The most grand and national festival of the year is coming! Today, the Spring Festival on the first day of the Chinese New Year, people should engage in various activities to celebrate, highlighting strong national characteristics. In ancient poetry, carrying the vision of the mainland's five-thousand-year culture, many excellent works have been circulated for more than a thousand years, making the Spring Festival full of poetry and painting, and it has a role in inheritance. On the first day of the Chinese New Year, we will enjoy the ten poems written by the ancients about the Spring Festival, appreciate the profound texts at the same time, appreciate the spiritual world of the poet, and wish all readers good luck in the new year.
As we all know, the Spring Festival is also called the New Year, and the name of "Year" in ancient times was not the same. For example, during the Tang Yao Yu Shun period, "Nian" was called "Zai", during the Xia Dynasty it was called "Year", during the Yin Shang Period it was called "Qi", and in the Zhou Dynasty it began to be called "Nian". Therefore, the "year" we often call now begins with the Zhou Dynasty. During the reign of Emperor Wu of the Western Han Dynasty, the Spring Festival was officially established, and it was called Zhengri or Zhengdan at that time. It is worth mentioning that before the Republic of China, the Spring Festival was to welcome the Spring Festival, and the first day of the first month was generally called "New Year's Day". After arriving in the Republic of China, January 1 of the Gregorian calendar was called "New Year's Day", and the first day of the first lunar month was defined as "Spring Festival", which is often said to be "two springs in one year".
In the first poetry collection in the mainland, the Book of Poetry, there is already a record of celebrating the Spring Festival, pinning people's yearning for a better life, and also explaining the important position of the New Year in people's hearts. According to records, the poet who described the Spring Festival, the Three Kingdoms Cao Zhi can be called the originator, he has a "Yuanhui", the poet depicts the spring festival peaceful and cheerful scene, since then the poets of the dynasties and dynasties have begun to create poems with the Spring Festival as the theme, it is these literati through the text of the record, let posterity know that the ancient people will have more ceremonies during the Spring Festival, some customs have disappeared to this day, can only rely on imagination to understand.
In ancient times, there is a part of the poem about the Spring Festival is a work that should be made, because from a historical point of view, the Spring Festival customs are generally formed from top to bottom, official to folk, so on the big day of the Spring Festival, courtiers will write poems to record, such poems generally reflect the dignified and elegant, magnificent artistic charm. Of course, on the special day of the Spring Festival, the poet uses this to express his heart. Their emotions are rich, there are memories of past lives, there are also visions of future lives, and there is sadness that they cannot be reunited with their families when they are wandering away, in short, their emotions are complex, reflecting the unique national mentality of the mainland. If we compare the celebration scene of the Spring Festival on the mainland with the carnival in Europe and the United States, then the cultural heritage and national spirit of the mainland are incomparable to those of Westerners.
The Northern Song Dynasty politician and literary scholar Wang Anshi has a famous poem "Yuan Ri", which is short of two sentences, but writes the Spring Festival to the extreme. This poem is after he prayed to the face, in order to get rid of the crisis of the Song Dynasty, the book reform, the same year's Spring Festival, he saw every household in preparation for the festival, associated with the new atmosphere of society, with a sense of feeling and made this poem. The first sentence, "In the sound of firecrackers, one year old, the spring breeze sends warmth into Tusu" describes the scene of the Spring Festival, where people drink Tusu wine to celebrate the Spring Festival. The second sentence "Thousands of households on the day of dawn, always replace the new peach with the old symbol" has a very straightforward meaning, describing the sun rising, and the peach symbol on the door of every household is replaced by a new one. This is a work of instant scenery, the content is based on folk, writing about the folk customs of setting off firecrackers, drinking Tu Su wine, changing peach charms and other folk customs to celebrate the Spring Festival.
The ancient poems of the mainland's traditional festivals are the characteristics of Chinese civilization, broad and far-reaching, and the poems show folk customs and folk sentiments, implying national ideology and moral cultivation, so that the mainland culture can endure and carry forward. The ancient literati used delicate brushwork and sharp perspective to integrate the national spirit into the text. In the long river of history, poetry is not simply a text, not only a hilarious scene, but more importantly, poetry can also evoke the affection of future generations for the Spring Festival, so that future generations should not forget the long cultural history of the mainland.
The Chinese nation is great, no matter which nation it is, no matter where we live, as long as the blood of Chinese flows, we must carry the essence of Chinese civilization. Today is the Spring Festival of the First Lunar New Year, let's enjoy ten ancient poems about the Spring Festival, experience the delicate emotions and Spring Festival feelings of the ancients, I believe you will be touched.