The first day of the Lunar New Year, the New Year

《New Year's Day》

Wang Anshi

In the sound of firecrackers, the spring breeze sends warmth into Tu Su.

Thousands of households always exchange new peaches for old charms.

The first day of the first lunar month is the first day of the first lunar month; and because it is the first New Year's Day, it is also called "Yuan Shuo".

The Spring Festival, commonly known as the New Year, is the most important and grand traditional festival in China, and the main folk activities are New Year's Greetings, firecrackers, Spring Festival, and Old Age money. Du Taiqing of the Sui Dynasty said in the Jade Candle Treasure Book: "The first month is the duanyue, and the first day is the first day, yiyun zhengchao, yiyun yuanshuo." ”

Among the various customs of the Spring Festival, the most eye-catching is the New Year's Greeting.

New Year's Greetings are a traditional Chinese folk custom, a way for people to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new, and to express good wishes to each other.

In the Song Dynasty, Elder Meng described shiyun in the Sixth Volume of the Tokyo Dream Record: "On the first day of October, the New Year's Festival, the Kaifeng Province released the guanpao for three days, and the scholars celebrated each other from the morning. In the middle of the Ming Dynasty, Lu Rong said in volume 5 of the Miscellaneous Records of Shuyuan that "on the New Year's Day of the Jingshi, from the officials of the dynasty to the Shu people, those who travel back and forth on staggered roads for several days are called 'worshiping the New Year'." The People of Ranshi worship their relatives and friends with more sincerity. When officials come and go, they are more generally loving and not specialized...". Gu Tieqing of the Qing Dynasty described in the "Qing Jia Lu", "Men and women worship their parents with secondary worship, and the lord leads the humble and young, and gives out relatives and friends of neighbors, or stops sending his children to celebrate on his behalf, which is called 'worshiping the New Year'." Even those who do not meet each other all their lives will bow to each other at the door at this time..."

For children, it is undoubtedly a happy time to collect money and buy a bunch of delicious and fun food.

For those who already have children and nephews, but have not yet married and have children, they must be prepared for bleeding at this time.

For parents, in addition to preparing the old age money for the children of relatives and friends, they also have to coax out the money they receive from their own children (this estimate is that everyone has experience).

New year, new atmosphere, the beginning of the year, let us greet it with a full state of spirit.