring Festival.
The main author of this Forbidden City New Year secret book is Ren Wanping, vice president of the Palace Museum and an expert in court history. All the theme rituals of the court annual festival are included in the book.
New Year's Day in the palace, pay attention to a lot, details. The book alone about the Spring League is very long. Some are revealed, the Yuanlang of that year will "proof", and then some people will imitate the Spring League as it is; some talk about "convention", different doors should be paired with different couplets, palaces with plaques, are brocade edges piled with satin door gods, couplets with brocade edges; palaces without plaques, making Aya edges finely painted door gods, with Aya edge couplets; in addition to these, the palace will also paste spring strips, that is, auspicious banners that do not have an informal number of words and are not paired, such as "entering and leaving peace" in front of the door, and any place will post "look up and see the joy". In these small passages, many of the protagonists are familiar to everyone, and Qianlong, Yongzheng and others pick the big beams.
In order to let more people understand and understand these complicated New Year customs, this book includes the research results of Ren Wanping's more than 30 years of focusing on court festival customs, which includes both historical archives combining various cultural relics, as well as court flavor interspersed with folk weather, talking about the solemn and elegant Qing palace system, and also speaking of folk customs. Do red envelopes also appear in the palace? What kind of dumplings did the emperor eat in the first day? How to light lanterns, set off cannonballs, and paste Spring Festivals in the palace? The emperor's kitchen is already very luxurious, does it also need the blessing of the stove prince? Would you like to take a look at the New Year's Wish Card (Kaibi Ji Yu Note) that was once strictly kept secret by the Emperor? The answers to these questions are answered in the book.
Recently, the Palace Press and the Beijing Dongcheng Cultural Development Research Institute also jointly hosted a lecture to interpret the "New Year in the Forbidden City". The staff of the Forbidden City Publishing House said that the Forbidden City, as the imperial palace of the Ming and Qing dynasties, further integrated and strengthened the deep palace and folk etiquette and customs during the "New Year's Day", extracted and sublimated, containing the longing for a better life, full of humanistic feelings of respecting the elderly and respecting the virtuous, and pursuing the national spirit of reverence for virtue and goodness, which is exactly the cultural bloodline that we want to continue.