sweep the dust

"twelfth lunar month, clean the house"? According to "Lu Chunqiu", during the Yao and Shun period, China had the custom of sweeping dust during the Spring Festival. According to the folk saying: Because of the homonym of "dust" and "Chen", sweeping dust in the Spring Festival means "getting rid of the old and not being new", and its original intention is to sweep away all bad luck and bad luck. This custom has placed people's desire to break the old and create new ones and their prayers 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 electrical appliances, remove and wash bedding curtains, sweep six yards, dust cobwebs and dredge culverts in open channels. Everywhere is filled with the joyful atmosphere of cleaning and welcoming the Spring Festival cleanly.

stay up late or all night on New Year's Eve

Keeping the Lunar New Year's Eve is one of the most important activities, and the custom of keeping the Lunar New Year's Eve has a long history. The earliest record can be found in the Local Records of the Western Jin Dynasty: on New Year's Eve, all parties give gifts to each other, which is called "the year of giving back"; Wine and food are invited, which is called "not old"; Young and old get together to drink and wish a complete song called "age division"; Everyone stays up all night, waiting for dawn. This is the so-called "shou sui".

Since the Han Dynasty, the time for the alternation of the old and new years is generally at midnight.

Pay new year's call

On the first day of the new year, people get up early. Later, some elites and literati congratulated each other with stickers, thus developing the later "New Year cards". [7]

paste up Spring Festival couplets

Spring Festival couplets are also called door couplets, spring stickers, couplets, couplets and peach symbols. What are the characteristics of neat, dual, concise and particular words?

Describing the background of the times and expressing good wishes is a unique literary form 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 the window 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 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. ?

When posting Spring Festival couplets, some people have to write the word "Fu" 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.

The earliest existing collection of New Year pictures in China is the woodcut New Year pictures of the Southern Song Dynasty, which depict four ancient beauties: Wang Zhaojun, Zhao, Ban Ji and Lvzhu. The most popular folk painting is the Year of Marrying the Rat. It depicts an interesting scene in which a mouse marries a bride according to human custom. In the early years of the Republic of China, Zheng of Shanghai combined the monthly calendar with the New Year pictures. This is a new form of New Year pictures. This new year's picture, which was combined into one, later developed into a calendar and has been popular all over the country.

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. Liuyang, Foshan and Dongyao in Hunan, Yichun and Pingxiang in Guangdong, Wenzhou and Zhejiang in Jiangxi are all famous fireworks towns in China. The firecrackers produced have various colors and high quality, which are not only sold well all over the country, but also exported to all parts of the world.

Watch the Spring Festival Gala

[9] The Spring Festival Gala, usually called "Spring Festival Gala", is a variety show held by China CCTV every New Year's Eve to celebrate the Lunar New Year.

1983, it should be said that CCTV held the Spring Festival Evening by accident. But this party has become a "new folk culture" of China people, and it is a must-see TV New Year's Eve dinner every year. From the perspective of cultural development, CCTV Spring Festival Gala initiated the first variety show on TV, which triggered a major change in the content and expression of China TV media. Its success has not only stabilized its position, but also spawned a series of similar programs in CCTV, such as Super Variety Show, Zhengda Variety Show, Qu Yuan Miscellaneous Altar, Spring Festival Opera Evening, Spring Festival Song and Dance Evening, Ministry Spring Festival Evening (such as the Spring Festival Evening of the Ministry of Public Security), and various holiday variety shows such as National Day, May Day, Mid-Autumn Festival and New Year's Day. Subsequently, local TV stations all over the country frequently followed suit and strived for innovation.

Variety shows have become a large-scale media cultural form. The Spring Festival Evening provides the most basic model and blueprint for the development of China TV variety culture.

Can you cut some yourself? !

The customs of the Spring Festival

Sweep the dust, "December, sweep the house with dust"? According to "Lu Chunqiu", during the Yao and Shun period, China had the custom of sweeping dust during the Spring Festival. According to the folk saying: Because of the homonym of "dust" and "Chen", sweeping dust in the Spring Festival means "getting rid of the old and not being new", and its original intention is to sweep away all bad luck and bad luck.

Keeping old age on New Year's Eve is one of the most important customs, and the custom of keeping old age has a long history. The earliest record can be found in the Local Records of the Western Jin Dynasty: on New Year's Eve, all parties give gifts to each other, which is called "the year of giving back"; Wine and food are invited, which is called "not old"; Young and old get together to drink and wish a complete song called "age division"; Everyone stays up all night, waiting for dawn. This is the so-called "shou sui".

On the first day of the new year, people get up early. Later, some upper-class people and literati congratulated each other with stickers, thus developing the later "New Year cards".

New Year pictures, thick black and heavy colors, add a lot of prosperity and festive atmosphere to thousands of families. An ancient folk art in China reflects people's simple customs and beliefs and places their hopes on the future. New Year pictures, like Spring Festival couplets, originated from colorful New Year pictures of "door gods" to satisfy people's good wishes of celebrating and praying for the New Year. ?

Firecrackers, the new year is coming, and the first thing for every household to open the door is to set off firecrackers and use firecrackers to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new. Firecracker is a specialty of China, also known as "Firecracker", "Firecracker" and "Firecracker".