How did the ancient people celebrate the New Year?

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The Spring Festival is the beginning of the lunar calendar and an ancient traditional festival in China. In ancient times, Nian was not celebrated on the 29th or 30th day of the twelfth lunar month, but on wax day, which later became Laba. After the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the "wax festival" was moved to the end of the year. In the Republic of China, the Lunar New Year was called "Spring Festival" only when the solar calendar was changed, because the Spring Festival was usually around beginning of spring.

The Spring Festival is the largest and most lively ancient traditional festival in China. Commonly known as "Chinese New Year". According to the China lunar calendar, the first day of the first month is called Yuanri, Chen Yuan, Jacky, Yuanshuo and New Year's Day. Commonly known as the first day of the first month, there are other nicknames such as Shangri-La, Zheng Chao, Sanshuo, Shisan and Sanyuan, which means that the first day of the first month is the beginning of the year, month and day. The Spring Festival, as its name implies, is the Spring Festival. Spring has come, Vientiane is renewed, and a new round of sowing and harvesting season is about to begin again. People have enough reasons to welcome this festival by singing and dancing. So, before the festival, a New Year message with red paper and yellow characters was posted on the frontispiece. When spring comes to the door, I will read that sentence to express my best wishes for the new year. This idea really brings good luck. The same moral things are hanging red lanterns, sticking the word "Fu" and sticking the statue of the God of Wealth. The word "Fu" must be posted backwards, and passers-by will say "Fu has fallen", which means "Fu has arrived".

Another name for the Spring Festival is China New Year. What is "year"? It is a fictional animal, which will bring bad luck to people. The year is coming. When the tree is dead, the grass will not grow; A year has passed, everything grows and flowers are everywhere. How to spend the year? Firecrackers are needed, so there is a custom of setting off firecrackers.

New Year's Eve is the last day of the twelfth lunar month and the eve of the Spring Festival. In the old society, it was also called "except for the sun", "except for the night", "except for the year", "the end of the year" and "the end of the year". Many people called it "New Year's Eve" or "New Year's Eve". In our country, people generally attach importance to the next day, which is called "Year-end". In the old days, businessmen regarded Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and New Year's Eve as the three major festivals in a year, and each festival had to be accounted for, with New Year's Eve as the most important. They should sort out the current accounts of the year, verify the profits and losses, and plan for the coming year. China's traditional customs, New Year's Eve and Spring Festival meet at the same time, with similar customs, are actually traditional festivals.

Traditional celebrations last from New Year's Eve to the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first month. The festive atmosphere will last for a month. Before the first day of the first month, there were sacrifices to stoves, ancestors and filth. On the 30th, there will be ceremonies such as sticking doors to gods, couplets, hanging flags, eating jiaozi, setting off firecrackers, and "observing the new year's eve". On the first day of the first month, the younger generation pays New Year greetings to their elders, and then visits relatives and friends. The new son-in-law will go to her parents' home to pay New Year's greetings, usually on the third day of New Year's Eve. The old man has held a banquet during the Spring Festival every ten years since he was 60 years old. Besides exchanging New Year greetings, there are also customs such as giving children lucky money, dancing lions, playing dragon lanterns, performing social fires, visiting flower markets and enjoying lantern festivals. During this period, lanterns filled the city and tourists crowded the streets, which was unprecedented.

What year? Year is the image of drooping ears of grain and a symbol of bumper harvest. The so-called "bumper harvest year".

What year? Nian is a monster. It stays in the deep sea all year round and only climbs ashore on New Year's Eve. As soon as it landed, there were floods everywhere. Later, people put red paper on their doorsteps, lit firewood in the yard, and chopped vegetables and meat with kitchen knives, making a thunderous sound. Scared nian back and fled back to the sea. So on New Year's Eve, there are couplets, lanterns, new clothes, jiaozi and jiaozi, bonfires and firewood at night-this is the New Year.

So how did the ancients celebrate the New Year? Let's listen to this "festival song" first—

23 days of furnace sacrifice,

Twenty-four couplets,

25 make tofu,

Twenty-six years of cutting meat,

…………

The second day kowtows,

Play ball in grade three and grade four,

Jumping monkeys on the fifth and sixth days,

…………

"New Year, and busy for half a year". The ancients were busy celebrating the Year from the twelfth lunar month until Yuan Xiao passed, and the year passed. Then we can trace back to the "year step" of the ancients, and come to worship the stove first-

Kitchen God is the most exposed one among the gods who worship on New Year's Day. The custom of offering sacrifices to stoves has a long history, and it is an expression of ancestors' gratitude and reverence for fire and stoves. According to legend, Huangdi, Yan Di and Zhu Rong are all kitchen gods. The list of popular kitchen god Zhang looks like a beautiful woman. He has a wife named "Qing Ji", six daughters named "Chucky" and several soldiers. In addition to being in charge of fire, he should also examine the actions of the world and report to God. People also use distiller's grains, maltose and sticky cakes to "bribe" the kitchen god. At the same time, they murmured prayers and begged him to speak in heaven. This custom has been passed down to this day, but the time is the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month, and the sacrificial food is simplified as "stove candy stove cake". But if you pay attention, you will definitely hear grandma and mom calling the kitchen god up.

