Is your door closed on Chinese New Year s Eve? What are the customs in the countryside?

Let's first understand the history of Chinese New Year's Eve, and naturally understand the importance of Chinese New Year's Eve.

The meaning of Chinese New Year's Eve is to remove, and Chinese New Year's Eve is the end of the year. Chinese New Year's Eve is a festival ** in the pre-Qin to dispel the plague and get rid of unfortunate customs, so it was also called "expulsion" in the pre-Qin period.

In the "Tokyo Fu" by Zhang Heng, a scientist and writer in the Eastern Han Dynasty, there is: "Er Nai died at the age of Dada, drove away the crowd, Fang Xiang Bingyue, and witches manipulated." The death year here is what we call Chinese New Year's Eve today, that is to say, Chinese New Year's Eve was originally a festival for us to celebrate and exorcise evil spirits, and this custom continues to this day.

The reason why we want to get rid of the unknown at the end of the year is contained in the "Book of Rites and the Order of the Month", which is: "In the month of spring, the fate of the country is difficult (Yinna, the same below), and the nine gates are crowded with the spring qi. In the mid-autumn month, it is difficult for the Son of Heaven to reach the autumn atmosphere.

In the month of winter, there is a great difficulty in life. Here Xingyang restores the intention of the ancestors according to the annotations of later generations.

Ancient China was an agricultural country, and the most important thing in an agricultural country is the time of heaven! If the seedlings are planted in the spring and then there is a cold spring, there will be no good harvest this year, so the cold often means plague and famine! Therefore, the ancients had a saying that "Ji Chun is only difficult for the country".

The ancients used metaphysics to explain the inverted spring cold, believing that this is the reason why the yin qi is not exhausted! And Yang is the statue of the king, that is, the Son of Heaven represents masculinity, so Jiu removes Yin in the palace of the Son of Heaven, hoping that there will be no spring plague and inverted spring cold this year.

Don't underestimate metaphysics, although the nouns used here are different from science, it is true that plagues are prone to occur in spring, and in ancient times, some people used metaphysical means to accurately pass the spring cold.

That is to say, in the eyes of our ancestors, Chinese New Year's Eve was supposed to drive away the yin qi, drive away the disease, and drive away all misfortune! A year of cultivating and cultivating blessings and cultivating merit. Therefore, although China is big, these three taboos exist almost everywhere, and I will introduce them to you below.

1. Don't say anything unlucky! Even if you encounter something that you think is unlucky on this day, you have to think about it! At best. Let yourself be in a good mood when you say goodbye to the old and welcome the new.

2. It is taboo to say all frustrating words, and the old custom thinks that you must have a good mood these days, otherwise it will affect your luck in the coming year.

3. It is taboo to beat and scold children. Tong Yan Wuji, the two words just said that the child inadvertently said that it was okay, the parents reminded one or two, and the most taboo to beat and scold the child in the New Year! Especially hitting the head of the child.

In the old days, on Chinese New Year's Eve, there were many ancestors to worship, and the ancestors and ancestors should be invited to join the New Year! Those who intend to worship their ancestors can let the elderly in the family preside, and if there is no elderly in the family, they can ask their neighboring relatives to do it according to local customs.

The gate is not closed, and the courtyard is kept bright, so that it is convenient for many people to visit the door, and at night it is not allowed to spill water on the ground, otherwise it will collide with the gods. Of course, this is also feudal superstition, and everyone can do it according to the actual situation.

On Chinese New Year's Eve, the door of our house was also closed, for fear that thieves would run in. The custom here is not to turn off the lights, and then the family will watch the New Year together, and there will be firecrackers at 12 o'clock.

Guan, on Chinese New Year's Eve, to build a prosperous fire, meaning the coming year's red fire, but also around the fire three times, to get the joy of the fire, the first day of the new year to welcome the god and bring it home, meaning a year of happiness, happiness, family harmony.

On Chinese New Year's Eve in the countryside, all the doors in the house must be closed.

The folk have long had the custom of keeping vigil on Chinese New Year's Eve, which refers to the fact that people keep the lights on Chinese New Year's Eve all night, and keeping the New Year is called "lighting the lamp", that is, lighting lamps and candles all over the Chinese New Year's Eve, and it is said that after this illumination, the wealth of the family will be enriched in the coming year. Keeping the New Year also refers to a family reunion on Chinese New Year's Eve, staying up late to welcome the arrival of the Yellow New Year.

In ancient times, "keeping the year" had two coarse meanings: the elderly kept the year to say goodbye to the old year, and cherished the meaning of time; Young people observe the age of their parents to prolong their parents' lives. On Chinese New Year's Eve, the whole family gathers for a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, lights candles or oil lamps, sits around the fireside and chats, waiting for the time to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new.

The all-night vigil symbolizes the exorcism of all evil plagues and diseases, and looks forward to the auspicious new year.

Notes:

Entertainment in moderation. Spring Festival movies and television programs are colorful, Chinese New Year's Eve, relatives and friends gather to keep the year, play cards and mahjong to be happy, which often breaks the law of life usually established by the elderly, is not good for physical health, if the entertainment of all-night entertainment is more harmful, often makes the cerebral cortex overexcited, causing insomnia, mental tension, blood pressure rises, it is recommended that the elderly do not break the law of the biological clock, sleep and rest on time as well.

