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The tiger is a symbol of bravery and strength
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Chinese New Year's Eve, also known as the Great Chinese New Year's Eve, Chinese New Year's Eve Night, Except Night, Year Removal, etc., is the last night of the lunar month (December) every year. Division means removal; sunset, which means night. Chinese New Year's Eve is also a festival of resignation and new, unity and renewal. The three festivals of Qingming Festival, Zhongyuan Festival and Chongyang Festival are traditional Chinese ancestor worship festivals, as well as traditional cultural festivals popular in China and countries in the Chinese character cultural circle.
Chinese New Year's Eve is also known as the Chinese New Year's Eve because it is often on the 29th or 30th day of the lunar month in the summer calendar, and is one of the most important traditional festivals in China. The people attach the most importance to it. Every household is busy or cleaning the courtyard, welcoming the ancestors home for the New Year, and offering rice cakes and three animals.
The last day of the lunar year is called "Year-End", and that night is called "Chinese New Year's Eve". Since ancient times, Chinese New Year's Eve there have been customs such as staying up all night, keeping the year, sticking to the door gods, pasting spring leagues, pasting New Year paintings, and hanging lanterns.
Chinese New Year's Eve customs
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Eat Chinese New Year's Eve meal
The Chinese New Year's Eve meal of Chinese New Year's Eve night is also called the reunion meal, and according to Zong Ji's "Records of the Jingchu Years", at least in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, there was a custom of eating Chinese New Year's Eve meal. Because it is winter, northerners often set up hot pot in the middle of the dining table, so it is also called an irori oven.
Northerners often Chinese New Year's Eve dishes include dumplings, fish, rice cakes, and long-term dishes. Because the shape of dumplings resembles a golden yuanbao, it has the meaning of wealth; the dish of fish cannot be eaten, because in Chinese, "fish" and "Yu" are homophonous, and there is an auspicious meaning of "every year there is more than enough"; rice cakes have the meaning of "rising every year"; eating long-term dishes has the meaning of longevity. In South China, there are many chickens, roast meat, hair vegetables, oyster sauce, etc., because "fat vegetable oyster sauce" and "fortune and good market" are harmonious. The typical Chinese New Year's Eve rice in Gangnam must have fish, a rich soup pot.
According to the old ritual, the traditional seat of the Chinese New Year's Eve Night is "Shangzuo Zundong" and "Facing the Gate as Zun". The chief of the annual feast is the eldest of the generations, and the last seat is the lowest. If it is a guest, the chief is the most honorable guest, and the host is the last. The chief did not sit down, the rest could not sit down, the chief did not move, everyone could not move.
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Chinese New Year's Eve don't draw water
In the New Year, there is a taboo not to draw water, and people with wells should "seal the wells" before dusk on the new day, add wooden covers to the wells, burn incense and worship after offering pastries, and then open the covers and reuse them after three days.
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ancestor worship Chinese New Year's Eve
Ancestor sacrifice is the first major event of Chinese New Year's Eve. In many parts of the mainland, on this day, people will put rich meals in their homes, light incense candles, and parents lead their children and grandchildren to prostrate.
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Chinese New Year's Eve give the old money
The ancients were very particular about pressing old money. The copper coins used should be large and new, and then worn into various shapes with red rope. Some wear hundreds of copper coins, taking the meaning of "long life and 100 years"; some wear carp, ruyi, dragon shapes and other auspicious shapes, taking the meaning of "money dragon" and "money surplus" in order to bring auspicious wishes.
In addition to the elders sending children "pressed age money", some areas also have the custom of sending "pressing old age fruits". Chinese New Year's Eve night, the elders will put oranges, lychees and other melons and fruits on the child's pillow, taking the meaning of "auspicious" to wish the child a good luck in the coming year.
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Chinese New Year's Eve year-on-year activities
Chinese New Year's Eve night, mainland folk also hold a year-stamping activity, that is, in the courtyard, sesame stalks are glued to the shape of a yuanbao rolled with yellow paper and saved into a bundle, which is called a "cornucopia".
Then, the whole family stomps it with their feet to "break" and harmonize the "year", and borrows the auspicious meaning of the sesame blossom festival to wish the family prosperity and express blessings for the new year.
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Chinese New Year's Eve keep the age
Chinese New Year's Eve night vigil is also a long-standing custom, as early as the Western Jin Dynasty "Record of Customs" has a clear record: everyone stays up all night, waiting for the dawn, called "keeping the age".
