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What's another name for the Spring Festival?
What gift should I give for the Spring Festival?
What traditional food does Guangdong eat during the Spring Festival?
What's another name for the Spring Festival?
Spring Festival has different names in different times. In the pre-Qin period, it was called "going to Japan", "January Day", "changing the year" and "offering the year". In the Han Dynasty, it was also called "Three Dynasties", "Sui Dan", "Zheng Dan" and "Zhengri". During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, they were called Chen Yuan, Yuan Ri, Fuehrer, Sui Dynasty and Sui Shou. In the Tang, Song, Yuan and Ming dynasties, it was called New Year's Day, Yuan, New Year's Day and Singapore dollar. In the Qing Dynasty, it was always called "New Year's Day" or "Yuan Day".
The Spring Festival refers to the traditional Chinese New Year in the cultural circle of Chinese characters.
Traditional names are New Year, New Year and New Year, but they are also verbally called New Year, Celebrating New Year and China New Year. In ancient times, the Spring Festival refers to the beginning of spring in the solar terms and is also regarded as the beginning of a year. Later, it was changed to the first day of the first lunar month as the New Year. Generally speaking, it doesn't end until the fifteenth day of the first month (Shangyuan Festival). Spring Festival, commonly known as "Year", is the most solemn traditional festival of the Chinese nation. Before Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the Spring Festival dates of different dynasties were different. Since the first year of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the first month of the summer calendar (lunar calendar) has been the beginning of a year, and the annual festival date has been fixed and continues to this day. 19 1658.
The festival on New Year's Eve, also known as the "traditional festival", has a long history and is widely spread, with the characteristics of great popularity, mass and even the whole people. New Year's Day is a time to throw away old clothes and make new ones. Although it is set on the first day of the first lunar month, its activities are not limited to the first day of the first lunar month. From the beginning of the 23rd (or 24th) day of the twelfth lunar month, people began to "busy year": cleaning houses, washing their hair and bathing, and preparing new year's utensils. All these activities have the same theme, that is, "saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new". The new year is also a day to pray for the new year. The ancients said that when millet is ripe, it is "year", and when the grain is abundant, it is "big year". In the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty, there was an annual harvest celebration.
Later, New Year greetings became one of the main contents of the annual customs. Besides, the Kitchen God, Door God, God of Wealth, XiShen, Well God and other gods. Everyone enjoys human incense during the festival. People take this opportunity to thank the gods for their care in the past and pray for more blessings in the new year. New Year's Day is also a time for family reunion, family worship and ancestor worship. On New Year's Eve, the whole family get together to have a "reunion dinner". The elders give "lucky money" to the children, and the family sit around and "watch". At the turn of the New Year's Day, firecrackers exploded, and the activities to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new reached a climax.
Every family burns incense to worship the heavens and the earth and ancestors, then pays tribute to the elders in turn, and then congratulates relatives and friends. New Year's Day is a festival for people to entertain and revel. After the January Festival, a variety of colorful entertainment activities were launched, such as playing with lions, dragon lanterns, yangko dancing, walking on stilts and juggling, which added a rich festive atmosphere to the Spring Festival. Therefore, the grand New Year Festival, which integrates blessing, celebration and entertainment, has become the most grand festival of the Chinese nation. Nowadays, in addition to offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors, the main customs of the festival have been well inherited and developed.
Spring Festival is an important carrier of the excellent tradition of Chinese culture, which contains the wisdom and crystallization of Chinese culture, embodies the life pursuit and emotional sustenance of China people, and inherits the social morality of China people. Therefore, we must vigorously carry forward the excellent traditional culture condensed in the Spring Festival, highlight the themes of saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new, blessing, peaceful reunion and prosperity, strive to create a festive atmosphere of family harmony, stability, unity, joy and peace, and promote the enduring and continuous development of Chinese culture.
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What gift should I give for the Spring Festival?
Send the elders away.
When choosing gifts for elders, it is best to consider the practicality and health of gifts. Practical gifts, including buying clothes for elders, and buying thermal underwear or coats for elders in cold weather during the Spring Festival; From a health point of view, you can buy health foods such as protein powder and cordyceps sinensis for your elders, but you can't buy such gifts blindly. You should buy health products that suit you according to your elders' physical condition.
Send away parents
Giving gifts to parents can be decided according to parents' preferences. For example, if father likes drinking, he can buy two bottles of health wine to take home. Mom likes jewelry, so she can buy her a beautiful jewelry. If you are afraid that your parents are too tired, you can also buy them health gifts such as massage chairs and foot baths, so that parents can have a good rest when they are busy.
Send a lover
If a husband gives a gift to his wife, he can give jewelry such as rings or necklaces. If a wife gives a gift to her husband, she can give a wallet, a belt, etc. Gifts don't have to be expensive, the most important thing is the mind.
Send a leader
First of all, we must know the preferences of leaders in order to get what we want. Leaders like to smoke and send good cigarettes; Send some good tea if you like tea. Giving gifts to leaders is a university question. It is necessary to choose the right gift and time, but it is more important to know whether you can give a gift. If you can't, don't be too entangled, so as not to break the bottom line and cause trouble to the leaders. A new year call and a handwritten new year card may have a better effect.
Send relatives
Giving gifts to relatives during the Spring Festival is also based on each other's preferences. If you are not sure about each other's preferences, buy some practical gifts, such as cooking oil, dairy products, rice, noodles and other necessities. If it is a gift for a relative who is in poor health, you can also buy some supplements that the other person can eat. In short, do whatever you can.
Send colleagues and friends.
Colleagues and friends, mostly of the same age, can give gifts during the Spring Festival, such as hometown specialties, drinks and new year's goods.
Send the children.
