The remnants of the wax harvest cold, the first turn of the three yangs, the Chinese New Year's Eve is coming, and the years will change. "Chinese New Year's Eve" adds joy and warmth to the ordinary days of the ancestors. Colorful lights, laughter, thousands of lights, all-night new year greetings, to every adult who has walked through childhood, a precious time memory.
The traces are Chinese New Year's Eve
Chinese New Year's Eve is the beginning of the year and the end of the year, so the end of the year is called "the division of the year". The sun is the morning, the twilight is the sunset, and the twilight of the tail sun is called "Chinese New Year's Eve". In the Han Dynasty, the year was once lak, so the eve of the lak day was also called "la Chinese New Year's Eve". The joy of Chinese New Year's Eve is always short-lived; its formation and development are exceptionally long.
At the beginning of the Chinese New Year's Eve, it carried the function of sacrifice. In ancient times, the beliefs of the Chinese people were based on nature; agricultural activities were also particularly dependent on nature. Therefore, under the class system, the rulers shouldered the great responsibility of national peace and security, and smooth wind and rain.
▲ "Hongli Dynasty Dynasty Music Image" Qing
The scene of the Qianlong Emperor and many princes greeting the New Year in the palace garden. The Qianlong Emperor sat under the porch with the little prince in his arms, and several princes either set off firecrackers, stepped on the age, or burned the age. The fish lamp and the jade chime hanging on the halberd in the picture take the meaning of "auspicious celebration and more than enough" to express the good wishes for the New Year.
The great affairs of the kingdom are in the worship and the rong. "Sacrifice" became a national event, Chinese New Year's Eve and Lapa Ba, Lapa Twenty-four, these three sections, constituted the qin and Han dynasty year-end festivals. The content of the sacrifice is divided into two sides - the wax sacrifice and the wax sacrifice; the wax person sacrifices the ancestors, and the wax person repays the hundred gods.
The trend of history always enriches the connotation of the festival. With the disintegration of the ceremonial system, Chinese New Year's Eve, as the "day of the end of the month", its function gradually developed into "resigning the old and welcoming the new". The ritual of Chinese New Year's Eve sacrifice, and to this day, only a few areas continue the ancient style. All in all, the alternating evolution of the cultural functions of the festival has made the joyful smell of the Chinese New Year's Eve more and more intense, and the wind of folk music even more so. Therefore, the folk activities of Chinese New Year's Eve also have greater room for play.
Mysterious legends
In folklore, the origin of Chinese New Year's Eve is interesting and flavorful. Legend has it that in ancient times, "Xi" was a vicious monster that often endangered the people, and the people could not surrender to the "Xi" when they turned to the "Stove King". Therefore, the Emperor of The Stove asked for help from the Heavenly Palace, and the Heavenly Palace sent a young immortal named "Nian" to remove the "Eve" on the thirtieth night of the Waxing Moon. Since then, the people have called this night "Chinese New Year's Eve" and burned firecrackers to commemorate it.
There is also another legend. "Nian" is a ferocious beast that feeds on hundreds of beasts. In the winter, they invaded the villages, ate people and livestock, and the people were in a state of panic. People and "Nian" have been fighting against each other for many years, and they have found that "Nian" is afraid of three things: red, fire, and sound. Therefore, the people hung red peach wood according to this, burned a fire at the door, and spent the night knocking and beating. "Nian" therefore hid in the mountains and did not dare to disturb the people. Since then, people have congratulated Daoxi by pasting red couplets, beating gongs and drums, and burning firecrackers, which has been passed down from generation to generation and become the "New Year".
Look at the "festival" Dali
The footprints of Chinese history are always intertwined with diverse colors. This is inseparable from the "moderate" way of Chinese culture, and there is no trade-off between the good and the bad. Artistically, there are "Yangchun White Snow" and "Lower Riba People" style. In the history of literature, there are seriousness of the right history and elements of mythology. Therefore, "Tanabata" has more beautiful meanings, and "Chinese New Year's Eve" has more flavor of hexi. It is precisely because of the "moderation" that mythological footprints such as the Classic of Mountains and Seas have been preserved, enriching the imagination of contemporary people. In the context of the era of scientific concept, it has added vitality to the thinking of the whole people.
▲ "Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong, Jiaqing, Daoguang Yubi Five Blessings"
In the Qing Dynasty, there was always a custom of emperors writing the word "Fu" in their own handwriting before the New Year, and choosing a day to give "blessings" to relatives of the emperor and relatives of the state, and the ministers of the humerus gave "blessings" and rewards "blessings", which means that blessings shine on the world and great luck
Chinese New Year's Eve is a unique holiday memory of Chinese. Its significance, across time and space, to the descendants of Yanhuang, ancient feelings, to overseas wanderers, relive nostalgia. May all the good people, on the occasion of the new year, let go of the physical and mental pressure, shake off the dust of the years, and enjoy the warmth of the Chinese New Year's Eve festival in the culture inherited by the ancestors.
At the end of the Waxing Moon, gradually approaching the Spring Festival full of New Year's flavor, people working outside have embarked on the journey home, eager to prepare New Year goods with their families, paste spring leagues, visit relatives and friends... Living a warm and ritualistic Spring Festival, this pursuit of the Sense of Spring Festival ceremony, even Qianlong is no exception.
According to Qing and Yao Yuanzhi's "Miscellaneous Records of Bamboo Leaf Pavilion":
"Every year, the Kunning Palace is dedicated to the stove, and a drum board is set on its main kang. Last, first served. Gao Miao drove in, sat on the kang and beat himself on the drum board, and sang the song "Visiting xian". ”
The high temple is Qianlongye, and Qianlongye drumming and clapping on the kang and singing songs, this special ceremony, this picture is really festive!
The Qianlong Emperor's "attachment" to Layue was not only this, he was particularly fond of Fan Chengda's "Ten Songs of Layue Murata Lefu", often transcribed these ten ancient poems, and also gave the painters a "propositional homework", so he had this set of poetic intentions of "Fan Chengda Layue Murata Lefu".
The poem "Fan Cheng Da La Yue Murata Lefu" has a total of ten axes, which are composed by ten clans, poets, and painters who are good at painting, and are ordered to be based on Fan Chengda's poetry, depicting the annual customs or blessing allegories of the farming society in ancient poetry.
This group of paintings, there is a axis of Yunxi's "Winter Trip" has been completed, the remaining nine paintings, the architecture in the painting is neat and exquisite, many characters are based on small freehand techniques, the brushwork is beautiful and flexible, for all kinds of people, etc. can do their best, lively and interesting, their happiness and harmony, full of flavor!
Qing Zhang Ruocheng Imperial title "Ashes Heap" poetic intention
Qing Dong Bangda Imperial inscription "Words of Divided Years" poetic intention
Qing Ding Guanpeng Imperial title "Firecracker Line" poetic intention
Qing Chen Shijun Imperial title "Terada Silkworm Line" poetic intention
Qing Zhang Ho Imperial title "Burning the Brazier" poetic intention
Qing Zhou Kun Imperial inscription "Sacrifice Stove Words" poetic intent
Qing Cao Fuyin Title "Selling Dementia Words" Poetic Intention
Qing Li Shikuo Imperial Title "Mouth Counting Porridge Line" Poetic Intention
Qing Shen Yuan Imperial title "Lamp City Line" poetic intention