What is the custom of New Year s Day How did the ancients celebrate New Year s Day

Updated on culture 2024-03-28
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  1. Anonymous users2024-02-07

    New Year's Day customs. Sacrifice to the gods and ancestors, write the door to hang the Spring Festival couplets, write the blessing word, dance the dragon lantern, the folk also gradually form the worship of the gods and Buddhas, the ancestors, the Spring Festival couplets, the firecrackers, the New Year, the reunion dinner and many "social fire" and other entertainment and celebration activities. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, New Year's Day became an important festival in China.

    The main activities are: holding galas, New Year's Eve countdown, fireworks, friends and family gatherings, travel, etc.

    The ancients celebrated New Year's Day like this.

    On the New Year's Day of the Northern Song Dynasty, many bustling streets in the capital should be set up with colorful sheds, placing hats, combs, pearls, jewelry, clothing, flowers, collar wipes, boots, toys and other goods, as well as dance halls and song halls, cars and horses come and go, in an endless stream. At the same time, there were many dietary customs at that time, for example, most families had to eat vegetarian cakes.

    Tokyo Menghualu said: "(Kaifeng on New Year's Day) are all decoction soup to drink, and burn atractylodes, and dispel the gas of epidemics." "Many families also "use a branch of cypress, a persimmon, and an orange, and break it open, and everyone eats it, thinking that it is an auspicious omen for a year old."

    In this way, the New Year's Day of the Northern Song Dynasty is really full of festive atmosphere, and it is very lively.

  2. Anonymous users2024-02-06

    Paste couplets. Set off firecrackers. New Year's greetings.

  3. Anonymous users2024-02-05

    1. The customs of the New Year's Day include eating dumplings, eating rice cakes, appreciating lanterns and worshipping ancestors, as well as setting off firecrackers. 2. The customs of the New Year's Day are divided between the north and the south, the north eats dumplings, the south eats rice cakes, every New Year's Day, the northerners will eat dumplings, the custom of eating dumplings on New Year's Day, flourished in the Ming and Qing dynasties, "Quwo County Chronicles" recorded: "two-day flat food is wrapped in gold, and the son-in-law is invited."

    Set off firecrackers, worship the gods, kill chickens and geese. Major local stations will also hold New Year's Day parties, performances to celebrate, family sitting together**, dinner, reunion, warm and happy.

  4. Anonymous users2024-02-04

    In ancient times, there was also a New Year's Day, but the date of the festival was not fixed. When the ancient people celebrated the New Year's Day, they would be busy purchasing New Year's goods in the first half of the New Year, and the children would add new clothes and post Spring Festival paintings, and at night the family would sit together to eat Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, which was very festive and had a strong festive atmosphere.

  5. Anonymous users2024-02-03

    The New Year's Day of the ancients is our current Spring Festival, the ancients also want to hang the Bi Rui Spring Festival couplets to repent of the reeds, write the word blessing, New Year's Day is also to put on new clothes to visit relatives and friends, mutual blessings, it is also very lively.

  6. Anonymous users2024-02-02

    In ancient times, there was also a New Year's Day. In ancient times, people would have a series of activities such as guessing lantern riddles and putting lanterns on New Year's Day. There is also a lion dance.

  7. Anonymous users2024-02-01

    In ancient times, there was also a New Year's Day, but the customs are completely different from the current customs. In ancient times, when the New Year's Day was celebrated in the Xinshu Mausoleum, the people would make sacrifices and make some better food.

  8. Anonymous users2024-01-31

    In ancient China, people who had worked for a year would prepare abundant food to welcome spring, that is, "all grains are ripe for a year", and the common nonsense is called "year". In the Song Dynasty, there were records of setting off firecrackers, visiting annual meetings, and eating reunion dinners.

    Lu Yuanming of the Northern Song Dynasty mentioned in the "Miscellaneous Notes of the Year": "On New Year's Day, the people of Jingshi eat more cakes, the so-called New Year's dumplings, or so on. It shows that at that time, the people of Bianliang would prepare noodles and other foods for the New Year. The custom of Yuan demolishing Li Dan gradually took shape.

  9. Anonymous users2024-01-30

    Absolutely. The ancients would gather in the hall during New Year's Day, also set off cannons, and would also get together as a family to eat dumplings, which was almost the same as now.

  10. Anonymous users2024-01-29

    In ancient times, there was also a New Year's Day; The New Year's Day of the ancients was to wear new clothes, visit the lantern festival, guess lantern riddles, put Kong Ming lanterns, and eat sumptuous dishes.

  11. Anonymous users2024-01-28

    In ancient times, there was also a New Year's Day, and on New Year's Day, they would wear new clothes, eat dumplings, and visit relatives and friends.

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