Knowledge about the New Year, knowledge about the New Year

1. Sweeping:In the folk, on the eve of the New Year, there is a 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 Festival couplets are also called door pairs, spring stickers, couplets, pairs, peach symbols, etc., it depicts the background of the times with neat, dual, concise and exquisite words, expresses good wishes, and is a unique literary form in our country. 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 culture has a long history, and a variety of Chinese New Year customs have been derived from all over the country, which are very different from north to south, and each has 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:One of the most important things in the New Year is to worship ancestors, 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. Wandering God: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.

Here's what you need to know about the New Year:

"Yuan" means beginning, and "Dan" means daytime. New Year's Day refers to the first day of the year. The dates of New Year's Day in our country are not consistent.

For example, the Xia Dynasty was on the first day of the first month, the Shang Dynasty was on the first day of December, the Zhou Dynasty was on the first day of November, and after Qin Shi Huang unified the six countries, the first day of October was the New Year's Day.

On September 27, 1949, the First Plenary Session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference resolved: "The People's Republic of China adopts the Common Era method", that is, what we call the solar calendar, in order to distinguish the two new years of the lunar calendar and the solar calendar, and in view of the fact that the "Lichun" in the 24th solar term of the lunar calendar is just around the time of the Lunar New Year, the first day of the first lunar month was renamed "Spring Festival", and the first day of January of the solar calendar was designated as "New Year's Day".

In its historical development and evolution, the Spring Festival has continuously formed and condensed the unique ethical emotions, time and life consciousness, cultural pursuit of identity, and even a quasi-religious consciousness of the Chinese. In a variety of unique Spring Festival ceremonies, the traditional Chinese ethnic and folk culture can be displayed and expressed in a concentrated manner; During the Spring Festival, the Han nationality and many ethnic minorities in our country will hold their own unique activities to celebrate.

Most of these activities are mainly to pay tribute to ancestors, remove the old and welcome the new, celebrate the new year, pray for a good year, and sacrifice various gods, and the activities are colorful and have strong national characteristics. These folk activities during the Spring Festival reflect the inheritance and promotion of this long-standing traditional folk culture in contemporary times.

The customs of the Spring Festival.

1. Sweep the dust: Every time the Spring Festival comes, every household must clean the environment, return to the reeds to clean all kinds of utensils, dismantle and wash the bedding curtains, sprinkle and sweep the courtyard of Liulu, dust and dirt cobwebs, and dredge the nullah culvert.

2. Paste Spring Festival couplets: also called door pairs, spring stickers, couplets, pairs, peach symbols, etc., it depicts the background of the times with neat, dual, and concise and exquisite words to express good wishes.

3. Sticking New Year's paintings: Hanging New Year's pictures during the Spring Festival are often in urban and rural areas, and the black and colorful New Year's pictures add prosperity and joy to thousands of households.

Chinese New Year's.