The custom of eating during the New Year, why is there such a custom?

I have read an article before, saying that there was a beast called "Nian" in the past, and it came out to hunt at night, and it could be eaten regardless of whether it flew in the sky or ran on the ground, and people were the 365th kind of living creatures that he ate, and people in order to escape the disaster, the 365th day came, and people bought all the things to be prepared early and put them at home, and closed the door at night, and a large family gathered together, eating a disturbing meal, because everyone did not know life and death, and when the zero hour passed, the "year" did not find a living person and left disappointed, People happily set off firecrackers to celebrate!!

Happy New Year's Day! Make a good wish, I wish you happiness! Make a wonderful wish and wish you a successful career! Make a beautiful wish, I wish you sweet love!

May my blessings be like wind chimes that are high and low, bringing you the joy of tinkling bells! *On the occasion of the New Year, I would like to send you my sincere wishes for a healthier, happier and happier coming year.

Happy New Year to you! The career is smooth, the work is smooth, and the love is sweet! The body has endless strength, and the wealth is abundant! The body is great, the food is fragrant, the teeth are good, the appetite is good, everything is happy, everything goes well!

Snowflakes are flying, ushering in the New Year, let the long-lost hearts gather, I deeply wish you: Happy New Year! May my blessings melt the cold winter and warm your heart!

I wish you a lot of wealth and hair like a fat pig; The body is great, strong as a bear; Love is sweet and beautiful like a bee; Good luck is abundant, like cow's hair; The career is steaming, and the more you fly, the higher and higher like the Roc.

At this moment, I miss it the most. Let the clouds carry the blessings from the heart, embellish your sweet dreams, and wish you a happy and happy New Year!

Eat dumplings, at the end of the year and the beginning of the year, when you "make friends", so you eat dumplings.

Shoot on the night of the Chinese New Year's Eve!! Because legend has it that there is a monster called Nian.

Artillery is to drive it away.

The whole family is to come together.

This is because there was a strange "year" in ancient times, and everyone had to gather together to fight it.

First of all, I have to worship my ancestors.

There is a saying in our hometown: if you have money or not, buy a pig's head for the New Year.

1. Chinese New Year's Eve eat Chinese New Year's Eve meals, and there is an indispensable fish on the dining table of every family, and the fish "Yu" has the same sound, and there is "version Yu" every year, which is auspicious.

Right, a festive picture.

2. Cantonese people attach great importance to the "reunion dinner" on Chinese New Year's Eve, in addition to family reunion and family happiness, they also pray for the safety of the family, and people who work outside are rushing back to celebrate the New Year.

3. Henan people are indispensable dumplings for Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, and every Chinese New Year's Eve, starting from the morning, every household begins to chop stuffing and roll skins. According to the number of people in the family, the dumplings made on this day are not only to be eaten on the same day, but also include the morning of the first day of the new year, and even the morning of the fifth day of the new year in some places.

4. Tujia Chinese New Year's Eve rice, buckle meat, fill sea pepper is indispensable, after the Tujia family has eaten Chinese New Year's Eve meal, each family will light a firewood, everyone sits around to listen to the old man tell the story, keep the year until dawn, called "Shoutian ridge", in order to express the love for the field.

5. In Taiwan, after eating Chinese New Year's Eve, the elderly should give the younger ones "New Year's money", and then the whole family sits around the fireside, talking and laughing, and staying up all night, which is called "keeping the New Year".

1. Chinese New Year's Eve.

Rice eats fish bai

Fish is the most common food on the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner table in all parts of the motherland, and it is an indispensable ingredient, because its allegorical meaning is auspicious, meaning "there is more than every year", which means that there is surplus money and surplus grain in the new year, and everything is very rich. Everyone has to eat the fish on the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, and there is a good fortune every year.

2. Eat rice balls for Chinese New Year's Eve.

Lantern Festival, also known as tangyuan, is more common in the south. It is made of glutinous rice kneaded into a round shape (different flavors of filling can be added to it), and then put it into a pot to cook, meaning reunion.

