Video: Chunjie: Chinese Style New Year
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
"You probably know that in China all the inhabitants are Chinese and the emperor himself is Chinese …" - this is how one of Andersen's most famous fairy tales begins. To the words of the great storyteller, we can only add that the New Year is celebrated there in Chinese - not when we have it. And the miracles that happen on it are not the same as ours, but special, Chinese.
Like us, the Chinese believe that waiting for the holiday is better than the holiday itself. A month before the New Year, which they call Chunjie, they put beautiful pailow arches everywhere, glue paper lanterns and prepare to cover or, on the contrary, empty the counters. By the way, the date of the holiday is calculated anew each time, and 2011 in the Chinese style should come on February 3.
One can talk for a long time about how the New Year looks like in the Chinese style. But it is immediately striking that its main colors are red and gold, the colors of life and wealth: the Chinese are not shy about their love for these eternal values. And the main sounds of Chunjie are, perhaps, the crackling of fireworks, in which the Chinese are great masters: after all, it was they who invented gunpowder! But in music, they are docks: in the Celestial Empire, music has always been the most important, state matter.
The Chinese-style New Year's taste is the taste of dumplings and a variety of pies that the Chinese love very much. Since they have no religious prohibitions on pork, they always gladly put it on the festive table with pleasure. By the way, according to a widespread joke, the Chinese "eat everything that moves, except tanks; everything that flies, except airplanes; everything that floats, except submarines" - so their New Year's cuisine pleases with a variety. The main thing is not to forget to put a carrot on the table: probably everyone already knows that 2011 is under the auspices of the Rabbit, or the Cat. But, be that as it may, the New Year in the Chinese style cannot be imagined without dragons beloved by the inhabitants of the Celestial Empire.
By the way, along with their traditional New Year, the Chinese also celebrate ours, the European one, because they respect our culture and want to live "in step" with the planet. So not only here - "New Year's twice a year, here!"
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