Give gifts to children of relatives, friends or leading colleagues during the Spring Festival. If the children are too young, you can give them red envelopes or buy clothes. Older ones can send toys, early education machines, etc. Children who are attending school can send learning machines, books, etc. It should be noted that even if it is just a gift for children, it should not be too casual, and it should have the meaning of blessing.
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What traditional food does Guangdong eat during the Spring Festival?
New Year cake; rice cake
In Guangdong, the essential new year's goods during the Spring Festival are rice cakes. Even if you don't eat, you should put a piece at home to show goodwill. The rice cake has a good color-"Gao nian", which means making a fortune, making progress step by step, and being sweet, meaning that the life in the new year is complete and sweet. Cantonese people like to slice rice cakes and fry them in a pot. Bite down, the surface aroma is tangy, the inside is sticky rice cake, plus sweet taste, adults and children like it very much.
The most traditional Cantonese-style rice cakes are dark orange and plain, but they taste different. Nowadays, many merchants also make rice cakes into the shape of carp, which means that they are higher and higher every year. It became a double-hearted head. Many people like to buy these carp rice cakes as gifts besides eating them themselves.
Sugar ring
Among seasonal foods, sugar rings are probably the most beautiful and eye-catching. Its unique shape, with a ring outside and a five-pointed star inside, is endless.
Sugar doughnuts have a long history. According to "Dongguan County Records", the sugar ring was moved southward by the ancestors of Dongguan. One of the foods brought from the north. In the ancient Central Plains, sugar rings were made of flour. Later, when I arrived in Lingnan, I changed it to glutinous rice flour. When they are fried in the oil pan until they are cooked, they are golden yellow, which also implies that the house is full of gold.
tangyuan
Most southern families are used to getting together to eat the traditional customs of jiaozi on the morning of the Spring Festival. It is said that Yuanxiao symbolizes family reunion, and eating Yuanxiao means family happiness and all the best in the New Year. Eating Yuanxiao on the fifteenth day of the first month is the same custom all over the country.
The custom of eating Yuanxiao on Lantern Festival was formed in Song Dynasty. Yuanxiao was originally called "Tangyuan" because it floats on the water after boiling, which is beautiful and reminds people of a bright moon hanging on the clouds. There is a bright moon in the sky, jiaozi in the bowl, and every family is round and round, symbolizing reunion and good luck. Therefore, eating Yuanxiao expresses people's love for family reunion.
bacon
Eating bacon in the New Year is a traditional custom in Guangdong. "Bacon" is a kind of delicious food that existed only a few years ago, such as sausage, bacon, preserved pig scalp and so on. Its delicious taste makes people mouth water. In the old agricultural society, housewives were busy preparing food for the New Year from the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. Because curing bacon takes a long time, we must start as soon as possible.
When buying bacon, the appearance should be smooth, the lean meat should be hard and purplish red, and the fat meat should be pressed with your fingers without dents and golden yellow. Every piece of meat is very neat, it is a first-class product, and it has a fragrant and delicious taste of sugar and wine, which will be particularly refreshing but not greasy. If the bacon has an odor and the meat turns black, it means that it has been stored for too long.
Fried Rice Cake
There are many kinds of cakes in Guangdong, the most famous of which is Yangjiang fried rice cake, commonly known as powder cake or hard cake. Together with Foshan Blind Cake, Zhongshan Almond Cake and Xiqiao Cake, it is also called the four famous cakes in Guangdong.
South Guangdong custom, making fried rice cakes during the Spring Festival, later became a snack all year round. The whole family, old and young, went into battle and made cakes in harmony. Stir-fry uncooked rice in an iron pan, grind it into rice flour with a stone mill, add yellow sugar, white sugar, brown sugar and other ingredients, press it into a wooden cake, seal it, demould it, and bake it with charcoal.
Fried pile
For Lao Guang, doing pile speculation in the New Year means "boring pile speculation, full of gold and silver". As early as the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, Qu Dajun recorded in "Guangdong New Language": "Those who fry piles take glutinous rice flour as the size circle, fry it, worship their ancestors and give it to relatives and friends."
In the past, it was a very grand thing to do fried piles. We should drive all the children out of the studio and say auspicious words while frying, so as to pray for a long-term future.
powdered eggs
Guangzhou people also fry eggs in the New Year, which is famous for its crispness. Legend has it that once during the Spring Festival, when every family prepared peanuts, sesame seeds, sugar and other fillings for oil angle to cook, one family was too poor to buy fillings, so they squeezed the dough originally used to make oil angle into an oil pan. When the new year comes, the poor take out dough to greet their friends. Everyone thinks it's crispy and delicious in the mouth, so they ask the name. After careful consideration, the poor man said, "Because the ingredients have eggs, and the characteristics of melting in the mouth are like falling apart, let's call them scattered eggs."
All you need is flour, eggs and southern milk. The usual practice is to cut the kneaded dough into a rectangle, cut three knives in the middle of the rectangle dough, then pass one side of the rectangle through the middle cut to form an arch, and then fry it in the oil pan.
Fried radish pie
Radish cake is a favorite snack of Guangzhou people and a festive food during the Spring Festival. A few days before the Chinese New Year, housewives will go to the market to buy a few kilograms of white radish, as well as ingredients such as shrimp skin and sticky rice noodles.
Making radish cake is not easy at all: peel the radish first, and then cut it into shreds patiently. Usually, it takes a capable housewife half an hour to finish this job. Then, the shredded radish should be cooked, mixed with sticky rice flour, and the two raw materials should be stirred into a paste. Then add shrimp, bacon, lard, pepper, soy sauce, monosodium glutamate and refined salt and steam. Radish cakes are usually fried in a pan for a few minutes. It tastes delicious and is the favorite of many children during the Spring Festival.
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