In the Chinese concept, "Nian" is a ritual existence that can accommodate everything, is the real resignation and welcome of the new in the hearts of the people, and condenses people's retrospection and prospect in a specific emotional state.
"100 festivals as the head", the traditional Lunar New Year has a history of more than 4,000 years, "staying up for the year", "opening the door and firecrackers", "peach rune door god", "welcoming the god of wealth to paste window flowers"... Behind these familiar folk customs and stories is the refraction of people's ideas.
The word "Fu" posted by every household still has a deep relationship with Nanjing. According to legend, one year before the Spring Festival, Zhu Yuanzhang, the ancestor of the Ming Dynasty, used the word "Fu" as a secret note to prepare to kill people. Empress Ma did not want to see such a thing, so she ordered the people of the whole city to paste a "Fu" word on their door overnight. In this way, a catastrophe was finally averted. Since then, people have pasted the word of blessing and prayed for good fortune and peace.
Evolving into our modern life, the Spring Festival is a touch of color, a melody, a plate of delicacies, is the unchangeable "New Year's taste" in the heart of childhood, is the release of people's emotions and wishes, is the eternal spiritual home and important pillar of the heart. Whether it is the New Year or the Spring Festival, it is only a change in form and title, and people's expectations for the Spring Festival have not changed, and their desire to pursue a better and happier life has not changed.
Spring Festival, what color?
The Spring Festival must be red, one by one red window flowers, one by one big red packets, one red lantern after another, and the people live a red day; the Spring Festival is golden, embellished with red decorations, representing the highlight moments in ordinary days; the Spring Festival is a brilliant colorful, is the soaring fireworks, children's new clothes, reunion lights; the Spring Festival is also white, the snow in the north heralds the harvest of the coming year, not to mention, this year's Spring Festival will witness the holding of the Winter Olympics, Let's look forward to the wonderful performance in this ice and snow world.
Spring Festival, what is the sound?
In 1986, Jiang Dawei sang "Where the Peach Blossoms Bloomed" on the Spring Evening; in 1998, Faye Wong and Na Ying's "Meet 98" was sung in the streets and alleys for a time; the last Year of the Tiger, the Spring Festival Gala in 2010, or Faye Wong, standing in the middle of the stage, sang "Legend". No matter what kind of melody will open at the beginning of this Year of the Tiger, the melody of "Unforgettable Tonight" must still echo with the blessings and cannons of the Chinese New Year.
In addition to the melody, the Spring Festival is still a short nagging in the parents, the advice of the elders, the frolic of the younger generations, it is likely to coexist in a space for a long time, listening to it for a long time will be annoying, leaving and missing. Spring Festival is a big party of rural sounds, whether you are Carrie, Mary or Tony, the Chinese New Year is a young man who speaks his hometown dialect.
Spring Festival, what is the taste?
Spring Festival is a plate of dumplings, all kinds of what we love to eat, can be wrapped in, steaming mist, is a room full of laughter and happiness; Spring Festival is a bowl of tangyuan, sticky paste is sweet and sweet, the brain hole can also hide some tricks in the tangyuan, a bite down there are different surprises; spring festival is a plate of wax flavor, is prepared early, brewing for a long time; spring festival is a harvest in the field and the richness of a well-off life, the past Spring Festival can only eat the delicacies, has become a common taste in 365 days.
A year of rushing, in our Chinese year, all return to the harvest, open hope. "The leap of the tiger will be fierce." We are about to usher in the Year of the Tiger in the lunar calendar. In Chinese culture, the tiger is the head of a hundred beasts, the "beast of peace", the "guardian deity", and a symbol of bravery and strength. In the new year, let us take advantage of the auspiciousness and vigor of the tiger to bravely move forward, and the tiger is mighty!
EDIT: Meowth