China's Chinese New Year's Eve has always been a day of universal celebration, "division" in the ancient text refers to going, easy, alternating, and "sunset" and used to indicate the end of the month, at the end of the year to remove the old cloth new, its meaning is sublimated. The old age is divided by this, the new year is the beginning, whether ancient or modern, it has become the consensus of the world to measure the harvest in one year, that is, in one year. Even if this year is not satisfactory, but Chinese New Year's Eve, people's spirits will be lifted and the flame of self-improvement will be rekindled. Laughter and laughter are everywhere in the world, and thousands of households are busy, so what are the highlights of the lively Chinese New Year's Eve? Folk sayings are the most reflective.
The saying is the embodiment of the life style of the people, whether it is a seasonal festival or a grand festival, the saying is the most direct entrance to the leopard in the tube. Chinese New Year's Eve as the most special day of the year, folk are naturally indispensable to various colloquial depictions, especially in ancient times, where superstition was prevalent, and such sayings were particularly common. However, "five miles of different winds, ten miles of different customs", from small villages to large states and counties have their own proverbs. In the village of the author's hometown, I have heard the saying that "the Chinese New Year's Eve is not destroyed, and there is no shortage of wealth in the coming year", although it is a joke of the elderly, the customs and habits reflected in it are extremely common.
First, the lights
Although the countryside is mostly poor, lanterns are still an indispensable highlight of the Chinese New Year's Eve. Most of them hang on ladders, and some hold children to hang, and festive and warm pictures come to the face. It is said that this custom has a history of thousands of years, and the origin of the red lantern is the worship of fire in ancient times, and the second is the drumming lantern that is in the hope of the people's wish for a happy reunion. Hanging red lanterns during the day, lighting candles or putting oil lamps before dark, the peaceful and peaceful scene is all over the rural households in the old days. Looking at the stars on the mountain like the stars of the Milky Way, coupled with the laughter of every household, the so-called prosperity of the world is nothing more than this. In addition to the lantern fire, people will also light fuel lamps and candles in the hall, and the reunited family will sit around and tell stories about the harvest year, and the elderly will often tell some folk stories that the younger generations are relishing at this time, waiting for the arrival of the new year, which is often said to be the new year. During the new year, the lights should be taken care of at any time and cannot be extinguished, and you can sleep peacefully after the age of the year, so as to pin the good wishes of the new year's bright and prosperous future forever.
Second, incense
For us today, most of the Chinese New Year's Eve meaning is only holidays and dinners. The ancient Chinese New Year's Eve must first sacrifice heaven and earth and ancestors, "the heaven and earth, the origin of life; the ancestors, the origin of the class" is the core of ancient humanistic thought. The foundation of life lies in heaven and earth, our foundation lies in our ancestors, and ancestor worship has always been an important embodiment of filial piety. Although the customs of ancestor worship vary from place to place, the ceremony of offering incense is essential. Whether it is to visit ancestral tombs in the wild or to worship ancestors in clan ancestral halls, the most common thing is to place ancestral tablets in the main hall of the home. A family of old and young exhibit offerings, Lu Xun's "Blessings" has a vivid description of the plot of the Chinese New Year's Eve night sacrifice, and then in the order of the elder and the young, they bow down to the incense in order.
Three, firewood
Chinese New Year's Eve rice is undoubtedly the finale of the Chinese New Year's Eve, not only has various meanings, but more importantly, it is rich and abundant. The author vaguely remembers that the Chinese New Year's Eve rice in the village should be based on hard dishes, in addition to the necessary wax flavor, chicken, duck and pork and other stews can not be less, coupled with the large number of people, hard wood hard fire has become an indispensable fuel for cooking Chinese New Year's Eve.
The "firewood blocks" accumulated by the people who cut down trees and split firewood on weekdays are just for their use in the waxing moon, the meals of the hard fire are efficient and flavorful, the charcoal left by the hard firewood is just used for gossiping and homely heating, and when the old age is guarded, they listen to the stories of the past around the brazier filled with charcoal, and the so-called "rice flowers say that the good year" is red and red all year.
Although all three of these things have become a thing of the past, the wishes of the people embodied in traditional culture are never out of date. In the old countryside, where the living environment was relatively poor, the cold Chinese New Year's Eve had cold firewood, bright lights, and heirs' incense, so the luck and fortune of the New Year would be booming.