The words that can be written in the Spring Festival handwritten newspaper are as follows:
1. Celebrate the small year:
The 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month (the 24th day in the south), It is a festival to worship the Kitchen God. According to folklore, on this day, the Stove Lord will ascend to heaven to report the merits and demerits of the family to the Jade Emperor. Resigning from the stove is to send the Stove Lord off on his journey. Therefore, people usually have a very pious attitude and respect for this god of household. Sending stoves expresses the Chinese working people's yearning for a happy life, and prays to gods to bless the family and family in the new year, good luck, and peace every year.
Folks believe that after the 23rd, the gods ascend to heaven and there are no taboos. There is no need to choose a date to marry a daughter-in-law or a daughter-in-law, which is called a random marriage. Until the end of the year, many wedding ceremonies are held. There are only six or seven days left before the Spring Festival, and the preparations for the New Year are even more intense.
2. Spring Sweeping Day:
From the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month to the New Year's Eve, the folks call this period "Spring Day", also known as the "Dust Sweeping Day", because "dust" and "chen" are homophonic. Sweeping dust in the New Year has the meaning of "removing the old and spreading the new", and its purpose is to sweep away all bad luck and bad luck. This custom entrusts people with their desire to destroy the old and establish the new and their prayers to say goodbye to the old and usher in the new.
Every household must clean the environment, wash all kinds of utensils, remove and wash bedding and curtains, sweep the courtyard, brush away dirt and cobwebs, and dredge open ditches and ditches. Everywhere is filled with the joyful atmosphere of doing hygiene and welcoming the New Year cleanly.
3. Prepare New Year’s goods and steamed rice cakes:
About ten days before the festival, people start busy purchasing items. New Year’s goods include chicken, duck, fish, tea, wine and oil sauce, roasted seeds and nuts from the north and south, and sugar bait. Buy enough fruits and prepare some gifts for visiting relatives and friends during the New Year. Children should buy new clothes and hats to wear during the New Year. One of the foods that are often prepared is cured bacon. Many provinces have the custom of curing bacon. This kind of food is stored for a long time and is not easy to deteriorate.
The second is steamed rice cake. Because rice cake is homophonic to "year high" and has various flavors, it has become a must-have food for almost every household.
4. New Year’s Eve dinner:
The New Year’s Eve dinner is also called the reunion dinner. According to Zong Jing’s "Jingchu Sui Sui Ji", it has been eaten during the New Year at least in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. The custom of dinner. Because it is winter, northerners often set up a hot pot in the middle of the dining table, so it is also called a stove.
5. Traditional seating: The traditional seating arrangement is "Shangzuo Zundong". The first person in the annual banquet is the senior one, and the lowest person is in the last seat. If it is a treat, the first person is the most respected guest, and the host is not allowed to sit at the last seat. After sitting down, no one can do anything until the chief cook
6. Food characteristics:
Northerners often include dumplings, fish, rice cakes, New Year dishes, etc. in their dishes. It looks like a gold ingot, which means wealth. You cannot finish the fish dish because in Chinese, "fish" and "yu" have the same pronunciation, which means "more than every year". It means that eating long-lasting vegetables has the meaning of longevity. In South China, there are many chickens, roasted meats, fermented vegetables, fish drums, etc. Because "faicai" is a homophonic word for "rich and good market", the typical New Year's Eve dinner in Jiangnan must include fish. Rich soup pot.
7. Spring couplets:
Spring couplets, also called "door pairs", "spring posts", "couples" and "couples", are a type of couplets. A unique literary form.
"Three Yangs began to spread, and the Four Seasons began to bloom" is recorded in the Dunhuang suicide note unearthed from the Mogao Grottoes. The co-author was Liu Qiu of the Tang Dynasty. This is the earliest painting in the world. The Spring Festival couplets were written in the 11th year of Kaiyuan (723). The folk custom of posting Spring Festival couplets only became popular in the Ming Dynasty. The trend originated in Nanjing. Nowadays, people in the Jiangnan area pay attention to posting Spring Festival couplets on the morning of the New Year.
8. Pasting the word "福" on the Spring Festival:
Pasting the word "福" on the Spring Festival is a long-standing custom among Chinese people. It expresses people's yearning for a happy life and a better future.
9. Staying up late:
The custom of staying up late has a history of nearly 2,000 years in China. Zhou Chu of the Jin Dynasty mentioned in "Feng Tu Ji" that the annual customs in Shu are at the end of the year. People give each other New Year's gifts, which is called "Giving New Year's Eve."
10. New Year greetings:
Men, women, old and young all dress up in festive costumes. They first pay New Year greetings to the elders in the family and give New Year money to the children. On the second and third day of the lunar month, they start visiting relatives and friends, paying New Year greetings to each other and congratulating each other. Blessings, saying congratulations on the new year, good fortune, and good luck in the new year, worshiping ancestors and other activities.
Spring Festival handwritten newspaper information text:
It is said that the custom of posting Spring Festival couplets began around January 1. In the Hou Shu period more than a thousand years ago, this is evidenced by history. In addition, according to records such as "Jade Candle Collection" and "Yanjing Chronicles", the original form of Spring Festival couplets is what people call "Peach Talisman". p>
In ancient Chinese mythology, it is said that there is a world of ghosts. There is a mountain in it. There is a big peach tree covering three thousand miles on the mountain. There is a golden rooster on the treetop every morning when the golden rooster crows. Ghosts that wander out at night will be driven back to Guixi. The gate of Guixi is located in the northeast of the peach tree. There are two gods standing by the door, named Shen Tu and Yu Lei.
If a ghost does something harmful to nature at night, Shen Tu and Yu Lei will immediately discover it and catch it, tie it up with a rope made of reeds, and send it to feed the tigers. Therefore, all the ghosts in the world are afraid of Shen Tu and Yu Lei. So people carved their images out of peach wood and placed them at their doorsteps to avoid evil and harm. Later, people simply engraved the names of Shen Tu and Yu Lei on peach boards, believing that doing so could also suppress evil and eliminate evil. This kind of peach wood board was later called "Peach Run".
In the Song Dynasty, people began to write couplets on peach boards. One was to keep the meaning of peach wood to suppress evil, the other was to express self-perfection, and the third was to decorate the door for beauty. Couplets are also written on red paper, which symbolizes joy and auspiciousness, and are pasted on both sides of the doors and windows during the New Year to express people's best wishes for good luck in the coming year.
In order to pray for the happiness, longevity and health of the family, people in some places still retain the habit of sticking to the door god. It is said that if two door gods are posted on the door, all monsters and ghosts will be intimidated. Among the people, the door god is a symbol of righteousness and force. The ancients believed that people with strange looks often have magical qualities and extraordinary abilities.
They are upright and kind-hearted, and it is their nature and duty to catch ghosts and demons. Zhong Kui, the ghost-hunting master that people admire, has such a strange appearance. Therefore, the folk door gods always have angry eyes and ferocious looks, holding various traditional weapons in their hands, ready to fight any ghosts who dare to come to the door. Since the doors of Chinese houses usually have two doors opening opposite each other, door gods always come in pairs.
After the Tang Dynasty, in addition to the previous two generals Shen Tu and Yu Lei, people also regarded the two Tang Dynasty generals Qin Shubao and Yuchi Gong as door gods. According to legend, Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty was ill and heard ghosts calling outside his door, making him restless all night. So he asked the two generals to stand guard by the door with weapons in hand, and the next night there were no more ghosts to disturb them. Later, Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty asked people to draw the images of these two generals and paste them on the door. This custom began to spread among the people.