Spring Festival

Festivals: the Spring Festival
Holiday hours: first day Lunar New Year
Will make the annual winter, spring will soon come when the Chinese usher in year of the Festival is a traditional Spring Festival (Lunar New Year). It can be said that the Chinese Spring Festival is the most grand and most festive holiday, has a long history and rich cultural connotations.
Spring Festival is the Lunar New Year Suishou, commonly known as "Chinese New Year." More than 2,000 years in the long river of history, China experienced a budding New Year customs, stereotypes, fissile and transformation process of development.
Pre-Qin period is customary New Year's infancy. At this time of celebration activities mainly in the agricultural end of the year, as people return the gift of God and at the festival. China's oldest collection of poems "The Book of Songs," recorded in the Western Zhou period (before 1046 - before 771) Old-year-old New Year at the turn of the festive customs, people will wine and lamb dedicated to gods, to reward the past year and God bless Blessings and pray for the coming year Fengtiaoyushun, Wugufengdeng. At that moment, the celebration activities for all countries to adopt the calendar诸侯different and there is no uniform days, largely in the winter Nongxian the occasion. This is the customary New Year Later, the embryonic form.
New Year customs stereotypes in the Han Dynasty. After the Warring States Period (before 475 - before 221) and the Qin Dynasty (before 221 - before 206) the end of the social unrest after the Western Han Dynasty (BC 206 - AD 25) the early implementation of "rehabilitation" policy, social production has been restored and developed, Relatively stable social order and people's high enrichment, a series of holiday customs to gradually taking shape. "Tai Chu Li-nung," after the implementation of long-term stability calendar, New Year's first day as a New Year date has therefore been established. As a result, all regions in the original Dongmochunchu different days at the Choushen, worship and celebration activities will be gradually unified in the first day Lunar New Year to this day. With the development of society, from the Han Dynasty to the Northern and Southern Dynasties (420-589), the first day New Year's practices intensified Guo Xinnian, burning firecrackers, for Tao Fu, Su Tu drink wine, Shousui Yang, Shangdeng recreational activities such as have appeared, the Spring Festival has evolved Become China's largest festival.

New Year's pictures 《Guo Xinnian.》 Li Lulu for the plans.

New Year customs fissile occurred in the Tang Dynasty. Tang is economic prosperity, political昌明of the times, but also frequent cultural exchanges both inside and outside of the times. New Year customs gradually from Mr reported that the superstition, Rang disaster mysterious atmosphere of liberation, into entertainment, courtesy of festival. New Year's firecrackers are no longer means Qugui evil spirits, and a fun, festive way to celebrate the New Year Jishen shift the focus from the entertainment, people turned to their own entertainment fun, to enjoy life. Therefore, it can be said that only in the Tang Dynasty, the only truly celebrate the New Year, 000 people tide over the festive season really good time.
New Year custom to tomorrow (1368-1644)-transition period, this transition is mainly manifested in two aspects: First, etiquette and social activities gradually strengthen. People paid respects to each other in the New Year, Daguanguiren sent to Ming Tie each other, or, they Koubai; civilians also stresses "Lishangwanglai", gift gifts, mutual New Year. Second, the fun of further strengthened. New Year, played the lion, dragon dance, acting, storytelling, stilt walkers, Han Chuan, and other colorful entertainment. Beijingers visited temple, people visit the flower market in Guangzhou, Suzhou people listen to the bell…… Han Shansi entertainment activities around the distinctive, dazzling. At that moment, the New Year customs fully absorb China's traditional culture, a concentrated display of several thousand years of folk customs of the Expo.

