Spring is in the midst of thousands of households
The original meaning of the Spring Festival and the New Year comes from agriculture. Since rice is generally ripe once a year, "nian" is extended to the name of the year. In ancient times, the first day of the first lunar month was called "New Year's Day", until after the victory of the Xinhai Revolution in modern China, the Nanjing Provisional Government, in order to conform to the agricultural time and facilitate statistics, stipulated the use of the summer calendar in the folk. The Gregorian calendar is implemented in all walks of life, with the first day of the first month of the Gregorian calendar as the New Year's Day, and the first day of the first lunar month of the lunar calendar is called the Spring Festival.
Spring Festival customs
On the afternoon before the Spring Festival, the children would step on the stool, take the paste and brush, paste the couplet on the door, and then let the adults below see if the paste was correct. Some also post horizontal batches, pasted on the crosshead of the lintel, and the couplet is pasted on the left and right sides of the door. Others post blessing characters on the doors, walls, and lintels of the house to pin people's yearning for a happy life. Others will stick pictures of door gods on the door panels to pray for a year of peace and happiness, adding to the festive atmosphere.
The Spring Festival is a custom that spreads throughout the continent, east, west, south, and north. The customs of worshiping gods throughout the country are similar, but the purpose is basically the same, all of which are to pray for the smooth wind and rain in the new year, the abundance of grain, the great fortune and so on.
Ancestor worship is generally after the worship of the gods, the customs are not the same in various places, in our hometown is every day before noon dinner, each family sends a representative, bring food, offerings to the ancestral hall to pay homage to the ancestors, until the fifteenth day of the first month, the ancestral hall will be closed.
Spring pressed old money is the favorite custom of children and juniors. After Chinese New Year's Eve have eaten Chinese New Year's Eve meals, the elders will give coins to the juniors, and use red threads to wear copper coins in bunches and hang them on the chests of children, saying that they can suppress evil spirits and drive away ghosts. This custom has been popular since the Beginning of the Han Dynasty, of course, there is no copper coin now, and it is generally a red-wrapped cash.
Spring Festival, or Lunar New Year, is the first of the year and the traditional new year. Commonly known as the New Year, New Year, New Year, etc., verbally also known as the New Year, the Big Year. The Spring Festival has a long history and evolved from the first annual prayer festival in ancient times. Led by the 100th Festival, the Spring Festival is the most grand traditional festival of the Chinese nation. Influenced by Chinese culture, some countries and regions in the world also have the custom of celebrating the New Year.
《New Year's Day》
The sound of firecrackers in the one-year-old except,
The spring breeze sends warmth into Tu Su.
Thousands of doors and thousands of households,
Always swap the new peach for the old charm.
Spring Festival message
"Qingshan is not old, red face is on the sun, drinking the past hard." Thousands of miles of clear snow, thousands of clouds sprinkled, drunk and smiling. "The new year has arrived, I wish you a long night with dreams shining, autumn harvest and spring ploughing; There are often good friends in the sea of people, and the years are quiet. All that is desired is fulfilled, and what is done is smooth, and there is much joy and peace.
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