Lunar New Year is the most important festival in China.

Festival is the beginning of this year, commonly known as "Chinese New Year". In ancient times, the first day of the year was called New Year, also known as Chen Yuan, Mongolia, Yuan Shuo and so on. At the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, one morning, in the book of animal reproduction, Dream, it said, "On the ninth day of the first month, on the New Year's Day, it was popular to call the 1 year-old festival preface of the New Year, the first person." The first month after Qin Shihuang unified China, Meng Dongyue. "In the beginning, it was obviously aboveboard." Why are people used to being marked by "positive" and obvious "signs"? This is what Qin Shihuang claimed to be the emperor. Because Qin Shihuang's surname won the unanimous voice of politics, "Zheng" and "Zheng", and ordered the whole country to avoid the obvious "sign" of "Zheng" in January. From then on, people no longer call it "national celebration" and obvious "collection for one month". After maturity, it has been passed on to future generations. In the Han Dynasty, Sima Qian's solar calendar was prepared for the lunar calendar, and the first month of each month was fixed in Meng Chun. From the Han Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, the summer calendar was always used. Therefore, it is also called the Lunar New Year, or the Lunar New Year. The revolution of 19 1 1 overthrew the rule of the Qing dynasty and abolished the lunar calendar. People in China began to use the Gregorian calendar, Gregorian calendar 1, the annual New Year's Day. The difference between the lunar calendar and the solar calendar is that only the first month of the lunar calendar is the first day of the Lunar New Year in China, not another name.

What about the ancient New Year greetings?

The Origin of the Lunar New Year in China

BR/>； According to legend, a long time ago, the name of millions of youth years, please refer to the messy season, I hope the season will be accurate. He went up the mountain to cut wood and sat under a big tree to enjoy the cool. The moving shadow inspired him. He designed a sundial to measure the sun's shadow for several days. However, the rain and fog in the sky affected the measurement. Later, the dripping spring on the cliff aroused his interest, and he had a five-story clepsydra in his hand. As time went on, he found that the length of a day would be repeated every 360 days.

When the monarch called Zu Ti, it was an unpredictable day, so he was very upset. Minister Jiao Ahong's name, in order to please the emperor, Zoucheng set up a roof in the sky Dear God. What Zuyi said makes sense. They led officials to heaven, but to no avail. Ten thousand years ago, I knew that when I went to see the emperor, with the help of Xia Yi and Zuyi, I couldn't tell the truth about the movement of the sun and the moon. When Zuyi was happy, he felt justified. So ten thousand years ago, before it was built, the Sun Moon Pavilion in the Temple of Heaven was built, and the sundial platform and the leaky pot pavilion were built. 12 young people have served for thousands of years.

"Ten thousand years later, he said to Zu," I hope you can accurately measure the sun and the moon, accurately calculate Chen, and create a calendar for the benefit of ordinary people and facing the world. ",Zu Ti sent a message to Ahern to learn about the progress of the calendar. When he boarded the altar of the Sun and Moon, he saw the carved rock wall on the side of the Temple of Heaven:

Sunrise and sunset 360

Start from scratch again and again.

Ge Mukulong pointed out four points.

12 round one year old.

BR/>； Seeing this situation, Ah Heng was very upset to learn that this calendar had not been successful for thousands of years. He was extremely afraid that the monarch would blame the god who sacrificed himself for creating the perpetual calendar, so his conspirators sent assassins to get rid of it. The assassin climbed into the court, watched the stars for thousands of years, and prepared to shoot. He said that the assassin was found by the guards and arrested on the spot. Zu Ti, after the punishment, Ah Heng boarded the Sun Moon Pavilion and personally boarded the Millennium. Ten thousand years ago, Zu Ti pointed to the planetarium and said, "This is 12 months. After the end of the old year, China began to pray for the monarch to set up a festival in the new year. " Zu Ti said, "The Spring Festival is called the Spring Festival.

Winter goes and spring comes, year after year. Later, after thousands of years of long-term observation and careful calculation, an accurate solar calendar was formulated. When his solar calendar provided a successor to the monarch, it sounded the demand for silver. The monarch was deeply moved. In order to commemorate the achievements of thousands of years, he named the solar calendar "calendar" and sealed the birth stars of the sun and the moon for thousands of years. Later, people hung Shou Xingtu in the New Year, according to legend, to commemorate the respected millennium. This is the origin of the Lunar New Year in China.

