New Year greetings

New Year greeting mode

Spring Festival greeting mode, which is the most important traditional festival in China. Many people will leave their busy work and go home to visit their relatives to know the form of New Year greeting in advance to avoid making mistakes in a hurry. The following is a way to share the Spring Festival greetings. Ways to pay New Year greetings during the Spring Festival 1

Ways to pay New Year greetings

First, pay homage to the elders at home. 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 are worshipped, they should distribute the "lucky money" prepared in advance to the younger generation. After paying homage to the elders at home, people should also greet the New Year with smiles when they meet out, exchange auspicious words such as "Congratulations on getting rich", "Best wishes for the four seasons" and "Happy New Year", and neighbors or relatives and friends also visit each other to pay New Year greetings or invite them to drink and entertain.

the second is to visit relatives. You must go to your father-in-law's and mother's house on the first or second day of junior high school and bring gifts. After entering the door, bow down to the Buddha statue, ancestor image and memorial tablet, and then bow down to the elders in turn. You can stay for dinner and play.

the third is a courtesy visit. If you wish to pay a New Year call to your colleagues and friends, you should only bow to the Buddha statue three times when you enter the house. If you are equal to your master, you only need to bow down. If you are older than yourself, you should still take the initiative to bow down. The master should step down from his seat to help you, and even say no ceremony to show humility. This kind of situation is generally not suitable for sitting for a long time, so you should leave after a few pleasantries. After the host is worshipped, he should pay a return visit on another day.

the fourth is a thank-you visit. Anyone who has been indebted to others (such as lawyers and doctors) for the past year will buy some gifts to send, and take the opportunity of paying a New Year call to express his thanks.

the fifth is a door-to-door visit. For the neighbors, we don't have much contact with each other in the past, but we can get along well when we meet. On the New Year's Eve, we just go to the courtyard and say, "Congratulations on your fortune" and "Shun Shun Bai Shun" when we meet each other, and just sit in the house for a while without much etiquette.

Spring Festival custom

Sweep the dust

"On the 24th of the twelfth lunar month, dust and sweep the house". According to Lu Chunqiu, China had the custom of sweeping the dust in 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.

posting Spring Festival couplets

Spring Festival couplets are also called 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.

There are many kinds of Spring Festival couplets, which can be divided into door hearts, frame pairs, horizontal stripes, spring strips and square fights according to their usage places. The "door core" is attached to the center of the upper end of the door panel; The "frame pair" is attached to the left and right door frames; "Cross-dressing" is attached to the crossbar of the door; "Spring strips" are posted in corresponding places according to different contents; "Dou Jin", also called "door leaf", is a square diamond, which is often attached to furniture and screen walls.

stick grilles and the word "Fu" upside down

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 loved by people for thousands of years. Because it is mostly stuck on the window, it is also called "window flower". With its unique generalization and exaggeration, window grilles show auspicious things and good wishes incisively and vividly, and decorate the festival with splendor.

At the same time of putting up Spring Festival couplets, some families should put large and small "Fu" characters on the doors, walls and lintels. Sticking the word "Fu" in the Spring Festival is a long-standing folk custom in China. The word "Fu" refers to good fortune and good fortune, which places people's longing for a happy life and wishes for a bright future. In order to fully reflect this yearning and wish, some people simply paste the word "fu" upside down, indicating that "happiness has arrived" and "blessing has arrived". There are also people who elaborate the word "Fu" into various patterns, such as longevity, longevity peach, carp jumping over the dragon gate, abundant grains, dragons and phoenixes, and so on.

New Year pictures

Hanging New Year pictures during the Spring Festival is also very common in urban and rural areas. The thick black and colorful New Year pictures add a lot of prosperous and happy festive atmosphere to thousands of families. New Year pictures are an ancient folk art in China, reflecting people's simple customs and beliefs and pinning their hopes for the future. New Year pictures, like Spring Festival couplets, originated from "door gods". With the rise of woodblock printing, the content of New Year pictures is not limited to monotonous themes such as door gods, but has become rich and colorful. In some New Year pictures workshops, classic color New Year pictures such as Three Stars of Fu Lushou, heavenly god blesses the people, Harvest of Five Grains, Prosperity of Six Livestock, and Greeting the Spring with Happiness have been produced to meet people's good wishes of celebrating and praying for the New Year. There are three important producing areas of New Year pictures in China: Taohuawu in Suzhou, Yangliuqing in Tianjin and Weifang in Shandong; Three schools of Chinese New Year pictures have been formed, each with its own characteristics.

