The Spring Festival is approaching, and it is time to stock up on New Year goods. The "Kyoto Customs" has a cloud: "After fifteen days, the city is full of sellers of New Year goods." It can be seen that the ancients also attached great importance to the New Year goods, so what kind of New Year goods would the ancients hoard?
▲ Tang Dynasty tomb mural feast map
Most people first heard of "Tu Su", almost all of which originated from Wang Anshi's "Yuan Day" in "The sound of firecrackers is one year old, and the spring wind sends warmth into Tu Su", and "Tu Su" was first recorded in the Tang Dynasty, Han E's "Nian Hua Ji Li":
Tu Su wine originated in jin, the former people had jucao nunnery, every year Chinese New Year's Eve, the remains of Lu, a medicine post to make the sac soaked in the well. On the first day of the first year, take water and put wine in the wine, and drink together without disease and plague. It is said: Tu Su wine, Tu, Cut also, Su, rotten also. Words cut rotten grass for medicine also.
Obviously, Tu Su wine is almost a must-have medicinal liquor for every household, bought when buying New Year goods, Chinese New Year's Eve drink with the family on the same day, so Tu Su wine is also called "old wine".
▲ Ming Li Shida "Shihu Village Qingtu" part
In the Song Dynasty New Year, there are still many New Year goods that need to be purchased.
The list of New Year goods that appears in the Southern Song Dynasty's "Wulin Old Events Volume III and Late Festivals": Wax medicine, brocade, new calendar, all kinds of large and small door gods, peach charms, zhong kui, spring posts, Tianxing stickers, golden colors, wisps of flowers, hatsheng, feeding year plates, wine eaves, sheep cavity, fruits, five-color paper money, grits pots, Pepsi Ji, gum tooth dumplings.
▲ Ming Anon. "Bird Seller"
"Wisps of flowers" are made by cutting silk cloth and colored paper into the shape of flowers and inserting them on the head during the New Year.
"Hata katsu" is an ornament made of gold and silver foil silk cut, shaped like a flag, there is a word "flag open to win", so it is also known as hata katsu.
The "new calendar" is the new almanac, the Song Dynasty almanac was issued by the imperial court, detailing the annual solar terms and auspicious taboos, and at the end of each year, the old calendar must be thrown away and replaced with a new calendar.
The "grits pot" is also a charcoal brazier, which is lit on the night of Chinese New Year's Eve and burned until dawn.
▲ Ming Qiuying's "Spring Dawn Map of the Han Palace" part
During the Qing Dynasty, there was a special market for New Year goods, called "Nian Ji".
Shen Taiqian also recorded the scene of the old Beijing New Year goods market and the new year in the "Spring and Ming Cai Feng Zhi": "Glass, iron wire, oil paint, sand turning, touching silk, walking horses, kites, hair, harmonica, cardboard, round chess, promotion figure, Jiangmi people, Taiping drums, ringing gourds, glass horns, all children play things, compradors, called busy years." ”
▲ Qing Xu Yang "Sun and Moon Combined Five-Star Joint Pearl Chart" part
Qianlong, the emperor who liked to buy New Year goods the most in history. In order to experience the folk customs and human feelings outside the palace ban, the emperor, who had lived in Jiuchong for many years, issued an edict to open a Qing Palace New Year Goods Street in the Yuanmingyuan, known as the "Tongyuan Trading Street".
Yao Yuanzhi of the Qing Dynasty recorded in the "Miscellaneous Records of bamboo leaf pavilions": "There is a paradise in the east of fuhai in the Yuanmingyuan, and every year you give your courtiers to watch the drama here." At the time of the High Temple, there is a trading street in the garden every New Year, where antiques and clothes are estimated, and teahouses and restaurants are prepared, and all the things are prepared, and the owners of the outer rooms are all there, even those who carry small baskets to sell melon seeds. ”
▲ Qing Wang Zhicheng 《Ten Thousand Trees Garden Gift Feast Map》
Even the Qianlong Emperor was so keen on buying New Year goods, it can be seen that doing New Year goods, busy people, buying goods, but the harvest is a satisfied and full of expectations of the heart.
Information transferred from: The Nation in Archaeology