The footsteps of the Spring Festival are getting closer and closer
The New Year atmosphere is also getting stronger
How much do you know about the Spring Festival?
Xiaolongzi collected ten Spring Festival trivia
Come and see if you can answer a few questions correctly
First, the new year is approaching, and it is indispensable to paste the Spring Festival. How to distinguish between upper and lower links? Is it left-to-right or right-to-left?
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The Spring League pays attention to the confrontation between the upper and lower leagues. Generally speaking, the last word is the upper link of the 仄 sound (three or four sounds), and the last word is the lower link of the flat sound (one or two sounds), that is, "仄起平收". The traditional Spring League pays attention to the right hand as the top and the left hand as the bottom. However, at present, there are also many people who determine the left and right of the upper and lower links according to the direction of the horizontal batch.
Lukov, vice chairman of the Hunan Provincial Association of Yanglian Families
Interpret the "Spring League" trivia
Second, the Spring Festival will paste the word "Fu" upside down on the gate, indicating that "happiness has arrived" and "blessing has arrived"?
wrong.
The upside-down sticking of the word Fu is exquisite, and the word "Fu" on the gate cannot be pasted upside down. In the folk tradition, water tanks, garbage bins, and cabinets should be pasted with the word Fu. In order to avoid taking away the fu characters in the home when pouring water and garbage, the fu characters were pasted in these places, and the "fu zhi" was cleverly used to offset the "fu go".
Hunan SATELLITE TV host Wang Haoyang
Teach you how to paste the word "Fu"
Why were tang dynasty historical figures Qin Shubao and Wei Chi Jingde posted on the door as "door gods"?
Qin Qiong (秦叔宝) and Wei Chigong (尉迟敬德) were both famous generals under Emperor Taizong of Tang. Legend has it that after Tang Taizong ascended the throne, he often couldn't sleep because of nightmares. Whenever this happened, he let the two generals wear armor and armed to guard the palace gate, and sure enough, there was no trouble overnight. Over time, Emperor Taizong read the two generals working hard day and night, so he asked the palace painter to draw a portrait of the second general, angrily and threateningly, holding a whip, hanging on both sides of the palace gate, after which the evil spirit disappeared completely. Thus was born the two most common door gods in the future.
Zhong Xinglin, the fourth generation inheritor of the Tantou Nian Painting Gao Lamei Workshop
Interpret the New Year paintings
In the four famous works, did Sun Wukong, Jia Baoyu, Cao Cao, etc. all celebrate the "Spring Festival"?
None.
The first day of the first lunar month was not called the Spring Festival in ancient times, but called New Year's Day, New Year's Day, etc. Whether it is the four famous works or other ancient books, the word "Spring Festival" cannot be found. After the Xinhai Revolution, the Gregorian calendar was adopted, so january 1 of the Gregorian calendar was called New Year's Day, and the first day of the first lunar month was the Spring Festival.
5. Is the Spring Festival not only a unique festival in the mainland, but also in Singapore and Mauritius?
Right.
In addition to China, there are many countries in the world that list the Lunar New Year as an official holiday, including South Korea, North Korea, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Mauritius, Myanmar, Brunei and so on. In the past, Japan also celebrated the Lunar New Year, but after the Meiji Restoration, the lunar calendar was abolished and the festival was moved directly to the solar calendar.
Sixth, "In the sound of firecrackers, one year old is removed, and the spring breeze sends warmth into Tu Su." From the Song Dynasty poet Wang Anshi's "Yuan Ri", what does the "Tu Su" in the poem refer to?
Tu Su, ancient wine made with Tu Su grass or several herbs. According to folk customs, on the first day of the first lunar month every year, the whole family drinks Tusu wine, and then wraps the dregs with a red cloth and hangs them on the door frame to "drive away evil spirits" and avoid the plague.
7. The reason why firecrackers are called firecrackers is because the firecrackers are really bamboo?
The Southern Dynasty Liang Dynasty Song Yi 's Chronicle of entering and leaving the year's]: "The chickens rise up before the court firecrackers to avoid the evil ghosts of the mountains." "At that time, firecrackers were burned in a fire to expel the plague god, because bamboo burning made a "crackling" sound, so it was called firecrackers. Gunpowder was later invented, and firecrackers gradually replaced bamboo firecrackers.
Is "not cutting hair in the first month" a superstition or a scientific basis?
"No haircut in the first month" has a certain scientific basis. From the level of Chinese medicine, the Yellow Emperor's Inner Classic, "Four Qi, The Great Theory of Adjusting the Gods", records: "Being slowed down, so that Zhisheng, born without killing, giving and not taking, rewarding and not punishing, this spring qi should be, the way of health is also, and the opposite is to hurt the liver." "It means that in the spring, the hair should be scattered and grow freely, not cut, and the diagnosis of hair claws can cut off serious illnesses and life and death." But the claim that "the uncle shaved his head to death" is pure nonsense.
Why are there no cats in the Zodiac?
According to archaeologists, before the Spring and Autumn Warring States and even in the Zhou Dynasty, there were already twelve beasts, that is, the zodiac. The earliest chinese documentation of cats appeared in the Western Han Dynasty. Before the Han Dynasty, there was no trace of a cat in various written records or in images such as murals and totems. Scholars generally believe that cats entered China through trade with foreign countries during the Western Han Dynasty or earlier.
9. Which figure is the eighth day of the first lunar month to commemorate?
Shakyamuni. The Lapa Festival, also known as the "Dharma Treasure Festival" and the "Buddha Enlightenment Festival", etc. Originally a Buddhist festival to commemorate the enlightenment of Shakyamuni Buddha, it gradually became a folk festival. Laba porridge, also known as "Seven Treasures Five Flavor Porridge", "Buddha Porridge", "Everyone Rice", etc., was first recorded in the Song Dynasty. The Southern Song Dynasty Wu Zimu's "Record of Dream Liang" says: "On the eighth day of this month, the monastery is called Lapa Eight. Temples such as dacha have five-flavor porridge, known as Lapa Eight Congee. ”
10. How many days will there be in the Year of the Nongyin Tiger in 2022?
355 days. Where did the less 10 days go?
The Chinese lunar calendar determines the date and month according to the cycle of the moon phases, and the length of the year according to the twenty-four solar terms. Since the number of days in the 12 lunar months is not enough for the 24 solar terms, and the 13 months are exceeded, the length of the year is adjusted by increasing the leap month at the right time. Every two or three years, a leap month is added to adjust it "after the mistake". That is to say, the 10 days of the 2022 Nongyin Tiger will be made up in the next lunar leap year.
Have you learned these little things?
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