What is the significance of New Year's Day?

65438+ 10 1 Every New Year's Day is the beginning of the New Year. "New Year's Day" is a compound word. According to a single word, the word "Dan" is represented by a round sun. The word "one" under "Sun" stands for the horizon, which means that the sun rises from Ran Ran on the horizon. It symbolizes a new life and is a hope for the rise of Ran Ran.

Children will eat candied haws in the new year, which symbolizes the prosperity of the new year. Folklore: Yangko, stilt walking and Errenzhuan in the northeast will be performed at the temple fair one after another. Tianjin is full of paper-cuts, couplets and entertainment activities. On New Year's Day, students in Shandong Province burn incense and worship the statue of Confucius, hoping to be the first in the coming year.

New Year custom

The winter weather in northern China is cold, with short days and long nights. Since New Year's Day, people who are idle in farming have been killing pigs and sheep, sitting cross-legged on the heatable adobe sleeping platform, talking about their homes and mouths, and not working until the 15th day of the first month. Due to the cold weather, the Northeast New Year's Day diet is mainly frozen products, pickles and stews. Frozen jiaozi, stewed vermicelli with sauerkraut, preserved sherbet, etc. are all essential foods for Chinese New Year.

New Year's Day customs in the south tend to be "elegant". In Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, bamboo poles are tied to grass and lit on the first day of New Year's Day, which is called "Qingtian silkworm". Shaoxing will entertain guests with "tea bowls" on the first day of the Lunar New Year, and some even add olives and kumquat, which is called "holding gold ingots".

In Fujian, the Fujian pronunciation of "spring" is the same as that of "leftover". When eating on New Year's Day, flowers made of red paper should be inserted into the rice, commonly known as "spring rice". Spring rice is a symbol of "more than one year". In Guangdong, on New Year's Day, the elders will reward the younger generation with red envelopes or oranges, which is also a symbol of good luck and balance in the coming year.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year in Taiwan Province Province, the whole family, old and young, get together for dinner and put hot pot on the table, which is called "around the stove". Those who take part in the "fireplace" should taste everything on the table and drink symbolically to make the next year prosperous.