What does New Year's greeting mean?

It is one of the customs in China to pay New Year greetings every Spring Festival. Paying a New Year call every year is an indispensable trip, which can bring friends and relatives closer and make the taste of the New Year stronger. The following are some moral contents I have collected about the Spring Festival greetings for everyone.

Does the Spring Festival mean to celebrate the New Year? 1 The Spring Festival symbolizes excitement and celebration, saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new.

The origin of the Spring Festival contains profound cultural connotations, and it carries rich historical and cultural connotations in its inheritance and development. During the Spring Festival, various activities are held all over the country to celebrate the Spring Festival, with a lively and festive atmosphere.

These activities are mainly to bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new year, worship ancestors and pray for a bumper harvest. They are rich in forms and have strong regional characteristics, which condense the essence of China traditional culture.

The origin of the Spring Festival:

There is a legend about the origin of the Spring Festival. In ancient China, there was a monster called Nian. Its tentacles were very long and fierce. Nian lived on the seabed for many years, and climbed ashore every New Year's Eve, devouring livestock and killing people. Therefore, every New Year's Eve, people in the village fled to the deep mountains to avoid the harm of the "Nian" beast.

Then one year on New Year's Eve, an old beggar came from outside the village and told people how to drive away Nian beast. It turns out that Nian was most afraid of red, fire and explosion. Since then, every year on New Year's Eve, every family has posted red couplets and set off firecrackers.

Every household has a bright candlelight, so it is better to wait for the New Year. In the early morning of the first day, I want to say hello to my relatives and friends. This custom has spread more and more widely, and has become the most solemn traditional festival among the people in China.

Spring Festival refers to the traditional Spring Festival in the cultural circle of Chinese characters, commonly known as "Chinese New Year Festival". The traditional names are New Year, New Year and New Year, but they are also called New Year, New Year and New Year verbally, which is the most solemn traditional festival of the Chinese nation.

During the Spring Festival, the Han nationality and some ethnic minorities in China will hold various celebrations. These activities are mainly to offer sacrifices to ancestors, pay homage to ancestors, bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, and pray for the new, with rich and colorful forms and strong national characteristics. Influenced by China culture, some countries and nationalities belonging to the Chinese character cultural circle also have the custom of Spring Festival. During the Spring Festival, people try to go home and reunite with their loved ones, expressing their ardent expectations for the coming year and their best wishes for life in the new year. The Spring Festival is not only a festival, but also an important carrier for China people to release their emotions and meet their psychological needs. It is also the annual carnival and eternal spiritual pillar of the Chinese nation.

What does it mean to pay New Year greetings during the Spring Festival? Look at the land of China and the world. The Spring Festival is full of fireworks, dragon dances, laughter and ripples. The Spring Festival is lively in China, and it is also going to the world. The following is my collection of moral custom recommendations for Spring Festival greetings, for reference only. Welcome to reading.

The implication of New Year greetings during the Spring Festival.

It is one of the customs in China to pay New Year greetings during the Spring Festival. Usually, family members visit relatives' homes and bring fruit gifts to contact their feelings. Children usually play together, and parents at home hold hands. Guests who visit later will be kept for dinner. I didn't leave until after supper. Moreover, the way of paying New Year greetings varies from place to place, so why pay New Year greetings in the Spring Festival?

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. What we usually know is that on the first day of the first month, parents lead their younger generation out to meet their relatives, friends and elders and wish each other a happy New Year with auspicious words, while the host family warmly treats them with snacks, candy and red envelopes (lucky money).

The custom of visiting New Year during the Spring Festival.

It is said that there was a monster in ancient times with a unicorn on his head and a mouth like a blood basin. People call it the year. On the thirtieth night of the twelfth lunar month, it jumped out of the mountain and preyed on people. People have to prepare some meat and put it outside the door, then close the door and hide at home. It was not until the first morning that Nian left after a big meal that people opened the door to meet each other and bowed to congratulate each other. This is the beginning of the New Year greeting custom.

From about the Qing Dynasty, the form of "group worship" was added to the New Year greetings. In "Jade Tan with a Side Hat", the Lord of the Qing Dynasty said: "At the beginning of the year, the capital must make regular group worship to unite the friendship of the New Year and show the nostalgia", and "book guests, have a banquet and enjoy the day every year".

On New Year's Day, everyone gets up early, dresses neatly, goes out to visit relatives and friends, and wishes each other good luck in the coming year.

