Why Chinese New Year Was Banned 3 Times in China
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- Опубликовано: 28 янв 2022
- Chinese New Year has been banned 3 times in the past century. As a result, the meaning and traditions of this festival were also lost.
So what exactly happened?
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I recently discovered Chinese dramas & have fallen in love with ancient Chinese history, clothing, and customs. Where do you get your clothes?
Excellent video! Thank you for explaining the traditional beliefs and celebrations. This really helps me to understand why the celebration seems more superficial now. Great job.
Just discovered this channel. As a student of Chinese language and culture who is also a huge history buff I love what you're doing on this channel. It would be great if in some future content you talked a little bit about hanfu for men, since most of the material I find is focused on women's fashion. Also subscribed to your mandarin language channel. 加油！
Very interesting knowledge, I didn't know this had actually happened before.It was great to learn about. I remember when I was a child(90s), in my grandmother's village, people still followed traditions such as laba Congee, the kitchen gods, big cleaning, buying new cloths, new year decoration, preparing food for ancestor (pig's heads decorated with red paper and leaves) and stay though the night (I had each year a new small lantern that I used to visit people on this night). The first day of the New Year is mainly for the ancestors, we go to the ancestral halls and graves ...... And on the Lantern Festival there are always 2-3 dragon lanterns in the street, made up of benches, candles, paper and bamboo.
This explains why there is a great range of differences among my ethnic Chineese friends, concerning what they know and observe concerning New year.
Some of my mainlander friends seem to know and celebrate very little where those born outside of the mainland seem to known and observe the traditions in great detail.
Strange... I see a great understanding in the youth when I visited....
Were you in big city? I think it affects alot.
I see opposite....overseas ones just see it as another holiday. Not the historical info....
Well the video was very b.iased
Thankyou.. I'm chinese girl from Indonesia. But i don't know anything about Chinese history and culture.. 😢
I love Chinese culture ♡ please continue to making more videos like this 💕
Thank you for this. Happy new year
I'm glad to see you back!
Thank you for this amazing video!
Thank you, thank you so much for teaching, spreading and keeping alive Chinese histories, festivals, customs, cultural values and more from before 1900s. I really appreciate this.
I am sorry if you already answered this, but may I inquire your background; particularly your education? I want to know where I could also study and learn more myself.
💖 love your videos! Please make more!
I really appreciate that you've made all of these Videos about Chinese culture. Those were a great treasure of information. I love that you explained every history and meaning behind the Chinese culture. Thank you, it helps me a lot to understand the meaning of these traditions from my ancestors.
Thank you so much, Ally. I learned so much abt CNY. Btw, I was really curious about what you were wearing, what is it, it looks great! I think it is so cool that you are telling people about the real history of CNY. I wish you a happy Chinese New Year!
Thank you Heru! I’m wearing a Ming dynasty style circular-collar ao (jacket) with a standing-collar shirt inside, paired with a mamian skirt.
Wow that’s awesome. But that’s a lot of clothes lol. So, would that be common folks or nobles clothes. Thanks for replying by the way!
@@herulawrence7004 I don't think it's a lot of clothes. After all, people today commonly wear a jacket, shirt, and skirt/pants. In regards to whether it was worn by the common people, I think the main difference would be in the value of the material and handiwork, not necessarily the style.
Thank you @Miriam Tong I think your right! When I think about the amount of clothes is similar to nowadays, just the quality and design is different. And thanks for answering my other question, that really makes sense! Thanks for replying and also clearing some stuff up for me!
Happy 4720, year of tiger
After so long but thank you.
Love your videos sister 💖 so many things to learn from you
Hello!! Could you please make a video on Tang’s Era clothing? It’s my favourite Dynasty!!
Thank you for this very informative and extremely professional video. I'm in awe of the clear and easy to absorb way you present the thoroughly researched information.
My heart aches so much for the Chinese nation. Not only so many lives lost, but also so much culture, tradition, antiques, monuments and artifacts... As a Pole, although I haven't experienced life in People's Republic myself, and my country's history is very different overall, I can understand a lot about how communism works; I'm praying for China. I support your message with my whole heart and I admire your work.
