Dongguan Spring Festival custom composition 800 words

Sweep the dust: "I am 28 years old and I am sloppy." Dongguan custom, after the twelfth lunar month, you can sweep the dust. "Dust" and "Chen" are homophonic. Sweeping the dust means getting rid of the old and welcoming the new. Sweeping the dust means getting rid of all bad luck, difficulties and bad things, living a clean new year and hoping that the new year will have a new look. Cleaning usually begins with cleaning smallpox, and then the walls. Cleaning tools are generally big brooms made of bamboo branches and leaves, mainly to clean dust, cobwebs and other dirt accumulated on roofs, eaves and walls. We also need to clean furniture, clothes and quilts, and clean the yard.

Lunar calendar1February 24th is the day when "immortals" report their work to heaven. Before New Year's Eve, people are busy preparing all kinds of new year's goods: buying chicken, duck and fish; Add new clothes; Newly purchased furniture and appliances; Buy New Year pictures, Spring Festival couplets, etc. I especially want to buy oranges, green olives and other fruits as a symbol of good luck and welcome friends and relatives. Before the Chinese New Year, men must get a new hairstyle and women must "pull their faces". Nowadays, most women get haircuts and beauty treatments.

Thirty years old: lazy. New Year's Eve is the last day of the Lunar New Year, which is a custom in Dongguan except Japan. Children are very lazy. (Republic of China) (Dongguan County Records) said: "Sell laziness, sell ruthlessness". It means that the new year is coming and the cold winter is gone forever. At present, children in Dongguan are lazy, that is, lazy. In Shuizhen, Dongguan, there are still some places that sell lazy children's songs: selling lazy children's songs, selling lazy children's songs, selling early children's songs and selling them to Mrs. Wang in Guangxi; It was sold late and sold to Aunt Wang in Guangxi. Come here today to sell laziness, listen early (tomorrow) and work hard for a few years.

Have a reunion dinner: Reunion dinner is also called "Reunion dinner". People work hard every year, and on New Year's Eve, the whole family get together happily. On New Year's Eve, people eat glutinous rice balls. There is a proverb in Dongguan: "arrowheads should be eaten even if they sell fields overnight." . The third is chicken. There must be chicken in the reunion dinner, and everyone killed the chicken. Therefore, Guangdong Xiehouyu: chickens dare not crow at the end of the year.

New Year's Day: According to Dongguan County Records (Republic of China), "It's not cold on the first day of the Yuan Dynasty, and the family sacrifices the shrine. In-laws' neighbors congratulate each other and wish each other New Year. " "Customs, no sweeping. Married women prepare for the New Year and give it to their mother's home, saying that they will celebrate or explore the new year. " The first day of the first month is Chicken Day, which means that if you don't kill chickens, every family will eat quickly. Eat only vegetarian food and green tea on New Year's Day. It is essential to drink tea to worship ancestors on the first day of the Lunar New Year. This means that a clean family can live up to its ancestors. Fruits at work include apples symbolizing peace, bananas symbolizing wealth, oranges symbolizing good luck and grapefruit symbolizing harmony.

New Year's Day: In the new year, the whole family will have dinner together, also called "New Year's Eve". The New Year's Eve begins on the second day of the Lunar New Year, and friends and relatives invite each other, and it continues until the eighth and ninth days of the Lunar New Year. There are eight traditional dishes: boiled chicken, lettuce in oyster sauce, carp, Nostoc flagelliforme and oyster sauce, shrimp skin and vermicelli, and braised pork with taro. The dishes have changed, but they all pursue "good intentions."