Age, first, talk about the beginning of the year; At the beginning of the year, the first thing is to give a speech before the age of 20. about

In the north and south of the river, in our towns, at the end of the twelfth lunar month, people began to hold the "Spring Festival" New Year. A few years ago, local markets were bustling and very lively. Store stalls are stocked for eating, wearing, using and playing, and "rice cakes" are marked with silver-red seals, as well as holiday items such as New Year pictures, Spring Festival couplets, fireworks and incense sticks. A few years ago, the market was the richest and most complete year, and men, women and children were trying to buy some ideal goods. Especially for children, when buying firecrackers, they often can't wait for the Chinese New Year to start releasing them, adding to the atmosphere of the arrival of the New Year.

Singing folk songs in Beijing at the end of the year;

Twenty-three, honeydew melon is sticky;

24. Spring cleaning day;

Twenty-five pieces of tofu;

Twenty-six, meat

Twenty-seven, killing chickens;

28, flour hair;

29, all fragrant fights;

30, sit for one night at night;

I came out as soon as it was hot on New Year's Day.

The lyrics depict the busy situation at the end of the year. Similar folk songs are very popular in China.

Emergency noise

Spring Festival in China usually begins with offering sacrifices to stoves. The proverb "twenty-three candied melon sticks" refers to the so-called "official, three people and four boatmen 5" on the twenty-third day of the twelfth lunar month. It is said that this is the official and general private residence on the 24th, 23rd or 24th, compared with 25th. about

Anxiety noise has a great influence on our people and is a popular custom. In the past, almost every kitchen was a tablet of "Kitchen God". People call this "Bodhisattva in Siming District of Xiamen" or "Siming Kitchen King". It is said that he is the "King of Nine-hole Stove and Furnace Palace in Siming District of Xiamen" sealed by the Jade Emperor, who is in charge of the stove fire and is enshrined by the protector. Kitchen God's niche is mostly located in the north or east kitchen. Kitchen God is just like the kitchen where there is no niche in the middle, and the idol is directly hung on the wall. Some statues only draw the kitchen god, some men and women 2, the goddess grandmother of the kitchen god. This is a possible image, imitating human lovers. Most kitchens are printed as this year's calendar, and the letters "Owner of Siming District in the East Kitchen", "God of Human Supervision" and "Head of the Family" are printed to show Vesta's status. The couplets of "God made, the lower limit of safety" are posted on both sides to bless the safety of the whole family.

Kitchen God has been staying at home for protection and monitoring since last year's Eve. On the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, the kitchen god ascended to heaven to report his whereabouts and the good deeds or evil deeds of the Jade Emperor's family. The ceremony in the Song Dynasty was called "sending the kitchen away" or "quitting the stove". According to Kitchen God's report, the Jade Emperor will hand over the good or bad fate to Kitchen God in the new year. So a person who reported Kitchen God was very interested.

Sending stoves, mostly at night, should be held. The family came to the kitchen first, and the shrine on the kitchen wall on the table was in the kitchen, with Buddha, caramel and honeydew melon on the surface. Bamboo strips are tied into paper horses and then fed to animals. Caramel worships the kitchen god. In some places, the side around the stove mouth is coated with sugar, saying, "Speak well, don't curse." This is God's kitchen, with sugar in his mouth, so that he can't speak ill. In the Tang Dynasty, it was between Records of Old Events and Records of Siming (Kitchen God) Drunkenness. In the works of the sugar-coated Kitchen God, they peel off a statue and paper and smoke rise into the sky. In some places, sesame stalks and pine branches are piled up in the yard at night, and then the kitchen god statue is worshipped for one year, together with paper horses and forage, and burned. The fire in the yard lit a bright family and kowtowed, burned and prayed around the fire:

From this year to the 23rd,

The king let the kitchen god perish.

Keywords strong horse, feed,

Melon is sweet,

Jade is a good word.

In some places, there are beggars in disguise. They went to the people who sang and danced to send the kitchen god, which is the so-called "bad song" in exchange for food.

The custom of sending stoves is very common in the north and south of China. Lu Xun wrote: "The Boxer sent a stove" poem:

Chicken jelly, the typical clothing is Hong Kong skin flap. ：

There is no property, and the antelope is lonely.

