Without the Spring Festival Gala and no mobile phones, how did the ancients celebrate the New Year?

When you are bored, you will also watch some through version of the costume **, in fact, the ancients were also very busy for the New Year, for example, the ancients seemed to have to buy some New Year goods, the children at home wanted to buy some new clothes and shoes, a family of old and young up and down may have to buy some food, as if there were fireworks in ancient times, generally large families will buy some fireworks, set off on Chinese New Year's Eve, the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner of the ancients is a little more cumbersome than the current people, they may stipulate how many dishes, what kind of meaning each dish has, Which dishes are indispensable for the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, so they will have a reunion dinner on Chinese New Year's Eve! After the meal, you may accompany your children to set off fireworks, and occasionally take your children to visit the temple fair, as if there are a lot of temple fairs in ancient **!

On the first day of the new year, you may need to worship your ancestors, prepare some sacrifices, and after worshipping your ancestors, there may be some gatherings between friends, and the next day you may accompany your wife back to your parents' home, so there is no mobile phone and no Spring Festival Gala, and the ancients are also very busy in the New Year!

In ancient times, people did not have televisions, mobile phones, computers, and wifi. Therefore, people in ancient times would not enjoy the so-called Spring Festival Gala of modern people, let alone know that mobile phones and the Internet brought people a huge entertainment impact.

But for the ancients, what they did not know was not envied at all. Therefore, I think that the ancients may attach more importance to reunion than our modern people during the New Year, and the greatest happiness may be when the family sits together to eat, drink, and chat.

Of course, the ancients also had more entertainment methods, for example, playing mahjong, several people will rub mahjong when they sit together and have nothing to do, it is likely that winning money is not the only purpose, the most important thing is that you can experience a happy atmosphere in the process of playing mahjong.

The ancients liked to watch the opera, so I think the ancients would go to the four gardens to join in the fun during the Chinese New Year, of course, if you have money, you may invite the troupe to your own home, and the family will sit together to watch the big play, which is probably also a particularly happy thing.

Of course, during the Chinese New Year, you can also set off firecrackers and watch fireworks, which is also a good choice. But I think the ancients attached much more importance to the Lantern Festival than the New Year, and it is shown in many literary and artistic works, I don't know what everyone thinks about this issue.

It contains the wisdom and crystallization of the Chinese culture, embodies the life pursuit and emotional sustenance of the Chinese people, and inherits the Chinese social ethics. Today, the eldest cousin will talk to you about the Spring Festival, take you back to a thousand years ago, and appreciate how people spent the Spring Festival in ancient times! Since the Han Dynasty, there has been an annual one"Spring Festival Gala"It's just that at that time, there were only acrobatic performances, most of which were fish and dragon manyan, rope walking, Tibetan illusion and other programs, and people celebrated the New Year in this form.

The Spring Festival has been held for 64 years. When it came to the Northern and Southern Dynasties, every year on the first day (Spring Festival), people would carve the shape of a chicken with wood and put it in front of their homes as a mascot to celebrate the old year, and some people would kill a chicken and hang it on the door. The following big cousin focuses on the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, how people celebrated the New Year!

Of course, firecrackers are indispensable for the Tang Dynasty people to celebrate the Spring Festival, "the new calendar will only be half a paper open, and the small courtyard chain grinding is still gathering firecracker ash", which is written about the scene of the Tang Dynasty people setting off firecrackers during the Spring Festival. In the Tang Dynasty, the Spring Festival did not have the custom of pasting Spring Festival couplets, at that time, only the two names of Shen Tu and Yu Lei were written on the peach wood board, and hung at the head of the door, called "fairy wood" or "peach symbol". As soon as the time entered the wax moon, the flavor of the New Year in the Song Dynasty market became stronger and stronger, and every household began to marinate cured meat with pork, mutton, and fish.

In snowy weather, it is necessary to "open a feast, shape snow lions, and install snow mountains, so as to meet relatives and friends, and sing in a low voice"; If it's a sunny day, "then invite friends to make friends, tour the streets at night, and watch the dance team to pre-appreciate the New Year's Eve and call friends" The people of the Song Dynasty will really open a ladder! During the period from Layue to Chinese New Year's Eve, the Song Dynasty people had two festivals to celebrate, one was the Laba Festival; The second is the twenty-fourth day of the lunar month, every household, whether rich or poor, must prepare a "vegetable food and beans" sacrificial stove, and at night, "ask the monks to read the scriptures, prepare wine and fruits to send to the gods" <>

On this day, Shishu "regardless of the size of the family, sprinkle and sweep the door, go to the dust, clean the courtyard household, change the door god, hang the clock Kui, nail the peach charm, paste the spring card, worship the ancestors, and prepare the incense flower offerings to welcome the gods at night to pray for the safety of the New Year." After eating the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, the city of the Song Dynasty ushered in the sleepless Chinese New Year's Eve, "Shishu House, sitting around the fireplace, Dadan dismantling Min sleepless, called 'keeping the year'". During the Song Dynasty, gunpowder technology has been widely used in festival celebrations, people use gunpowder to make loud cannons, bright fireworks to touch the blind, set off in the festival, the picture is lively and festive.

