The pace of the Spring Festival is getting closer and closer, a few days ago I took my son to the supermarket to buy New Year's goods, snacks, fruits, New Year's decorations bought a lot, 5-year-old son said happily: "Mom, the New Year is so good, so much delicious!"
I told my son that we Chinese celebrate the New Year is not only to buy something delicious, but also to have a lot of interesting cultural customs! Such as sacrificial stoves, sticking Spring Festival couplets, Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, welcoming the God of Wealth, making Lantern Festival, etc., my son looked at me with interest on his face.
Indeed, a child of his age does not experience the smell of the New Year as strong as when we were children. However, in the past two days, my son and I have read a particularly interesting three-dimensional New Year's picture book at home, which can be described as an immersive experience of the traditional atmosphere of the New Year.
Thick a big book, about the customs of the Spring Festival in this picture book, especially attractive to children is that it has a double-layer hollow high-speed rail station, 1.5 meters long three-dimensional New Year's Street, intangible cultural heritage turning flower dragon, and many interesting interactive organs, fun and at the same time can also understand traditional customs.
Let's take you to experience the fun of this pop-up picture book.
Spring
The growing flavor of the New Year begins with the Spring Festival, when people who have been on the road for a year rush back to reunite with their families. Nan Nan took the high-speed train back to her hometown for the New Year with her parents, parents and sisters.
This page is very cool, there is a double-decker three-dimensional hollow high-speed rail station, and there are many passengers carrying large bags and small bags on the first and second floors, and you can observe them with your children.
There are also two replicas of the three-dimensional high-speed rail station with the prototype of Harmony CRH5 and CRH3C, which can be pulled left and right, which can make my car fans happy.
The legend of the year
Nan Nan asked his mother: Why do you want to celebrate the New Year?" "My mother told him about the legend of the New Year. There is also a small story book "The Legend of the Year" hidden in the book, my son said that this villain book is too cute! The little year beast in it is even more cute, it turns out that the origin of the "New Year" is to drive away the little year beast.
Matsuri
On the day of the new year, the Lord of the Stove was going back to the sky to report to work, and his grandmother prepared a table of good dishes, and a few more maltose sticks to the mouth of the Lord of the Stove, so that his mouth was sweet and he only said good things. The house also needs to be cleaned to make everything look new.
On this page, there is a three-dimensional earthen stove, a red fire, and fragrant meat stewed in the pot. My son rarely sees such a stove, and now our rural grandmother's house also uses a gas stove, and few people have a portrait of the prince.
New Year's Street
These 3 three-dimensional spreads are the most shocking, which can be viewed separately on each page, and can be stretched out all to become a 1.5-meter-long New Year's street. When I spread out on the floor with my son, I was shocked. My son, in particular, kept saying, "Wow, wow, that's cool!"
Let's take a GIF to feel it, I only took a picture of the store on the front, and there is still a store on the back.
This New Year's street is set against the backdrop of the Jiangnan Water Town, and three three-dimensional bridges divide the clothing area, the New Year's goods area, and the food area. My son and I counted dozens of shops on the quaint stone pavement and the white walls of Daiwa, tea, wine, groceries, fried chestnuts with sugar, steamed buns, bacon and ham, fried yogurt, rock sugar gourds, and ...... We have everything you need.
There is also a stage, my son asked me what it is for, and I remembered that the stage is rare now, but when we were children, there would be singing operas in the village, which was lively.
There is a small envelope in the book, which contains three character stands, which are grandmothers with Nan Nan and her sister, which can be inserted in the door of any store on the long street, and you can also stand on the three-dimensional bridge to immerse yourself in the joy of shopping and buying New Year's goods.
Paste the couplets
On Chinese New Year's Eve, respectfully paste the Spring Festival Lian, please be a good door god, and in the coming year, they will guard this home.
This page talks about the origin of the door god and the Spring Festival couplets, and there are also many interactive small mechanisms. The door can be opened, and a plum plant in the yard is blooming fragrantly. The Spring Festival couplets that are still hidden behind the window can be torn off and pasted on the door frame, so that children can also experience pasting Spring Festival couplets once.
Dinner
A family reunion dinner is the most beautiful New Year's flavor. On this page, there is a large Chinese round table that can be rotated, and children can have fun with everything from fruit snacks before meals to Chinese New Year's Eve dinners. My son also found a small mechanism and took a family photo.
There are also legends about keeping the New Year and pressing the New Year's money. The small mechanism of giving out red envelopes is particularly interesting, pulling out a string of 100 yuan meow coins, and the son happily says: "Get rich! Get rich!".
New Year's greetings
I remember when I was a child, I was looking forward to the morning of the first day of the New Year, because I could wear beautiful new clothes to receive red envelopes for the New Year.
The wardrobe on this page can be opened, and there are three sets of clothes inside, with magnets, that can be attached to Nan Nan's body. My son also likes this interactive mechanism very much, and he changed Nan Nan's outfit several times.
Welcome the God of Wealth on the fifth day of the first month
Welcoming the God of Wealth is a very important custom for us to celebrate the New Year, hahaha, everyone wants the new year's wealth to roll in. On this page, there is a three-dimensional God of Wealth stepping on auspicious clouds to distribute gold ingots to everyone!
Rat marry
According to folklore, rats often come out at night to bite clothes and steal food, so in order not to offend the rats, they arrange for rats to marry their daughters on the tenth day of the Lunar New Year to ensure a safe and auspicious year. So on the tenth night of the first lunar month, every family goes to bed early.
This page reproduces a small sedan chair, and the little mouse greeting team is noisy with gongs and drums, so lively! Peeking in from the hole of the little mouse's new house, you can also see the scene of the bride and groom's cave room.
My son said it was so funny! The mouse also married a daughter-in-law.
Visit the temple fair on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month
In the New Year, you have to go to the temple fair for a visit, the lively dragon and lion dances, colorful gadgets, fragrant snacks, adults and children can find their own happiness.
This page is also very cool, with a beautiful dragon made of colored latte art dragon paper, the body and tail of the dragon can be stretched and danced, and the dragon ball on the top of the dragon head can also be rotated and swirled. My son has become a dragon dancer, hahaha!
New Year's Day 15th Lantern Party
The night of the Lantern Festival is the first full moon night of the new year, eating rice balls, tying lanterns, and guessing lantern riddles...... After the Lantern Festival, the Spring Festival can be regarded as a successful end.
There is a very beautiful palace lamp on this page, and the intricacies of detail are amazing. Attention! There are lantern riddles hidden in the beautiful lanterns, and you can see the riddles when you pull them.
Say one of the lantern riddles for everyone to guess, feel the atmosphere of the Lantern Festival in advance, and see if you can guess it?
Night after night (type).
The playability of this book is really very high, my son has been flipping through this book for the past two days, especially the 1.5-meter-long New Year's goods street, he is holding a character standing card and shuttling on the "street", as if he is shopping to buy New Year's goods!