Keep your patronizing proselytizing to yourself.
We Chinese are doing well in China, and honestly, you should worry about yourself.
How are there so many idle foreigners who think they know better than us Chinese?
You haven't even "experienced life in People's Republic" yourself, and your "country's history is very different overall", yet you presume to understand a lot about China.
And keep your prayers to yourself; we Chinese only believe in the power of humans, of the individual to change to world.
Your type annoy me the most, even more than the overt racists and haters. At least they're honest and open about it, while your type pretend to be morally higher. It's pretty disgusting.
The modern system is mixed economy with traditional confucian/legalistic value.
Please don't be swayed by her video... I saw her reply...all the same thing.
Despite recent challenges in history, the future is very bright already I feel.
@@KinouTrue12 Agree!
I really appreciate that you've made these Videos about Chinese culture and shared it with the world. However, this video is biased. People in China know how to celebrate the Chinese New Year and I don't want people from the other part of the world to be misinformed.
As a child who was born in the 90s in China, we prepare many types of food, have a spring cleaning and paste Spring Festival couplets on the walls for the day to come. We also burn incense to pay our respect to the Gods during Laba and Kitchen God's Festival. Moreover, we also visit our relatives and friends during the festivals. My school prepares Tangyuan (a glutinous rice ball) for students during their lunch break in the Lantern Festival. Not to mention the Spring Festival Gala on the Chinese New Year's Eve, it is held and broadcasted once every year since 1983. My friends and I have some many jokes which were from the Gala. Fireworks are banned in the city as it caused fire and injuries.
Overall, it is the most important day of the year or why would people rush back to their hometowns, causing extremely high traffic and congestion on the roads, railways and flights. We even have a name for this period of time called Chunyun, which is translated in to Spring Travel or Spring Festival Travel Rush.
I do love to watch your video as it introduces Chinese culture to others but I don't want it to lose credibility due to the misinformation.
Hi Ally! Are you going to come back? I really like your videos.
Now we celebrate the Chinese or Lunar New Year using the Gregorian Calendar.
I dont think people need spirituality to have a high moral standard, but those that find connection and meaning in life through those practices should be protected!
It's sad that these cultural practices were damaged over time, they should be cherished even by people who are not spiritual for the historical and cultural value.
traditions die hard. it's a good thing though that it was not eradicated since it defines the Chinese being as they are. although other ethnicities like the Koreans and vietnamese celebrate it too and would like to call it as lunar new year, it doesn't erase the fact that it was the Chinese who brought this tradition to them. I mean, this new year started with the Chinese, so if it's called the Chinese new year, they should not be offended
Finally, you’ve returned to us. Welcome back!
Amazing 🤩 lovely video as always😊💕
Missing your hanfu hair tips videos!
By How do you know Chinese history ?? Please i want to know???
Happy Chinese new year!
My parents were nearly 80 years old and experienced the cultural revolution. I did not remember that Chinese New Year was banned during my lifetime. But I am not sure if it was banned during the Cultural revolution. I will ask my mom when I call her to send my blessing to her on New year eve. I will be back here to report once I get an answer from her.
To me, the spring festival celebration in my childhood is quite similar to the video described, reuniting with family, bowing to grandparents, getting red envelopes, fireworks, new clothing, delicious meals, etc. Every province has their own way of celebration, but family reunion is the core.
But after economic development , the “ritual” may have changed, for example, people may not make new clothes because people can buy new clothes every day, and people may not eat meals at home, instead, they eat meals in restaurants. Because of urbanization, people may not be able to return to villages to worship their ancestors, and fireworks were prohibited in populous cities for safety reasons. In my opinion, the loss of some traditional customs is mainly due to modernization.But there are still a lot of people trying to preserve or revive old traditions, and the Hanfu trend definitely is one of evidence.
