After the off-year, people began to get busy, killing pigs and sheep, steaming steamed bread, making tofu, making new clothes, cutting window grilles, writing couplets, buying new year's goods and inviting door gods. People who leave home have to travel all the way home. ...
The fragrance of jiaozi on New Year's Eve.
Jiaozi is a traditional food with a long history in China. But jiaozi during the Spring Festival has different meanings, symbolizing reunion and peace.
The last day of the lunar calendar in China is called "the 30th of the twelfth lunar month". This afternoon, housewives began to prepare for jiaozi. There are dozens of fillings in jiaozi, including pork, mutton, seafood, eggs and vegetarian stuffing. On the thirtieth night of the twelfth lunar month, the whole family gathered round and round to bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new year by eating and drinking the best food and wine.
On New Year's Eve, traditional jiaozi must wait until midnight, that is, after the new year's clock strikes. People set off firecrackers and fireworks and ate jiaozi happily. There are many famous things in the jiaozi on New Year's Eve, such as wrapping sterilized coins in several jiaozi bags. Those lucky enough to eat them are considered lucky in the new year. If the newlyweds can eat jiaozi with dates, peanuts and chestnuts, it means that they will have a baby early in the new year. ...
The first bowl of jiaozi on New Year's Eve is dedicated to the deceased relatives to show their memory. Eating jiaozi on the morning of New Year's Day is a traditional custom in northern China, but it is not available now. The first meal on the first day of the New Year must be jiaozi. It was wrapped the night before and frozen in the yard, which means more food every year. From the first day of junior high school, traditionally, cows, sheep, chickens and dogs are in charge every day, so there are established rules for what staple food to eat every day, but jiaozi will always be the staple food.
Red lanterns are hung high.
Red lanterns are the mascots of China people, which means that the days are getting more and more prosperous. On New Year's Eve, in addition to putting up red couplets, many units and houses are hung with red lanterns.
The fifteenth day of the first lunar month in China is the last day of the Spring Festival. The fifteenth day of the first month is called Lantern Festival, also called "Lantern Festival". People call this night's celebration the Lantern Festival, also known as the Lantern Festival. The lanterns on the fifteenth day of the first month are different from the red lanterns hung on New Year's Eve. First of all, their styles are different, they are no longer a single round lantern, but various geometric shapes and animal and plant shapes; Secondly, the colors are different, not uniform red, but red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple. Third, the content is different. Lanterns are painted with various historical stories, historical figures, landscape flowers, animals and plants.
The most striking thing during the Spring Festival is lantern riddles, which are riddles written on lanterns. On the Lantern Festival, solve riddles on the lanterns is also one of the main activities. On the night of the Lantern Festival in ancient China, thousands of lanterns competed with each other, reflecting the streets into daylight.
Beating gongs and drums to watch the big play
During the Spring Festival, percussion instruments, percussion instruments, stringed instruments and plucked instruments are played in the cities and villages of China, mixed with firecrackers, which set off warm smiling faces. The theaters in the city, large and small, are crowded with people day and night, performing well-known dramas. In the vast rural areas north and south of the river, people are dressed in festive costumes before the temporary stage, and men, women and children are crowded. On the stage, gongs and drums are loud and the music is melodious; Vendors selling snacks such as melon seeds and sweets and various children's toys keep shuttling.
China folks say that "watching a big drama" has two meanings. First, the formal drama named "Xi" and "Xi" is different from Quyi's singing; Second, it refers to a series of plays of various performances, that is, large-scale plays with several performances, which are different from single-stage plays. All kinds of dramas have their own large-scale dramas, and some have to be performed for several days in a row, just like the long TV series now. Those big plays usually don't have enough time to perform, and they can be performed leisurely from beginning to end during the Spring Festival. Compared with drama, Quyi performance is a popular literary program in rural areas of China, although its scale is generally small.
I was jubilant and played a social fire.
The social fire in China is neither a drama nor a folk art, but a folk art integrating music, dance and acrobatics, such as dragon dancing, lion dancing, yangko dancing, walking on stilts, roller boating and drumming. If strictly classified, Nuo opera in Anhui and Hubei is actually a form of social fire. These forms of folk literature and art are characterized by enthusiasm, popularity and festive atmosphere.
During the Spring Festival, the scale of social fires in urban and rural areas is different. Small-scale social fire has only one or two or three literary forms; Large-scale social fires, including the above-mentioned various literary forms, or one form lists a square, or several forms are interspersed with each other, thriving and bustling.