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How Did The Song Dynasty People Pass The New Year'S Day?

2012/1/1 15:57:00 73

The Northern Song Dynasty also passed new year's day.

Only then.

New year's Day

It was the 1th day of the first month of the Chinese lunar calendar. It was called New Year's day. It was also called yuan day, Zheng Dan, Yuan Zheng, Ji Chao, and chao chao.

New year's Day is the beginning of a year. Song Wu's self husbandry in "Meng Liang Lu" said: "the first day of the first lunar month (first day)" is called New Year's day, commonly known as the new year.

At that time, whether it was official or private, it was regarded as a big holiday. "Wild guest series" said: "the official and private winter solstice, Yuan Zheng (New Year's day), cold food...

For big holidays, seven days off. "

That is to say, the "New Year's Day" in the Northern Song Dynasty is equivalent to the current spring festival. At that time, the "holiday office" of the state should issue a notice to the "office workers" for a seven day holiday.

On New Year's day, in the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty, there was a large-scale meeting of the court. The emperor was to be praised by hundreds of officials.

Diplomats of Liao, Korea, Xixia, Yutian, Hui and so on often came to visit this time.

Meng Yuan Lao said in "Tokyo Meng Hua Lu": "the ambassador of the great Liao Dynasty has a golden crown, and its back eaves have long pointed leaves, such as lotus leaves.

Narrow Robe

The golden eagle, the deputy leader.

Gold belt

Such as Hanfu.

Ambassador Bai then set up the left foot, kneeling on the right foot, with two hands on the right shoulder as a sacrifice.

Vice minister, such as Han Yi.

They are long bearded and high nosed, wrapped in silk and wrapped in cloth.

In ktun, all the small gold felt, the golden silk robe and the girdle, and the wives and men came together, camels, felt copper and duo to tribute.

Among them, Liao envoy saw the end, the next day to Xiang Xiang Temple burning incense, the next day in South Yuyuan archery, the court elected to shoot Wu Chen.

With the triumph of the shooting, the Jingshi and Jinger stopped to offer slogans.

It can be seen that there was a grand occasion of new year's day in Beijing.

On the morning of new year's day, every household in the capital must get up early, dress up and dress up, wear new clothes, visit relatives and friends, bless each other and celebrate the wine.

Starting from New Year's day, the government allows people to participate in the game of three days.

The so-called "close to attack" is a game with a gambling nature. The two sides of the game agree on the price, use copper coins in the earthen pot or throw on the ground, determine the winning and losing according to the number of subtitles of the money, and win the people who can take the money to take away the goods they are attacking, and the losers must pay.

Guan can gamble a lot. Cars, horses, houses, songs and dancers can all be gamble.

"Guan Pu" is simple and clear, and it was very popular among the people at that time.

But only on festivals such as new year's day can the government allow "open" to open up, usually gamble with food, daily appliances, fruit, charcoal and so on.

On the eve of new year's day, the women of the rich family or the entrance of gambling, or the banquet in the restaurant, "Tokyo Meng Hua Lu" said that this kind of thing "habitus become popular, not laugh."

On the new year's day in the Northern Song Dynasty, many bustling streets in the capital city should be decorated with dresses, hats, combs, pearls, jewelry, clothes, flowers, collar, boots, toys and so on. There are also dance houses, song and dance galleries, cars and horses coming and going.

At the same time, there were many eating customs at that time, for example, most families had to eat vegetarian cakes.

"Tokyo Meng Hua Lu" said: "(New Year's Kaifeng) are decocted Decoction to drink, and burn Atractylodes, and eliminate the disease."

Many families also used "Bai Zhi Zhi", "one persimmon" and "one orange", and broke them in the middle.

It seems that the new year's day in the Northern Song Dynasty is full of festival atmosphere and is very lively.