Speak well, not ill. ...

Besides firecrackers, the spring breeze also brings warmth to Tu Su.

Thousands of families always trade new peaches for old ones.

-Wang Anshi

Firecrackers were originally a tool of witchcraft, used to drive away monsters. Unlike today's firecrackers, the original firecrackers are real bamboo, that is, burning bamboo, making a crackling sound and scaring ghosts. Tu Su is Tu Su wine, which means to kill something congenial and awaken people's souls. It is said that drinking this wine in the morning of January can keep you from getting sick for a year, and then the wine you drink during the Spring Festival will be collectively called "Tu Su wine".

Fu Tao, also known as "pottery board", is the predecessor of Spring Festival couplets. The ancients thought that peach wood was the essence of five trees, which could make a hundred ghosts. Therefore, since the Han Dynasty, peach wood has been used as a tool to ward off evil spirits, such as peach man, peach seal, peach board, peach symbol and so on. It is said that Fu Tao became the Spring Festival couplets because of Meng Chang, the master of Shu after the Five Dynasties. Paper Spring Festival couplets were only popular in Ming and Qing Dynasties. Today's Spring Festival couplets are intended to highlight the atmosphere of the New Year. Good luck. They have lost the driving role of the old Spring Festival couplets, which are rich in content and diverse in forms.

I wrote couplets, and then it's time to prepare food for the New Year. There are many foods in the New Year, such as rice cakes, New Year's Eve dinners and jiaozi. There are also diets with strong witchcraft flavor, such as peach soup, cypress wine, pepper wine, five coriander and so on. Peach soup is made of peaches, white wine is made of cypress leaves, and cellar wine is made of pepper seeds. The ancients drank it on the first day of the first month, meaning to ward off evil spirits and pray for blessings. Spiced board is made of five kinds of spicy food, such as onion and ginger, also called spring board. It is said that it can eliminate evil spirits, plague, and enlighten the five internal organs, and it also means to congratulate the new students.

The cold light in the hotel stayed alone and didn't sleep, and the guest turned sad.

My hometown is thinking thousands of miles tonight, and it is another year of the Ming Dynasty.

New Year's Eve is a night of reunion, and it is difficult for China people to have a happy knot. Even if people are in the end of the world, they should go home for New Year's Eve dinner and New Year's Eve dinner. The home on New Year's Eve is a particularly warm and sweet space. Historically, even prisoners in prisons have been released and reunited. The family sat around the table and began the process of "group year" and "keeping the age". The first is the "reunion dinner", and then the whole family will sit together and watch the New Year.

At this time, the younger generation saluted their parents and resigned, and the old people had to share the lucky money. Lucky money, also known as "lucky money", "lucky money" and "lucky money", was originally used to ward off evil spirits and help children celebrate the New Year, but later generations used it to express affection and love. After the reunion dinner, we will also eat "midnight snack", and the whole family will eat snacks together, or laugh and play, or talk about everything and wait for dawn. This is shou sui. In addition, on New Year's Eve, there are customs such as listening to a mirror, raising silkworms, selling dementia, making ash piles, etc., so as to predict the good or bad of the year and pray for children's wisdom and all the best in the new year.

"In the rural New Year, from the twelfth lunar month to the first half of the first month, the sound of gongs and drums lasted for one and a half months. The monotonous voice touched the hearts of every one of us in China. Just then, ... I found that the winter jasmine was in bloom. "

Yes, the winter jasmine is in bloom, and the new year has come!

The ancients compared the first eight days of the new rectification with six kinds of animals, people and valleys respectively. The first day of the first month is the Year of the Rooster, which is an auspicious day. The ancients used chickens to ward off evil spirits by killing chickens or sticking them on doors. People have been busy celebrating the New Year since New Year's Day. In the Han Dynasty, it was popular to pay New Year greetings. On the first day of the first month, the ministers went to the palace to worship, and the monarch and the minister enjoyed each other. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, the official New Year greeting developed into an empty etiquette, which was often "stabbing at the door", whether you know it or not.

There are poems as evidence:

I don't want to meet, but I want to talk about it. The famous papers are all us.

I also throw some paper at people. The world is too simple and empty.

In folk beliefs, the first day to the fourth day is the carnival day of the New Year, and it is not until the fifth day that normal life is resumed. The fifth day is also called "breaking the fifth day". The custom activity on this day is to "send the poor", but for businesses, businesses open their doors on the fifth day. The first month's activities did not gradually calm down until 15. ...