In the sound of firecrackers, the spring breeze sends warmth into Tu Su

Today is the first day of the Chinese New Year in 2022, and it is the most important festival of the year in Chinese, the Spring Festival. Happy Chinese New Year and Happy Family!

When it comes to the Spring Festival, I think many people have read Wang Anshi's seven-sentence "Yuan 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.

The direct translation is: in the roar of firecrackers, the old year has passed; and the warm spring breeze blows the New Year, and people happily drink the newly brewed Tusu wine. The rising sun shines on thousands of households, and they are busy taking off the old peach charm and replacing it with a new peach charm.

The tone of this poem is very brisk, and in popular language, some customs and habits of people during the Spring Festival during the Northern Song Dynasty are clearly recorded.

Among them, putting firecrackers, drinking Tusu wine, inserting peach charms, and sticking door gods, these four major customs, firecrackers and sticking door gods, to this day, are also things that everyone has to do during the New Year. Of course, now to protect the environment, firecrackers can no longer be released.

Tu Su in the poem refers to Tu Su wine. Drinking TuSu wine is also a custom in ancient Chinese New Year. On the first day of the Chinese New Year, the whole family drinks this wine soaked in Tusu grass to drive away evil spirits and avoid plagues in order to achieve longevity.

Peach charms are folk cultural supplies for the Spring Festival. In the past custom, at the first day of the first lunar month, people used peach wood boards to write the names of the gods and goddesses, Yulei, or drew images of the two gods on paper, hung or posted on the head of the door to suppress evil spirits.

Let's look at this poem again today, describing the lively, joyful and renewed scene of the New Year's Day.

Finally, I wish you all a happy new year.

Thanks for your attention!