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Anonymous users2024-02-11Looking back on the past, history has left us too many thoughts and mysteries, and this "etiquette of the year" is one of them. For example, the Spring Festival custom has become the largest traditional folk festival in China. The Spring Festival was generally valued in the ancient capital, and a complete set of Spring Festival customs was formed.
The first day of the first month of the lunar calendar is the Spring Festival, commonly known as the "New Year". The Spring Festival originally originated from the worship of gods and ancestors at the beginning and end of the Yin Shang period. The ancient Spring Festival called:
New Year's Day", "New Year's Day". After the Xinhai Revolution, the first day of the first lunar month was officially named the Spring Festival.
As far as the Beijing area is concerned, from the eighth month of the lunar month, every household wants to soak Laba vinegar (garlic), and it begins to have a "New Year's flavor". The folk song says: "Don't be upset, old lady, after Laba is the New Year."
Laba porridge, how many days to drink? Twenty-three ......The twenty-third day of the lunar month is also known as the "small year". There is a ballad that says:
Sugar melon sacrifice stove, the New Year is coming, the girl wants to flower, and the boy wants to ......From this day on, Beijing people are even busier, to sacrifice stoves, sweep houses, steam steamed buns, buy New Year's goods, paste the word "Fu", paste New Year's paintings, cut window flowers, and paste couplets. Sticking to the door god, sticking money, busy until Chinese New Year's Eve, began to celebrate the New Year.
Beijingers always put "Fu" upside down on the door, wardrobe, and water tank, implying that the blessing has arrived. There are also many particulars about pasting spring couplets, ordinary people paste red spring couplets at home, paste "horizontal batches" on the lintel, and the inner court and the prince's mansion are all inlaid with red edges with white rice paper; Those who keep the rules (those who have lost their fathers and mothers) should use blue paper; Temples are made of yellow paper. Spring Festival couplets first began in Houshu in the fifth dynasty.
It is said that the prince of Shu wrote on the door of the palace that year, "The sky hangs Yuqing, and the ground is connected to Changchun." Eight big characters, this is the earliest Spring Festival couplets in China. Beijingers put on spring strips such as "look up and see joy" in the inner courtyard of the house, "go out to see joy" outside the house, and "shine in the whole courtyard" in the courtyard.
In the past, most old Beijing homes had Buddhist shrines or statues of gods, and by the Chinese New Year's Eve, the most elaborate ones were to put up nine large offerings; There are honey offerings, cakes and fresh cakes, fruits, dried fruits, eight pieces of flower cakes, rice cakes, vegetarian dumplings (or steamed food), vegetarian stir-fried vegetables (or fried food). Those from poor families should also place three or five offerings. Beijingers talk about eating, drinking, and having fun during the Chinese New Year, focusing on eating.
These offerings are actually made for people as well.
The Chinese New Year's Eve dinner (also known as the reunion dinner) on the night of Chinese New Year's Eve is essential and the sumptuous dinner of the year. The New Year's Eve dinner on Chinese New Year's Eve should be served with meat and vegetarian dishes. There are cold meats, bulky dishes, and light dishes.
Cold meat includes cold stewed pork, mutton, cold stewed chicken, and duck. The large items are: braised pork, button meat, rice noodle meat, red and white meatballs, and Sixi meatballs.
Qingkou dishes are generally tofu, green vegetables, and Luo.
10. Pickled bergamot, etc. The staple food is mostly meat and vegetarian sleep.
Beijingers eat dumplings on Chinese New Year's Eve and the first day of the first lunar month, taking it as "the righteousness of changing the age and making children". The dumplings are always wrapped in the shape of ingots, and sugar, copper coins, peanuts, dates, chestnuts, etc. are put into the dumplings. If you eat sugar, it means that your life will be sweet in the future; Eating copper coins means having money to spend; Eating peanuts means longevity, because peanuts are also known as longevity fruits, and eating dates and chestnuts means early ......
The customs of the Spring Festival in Beijing are so interesting!
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