During the Chinese New Year, many things are red, so what s the point about that?

Mainly because red represents festivity, and red also represents auspiciousness, happiness, reunion, and joy, so most things are red. This is also our custom.

The emphasis is on red to represent health, joy, contentment, happiness and auspiciousness, because the New Year is an auspicious thing, so red should be used.

Exorcism, auspiciousness. Since ancient times, red has represented warding off evil spirits, and in festivals, wearing red can keep you safe. The red color is brighter, which means auspiciousness and represents good fortune.

Mainly because in traditional Chinese culture, red represents festivity and liveliness, so the main color of the New Year is red.

First of all, because the white color represents festivity and liveliness in the conservative and barbaric middle, the main color of the New Year is white.

Red wards off evil spirits, red is auspicious.

The Han people regard red as a symbol of joy, success, loyalty and justice, and especially believe that red has the effect of warding off evil spirits and protecting oneself.

There is also a small allusion to the red decoration: there is a monster called Nian in the legend, which eats people, and people are very afraid of it, and later was captured by the Jade Emperor and imprisoned in the sky, so Nian hated humans very much, but it did not show it.

Later, the Jade Emperor saw that he was very pitiful, so he agreed to let him go down to the earth every year on the night of Chinese New Year's Eve to find food. When it came to Chinese New Year's Eve, people found that the year was very afraid of red and afraid of ** sound.

Then people thought that red was an auspicious color, and since then, every year on Chinese New Year's Eve, people have to make couplets, and the window flowers are all red.

Festive and auspicious is one of the main meanings of cinnabar, cinnabar is a bright red appearance of ore, and red has always been a symbol of auspiciousness and festivity in China's traditional culture, so many people in our country wear red objects during the New Year's holidays.

Cinnabar, also known as ghost fairy cinnabar, dansha, red dan, mercury sand, is a mercury sulfide (HGS) mineral called this crack. Contains mercury, which is the most important mineral raw material for mercury refining; Its crystals can be used as an important material for laser technology. Ancient China used it as an important raw material for alchemy.

In the past, it was named for the best quality produced in Chenzhou (now Yuanling, Hunan and other places).

Authenticity identification:

The natural ghost fairy cinnabar is a granular or lumpy aggregate, which is a block or fine granules of different sizes. The surface of the block and the closed one is dark red, the surface of the small flake or granular one is bright red, the irregular flakes are bright red and bright, bright as a mirror, and the hand is not stained by touch, with diamond luster, translucent. Brittleness, hardness, specific gravity, streaks vermilion to maroon.

Synthetic cinnabar is purple and sail red, irregular lumps or vermilion, granular and powdery. Insoluble in strong acids, soluble in sodium sulfide and aqua regia.

**Physical and chemical identification of cinnabar:

It is heated in a closed test tube to become a black vulcanizing pump; When sodium carbonate is added for coheating, it becomes a metal mercury ball.

It is burned in an open pipe to produce sulphur dioxide gas and metallic mercury balls.

After the fine powder is soaked with hydrochloric acid, the smooth copper sheet is rubbed on it, and the surface of the copper sheet is silvery-white.

Speaking of red decorations, there is a small allusion.

Because there is a monster called Nian in the legend, who came down to eat people, made people panic, and was caught by the Jade Emperor in the heavenly prison, and since then he has hated humans very much, and later the Jade Emperor saw that he was pitiful and allowed him to go down to the earth every year on the night of Chinese New Year's Eve to look for food. Human beings have figured out a way to deal with the year, the year is afraid of red, afraid of the sound of **, because red is an auspicious color, so in the future at this time of year, people have to make something delicious, couplets and window flowers. Lantern. The word Fu is all in red.

Festive, auspicious, prosperous, prosperous, especially Chinese red, is a unique color representative of China. It also has the meaning of warding off evil spirits, especially for people born in the natal year.

Because red is the color of the sun, red is warm, symbolizing a prosperous year. Red is a symbol of festivity, success and bravery.

Red is the main color of China, we will often see the window flowers, couplets, lanterns during the New Year are red, red is also full of positive enthusiasm, and the yearning for a better life in the new year, this is the infectious color.

Red is warm, the New Year is in the cold winter, in the shivering days more need is warm tones, red is the ultimate warm color. Red looks like it gives people a very fiery feeling, symbolizing that they are prosperous in the new year and their fortune is rolling in.

Legend has it that there was once a monster called "Nian" in Zhaosheng, and every Chinese New Year's Eve, "Nian" would go down the mountain to make trouble, and this "Nian" was the most afraid of red, so there was a custom of people wearing red uniformly during the New Year. When we grow up, we no longer believe in the story of the Nian Beast, but red is still a festive and positive color in the hearts of Chinese.

New Year's greeting customs

On this day, people wake up early, put on their most beautiful clothes, and dress up neatly. The younger generation gets up early in the morning and first kowtows to the elders in the family, wishing them health and longevity, and then goes to the homes of relatives and friends in turn to pay New Year's greetings. After the elders are worshipped, they should distribute the New Year's money prepared in advance to the younger ones.

Relatives and friends of the same generation will also visit each other to congratulate each other on New Year's greetings.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, in addition to greeting grandfathers, grandmothers, fathers, and mothers, in rural areas, they also have to pay New Year's greetings to the elders of their own families and neighbors. In addition to the elders of your own family in the city, you can also pay New Year's greetings to the elders of classmates, neighbors, and colleagues.