【New Year's Taste】The origin and customs of the first day of the first lunar month

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The Spring Festival is also called the lunar calendar year, commonly known as "New Year" and "New Year". The Spring Festival symbolizes unity and prosperity, and is a festival that pins new hopes on the future.

The first day of the first lunar month, before the Qing Dynasty, was always called "New Year's Day" or "Yuan Day", and was renamed "Spring Festival" after the Xinhai Revolution. In the pre-Qin period, it was also called "Shangri", "Yuan day", "changing the age", "dedicating the age", etc.; In the Two Han Dynasties, it was also called "Three Dynasties", "Nian Dan", "Zheng Dan", and "Zheng Ri"; During the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the Southern and Northern Dynasties were called "Yuan Chen", "Yuan Ri", "Fuehrer", "Year Dynasty", etc.; In the Tang and Song dynasties, it was called "New Year's Day", "Yuan", "Year Day", "Xinzheng", "Xinyuan" and so on; In the Qing Dynasty, it was always called "New Year's Day" or "Yuan Day". After the Xinhai Revolution in 1911, the Gregorian calendar (solar calendar) was used to count the years, so january 1 of the Gregorian calendar was called "New Year's Day", and the first day of the first lunar month was called "Spring Festival". The state attaches great importance to the protection of intangible cultural heritage, and on May 20, 2006, the "Spring Festival" folk custom was approved by the State Council to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.

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An important activity during the Spring Festival is to go to the homes of relatives, friends and neighbors to congratulate the New Year and celebrate the New Year.

The Chinese new year's wind has existed in the Han Dynasty. After the Tang and Song dynasties, it was very popular, and some people who did not have to go in person could use the name post to congratulate them. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, it was called "thorn", so the business card was also called "famous thorn". After the Ming Dynasty, many people posted a red paper bag at the door, which was specially named posted, called "door book".

The forms of non-governmental visits to each other can be roughly divided into four categories according to their social relations:

Relatives

The first year of junior high school must go to the elders' house and bring gifts. After entering the door, first prostrate three times to the ancestral image and the tablet, and then bow down to the elders in turn. You can stay, eat, play.

Courtesy visits

If you give a New Year's greeting to a colleague or a friend, once you enter the house, if you are the same age as the master, you only have to give your hand, if you are older than yourself, you should still take the initiative to kneel, and the host should walk down from the seat to make a gesture of support, and even say that you are not polite to show humility. In this case, it is generally not appropriate to sit for a long time, and two polite words of greeting will be resigned. After the master is worshipped, he should return to worship on a chosen day.

Thanks for the sexual visit

Anyone who owes affection to others in the previous year (such as lawyers, doctors, etc.) should buy some gifts to send, and take the opportunity of the New Year to express their gratitude.

Door-to-door visits

For the neighbors of the left and right neighbors, Su Ri did not have much contact, but the meeting can be said, to the New Year's Eve, just to the courtyard, meet each other a fist and say: "Gong Xi fortune", "a smooth and smooth", sit in the house for a while, there is not much etiquette.

(Source: Shanxi Coking Coal Xishan Coal power Guandi Mine)