The evolution of Chinese New Year customs, what are the contents of Chinese New Year customs?

MediumThe customs of the country are as follows:

1. Sweep the dust: In the folk, on the eve of the New Year, there is the custom of "the twenty-fourth day of the lunar month, sweeping the dust (also known as sweeping the house)." The folk proverb is called "twenty-four, sweep the house".

Folks call it "Dust Day". Sweeping is the year-end cleaning, every household should clean their own home, clean all kinds of utensils, dismantle and wash bedding curtains, sprinkle and sweep the courtyard of Liulu, dust and cobwebs, and dredge open channels and culverts.

2. Paste Spring Festival couplets.

Spring couplets are also called door pairs, spring stickers, couplets, pairs, and peach symbols.

It depicts the background of the times in neat, dual, concise and exquisite words, and expresses good wishes, which is a unique literary form in China. Every Chinese New Year, every household will put up couplets to celebrate the arrival of the new year.

3. New Year's goods: China's New Year's customs and culture have a long history, and a variety of New Year's customs have been derived from all over the country, which are very different from north to south, each with its own characteristics. Although the customs are different from place to place, preparing New Year's goods and giving New Year's gifts are almost the "must-haves for the New Year" across the country.

Purchasing New Year's goods, including eating, wearing, wearing, using, pasting (New Year's red), giving (New Year's greetings) gifts, etc., are collectively called "New Year's goods", and the process of purchasing New Year's goods is called "New Year's goods".

4. Ancestor worship: The most important thing in the New Year is ancestor worship, which is also a traditional custom of the Chinese. Due to the cultural differences in each place, the form of ancestor worship in each place is also different, some are to go to the field to sweep the tomb, some are to worship in the ancestral hall, no matter what the form, this is to commemorate the ancestors.

5. Youshen. It is also known as the camp god and the old man, that is, the statue of the god is invited out of the temple to inspect the community, which has the folk significance of driving away evil spirits in the pure land, protecting the peace of the realm, and praying for a good harvest. During the Spring Festival every year, in chronological order, each village and town takes turns to hold folk activities to visit the gods, the scene is lively and extraordinary, praying for the peace of the country and the people in the coming year, the wind and rain are smooth, the evil is suppressed, and everything is auspicious.

Keep the New Year, worship the ancestors, worship the New Year, and paste the Spring Festival couplets.

1. Door painting. According to the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", when Li Shimin, Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, was sick, he often heard the sound of ghosts crying and howling in his dreams, so that he couldn't sleep at night.

At this time, the generals Qin Shubao and Wei Chigong volunteered to stand on both sides of the palace gate with their whole bodies draped, and the palace was really safe and sound, Li Shimin thought that the two generals were too hard, and they couldn't go in their hearts, so they ordered the painter to paint the mighty image of the two of them on the palace gate, called "the door god".

Steamships and trains came to China, the cable telegraph and cable ** appeared, there were photographs, movies, newspapers, printing houses, braids, easy clothes, foot binding was stopped, and kneeling was abolished.

1.The change in etiquette and customs was first among the new intellectuals, who gradually adopted ways of meeting such as shaking hands and bowing, and replacing the previous titles with "sir", "lady", "miss", and "comrade".

2.Changes in consumption customs: The invasion of modern Western capitalism and the emergence and rapid development of new commerce in China have had a huge impact on traditional consumption customs and directly led to the change of consumption customs.

During the Daoguang period after the Opium War, it became fashionable to enjoy foreign goods in the upper class.

3.Changes in clothing customs: Chinese clothing customs have a long history, and there are gorgeous and colorful costumes in all eras.

In the Qing Dynasty, Chinese costumes were mostly long robes and horse coats, and women wore cheongsam. There is a folk proverb that "peacock feathers, horseshoe sleeves". Clothing has the characteristics of strict hierarchy and praise clothing, which are very incompatible with the equality requirements of modern people and the increasing pace of life.

6.Changes in travel customs: Travel customs are closely linked to the means of transportation.

In traditional society, the main means of transportation were horse-drawn carriages, ox carts, sedan chairs, wooden boats, horsebacks, donkeys, camels, etc. Their common characteristics are the use of animal power, human or natural force, slow speed, and small range of activity. Backward transportation will inevitably lead to social backwardness.

In modern times, with the introduction of trains, ships, trams, automobiles, bicycles, motorcycles, etc., in the West, it gradually led to the transformation of traditional Chinese transportation.

8.Changes in wedding and funeral customs: Weddings are a form of folk customs that marks and celebrates marriage.

In modern times, the main form of marriage of the Han nationality is still feudal arranged marriage. Influenced by the concept of equality between men and women and Western marriage customs, in the fifties and sixties of the 19th century, a small number of scholars and doctors who had close contacts with foreigners used Western rites to get married

Qing Dynasty Diary Collection", Shanghai People's Publishing House, 1982, p. 250. ）。During the Guangxu period, there was a phenomenon of marriage without asking about family background in economically developed areas, and Western-style weddings gradually became influential.

At the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, civilized marriage became popular in large cities and coastal treaty ports.

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The changes in social customs are mainly affected by the following aspects:

1. The development of productive forces, some customs are out of place;

2. Changes in the climate and other regional environments, resulting in changes in social customs;

3. With the impact of foreign culture, people's social outlook and values have changed, so social customs have also changed;

4. The spread of scientific knowledge has made people realize the scientific truth of the formation of some natural phenomena, which has led to the beginning of changes in relevant habits and customs.

The celebrations during the Spring Festival are extremely rich and diverse, including lion dance, floating colors, dragon dance, wandering gods, temple fairs, visiting flower streets, viewing lanterns, traveling gongs and drums, vernier flags, burning fireworks, praying for blessings, making spring, as well as stepping on stilts, running dry boats, twisting Yangge, etc.

According to the saying of Minyuan Fan: because of the homonym of "dust" and "Chen", the Spring Festival dust sweep has the meaning of "removing Chen Buxin", and its intention is to sweep all the bad luck and bad luck out of the door. This custom carries people's desire to break with the old and create the new, and the prayer to leave the old and welcome the new.

Spring Festival (alias: New Year, New Year's Festival, Tianla, the first year, New Year, New Year) is one of the four traditional festivals in China, the New Year of the Orange Calendar, the traditional New Year's sedan chair festival, evolved from the first sacrifice of the year in ancient times, is the most solemn traditional festival of the Chinese nation, the date is set on the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar every year.

During the Spring Festival, various celebrations are held in various households, most of which are mainly based on sacrificing to the gods and Buddhas, paying tribute to ancestors, removing the old and cloth the new, welcoming the jubilee and receiving blessings, and praying for a good year. The forms of activities are rich and colorful, and most of them have strong national characteristics.