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New Year's greetings are a traditional Chinese folk custom, which is a way for people to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new year and express good wishes to each other. What we usually know is that on the first day of the first month, the head of the family leads the juniors to go out to meet relatives, friends, and elders, and congratulate each other on the New Year with auspicious words. The host family warmly entertained them with dim sum, candy, and red envelopes (New Year's money).

In ancient times, the original meaning of the word "New Year's greetings" was to congratulate the elderly on the New Year, including prostrating to the elderly, congratulating them on a good New Year, and greeting them with a good life. When you meet relatives and friends of the same generation, you should also give gifts and congratulations. With the development of the times, the custom of New Year's greetings has been constantly added with new contents and forms.

Now in addition to following the previous way of greeting the New Year, people have also risen up ceremonial telegram New Year's greetings and ** New Year's greetings.

On the first day of the new year, people get up early, put on the most beautiful clothes, dress up neatly, go out to visit relatives and friends, greet each other, and wish good luck in the coming year. There are various ways to pay New Year's greetings, some are led by the same patriarch to lead a number of people to go door-to-door to pay New Year's greetings; Some colleagues invited a few people to pay New Year's greetings; There are also people who get together to congratulate each other, which is called "group worship". In the Song Dynasty, relatives and friends would send messages to each other to congratulate each other, which was the early New Year's card.

In the Ming Dynasty, the design of the New Year's card was more perfect and exquisite, and the post not only printed the name and address of the sender, but also wrote the greetings of "Happy New Year" and "Auspicious Ruyi".

When greeting the New Year, the younger generation should first give the elders a New Year's greeting, wish the elders a long and healthy life, the elders can be prepared in advance to distribute the New Year's money to the younger generations, it is said that the New Year's money can suppress the evil, because the "year" and "Zhen" homonym, the younger generation can get the New Year's money can spend a year in peace.

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The Japanese use bowing as the basic etiquette

1. Go to relatives.

On the first day of junior high school, you must go to your father-in-law's house and bring gifts. After entering the door, they first bow to the Buddha statue, the image of the ancestor of the rotten cherry tree, and the tablet three times, and then bow down to the elders in turn. You can stay to eat and play.

2. Courtesy visits.

If you give New Year's greetings to colleagues and friends, you should only bow to the Buddha statue three times when you enter the house, and if you are the same as the master, you only need to bow your hand, if you are older than yourself, you should still take the initiative to bow down, and the master should step down from the seat to do a support, and even say that you are not courteous to show humility. In this case, it is generally not suitable to sit for a long time, and you have to say goodbye after greeting two polite words. After the master has been worshipped, he should return to worship on a certain day.

3. Thankful visits.

Those who owe affection to others in the past year (such as lawyers, doctors, etc.) should buy some gifts and send them to Bixiao, taking the opportunity of New Year's greetings to express their gratitude.

As for the origin of the New Year's greeting custom, legend has it that people hide until the morning of the first day of the lunar month in order to avoid the New Year beasts that forage for food on the 30th night of the lunar month.

On this day, the younger generations should first greet the elders and wish them a long and healthy life. People also say auspicious words to each other when they go out to meet, and neighbors or relatives and friends visit each other to pay New Year's greetings or invite each other to drink and have fun.

The custom of Chinese New Year greetings has always been the highlight of the Spring Festival. The juniors sent blessings to the elders, relatives and friends gathered to greet each other, and ushered in the New Year in auspicious words.

Extended information: New Year's greetings.

First, the most traditional: visiting the New Year.

In the past, people's range of activities was not as wide as now, and the means of communication were also limited, so it was the most simple and sincere to seize the time of the Spring Festival to reunite with relatives and friends who had not seen each other for a year, and bring a family to visit the New Year. Carry cigarettes, alcohol, all kinds of candy or your own pickled old bacon, and push the cup and change the cup in the sound of firecrackers and a large table of good dishes, which is full of New Year's flavor.

Second, the most mainstream: SMS New Year's greetings.

SMS is the most important way for Chinese people to greet the New Year today. However, simple, convenient, and wide-coverage text messages also have many shortcomings, the content is monotonous and repetitive, the number of people is too high, and on Chinese New Year's Eve, it often encounters a "blowout" of blessing text messages.

As social tools, Weibo and WeChat make the means of maintaining relationships between people more diverse. More young people are willing to stay at home for the New Year, send a Weibo or WeChat circle of friends, in addition to text, you can also attach ** to increase the sense of immediacy, or record a voice blessing in person. Through the virtual platform of the Internet, it is easy to express yourself and connect with feelings.

Fourth, the most literary: write a letter to greet the New Year.

Compared with the trendy "micro" New Year's greetings, some people choose to return to the previous way of writing letters and New Year's greetings, and write full of blessings and expectations for the coming year on the letterhead.

When did Chinese New Year's greeting customs begin?

The first day of the new year worships the family; Beginning.

2. On the third day of the first month, I visited my mother's uncle, uncle, father-in-law, etc., until the 16th. This custom was popular as early as the Song Dynasty. The elder Meng of the Song Dynasty described the Bianjing Shiyun of the Northern Song Dynasty in the sixth volume of "Tokyo Menghualu":

On the first day of October, Kaifeng Mansion released the customs for three days, and the Shishu congratulated each other since the morning. "In the Qing Dynasty, the New Year's greeting etiquette was sublimated.

Gu Tieqing of the Qing Dynasty described in "Qing Jialu", "Men and women worship their parents for the second time, and the master is humble and young, and he goes out to his neighbors and friends, or stops sending his children to congratulate him, which is called 'New Year's greeting'." Until there are those who do not meet at the end of the year, they also worship each other at the ...... of the door.

Generally speaking, it is enough to pay New Year's greetings among the generations.

First of all, worship the elders of the family. On the morning of the first day of the new year, after the younger generation gets up, they should first greet the elders. Of course, after the elders are worshipped, they will definitely distribute the "New Year's money" prepared in advance to the younger generations.

What should not be forgotten is to pay New Year's greetings to the elders of the neighbors. There is an old Chinese saying: distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors.

Therefore, the New Year's greetings to the neighbor elders are second only to the elders, and generally speaking, the neighbor elders will also give "New Year's money".

The second is to go to relatives to pay New Year's greetings. The first or second year of junior high school must go to the house of the father-in-law and mother-in-law, and must bring congratulatory gifts. After entering the door, you have to bow to the Buddha statue, ancestor image, and tablet three times, and then bow down to the elders in turn.

Then came the ceremonial New Year's greetings. If you give a friend a New Year's greeting, as soon as you enter the house, you only bow to the Buddha statue three times, if you are the same as the master, you only need to bow your hand, if you are older than yourself, you should still take the initiative to bow down, the host should step down from the seat to do a support, and even say that you are exempt from courtesy to show humility. Under normal circumstances, it is not advisable to sit for a long time, and you should leave after the polite words.

After the master has been worshipped, he should also return to worship on a certain day.

There are many ways to greet the New Year, such as texting, sending greeting cards, etiquette** and telegrams, all of which are a new form of New Year's greetings. When you send a greeting card, you will also send your own business card at the same time.