A 400-word essay on New Year’s Eve has a beginning and an end.

Celebrate the Spring Festival. Looking forward to it, looking forward to it, it is finally approaching the end of the year and the Spring Festival is coming. As the days pass, the atmosphere of the Spring Festival is getting stronger and stronger. Every household has a festive "福" posted on its door. People on the street are busy buying New Year's goods, and parents lead their children to buy new clothes in clothing stores. Many adults are busy cleaning their houses. All this tells us: the Spring Festival is coming, and it looks full of vitality. The Spring Festival is finally here. When the bell rings, the crackling of firecrackers can be heard in every corner. There are already many children wearing new clothes playing on the grass outside the window. When I woke up from a deep sleep, my first reaction was that I was one year older, put on newly bought clothes, and played with my friends outside the house. The adults set off firecrackers in their own yards. The sound of the firecrackers became louder and louder. Many children covered their ears and stopped to watch. After the firecrackers finished going off, it was a paradise for children. The children rushed to the pile of firecrackers to look for unburned firecrackers and compete to see who could find the most. Seeing my friends searching seriously, I also held a small wooden stick and searched hard. Every household has put on new couplets. Looking at a pair of Spring Festival couplets, I can't help but think of a couplet: "New Year's greetings, Spring Festival's name is Changchun." The front doors of every house were decorated in red, and I couldn’t help but see the festive atmosphere. We also saw people’s hopes and blessings for the new year. New Year greetings are essential during the Spring Festival every year. Whenever I go to my grandma’s house to pay New Year greetings, my grandma will always bring me a cup of rock sugar tea made with rock sugar and let me drink it. I take the tea and take a sip. The sweetness is sweet to the bottom of my heart. I wanted to have another drink, and then I said auspicious words to my grandma. After the New Year greetings, my grandma would take out a red envelope from her pocket and stuff it into my hand. At this time, I didn’t have to look at my parents’ faces as usual, but I took the red envelope generously, feeling very happy. After nightfall, people set off fireworks outside the house. At this exciting moment, at the "3-2-1" moment, the fireworks were shooting out, and there was a sound like thunder. I hurriedly came out to watch, and this sight was amazing. It's amazing, the sky is charming black, coupled with the brilliant fireworks, it's dizzying for people to see, red, purple, blue, green, gold... colorful, one is more beautiful than the other, one is taller than the other, just like In the sky, I saw only a golden dot flying high, as if the colorful fireworks were imprinted in the sky. People's laughter and laughter came from the ground, and the cheers floated in the festive night sky along with the fireworks! The Spring Festival heralds the beginning of a new year, which must be full of vigor and hope. Firecrackers are set off during the Spring Festival. On the night of the Chinese New Year, I lay on the window sill and looked out. The lights are bright outside, and there are few people on the street. Even if there are people, they are setting off firecrackers. I saw only buses and taxis still serving the people on the road. Suddenly, a crackling sound appeared, and I was frightened while I was thinking. A large group of firecrackers made noise together, and a large single firecracker exploded at once. The sound was deafening, and the fireworks also flew into the sky, emitting colorful light and lighting up the entire sky. The children also set off some electric light sticks and small firecrackers, as if to celebrate the arrival of the Spring Festival. The more I watched, the happier I became, but many people injured their hands by setting off firecrackers. Gradually, only the fireworks shine in the sky. Look how colorful the fireworks make people. After a while, people set off all the firecrackers to celebrate the New Year, leaving only some shells, but in my heart, the Spring Festival has never disappeared. Soon the time for setting off firecrackers during the Spring Festival passed, and a new program began - watching TV. The New Year and I spent a very interesting Christmas accompanied by the falling snowflakes. Listen carefully, the footsteps of the New Year are approaching. Looking eastward, a bright day is approaching in the time tunnel. Let us gently greet him: Hello, New Year! In the past three hundred and sixty-five days filled with wind, frost, rain, and snow, we have struggled, made progress, succeeded, and failed. Our laughter, loss, confusion and confusion have all become extremely beautiful memories. As Pushkin said in his poem: "And the past will be stained with inexplicable lovesickness." Isn't it? New Year is the starting point of time, and New Year's Day is the first milestone of time.

There is also a custom in some areas that is to steal the statue of the God of Wealth and hide it in the crotch of the trousers after stealing it, so as to take the meaning of the idiom "The God of Wealth goes into the treasury (trousers)". Buried in these whimsical customs are the good intentions of many hardworking people throughout the ages to flatter the God of Destiny. On the morning of the Spring Festival, when the door is opened, firecrackers are set off first, which is called "opening the door and firecrackers". After the sound of firecrackers, the ground was filled with red, as bright as clouds and brocade, which was called "Full of Red". At this time, the streets were full of auspiciousness and joy. The Origin of the Spring Festival In the traditional sense, the Spring Festival refers to the period from the twelfth lunar month's eighth day of the twelfth lunar month or the twelfth lunar month's stove sacrifice to the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, with New Year's Eve and the first day of the first lunar month as the climax. During the Spring Festival, a traditional festival, my country's Han nationality and most ethnic minorities hold various celebration activities. Most of these activities focus on worshiping gods and Buddhas, paying homage to ancestors, removing the old and bringing in the new, welcoming the new year, welcoming good fortune, and praying for a good harvest. The first thing to say is: "Shou Sui" and "Nian Beast". Everyone knows that on New Year's Eve, it is customary to stay up late at night to welcome the coming of the new year. In fact, this is what the old people used to call "staying up late", also called "staying up late". Why is there such a custom? According to legend, in ancient times there was a ferocious monster that lived scattered in the deep sea. People called them "Nian". It has a ferocious appearance and a ferocious nature. It specializes in eating birds, beasts, and scale insects. It changes its taste every day, ranging from kowtowing insects to living people, making people talk about "New Year". Later, people gradually grasped the activity pattern of "Nian". It would rush to places where people gather to taste fresh food every three hundred and sixty-five days. Like a copper bell, it comes and goes like the wind, and when it roars, it makes a sound of "Nian Nian", hence the name Nian Beast.) Over time, people gradually discovered that the Nian Beast is afraid of three things, namely red, fire and noisy sounds. Calculating the day when the "Nian Beast" would wreak havoc, the people regarded this terrible night as a critical moment, called it "New Year's Eve", and came up with a whole set of ways to celebrate the New Year: every night on this day, Later people would gather together on New Year's Eve when the Nian beast was about to arrive, post red paper, hang red lanterns, set off firecrackers and so on.