What are the customs or traditions on New Year's Day?

New Year's Day, as the most direct way to express Spring Festival wishes, is an important custom for China people to celebrate the Spring Festival, which has important moral and cultural connotations.

With the changes of society and the progress of science and technology, people's feelings of greeting each other remain the same, but the ways of greeting are constantly changing: from visiting new year's home, greeting by letters and postcards, to the expression of telephone calls and short messages, and now many blessings such as WeChat, Happy New Year, all the best, successful career and good health are all over the online and offline.

Some people lamented that there was no face-to-face New Year greeting and no sincere blessing expression on the phone. One-click messages, QQ and WeChat sent without leaving home "dispel the taste of New Year greetings" and "get farther and farther away from traditional folk customs".

In fact, when I think about it, what people "don't like" is not the change of the form itself, but more about whether the blessings sent by the other party are customized for themselves and whether the content of SMS WeChat is sincere.

On 20 14 CCTV Spring Festival Evening, a song "I won't send messages in groups" sang the embarrassment of sending messages in groups to celebrate the New Year, and also expressed the voices of many people. In the final analysis, sending messages to celebrate the New Year in groups makes people feel "insincere" and "lack of attention and respect for themselves".

Therefore, it is not the change in the form of New Year greetings that separates the feelings between people, but how to make good use of this form to express sincere feelings. Many netizens said that they had sent exclusive blessings to every friend and family before, or designed multimedia New Year short films individually, and the feedback was still warm.

Even because many friends are separated from Wan Li, the text, voice and video of WeChat are more easily accepted by the other party, which also breaks the time-space boundary and "makes people feel back to each other's time".

As a kind of culture, old customs are constantly changing in the process of inheritance. There is no need to criticize the change of modern science and technology in the form of New Year's greetings, which "ruined" the taste of traditional New Year's greetings, because, if conditions permit, you can walk through the streets to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, but you may wish to pay more attention to SMS and WeChat New Year's greetings, which will naturally narrow your distance.

Say goodbye to the lost years and look forward to the future life. It should be said that no matter how the way of New Year greetings changes, as long as there is sincerity, friendship is there and the taste of the year is there.

2. Spring Festival couplets

Writing and posting Spring Festival couplets probably best reflects the cultural significance of the Spring Festival. In the past, Spring Festival couplets should first have a good calligraphy, but also have some writing and ink skills. Even if you can't write, as long as you go to the market, the street, or the neighbors, there are always ghostwriters, not only ghostwriters, but also ideas. Although there are many similarities, they are still related to their own situation.

Spring Festival couplets are a kind of couplets, which are elegant, concise, neat and balanced, and express the unique meaning of Chinese. Different from other couplets, Spring Festival couplets should contain some meanings of saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new.

Of course, the Spring Festival couplets more than 30 years ago are also full of the flavor of the times. From a pair of Spring Festival couplets, we can clearly reflect the social trend and political climate at that time. The Spring Festival couplets created in different times are a vivid political life history.

Spring Festival couplets are also new year's goods that have never declined in the New Year. No matter what era, Spring Festival couplets are not absent. However, in recent years, most Spring Festival couplets are made by computers, wholesale in large quantities, online ordering, street stalls or in-store retail, and the cultural connotation has gradually dried up. Near the Spring Festival, before you think of posting Spring Festival couplets, the property service has posted wholesale Spring Festival couplets at the entrance of the corridor and the elevator.

Every time I open the door, no matter what my home is like, I get you a new pair of Spring Festival couplets. Although it is easy to save trouble and serve home, the sameness is the characteristic of these Spring Festival couplets.

How many Spring Festival couplets are written by themselves has not been counted, but the idea is effortless. With one click on the internet, all kinds of timely Spring Festival couplets came at me, and the content was optional.

In fact, in today's increasingly developed Internet and WeChat, it doesn't matter whether Spring Festival couplets need to be posted. As a holiday blessing, many people can send you Spring Festival couplets and receive dozens of them at once just by looking at them on their computers and mobile phones. Who has time to write them down on paper?

Year after year in the Spring Festival, the content of Spring Festival couplets seems to have been exhausted. In the Year of Rooster, the golden rooster must announce the dawn, in the Year of Horse, great achievements will be made, and in the Year of Sheep, "a golden monkey dances". Not to mention the zodiac, it is nothing more than longevity, financial resources, good luck and peace, plus all the best, happiness and wealth.

Looking back at the Spring Festival couplets now, what we need most are cultural skills, writing skills, conception skills and knowledge accumulation. Without these, Spring Festival couplets are just like slogans, and it doesn't matter whether they are posted or not.

Extended data:

Literally, "Yuan" means "Head" and "Dan" means "Heaven". Together, the two words can be extended to "the first day of the new year". So "New Year's Day" is also called "three yuan", that is, year yuan, month yuan and time yuan. Now people usually call it "the first day of the first month".

There is a legend about its origin. According to legend, in the ancient Yao and Shun period, Emperor Yao was diligent and loved the people. In his later years, he gave his position to Shun, who had both ability and political integrity, and Shun gave his position to Yu, who had made contributions to water control. They have done many good deeds and are deeply loved by the people.

In order to commemorate them, people take the day when Shun offered sacrifices to heaven and earth and Yao after Yao's death as the beginning of the year, which is called "New Year's Day" or "Jacky" and becomes the origin of ancient New Year's Day.

Legends are interesting, but the origin of New Year's Day is closely related to human life. For example, doing farm work requires some accurate time nodes. The beginning of a year has special significance, so humans invented the calendar.

The ancients discovered the natural phenomena of alternation of day and night, lack of moon and distinct seasons. Finally, the cycle of alternating day and night is regarded as a "day", and the "month" is determined with reference to the cycle of moon phase change. The grain ripening cycle represents cold and summer, and is called "year", that is, the time for the sun to circle the earth once.

It took a long time to calculate the above cycle accurately, and the calendar was changed several times, as was the time of "New Year's Day". The Xia dynasty used the summer calendar, with Meng Xiyue (January) as the first month; The twelfth lunar month (December) was the first month in the Shang Dynasty. In the Zhou Dynasty, the first month was the winter month (1 1 month).

It was not until the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty that it was no longer tossed. At that time, it was stipulated that Meng Xiyue (January) was the first month, and the first day of Meng Xiyue (the first day of the first month in the summer calendar) was called New Year's Day. Since then, it has been followed until the end of the Qing Dynasty.

Chen Lianshan, a folklore expert, said that in the early years of the Republic of China, the then government revised the calendar, taking the entire Gregorian calendar as the time system, and moved all traditional festivals to Gregorian calendar time, so the Gregorian calendar 65438+ 10/was named "New Year's Day" and the traditional New Year's Day was renamed "Spring Festival".

People's Daily Online-Party newspapers take stock of the traditional customs of the Spring Festival: This is how we celebrate the Spring Festival today.

People's Daily Online-Interesting to say "Chinese New Year": Chinese New Year and Gregorian calendar are silly and indistinguishable.