Thousands of winds saluted for the first time since Qin and Han Dynasties. Since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the order of New Year greetings is: first, worship the gods of heaven and earth, then worship the true shadow of ancestors, then worship the elders of Gaotang, and finally the whole family pays New Year greetings to each other in turn. Gifts should be given to elders, rewards to children, and words to peers. The order of worshipping relatives and friends is: the first day of worshipping family members; The next day, the third day, I visited my mother's uncle, uncle, father-in-law and so on. Until 16. Modern multi-line group worship, mailing new year cards and new year letters at the end of the year.

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 worship, they should distribute the "lucky money" prepared in advance to the younger generation. After greeting the elders at home, you should also greet people with a smile when you go out to meet them, and exchange auspicious words such as "Congratulations on getting rich", "Best wishes in the four seasons" and "Happy New Year". Neighbors, relatives and friends also visit each other or invite them to drink and entertain.

Traditional cultural knowledge of the Spring Festival

paste up Spring Festival couplets

Spring Festival couplets are also called door couplets, spring stickers, couplets, couplets and peach symbols. They depict the background of the times and express good wishes with neat, dual, concise and delicate words, which are unique literary forms in China. Every Spring Festival, no matter in urban or rural areas, every household should choose a pair of 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 was popular in the Ming Dynasty. By the Qing Dynasty, the ideological and artistic quality of Spring Festival couplets had been greatly improved. Liang Zhangju's monograph Poetry of Spring Festival couplets discusses the origin of couplets and the characteristics of various works.

There are many kinds of Spring Festival couplets, which can be divided into door heart, frame pair, cross string, spring strip and bucket square according to the place of use. The "door core" is attached to the center of the upper end of the door panel; The "door frame pair" is attached to the left and right door frames; "Cross-dressing" is posted on the crossbar of the door; "Spring strips" are posted in corresponding places according to different contents; "Dou Jin", also known as "door leaf", is a square diamond, often attached to furniture and screen walls.

Stick paper-cuts on the windows.

In the folk, people also like to stick various paper-cuts on the windows-window grilles. Window grilles not only set off the festive atmosphere, but also integrate decoration, appreciation and practicality. Paper-cutting is a very popular folk art in China, which has been deeply loved by people for thousands of years. Because it is often pasted on the window, it is also called "window grilles". With its unique generalization and exaggeration, window grilles show auspicious things and good wishes incisively and vividly, and decorate festivals with colorful colors.

While putting up Spring Festival couplets, some people have to put large and small "Fu" characters on doors, walls and lintels. Sticking the word "Fu" during the Spring Festival is a long-standing folk custom in China. The word "Fu" symbolizes good luck and wishes for a happy life and a bright future. In order to fully reflect this yearning and wish, some people simply put the word "Fu" upside down, indicating that "Fu has arrived" and "Fu has arrived". Others elaborate the word "Fu" into various patterns, such as longevity, longevity peach, carp yue longmen, abundant grains, dragons and phoenixes, and so on.

New Year picture

Hanging New Year pictures during the Spring Festival is also very common in urban and rural areas. Thick black and colorful New Year pictures add a lot of prosperity and festive atmosphere to thousands of families. New Year pictures are an ancient folk art in China, which reflects people's simple customs and beliefs and places their hopes on the future. New Year pictures, like Spring Festival couplets, originated from "door gods". With the rise of block printing, the content of New Year pictures is not limited to monotonous themes such as door gods, but has become rich and colorful. Some New Year pictures workshops have produced classic color New Year pictures, such as Fu Lushou's Samsung, God bless the people, abundant crops, prosperous livestock and welcoming the New Year, to meet people's good wishes of celebrating and praying for the New Year. There are three important producing areas of Chinese New Year pictures: Taohuawu in Suzhou, Yangliuqing in Tianjin and Weifang in Shandong; Three schools of New Year pictures have been formed, each with its own characteristics.

firecracker

There is a folk saying in China that "open the door and set off firecrackers". That is, when the new year comes, the first thing for every household to open the door is to set off firecrackers to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new. Firecracker is a specialty of China, also known as "Firecracker", "Firecracker" and "Firecracker". Its origin is very early, and it has a history of more than two thousand years. Setting off firecrackers can create a festive and lively atmosphere, which is a kind of entertainment in festivals and can bring happiness and good luck to people. With the passage of time, firecrackers are more and more widely used, and there are more and more varieties and colors. Every major festival and happy celebration, as well as marriage, building, opening, etc. We should set off firecrackers to celebrate and make good luck. At present, Liuyang, Hunan, Foshan, Dongyao, Yichun, Pingxiang, Wenzhou, Zhejiang and other regions are the hometown of fireworks in China. The firecrackers produced are of many colors and high quality, which are not only sold well all over the country, but also exported to all parts of the world.