In ancient times, the Chinese New Year seemed to be a marathon carnival, from the beginning of the year (the twenty-third day of the lunar month) to the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

The small year is to prepare for the big year, and the theme is to sacrifice to the god of the stove, clean up, and buy New Year's goods. The taste of the god of the stove was different in each dynasty, and the god of lamb, fish, pork, sake lees, maltose, beans, and cakes were all enjoyed by the god of the hearth.

Worshipping the god of the stove is the work of men, and cleaning is the work of women. In "Dream of Red Mansions", it was Mrs. Wang and Wang Xifeng who led the servants to clean up the year before. In ancient times, there was no 84 disinfectant, and sterilization and disinfection relied on salt. In particular, the ancestral hall must be cleaned.

After the cleaning, it is the most hilarious activity for women - buy, buy, buy, the New Year's goods market is even hotter than Double 11!

Clothes, head flowers, Spring Festival couplets, peach charms, door gods, New Year paintings, New Year wine, colored silk, candy, charcoal braziers, brooms, calendars, ...... As long as it is related to the New Year's all-hot sales, the courier brother is collectively tired to the point of collapse.

Three to five days before Chinese New Year's Eve, everyone began to give New Year gifts among colleagues, relatives, friends, and neighbors. Ordinary people send some food, and the annual gifts of the eunuch's house are varied. In "Dream of Red Mansions", the New Year's gift given by Wu Zhuangtou to the Jia family is worth 2,500 taels of silver, equivalent to 500,000 yuan.

New Year's gifts are often also the vane of the workplace: I am optimistic about you, and the annual gift is added to three percent; I think you will decline, and the annual gift will be reduced by two.

Wang Anshi, a great writer in the Northern Song Dynasty, wrote a poem about the New Year: "In the sound of firecrackers, the spring breeze sends warmth into Tusu." Thousands of households always replace the new peach with the old one. ”

Hanging peach charms and sticking door gods is to drive away evil spirits and avoid ghosts; Sticking Spring Festival couplets is to welcome the Spring Festival. Tusu wine is said to be able to prevent the plague, and there are peppercorns in the wine, and the taste is unforgettable.

The ancient people before the Southern Song Dynasty did not set off firecrackers during the New Year, but firecrackers. Start a fire in the yard and throw the bamboo into the fire, which will make a "crackling" sound when it is burned.

People not only throw bamboo into the fire, but also throw broken brooms, idle small objects, etc., isn't this a kind of renunciation?

In ancient times, there was no Spring Festival party, but it was more exciting. For example, in the Tang Dynasty, there was a driving activity on Chinese New Year's Eve, and men, women, and children wore masks and danced on the street in groups, isn't it very burning?

Of course, eating Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, keeping the New Year, eating dumplings, and greeting the New Year are all must-haves. In addition, during the Tang and Song Dynasties, the ash pile was beaten on Chinese New Year's Eve, and the ash pile was beaten with wooden sticks and bamboo sticks to pray for good luck in the new year.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year in ancient times, the most important thing was to worship ancestors. At 3 o'clock in the morning, the men, women and children of the family change into new clothes and line up to worship their ancestors. After worshipping the ancestors, kowtow to the elders. After dawn, the group will greet relatives and friends for the New Year, and treat them to New Year's wine.

In the second year of junior high school, the married daughter returned to the door, and the son-in-law gave New Year's greetings to his father-in-law and mother-in-law.

On the third day of the first month, the ancestor offerings were removed. On the fourth day of the first month, the god of the stove was connected.

On the fifth day of the first month, break five, send five poor. Send away the "five poor" of intellectual poverty, academic poverty, literary poverty, life poverty, and friendship poverty, and usher in the "five blessings" of longevity, wealth, well-being, virtue, and good death......

Continue to entertain, greet the New Year, and eat New Year's wine, and those with a wide circle of contacts can eat New Year's wine until the fifteenth day of the first month.

Sounds exhausting, doesn't it?

In fact, there were a lot of entertainment programs for the ancients. For example, the shocking and dazzling illusions in the movie "The Legend of the Demon Cat" can be seen in the acrobatic performance on the first day of the Lunar New Year in the Han Dynasty!

In addition, rich families will also invite opera troupes to sing at home, which is cooler than watching 3D giant screen movies, absolutely private. Everyone can also talk and laugh and play cards together.

Of course, the most interesting thing is the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first lunar month. The Lantern Festival has always been Valentine's Day for unmarried men and women to have a romantic tryst.

In the TV series "Daming Palace Ci", Princess Taiping and Xue Shao met during the Lantern Festival! In the Lantern Festival, men, women and children enjoy lanterns, guess lantern riddles, eat Lantern Festival, set off fireworks, watch lion dances, and watch monkey shows...... It's just amazing.

It is said that the Song Dynasty also had a Lantern Festival Gala, with a very rich program list, including opera, acrobatics, talk show, storytelling, sumo, magic, dance, football match, shadow play, ...... It seems to be more interesting than the modern Lantern Festival!

After you've eaten and drunk enough and had enough, you can also make an appointment to work out.

On the night of the Lantern Festival, the women take a walk together to "walk all diseases", and they must walk on every bridge, so as to disperse all diseases, pray for good health, and eliminate all diseases. Well, this can burn a lot of calories, absolutely healthy!

In the past few years, Wang Dazhui spent the Spring Festival in a small county, although it was also very lively, but after all, it belonged to a remote area, and Chang'an City, the world's largest metropolis at that time, could not be compared.

Not to mention anything else, there are many Westerners who came to Datang along the Silk Road.

The prosperity of Chang'an was definitely the world's leading at that time, and it was countless times more prosperous than the city of Rome.

On the day of the New Year, the entire Chang'an City entered a state of celebration for the New Year.

Every household began to worship the god of the stove, clean up, buy New Year's goods, and kill pigs and sheep.

On the night of Chinese New Year's Eve, the pig's head or sheep's head must be dedicated to the god Vesta, praying for abundant food and clothing in the coming year.

Sacrificing to the gods is a man's business, in the Wang family, it belongs to Wang Fugui and Wang Da Hammer father and son, Wang Da Hammer's family is rich, so he killed a pig and a sheep, and sacrificed them on the stove.

Cleaning is a woman's business, so Zhang Cuihua took a few daughters who had just come from her hometown, and the maid and wife of the family to clean the room together.

I haven't seen each other for two months, but my sisters are getting more and more beautiful, and they have attracted the attention of many people in the neighborhood on the first day they came to Chang'an City.

The eight daughters, just like the eight little fairies, are born to a mother, but they have their own appearances and many similarities, but they also have their own characteristics.

Especially Wang Dazhui's second sister, nicknamed Wang Erya, is now fifteen years old, her body has grown, her body is slender, and she looks handsome.

The third sister is not inferior, her skin is particularly white, and there are two beautiful dimples on her face, she looks good when she smiles, and she is coquettish, and it is estimated that few men can bear it.

The rest of them are still young, and their figures can't be seen for the time being, but they look more handsome than the other, just like a competition, to see who looks beautiful.

The arrival of their eight golden flowers has made the entire Wang family very lively, and the two cousins of the Kong family have been in love with Wang Da Hammer's house recently, so Wang Da Hammer has a little unpleasant look at them in his heart.

Min'er was also very happy, although his sledgehammer brother was very interesting, but after all, there was a difference between men and women, and after Wang Dazhu's eight sisters came, there was naturally more fun between their sisters.

Min'er especially likes to listen to a few cousins tell her about Wang Dazhui when he was young, and she didn't expect that her cousin, who was omnipotent in her eyes, was also very interesting when he was a child.