So I do not think that preserving old customs is equal to moral superiority, and some custom loss or change should not be criticized as moral loss. It is natural that our culture envolves along with modernization, that is why our culture is called a living old civilization, but the family value we hold in each spring festival has never changed.
Besides, the implication that nowadays Chinese have lost their tradition, is especially unfair for those people to work hard to bring hanfu back from hundred years ago. In addition, there are a lot of videos on youtube which record the ritual of worshiping Huang and Yan emperor in Tai Mountain or other places every year. Saying that the Chinese lost the tradition is not tenable.
I would like to suggest Ali not making videos and comment on political issues.When a person who has no much communication with people who live in China, it is pretty easy to generalize from one person’s experience or inadequate information to all population, resulting in bias. This is definitely away from our old tradition of being “naturalization” (Confucianism) and “balance” (Daosim)
Back to report:
I called my mother to send my new year's blessing and asked her if Chinese New Year was banned during the Cultural revolution, or even before. She firmly said “No!”. To be more precise, I asked if Chinese New Year was still allowed but there was no holiday for celebration. She was so surprised and almost could not hide her laugh at me, and then she said: “No, definitely there were holidays!”
Ali, probably you need to check the source of your information. The misinformation may cost your credibility. After all, your channel was one of my favorites.
Or maybe your mum misremembered or doesn't tell the truth. That generation were brainwashed to love chairman Mao don't forget. If you want to see how real Chinese New year is celebrated ask someone in Taiwan.
@@CaptainGrimes1 When people can not accept a fact or feel hard to understand it, labeling other people who hold different opinions as “brainwashed“ would be a quite easy way. I fully understand and are not going to argue, as Confucius said “和而不同 (Gentlemen seek harmony but not uniformity)”. China is so big, different provinces have their special sub cultural to celebrate Chinese New year. I do think Taiwan maintains a lot of unique traditions for Chinese new year, and really appreciate them for preserving Chinese Culture. This is a blessing for all of our Chinese.
Obviously CNY is one of the official public Holidays observed in China
Ally, I'm a Taiwan fan,
I like you(〃∀〃)~♡
Are those traditions really lost?
Could people not just look at Taiwan? Look at the chinese dysphoria? Or even ask the older generations who were born before the revolution?
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Thank you very much .keep going,
Hi Ally! I was thinking...
I think me and some viewers would really appreciate if after every video, you show what you were wearing! Just a quick overview will do! (Also, I believe it was some effort putting the clothes, makeup, and hair on for every video 😂)
I hope you'll consider this, thank you so much, and I'm glad you're back! TwT
*If I can mention an example, it's the channel Gentleman's Gazzette
The name of the Spring Festival was not set by the Communist Party. In January 1914, Zhu Qiqian, then head of the Ministry of internal affairs, submitted a report on four holidays to President Yuan Shikai, "As an old custom in China, it should be clearly stipulated that the Lunar New Year's Day is the Spring Festival, the Dragon Boat Festival is the summer festival, the Mid Autumn Festival is the autumn festival, and the winter solstice is the winter festival. All Chinese citizens have to rest, and civil servants are also allowed a day off. In order to comply with public opinion, please submit to the president for verification and implementation," he said
After receiving this submission, Yuan Shikai approved the first day of the first lunar month as the Spring Festival after research and agreed to the Spring Festival holiday. Since then, the coexistence pattern of new year's day on January 1 of the Gregorian calendar and the Spring Festival on the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar has been established
Omg your so beautiful 😭
Is the new year no longer celebrated?
Thank you for the informative video. I feel sad about the loss of the original Chinese New Year celebration. I hope the new generations preserve the New Years original tradition.
Xie Xie, for this lesson. Glad you’re back😊
I knew it changed thru out the years but didn't know the reason, it made me so sad to finally know:(. But I've heard chinese people are actually very grateful for Mao for some reason, is it true that they genuinely liked him or could you say they were they brainwashed to say so? Regardless, thank you for the video. Have a happy and healthy New years ❤️
In China, everyone is subject to brainwash starting from preschool (speaking from experience). The "reality" in their mind is what they have consumed from propaganda. And this is especially true during Mao's era.