Emotionally stable. There are many happy events during the Spring Festival, such as relatives and friends gathering for a long time to celebrate the New Year, and the laughter of TV programs can easily make people excited, with rapid heartbeat, accelerated blood flow, spasm of small arterioles, and rising blood pressure, resulting in cerebral hemorrhage, angina pectoris or myocardial infarction. Therefore, the elderly must control their emotions.

Drink alcohol in moderation. When relatives and friends get together, drink wine, beer, rice wine, or low-alcohol liquor, which can help the fun, increase the festive atmosphere, and promote blood circulation, which is beneficial to the elderly. However, too much is not good for the stomach, liver, heart, kidneys and nervous system, and is more harmful to the elderly who originally suffered from blood pressure, heart, liver and kidney diseases.

Keeping the New Year is a custom of the Han people on Chinese New Year's Eve, also known as Zhao waste, staying up for the year, and staying up late. It refers to the family reunion on New Year's Eve and staying up late to welcome the arrival of the Lunar New Year.

Keeping the New Year, that is, staying up late on the last night of the old year without sleeping, to welcome the arrival of the new year, also called Chinese New Year's Eve to celebrate the New Year, common name"Stay up"。In ancient times, there were two meanings of keeping the year: the elderly kept the year"Say goodbye to the old years", which has the meaning of cherishing time; Young people observe the age of their parents to prolong their parents' lives.

Since the Han Dynasty, the time of alternation between the old and the new year is generally in the middle of the night. On the night of Chinese New Year's Eve, men, women and children of all ages gather together to celebrate the New Year. Therefore, keeping the New Year is one of the customs of the Spring Festival.

It was recorded in the Western Jin Dynasty as early as Chachong, and the people lit candles.

or oil lamps, an all-night vigil. In Japan, Vietnam, Thailand and other Southeast Asian countries, under the influence of China, there is a saying that Chinese New Year's Eve is observed.

Keeping the New Year is a Chinese folk custom on Chinese New Year's Eve. The folk custom of keeping the New Year is expressed as the lights that are not extinguished all night on Chinese New Year's Eve. On Chinese New Year's Eve, the lights are bright, and the lights are lit all over the place, and it is said that after this illumination, the family will be rich and the population will be safe in the coming year.

On Chinese New Year's Eve, the family gathers together, laughs and congratulates each other, filled with joy, happiness and peace, and everything will go smoothly and be healthy in the coming year. In the days of two years old overnight and two years old, staying up late to wait for the dawn is called keeping the New Year.

In modern times, I believe that many families are a family reunion, ** colorful "Spring Festival Gala", young people or in the square, restaurants or various nightclubs, TV screens without exception ** to celebrate the New Year's program, people review the achievements and shortcomings of the past year, looking forward to the upcoming grand plan. There are smiling faces and laughter everywhere.

The time of the countdown to the year is coming, and everyone counts down in unison; “…Six, five, four, three, two, one, "The bell rings to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new, and people cheer, toast and bless each other; I look forward to good health, successful career, happy family, and good luck in this new year.

The meaning of the ancient people's New Year's celebration and today's people's New Year's celebration has not changed in the slightest, and they are all full of expectations for the future at the moment of saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new. The progress of society and the progress of science and technology enable the descendants of the Chinese Yan and Huang people around the world to keep the New Year and welcome the arrival of the new year at the same time. Watching the sea and listening to the waves, I wish Toutiao better and better, go further, and wish all friends in Toutiao good health and laughter in the coming year.

Keep the year, keep it for a year, go back for a year, and think about it. A year has passed, and it is a night. Complement each other's strengths and weaknesses, and embrace new ideas, new plans, new actions, and new scenarios.

With the advent of the new era, I don't know if you feel that our New Year's flavor is getting weaker and weaker, and keeping the New Year, as a major custom of the Spring Festival, can help us re-appreciate the fun of the Spring Festival, and at the same time inherit and carry forward the Chinese culture.

After eating, you can't say that you won't eat, you have to say too much and other auspicious words. Eat bones, fish bones, etc., should not be thrown on the ground, but should be placed on the table. You can't go to bed early, and you must keep the New Year until after 12 o'clock in the morning.

Waste water and garbage should not be poured out of the house, nor can they be littered, and should be stored in a certain place at home. At the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, it is necessary to wait for the elders to move the chopsticks first, and the juniors can move the chopsticks, and avoid the chopsticks not falling to the ground and breaking the utensils.

The implication of this is very deep, because it symbolizes peace, health, happiness and happiness, and it also symbolizes that the coming year will be very smooth. Therefore, many families will keep the New Year on Chinese New Year's Eve, and when observing the New Year, the youngest one generally keeps the New Year.

On the night of Chinese New Year's Eve, you need to turn on the lights at home, and the lanterns outside are hung high, which means that the lights are not extinguished, the incense is passed on forever, and the family is together until the dawn of the Spring Festival.

