In this traditional festival, let's explore and dig deep into the Spring Festival culture! Professor Li Liangsong and Professor Lu Yi from Beijing University of Chinese Medicine have come to tell you about lantern riddles and spring links.
When did Chinese start celebrating the Spring Festival? There are historical records to check, from the time of the Western Zhou Dynasty began to celebrate the Spring Festival. The Western Zhou Dynasty was called Li Chun Festival, which was called New Year's Day during the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and in July 1913, the first month of the lunar calendar was set as the Spring Festival, which was implemented from 1914 and has continued to the present. The Spring Festival is a concentrated embodiment of the cohesion and centripetal force of the Chinese nation.
The mainland is based on farming culture, so the Spring Festival is a manifestation of the harvest celebration, looking forward to the next year's smooth wind and rain, Guotai and Min'an.
Traditionally, the Spring Festival begins on the 23rd day of the lunar month and continues until the 15th day of the first month. During this period, there are different things to do every day, and there is a lot of abundant food to eat.
Let's guess the riddle!
"No rice is ridiculous" typing a word, the bottom of the puzzle: sugar.
Chinese the folk custom of eating sugar during the Spring Festival has been around since the Western Zhou Dynasty. The Chinese nation describes the beautiful, red-hot life as sugar, symbolizing that life is getting better and better, sweet and sweet.
Why eat maltose? Legend has it that on the twenty-third day of the waxing moon, the stove king reported to the jade emperor in heaven, eating maltose so that the stove king could have a sweeter mouth, and he could say more good things on the jade emperor's side; there is also a saying that the viscosity of maltose is relatively large, and the stove king can't open his mouth after eating maltose, and he can't say bad words in front of the Jade Emperor. This is a legend and a manifestation of Chinese sacrificial culture.
Although stove sugar comes in a variety of shapes, its main ingredient is maltose. Maltose is a little different from sucrose, its sweetness is about 30% of sucrose, but it is not good for teeth, so children are not recommended to eat more.
"A thing is not afraid of getting dirty, hide the body in the corner, come out and take a walk, the ground is bright and light." Hit an object, enigma: broom.
Sweeping the house for the New Year is a tradition and a manifestation of Chinese diligence. Since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the Chinese nation has had the custom of sweeping away the new year before the New Year, which means to sweep away all the troubles, sorrows and obscurities of the year and greet the new year with a better mentality.
From the perspective of conditioning the body and mind, cleaning up the room years ago was not only to sweep the floor and sweep the yard, but also to clean the curtains, wipe the glass clean, and dry the quilt. From a health point of view, doing a cleanse can reduce the occurrence of respiratory diseases. From the aspect of health, sweeping the house is a kind of body activity, sweeping the house clean, our mood will also become better, but also a way to maintain health.
"Wearing a big red hat and a multicolored dress, it looks like a small alarm clock, urging people to get up early in the morning." Hit an animal, enigma: rooster.
Every year, the Chinese New Year's Eve meal is indispensable to chicken, which has something to do with the mouth color of the auspicious. The Chinese nation has a history of more than 8,000 years of captive poultry, and the real use of chicken as a delicacy began with Yi Yin, the first prime minister of the Yin Shang period. The chicken symbolizes auspiciousness, auspiciousness, and great luck. And the chicken is particularly delicious and nutritious. In Chinese medicine, chicken is warm and can tonify the qi. From a modern scientific point of view, chicken has a very high protein content and is also easy to digest. It is not only a king of food supplements, but also a commonly used thing in Chinese medicine.
"White fat, soft and hairy, northerners, love it the most." Hit a piece of food, enigma: steamed buns.
The folk custom of eating steamed buns began in the Three Kingdoms period, and the inventor was Zhuge Liang. Steamed steamed
From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, steamed buns are very nourishing, and many people with bad stomachs eat hair noodles for good digestion. When the flour is fermented, many of the proteins in it are decomposed in advance, so it will be easier to digest.
"The jade people standing at the New Spring Gate are like peach blossoms reflecting the red of the mountains." Hit a thing, the bottom of the puzzle: spring union.
The folk custom of sticking to the Spring Festival is about 1200 years old. In ancient times, the Spring League was not called the Spring League, it was called the Peach Rune. Before the invention of paper, it was believed that the peach tree could ward off evil spirits, and the auspicious text was written on the peach symbol and hung up. With the passage of time, the invention of paper, from the beginning of the Song Dynasty, used red paper to write the Spring League, symbolizing auspiciousness.
How to distinguish between the upper and lower leagues of the Spring League? What are the rules?
Generally speaking, the last word of the upper link is the slang sound, and the last word of the lower link is the flat sound. The voice is in front, the flat voice is in the back; the place that writes the scenery is put in front, and the one that expresses emotion is put in the back. The simplest way to identify it is to press the tone down with the upper link and pick up the tone from the lower link.
Time selection for posting Spring League? From a folklore point of view, it is after dawn, before the palm lamp, not too early, not too late.
(Source", "The Road to Health") Proofreading Chen Yanhui