Legend has it that the age keeper is to prevent the invasion of a unicorn, and this unicorn is most afraid of fire, red and sound, so people Chinese New Year's Eve wear red clothes, light red lights, paste red paper, set off fireworks and firecrackers, burn incense and pray all night, and there is a custom of "keeping the age" at night.
Many places also call Chinese New Year's Eve night "auspicious night". On this night, both adults and children must say auspicious words, not obscure words, dirty words and disrespectful words, otherwise they will be unlucky for a year. Therefore, rejoicing, harmony, and reunion are the biggest themes of Chinese New Year's Eve Night.
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Chinese New Year's Eve turn on the lights to sleep
Chinese New Year's Eve can't turn off the lights when they go to bed at night, and they can only turn off the lights until dawn on the first day of the New Year.
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Chinese New Year's Eve avoid breaking utensils
Chinese New Year's Eve there is also the custom of breaking utensils. Folk believe that if the dishes and cups are broken on this day, it means that there will be "broken luck" in the new year.
Sometimes if you accidentally break the cup and plate on this day, the elders will wrap it in red paper and recite auspicious words such as "years and years (broken) peace" to remedy it. Folk believe that the fragments wrapped in red paper can be defused by placing them on the god case for a few days. Therefore, people will be cautious in their words and deeds in order to win a good lottery on this day of Chinese New Year's Eve in order to obtain an auspicious and satisfactory year.
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Chinese New Year's Eve Post Spring League
Chunlian, also known as "door pair", "spring paste", "couplet" and "pair", belongs to a kind of Yanglian and is a unique literary form.
"Sanyang Shibu, Four Orders And Initial Opening" is the world's earliest Spring League, which is recorded in the Dunhuang Testament excavated from the Tibetan Scripture Cave of the Mogao Caves, written by Liu Qiuzi of the Tang Dynasty, in the eleventh year of the New Century (723). The folk custom of the Spring Festival of the people began to prevail from the Ming Dynasty, and the birthplace of the trend was Nanjing. At present, the people in the Jiangnan area pay attention to pasting the Spring Festival League in the morning of the Chinese New Year's Eve.
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Chinese New Year's Eve pasted the New Year painting
New Year paintings, like the Spring Festival, originated from the "Door God".
With the rise of engraving and printing, the content of New Year paintings is not limited to the door gods and the like.
In addition, in some New Year paintings, colorful New Year paintings such as "Fulu Shou Three-Star Chart", "Blessing from Heavenly Officials", "Five Grains and Fengdeng", "Six Animals Flourishing", and "Greeting Spring and Receiving Blessings" were produced to meet people's good wishes for celebrating and praying for the New Year.
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Chinese New Year's Eve window flowers
In the folk, people also like to paste various paper cuts on the windows - window flowers. Window flowers not only set off the festive atmosphere, but also combine decoration, appreciation and practicality.
Paper-cutting is a popular folk art in the mainland, and has been loved by people for thousands of years, because it is mostly attached to the window, so it is also called "window flower". With its unique generalization and exaggeration, the window flower vividly expresses auspicious events and good wishes, and decorates the festival with red and rich.
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Chinese New Year's Eve posted the word Fu
The Spring Festival sticker Fu character is a long-standing custom of Chinese folk. The Spring Festival sticker "Fu" is a blessing that pins people's yearning for a happy life and a wish for a better future.
There is no uniform standard for how the word "Fu" should be posted.
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Chinese New Year's Eve must go home at zero
The reunion Chinese New Year's Eve meal is eaten in a burst of laughter, and the family will sit around the TV to watch the Spring Festival Gala, or visit relatives' homes to chat, but they must return home before midnight.
At 00:00, the family must all "keep the year" at home, and when the hands of the clock pass through 12 o'clock, people will celebrate the arrival of the New Year.
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Chinese New Year's Eve fire firecrackers
Chinese folk have a saying of "opening the door and firecrackers". That is, at the beginning of the new year, the first thing every household does when it opens its doors is to set off firecrackers and welcome the new with the sound of firecrackers that "beep and beep".
Its origin is very early, and it has a history of more than 2,000 years. Firecrackers can create a festive and lively atmosphere, is a kind of entertainment activities of festivals, and can bring joy and auspiciousness to people. Nowadays, to buy fireworks, you must go to a store with a sales license to buy, and you must safely set off fireworks at a designated location.