Of course, there is a particular point in our case, the lights must be kept out all night, and the floor cannot be swept, the cabinet cannot be opened, and the morning bed cannot be laid, and it must be kept until about 1 a.m. before you can sleep.

The Chinese New Year's Eve vigil is a custom to go bad luck and ask for good luck in the coming year, so on the night of Chinese New Year's Eve, eat a good meal, let go of the pressure and emotions of the year, and enjoy the time with your family, after all, the Spring Festival holiday is limited now, and every day is very precious, so in addition to eating and drinking, you must also be fully prepared for the next year, maintain a good spirit, and face the challenges of the next year.

The taboos of the Chinese New Year's Eve vigil are: taboo to say all unlucky words, taboo to say all discouraged words, taboo to beat and scold children, especially to hit children on the head.

The first is not to say bad words, the second is not to break utensils, and the third is to worship the ancestors before eating Chinese New Year's Eve.

Chinese New Year's Eve is to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new, but also people's hope for a better new year, Chinese New Year's Eve is a traditional custom, on this day there are also many taboos, such as not to say unlucky words, not to break things, not to go to bed too early, etc.

To avoid mouth, some disobedient words can not be said, very unsatisfactory.

Let's first read a poem "Shou Sui" by the great poet Su Shi of the Song Dynasty: ".Children are strong and do not eat, and they should be happy when they stay together. Don't crow in the morning, but even more fearful.

This poem is easy to understand and aims to encourage yourself to cherish time as gold. The author uses the image of the snake molting to metaphor that time cannot be left, implying that we must seize the time to do things from beginning to end, so as not to exceed half of the time, although it is difficult to make up for things even if we are diligent. Efforts should start today, and don't let ambitions go down the drain.

However, we also observe the New Year for the same reason. In ancient times, there were two meanings of keeping the New Year: the elderly kept the New Year as "saying goodbye to the old year", which meant cherishing time; Young people keep the age of their parents in order to prolong the life expectancy of their parents.

Since the Han Dynasty, the time of alternation between the old and the new year is generally in the middle of the night. People all over the world are looking forward to the arrival of the New Year. The custom of keeping the New Year not only has the feeling of regret and nostalgia for the passing years, but also has the meaning of placing good hopes on the coming New Year.

Do you want to say exquisite? Since it's a year of observance, you have to be able to keep it. Keeping the year is also called "staying up for the year".

The New Year's celebration begins with eating Chinese New Year's Eve meal, and this Chinese New Year's Eve meal should be eaten slowly, and the family will be reunited and gathered together. The whole family sat around, and the table was filled with refreshments and fruits. In the New Year, Apple is indispensable, which is called "peace and security".

In the north, a meal cooked before the year is to be offered for the New Year, which is called "every other year's meal", which means that there is leftover food every year, and it cannot be eaten all year round, and the grain of the previous year is still eaten. This pot of rice and millet is generally mixed with rice and millet to cook, and the Beijing saying is called "two rice rice", which is called "gold and silver rice" in order to have yellow and white, which is called "gold and silver rice" with "gold and silver, and a pot full of gold and silver". There are also many places to prepare pastries and fruits for the New Year, Tujili's lip gloss such as:

Eat dates (spring comes early), eat persimmons (everything goes well), eat almonds (happy people), eat longevity fruit (immortality), eat rice cakes (higher and higher year by year). On Chinese New Year's Eve, the whole family is happy while eating, talking and laughing. This custom gradually prevailed later, and by the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin, Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, wrote the poem "Shou Sui":

The cold leaves the winter snow, and the warmth brings the spring breeze". To this day, it is customary to celebrate the New Year on Chinese New Year's Eve.

The Spring Festival food customs of the Han nationality generally eat rice cakes, dumplings, glutinous rice cakes, glutinous rice balls, poached eggs, and big meat.

9. Whole fish, fine wine, oranges, apples, peanuts, melon seeds, candies, teas and delicacies; And accompanied by dusting, washing bedding, preparing New Year's goods, pasting Spring Festival couplets, pasting New Year's paintings, pasting paper-cutting, pasting blessing characters, lighting candles, lighting fires, setting off firecrackers, keeping the New Year, giving New Year's money, New Year's greetings, and visiting relatives

There are many activities such as going to the ancestral tomb, visiting the flower market, and making a social fire, which is extremely fun. For example, the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner is particularly particular: first, the whole family must gather, and those who do not return for some reason must leave a seat and a ** to reflect the meaning of reunion; The second is that the meal is abundant, attaches importance to "lip color", and calls the rice cake "backgammon", the dumplings "Wan Wanshun", the wine "Changliushui", the egg "big ingot", and the goldfish "more than every year"; This fish is not allowed to be eaten, it is called "Kanyu", and it must be left for the first day of the new year to eat In the areas where there is no fish in the north, most of them are replaced by carved wooden fish; The third is that the seats are orderly, and most of them are ancestors.

The grandchildren are in the middle, the fathers are in the bottom, and all men and women, young and old, all drink alcohol. When eating, the door is closed, and the excitement stops.