How big has the Spring Festival changed?
More than 70 years back, this picture was taken in Kunming, Yunnan In 1950, during the Spring Festival, people walked almost all the way to the temple to pray for blessings, and the incense was like a mist in the mountains; the New Year at that time was basically lit by fire.
Photo by John Gutmann
Taken in recent years, the Spring Festival Lantern Festival in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, has now been replaced by "electric lights" that have lit up the whole city, reproducing a more brilliant "Tang Dynasty".
Photography: A good one
The core of the Spring Festival has never changed, and the purest New Year flavor has been passed down from generation to generation in the land of Shenzhou and has been well preserved to this day. However, with the development of the times, whether in the city or in the countryside, the external form of "New Year" has already undergone earth-shaking new changes, especially the rapid development of electrical appliances and intelligent technology, which has sublimated this change. We choose this time when the year is approaching, trying to use the lens to record and discover this change - this "different New Year's flavor".
Photographed in 2019, in the ancient city of Xi'an on the morning of the sixth day of the first lunar month, traditional New Year flavors and modern scenes are intertwined.
Photo: Zhang Hongwei
Tibet , Intelligent Cloud New Year's Greetings
Taken in 1980, Mount Everest
Photo by DAN RAFLA, AURORA
China's Tibet, the highest region on the earth, has the "third pole" and "roof of the world" reputation, the average altitude of 4380 meters, the world's highest peak Mount Everest is located here; Tibet landform can be divided into Himalayan mountains, Tibet South Valley, Northern Tibet Plateau and Eastern Tibet Alpine Canyon Area, the words are permeated with "high" and "far".
And at the top of the distant Pure Land, how does the Tibetan people's annual taste take on a new look?
In 2000, the festive atmosphere spreads up along the steep slopes of Mount Aquarius above the Lhasa Valley, where dressed Kham people from eastern Tibet hang prayer flags and burn herbs to welcome the New Year.
Photo by MARIA STENZEL
During the Tibetan New Year, a monk holds up a prayer flag on Aquarius Mountain near Lhasa to pray for the coming year.
It is believed that good deeds and evil deeds during the Tibetan New Year will have an impact on the coming year. In front of the Jokhang Temple, the most important temple in Tibet, pilgrims throw Buddhist incense and tablets of paper with scriptures into flames.
At five o'clock in the morning on the first day of the Tibetan calendar, the housewives have cooked "Qiangku" made of brown sugar, milk residue and barley wine, and sent a bowl to each family. After the sky is cleared and people wash and dress, the juniors take the lead in congratulating the elders on the New Year. On the first day of the Tibetan New Year, the streets and alleys are often deserted, and people share the joy of the New Year with their loved ones at home.
Since the second day of the First Year of the Tibetan Calendar, people have begun to visit each other, pay homage to each other, and invite guests. In the New Year, the first words people say to each other are "Rosala Tashi Delek" (Good luck and good luck in the New Year). When relatives and friends come to the door to visit the New Year, the hostess goes out with a chema box to greet the guests and congratulates each other with "Tashi Delek"; the hostess carries a copper pot draped with Hada to toast to the guests. When going to be a guest, the host must first salute the guest with "three sips and a cup".
Today, on the plateau of Tibet,
Here is not only a "gourmet dinner family reunion",
There is also the "new wave home appliances to renew the New Year",
The "roof of the world" also ushered in a new "New Year's flavor".
The Tibetan people's New Year's home not only has the aroma of "Qiangkui", but also the use of health pots to boil tea; even if the wanderers who are busy outside cannot rush back to the snowy plateau for family reunion, the smart large-screen TV can easily connect distant relatives, even if they are thousands of miles apart, even if the altitude difference is 4000 to 5000 meters, they can also be truly and remotely filial piety; even if the end of the world seems to be next to each other.
Northwest intelligent sweeping room is not tiring
Photographed by Ai Shaoqiang
In northwest China, the Loess Plateau is the world's largest loess sedimentary area, where about 30 million people live in the traditional Shaanxi folk house - cave dwellings in warm winters and cool summers, and when the outdoors are -20 °C in winter, the lighted cave interior can reach more than 10 °C.
The smell of the New Year wafting out of the caves in northern Shaanxi is the corn cob and dried red pepper hanging on the courtyard wall; the window flower cut and just pasted by the daughter-in-law on the window; the sauerkraut, yellow steamed bun and tofu filled with urns, and the fresh meat that has been prepared can always arouse people's appetite.
The traditional houses of northern Shaanxi are warm in winter and cool in summer - cave dwellings
But the New Year is inevitable "busy year", especially the custom of sweeping dust (also known as dust dust, dusting), if you live in a cave, there is time to sweep the dust and the whole family will have to work together for a day or two; in the early days, people on the Loess Plateau not only had to "climb up and down" to sweep the dust, but also needed to open the windows to gradually dissipate. Although the cave dwellings in the rural areas of northern Shaanxi are full of quaint natural harmony and traditional new year's warm taste, the annual Spring Festival "sweeping houses" here really keeps residents busy for a while.