3. Eat sweets for Chinese New Year's Eve.

Sweets often appear as the last dish of the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, wishing the future days to be sweet.

4. Eat dumplings for Chinese New Year's Eve.

Dumplings are one of the traditional foods in our country. It is also known as flat food or boiled dumplings. In ancient times, there were only wontons and no dumplings.

Later, the wontons were made into a crescent moon shape to become dumplings. In the Tang Dynasty, the habit of eating dumplings has spread to the remote areas of China. On Chinese New Year's Eve, as soon as the bell strikes twelve o'clock, dumplings are eaten, so the time is the time of the child, taking its alternation of the old and the new, and the meaning of the arrival of the child.

Chinese New Year's Eve dinner bai

Also called "reunion du rice" and "family carnival", it is the last meal of the year, the whole family sits together for a dinner and resigns from the old year. The complexity of the dishes for the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner is determined by the economic conditions of the family, but there are still relatively fixed sets and roads, such as sitting according to the elders and children, not saying unlucky words, not beating and scolding children, and so on.

It is worth mentioning that there is no fish on the table of the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, there is "fish" every year, there is "surplus" every year, and the picture is auspicious and festive.

In addition, there are some differences in the process and speed of eating, such as toasting the elderly and congratulating the whole family. This meal is the longest meal of the year, and the purpose is to reduce the boring waiting time for the New Year, so it is deliberately extended. With the development of the times and the improvement of people's material living standards, the Chinese New Year's Eve meal has long gone beyond the scope of "eating", but lies in the warmth and care between people.

The Chinese New Year's Eve dinner is both nostalgic for the old year that is about to pass away, and hopeful for the coming New Year.

Chinese New Year's Eve dinner is also called"Reunion dinner""Family-friendly"It is the last meal of the year, and the whole family sits around for dinner to say goodbye to the old year. On the last day of the end of the Lunar New Year, collectively referred to as it"Chinese New Year's Eve".

Over thirty years old, they pay attention to wearing new clothes and hats, men tidy up their appearance, women dress up, and do a solemn event together: worship ancestors. Folk called"Hanging shadows","Shadow"It is a thick piece of paper on which the names of the deceased ancestors are written according to generation"Shadow"It's bought for money, but you can't say you buy it, you have to call it"Please";"Shadow"It has to be hung on the north side of the main house for the whole family to burn incense and worship; You have to be the eldest son and the eldest grandson to be eligible"Please shadow"with"Hanging shadows";"Hanging shadows"The whole family must have a solemn expression and must not speak at will, so as not to offend the ancestors.

Although the New Year's dinner was prepared a few days ago, the meals for the thirties must be freshly made on the same day, and the dumplings for the first day of the new year must also be prepared on this day. At first, the rule in Tianjin was to eat a sumptuous New Year's lunch at noon in the thirties, and only eat dumplings without food at night, but later changed to eating Chinese New Year's Eve dinner at night, making dumplings in the second half of the night, and eating dumplings again and again in the first year. Tianjin people pay attention to family affection, after the Chinese New Year's Eve palm lamp, the family sits together and begins to have a reunion dinner, and no outsiders can appear during the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner"Don't (foreign surname) people", this outsider even includes a daughter who has married and changed her husband's surname.

The Chinese New Year's Eve dinner pays attention to the longer you eat, the more auspicious, the whole fish and whole chicken on the table are indispensable, and you can't eat them all at once, you have to deliberately leave some for the next year, in order to"Ji (chicken) Qing Yu (fish).".After the rice is steamed, you have to put out a bowl first, sprinkle with red dates, and insert a big red pomegranate flower for the offering, and the whole family will eat it on the first day of the new year, because the legend is that eating the rice is blessed. On Chinese New Year's Eve, newlyweds and childless couples have to use chopsticks to pick rice dumplings to eat, in order to"Fast seeds".

After the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, the whole family chats, or plays cards, or spends the night, and no one is allowed to sleep"Stay up late".