He said: "that day in heaven, the chef sold sugar in the street, as big as oranges." We have this thing, but it is flat, like a small thick pancake, the so-called "glue tooth cup", claiming to invite the chef to dinner and stick his teeth, so we can't emphasize that he speaks ill of parrots and jade emperors. " Lu Xun's poem mentioned that "the story of antelope is understood from Chinese Pronunciation * * *": "The mysterious and negative side is that on a morning in 65438+ February, the banquet was the most filial, and the kitchen god saw his son's farewell celebration, and the domestic antelope had the same result. Naturally, Pat, get rich. Knowledge three flourished, and a day of worship in 65438+ February often implied that antelope was strict. "Yin side to see the kitchen god, while killing antelope sacrifice, and later made a fortune. Since then, the sacrifice of antelope has been customized and passed down from generation to generation.

During the Tang and Song Dynasties, the sacrificial stoves provided were quite rich. Fan Chengda, a poet in the Song Dynasty, gave an extremely vivid description of the folk stove sacrifice at that time:

On the 24th of the twelfth lunar month in ancient times,

Speak your mind, chef.

Clouds, cars and horses wander,

The cups and plates are full of worship.

The pig is well cooked and the fish is fresh.

Gan Song bean paste dense bait elements.

Men offer their shunned daughters at will,

Spray wine and burn money. Joan Xi.

You can't smell the fight between a servant and a son,

Don't get angry when cats and dogs foul.

It's easier to return when the drunk door falls.

Long spoon and short spoon

Begging for enough percentage points.

Lunar New Year 10No. 13 is closely related. Because, a week later, on New Year's Eve, Kitchen God gave a person good or bad luck, and other gods came to earth. Kitchen God is considered to guide the gods in the sky. His god in the sky, once again, only has a new New Year's Kitchen God, and will stay in people's kitchens for a long time. In order to meet the ceremony called "receiving the gods", I picked up the kitchen stove. It is usually easier to pick up a stove at a New Year's Eve ceremony than to light a new one, even if you burn incense before making a niche.

Say: "Men don't worship, and women don't worship the stove." Kitchen God said that in some places, women don't sacrifice stoves. Looks like a beautiful boy who is afraid of noisy women. There are men and women who suspect that the kitchen has a long history. Qualification Vesta is a very old folk god in China. As early as the Xia Dynasty, it was worshipped by folk gods. In Ying Da, Hong Kong, according to this ancient book, the ceremony was recorded: "In the day of the son of Vulcan Zhuan Xu, the kitchen god was sacrificed." Zhuang characters. "Great Sage" reads: "Furnace steamed stuffed bun. Phrase Note: "The bun, Vesta, is an extraordinary musical instrument, shaped like a beautiful woman. "The goal of Baopu Technology is to record:" On a dark night, Vesta's paradise was white with guilt. " The possible source of these records is the urgent noise, or the "broken person" of the kitchen god spark; Or "Fire Officer" Shennong; Or Li Huangdi, a chef, or Zhang Xing, a famous list, and the word Guo; There are different gods. Theory. There is a very interesting story circulating among the people.