@@FiveThousandYears I see... this gives me a lot to think about. thank you very much for your answer darling
@@FiveThousandYears Since you are speaking from experience that everyone in China is brainwashed since preschool, please educate me on what happened.
I was born and raised in China, and should be as old as Ali’s parents. And my parents are almost 80 years old, who experienced the 10-year cultural revolution 50 years ago. I was in the group of earliest subscribers of this channel, but never commented. I subscribe because the videos in this channel are well made and knowledgeable, and Ali is such an elegant lady.
However, this video is quite misleading and Ali's comments that “all Chinese have been brainwashed since preschool” is a biased and inappropriate assertion in my opinion. So I have to write something to answer your question “Why did the Chinese show gratitude to Mao while he caused such severe damage to China in his late time?”
It is very complicated, and I will try my best to make the explanation simpler. To gain the largest social support for building the new China with socialism, Mao and his commuist party turned old Feudalism China upside down by brutally forfeiting lands from landowners and redistributed them to farm peasants (account for 90% population before 1949, poor and uneducated). For those peasants who get free lands, Mao is the hero who save them from slavery in thouseand years. My mother-in-law was one of them, she kept talking about how grateful she was to Mao. However, for landowners, it was quite a traumatic experience and you can imagine it. My father-in-law was one of them, even now, he was still quite grumpy about the “robbery” of his family’s wealth, although he admits that China is rising under the leadership of the CCP, and is on the right track.
So you see, the feeling toward Mao is quite complicated even at the beginning, but Mao seized the support from peasants. Under Mao’s ruling, a lot of Feudalism tradition had been demolished, such as polygamy, foot binding, etc. Women began to enjoy the same rights as men, such as, working with the same pay, education, etc. Eliminating the illiterate actually paved the foundation for economic reform later on in the 80th. Capital choose China, not only because of the large cheap labor, but also because they can train the laborers easily to be skilled workers. During Mao’s era, China’s population increased from 0.4 to 0.8 billion. China built modern industries such as iron, railway, car, clothing,and medical industry, and developed satellite and nuclear weapons.
However, Mao’s prestige dropped dramatically after the 10-year cultural revolution. Afraid of the detriment from capitalism, Mao tried to re-educate intellectuals of China during the Cultural revolution by so called “destroying four old norms”. It eventually lost control. China was damaged intellectually and economically during the 10 years.
After cultural revoluation and Mao’s death, his successor, Deng xiaoping began to correct his mistake. That was the time when I grew up. I grew up watching a lot of books, movies, and dramas depicting the tragedy during the Cultural revolution, and we call the young intellectuals who grew up and suffered from cultural revolution “Generation of tragedy”. The whole society began to self-reflect ( admit or not, it is the heritage of Confucianism). I remember there was quite a lot of criticism pouring into Mao, but there were also a lot of firm supporters. The society was quite divided in terms of how to judge Mao. Then Deng xiaoping stood up and gave his assessment:“Mao’s life is 70% positive contributions and 30% negative contributions”. He geniusly used our old wisdom “naturalization” (Confucianism) and “balance” (Daosim), and people think it was objective, and eventually reached consensus. Further division stopped.
You see, it is pretty hard to answer your question without the context of history. In my opinion, respect or disrespect for Mao depends on the social status of the family at that time. After economic reform, Chinese realized both pure marxism and pure capitalism were not suitable for the development of China, so the current political system is called socialism with Chinese characteristics (Chinese heritage, in my opinion).
Anyway, People on my age may have quite complicated feelings toward Mao. But the young generation who was born after economic reform, probably assess Mao more positively. After all, they did not suffer from the past, and are enjoying the modernization that Mao started.
Hope I did not bore you with the long writing.
Happy Chinese new year!
@@rpmlei5754 That took me a while to read but I appreciate so much the effort you put in educating me and everyone reading too. I will definitely re-read it again tomorrow since it's late already were I live and look up some more information since this topic is very very interesting. this was extremely useful so thank you very much 🙏
I'm curious what the differences are in Chinese New year celebrations in Taiwan compared to the PRC?
