The Year of the Ox has arrived, I wish everyone a good year of the ox, the ox is soaring, good luck, fortune, get rid of poverty without hair loss.
Finally, it is the first day of the first lunar month, the Year of the Rat is already a thing of the past, and from today onwards it is the Year of the Ox. It also reached the last article of the "Spring Festival Traditional Customs Series", and although there were still various in the next few days, I did not want to write it.
The first day of the first lunar month is a very important day, in ancient times there is a "three yuan" saying, that is, "the yuan of a day, the yuan of a month, the yuan of a year", the ancients have clouds: the plan of a day lies in the morning, the plan of the year lies in the spring, and the beginning of this year can be said to occupy a very heavy weight in everyone's mind. Of course, another very important thing is that from today until the second day of February in the lunar calendar, you can't get a haircut, otherwise your uncle may beat you.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > open door, NamPak</h1>
If you want to say what the first custom is since the first day of the first lunar month, it may be this open door battle. Although many places now have no habit of keeping the age, look at the Spring Festival, send blessings, and then go back to sleep. However, the custom of opening the door and fighting is still maintained, especially in rural places, where fireworks and firecrackers can be set off, which is the most "lively" custom of the Spring Festival.
Every year, when Chinese New Year's Eve night, the main gate of the home will be closed, and then they will go upstairs to rest and receive the spring time. This point in time is different every year, and it is generally the older generation of people who calculate the auspicious time according to the old yellow calendar and then notify everyone. It may be just after Chinese New Year's Eve midnight in the morning, or it may be two o'clock, four o'clock, six o'clock, I remember when I was a child, it would change every year. Now everyone does not care about this point in time, generally choose zero or six o'clock, which is better to arrange.
It will make the family members who are in conflict with the zodiac signs fall asleep without coming out, and let the family members who do not clash with the zodiac signs go to the opening ceremony. After burning incense and worshipping, it is time to let go of the door cannon, and when the cannon sounds, the door is opened, symbolizing the beginning of the new year. At this point in time, the whole village basically put firecrackers and fireworks together, to see whose fireworks are louder and more colorful, it can really be said that the firecrackers are fired in unison, the fireworks are full of fireworks, beautiful is indeed very beautiful, that is, some noise and some polluted air, everyone don't want to sleep.
Legend has it that the cannon can drive away a year's worth of obscurity and poverty, bringing more good luck. So now it's not just during the New Year, but even when the store is usually open, the door cannon will be released. But now, because of safety hazards and pollution problems, many cities have banned fireworks and firecrackers, and only rural areas and suburbs can set off fireworks. However, probably because 2020 is too bitter, many cities have relaxed some restrictions this year, and fireworks can be set off in some prescribed places, which can also add a touch of New Year's flavor to the New Year.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > to greet the new year</h1>
On the first day of the first lunar month, there are some differences in activities in various places, such as some places that have not begun to post couplets until today, and there are people like us who will take their children to the entrance of the ancestral hall. Let the children all line up in a long line, and then let the adults give the children candy or cookies one by one to send their blessings. But most areas do not become the first day of the first lunar month, to go to the New Year.
The tradition of worshiping the New Year has a long history, probably from the Han Dynasty period there was a habit of worshiping the New Year, especially in the Tang and Song Dynasties. But at that time, there was no mobile phone and no network, and it was quite troublesome to go to the New Year in person, so they invented the use of famous posts to congratulate, someone's name, address, congratulations, I feel that this is the earliest prototype of the New Year card. After the Ming Dynasty, many families would hang a red bag at the door at this time to collect this new year card.
However, the word "New Year's Greeting", in fact, in ancient times, referred to the elders to greet the New Year, the understanding at that time included prostrating the head, this etiquette still exists in the northern rural areas, the New Year needs to kneel to the elders of the family to prostrate their heads to congratulate the New Year. In the words of friends of the same generation, in ancient times, it was called the New Year, which means to congratulate each other on the good new year.
However, rural New Year's greetings are actually quite embarrassing, especially for friends who work in the field all year round. You may go home once or twice a year, hundreds of people in the same sect, dozens of families, you may be able to recognize two or three households, the rest is to look at the good face. In the same sect, you can't call your brothers, brothers, uncles and aunts according to your age, because the little friend with the runny nose at the mouth of the village may be your uncle. At the same time, although you are not familiar with the people in the village, the old people in the village are clear about the young people who go out, and they are like a few family treasures about the troubles of your childhood, and from time to time you urge the marriage events of the young people.
The first day of the first month of the new month will soon pass, from the time to work a hand are counted over, a careless Spring Festival holiday may be over, everyone seize the time, should see, should gather together.
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