China's earliest collection of New Year pictures in China today is the woodcut New Year pictures of the Southern Song Dynasty, which show four ancient beauties: Wang Zhaojun, Zhao Feiyan, Ban Ji and Lvzhu. The most popular among the people is a New Year picture of Marrying a Mouse. It depicts an interesting scene in which a mouse marries a bride according to human customs. In the early years of the Republic of China, Zheng Mantuo of Shanghai combined the calendar with the New Year pictures. This is a new form of New Year pictures. This new year's picture, which combines two into one, later developed into a calendar and has been popular all over the country.

observing new year's eve

observing new year's eve is one of the most important annual customs, and the custom of observing new year's eve has a long history. The earliest record was found in the "Local Records" in the Western Jin Dynasty: on New Year's Eve, all parties gave gifts, which was called "giving the year back"; Wine and food are invited, which is called "don't be old"; It is called "dividing the age" when the young and the old gather to drink and wish a complete song; Everyone stays up all night, waiting for the morning, which is called "keeping the old age".

"One night is even two years old, and the evening shift is divided into two days". On New Year's Eve, the whole family get together, eat New Year's Eve, light candles or oil lamps, sit around the stove and chat, wait for the time to say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new year, and keep vigil all night, which symbolizes driving away all evil diseases and epidemics and looking forward to good luck and good luck in the new year. This custom gradually became popular. At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin, Emperor Taizong, wrote a poem "Shounian": "Cold resigns from winter snow, and warmth brings spring breeze". To this day, people are used to keeping the new year's eve and welcoming the new year.

In ancient times, observing the old age had two meanings: the old people's observing the old age means "resigning from the old age", which means cherishing time; Young people keep their age to prolong the life of their parents. Since the Han dynasty, the time when the old and the new years alternate is generally at midnight.

Firecrackers

There is a folk saying in China that "open the door to firecrackers". That is, at the arrival of the new year, the first thing for every household to open the door is to set off firecrackers to eliminate the old and welcome the new with the sound of firecrackers. Firecrackers are a specialty of China, also known as "firecrackers", "firecrackers" and "firecrackers". 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, the application of firecrackers has become more and more extensive, and the varieties and colors have become more and more numerous. Every major festival and happy event celebration, as well as marriage, building a house, opening a business, etc., firecrackers should be set off to celebrate and make a good luck. At present, Liuyang in Hunan, Foshan and Dongyao in Guangdong, Yichun and Pingxiang in Jiangxi, Wenzhou in Zhejiang and other regions are famous hometown of fireworks in China. The firecrackers produced are of many colors and high quality, which are not only sold well in the whole country, but also exported to the world.

Happy New Year

On the first day of the New Year, people get up early, put on their most beautiful clothes, dress up neatly, go out to visit relatives and friends, and wish each other a happy New 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".

During the Spring Festival, the younger generation should first pay a New Year call to their elders, wishing them a long and healthy life. The elders can distribute the prepared' lucky money' to the younger generation. It is said that the lucky money can suppress evil spirits, because "old" and "precious" are homophonic, and the younger generation can spend one year safely with the lucky money. There are two kinds of lucky money, one is to thread colored rope into a dragon shape and put it at the foot of the bed, which is recorded in Yanjing Year; The other is the most common, that is, parents wrap the money distributed to their children in red paper. The lucky money can be given in public after the younger generation pays New Year's greetings, or it can be secretly put under the child's pillow by parents when the child falls asleep on New Year's Eve. It is still popular for elders to distribute lucky money to younger generations. Spring Festival greetings 2

Spring Festival etiquette

1. Speaking etiquette

Point 1: Addressing people is indispensable

Generally speaking, common relatives and polite babies will address them, such as grandfather, grandmother, uncle and aunt. However, there are many guests during the Spring Festival, which depends on parents' teaching in advance how to address the guests who are about to meet. Because some names for children are seldom used, they are more unfamiliar when they are called. If you wait until you meet the guests to teach your child to address, the child may feel uncomfortable and refuse to speak. If you rehearse the address with your child before meeting the guests, it will be natural for the child to address.

