New Year's eve is our traditional festival. Through the ages, people use a variety of ways to celebrate New Year's eve. Do you know what are the customs of New Year's eve?
(除夕是我國傳統的佳節,古往今來,人們用各種方式來慶賀除夕,那麼大家知道除夕的習俗都有哪些呢?)
Happy New Year
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一.Time (時間)
New Year's eve is the last night of the twelfth lunar month.
(除夕是每年農曆臘月(12月)的最後一個晚上。)
二.Meaning (意義)
New Year's eve,「Chu」, is the meaning of removal, 「xi」, refers to the night. New Year's eve is to bid farewell to the old and usher in the new.
(除夕: "除",是去除的意思; "夕",指夜晚。除夕就是辭舊迎新、一元復始、萬象更新的節日。)
三.Customs (習俗)
1. Ancestor worship(祭祖)
Because customs vary from place to place. There are different forms of ancestor worship. Some go to the wild to visit their ancestors' tombs; Some go to ancestral halls to worship their ancestors; However, most people place the ancestral tablets in order in the main hall at home. They display tribute. Then the worshipers kneel down in order of age.
(因為各地禮俗不同,祭祖形式也各異。有的到野外瞻拜祖墓; 有的到宗祠拜祖;然而大多數在家中將祖先牌位依次擺放在正廳, 陳列貢品, 然後祭拜者按長幼的順序上香跪拜。)
2. New Year's Eve dinner(年夜飯)
Eating New Year's eve dinner is the most lively and happy time of each family in Spring Festival. In the eve, the table was set with rich New Year's dishes. Families get together, sit around the table, and have dinner together.
(吃年夜飯,是春節家家戶戶最熱鬧,愉快的時候. 大年夜,豐盛的年菜擺滿一桌, 闔家團聚,圍坐桌旁,共吃團圓飯。)
3. Pasting Spring Couplets (貼春聯)
Spring festival couplets are also called 「spring festival scrolls」, 「New Year scrolls」 or 「spring festival coup」.
(春聯又叫「門對」、「春貼」、「對聯」、「對子」。)
4. Pasting New Year Prints (貼年畫)
New Year pictures, like Spring Festival couplets, originated from 「the god of doors」.
(年畫和春聯一樣,起源於」門神「。)
5.Pasting the window paper-cut (貼窗花)
In the folk, people also like to paste a variety of paper-cut on the windows .
(在民間,人們還喜歡在窗戶上貼上各種剪紙——窗花。)
6. Set off firecrackers (燃放爆竹)
It is said "open the door plug and firecrackers " in Chinese folk. As the New Year begins, Setting off firecrackers is the first thing that every family opens the door. Welcome the new with a crackle of firecrackers.
(中國民間有」開門爆竹「一說。 就是在新的一年到來之際, 家家戶戶開門的第一件事就是燃放爆竹。以噼噼啪啪的爆竹聲除舊迎新。)