How did people celebrate the New Year during the Han Dynasty, and what is the difference between it

For us modern people, a variety of festivals fill our lives, but for couples to have a holiday, in addition to Valentine's Day, Tanabata, but also create their own "520" and "521" such days; Originally, it was November 11th, but the previous "Singles' Day" has changed to the current "Shopping Carnival". However, in the end, the festival we attach the most importance to is the Spring Festival. The Spring Festival existed in the Han Dynasty, and the Spring Festival at that time attached great importance to customs such as sacrificing to the god of the stove and pressing New Year's money.

First of all, the Spring Festival did not have this name in the Han Dynasty, but was called "Three Dynasties", "New Year's Day", "Zhengdan" and "Zhengri". Before the Spring Festival in the Han Dynasty, the god of the stove would first be sacrificed on the twenty-third day of the lunar month. The activity of sacrificing to the god of the stove has appeared in the pre-Qin period.

After the sacrifice to the god of the stove, it is necessary to sweep it away, and according to itAccording to the "Lü's Spring and Autumn Period", the custom of cleaning existed in the Yaoshun era.

Whether it is the Spring Festival in our current Spring Festival or the Spring Festival during the Han Dynasty, there will be a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner and the custom of giving money for the New Year. It's just inDuring the Han Dynasty, New Year's money was not called New Year's money, but "winning money". Moreover, it is not real money, but an ornament with auspicious patterns that can be worn on the body.

During the Spring Festival, we generally greet relatives and friends, but in the Han Dynasty, New Year's greetings were divided into three types: to the deceased ancestors, to the head of the family, and to the peers and friends. However, for us now, the most common way to greet the New Year is to use the mobile phone to greet the New Year, and then grab the red envelope together.

It is precisely because of this that many people now feel that the taste of the New Year is much lighter, in fact, I also think so.

First of all, the Spring Festival in ancient times, its abundance and prosperity were far worse than today's, and it was his input, that is, people's input was far higher than today's. After a year of hard work in ancient times, the Spring Festival also represents the welcome of next year, so this time is often a blessing that next year will be better, and this year will be sent away perfectly, and then welcome the next year. In this way, in ancient times, there is a certain necessary significance of the Spring Festival, referring to the present, it is different, the current is the Spring Festival as a custom festival down, the New Year lacks a little taste of the year, most people choose to reunite with their families to enjoy the beautiful moment.

In ancient times, many people were not full, not enough food, then the first difference is that there is a big gap in the abundance of our food, now we can eat a variety of food, even overseas foreign delicious food, it is very likely that there is a little bit of meat in ancient times, it is already the greatest enjoyment, you and we have to thank the rapid development of the current society, as well as the rapid development of various developed businesses in this logistics and transportation to bring us some benefits.

In ancient times, it was very difficult to go out at night because of the curfew, because the cost of lighting was very huge, but today it is different, we can watch the Spring Festival Gala during the New Year, go shopping, watch all kinds of performances, and all kinds of celebrations, but in ancient times, such things were very rare, because it was difficult to go out at night. Although the Han Dynasty was a relatively developed period, it also had a history of nearly 2,000 years from the present, and the domestic development was actually relatively poor before 2,000.

During the Han Dynasty, there was a difference between the Spring Festival and the modern era, and people in the long period spent the Spring Festival in their hometowns at most, but now we can go out of the whole of China, and we can go to other countries to enjoy the Spring Festival. There is no doubt that the Spring Festival is becoming less and less, and people's understanding of the existence and understanding of this festival is becoming worse and worse.

But the rest of the people have undoubtedly invested much more spirit and energy than today during the Spring Festival, and today's attitude towards the Spring Festival has begun to become a traditional holiday, and the Spring Festival is a holiday.

There are still some similarities between the Chinese New Year in the Han Dynasty and the modern New Year, such as cleaning up and giving New Year's money, but the Han Dynasty people have relatively more New Year's etiquette, and the modern ones are simpler.

The Han Dynasty paid more attention to etiquette, and on important occasions such as the Chinese New Year, the ruler had to carry out complex rituals to worship the heavens in order to ensure that the wind and rain would be smooth and the country and the people would be safe next year. The common people have also followed suit, even if they don't have the conditions, they have to get some rituals, such as sweeping the house, worshiping ancestors, worshipping land fairies, eating reunion dinners, etc. In addition to eating, modern people have basically omitted everything else, with many less flavors and more treats and gifts.

The answer is: because of the different calendars, the time of the New Year is also different, because of cultural changes, many New Year's customs, or born or ceased to exist. The only thing that runs through the millennium is the positive meaning of the New Year's reunion.

In the Han Dynasty, there was no name for the Spring Festival, they lived the "Three Dynasties", "New Year's Day", "Zhengdan" and "Zhengri", and many customs were different.

During the Han Dynasty, the New Year is much more interesting than the current New Year, and the customs of other dynasties in our country are no different, but in modern times, our science and technology have developed rapidly, so that we can slowly dilute many customs, from the complex to the simple way of the New Year, but also let more and more Chinese young people feel the lack of New Year's flavor, on the contrary, the customs of the Chinese New Year are well preserved abroad, which is worth our deep thought.

In addition to offerings, the meal of the whole family reunion is also the richest meal of the year, followed by New Year's money and New Year's greetings.

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty used to celebrate the New Year in October, but during the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Sima Qian and others reformulated the calendar. The Chinese New Year is back in the first month of every year.

At that time, the New Year was similar to now, the whole family gathered for Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, but now that science and technology have advanced, they are all red envelopes or something, and in the past, there were at most many performances for everyone **.

Now the festival has become more and more festive atmosphere, the ancients still pay attention to the festival, and the first day of the first month of the New Year was changed during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.

I think that during the Han Dynasty, when the Spring Festival was celebrated, I think that the smell of the New Year will be heavier than now, and people's ideological concepts are still relatively strong, so at that time, people would strictly abide by the rules of their ancestors and follow those traditions one by one.

In fact, the Spring Festival of the Han Dynasty people will feel more festive. In ancient times, it was the same as now, on that day, when the whole family had a meal together, and then there would be various events in the city.

The Han Dynasty people will probably set off firecrackers during the Spring Festival, and it is estimated that the most lively place at that time is only the palace, and of course there are some other large families.

Because we all know that there was a Spring Festival festival during the Han Dynasty, and compared with modern people during the Spring Festival, they must not be as lively as modern times, and there is no Spring Festival Gala.

The Spring Festival during the Han Dynasty was also very lively, with fireworks, chickens and pigs, no different from modern times.

During the Han Dynasty, people celebrated the Spring Festival mainly to be happy, so there will be a lot of New Year's flavor. Nowadays, people will have a lot to eat during the holidays, but they lack some New Year's flavor.

There should be no difference, because our current Spring Festival customs are basically handed down from ancient times, and the only difference may be that there were no scientific and technological supplies at that time, so there was no Spring Festival Gala.

There is no comparison between the two, we are watching TV and eating melon seeds during the Spring Festival now, was there at that time?

The flavor of the ancient year should be stronger than it is now. Although there were no communication tools at that time, I would definitely walk the streets and visit the doors.