New Year custom

New Year's Day is the beginning of celebrating the New Year. During New Year's Day, people will reunite with their families at home and exchange news with relatives and friends. "Wear new clothes, paste Spring Festival couplets and buy firecrackers with lucky money." New Year's Day is one of the most distinctive traditional festivals in China. The taste of Chinese New Year is the most nostalgic taste.

Customs of New Year's Day:?

First, clean 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 means "getting rid of the old and not being new", and its original intention is to sweep away all bad luck and bad luck. This custom has placed people's desire to break the old and create new ones and their prayers to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new.

Second, post Spring Festival couplets.

Couplets are also called Spring Festival couplets. There are many kinds of couplets, but there are generally couplets and Spring Festival couplets. Each pair of couplets has the word "Fu" and the Spring Festival couplets, like "All the best", are simply pasted on appropriate places, such as doorposts.

In fact, Spring Festival couplets (including couplets and Spring Festival couplets) were written by special people in ancient times (with a brush), so they are commonly known as "swinging spring". But in Guangdong, Spring Festival couplets are called Piaochun, which is different from Spring Festival couplets. Twenty-nine, in order to show the new atmosphere of the New Year and increase the atmosphere of the New Year.

? Third, drink Chili cypress wine.

It has appeared in the four-person monthly order of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Pepper is Chinese prickly ash. The ancients said that pepper is the essence of jade star, with fragrant smell, which makes people light and anti-aging. Cypress is a cypress leaf, which is regarded as an elixir by the ancients and can avoid all diseases. Zanthoxylum bungeanum and cypress can be soaked in wine separately, or they can be put into wine together for drinking. Drinking pepper and cypress wine can cure diseases and prolong life.

Yu Xin in the Southern Dynasties wrote "Zheng Dan Monti Wine": "Zheng Dan will brew evil wine, and the new year will bring you a long life cup. The cypress leaves come with the inscription, and the pepper flowers come one by one. " It depicts the joy of being rewarded with pepper and cypress wine on New Year's Day. In the Tang Dynasty, Wu Pingyi's poem "Dedicating Bones to Yuan Guan" expressed his wish to serve the emperor for a long and healthy life with the phrase "I wish to live a long life with cypress leaves".

Drinking pepper and cypress wine has spread among the people so far, and it has been practiced in Licheng, Shandong Province and Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province in the Ming Dynasty.

? Fourth, set off firecrackers.

Setting off firecrackers on New Year's Day has two meanings:

(1) One of the statements:

Setting off firecrackers on New Year's Day has a long history. It was originally used to drive away evil spirits and ghosts. According to traditional folklore, it is said that firecrackers are set off on New Year's Day to drive away "mandrills". Mandrill was a fierce one-horned ghost in ancient times, but it was most afraid of noise, so people used the explosion of burning bamboo to scare it away. With gunpowder, people put gunpowder into bamboo tubes to make firecrackers, and then make paper tubes, also known as firecrackers or firecrackers.

(1) Statement II:

In ancient times, New Year's Day was the first day of New Year's Day. In the Republic of China, New Year's Day became 1 of the solar calendar, while New Year's Day was called the Spring Festival. Setting off firecrackers on New Year's Day can create a festive atmosphere. Red after setting off firecrackers everywhere represents joy, happiness and auspiciousness. Therefore, in this festive festival, we will set off firecrackers to celebrate.

In China, there are many customs like New Year's Day. The arrival of New Year's Day indicates that the old year is about to pass and the new year is about to begin. The beginning of the new year's spring return to the earth, the beginning of the new year's glory, is the beginning of showing your new side. The atmosphere of New Year's Day will make the whole country excited. I also wish you all the best in the new year.