Joy to the lion dance during the Spring Festival

In the traditional Spring Festival holiday, China's Han majority and the minority must hold all kinds of celebration activities, these activities are to worship deities and ancestors Festivals, Chujiubuxin, Fu Ying Hei then, to pray for a good harvest as the main content, activities The form of colorful, with strong ethnic characteristics.
2,000 years ago, China had the traditional Spring Festival, almost rooted in everyone's life. To the end of each Lunar New Year, people are left outside the rush to go home and have a family reunion, New Year's Eve Shousui, dumplings, paste New Year's scrolls, and so on New Year full of enrichment, the Chinese customs has become a common habit. Chinese New Year custom of radiation also to other neighboring countries, such as Vietnam, North Korea, South Korea and Japan, they have a similar way to celebrate the New Year.
Spring Festival activities are not limited to the festive day, but continued more than two weeks, generally 15 to make New Year End Lantern Festival to be completed. In fact, from Layue 23, people began preparing for the New Year. During that time, every household to Clean-up, buying Nianhuo, paste the window bars, hanging pictures, write New Year's scrolls, steamed rice cakes, all kinds of good food, preparing New Year. On the eve of the Spring Festival is "New Year's Eve," New Year's Eve night, the family reunion is an important moment. A family get together, eat a rich year's-end dinner, or Huan Syria, or entertainment vigil spring.

New Year's pictures, 《successive years of surplus》 (-), the use of homophonic placed in the new year's expectations.

People often posted in the words of the blessing on the door or windows so lucky.

Shousui, in the old year is the last day of not sleeping at night, Aoye to greet the new year to come. Explore the origins of this custom, civil generations spread of an interesting story: Swire period, a ferocious monster, Zheju in the dense forests in the mountains, people Guanta Jiao "years." It morphology Zhengning, naturally brutal, and bowed to eat the insects have been living and a taste for the day, people talk about "years"色变. Later, people gradually mastered the "in" the activities of the law, every 365 days of the local population fled the crowd a taste of fresh mouth, and setting the time in darkness after dawn until Jiming, It returned to the mountains in to the.
Operators of the prospective "," raging date, the people who put this terrible night as the gateway to boil, known as the "Year" and come up with a set of the Commissioner of the Chinese New Year approaches: to this day every night, every household will Dinner ahead, the focus off the net, then all the chickens circle Kraal tying in jail, the house before and after the doors are shut, hiding in the house to eat, "year's-end dinner." As the Dayton dinner with the uncertainty that Xiongji, very rich acquisition, in addition to the family dining Laoxiao sitting together in harmony reunion said, is to pay respects to their ancestors before eating, to pray for ancestors of the gods bless, peace To spend the night. After dinner, no one dared not sleep, crowded to sit together in order to chat, gradually formed a New Year's Eve on the boil in Shousui habits.
Shousui practices emerging in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and today we can read some of the literati at that time with respect to the Shousui of poetry. People point from the candle or lamp, the overnight vigil, a symbol of all the evil blast epidemic racing, drove them off, looking forward to the new year Jixiangruyi.

New Year's Eve family Shousui to dawn, to greet the new year. Shengxi Hui-shan, from 《old Beijing style painting well.》

New Year's Eve 0:00 a bell ring for people to eat dumplings. 0.1 in ancient times that "visible", New Year's Eve in the visible is the turn of the new and old, people eat dumplings at this point in time is for Xinjiujiaoti, "a reference to the age of" mean. "Dumplings" and "cross-" homonym, which is "dumplings" the origin of the name. Because of flour dumplings shaped like silver ingots, bowl-serve basins of the "New Year Fada Cai, rolling ingots come in" a wish, therefore, the custom of eating dumplings have been circulated so far.

Chinese New Year dumplings is the custom of many Chinese families. Shengxi Hui-shan, from 《old style painting in Beijing Well"》

