As a traditional festival in China, the Spring Festival has always been the most important festival for every household, in this festival, wanderers from afar will return to their homes and share the reunion moment with their families.
Seeing the young children celebrating the New Year happily, the elderly people in the family will also feel the feeling and tell the children about the Spring Festival they have experienced, especially the Spring Festival in the 50s, which is the most distinctive.
Since Chairman Mao announced the founding of the People's Republic of China at the Tiananmen Tower, China's history has entered a new chapter, and people's way of celebrating the New Year has been very different from the past.
In the past, the New Year paintings used for people's New Year decoration were mostly some feudal superstitious figures, which invisibly promoted feudal superstitious ideas to people.
Shen Yanbing, then minister of culture of the mainland, saw this situation and specially put forward the initiative of the New Year painting movement. His initiative has also brought about earth-shaking changes in China's New Year painting culture.
People have created a lot of New Year paintings about Chairman Mao, the most popular of which is chairman Mao's applause at the founding ceremony, such New Year paintings are often sold by everyone as soon as they are listed, which has become the most representative picture of the Spring Festival in 1950.
The painter Li Changbai created a New Year painting called "Harvest", which is mainly a scene of people's harvest, and accompanied by a poem written by himself, expressing people's joyful mood.
This New Year painting is highly in line with the psychology of working people, and therefore sought after by the people, who use this New Year painting to pray for a good harvest in the coming year.
In addition to New Year paintings, new clothes are also a must-have for the New Year in the 50s. At that time, New China had just been founded, and people's material life was not very rich, so only at the time of the New Year, new clothes would be added to the children.
During the Chinese New Year, the department stores in Beijing are definitely the most lively, and parents mostly buy cloth here to make new clothes for their children.
As the people sing: the girl wants flowers, the boy wants cannons. The Spring Festival has become the most anticipated festival for children, because they can not only have their favorite hair and firecrackers, but also have new clothes and meat that they are not willing to eat, plus the pressure of a few cents given by the elders, which simply makes children happy.
Unlike today's children, children in the 50s will receive toys made by their families at the New Year, such as masks and knives, which are not comparable to the wide variety of modern toys, but they are the most fun toys in the hearts of children in the 50s.
And there was no TELEVISION set at that time, so people would not sit around and watch the Spring Festival Gala like people do now, but could only feel the different Spring Festival customs around the world through the radio.
It was not until 1956 that people heard the first Spring Festival Gala on the radio, which was a party organized by relevant units and invited a number of well-known figures in the literary and art circles.
The well-known Mei Lanfang sang "Cosmic Front" for everyone, Guo Lanying's song "One After aNother Water comes to a Mountain" was applauded by everyone, and the commentary "Liu Qiao'er" brought by Xin Fengxia for everyone, and Hou Baolin and Guo Qiru's cross-talk "Night Walk" was also welcomed by everyone.
In 1958, China had the first domestic television set, which greatly enriched people's spiritual life, and people were finally able to watch the Spring Festival Gala with their families through the TV after eating the reunion dinner in Chinese New Year's Eve.
Chinese New Year's Eve meal was also the highlight of the Spring Festival in the 1950s, because this meal was arguably the best meal of the year. When Ms. E of Beijing Chinese New Year's Eve in 1957, in order to welcome her two married daughters home, she bought meat and fish and chicken, as well as green vegetables and tofu.
These ingredients, which now seem unremarkable, were already a very decent meal in China in the 50s, and they will be envied by many people.
Dim sum is also an indispensable food for the Spring Festival. On the eve of the Spring Festival, the major long-established pastry shops in Beijing are thriving, and it is common for people to line up to buy dim sum.
Although the material conditions were limited at that time, people's spiritual life was also very much. Unlike today,which people go to the mall and watch movies, in the 50s, people visited the temple fair the most.
Beijing's Guangdian Temple Fair is the most lively place in Beijing during the Spring Festival, with a variety of beautiful folk skills and delicious special foods, and the sugar gourd here is even three feet long, and the children who buy it can't help but show off to their peers.
Although the Spring Festival of the 50s did not have any high-tech elements, people achieved a real reunion, not looking down at their mobile phones, only chatting between family members and the laughter of children. In the sincere blessings and joyful atmosphere of people, we will welcome the arrival of the new year together.