Say an ancient man, brother, brother Zhang is a stonemason, brother is a painter. My brother has been good at plate furnace all his life, so please ask Dong Jie and Xi Fang to praise his high-base furnace technology. The eldest son has a name, and Fiona Fang people nicknamed him "King Zhang Zao". It is said that Wang also blamed someone for obstructing the stove. In some cases, a person's family disputes and his interference. When he met a rough daughter, China and France, some of his neighbors suggested him. When he meets a fierce mother-in-law, he will say, like an old elder. Later, everyone looked for him and respected him. The furnace king was broadcast live for 70 years, and only one night ended the twelfth lunar month. When Wang dies, the Zhang family may be very confused. It turns out that Wang is the head of the family and does everything he says. Now that my eldest brother has passed away, my younger brother's only poems and paintings have never been in charge of housework, although it has been 60 years. The daughters in several rooms clamored for separation, and the painter frowned helplessly all day. One day, he finally came up with a good idea. On the anniversary of the death of the Kitchen God on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, in the evening, the portrait artist suddenly called the family members who woke up and said that the eldest brother appeared. The whole family, his son and daughter-in-law dominate the kitchen. I saw a dark kitchen wall and the appearance of the king and his late wife in the flickering candlelight. The family was shocked. The painter said, "The dream of my sleeping brother and sister-in-law became a fairy tale, and the Jade Emperor played him." You are usually lazy, sister-in-law. It's not unfilial that causes family unrest. My brother is very angry when he knows your troublesome separation. He is ready for God to announce the lower bound of his jade emperor's eve to punish you. "The children's niece has been frightened by this matter, and now she is kneeling on the ground and kowtowing repeatedly, trying to get a place for the kitchen god to eat sweets on weekdays, begging the kitchen god for forgiveness. Since then, uncles and brothers, their daughters and sons-in-law, are always noisy and never dare to splash water, so that the whole family can live in peace and stability, and all ages can live in peace. Neighbors and friends around here all know that citizens come to Zhang's house to inquire about the actual situation. In fact, on the night of1February, the king of 23 kitchen stoves on the wall was painted in advance by a painter. He is a ghost town under the guise of big brother, scaring children's nephews and daughters-in-law. I didn't expect this method to be really effective, so when the neighbor came to inquire about it, he had to pretend to be the image painted by the kitchen god and distribute it to his family. Just as some people spread along the countryside, the kitchen of every household is marked with "the statue of the kitchen god", and over time they form a family, taking peace as the kitchen god and praying for customs. The spread of urgent customization, starting from the Zhou Dynasty Palace, also included the twelfth lunar month in the festival, and set the standard furnace rules in China as a fixed ceremony. After ...

Holding the stove for sale, I officially began to prepare for the arrival of the New Year. Every year from the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month to New Year's Eve, this period in China is called "Spring Day", also called "Dust Clearing Day". Dust removal means year-end cleaning, "spring 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. When the Spring Festival comes, every household should clean the environment, clean all kinds of electrical appliances, remove and wash bedding and curtains, clean the courtyard in Liu Lu, dust off cobwebs and dredge ditches. North and south, everywhere is filled with joy, the air is fresh and healthy, and it is a scene of Spring Festival.

sweep the dust

Interestingly, there is a strange story about the ancient origin of sweeping dust. Legend has it that in ancient China, there were three corpse gods in the human body, and they were inseparable from people's whereabouts like shadows. Three dead gods like to kiss up and gossip. Before the Jade Emperor, the earth was described as ugly. Over time, it gives people the impression that the earth is a dirty world full of evil. Once. The mysterious curse of three deaths was reported by the emperor as a rebellious paradise for mankind. The Jade Emperor was furious, and made a decree to quickly investigate the chaos committed by the earth, insulting the God of Destiny, insulting those who read God, and committing crimes under the eaves. Let the cobwebs cover Mark. On the New Year's Eve of life and spiritual officials in Yu Tai East Timor, the trademark is that everyone beheads with the door, leaving none. God saw that the death of three people was about to succeed, and the city flew to the western community, indiscriminately marking in the corner under each eaves, so that the tomb palace was in flight. The three-corpse god is evil, and the kitchen god doesn't know his whereabouts. The kitchen gods of all walks of life were frightened to disgrace and quickly came over to discuss countermeasures. Therefore, there is a good way to convey the focus, 23, the twelfth lunar month, and then the New Year's Eve of the kitchen date, every household should clean the house. This household is so dirty that the kitchen refuses to enter the house. Please go to the kitchen, clean the dust, clean the cobwebs, clean the doors and windows, and clean your house. It's brand new. When Wang Lingguan ordered the lower bound, he saw that every family was a clean, bright, happy and beautiful world for people to reunite. Wang Lingguan showed that the evil deeds of trademarks were very strange in his heart. They are eager to move the earth back to heaven and pray for good luck and happiness in the new year. When the Jade Emperor heard the shock, he made a decree, and the three corpse gods ordered him to be detained in the Heaven Prison for 300 years. This kind of human disaster was only saved by the kitchen god. In addition, in order to protect Zhang Xiang from evil spirits in the kitchen that people are enjoying, people always start sweeping dust after the kitchen is delivered, and they are busy for a year at night.

The custom of "cleaning the house with dust on the 24th of the twelfth lunar month" has a long history. According to Tongzhi, China has the custom of sweeping dust during the Spring Festival of Yao and Shun. Folk say: "dust" and "Chen" are homophonic. Apart from Chen Buxin's meaning of sweeping the dust in China New Year, his purpose is to take "inconvenient transportation" and "bad luck" and be swept out of the house. This custom gives people a desire for new channels and New Year prayers.

