Why do we need to prepare New Year’s goods for the Spring Festival?
The Spring Festival is the busiest festival of the year. In addition to cleaning your home, preparing New Year's goods is also very important. What exactly does New Year’s goods refer to? If you want to know more related content, please search in the 2018 Spring Festival special topic carefully compiled by the Fortune Teller website!What is preparing for the New Year?New Year's goods are some good items bought before the Chinese New Year, and the purchasing process is called buying New Year's goods. For example, expensive abalone, shark's fin, and bird's nest are used to cook a good meal to reward oneself for a year's hard work and celebrate the coming of the New Year. People in some places will buy candies and melon seeds and put them in boxes. When relatives and friends come to pay New Year's greetings, they will treat them to candies and melon seeds. Another kind of New Year's goods are gifts given when paying New Year's greetings. In urban areas, it is popular to give chocolates, cookies, etc. This is because it is a traditional custom to bring some gifts when paying New Year's greetings to relatives and friends.The Origin of New Year's GoodsFor thousands of years, the Chinese have always regarded the Chinese New Year as a major event. Before Chinese New Year, a lot of preparations need to be made and a lot of things need to be bought, including food, daily necessities, clothing, accessories, toys, offerings, dry, fresh, raw and cooked things, collectively known as "New Year's goods.""Kyoto Customs" states: "After the 15th, the city is filled with shops selling New Year's goods." The variety of New Year's goods in Beijing is unmatched in any other part of the country. Mr. Zhao Gang said in his "Notes on the Dream of the Red Chamber" that Cao Xueqin's "Dream of the Red Chamber" included Manchu customs when describing the New Year scenes, which was strange. In fact, this is very natural. During the two or three hundred years of the Qing Dynasty, Beijing was a mixture of Han, Manchu, northerners and southerners. Especially among the upper class, that is, the bureaucracy, the exchange of various customs is more common. The Manchus and northerners deliberately learned the eating and living habits of the people in Suzhou and Hangzhou, and the Han people deliberately learned the etiquette and official style of the Manchus (i.e., bannermen). This mixed together from all aspects to form a special "Beijing flavor." The complex New Year’s goods are also a reflection of this kind of social life. Beijing’s New Year goods can be divided into six categories: food, clothing, sun and moon, superstition, toys, and embellishments. Among the diets, common items such as pork, mutton, chicken and duck are the most common; venison, pheasant, frozen fish, etc. are all products from Guandong outside Shanhaiguan; while water-ground rice cakes, sugar-coated rice cakes, cold bamboo shoots, magnolia slices, etc. are things from the south of the Yangtze River. Clothing varies in different eras, but in the old days, in addition to the "Manchu dress", southern style was also popular. There are many daily necessities among the New Year's goods, including paper, bamboo products, porcelain, etc. from the south; superstitious items were the main part of the New Year's goods in the old days, such as incense sticks, tinfoil, woodblock printed door gods and Kitchen God, flowers and honey offerings for Buddha, etc. Among them, the tinfoil used to fold "ingots" and "ingots" all came from the south. There are even more toys, both for children and adults, regardless of northern or southern origin. "Spring Ming Caifeng Zhi" said: "Glass, iron wire, oil paint, spinning sand, touching silk, running horses, kites, curly hair, harmonica, playing cards, round chess, promotion pictures, glutinous rice figurines, Taiping drums, ringing gourds, and glass trumpets are all children's toys. Buying everything is called the busy year." Most families would buy some firecrackers: Hundred-shot, Ma Lei, Ertijiao (double-shot), Qihua, Taipinghua, etc., which are something between playing and superstition; as for dice, playing cards, etc., they are toys for adults; and the ornaments for the New Year, such as narcissus heads and Buddha's hands, all come from the South. As soon as the twelfth lunar month begins, all the busy streets are crowded with people buying New Year's goods. However, the prices of various things have also increased a lot, and merchants take the opportunity to do good business, hence the proverb "water and soil are three points more expensive in the twelfth lunar month." New Year's goods history: In ancient times, transportation was inconvenient and supplies were scarce. In order to enjoy the annual Spring Festival, every household prepares New Year's goods about 10 days before the festival. New Year's goods include chicken, duck, fish, meat, tea, wine, oil, sauce, fried nuts from the north and south, sweets, baits and fruits. They must be purchased in sufficient quantities, and some gifts must also be prepared to be given to relatives and friends when visiting during the New Year. Children need to buy new clothes and hats to wear during the New Year. In ancient times, people called buying New Year goods "going to the market", which is a common name for trading activities that are carried out at a fixed time and place as agreed upon by everyone. The New Year market is the largest and most participated one in the year, and is usually held on the 25th day of the twelfth lunar month before the Lunar New Year. The varieties of New Year goods include incense, candles, paper codes, firecrackers, New Year pictures, red paper, sugar, tobacco, tea, candy, and condiments. |
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