On the first day of the new year, people get up early, put on the most beautiful clothes, dress neatly, go out to visit relatives and friends, and wish each other good luck in the coming year. There are many ways to pay New Year's greetings, some of which are led by the same clan leader to pay New Year's greetings door to door.
Some colleagues invite several people to pay New Year greetings; There are also people who get together to congratulate each other, which is called "group worship". Because it took time and effort to pay a New Year call at home, some elites and scholars later used stickers to congratulate each other, thus developing the later "new year card".
2. Sweep the dust
"On the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month, dust sweeps the house", according to "Lv Chunqiu", China had the custom of sweeping dust during the Spring Festival in the Yao and Shun era. According to the folk saying: Because of the homonym of "dust" and "Chen", sweeping dust in the Spring Festival has the meaning of "except Chen Buxin", and its intention is to sweep away all bad luck and bad luck.
This custom is entrusted with people's desire to break through the old and establish the new and their prayer to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new. Whenever the Spring Festival comes, every household should clean the environment, clean all kinds of appliances, tear down and wash bedding curtains, sweep the six yards, dust cobwebs and dredge open channels and culverts. Everywhere is filled with the joyful atmosphere of engaging in sanitation and welcoming the Spring Festival cleanly.
3. Post Spring Festival couplets
Spring Festival couplets are also called door-to-door couplets, spring stickers, couplets, couplets, peach symbols, etc. They depict the background of the times and express good wishes with neat, dual, concise and exquisite words, which is a unique literary form in China. Every Spring Festival, no matter in urban or rural areas, every household should select a red Spring Festival couplets and stick them on the door to add festive atmosphere to the festival.
This custom began in the Song Dynasty and became popular in the Ming Dynasty. By the Qing Dynasty, the ideology and artistry of Spring Festival couplets had been greatly improved. Liang Zhangju's monograph "Poems on Spring Festival couplets" discussed the origin of couplets and the characteristics of various works.
Extended data:
Spring Festival is the product of agricultural society. In ancient China, "Spring Festival" first refers to the festival sequence of spring, which is basically synonymous with the word spring, and later refers to New Year's Day of the lunar calendar year. In the agricultural society, the greatest influence on material production is the weather. "Cold comes and summer goes, autumn harvest and winter storage" is a true portrayal of agricultural production.
In the article "Spring Festival in Beijing", Mr. Lao She listed various phenomena of Chinese New Year and pointed out that they were all related to the agricultural society, which was absolutely right. The food culture during the Spring Festival is based on the rich and colorful products in the agricultural society. The entertainment culture during the Spring Festival is based on the winter leisure in agricultural farming.
The culture of offering sacrifices to the gods during the Spring Festival is based on farmers' praying for good weather in heaven so that the crops can be plentiful. Almost all the cultural forms during the Spring Festival are typical manifestations of agricultural culture.
Tradition is often a double-edged sword, which accumulates history and enriches culture, but its ideas and cultural identity formed in a specific historical stage may also hinder the penetration of new ideas and ideas.
As a traditional culture, the Spring Festival is also a double-edged sword. Its positive influence has long been known to all people in China. However, some customs that follow the tradition and are not suitable for modern society are felt by people, but they may not be deeply understood.
How to publicize the positive influence of the Spring Festival culture, dispel the negative influence of the traditional culture of the Spring Festival, and endow the Spring Festival with more modern significance and flavor of the times is exactly the topic that we can calm down and consider after celebrating this peaceful and beautiful Spring Festival. Today, it is of great significance to interpret the ideological background of the Spring Festival from a modern perspective.
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