Text/Peninsula all-media reporter Zhang Lei intern Wu Wenbin
The Spring Festival has a long history and evolved from the first prayer festival in ancient times. The origin of the Spring Festival contains profound cultural connotations, and carries a rich historical and cultural heritage in the inheritance and development. During the Spring Festival, qingdao has the custom of holding various New Year celebration activities, with strong regional characteristics. Let's take a look at what customs are in the old Qingdao New Year.
Busy year scene. The information pictures in this article are provided by Qingdao Urban Cultural Heritage Protection Center (except by signature)
In some places, the stove invites the stove king to eat noodles
Led by the 100th Festival, the Spring Festival is the most grand traditional festival of the Chinese nation. Some countries and regions in the world will also have celebrations or vacations during the Chinese New Year. The Spring Festival, along with the Qingming Festival, the Dragon Boat Festival and the Mid-Autumn Festival, is known as the four traditional festivals in China.
For example, Qingdao's urban new year (cizao) is generally the twenty-third day of the Waxing Moon, but there are suburban villages that are the twenty-fourth lunar month (Cizao), which is a continuation of the traditional saying of "officials three people and four people".
In addition, the custom of ci stove is mostly dumplings, but in some places, the people will use noodles to worship the king of the stove, which is derived from the saying that "the grandfather of the stove king is zhang, and he loves to drink a rotten noodle soup".
Word stove
In the past, Chinese New Year's Eve in Qingdao to eat two dumplings in the evening, the first meal was at six or seven o'clock in the evening, which was called "picking up the stove", and the whole family invited the king of the stove who held the "annual meeting" for seven days in heaven to come back. Around 11:30 p.m., the whole family began to work on the second meal of dumplings, which Chinese New Year's Eve dumplings with "stories", which contained coins, cakes, candies, dates and other dumplings that mean "high, sweet, early, and rich". The whole family sat happily together and shared the joy of eating the "story".
A few years ago, an allusion about the ancient upside-down posting of the word Fu induced the common people to post the Word fu for the New Year, and many people pasted the word fu upside down, thinking that the meaning was "blessed to (poured)". And this is exactly wrong, the allusion and legend of pasting the word Fu in reverse may exist in history, but it is definitely not suitable for pasting the word Fu in the Spring Festival. The word of blessing must be correct, only and can only be pasted correctly, the so-called blessing and good luck can come in, if the reverse sticker is just the opposite, the blessing is gone, then what else is to pray for. There is a place where the word Fu can be pasted upside down, where is it? For example, livestock pens, garbage bins and other places.
Family Shadow (Tianhou Temple Exhibits)
Chinese New Year's Eve eat rice as the next year's meal
In some areas of Qingdao, such as Jimo and other places, Chinese New Year's Eve in the morning, the couplet must be pasted from outside the door to the inside. Paste the couplets to start hanging the pillars (also known as genealogy, family hall, family shadow). Hanging pillars are very exquisite, Wang Dewei on the spot for reporters to show their family handed down the bamboo curtain, there are candle shadows on it, the age is relatively long, perhaps there are old ancestors hanging curtains to listen to the government, candles represent the guidance and protection of the light. There are two vertical scrolls on both sides of the pillar, east lotus and west peony, which cannot be hung wrong. Hang up the pillars and start setting up the offering table, which must be accompanied by red-dyed vermicelli on the offerings, rice cakes and two bowls of alternate-year rice with dates.
New Year's Greetings
Chinese New Year's Eve this meal at noon is called the next year's meal, which is generally rice, rib cabbage stew noodles. After eating this meal, it is officially entered into the New Year's program, children and adults can not talk indiscriminately, but must speak auspicious words. Until the second day of the first lunar month, the home cannot be cleaned casually. The pillars are invited down after the second year of the first year, but the bamboo curtains cannot be removed until the fifteenth day of the first month. The first two pillars are taken off and respectfully wrapped up, and most people will hang the statue of the god of wealth or the word fu on the bamboo curtain until the fifteenth day of the first month.
With the change of social life and production methods, whether it is from material development, daily rhythm, work and living space or the continuous change of modern communication and communication methods, the current annual flavor has become simple and not simple on the basis of retaining good traditions.
However, no matter how many generations will pass in the future, what will not change in the New Year is the longing and cherishing of our family attachment and beautiful family affection in our bones!
Narrator: Ji Shuying, Wang Yunpei, Wang Dewei of Qingdao Yanhuang Cultural Research Association (comprehensive collation by reporter)