Thirty nights to stay up all night, the first arch of the New Year' Day, do you remember some of the Nursery Rhymes of the New Year?
Wen ‖ Hengdong Shiqin
Thirty nights to stay overnight, the first arch of the New Year. For those of us who are born in our 60s, 70s and 80s, the impression of the New Year is particularly deep, and it is still fresh in our memories. Although the current standard of living is getting better and better, the time at home is getting shorter and shorter, so that it is only a few days before the Chinese New Year's Eve to rush home, that is, I want to meet and talk with my partners on this opportunity of the New Year, come and go, and the current year no longer has the taste of the previous year.
Spring Festival is the most solemn festival of the year, before the New Year's program is many, in the years ago, parents to buy a variety of delicious diet, fruits and new vegetables, a variety of meat, followed by the whole family to do a big cleaning, followed by the Spring Festival, hanging lanterns, children set off firecrackers. On the first day of the New Year, they all put on new clothes, paid for the New Year, bowed their hands to the elders, and bowed their hands with their peers, this one in, that family out, happy and joyful.
Do you remember the nursery rhyme of the New Year: "Children and children, don't be hungry, after lapa eight is the year; lapa porridge, drink for a few days, mile la la la twenty-three." Twenty-three, sugar melon sticky, send the stove king to heaven; twenty-four, sweep the house; twenty-five, frozen tofu; twenty-six, go to buy meat; twenty-seven, slaughter the rooster; twenty-eight, put the noodles hair; twenty-nine, steamed steamed steamed buns; thirty nights to stay up all night, the first arch of the New Year's Day." Do nursery rhymes take us back to that era?
There are many nursery rhymes about the New Year, such as: one night and two years, five more than two years. Another example: beat a thousand, scold ten thousand, and eat a meal thirty nights. Busy waxing month, noisy new month, procrastination until February. Another example: the year comes, the year comes, the girl wants flowers and cannons, the wife wants a flower cotton jacket, and the old man wants a new felt hat. There are countless nursery rhymes in the New Year, and here I will tell you about the two nursery rhymes of "staying up for a night at thirty nights, arching your hand at the beginning of the New Year".
Stay up for one night in thirty nights
This nursery rhyme is that Chinese New Year's Eve day and night (Chinese New Year's Eve night) people keep the year, and the age keep is also called staying up, staying up late, and taking care of the year. The custom of keeping the age was first recorded in the Western Jin Dynasty, and the "Record of Customs" of the Jin Dynasty Zhou: "The customs of Shu, the late years and mutual questioning, are called keeping the age; wine and food are invited to other years, until the Chinese New Year's Eve Dayan does not sleep, it is called keeping the age." "Chinese New Year's Eve do not sleep all night, but stay up all night to welcome the arrival of the New Year, which is called keeping the age, which is the meaning of the ancient people's observance."
The most lively thing on Chinese New Year's Eve day is not the lively and joyous Spring Festival Gala, nor is it the sound of fireworks and firecrackers with sky-high prices and various patterns, the highlight of which is just a family sitting together to eat a reunion dinner, telling the successes and failures of the past year in the laughter of the family, and then explaining the planning and arrangement of the year; unloading the burden of the year and the thick armor in front of outsiders, revealing their softest heart, at this time everyone is like a child who needs to be cared for.
The first arch of the Chinese New Year
Every year on the first day of the New Year, there are many things to do, get up, wash, worship the gods, worship the ancestors, make a rich breakfast, generally eight bowls of dishes, after eating breakfast time to eight thirty, otherwise others come to worship the New Year, but you are still eating, give people a bad start, he will be uncomfortable. Everyone pays attention to the opening of the door: the opening of the door is auspicious, and the firecrackers are released first, which is called "opening the door cannon battle". After the sound of firecrackers, the ground is full of broken red, and it is as bright as clouds, called "full of red".
We know that the first day of the Chinese New Year is the beginning of the year, the flow of people is constant, the cannons are not stopping, and it is also the day when the juniors pay their respects to the elders. I remember that at that time, most families lived in their hometowns, and there was no house in the city, and there were generally four or five people in a family, and more than six or seven people. When we went to pay homage to the elders, the family left our mother to entertain the youngsters and peers who came to visit the New Year, and the father took us to the New Year, bowed our hands to everyone, and said some blessings.
In fact, the New Year is a lively and lively picture, both festive and auspicious. Therefore, on Chinese New Year's Eve night and the first day of the Chinese New Year, we must say some auspicious words, whether adults or children, do not say dirty words and irreverent words, but also avoid vicious insults, loud rebukes and children crying, causing everyone to be unhappy. Legend has it that if this is disrespectful to the gods, the person involved may be unlucky for a year. So in case the bear child is naughty again, parents must not be angry!
During the Spring Festival, because everyone is in a festive atmosphere, everywhere is full of laughter, cheers, so it is necessary to speak auspiciously, can not say some unlucky words, such as "broken", "dead", "sick", "lose", "defeat" and so on. If you accidentally commit a taboo, you must spit on your mouth, and then say a sentence of "fairy tales without taboos" to resolve. Of course, this spit will not solve this problem, but it is best not to say unlucky words!
Today is the twentieth day of the twelfth month of the lunar calendar, the rain is non-stop, sparse, the pedestrians on the road are getting more and more day by day, more and more people are going home, the waiters in various shopping malls are wearing masks, and all the guests who enter the store have to scan the health code and the itinerary code. For everyone's health and the prevention and control of the epidemic, everyone is actively cooperating, and the epidemic prevention and control in the past two years has told everyone that only if their own prevention and control is done well, the epidemic will be far away from us.
Although the Spring Festival in the past two years is the same as the epidemic, the Spring Festival is still our most grand traditional festival. Since the first year of the first year of the han dynasty, the first day of the first lunar month of the summer calendar year (lunar calendar) is the first year (that is, the year), and the date of the Spring Festival has been fixed. No matter what natural or man-made disasters occur, they cannot change our lively hearts. The taste of the New Year is getting stronger and stronger, the lanterns are getting redder and redder, the Year of the Tiger is getting closer and closer, I wish everyone a smooth everything and earn more RMB in the New Year!
Written in The ancient town of Dapu, a thousand-year-old water town in Shonan Province
2022.1.22.15:35