What are the customs for New Year’s Day?

New Year's Day is the beginning of celebrating the New Year. During New Year's Day, people will gather at home with their families and exchange New Year's blessing text messages with relatives and friends. "Wear new clothes, put up Spring Festival couplets, and buy firecrackers with New Year's money." New Year's Day is one of the most distinctive traditional festivals in China. The flavor of New Year’s Day is the most nostalgic flavor. New Year's Day customs: 1. Drinking pepper and cypress wine

Already appeared in the "Four People's Monthly Order" of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Jiao refers to Zanthoxylum bungeanum. The ancients said that Jiaojiao is the essence of the Yuheng star. It has a fragrant smell and makes people feel light and resistant to old age when taken. Cypress refers to cypress leaves. The ancients regarded it as a fairy medicine that can prevent all kinds of diseases. Pepper 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 live longer.

Yu Xin of the Southern Dynasty's "Zhengdan Menglai Wine": "On Zhengdan, evil wine is eliminated, and the cup of longevity is brought to the New Year. The cypress leaves come with the inscriptions, and the pepper flowers follow the chants." It depicts the New Year's Day greetings and the reward of pepper and cypress wine. Joyful mood. In the Tang Dynasty, Wu Pingyi's poem "Giving Cypress Leaves to All Officials on the First Day of Fenghe" expresses his wish to serve the emperor with a healthy and long life with the sentence "May I hold the cypress leaves for a long time and enjoy them for thousands of years."

Drinking pepper and cypress wine has been handed down among the people. This custom was practiced in Licheng, Shandong and Jiaxing, Zhejiang during the Ming Dynasty. 2. Paste Spring Couplets

Couplets, also known as Spring Festival couplets, have many types, but they generally include couplets and spring strips. Each couplet has a horizontal stripe and the word "福", and a spring stripe with "everything goes well" is attached to the appropriate place, such as on the doorpost.

In fact, because Spring Festival couplets (including couplets and spring strips) were written with a brush (with a brush) in ancient times, they are commonly known as "Chun Hui". In Guangdong, spring strips are called Huichun, which is different from Spring Festival couplets. On the twenty-ninth day of the year, in order to express the new year, new weather, and increase the atmosphere of the New Year.

Posting Spring Festival couplets is a traditional custom in my country. This expresses the good wishes of the working people of our country to ward off evil spirits, eliminate disasters, and welcome good fortune. It not only places new expectations for the new year, but also hopes that it can usher in a new year. Good luck. At the beginning of the new year, every household goes to the streets to buy Spring Festival couplets. Those who are in the mood also spread paper and splash ink to celebrate the spring, decorate the doors inside and outside the house, say goodbye to the old and welcome the new!

Everything we do in our country must be auspicious. As the first of the hundred festivals, the arrival of the New Year marks the beginning of the new year. Some auspicious customs and taboos are particularly precious during this period. , The seemingly simple Spring Festival couplets are also particular about the time. According to the different customs of various places, the time for posting the Spring Festival couplets during the New Year is also slightly different.

First of all, it is not advisable to post the Spring Festival couplets too early! The ancients believed that if the Spring Festival couplets were posted too early, this was called "the hasty star setting early." The hasty star is also known as the morning star, because the morning star appeared just before dawn. Soon after it appeared, it disappeared in a hurry, which also heralded early morning. Families who post Spring Festival couplets will be busy all year long and will be unable to retain anything. Secondly, it is not advisable to post Spring Festival couplets too late! The old man said, "You can't keep up step by step, you can't keep up step by step." If even the spring festival is late, then the family will have little hope in the coming year. Just like the evening star that appears at dusk, it will get dark before it gets bright again. It's just the end of the day. 3. Setting off firecrackers

There are two opinions on the meaning of setting off firecrackers on New Year's Day:

(1) One of the opinions:

The history of setting off firecrackers on New Year's Day has a long history. The earliest Used to drive away evil spirits. According to traditional folklore, it is said that setting off firecrackers on New Year's Day is to drive away "mandrills". The mandrill is a ferocious one-horned ghost in ancient times, but it is most afraid of noise, so people used the blasting sound of burning bamboo to scare it away. After gunpowder became available, people put gunpowder into bamboo tubes to make firecrackers, and then made paper tubes, also called firecrackers or firecrackers.

(1) The second statement:

In ancient times, New Year's Day was the New Year. During the Republic of China, New Year's Day became January 1 of the Gregorian calendar, and the New Year's Day was called the Spring Festival. Firecrackers can create a festive atmosphere. After the firecrackers are set off, the red color on the ground represents celebration, happiness and auspiciousness. Therefore, on this festive holiday, we will set off firecrackers to celebrate.

Traditional festivals are an important carrier for inheriting excellent history and culture. They not only allow people to increase their knowledge and receive lessons during festivals, but also help to highlight culture, promote virtues, cultivate sentiments, and carry forward traditions. Folk festivals are the product of the evolution and development of human civilization, and most festival customs have begun to emerge in ancient times. The formation process of traditional festivals is a process of precipitation and cohesion of the Chinese nation's history and culture. Although with the development of history, the meaning of New Year's Day itself has changed. But it still plays a huge role.