Here comes Kirin. It symbolizes "good luck" and "Kerry is true".
Since ancient times, Kirin has been regarded as the Chery of the country and a symbol of the arrival of peace and prosperity. As far back as the Han Dynasty, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty changed the title of the year in order to make the world clear and the imperial power prominent. He also ordered people to build a "Kirin Pavilion" in Weiyang Palace and cast gold "forest gold". In the Tang Dynasty, Empress Wu Zetian showed her reverence for Kirin. In front of her mother's grave, she deliberately carved a tall and powerful unicorn with stone as a beast to guard the tomb.
However, the custom of folk wedding stickers "Kirin is here" originated from the story of "Kirin sending a child".
Legend has it that a long time ago, there was a folk painter. The couple love each other and have a happy family life, but they are old and have no children. This painter prefers to paint Kirin, and his room is full of all kinds of lifelike paintings of Kirin. One night, he was proudly admiring the Kirin paintings hanging all over the room, watching and laughing. Suddenly, a golden unicorn came up to him with a chubby child. The painter is in high spirits, dancing and laughing. It turned out to be a beautiful dream.
The next year, his wife was very happy to have a son. After the child is born, he is not only extremely clever, but also superior in wisdom. Before he went to school, he could write poems and draw pictures at the age of six. You can also go out often and sing against the literati nearby. Because of his self-study, he is called "Kirin prodigy". So the story of "Kirin sending the child" is widely circulated among the people.
Later, according to this story, people drew a New Year picture of "Kirin sending a child": a unicorn, with a dragon head, a lion's tail, a deer's body and horseshoes, all dressed in armor, a fat child carrying a lotus leaf, followed by a woman, dressed luxuriously, gentle and elegant. Its moral is: "son inherits his father's business", and the background is filled with the auspicious and festive atmosphere of "God-given son".
2. Are there any compositions about New Year's Eve, Spring Festival and Lantern Festival?
Firecrackers are one year old, and the spring breeze brings send warm into Tu Su.
This is a common phrase used by ancient people and modern people. It is often said that everything on the earth revives in spring. With the ringing of the New Year bell, the Year of the Tiger has arrived, and Taurus has left to bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new year. I remember that the happiest thing in the New Year is to pay a New Year call to everyone. Of course, the main purpose of New Year greetings is to ask for red envelopes.
Happy new year. Happy new year. On New Year's Eve, jiaozi and his family set off firecrackers to watch the Spring Festival Gala and eat sweets and melon seeds.
New Year's Eve is one of the most important traditional festivals in China. Every family often stays up late on the last night of the lunar calendar, which is called keeping the old age, and this night is called New Year's Eve. In ancient times, there was a saying by Su Shi: Children don't want to sleep, but have fun at night.
Isn't this the lively scene of New Year's Eve? In fact, every child my age likes the Spring Festival best. On this day, not only do you visit around to pay New Year greetings, but more importantly, you can get blessings and lucky money from your elders.
Unfortunately, my parents always tell me that I will keep this lucky money for you and give it to you when you grow up. Happy new year, happy new year.
Although each greeting is short, it contains many blessings. Come ~ ~ ~ Come ~ ~ Come: Eat dumplings and sell them. This year's dumplings are round. You, me, me or me.
Customs vary from place to place. I prefer to call jiaozi Yuanxiao, which is white and round. When the pot is cooked, I will look around for Yuanxiao filled with black sesame seeds and have soup while eating. Delicious.
Lantern Festival, the ancients called the night of the first month of the lunar calendar, and the fifteenth day was the night of the first full moon in a year, so the ancients called the fifteenth day of the first month "Lantern Festival" and it has been passed down to this day. However, the most interesting thing about Lantern Festival is not eating Yuanxiao, but watching lanterns on couplets. Ancient literati wrote countless poems praising Lantern Festival, which are still memorable today.
"A song of Haruka is like the sea, and thousands of lights are like night." The Lantern Festival has passed, and the Year of the Tiger has begun. I wish you all a happy new year again.
Spring Festival generally refers to New Year's Eve and the first day of the first month. But among the people, the traditional Spring Festival refers to the sacrificial ceremony from the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month or the 23rd or 24th of the twelfth lunar month to the 15th of the first lunar month in La Worship, with New Year's Eve and the first day of the first lunar month as * * *.
