Pay New Year greetings to elders.

As soon as New Year's Eve is over, it is the first day of the first month. What is the significance of the Spring Festival? The following is for everyone, I hop

As soon as New Year's Eve is over, it is the first day of the first month. What is the significance of the Spring Festival? The following is for everyone, I hope to help everyone!

The original meaning of the word "Happy New Year" is to pay New Year greetings to the elderly, including kowtowing to them, congratulating them on their health and happiness in the new year and greeting their lives. When you meet friends and relatives of your peers, you should also greet each other. So far, this etiquette has not changed, but has become more diversified in form.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, people get up early, put on the most beautiful clothes, dress neatly, go out to visit relatives and friends and wish each other good luck in the coming year.

Since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, China people have formulated unwritten rules for New Year greetings, in a certain order: first, worship the gods of heaven and earth, then worship the true shadow of ancestors, then worship the elders of Gaotang, and finally the whole family worships each other in the order of generations. Give gifts to elders and reward children. When paying a New Year call, the younger generation should first pay a New Year call to their elders and wish them a long and healthy life. The elders can distribute the lucky money prepared in advance to the younger generation. It is said that lucky money can kill evil spirits, because "old" and "special" are homophonic, and the younger generation can spend a year safely with lucky money.

Paying homage to relatives and friends also pays attention to the order: paying homage to family members on the first day; The next day, the third day, I visited my mother's uncle, uncle, father-in-law and so on. Until 16. This custom was popular as early as the Song Dynasty. Mr. Meng described the cloud of Bianjing in the Northern Song Dynasty in Volume 6 of Dream of China in Tokyo: "On October 1st, Kaifeng House was released for three days, and scholars celebrated each other early." In the Qing Dynasty, the New Year greeting etiquette was sublimated. Gu Tieqing, a Qing man, described in Jia Qinglu that "men and women pay homage to their parents, and the master leads them to visit their neighbors, or sends their children to congratulate them, which is called' Happy New Year'. Even if we don't meet at the end of the year, we will worship each other at this time ... "Generally speaking, it is enough for our peers to pay a New Year call.

First of all, worship the elders at home. On the first morning, after the younger generation gets up, they should first pay a New Year call to their elders. Of course, after the elders worship, they will definitely distribute the "lucky money" prepared in advance to the younger generation. What you can't forget is to pay New Year greetings to your neighbors and elders. There is an old saying in China: A distant relative is better than a close neighbor. Therefore, it is second only to our own elders to pay New Year greetings to our neighbors and elders. Generally speaking, neighbors and elders will also give "lucky money".

The second is to visit relatives and friends for the New Year. Be sure to go to your parents-in-law's house on the first or second day, and bring gifts. After entering the door, you should bow down to the Buddha statue, ancestor statue and memorial tablet, and then bow down to your elders in turn.

Then there is a courtesy New Year greeting. If you want to pay a New Year call to your friends, all you have to do is bow to the Buddha when you enter the room. If you are equal to your master, you just have to bow your head. If you are older than yourself, you should still take the initiative to bow your head. The host should get down from his seat to help you, or even say that he is not polite to show his humility. Under normal circumstances, it is not advisable to sit for a long time, and leave after greeting. After the host worships, he should also pay a return visit another day.

And grateful New Year wishes. Anyone who owes someone a favor in the past year, such as someone who has helped himself or a teacher, master, doctor, etc. You should buy some gifts for them and take the opportunity to express your gratitude.

The most solemn New Year greeting custom is collective worship. Group worship has now become a national etiquette activity, even international. Some countries friendly to China will call China to celebrate the New Year. China's diplomatic envoys abroad will also hold Spring Festival group worship activities. The form of "group worship" probably originated in the Qing Dynasty. In "Jade Tan on the Side Hat", the Qing master once said: "At the beginning of each year, the capital will hold a routine group worship to unite the friendship of the New Year and express the nostalgia." Every year, he will book guests, have a banquet and create a surprise day. "

Nowadays, there are various ways to pay New Year greetings, such as sending short messages, greeting cards, courtesy calls and telegrams. When you send a greeting card, you will also send your own business card.

In ancient times, if neighbors had too many relatives and friends, it was difficult to walk around the whole house. People call it "flying mail", and let servants take their business cards to pay New Year's greetings. There is a red paper bag with the word "Fu Jie" written on it in front of each house, which is the purpose of posting flying cards. This custom began in the upper class of the Song Dynasty. In the Qing Dynasty, the Yantai Moon Order described the Beijing New Year Festival: "It's a fashion that the moon is flying and the sky is empty." Each family has set up a special door book to record the guests' contacts and flying photos. The front page of the door book is mostly the virtual relatives of four people: one is a centenarian who lives in centenarian lane; One said he was rich and lived in Yuanbao Street. One day, you promised someone and lived in the university archway; One day, Fu Zhao visited his master and lived in Five Blessingg Building. For good luck. So far, the gift of New Year cards and greeting cards during the Spring Festival is the legacy of this ancient exchange of flying cards.