As the Spring Festival approaches, people leave their homes and have to rush home, hoping to reunite with their loved ones. This is the cultural mentality of our country that is different from other parts of the world. This mentality is deeply rooted and widespread in the depths of our folk culture, which seems to leave an indelible mark on everyone. China's custom of reunion has deep roots at home and abroad.

For centuries, Trinidad has different New Year styles, but there are many interesting customs and habits all over the country. In the new year, our people are basically the same in the vast land of China, although the details are different, mainly except the old cloth and the new Thanksgiving chase. Different Spring Festival customs, which thousands of people have gradually formed over the years, include offering sacrifices to sweep away dust, pasting couplets, changing door gods, cutting window flowers, hanging New Year pictures, eating New Year's Eve, setting off firecrackers, preparing weddings, worshipping ancestors, welcoming spirits, giving lucky money, welcoming the god of wealth, entertainment and many interesting Spring Festival activities.

antithetical couplet

It is an important traditional Spring Festival for our people to stick couplets to change the door gods. In the past year, during the Chinese New Year, the scene I saw in the street drew a temporary booth selling Spring Festival couplets. The collection of Spring Festival couplets by Emperor Shen Qing describes the situation of selling Spring Festival couplets in Beijing before the Chinese New Year, saying, "Old people are teachers, so they sell more couplets and paste newspapers", "paper textbooks" and "touching the years". Hongzhan Store IV high table, brazier ink lamp, vertical book door, horizontal connection. "Say, grand old Spring Festival couplets. Spring Festival couplets, also known as "doors" and "spring stickers", are couplets, hence the name. Spring is pasted in the New Year with big red characters. On the occasion of the Lunar New Year, there are thousands of red spring stickers everywhere, which truly reflect the school and the lush spring.

How did you get the couplet? There is such a story in Shan Hai Jing. In the legendary China in the East, there are many rivers, including the beautiful Dushuo Mountain, also known as Du Taoshan, a big peach tree with twists and turns of 3,000 miles, and a golden rooster on the treetop, which indicates a breakthrough. The northeast end of peach trees are all arched branches, and the top of the tree bends down to the ground, just like a natural door. There are all kinds of monsters living in Shuoshan, and you have to go through this ghost gate when you go out. The emperor is not afraid of the trouble caused by ghosts coming to heaven. Two gods sent guards, called shentu. One is that, especially in the name of God, we should "stretch our minds and turn thunder into law". The two gods pay special attention to the behavior of ghosts. Ghosts are evil. Tie them up with straw ropes and feed them to tigers. Since then, this story has been spread to the ghost redwood. Therefore, during the Lunar New Year in China at that time, the two men carved mahogany and hung their favorite or written names on the door, which was called the Spring Festival, to show the evil pressure of the flood disaster. Later, Tang gradually changed Weichi Gong and Qin. Legend has it that with it, Emperor Li Shimin launched the Xuanwumen rebellion, killed his younger brother, and forced his father, Tang Gaozu Liyu, to abdicate and become the emperor's own throne. Later, due to Wei Zhengmeng's dream at night, Lao Long entered the room and threw bricks like a ghost of a sleeping officer, screaming at the top of his lungs. Emperor Taizong had no choice but to tell the story to General Tang Boiling Pot, the hero of Qin Dynasty. He volunteered to go to the palace gate to keep vigil to exorcise ghosts, and set another big rebellion. Weichi Gong is also willing to accompany the vigil. That night, both of them were wearing armor and holding weapons, guarding the palace gate at night. Emperor Taizong really had a good sleep. After several days, Emperor Taizong gradually recovered and could not bear to let the two generals keep vigil. So they ordered the portraits and powerful images of the two generals to be posted on the doors, and the story gradually spread. Weichi Gong and Qin are regarded as goalkeepers.

