Why put up Spring Festival couplets, set off firecrackers and celebrate the New Year?

1, paste couplets. Spring Festival couplets originated in Fu Tao. "Fu Tao" is a rectangular red wooden board hanging on both sides of the door in the Zhou Dynasty. According to the Book of Rites, the peach symbol is six inches long and three inches wide, and the words "Shen Tu", "Lei Yu" and "Ershen" are written on the mahogany board. "On the first day of the first month, a peach symbol was made for this family, which was called immortal wood. All ghosts were afraid of it." In the Qing Dynasty, Yanjing Shi Shuo Ji said that "Spring Festival couplets are the symbol of peaches".

In the Ming Dynasty, Chen wrote in Miscellaneous Paintings of Mao Yunlou: "The establishment of Spring Festival couplets began" before New Year's Eve, the imperial capital Jinling suddenly issued a decree to add a pair of Spring Festival couplets at the entrance of the official school, and the emperor would appear when he walked. Zhu Yuanzhang not only went out of town incognito to see the laughter in person, but also wrote Spring Festival couplets himself. He passed a house and saw that the Spring Festival couplets had not been posted on the door. He went to ask, knowing that it was a castrated pig, and had not asked anyone to write it for him. Zhu Yuanzhang specially wrote Spring Festival couplets for the castrated pig man, which read "Split the road of life and death with both hands and cut off the root of right and wrong with one knife". Relevance and humor. After Ming Taizu's advocacy, Spring Festival couplets have since become a custom, which has been passed down to this day.

2. Set off firecrackers. There has been a tradition of setting off firecrackers since ancient times, which makes the Spring Festival more lively and has a strong flavor of the year. Setting off firecrackers is said to say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new year, which means a beautiful yearning for the new year.

Setting off firecrackers in the Spring Festival has pinned the good wishes of the working people of the Han nationality to ward off evil spirits and avoid disasters and pray for blessings. Setting off firecrackers is a traditional folk custom of Han nationality, which has a history of more than 2000 years. According to legend, it was to drive away a monster named Nian. At midnight, the New Year bell rang and firecrackers shook the whole sky of China. In this "three-yuan" moment of "the first day of the first month, the first day of the first month", some places still set up "flourishing fires" in the courtyard to show the take-off and prosperity of Wang Qi. Around the blazing fire, the children set off firecrackers and danced happily. At this time, the bright lights in the house, the sparks in front of the court and the deafening noise outside the house pushed the lively atmosphere of New Year's Eve to a climax. Firecrackers pinned the good wishes of the working people of the Han nationality to avoid disasters and pray for blessings.

Young people keep their age in order to prolong their parents' life. Since the Han Dynasty, the time for the alternation of the old and new years is generally at midnight. In modern times, the whole family get together and have a good drink. At the same time, a series of entertainment activities will be held, such as solve riddles on the lanterns, where old people tell stories to their children, and everyone will drink, play mahjong, play poker, watch TV programs and cook jiaozi in the middle of the night to welcome the New Year.

Old people keep their old age as "quitting the old age", which means cherishing time; If you can stay up all night on New Year's Eve without feeling tired, it is a sign that people are full of energy in the new year. After the founding of New China, it is generally a symbolic birthday celebration, and each of them goes to sleep after midnight. In recent years, watching TV has become the main activity for people to celebrate the New Year. Most people fall asleep after watching TV Spring Festival Gala, without the piety of the ancients.

Important reasons for the Spring Festival:

1, headed by Hundred Festivals, Spring Festival, that is, Lunar New Year, is the beginning of a year and a traditional "festival".

2. It not only embodies the Chinese nation's ideological beliefs, ideals and aspirations, life, entertainment and cultural psychology, but also shows the activities of blessing, eating and entertainment in a carnival way.

Spring Festival has a long history, which evolved from praying for the New Year at the beginning of the year in ancient times. In the process of inheritance and development, it bears rich historical and cultural connotations.

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.