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一 | 新春携瑞，福满人间大年初五，迎财神财神到，好运来财富滚滚，事业翻倍福禄双全，幸福美满恭贺蛇年新春接财神接财神是中国民间古老的传统节日习俗。因为中国民间传说正月初五是财神的生日，所以过了年初一，接下来最重要的活动就是接财神，在财神生日到来的前一天晚上，各家置办酒席，为财神贺辰。 NEW YORK -- If people really looked for history at the New York City building where the Triangle Shirtwaist factory once existed, they could find it. There are plaques pointing out that it was the site of a horrific fire in 1911 that became a catalyst in the American labor movement's fight for workplace safety protections.But for some, a few words on a wall aren't nearly enough to honor the fire's 146 victims.So after years of effort, the Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition on Wednesday is dedicating a new memorial that has no chance of being overlooked.A giant steel ribbon with the names of those who died in the disaster, predominantly women and girls, has been installed running horizontally from one corner of the building. Underneath it, a reflective panel shows the stenciled names as well as quotes from people who were there, describing the mayhem. In the coming weeks, a vertical steel column will be added to the corner to span almost the entire height of the building, a reference to how high up the victims were stuck.It’s the story of desperate immigrant women, mostly Jewish and Italian, who were trapped by a door that was locked because there were no workplace safety rules that said it couldn’t be. Some jumped to their deaths from the windows to avoid the flames.“What they will see is a memorial that tries to build into the object itself the history of the fire, a history of working women, a history of Italians and Jews, a history of tragedy, but then also a history of change,” said Mary Anne Trasciatti, a Hofstra University professor and president of the coalition.The victims were close to the end of their working day on March 25, 1911, when a fire started on the eighth floor of the clothing factory, which took up the top floors of a building now owned by New York University.Frantic workers tried to get out as the flames spread to the ninth and 10th floors, some scrambling to get into an elevator, others heading for the roof. But others who tried to get past a door to escape found it locked, trapping them inside. At a trial of the factory’s owners afterward, some said the door had been kept locked on purpose, over theft concerns.Firefighters responded quickly. But their ladders were too short to get to the topmost floors.Horrified witnesses in the crowd watched as workers leapt from the windows. Among those bystanders was the late Frances Perkins, already an anti-poverty advocate trying to change workplace conditions, and who became even more dedicated after what she saw that day.“It really started her in her push for ‘we have to treat workers better,’” said Ileen DeVault, professor of labor history at Cornell University.Some of her words recollecting the day are part of the memorial, running along the reflective panel. “Every one of them was killed, everybody who jumped was killed.”Perkins would be part of a state commission that put a series of safety rules in place in New York that were emulated elsewhere, and later became an integral part of President Franklin Roosevelt’s cabinet as his secretary of labor. She pushed for policies like minimum wage, workers compensation, and old age pensions.One of the names on the memorial will be that of Rosie Weiner, who died in the blaze, but whose sister and fellow factory worker, Katie Weiner, made it out alive.Later, Weiner would recount how she grabbed an elevator cable to make her escape. Today, her great-niece, Suzanne Pred Bass, is on the board of the Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition. Growing up, Bass knew her great-aunt had lived through the fire, but it wasn’t until years later that she heard about Rosie.Bass’ mother remembered accompanying her mother as a small child to the pier where the victims' bodies were taken after the fire.“She never forgot that, she was 4 years old and I can only imagine how how scary and awful,” Bass said.Memorial designers Richard Joon Yoo and Uri Wegman wanted to find a way for modern-day people to connect with the fire and its legacy, they said. The public was invited a few years ago to contribute pieces of fabric that were joined together in a 300-foot (91-meter) “Collective Ribbon." That ribbon’s design was then etched onto the memorial steel that rises up toward the top of the building.It was important to make that connection between past and present because issues of labor, workplace protections, and how workers are treated are still far from settled in the country and the world, Yoo and Wegman said.“Everything that it talks about with women workers, immigration, labor, it’s these touch points that just keep on flaring up over and over and over again,” Yoo said, pointing out that industrial disasters, at garment factories and elsewhere, still happen around the globe.The two came up with the design for the memorial about a decade ago. It is coming to fruition, with a capital budget of about $3 million, during a year of labor activism in some U.S. industries, with strikes by auto workers, hospital staff, film and television writers and screen actors.It just shows that the Triangle Shirtwaist fire still has lessons to impart, Bass said.“We forget a tragedy like this at our own peril,” she said. “We have the same issues, immigrant issues, safe working condition issues, abuse of women in the workplace issues. It’s not like any of these issues are all fixed."。迎财神迎财神盛行于明清和民国时期，财神分为文财神和武财神和君财神。

二 | 文财神是比干，武财神是赵公明和关羽，君财神是柴王爷。文财神”财帛星君，也称“增福财神”:他的绘像经常与“福”、“禄”、“寿”三星和喜神列在一起，合起来为福、禄、寿、喜、财。财帛星君脸白发长，手捧一个宝盆，“招财进宝”四字由此而来。一般把财帛星君画像供奉于正厅，祈求财运、福运。新岁携福至巳巳如意，恭贺新春送五穷 “五穷”也叫”五鬼”。指”智穷、学穷、文穷、命穷、交穷”等五种穷鬼。这一天，人们黎明即起，放鞭炮，打扫卫生。鞭炮从房间里往门外边走边放，将不吉利和妖魔鬼怪都轰将出去。打扫卫生是一种彻底的大扫除，从每间房屋里把垃圾扫出门外，等到垃圾扫出大门，鞭炮也从屋里放到了屋外，拿一个极大的爆竹，放在垃圾堆上燃放，预示着一切穷气穷鬼都给赶跑了!福、快乐、健康，好运、平安，统统迎进家门口，喜气洋洋过大年，开春工作更积极，生活顺心每一天，全家健康到永远。放鞭炮正月初五，家家户户都会放鞭炮，以此驱赶不吉利的事物，包括晦气和妖魔鬼怪，同时也象征着将一切不好的东西从家中抛出。大扫除由于春节期间的禁忌，如避免打扫卫生以防扫走好运，到了正月初五，即所谓的“破五”，人们会进行彻底的大扫除，将家中的垃圾和废物清理掉，以迎接财神和新年的好运。吃饺子寓意招财进宝、富贵吉祥，也有的地方吃饺子是为了解除过去几天积存下来的晦气。禁忌小提示 ①忌串门避免将穷气带到亲戚邻里家。 ②不吃莲藕莲藕有很多孔、意味着“漏财”。