1, Pictures of a family eating New Year's Eve dinner custom.

2, Pictures of the custom of putting up Spring Festival couplets.

3, Pictures of the custom of making dumplings.

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1, eat New Year's Eve dinner custom origin:

Chinese folk in the New Year's Eve has the custom of the New Year's Eve. The New Year's Eve vigil begins with the New Year's Eve dinner, which is eaten slowly, from the time of the lantern to the table, and some people have to eat late into the night. According to the "Jing Chu Yearly Record" of the Song Security Service, the custom of having New Year's Eve dinner existed at least during the North and South Dynasties (420-589 AD).

The New Year's Eve celebration is commonly known as the "New Year's Eve". Why do you call it "boiled year"? Folk has been passed down from generation to generation such an interesting story: the ancient times, there is a fierce beast, scattered in the mountains and dense forests, people call them "year". The "year" of the hideous appearance, vicious nature, a day to change a flavor, from knocking insects have been eating to the living, let people talk about the "year" color change.

Slowly, people understand the "year" of the activities of the law, it turns out that every 365 days to the crowd of people gathered in the place to taste a mouthful of food, and the time of the infestation are in the dark, until the rooster breaks the dawn, they will return to the mountains and forests to go. Men and women regarded this terrible night as a curse, called "New Year's Eve", and came up with a whole set of "New Year's Eve" approach: every night, every family made dinner in advance, extinguish the fire and clean the stove, and then all the chicken coop and cattle pen tethered tightly, and then put the mansion's The door to the house is sealed, hiding in the house to eat "New Year's Eve dinner".

Because this dinner has the meaning of bad luck and uncertainty, so it is very rich, in addition to the whole family to eat together to express the harmony and reunion, but also in the meal before the ancestral ancestors, praying for God's ancestral spirits to bless them to spend the night in peace and security. After dinner, no one dares to go to bed, sitting together in a crowded chat.

As the sky darkens, "Nian" scurries out from the deep forests and touches the villages where people live. I saw the door of every house closed, in front of the door is still piled up sesame stalks, but the street can not see the shadow of a person. Turned half of the night of the "year" nothing, had to gnaw some sesame stalks hunger. And then some time, the cock crows dawn, these ferocious and stupid monsters have to return. Survived the "New Year's Eve" people are overjoyed, thanks to the blessing of the heavens and earth and ancestors, congratulate each other not to be "eaten by the year", but also to open the door to set off firecrackers, to go to meet with friends and relatives in the neighborhood to say goodbye.

2, the origin of the custom of the Spring Festival couplets:

Chinese New Year couplets as a unique form of literature, in China has a long history. It began in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, the Ming and Qing Dynasties were particularly prosperous, the development of today has been more than a thousand years.

Before the Qin and Han dynasties, it was the custom of the Chinese folk to hang peach symbols on the left and right sides of the main doors during the New Year. Peach talisman is made of peach wood, two large boards, on which are written the names of the legendary ghost-subduing gods "Shentian (tu)" and "Yu Shi" to drive away ghosts and suppress evil spirits. This custom continued for more than a thousand years. It was only in the Fifth Dynasty that people began to inscribe couplets on mahogany boards in place of the names of the gods and goddesses. According to historical records, the couplet inscribed on the bedroom door by Meng Chang (chang), the lord of Shu, on New Year's Eve in 964 A.D., "New Year's Day is a blessing for all, and the Jiacheng Festival is an everlasting spring festival" is the earliest springtime couplet in China.

After the Song Dynasty, it was quite common for people to hang spring couplets on New Year's Day, so Wang Anshi's poem "New Year's Day", which reads, "Thousands of doors and tens of thousands of pupils of the pupils of the day, and always change the new peaches for the old ones," is a true portrayal of the spring couplet scene at that time. Because the appearance of spring couplets and peach symbols have a close relationship, so the ancients also called spring couplets "peach symbols".

In the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, strongly advocated couplets. After he set up his capital in Jinling (now Nanjing), he ordered ministers, officials and ordinary people to write a pair of couplets on the door before New Year's Eve, and he personally went out on patrol in civilian clothes, viewing them door-to-door for fun. At that time, the literati also took the question of couplets as an elegant fun, write the spring couplets will become a social trend.

After the Qing Dynasty, Qianlong, Jiaqing, Daoguang three dynasties, couplets as prosperous as the poetry of the Tang Dynasty, a number of popular famous couplets.

With the development of cultural exchanges between countries, couplets were introduced to Vietnam, Korea, Japan, Singapore and other countries. These countries still retain the custom of posting couplets.

3, the custom of eating dumplings at the Spring Festival:

Dumplings are essential on the New Year's Eve dinner table. Especially in northern China, making and eating dumplings has become an important activity for most families to celebrate New Year's Eve. As the saying goes, "When it's cold, eat dumplings to celebrate the New Year." Chinese New Year is the grandest annual festival of the Chinese people. In order to have a good New Year, in the old days, as soon as a farming family enters the threshold of the Lunar New Year, they start to busy themselves with the New Year. From the 23rd day of the Lunar New Year, commonly known as "Xiao Nian", the countdown to the New Year begins, with colorful lanterns, sticking up couplets, and cleaning up the courtyards, in preparation for welcoming relatives from afar and celebrating the Year of Reunion. On the evening of New Year's Eve, the most important activity is to make dumplings for the whole family.

According to the literature, the custom of eating dumplings on the occasion of the Spring Festival appeared as late as the Ming Dynasty. What is particularly noteworthy is that by the Qing Dynasty, the custom had become so widespread that it had been fixed. This custom is related to the ancient Chinese timekeeping system, which used the twelve earthly branches to record the time of day. Each day is divided into twelve periods, then the beginning of each day is Zi Shi, Zi Shi is equivalent to today's midnight twenty-three to one this time, then to the end of each year, the year thirty time, then this is not only the old and the new two days of the change, but the new and the old years of the change, the Chinese people called it "cross the son".

The Chinese pay close attention to the boundaries, especially the boundaries of the old and the new, so at this time, we should engage in some rituals to pray for the good luck of the coming year, so at this time to eat dumplings, dumplings and this "Jiaozi" is exactly the same sound, and dumplings also have such a rich symbol of good luck of the cultural connotation, so Chinese The Chinese people have developed the custom of eating dumplings on the first day of the Lunar New Year, at this time of the year.