Happy new year
I guess Japan changed New Year to Western calendar January 1st. What about South Korea ?
5:15 is the calender that was used before Gregorian Calender the reason why Chinese people of talk about 5000 years of Chinese history?
The system developed by the Yellow Emperor was the main reason why China was able to keep a continuous record of history for 5000 years. The calendar itself though has gone through many many changes.
@@FiveThousandYears Should China have a national day based on the Yellow Emperor?
Still a good show/ vedio ! A grassroot tradition (with all the love & goodwill; & sense-of-God & ethics).
How sad they wanted to conform to western calendar 😢 Losing so much culture.
Ally 👍👍💪💪💪
Not really tradition never die it is still practice in rural China
I am curious why you didn't mention how China is now celebrating Chinese New Year in a very big way.
We all make some mistakes a long the way. We learned from it and we move on.
This seems to be quite misguided/non optimistic...
Does not mention how Chinese new year is very much celebrated in modern day all over east asia, despite mistakes of past leaders. As I have friends lived in such places...
Is it not dying. We are experiencing (for me, witnessing) the culture Renaissance.
Especially in Hanfu
To be fair, she did not say it was dying, she's just explaining what happened in the past, as most of us probably knows how big CNY is nowadays. But... she did close the video quite abruptly without the modern follow-up
She didn't day that Chinese New Year isn't celebrated today, she said that the Buddhist and Daoist teachings that were the main focus of Chinese New Year have been lost.
No, it's all Korean culture from Korea since 100000 years ago
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Ten-Thousand blessings for the Year of the Tiger
May you be as fierce as the Tiger this 2022.
Which is why the overseas Chinese are the most reliable source of traditional Chinese practices. The migration waves in the 1800s have ensured the continued observance of festive celebrations and marital rites. In the South East Asia, the Chinese communities that were established in the 1400s still practice marital rites from the Ming dynasty although they are fast disappearing due to modernisation and changing demographics.
I appreciate learning about ancient Chinese customs in this channel. But the videos give a very idealized vision of what was the Chinese society of the past. There were terrible inequalities, oppression, corruption, widespread illiteracy, poverty and subjugation of women. It was not all good in the imperial times and during the early attempts at republican regimes. In fact, during longer periods of time life was terrible for the majority of the population. Some of the presentations by the speaker seem to also promote a very conservative and restricted view of women's role in a modern society. As she said in another video, women relate more to gentleness and caring for the house and family and should follow the lead of a man. I am a man and find this view quite worrisome. It goes against all the major major achievements and contributions made by women in fields such as physics, genetics, aeronautics, math, sports and more. If you limit women just to the role of housewives you are depriving society of the intelligence and capacity of 50% of the population. Why would a society do that?
U look so beautiful in this hanfu❤️
Oh my god, didn't realize that you were one of those.
How depressing, but whatever. What did I expect on the Western portion of the internet anyways.
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hmm I see that you look a lot like the girl in The Romance of Condor Heroes 2014.
Plese call it the lunar new year this day is celebrated all across asia so hoping to change it as soon as possible
Chinese new year is not celebrating lunar calendar, actually it comes from traditional Chinese calendar which is based on sun and moon (Wikipedia calls it Chinese lunisolar calendar). From a Chinese perspective, this translation is a bit funny. Anyways you can call it Chinese new year or spring festival or whatever you want it is fine, but please don't stop other people from calling it Chinese New Year, especially to a Chinese person, after all, this festival is from China, why should we change our habit of calling it for thousands of years?
Happy Chinese new year! Chinese created lunar calendar, not Koreans, Vietnamese, etc.
I understand where you're coming from but other east asian countries started celebrating this festival because of China.
Other countries adopted the practice from Chinese rule so technically that is the correct name, just like how many majority non-Christian countries celebrate the holiday Christmas and still use Christ within its name
GOD BLESS WEST TAIWAN
Stop spreading and viewing non objective second-hand information