Children especially like the Chinese New Year, because they can get Yasui Qian on New Year's Eve. Yasui Qian is a kind of sustenance best wishes for the new year gift, to be very particular about the equipment in a red paper bag, or in the year's-end dinner after the New Year when the bell sounded by the elders were distributed to minors younger people. It is said that because of the "Year" and "Chongming," a homonym, so younger people can be Yasui Qian压住evil Chongming, safely through the new year.
After New Year's Eve is the Lunar New Year's Day. From the first day, people have to Zouqin Qi, see friends, mutual New Year. New Year, Spring Festival is an important custom, is the New Year, wished each other a beautiful expression of a way. This is not only out of respect for the elderly and the love of friends and relatives, is also a kind of emotional contact, enhance friendship activities. New Year, we all have to say something I wish a happy, healthy and good fortune, to congratulate each other in the new year all the best.
In the Spring Festival, people have the custom of New Year's scrolls paste, New Year's scrolls of the original form is called the "Tao Fu." "Tao Fu" first appeared in the Zhou Dynasty (before 1046 - before 256), is suspended from the door Taomu on both sides of the rectangular plate. In ancient Chinese mythology, a Guiyu Legend has it the world, including mountains, the mountains are covered 3,000, a big peach, Shushao on a Golden Rooster. Whenever the early morning when the Golden Rooster Bell, the ghost of wandering out at night will be back to Guiyu. Guiyu is located in the door of peach trees in the northeast, the gate stood two people of God. If the ghosts in the night-day injury harm done things arguments, the two gods who will immediately find and catch it, to do with the Flemish Reed tied a rope to it, and sent to feed the tiger, thus the world of ghosts are afraid of these two gods People. So people will use Taomukecheng their appearance, on their own doorstep, to prevent harm Bixie. Later, people in just two Taomu board inscribed the name of God, that this town can do the same evil to evil, such Taomu board was later called "Tao Fu."

New Year's scrolls posted in the folk still prevail today. Chen Tingyi perturbation

To the Song Dynasty, people began to write couplets in Taomu board, a town of evil yet Taomu the significance of two express their good wishes, three decorative portals, so beautiful. Later, another symbol of festivity in the auspicious red couplets written on paper, the Chinese New Year of the paste on both sides of the doors and windows for people to pray for the coming year, Fu expressed the good wish of transport. After 1,000 years, Chinese New Year's scrolls as a special form of folk culture, Changshengbucui.
To pray for one of Fushoushan Corning, a number of local people retained the habit of paste door god. It is said that the door to paste on the two door god, all Yaomoguiguai will be discouraged. In private, door god is a symbol of uprightness and force. The ancients, who looks surprisingly often magical Bingxing and extraordinary skills. They carefully upright kind, Zhuogui escapement the devil is their nature and responsibilities of people admired the Zhuogui tianshic Zhong Kui, which is strange in such odd-shaped. So people are always Numuyuanzheng door god, or facial or solemn Zhengning, holding a variety of traditional weapons, always ready with the courage to come to fight the ghosts. As China's door to residential areas, are usually two off, the door god always Chengshuangchengdui.
Fang Baozhu during the Spring Festival, the children's favorite activities. Legend discharge of fireworks can drive monster Chumo, the annual New Year's Eve night, sounded everywhere on the acoustic string of firecrackers. Again and fireworks, sound and firecrackers add to the festive atmosphere of the festive celebrations, a New Year in a unique landscape.

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During the Spring Festival, all over the local traditional and cultural activities to the lion dance, dance Long Deng, is zoned Hanchuan, Cai Gaoqiao is most common. Many also hold temple. Chinese people celebrate the festival is a traditional Spring Festival approach, the general started from the first day, continued into the early 7. The best of a temple on the dragon and lion dance performances, a wide variety of crafts and local snacks, attracting tens of thousands of people celebrating the festive season.

Beijing Changdian temple

With the development of the times, the New Year's customs also has made some changes. For example, to prevent fires and prevent environmental pollution, many cities have banned or restricted the discharge of fireworks and firecrackers, but that does not affect the festive festive atmosphere. New Year's Eve night, every household will still have to join together, while eating year's-end dinner, while watching the best of the Spring Festival evening party, until the early morning of the Lunar New Year's Day. In the minds of the broad masses of Chinese people, the Spring Festival is always the most important holiday.

The annual Spring Festival evening party to become the focus of attention of hundreds of millions of people. Qin Xinmin for map.