the origin of the spring festival Wu yujie

the first day of the first lunar month is the spring festival, also known as the lunar calendar (lunar calendar) year, commonly known as "Chinese new year". This is the most grand and noisy ancient traditional festival among Chinese people. It originated from the activities of offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors at the beginning and end of the Yin and Shang Dynasties. There are also many legends about the year. The ancient Spring Festival was called "January Day", "New Year's Day" and "New Year's Day". After the Revolution of 1911, the first day of the first lunar month was officially named Spring Festival.

Spring Festival, as its name implies, is a spring festival. When spring comes, Vientiane will be renewed, and a new round of sowing and harvesting season will begin again. People have enough reasons to welcome this festival by singing and dancing. So, before the festival, a New Year message with red paper and yellow characters was posted on the frontispiece. When Miss Chun comes to the door, she will read the sentence that expresses her good wishes for the new year. With this thought, good luck really comes. The same moral things include hanging red lanterns and pasting the word "Fu" and the statue of the god of wealth, etc. The word "Fu" must be pasted upside down, and passers-by read "Fu has fallen", which means "Fu has arrived". Another name for the Spring Festival is Chinese New Year. What is "year"? It is an imaginary animal that brings bad luck to people. When "Year" comes, the trees will wither, but the grass will not grow. When the year is over, everything grows and flowers are everywhere. How can the year pass? It is necessary to use firecrackers, so there is a custom of burning firecrackers.

Customs of the Spring Festival

The long historical years have made the activities of the annual customs extremely colorful. Among them, the superstitious content of worshipping the heaven and offering sacrifices to the gods has been gradually eliminated, while those interesting contents, such as posting Spring Festival couplets, New Year pictures, pasting the word "Fu", cutting window grilles, steaming rice cakes, wrapping jiaozi, burning firecrackers, vigil on New Year's Eve, and New Year greetings, are still very popular today.

It was recorded in the Wei and Jin Dynasties that observing the New Year's Eve was the most important custom. On New Year's Eve, it is a custom that the descendants of the Chinese people still attach great importance to staying up late with their families, getting together and drinking, and enjoying family happiness. After the first cock crow, the new year begins. Men, women and children are dressed in festive costumes. First, they celebrate the New Year's birthday for the elders in the family, and then they visit relatives and friends to congratulate each other. At this time, the land of China is shining everywhere. From the first day to the fifteenth day, people are immersed in a festive atmosphere of joy, peace and civilization.

New Year greeting is a traditional folk custom in China, and it is a way for people to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, and express their best wishes to each other.

In ancient times, the original meaning of the word "Happy New Year" was to celebrate the New Year for the elderly, including kowtowing to the elderly, congratulating them on the happy New Year, and greeting them about their lives. In case of friends and relatives of the same generation, we should also salute and congratulate them. New Year greetings usually begin at home. On the morning of the first day, after getting up, the younger generation should first pay a New Year call to their elders, wishing them a long and healthy life and all the best. After the elders are worshipped, they should distribute the "lucky money" prepared in advance to the younger generation. After paying homage to the elders at home, people should also greet the New Year with smiles when they go out to meet each other, and exchange auspicious words such as "Congratulations on getting rich", "Best wishes for the four seasons" and "Happy New Year". Neighbors or relatives and friends also visit each other to pay New Year greetings or invite them to drink and entertain

According to folklore, the fifth day of the first month is the birthday of the God of Wealth, so after the first day of the first month, the next most important activity is to meet the God of Wealth on the night before his birthday.

There is a folk saying in China that "opening the door to firecrackers". That is, at the arrival of the new year, the first thing for every household to open the door is to set off firecrackers to eliminate the old and welcome the new with the sound of firecrackers. Firecrackers are a specialty of China, also known as "firecrackers", "firecrackers" and "firecrackers". Its origin is very early, and it has a history of more than two thousand years. Nowadays, most of us think that setting off firecrackers can create a festive atmosphere, and it is a kind of entertainment in festivals, which can bring happiness and good luck to people.

jiaozi was called a "corner" in the Song Dynasty, and jiaozi was called a "flat food" in the Yuan Dynasty. In the Qing Dynasty, there appeared some new appellations about jiaozi, such as "dumpling", "water snack" and "boiled cake". The increase of jiaozi's names shows that its geographical spread is constantly expanding. Generally, jiaozi should be wrapped before 12 o'clock in the evening of New Year's Eve and eaten at midnight. At this time, it is the beginning of the first day of the first lunar month. When eating jiaozi, it means "making friends at a younger age". "Zi" means "making friends with dumplings", which means "happy reunion" and "good luck".

During the Spring Festival, people in many areas like to stick it on the windows. Window grilles not only set off the festive atmosphere, but also bring people beautiful enjoyment.

When visiting the New Year in the Spring Festival, the elders should distribute the lucky money prepared in advance to the younger generation. It is said that the lucky money can suppress evil spirits, because "old" and "special" are homophonic, and the younger generation can spend their first year safely with the lucky money.

Many areas in China pay attention to eating rice cakes. New year's cakes, also known as "New Year's cakes", are homophonic with "getting taller every year", meaning that people's work and life are improved year by year.