I have two online, it's up to you.
The first one:
My hometown, Lu Yi, Henan, is located in the Yellow River area in the east of the Central Plains. It has a unique custom, that is, every family only eats "vegetarian food" (vegetarian jiaozi), "fire food" and "grandma eats steamed stuffed buns and my nephew moves to jujube hill" on the morning of the first day of New Year's Day, which reflects the hard-working spirit of the people in my hometown.
On the morning of New Year's Day, every family has the same breakfast, only eating "vegetarian dishes" wrapped in leek and egg noodles and "fire dishes" made of shredded carrot and bean sprouts noodles. Old people say that New Year's Day is the beginning of a year. Eating vegetarian food on this day is to remind people not to be extravagant, not to have big fish and big meat, but to be frugal. The shredded carrots in "live vegetables" symbolize prosperity, bean sprouts symbolize happiness from now on, and vermicelli symbolizes running water.
Lunar New Year's Day is the first day to visit relatives. In the annual ceremony for a daughter to get married and take her children back to her parents' home, one of the essential things is the "big steamed stuffed bun". The old people said that in the past, the family was generally poor and white bread was rare. They can only eat for a few days during the New Year, so "big steamed stuffed bun" becomes the most important annual gift. When visiting relatives and friends during the Spring Festival, every family will offer the best food and wine to entertain their relatives and friends, and these are usually what they hate most.
In a sense, the thrift of hometown customs and the popular "low-carbon life" can be described as the same goal.
The second one:
The Spring Festival is undoubtedly the most important traditional festival in China. For thousands of years, New Year pictures, paper-cutting, Spring Festival couplets, firecrackers and other customs have been an inseparable part of the New Year. With the changes of the times, some traditional customs have begun to decline, and some new "customs" are emerging. Old and new customs are changing.
Experts say that we need to protect and inherit excellent traditional customs; For the new "old customs", we need to innovate constantly. In this way, our year will be more energetic and more brilliant.
From New Year Pictures to Spring Festival Gala: Inheritance of New and Old "Chinese New Year Customs"
"Every Spring Festival, the first thing that brings joy to my hometown is Wuqiang New Year pictures. New Year pictures are overwhelming here, and they compete with each other until the demand for New Year pictures in every village with purchasing power reaches saturation. Without New Year pictures, these festivals in the Loess Plain will become unbearable and wither. " This is the memory of the famous writer Tie Ning's childhood Spring Festival.
The earliest New Year pictures can be traced back to the Han Dynasty. For thousands of years, New Year pictures have been indispensable for the Spring Festival.
The New Year Pictures Museum in Wuqiang County, Hebei Province has a typical northern residential model. From this model, we can find the weight of New Year pictures in the Spring Festival. In this residential building, New Year pictures can be seen everywhere: there is a door god at the entrance of the courtyard, a god of wealth at the door, a nave in the hall, a wall painting on the wall, a bed painting on the bed, a kitchen god painting on the stove, and the stable in the cowherd can't be pulled down. All kinds of New Year pictures are in their places, and they are unambiguous.
Feng Jicai, chairman of China Folk Writers and Artists Association, said that we should pay special attention to the significance of the Year-end in the farming society, as a visible New Year picture, and publicize the ideal of life. New Year pictures experts describe old New Year pictures as "TV sets pasted on the wall", because for a long time, New Year pictures are not only a decorative and festive function, but also a medium for people to acquire knowledge and information.
This kind of "wall-attached TV" has gone through a glorious period of thousands of years. In the 1980s, Chinese New Year pictures experienced the last heyday at the beginning of this century, and then declined. Perhaps coincidentally, from this time on, real TV sets began to become popular. The entertainment and educational function of TV far exceeds that of New Year pictures, so people quickly accept it and like it more and more.
It is the Spring Festival Gala that directly connects the Spring Festival with TV. 1983, CCTV launched the Spring Festival Evening, which was warmly welcomed by the masses. For more than 20 years, the Spring Festival Evening has been held once a year. Although people talk more and more about it, it is undeniable that it is still an indispensable "big meal" for most people on New Year's Eve.
The decline of New Year pictures may be inevitable, and an era has the product of an era.