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The emergence of modern appliances will completely change this situation -
From the past "the whole family is too tiring to fight",
Today, "daily cleaning and leisure";
"Robots" appear in traditional houses in Shaanxi,
Dust is nowhere to be seen even in earthen kilns.
A variety of intelligent cleaning small household appliances have undoubtedly reduced the burden of "sweeping the house" of people living on the Loess Plateau: the dust on the ground is completely wiped out by the sweeping and dragging integrated robot; the dust in the air will be properly purified by the negative oxygen ion air purifier; the previous lighting relied on lighting, indoor brightness to see Providence, and now an energy-saving lamp, the whole family is bright without dead ends; before heating by the sun, burning a firewood can choke and cry, now there is environmentally friendly intelligent floor heating on the ground, and the air conditioner on the wall can be converted.
Northeast Science and Technology Chinese New Year's Eve Rice Thief La Shuai
Fly over the silvery northeastern plains and go home early for Chinese New Year's Eve meal
Photo: Wang Yukai
In the northeast region, the fertile Northeast Plain is located in the heart of the region. And the old northeast people, especially pay attention to the New Year to eat, the ingredients produced in the black water of the white mountains are also very fragrant - there must be a big carp on the table of the northeast Chinese New Year's Eve, and then the pork stew noodles, pig dish, sauce pig trotters, stewed geese, stewed chickens, sauce chicken feet, garlic white meat, meat skin jelly, and then the indispensable water spirit dumplings, hard vegetables are full of good wine to drink, come to the purest frozen autumn pear, dissolve the wine and dissolve the grease.
Northeast dumplings, New Year's day is indispensable
Photo: Chen Gang
Northeast igloo small hot pot, steaming over the New Year
In front of an igloo in Harbin, China's northeastern capital, a foreign couple dressed in traditional Chinese costumes welcomes the Chinese New Year
One of the only three major black soil areas in the world is in the Northeast Plain, where the land is really fertile; the temperature is really cold enough; and the various ingredients are delicious and really delicious. But whenever the Spring Festival is approaching, it has taken a lot of effort to move the Chinese New Year's Eve ingredients home in the cold, and then busy working to make a big table of dishes, but also bad heart.
But now the New Year in Northeast China is different -
From the past "preparation for the new year goods busy half a month",
to "fresh food to eat anytime" ,
On the ground where the winter is unusually cold,
The Spring Festival here is always "steaming hot".
Rich and diverse high-tech kitchen appliances make the meals on the table of the Northeast Chinese New Year's Eve more abundant, and the cooking is more relaxed and more enjoyable: steaming in the oven, the spring cake is steaming; the snow sponge bean paste in the multi-functional air fryer is crisp and sweet; the fully intelligent rice cooker is also grunting with stupid chicken stewed mushrooms, the embedded double-stove induction cooker, one electric and one pottery, while the slow simmering on the electric pottery stove with pork noodles, while the surface of the large carp on the induction cooker is fried to golden brown... The heat of food and the joy of people's New Year fill the home together, but the unpleasant oil smoke is swept away by the side suction large suction hood; the family is happy and melting, the outside is cold and snowy, and the ingredients in the refrigerator at home are "cold and frostless", and they are still fresh and good ingredients for a period of time.
From ancient times to the present, the world is north and south,
The word "New Year",
Carrying too deep emotions,
Also the most important ritual,
The kernel of "years" has never changed -
And you want the ever-changing taste and taste of the year,
In the Jingdong Home Appliances New Year Festival, you have everything!
During the Spring Festival, the number of orders placed by local workers to buy New Year goods and gifts for relatives and friends at home increased significantly, and the proportion of sales was higher than that in other months, while the attributes of home appliances were significantly improved.
In the Shigatse region of Tibet, galloping at the foot of Mount Everest
During the Jingdong Home Appliances New Year Festival, whether you are in the 3-6-6 tier townships or 1-2 tier cities - new home appliances, new categories, new trends of Jingdong home appliances to provide you with more choices; Jingdong home appliances omni-channel layout across China's Spring Festival also delivery, plus 30 days of price insurance, 180 days only change not repair, old for new and other service guarantees, so that remote New Year goods to home, empty hand home becomes possible.
Zipline to change the bridge, Jingdong home appliances arrived at the junction of Liangshan Prefecture, Sichuan, Zhaotong City, Yunnan Province
Home appliances are new and heartfelt. Regardless of whether the wanderer returns home or not, whether he can personally present intelligent technology and renewed warmth to his loved ones, covering more than 15,000 Jingdong home appliance stores in 25,000 townships and more than 600,000 administrative villages across the country, from Tibet to Hainan, from the southwest to the northeast, across the land of Shenzhou, across the mountains, rivers, lakes and seas, sending home appliances is also to escort the wanderer's "love" home.
Yunnan Yiliang 68 turns, Jingdong home appliances directly
Consumers in Dingri County, Shigatse, Tibet, located at the foot of Mount Everest, receive large refrigerators from Jingdong home appliance stores
(National Geographic Chinese Network)