Looking forward to it, looking forward to it
The Spring Festival arrives with a "holiday package"
In the "gift package", the warmth is full
There are some nagging that Mom has prepared
There is also a good table of rice from Dad Zhang Luo
And, of course, there's the New Year's Eve
"The Question of the Soul" from the Seven Great Aunts and the Eight Great Aunts
However, in order to do a good job in epidemic prevention and control
Documentation initiatives were issued in many parts of the country
"Cloud New Year's Greeting" through text messages, phone calls, etc.
Screenshot / Jiangmen posted
So, how to "cloud to the New Year" talent
It is perfect to avoid the "soul question" of various relatives
And a sense of ceremony?
Experience tells us
When things are undecided, you may wish to turn over history
Ming Li Shida's "Qingtu of the Village of the Dynasty"
In the sense of ceremony, the hearts are interdependent
We've all heard it
That "once upon a time" story —
People use fireworks
Expelled Nian Beast, the "outlaw maniac"
A festival, from which was born
This story is very meaningful
It is revealed in a rather occult allegorical form
The mystery and danger of nature
Thus making people
In the heart of the full sense of ceremony, the heart is attached to each other
Qing Yao Wenhan's "Celebrating the Year of the Dynasty"
Back in ancient times
Emperor Shun held a sacrifice ceremony at the beginning of the year
"Four doors, four eyes, four satoshi"
In the hearts of the world
Step out of the night of obscurity and enter the morning of civilization
On the first day of the first month, Shunge yu Wenzu, inquired about the four yue, opened the four doors, ming four eyes, and reached the four cong. - "The Book of Shang"
To the Han Dynasty
The "ancient early version" of the New Year's worship ceremony became popular
In the atmosphere of "praising the longevity, rejoicing in the same"
Relatives raise their glasses of happiness
A boat of friendship between friends
Sons, wives, grandsons, and terrestrials each put pepper wine on their parents, calling themselves Shouju and rejoicing. Gurudwara Jun, Shi, Former General, Father and Brother, Father and Friend, Friend, And Elder of the Township Party. ——Eastern Han Dynasty Cui Yue, "Four People's Moon Order"
On the excavated Bronze Mirror of the Han Dynasty
Inscribed with many blessings that are both quaint and trendy
"Rich and noble, long and forgetful"
"Shou is like a golden stone, good and good"
From this, we can imagine the beauty of the festivals and customs at that time
Han Dynasty Bronze Mirror /Palace Museum
Except for the folk
The monarchs and courtiers in the temple would also pay homage to each other
Among them, the "son of the plane" full of illusion
Liu Xiu, Emperor Guangwu of the Eastern Han Dynasty
Definitely a rare stream
The first day of the first lunar month of a certain year
Liu Xiu, who was born too much of a student, had a big brain hole
Turn the New Year's banquet into an academic debate
The loser will have to give up the cushion to the winner
In the end, the university students wore more than fifty cushions for sitting steadily
On the first day of the day, the hundred officers will meet, and the emperor will order the group of ministers to be more difficult to criticize, and the righteousness is not comprehensible, and those who take their seats to benefit the people will sit more than fifty seats by virtue of this. - Book of the Later Han Dynasty
thereafter
The Spring Festival gradually triggers Chinese's gastronomic skills
In the Jingchu area of the Southern and Northern Dynasties
Pepper cypress wine, Tu Su wine, gum tooth dumplings and other diets
Become a standard at The New Year's Eve feast
The elder and the young are dressed in crowns, and they pay homage to each other, enter the pepper cypress wine, drink peach soup, and enter the Tu Su wine and rubber tooth dumplings. - Southern Dynasty Liang Zongyi, "Chronicles of the Jingchu Dynasty"
Eat and drink offline, "on the clouds" to celebrate the New Year
To the "Internet celebrity dynasty" Tang Dynasty
The social function + gastronomic attributes of the New Year are more prominent
After the first day of the first lunar month
Relatives and friends invite each other to visit the New Year
The content is mainly to eat and eat + drink and drink
The custom in Chang'an City is that after the New Year's Day of each year, it is handed over as a food invitation, and the number is "passing on the seat". - Don Tang Lin, "The Chronicle of meditation"
And in the Song Dynasty, where men and women loved the diet
The commodity economy is developed and civil society is active
Spring Festival Celebration
In addition to eating and eating, you have to buy and buy
I am embarrassed to go out without picking up two flat gifts
"Except for the night, the firecrackers... Such as Dardan. Its gifts will be followed by two large bamboo poles. ——Northern Song Dynasty Zhuang Qiu, "Chicken Rib Compilation"
however
The people of the Song Dynasty not only loved to eat, drink and fill in words
He also loves to invent and create
For example, paper money, such as movable type printing
Another example is a New Year's greeting card
Song Dongxiang's "Year Dynasty Map"
Otaku and otaku of the Song Dynasty
By exchanging signed greeting cards commonly known as "flying posts"
Realize the "Cloud New Year"