Why does the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner have to be so rich? Of course, because the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner is a New Year's Eve meal, and the family all comes home from all directions to reunite and return to a meal, and it contains different meanings.

The Chinese New Year's Eve dinner can be said to be the most important meal of the year to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new, and it is also the meal with the largest number of people and the most complete number of people in almost every household in a year. If there is less dinner on Chinese New Year's Eve, there will be not enough to eat, because everyone rarely gets together, and they must chat while eating, often a few hours have passed, and if there is less food, it will be very embarrassing. And we pay attention to the New Year, everything must have a surplus, Chinese New Year's Eve dinner is a year of farewell to the old and welcome the new, it must also be a little leftover.

Therefore, the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner should be a little richer. What do you think?

The meal should be hearty, and you should not do unlucky things, such as beating and scolding children, disrespecting the old and loving the young, ......

Stay up for the year, paste the Spring Festival couplets and door gods, sweep the dust, paste the window flowers and paste the word "Fu" upside down, paste the New Year's paintings, set off firecrackers, and pay New Year's greetings.

The customs of eating Chinese New Year's Eve dinner are also different in different regions, such as some places in Hebei where the dumplings of Chinese New Year's Eve dinner are eaten on the morning of the first day of the new year.

The Spring Festival is one of the most important festivals of the Chinese nation, and the people of all dynasties have attached great importance to the Spring Festival, so with the changes of the times, many folk customs of the Spring Festival have also been derived. However, with the continuous development of people's understanding of the natural world and the continuous progress of science and technology, some folk customs have become incompatible with the times. Spring Festival folk customs should be carried out and developed in inheritance, abandonment and innovation.

Outdated feudal folk customs should be discarded. First of all, we must abandon the old rule that "married daughters cannot go back to their parents' homes for the New Year and sacrifice and sweep". Now the post-80s generation is an only child, and they have all started a family, if the daughter is not allowed to go back to her parents' house for the New Year and sacrifice sweeping, then in the future, the family that raises the daughter will only have the two elders at home to celebrate the New Year, and there will be no descendants to sacrifice and sweep after death.

Second, we should abandon the old customs of not sweeping the floor (sweeping away the wealth), not cutting the hair ("shaving your head in the first month, the dead uncle"), not washing your hair (washing away the joy), not taking out the garbage (pouring out your own wealth), not eating noodles (you will be long-winded if you are a year late), and so on. Third, we must abandon the old concept that only when we return home in the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve can we go home for the New Year. Because people are working in different positions, and each post needs to be manned on the Chinese New Year's Eve, as long as they return home during the Spring Festival, they should be regarded as going home for the New Year, and parents and families should not complain.

Fourth, it is necessary to abandon the old custom of "preparing for the New Year's dinner and eating it for a year and a half". In the past, in order to show the family's prosperity and wealth, the old custom of Chinese New Year's Eve meals was that there was a large amount of leftover rice, and the more dishes the better, which not only caused a lot of waste, but also sometimes caused intestinal diseases, so this concept should also be abandoned. New Year's customs should keep pace with the times and be innovative.

First of all, it is necessary to allow the daughter to go back to her parents' home for the New Year, or to celebrate the New Year together with the two families who have a marriage relationship, so as to avoid the parents of the daughter from feeling lonely, and to enhance the relationship between the two parties and increase the festive atmosphere. Second, it is to sacrifice and sweep away incense, candles, paper money, and fireworks, but instead offer flowers, place offerings, weeding and cultivating soil, and other memorials. Third, you can not pay New Year's money or pay less money, which is conducive to the healthy growth of children's psychology and can also reduce the burden on adults.

Fourth, the Spring Festival is a good time to plant trees in the south, you can change the Bodhisattva who respects the land to plant trees, and each person plants a tree every year to keep a commemoration, which not only greens the hometown, but also improves the environment. Folk customs are a direct reflection of the national spirit and national quality, and I hope that everyone will carry forward the fine traditions of the Chinese nation in the Spring Festival folk customs in the inheritance, abandonment and innovation!