The Chinese New Year is coming
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How did the ancients celebrate the Spring Festival?
What is recorded in ancient books and artifacts?
Let's span the millennium
Let's feel the ritual sense of the ancients for the New Year
A scene of the celebration of the Spring Festival 3,000 years ago
It is recorded in the Book of Poetry
The Book of Poetry is the earliest collection of poetry on the mainland
Among them, "Feng July" records the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty
The people of the land are at the end of the year
Celebrating a bountiful harvest and celebrating the arrival of the New Year
However, the time of the Western Zhou New Year is different from now
The Zhou Dynasty attached great importance to "harvesting"
Therefore, the "New Year" is one month after the harvest
That is, the end of October and the beginning of November in the lunar calendar
How lively was the Spring Festival in the Han Dynasty?
Singing and dancing and food accompanied
Western Han Dynasty
People take the New Year very seriously
Graceful and elegant Han music dance
It was an important way to celebrate the New Year at that time
It is in the collection of the National Museum of China
Western Han painted long-sleeved female dancing figurines
It reflects the music and dance costumes of the time
The distinctive characteristics of "curly deep clothing"
How did the accompaniment of Hanle dance come about?
During the Han Dynasty, Lefu was an institution of the court
Specializes in music and dance
Responsible for collecting and sorting folk songs,
Poetry by literati, etc., and used this to compile musical scores
To this day, it is the Lefu poem we know
At the court celebrations of the time
A simple, aesthetic Lefu poem
It is a program where you can sing, dance, and perform
Not only that
It is in the collection of the China Three Gorges Museum in Chongqing
Eastern Han Dynasty gray pottery female kitchen figurine
The history of eating dumplings Chinese is also presented
Tang dynasty dumplings unearthed in the Turpan region of Xinjiang
It is confirmed as early as more than a thousand years ago
Dumplings have also become a delicacy on the tables of people in the Western Regions
Crossing the Great Tang
Enjoy the ancient "New Year's Concert"
The "New Year's Concert" in the Great Tang Court is reverie
Treasured by the Palace Museum and the National Museum of China
Tang Tao dancing figurines, Tang playing terracotta figurines
Although only artifacts
But beautiful music, lively dance, are about to come out
It seems to reproduce the grandeur of Chang'an's New Year
It is in the collection of the Palace Museum
"Gongsun Da Niang Dancing Sword Diagram"
That's the perfect interpretation
Rigid and soft, sassy and heroic
In addition to the celebratory "New Year's Concert"
There is also a grand Yuan Day Pilgrimage
After the end of the court pilgrimage
The emperor would give a feast to the courtiers
Drink alcohol and write poems to cheer up the New Year
How did the people of the Tang Dynasty celebrate the New Year?
Collection of Xi'an Museum
Tang San painted pottery stacked tricks, Tang top pole acrobatic figurines
Visit temple fairs and juggling
It records the festive atmosphere of the people
There was also a custom in the Tang Dynasty - douhua
At that time, there were special flower festivals and flower god festivals
According to the "Kaiyuan Tianbao Remains"
The ladies of Chang'an like to fight flowers
I bought expensive flowers and raised them
It's time for the new year
Tang Dynasty period
Western Regions culture and Central Plains culture
On the Silk Roads, there is a constant collision and integration
Many artistic expressions were born
The ornamental Hu Xuan Dance is one of them
Hu Xuan Dance depicted in Dunhuang murals
The graceful dance is about to come out
The auspicious meaning of fish has existed since the Yuan Dynasty
Walk! Take a look at the New Year's pilgrimage
Auspicious and auspicious, there are fish every year
The auspicious meaning of fish has existed since the Yuan Dynasty
It is in the collection of the Hunan Provincial Museum
Yuanqinghua algae double fish pattern folded along the plate
The main body decoration in the middle - algae double fish pattern
One swings its tail and jumps upwards
The other shuttles between the water and grass
Present a comfortable image
The happy New Year atmosphere of the people of the Ming Dynasty
Hidden in this picture
Collection of the Palace Museum
Ming Li Shida's "Years Dynasty Village Keitu"
It records the rural people of the Ming Dynasty
Visiting relatives and friends, appreciating paintings...
Its happy New Year atmosphere
Qing Dynasty's "Big Concert"
Peking Opera is indispensable
As the saying goes, "watch a big drama in the New Year"
Nowadays, watching New Year operas is still a custom in many places
Every first day of the first lunar month
An important event in Beijing - group worship
One of them is watching a play
Sometimes, it lasts 4~6 hours
At that time, there were many catalogs of folds
It's like the current schedule
It is in the collection of the Palace Museum
Qing Chinese New Year's Eve drama
It highlights the strong New Year atmosphere
The National Library of China also has a booklet
Qing "Qing Appreciation Shengping" character score
A total of 97 character scores were recorded
Probably divided into 9 plays
Ancient New Year, full of flavor of the year
Which artifact impressed you?
Source: WeChat public account "CCTV-channel" (ID: CCTV-channel1)