This proves once again that laziness and home
Perhaps one of the driving forces of human invention
During the Yuan You period, the New Year's Festival often makes the servants take the place of the name. ——Southern Song Dynasty Zhou Hui, "Qingbo Magazine"
Under the wind of "Cloud Worship Year"
There are also many amazing people and wonderful things that have been produced
According to the Southern Song Dynasty poets, it is carefully recorded
His cousin Wu Sizhang did not have servants to send greeting cards
Then I thought of a big trick of insidiousness
——
A friend who is roughly the same as his circle of friends
Send someone a greeting card
Cousin Wu was warmly entertained
Drop off the remaining greeting cards that the other party is waiting to deliver
Replace it with a signed greeting card that you have prepared in advance
The servant of Shen Zi, a friend of Qia's friend, sent a thorn to him, and looked at it arbitrarily, and the likes were all relatives, so they drank wine, and yin stabbed it with himself. Shen Servant did not realize it, because he threw himself everywhere, and Xi Wu stabbed him. ——Southern Song Dynasty Zhou Mi,"Miscellaneous Knowledge of Decoction"
Song Dynasty New Year greeting cards
Not only the form trend, but also the content is also very modern
The southern Song Dynasty scholar Zhang Shinan's family
There are several New Year's greeting cards from the Northern Song Dynasty
One of them is from Su Shi's student Qin Guan
The Seonan family collects the ink of the sixteen gentlemen of Shimoto Motoyuki. In the middle of it: "Guan, respectfully he Ziyun bachelor brother." Zhengdan. Gaoyou Qinguan hand shape. ——Zhang Shinan, "The Chronicle of the Eunuchs"
The rest also comes from
Greeting cards with similar content from Huang Tingjian, Chao Shuzhi and Zhang Qian
This "Ziyun Bachelor"
Be able to collect the signatures of the four Sumen bachelors at the same time
This cow can blow for an entire Spring Festival
Northern Song Dynasty Su Hanchen "Five Rui Tu"
The form is constantly changing, and the emotions and meanings are the same
For the "likes" in the circle of friends
Song Dynasty people could hand out greeting cards like leaflets
But to good friends
At least a solemn New Year's letter must be written
For example, between Su Shi and Chen Yu
Su Shi and Chen Yu in the TV series "Hedong Lion Roar"
Palace museum
Treasured calligraphy masterpiece "New Year Exhibition Celebration Post"
That is, Su Shi's New Year's letter to Chen Yu
Chen Yu's wife
It is the famous Hedong lion "Ben Lion"
Su Shi once wrote a poem ridiculing Chen Yu's "wife is strict": "The residents of Longqiu are also pitiful, and they talk about the emptiness and say that there are sleepless nights. Overhearing the roar of the lion in Hedong, the staff fell into the palm of his hand in a daze. ”
In this New Year's Letter
Su Shi informed his friend in the tone of Versailles
Construction progress of the East Slope Snow Hall
And revealed that another friend is coming to Huangzhou
I hope to have a dinner party together
Su Shi 'New Year Exhibition Celebration Post' / Palace Museum
Ming and Qing dynasties
The Spring Festival is more popular than the previous generation
"Cars, horses, and mail are slow" of "once upon a time"
It does not exist in the first month
The enthusiasm of the people for the New Year makes the carriages and horses gallop back and forth
After the first day of the Capital Division, from the officials of the dynasty to the Shu people, those who crossed the road for several days were called the New Year's Greeting. --Ming Lu Rong, Miscellaneous Notes on Shuyuan
During the Qing Dynasty
Beijing is popular as a form of "group worship"
Relatives, friends, and fellow villagers are together
Eat together and greet each other
Spend a pleasant "Spring Festival on the tip of your tongue"
At the beginning of the year, the Kyoshi routinely worships, to unite the new year, to dun nostalgia, each year by the duty book red booking, eating banquets, for the day to rejoice. --Qing Yi Lansheng, "Side Hat Yu Tan"
It's not hard to see, for thousands of years
The form of new year's worship in Chinese is always changing
But the spiritual core is always the same
Whether it is the "physical new year" of "praising the birthday of the people"
Or the "Cloud Worship Year" of "Flying Post Affection"
All reflect the Chinese
The beautiful emotions of family affection and cherishing friendship
In short, as long as you have a heart
A phone call, a text message, a video
You can worship with a full sense of ceremony
Ming Zhou Wenjing, "Axis of the Chart of the Dynasty"
Finally, best wishes to all
Everything goes well in the New Year, and the Year of the Tiger is full of wind!
Xu Beihong's "Tiger Chart Axis" / Palace Museum
Resources
Chen Qinxue: A Study of Visual Symbols of the Spring Festival, a Traditional Chinese Festival
Gao Chunxia: Chinese New Year Culture and Life Consciousness
Wang Pingping: The historical changes and modern inheritance of the "New Year's Greetings" festival
Yu Min: Su Shi Huangzhou "Er Ti" new detective
Chen Yujie: A study of mirror inscriptions in the Han Dynasty
Source | Yangcheng Evening News, Yangcheng Pie, Golden Sheep Network
Text | Yangcheng Evening News all-media reporter Xie Yangliu
Edit | Ai Xin
Proofreading | Zhou Yong
Audit | Shum Jay Chang
Issue | Sun Chaofang