During the Spring Festival, Han people and many ethnic minorities in our country will hold various activities to celebrate. The main contents of these activities are offering sacrifices to gods and buddhas, paying homage to ancestors, saying goodbye to the old year and welcoming the new year, and praying for a bumper harvest.
The activities are rich and colorful, with strong national characteristics. Zhuxian Town's woodblock New Year picture "cornucopia stove" is the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, commonly known as "off-year". It is said that this day is the day when the kitchen god goes to heaven, so it is necessary to worship the kitchen god.
The seventh day after the off-year will be 30. In China, the Spring Festival usually begins with a ceremony of offering sacrifices to stoves on the 23rd or 24th of the twelfth lunar month. There is a saying that "officials, three people, four boatmen and five people", that is, the government held a ceremony to sacrifice stoves on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, ordinary people on the 24th and houseboats on the 25th.
After holding the sacrificial stove, they officially began to prepare for the New Year. Every year from the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month to New Year's Eve, the cartoon "Sacrificing a Kitchen to Heaven" is called "Spring Festival" by the people.
It is said that every year on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, Kitchen God will report the good and evil of this family to the Jade Emperor, so that the Jade Emperor can reward and punish it. Therefore, when sending stoves, people will put candy, water, beans and grass on the console table in front of the statue of the kitchen god, and the last three are for the mount of the kitchen god to ascend to heaven.
When offering sacrifices to the stove, you should melt the sugar (or honey) and put it on the mouth of the kitchen god, so that he can't speak ill of the jade emperor and say: God speaks well. According to folklore, Kitchen God tells the world about good and evil. Once the defendant commits evil, his life will be shortened by 300 days for major crimes and 100 days for minor crimes.
This statement is widely circulated. People think that a few good words from the Kitchen God in front of the Jade Emperor will bring happiness to the family and bless the family's peace in the coming year.
Therefore, on the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, every household has to offer sacrifices to the kitchen god and ask him to speak well and say auspicious words the day after tomorrow. This ceremony of sending the kitchen god is called "sending the kitchen stove" or "resigning the kitchen stove".
When sending stoves, people use various methods to deal with the kitchen god, in order to make him "speak well from heaven and return to the palace for good luck." Some worship it with chewing gum candy, so as to stick the kitchen god's teeth so that it can't talk nonsense; Some people paint the kitchen door with distiller's grains, calling it "drunk commander", so drunk that the kitchen god dare not talk nonsense.
Kitchen God is treated specially. It is certainly not good for him to "eat others' mouths short" and speak ill of him. This is actually a kind of moral self-discipline among the people. Seven days later, on New Year's Eve, the Kitchen God will be brought back.
Because, on the night of New Year's Eve, Kitchen God will come to the earth to celebrate the New Year with the gods, and there will be ceremonies of "receiving the kitchen" and "receiving the gods" on that day. According to the general local custom, the master is responsible for receiving the kitchen god, and the harem does not participate. In ancient times, there was a saying that "men don't Yue Bai, women don't sacrifice stoves".
After seeing off the Kitchen God, it was the turn to worship the ancestors, which was called "hanging shadows" by the people. Lin, a folklore expert in Tianjin, said that on New Year's Day, portraits or photos of ancestors should be hung on the wall, drinks and tributes should be prepared, and people should worship them until New Year's Eve.
Eating stove candy is a kind of maltose, which is very sticky. The candy that is drawn into a long strip is called "Guandong Sugar", and the candy that is drawn into a flat circle is called "Tanggua". When it is put outside in winter, because of the cold weather, the honeydew melon is solidified firmly, and there are some tiny bubbles in it. It tastes crisp, sweet and fragrant, and has a special flavor.
[2] In the twelfth lunar month, the comic "Sweeping the Dust" is called "Sweeping the House Dust on the 24th of the twelfth lunar month". After the Stove Festival, preparations for the Chinese New Year officially began.
Dust removal is year-end cleaning, which is called "house cleaning" in the north and "dust removal" in the south. It is a traditional habit of our people to sweep the dust before the Spring Festival.
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. North and south of the great river, there is an atmosphere of jubilation, sanitation and clean welcome for the Spring Festival.
According to ancient records, there was a habit of year-end cleaning in ancient times. The custom of "sweeping the house with dust on the 24th of the twelfth lunar month" has a long history.
According to "Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals", China had the custom of sweeping dust during 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 means "getting rid of the old and not getting new", and its original intention is.