A masterpiece
Throughout the ages, whenever the literati and inkers arrived at this time, they always wrote poems and wrote poems, leaving us with many famous works.
"Except for the Night"
Don Cui Tu
Passing the three bus roads, the body is in danger.
Chaotic mountains and snowy nights, lonely candles and strangers.
Gradually, he became distant from the flesh and bones, and turned to the servant relatives.
Nakan is drifting, and tomorrow is a new year.
When you grow up, Chinese New Year's Eve is the blessing of your relatives, and the blessing is the footsteps of youth.
"Sending Brothers and Sisters at Night"
Don Bai Juyi
Feel the time to think of younger siblings, do not sleep Prozac.
Thousands of miles through the years, lonely lights this night stand.
The appearance of the sick is not the old day, and the thinking is forced to be new.
Morning and evening reunion, bondage and growth.
When wandering, Chinese New Year's Eve is a distant thought, and the thought is the burden of the wanderer.
"Except for the Overnight Stay at Stone Station"
Don Dai Shulun
Who asks at the hotel? Cold lights are amiable.
The year will come to an end, and no one will return.
Little sad about the past, laughing at this body.
Sad and fading sideburns, tomorrow is spring again.
At this moment, there is no return of ten thousand miles, but the blessings are sent to Tu Su.
Don Meng Haoran
The five more bells leaked and urged each other, and the four qi pushed back and forth.
The lamp in the tent was only extinguished, and the aroma in the furnace turned to ash.
Gradually looking at the spring hibiscus pillow, I suddenly felt cold and sold the bamboo leaf cup.
The shoushi family should not lie down, and the dream soul of the acquaintance will come.
Chinese New Year's Eve night after five years is the new year, so it is said that "one night is even two years old, and five is divided into two years".
"Except for the Night"
Don Gaushi
The hotel is cold and sleepless, and the guest's heart turns miserable.
Hometown tonight thinking of thousands of miles, frost sideburns Ming Dynasty another year.
Even in today's convenient transportation, there will still be many people who can't go home for the New Year, "hometown tonight thinking of thousands of miles", blessing them.
"Winter Except for the Night Book"
Don Luyen Jean
The vulture sat tastelessly, thinking about who was with his neighbor.
Count the stars of the late night fire, a distant countryman.
The weather is snowy, and the wind trumpet trees want spring.
Sadness hurts himself, and he doesn't feel bitter and moaning.
No matter how far we go, home is always our warm home.
"Partridge Day Ding has Chinese New Year's Eve"
Song Zhao Shixia
The sound of firecrackers in the middle of the age and removal, suddenly back and full of gas in the huan area.
Spring views the green river south tree, not with the human world to dye white whiskers.
Residual candles, old peach charms, Ning Ci late drink Tu Su.
Gui Qi is fortunate to have a garden victory, and the second flower can be entertained.
When there was no gunpowder or paper, people used fire-burning bamboo and bursting to expel the plague god, reflecting the good wishes of the Chinese people for Antai.
"The Inner Man Sits guard at night"
Southern and Northern Dynasties Xu Junqian
The laughter is not extreme, and the reward is not stopped.
Peaches are liked in wine, and bayberry is found in rice dumplings.
The curtain opened and the wind entered the account, and the candle turned to ashes.
Do not doubt the heavy sideburns, for the sake of Waiting for XiaoGuang.
On the evenings of Chinese New Year's Eve, men, women and children, young and old, will be brightly lit up and gathered together to keep the new year.
"Two Songs Except for the Night Wild Stay in Changzhou City (Part 1)"
Su shi
Coming from the south to see the old clouds, I am afraid of walking for life.
Old age is afraid of the new calendar day, retreat to the old peach charm.
Fireworks have become youthful, frost and snow are looking for sick people.
But put the poor and worried for a long time, and did not give up the last drink tu su.
"Raise a glass to each other Tu Su wine", this cup of wine poured into the thoughts of this year, in the toast collision to tell the feelings in the heart, wishing the family a more harmonious and healthy life in the coming year.
"Chinese New Year's Eve"
Qing Zhao Yi
The shadow of the candle shook the red flame shangming, and Han knew that he had accumulated Qiongying.
The old man got up in a cold cloak to listen to the rooster's first call.
When the age is up to the age, the heart is full of vitality, next year to keep pace with the times and create a new glory in life!
Xinhua small reporter to the people of the whole country to bid farewell to the new year!
Good luck to all
Happy Chinese New Year, happiness and well-being
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