When the sun sets and the stars move, looking back, history has left us too many thoughts and mysterious thoughts, and this "old custom" is one of them. For example, the custom of Spring Festival has become the largest traditional folk festival in China. People pay more attention to the Spring Festival in the ancient capital, thus forming a complete set of Spring Festival customs. The first day of the first lunar month is the Spring Festival, commonly known as "Chinese New Year". The Spring Festival originated from the activities of offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors in the beginning and end of the Shang Dynasty. The ancient Spring Festival was called "January Festival" and "New Year's Day". After the Revolution of 1911, the first day of the first month was officially named Spring Festival.
As far as Beijing is concerned, from the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, every household has to soak Laba vinegar (garlic), and it has begun to have a "taste of the year". The folk song says, "Don't be sad, old lady. After Laba, it is the New Year. Laba porridge, how many days? Ber Ber La La 23rd ... ",the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month is also called" off-year ". There is a ballad that says, "Melons offer sacrifices to the stove. Chinese New Year, girls want flowers, boys want guns ... ". From this day on, Beijingers are busier, offering sacrifices to stoves, sweeping the floor, steaming steamed buns, buying new year's goods, putting up the word "Fu", putting up New Year pictures, cutting out window grilles and putting up couplets. Sticking to the door and sticking to the money, I have been busy until the New Year's Eve and started the New Year.
Beijingers always post "Fu" upside down at the door, wardrobe and water tank, indicating that Fu has arrived. Sticking Spring Festival couplets is also very particular. Generally, red Spring Festival couplets are posted at home, and "horizontal approval" is posted on the lintel. The palace and the royal palace are decorated with rice paper with white background and red edge; People who guard the system (people who have lost their parents) should use blue paper; Yellow paper for temples. The Spring Festival couplets first began in the Five Dynasties in Houshu. It is said that Prince Shu wrote on the door of this palace: "The sky is falling, and the ground is connected to Changchun." This is the earliest Spring Festival couplets in China. Beijingers posted "Look up and see happiness" in the inner courtyard, "Go out and see happiness" outside the house, and "Glory to the whole hospital" in the courtyard.
In the past, most people in old Beijing provided shrines or statues. By the 30 th of the year, the most important thing was to put nine offerings; Youtang's honey supply, Cheng Tang's set cakes and flower cakes are all fresh, Cheng Tang's fruits, Cheng Tang's dried fruits and flower cakes are all eight pieces in size, rice cakes and rice, vegetarian jiaozi (or steamed food) and vegetarian stir-fried food (or fried food). Those with poor families should also offer three or five offerings. Beijingers talk about eating, drinking and having fun in the New Year. These offerings are actually for people.
Beijing people's New Year's Eve (also known as reunion dinner) is essential and the most abundant New Year's Eve dinner in a year. On New Year's Eve, we should serve meat and vegetables together. There are cold meats, big items and green vegetables. Cold meat includes cold stewed pigs, mutton and cold stewed chickens and ducks. Major items include: braised pork, braised pork, rice flour meat, red and white balls, and Four Joy Meetballs. Clear mouth dishes are generally tofu, green vegetables, Roche, pickled bergamot and so on. The staple food is mostly vegetarian sleep.
Beijingers eat jiaozi on New Year's Eve and the first day of the first lunar month, which means "making friends when young". Jiaozi is always wrapped into an ingot, and sugar, copper coins, peanuts, dates, chestnuts and so on are put in the jiaozi. If you eat sugar, it means that life in the future is sweet; Eating copper coins means having money to spend; Eating peanuts means longevity, because peanuts are also called longevity fruit, and eating dates and chestnuts means early fruit. ...
The Spring Festival custom in Beijing is really interesting!