元旦英文介绍
yuandan is the first day of the lunar calendar it is the day when the earth has circled the sun for one round and is beginning another circling it represents a new beginning when people send off the old days and welcome the new ones as the first day of the year yuandan has been considered to be the most important festival since the ancient times
customs
1 kaisui(beginning of the year) according to the chinese traditional custom starting from haishi(9pm to 11pm)of the last evening of the twelfth lunar month each family must prepare offering s to deities at the altar at the same time they too prepare food for the new year day the whole family will then stay awake together to attend to the year(called shou sui) after haishi zishi(11pm to 1am)will come and this is the arrival of new year(yuandan) at this moment people begin the celebration with fireworks vegetarian and sweet foods will then be placed are the altar for offerings and incense be burned to welcome the deities in the ancient times it was believed that haishi connected the two years and thus was called kaisui
at the same night some families will follow the instruction in tongshu and place preparing altar in the direction of the fortune deity during the fortune time to receive the deity if the direction of the fortune deity is at the ill position people will choose to receive happy deity or noble deity instead
2 there is an apparent difference in the custom of food taking on yuandan between the chinese in the northern and southern regions the northern chinese has the habit of taking jiao zi(dumpling made of flour with vegetable and meat wrapped inside) some people may put a sweet or a coin inside jiao zi hoping to have a sweet year after tasting the sweet and a wealthy year after tasting the coin on the other hand the southern chinese have the taboo for killing on yuandan therefore they do not take meat in tee morning of yuandan so as to avoid bloodshed or mutual slaughter in order to evade misfortune they have the first meal of this day without meat instead they take vegetarian food for the sake of virtue
3 what is special during the new year is that parents or elders will distribute red packets(ang pao or ya sui qian)to the children people in the ancient times were more particular in giving away the red packets the distribution took place on the eve of new year so that the kids could suppress the past year and enter the new year ya sui has the meaning of overcoming the unpredictable future representing the wishes for the healthy psychological growth of the children ya sui qian symbolises the elders＇ hope to see their children overcome all the unpredictable elements brought by the year
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yuandan is the first day of the lunar calendar it is the day when the earth has circled the sun for one round and is beginning another circling it represents a new beginning when people send off the old days and welcome the new ones as the first day of the year yuandan has been considered to be the most important festival since the ancient times
customs
1 kaisui(beginning of the year) according to the chinese traditional custom starting from haishi(9pm to 11pm)of the last evening of the twelfth lunar month each family must prepare offering s to deities at the altar at the same time they too prepare food for the new year day the whole family will then stay awake together to attend to the year(called shou sui) after haishi zishi(11pm to 1am)will come and this is the arrival of new year(yuandan) at this moment people begin the celebration with fireworks vegetarian and sweet foods will then be placed are the altar for offerings and incense be burned to welcome the deities in the ancient times it was believed that haishi connected the two years and thus was called kaisui
at the same night some families will follow the instruction in tongshu and place preparing altar in the direction of the fortune deity during the fortune time to receive the deity if the direction of the fortune deity is at the ill position people will choose to receive happy deity or noble deity instead
2 there is an apparent difference in the custom of food taking on yuandan between the chinese in the northern and southern regions the northern chinese has the habit of taking jiao zi(dumpling made of flour with vegetable and meat wrapped inside) some people may put a sweet or a coin inside jiao zi hoping to have a sweet year after tasting the sweet and a wealthy year after tasting the coin on the other hand the southern chinese have the taboo for killing on yuandan therefore they do not take meat in tee morning of yuandan so as to avoid bloodshed or mutual slaughter in order to evade misfortune they have the first meal of this day without meat instead they take vegetarian food for the sake of virtue
3 what is special during the new year is that parents or elders will distribute red packets(ang pao or ya sui qian)to the children people in the ancient times were more particular in giving away the red packets the distribution took place on the eve of new year so that the kids could suppress the past year and enter the new year ya sui has the meaning of overcoming the unpredictable future representing the wishes for the healthy psychological growth of the children ya sui qian symbolises the elders＇ hope to see their children overcome all the unpredictable elements brought by the year
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