The evolution of Spring Festival couplets is said to be in the Five Dynasties. After the Five Dynasties, the New Year's Eve of the rule of Shu in the Ten Kingdoms was 964 AD. Book two Kyrgyz languages for the Spring Art Festival edition written by Xue Shixin Yin Xun. He doesn't like the works of the new history of learning, and the words are not good, so he chose a pen to write it himself:

Xinnianna Qing Yu

Changchun jiajiehao

This is the earliest Spring Festival couplets. Since then, couplets inscribed by scholars have always been regarded as an elegant art problem. The atmosphere of couplets gradually spread to the Song Dynasty, which became the aristocratic tariff of China Lunar New Year couplets. Wang's poem "Mongolia", "Hundreds of thousands, every day, there are always new peaches to replace the old ones, which can illustrate this point. In the Song Dynasty, it was also noticed that recorded literati liked to write Spring Festival couplets, which had an atmosphere. For example, Zhang Bangji's "Mo Zhuang" rambles about "Su Huangzhou, the king who is nearly seventy years old", which is reflected in the party's management of Spring Festival travel rush. In addition to visiting and typing the book, it reads: Men Rongqian rode to the hall, feeling that the public holiday was 65,438 +000. In his early years, the famous painter Zhao had a knot in his heart and asked for Zhao's couplet, which read: "Yuen Long III" seems to be a couplet written by Zhao as a gift for communication.

It is said that Spring Festival couplets are really popular in folk red paper books, and they have become one of the new New Year customs in China since the Ming Dynasty. According to Chen Yun, when Zhu Yuanzhang, the emperor of Ming Dynasty, made his capital, he had seen "Miscellaneous Notes on the Cloud Tower". Before the New Year's Eve in Jinling this year, on a whim, he ordered Uncle Qing to put up couplets, saying it was a new atmosphere. The next day, he paraded incognito, went to a private school, watched various couplets and entertained himself. On the way to the parade, he suddenly found that one of them had not posted Spring Festival couplets, and the cultural relic waiter asked what was going on. It turns out that the owner of the house is a pig and can't read or write. He was so busy years ago that no one did anything. When Mao heard this, someone took Four Treasures of the Study and brushed happily: "Life and death are a sudden snatch, and a knife is not the root." It came in handy. Extraordinary voice. The waiter took the couplet and handed it to the eunuch. The owner of the pig then informed the emperor that their mounted couplets were hung in nave, which was regarded as the prime minister's burning incense to worship every day. This means that the official naming of Spring Festival couplets began with the Ming Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang. Since then, Spring Festival couplets have been widely popular in rural towns. Most people's most commonly used couplets are "New Year's Day Spring Festival 10000 except firecrackers in the old year" and "Spring, summer, autumn and winter, a family, east, west, north and south, the sky is full of blessings". A few years ago, every household posted couplets, and the Spring Festival was decorated with spring and jubilation.

In the ancient Spring Festival, Yemen and the window painted chickens. Han Dong Fang Shuo's "The Challenge Book" said: "In the second year, the chickens and dogs accounted for three days of pigs, and the sheep accounted for the fourth year. Fifth, take advantage of cattle and horses for 6 or 7 days. The seventh day of Livestock Day is Human Day. Why is such an ancient law book called "Doing Farm Work" a bestseller with three versions: one says that people tame livestock. Chickens are the first domesticated poultry and dogs, followed by others. To put it another way, according to the size of livestock, the chicken chops rank first and then last. Another way of saying this is that according to the arrangement of livestock and people nearby, chickens and dogs are kept in houses near people, followed by pigs, sheep, cows and horses, and there is also a stall, which is farthest from the bedroom, so it seems that one is the most in the back row. Not to mention this ancient book, although the truth of evolution has been discovered, the principle of biological evolution is behind the lower animals as tools to create higher animals than humans. During the Spring Festival, people may draw chickens, because the first day is Chicken Day. When talking about people in the Jin Dynasty, the "mysterious" chicken said that it rose in front of the mountain and the first ray of sunshine shone on the tree planted by crows. It sang and the world chicken began to cry. In the Spring Festival, the cut chicken is actually a symbol. The chicken is very small, but the ancient myth says that the chicken is deformed. Some people say that in Yao Di, AIA already has birds to ward off evil spirits, and everyone welcomes birds to show their respect. But not every year, people carve a wooden bird, or put bronze weights on the portal, or paint it on the doors and windows to scare away monsters, so the birds dare not come back. A two-eyed bird similar to a chicken, gradually changed to draw a chicken or cut window stickers. New Year's jiaozi is in the north, and it will be wrapped on the evening of the 30th. Then everyone is busy chopping meat, chopping boards and cutting vegetables.