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People In The Tang Dynasty Celebrate The New Year.

2012/1/1 15:45:00 80

The Tang Dynasty

People spend a lot of time on New Year's day.

At that time, before the new year's Eve, people tried to rush home to get together with their loved ones.

On New Year's Eve, the whole family get together to eat new year's Eve dinner and drink pepper wine to dispel cold and dampness.

Drink pepper wine is to put pepper in the plate, drink a little bit into the cup.

After having a reunion dinner, the whole family gathered around the brazier to call it "staying alive".

In Du Fu's poem, he said, "the old year's Rong family, the pepper dish has already been praised."

Dong Sigong wrote poetry: "this happy dinner, pour pot to dawn."

Chu Guangxi's poem says, "close the door and watch the early night, and burn the fire to the early morning."

It was the scene of eating reunion dinner and staying up.

On the new year's eve of the Tang Dynasty, there was also a superstitious ceremony to eliminate plague, called Nuo or Nuo.

This is an activity handed down from ancient times.

In the Analects of Confucius, there are records of "villager Nuo".

In the Tang Dynasty, boys were selected on New Year's Eve, wearing hideous masks and wearing red and black clothes.

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Beating drums and dancing is a way to exorcise ghosts.

Nuo's leading dancers are called Fang Xiang, with 12 dancers and deacons.

The new year in Tang Dynasty has not yet been posted.

Spring Festival couplets

The custom at that time was to use the two names of the peach plank to write the name of the sacred place and the Yu Lei.

Legend has it that both the gods and the Yu Lei are brothers, and they live under the peach tree.

In the Five Dynasties, Meng Shu of the later Shu wrote the inscription on the peach character "New Year's Yuqing, Jiaxia Changchun", which is said to be the first couplet.

Later, the peach character became the alias of the couplets.

In the Tang Dynasty, people used to eat "five Xin plates" or "spring dishes" for the new year. They were made of five kinds of vegetables with spicy smell, which were the stale gas that could be divergent from the five viscera of people.

Bai Juyi said, "after the age of the year, the blue tail wine will be pushed back, and then the gum will be advised in the spring." in the Tang Dynasty, the people in the Tang Dynasty also prepared traditional foods and drinks such as glue teeth, leaf wine, and Su Su liquor. The custom was that the elderly drink afterwards, and the last drinker called the "blue tail".

After the new year's day, people in the Tang Dynasty began visiting relatives and friends and invited each other to dinner.

Li Ying said: "Qiang Qiang Hua Si Ke, the door of the hall He Xin Zheng", written is to visit relatives and friends of the lively scene.