Network Age: Digital Customs
Grandpa, who is nearly seventy years old, often tells his teenage grandson about the past, especially recalling the Spring Festival when he was a child with relish: as soon as he entered the twelfth lunar month, he smelled the taste of the New Year. Eat Laba porridge on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, worship the kitchen god on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, "sweep the house 24 times", buy new year's goods on the 25th to 28th, worship ancestors on the 29th, set off firecrackers, have a New Year's Eve dinner, and keep old. Wear new clothes and pay lucky money on New Year's Day. It was not until the 16th day of the first month that the year came to an end.
Teenagers' grandchildren have a clear understanding of these customs, some seem to understand them, and some have never experienced them. People who grew up in the "e-era" have done a lot of things on the Internet. Science and technology have given new carriers to the custom of the year, and the custom of the year has turned from reality to virtual network.
Twenty years ago, 12-year-old Wang Wei took his father's hand and walked from home to the new year's market and squeezed into the crowd. Buying new year's goods is an important activity for China people to celebrate the New Year. At that time, the twelfth lunar month markets all over China were full of noise and excitement. Wang Wei said that he and his father were separated by a crowded crowd, and he cried in fear.
On February 10, 2007, Wang Wei, who died, sat in front of his computer and went to a shopping website and found everything he wanted: rice, peanut oil, frozen dumplings and so on. Cash on delivery, no delivery fee is required. Wang Wei said that online shopping has lost a lot of fun of on-site shopping, but there are many kinds of online new year's goods, some of which are not available in the local market. What satisfied him most was that online shopping saved him a lot of time.
The way to pay New Year greetings is also changing. Many people still remember being taken by their parents when they were young, and going door to door "Congratulations on making a fortune, bring the red envelope".
Video New Year greetings, e-mail and greeting cards, SMS and MMS, blog New Year greetings, and various online New Year greetings make people close at hand, see his face and hear his voice. Passing each other's thoughts and greetings through the internet, even before 10, such a thing was unimaginable.
In the digital age, the old customs are becoming more and more digital. On the Internet, you can even pack virtual jiaozi and set off virtual firecrackers. Anything you can think of can basically be realized online. The traditional Spring Festival is integrated with modern science and technology, and the network has added new vitality to the Spring Festival.
Face fading and need to be preserved.
Firecrackers, Spring Festival couplets, paper-cutting and New Year pictures have been indispensable for the Spring Festival for many years. However, with the changes of the times, these traditional Spring Festival props gradually declined.
The situation of New Year pictures is obvious. It not only faces the problem of shrinking market, but also faces the appointment of New Year picture artists. Huo Qingshun, a descendant of Tianjin Yangliuqing New Year pictures, said that the New Year pictures seem simple, but they are actually divided into several processes, such as sketching, lettering, overprinting, painting and mounting. Former artists can be called folk artists as long as they can master one or two of them skillfully. In 2003, Tianjin made a thorough investigation and found that there were very few old artists who could master New Year pictures skillfully at that time. In Wuqiang County, Hebei Province, another hometown of New Year pictures, there are only more than 80 old artists carving and printing, with an average age of over 40. Many old artists changed careers when the New Year pictures were depressed.
In northern China 30 years ago, now every household is not a glass window, the lower half is glass, and the upper half is hemp paper. For the sake of beauty, people stick paper-cuts on hemp paper, which is called "window grilles". In the northern winter with yellow-gray as the main tone, window grilles bring people a unique and beautiful scenery. It is a top priority to tear off the old window grilles and replace them with new ones on the 24th of the twelfth lunar month. People put up window grilles to show "farewell to the old and welcome the new".
Like New Year pictures, paper-cutting covers everything. In the hands of old artists, paper-cutting includes flowers, birds, fish and insects, deepening legends and historical stories ... but just like the fate of New Year pictures, it is hard for ordinary people to see them now, and it has become the favorite of museums and collectors.
Many traditional customs are disappearing. Whether it is New Year pictures, paper-cutting or Spring Festival couplets, they are all products of China's "New Year Culture", bearing the contents of folk beliefs, philosophy, morality, entertainment and education. In the face of the decline of excellent folk culture, it is particularly important to protect, inherit, advocate and carry forward.