Point 2: Say more words of blessing

Babies around one year old don't say much. Parents can teach their babies to greet with gestures in advance: bowing with fists and greeting friends and relatives with smiles. Babies over two years old can be taught to say auspicious words and greetings such as "Congratulations on getting rich", "Happy New Year" and "Peace through the years". Some babies' pronunciations may not be completely correct, or they may not be able to say these four words completely. Mom and Dad need to be considerate.

second, red envelope etiquette

the most joyful thing for children in the new year is to get red envelopes, but you know, it is also necessary to pay attention to etiquette when getting red envelopes. Receiving and unpacking red envelopes are all skillful. Mastering these small etiquette can better reflect the children's clever and sensible, and parents are more face-saving.

point 1: thank you for receiving the red envelope

when the elders give the red envelope, the babies should take it with both hands and say thank you to the elders. If the baby is too young to do it, mom and dad can hold the baby's hand, take the red envelope with both hands, and then say "thank you" with the baby.

Point 2: Don't open the red envelope in person

Children under 2 years old won't know what the red envelope is. Just tell him to say thank you when someone gives it to him, and then put it in his pocket or give it to his mother. After the baby is a little sensible, you should tell them in advance that you should take the red envelope and never open it in front of the guests. The best way is to put the red envelope in mom and dad's bag or the baby's own bag immediately.

Third, table manners

During the Chinese New Year and the holidays, it is indispensable to entertain guests. If in normal times, when the family is together, it's okay for the children to eat casually. However, when guests are present, you have to pay attention to table manners, so that you can be a sensible and polite boy.

point 1: don't enjoy delicious food for yourself

adults are generally used to children: children will deliberately let them eat more things they like. But if there are guests present, children should be taught to be polite. Before eating, you should tell your children: "Everyone likes good things, so there are good things at the dinner table. You should not eat them all by yourself, but save some for others to eat." No one likes children who are too selfish. "

Point 2: Pay attention to dining hygiene

Some children like to pick and choose when eating. Parents should remember to say to their children, "When eating, we should take the food in front of us, and clamp it when we look at it, and don't copy it over and over again. That is very impolite. Meat dishes with soup should be carefully sandwiched to avoid splashing clothes, and people will say you are unsanitary, son. Put down the bowl after dinner and say politely,' Please enjoy your meal'. "

Fourth, hospitality etiquette

During the Spring Festival, there will be many guests at home. Not only adults should pay attention to hospitality etiquette, but also babies should pay attention. When guests are present, parents should pay attention to their words and deeds. Parents should not ignore these small details.

point 1: treat guests kindly

when there are guests, parents should guide and encourage their children to greet them kindly and actively. after the guests enter the room, older children can do some simple hospitality work, such as greeting the guests to sit down and pouring tea for them.

point 2: don't interrupt when adults are talking

when adults are talking, let children know that it is a good boy to do their own thing quietly, and it is disrespectful to walk back and forth and interrupt casually.

V. Guest Etiquette

During the Spring Festival, in addition to welcoming guests, parents will inevitably take their babies to visit relatives and friends and visit other people's homes. Then, what details should children pay attention to when visiting other people's homes in order to reflect their modesty and courtesy?

point 1: take the initiative to greet and say thank you

lead the children to other people's homes. After entering the door, parents should guide the children to take the initiative to arrange their shoes neatly after saying hello. Remember to let the child say "thank you" when the child is served.

point 2: don't tamper with other people's things

children are curious by nature, especially in strange environments. It is impolite to tell children to tamper with other people's things casually. If they want to play with toys or read books, they must get the owner's permission. Remember not to disturb adults when playing by yourself, and remember to let children put things away after playing.

VI. Social Etiquette

During the Spring Festival, no matter whether you are taking your children as guests or having guests, I believe there are always some small guests visiting. Parents always let their children play together. At this time, children should also pay attention to social etiquette between them. Especially for children who are not sociable at ordinary times, parents should make up for it.

Point 1: Take the initiative to share. Don't be stingy

When there are small guests, generously take out toys to play with them, which will make them very happy. When the guests leave, parents can lead their children to see them off for a while. Parents can say to their children, "Say goodbye to the children and come back when you are free!" Even if parents teach their children to say it, it will make guests feel happy if they say it from their children's mouths. After such exposure, the child will certainly become a polite little master.

point 2: live in harmony with patience

nowadays, most children are only children, but at home.