On Chinese New Year's Eve, inside the palace ban, the firecrackers are the loudest to celebrate with gunpowder made by themselves, and the people of the Song Dynasty really know how to play! On the day of the Lunar New Year, the imperial court will hold a grand and grand court meeting. During the Spring Festival, the three-day rent of the public rental house was waived, and the gambling ban was released for three days.

Speaking of the Yuan Dynasty, because the history is different from the characteristics of the previous dynasties, the founding emperor Kublai Khan completed the great unification, and Mongolia had it"A nation on horseback"Therefore, the New Year's customs of the people of the Yuan Dynasty also have a strong regional color due to the different regions. The situation of the Mongolian people is that they live on the Mongolian plateau, are nomadic herders, live in yurts, eat mutton and drink milk tea. The difference is in Nasuilu, at that time, because the transportation was not very developed, there was no current phenomenon of visiting relatives and friends, but family members congratulated each other.

Reunion dinner, of course. It must be eaten! Most of the capitals of the Yuandong Dynasty became a prosperous metropolis, with Dadu as the center, and the Yuan Dynasty's foreign exchanges were very frequent.

During the big festival period such as the Chinese New Year, commercial activities are very frequent. <>

Set off firecrackers and stay at the night market (after the Song Dynasty).

It is the first month, and the excitement of the New Year is not far away. I don't know what are the customs and habits of everyone for the New Year? Mr. Wang Hongli's "100 Pictures of Ancient Customs" takes us back to the distant flavor of the year.

As the New Year approaches, the seller's business is very good, selling everything from oil, brooms, needlework, comb melons, eggplant, vegetables and so on.

There is a custom of the king of the stove among the people. Three or five beggars are the first to fight as a team, pretending to be the stove man and the stove woman, each holding a bamboo branch and making noise in the courtyard to beg for money.

A year of hard work to the wax moon, every household to the rice, because the rice of the wax moon is solid, less loss when the rice is cooked.

On the 23rd or 24th day of the lunar month, sacrifice to the god of the stove.

During the sacrifice to the stove, buy caramel (i.e., gum candy, maltose) for children in order to bring good things from heaven.

Every household ** sticks Spring Festival couplets to bless the new year.

Stick to the door god, the new year, the general will be auspicious.

Chinese New Year's Eve, set off firecrackers. One or two hundred ghosts were frightened, and three or four ghosts were overturned. Ten voices even the hundred gods and the Tao of the Peace, and the eight directions are peaceful.

Hit the dung heap at dawn on Chinese New Year's Eve, but ask for everything to go as you wish.

The children and grandchildren are a year old, and the elders give the New Year's money.

During the Song Dynasty, the cockscomb flower for the ancestors swept the capital.

In ancient times, you didn't have to enter the door of the house to pay New Year's greetings, and you could send a business card to the host to send blessings.

Around the New Year, there are more marriages, and the girl's family will display the dowry before the wedding, and the wealthy family will have ten lifts.

In the Tang Dynasty, there was a custom of men worshipping women and not worshipping women, which was called the bride not kneeling.

Lantern Festival, go to all kinds of diseases and touch the door nails. Walk more to get sick. Married and infertile women touch the nails of the city gate to take the meaning of "tianding", hoping to have children in the coming year.

The lanterns on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month are still a tradition that has been preserved to this day.

On February 2nd, to welcome the rich, the ancients brought drums to the suburbs to play, leaving early and returning late.

Hit six or nine heads every spring. On the day of the beginning of spring, there is a custom of whipping spring cattle.

In March, the girls and ladies have stepped on the spring to fly paper kites (kites) and swing swings.

The girls chanted poems against each other and made fun of each other.

In the bazaar, the monkey trickster let the little monkeys perform, and the children laughed.

One of the men's pastimes, kemari, is today's playing football.

Thanks to Mr. Wang Hongli for writing down these customs and habits with drawings, some of which have been inherited and some have disappeared from memory. I really want to go back to ancient times and have a New Year without mobile phones, computers, firecrackers, and a piece of candy.