It is very popular for ancient scholars to pay New Year greetings to each other. The New Year drill is today's New Year card, which evolved from ancient business cards. According to Zhao Yi's research in the Qing Dynasty, there was no paper in the Western Han Dynasty, so bamboo was cut into thorns, and the book was named "Ming Thorn". Later, people embroidered the words "business card" on the brocade with red wool. After the Eastern Han Dynasty, wood was replaced by paper, which was called "famous paper". In the Six Dynasties, it was called "Ming" for short, and in the Tang Dynasty it was called "door-shaped". Song dynasty was also called "hand stab" and "door stab".

As early as the Song Dynasty, friends and relatives exchanged greetings, which was the early New Year cards. Hui Zhou, a poet of the Song Dynasty, said in Qingbo magazine: "During the reign of Emperor Yuanyou of the Song Dynasty, the servants were often stabbed with famous names." At that time, the scholar-officials had a wide circle of friends, and it took time and energy to pay New Year greetings everywhere. Therefore, some close friends did not go in person, but sent their servants to take a card cut with plum blossom stationery, two inches wide and three inches long, with the recipient's name, address and congratulations written on it.

According to the Miscellaneous Notes of Lu Rongyuan in Ming Dynasty, the custom of welcoming the New Year was first implemented in Kyoto in Ming Dynasty. Lu Rong wrote in Miscellanies of Tang Garden: "After the capital is returned to Yuan, people who cross the road in a few days from the imperial court to Shu Ren are called New Year greetings. However, Shu Ren worships his relatives and friends, which is more solid. The communication between officials is more universal than specialized. For example, East and West Chang 'an Avenue, officials live the most. At this point, those who don't ask for knowledge and ignorance, stab at the door, some don't dismount, some don't send famous cards to the door, and the servants answer the door, all refuse, or some don't accept it behind closed doors. An official in Beijing walks together when he retires, and returns when he is more drunk. After three or four days, I began to worship my parents. "When dealing with officials, whether you know them or not, you should worship each other, and the people worship their relatives and friends.

Pay attention to the etiquette of New Year greetings mainly from the following aspects:

1. Make an appointment before the New Year: make an appointment in advance before the New Year. Don't "crash" or make an empty trip with the host's other New Year guests just because the host also goes out to pay a New Year call. At the same time, give the host a time to prepare in advance. It's best to give the host a choice when making an appointment. Don't set the time unilaterally. It is better for both parties to be convenient when making an appointment.

2. Timing of New Year greetings: Generally speaking, people should choose the morning when greeting their elders, and don't get up too early during festivals, because people usually get up very late during festivals. If you visit your home too early, you will often catch your host off guard. If there is a New Year's Eve dinner, the time of New Year's Eve can be determined according to the time of the New Year's Eve dinner. Arrive early, don't wait until dinner time. Time should be reserved for greeting and chatting.

3. New Year's gift: Choose the right gift according to the main target of New Year's greeting. If you are familiar with the object of New Year greetings, you can choose the gift that the other person likes, which is also a good choice. If you don't know much, you can choose flowers, fruits and food ... you can't go wrong. Alcohol and tobacco should be determined according to the object, such as giving grandma a New Year greeting, but it is meaningless to give grandma cigarettes and alcohol that she doesn't need. If the host has children at home, he can also choose the gifts that the children like appropriately.

Etiquette and taboo of New Year greetings during the Spring Festival.

1, New Year's clothes: New Year's new atmosphere, you should pay attention to your clothes when visiting relatives and friends. Holiday clothes are mainly urban leisure fashion, so don't wear too much exercise or formal evening dresses. If the clothes are dark or depressing, you can add some trinkets to add festive atmosphere. The colors of a family's clothes should be coordinated as much as possible to increase the warmth of the family.

2, guest etiquette: when entering the door, you should change shoes according to the environmental requirements of relatives and friends; Say hello to relatives and friends one by one, and know the family members and their names in advance; Give gifts politely; Visit relatives and friends, take the living room as the main activity place, and do not take the initiative to visit each room without the owner's permission; When visiting relatives and friends, we should focus on the living habits of the host family, not as casual as our own. The main content of chatting with the host is to ask questions, greet each other and enhance their feelings.

3. Control of New Year greetings: If there is no dinner, it is generally appropriate to control it to 1 hour in half an hour. If there is a meal, you can arrive before the meal 1 hour and leave after the meal 1 hour. There is no fixed time limit, you can choose according to your relationship with New Year's greetings, so as not to increase the reception burden of New Year's greetings.

4. Table manners: When attending the host's New Year reception banquet, priority should be given to the elderly, and the main seat should be humbly given to the elderly. The main seat in the hotel is generally the farthest from the door, or the main seat facing away from the rostrum. At home, it is mainly facing the kitchen door, and the position of the main seat can also be seen because of the furnishings at home, with the left as the largest. The dining table culture in China is a platform for communication. Don't eat without talking, but don't talk too much. Let the dishes not be mixed with vegetables, and propose a toast without persuading wine. The food during the Spring Festival is about years old, so don't eat all the dishes on the table.

5. Chatting essentials during New Year's greetings: In the new year, we should praise the old people's looks and health, give them more opportunities to speak, praise the career, health and family relations of young and middle-aged people, praise children's intelligence, study, courtesy and understanding, talk more about happy things and less about complaining topics. They should all be "good words for the New Year, good luck between the lines". Focus on talking about each other, don't turn it into your own performance or lecture hall, stop joking and mocking, and master the degree. If you are unfamiliar with the host's family, don't ignore it. Say hello.