800-word essay about the Spring Festival

Growing up, I have never experienced the Spring Festival outside. Due to habit, I have never thought that the custom of celebrating the Spring Festival in my hometown is actually very interesting. If you think about it carefully, the Spring Festival in your hometown is quite interesting.

My hometown is Meixian County, Guangdong Province. Because it is a mountain city, even in the severe winter, everywhere is still lush and green. The greenery in my hometown all year round always gives people a feeling of vitality. The Spring Festival in my hometown is hot, with bustling scenes and happy people everywhere. Just like the green, it gives people a feeling of sunshine. People in my hometown have always followed the old customs and attach great importance to celebrating festivals. From January to December, there are festivals every month. Each festival has different emphasis and ways of celebrating it, but the Spring Festival is the most important among the festivals. The Chinese New Year in my hometown lasts from the twelfth lunar month to the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. People are immersed in the joyful atmosphere of the Spring Festival.

As soon as the twelfth lunar month enters every year, people start to get busy. Busy eating, busy dressing, busy washing, busy rinsing. Kill chickens, ducks, and pigs, and bake these things that will become one of the new year's products, and use them to entertain guests in the first month. At the same time, we have to make rice cakes with the word "福" printed on them, steam "Fa" cakes with red spices, which means "get rich", fry "Jiandui", make Hakka Niangjiu, make tofu, etc., all the New Year's Eve cakes. All delicious food must be prepared before the end of the year. In addition, I also thought that I should prepare new clothes for the whole family, because it is the Chinese New Year and the whole family has to change into new clothes. The focus is on children, who need to wear new clothes inside and out. Adults also need to wear new clothes. All houses, bedding, and clothes must be washed cleanly to mark the new beginning of the new year.

On the day before New Year’s Eve, every family posts couplets and hangs red lanterns. From then on, the lanterns were lit until the Lantern Festival and then extinguished, which was meant to ward off evil spirits and eliminate disasters. On New Year's Eve, people should devoutly light incense, burn paper, and set off firecrackers in the morning to bless the family's happiness and health in the coming year. After lunch, the whole family will take a bath and change into new clothes. Afterwards, the elders will give new year's money to the unmarried juniors, which means that the elders will live longer and the younger ones will grow up healthily. Then the ancestors were worshiped. After the ancestor worship ceremony, the New Year's Eve reunion dinner began. Dinner had to be started before the sun went down, which means "early years and early festivals, reunion." After dinner, a plate of food is placed next to the stove to honor the stove god for a year's hard work. It also means that the stove fire will continue throughout the year and there will be no shortage of food and drink. When New Year's Eve comes, all the lights in the house stay on all night, which means peace in the four seasons and long life. It also means "keeping the year old". Before the end of New Year's Eve, the house must be cleaned, because cleaning is not allowed on the first day of the year, which means "saying goodbye (sweeping) away the old and welcoming the new." At 12 o'clock on New Year's Eve, the house door should be opened wide, food and firecrackers should be placed at the door, which means "to receive the God of Wealth".

On the first day of the first lunar month, people get up at dawn, because you can’t sleep in late on this day, otherwise someone’s fields will collapse during spring plowing. No one will delve into the authenticity of the truth. In short, Everyone gets up early. The first thing after getting up is to fire the "opening cannon" to indicate that the door is open. Then, the adults were busy picking up the "Zao Lord", while the children ran to pay New Year greetings. Seeing the adults saying "Congratulations on getting rich", the elders happily give "benefits" to the children. "Benefits" are red envelopes, which also means that the children can grow up healthily. On this day, you are not allowed to eat at other people's homes to show that the family is reunited all year round. In the afternoon of this day, the highlight is the "Lion Dance to New Year". The lion dance team in the village goes from house to house, beating gongs and drums. At each house, the lion dancers will dance around the house and bow to the owner. At this time The atmosphere was lively and the courtyard was full of glory, so the owner happily distributed "favorable things" to the lion dancers for good luck.

Go back to your parents’ home on the second day of the first lunar month, go back to your husband’s house on the third day of the first lunar month (usually stay one night at your parents’ home), visit everyone on the fourth day of the first lunar month (meaning to visit relatives and friends), and stay home on the fifth day of the first lunar month (not allowed) Go to other people's houses and try to sneak in), and eat seven kinds of vegetables on the seventh day of the first lunar month (each vegetable represents a meaning, such as onions: smart, celery: hardworking, etc.)... These are the same customs that remain unchanged in my hometown. It adds interest to the Spring Festival in my hometown.

The Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the climax of the Spring Festival. On that day, lion dance teams from all villages went to the city to "celebrate the Lantern Festival". At night, the bright moon is in the sky, the colorful lanterns are bright, the gongs and drums are noisy, the firecrackers are sounding, and the crowds are like waves.

The lion dance competition is the opening program of the "Lantern Festival". After the competition, the top three will be selected by representatives of each village. From now on, whenever there are activities in the county, these winning teams will be the primary performance teams. "Burning the smoke rack" is also a must-have activity during the Lantern Festival. People use bamboo poles to prop up a long dragon made of bamboo strips. The dragon is equipped with various fireworks. The dragon spin begins and all the fireworks are lit together. The fireworks They spurted out together, forming a fire dragon. At this time, the fire was blazing, the drums were clanging, the laughter was loud, and the crowd was roaring. People were enjoying themselves and expressing their passionate aspirations in the fire and drums. As the saying goes: If you turn into a fire dragon, you will live ninety-nine years. The fire dragon has been lit and rotated, which means that disasters will be eliminated and disasters will be eliminated in the new year. In addition to fire dragons, lanterns are everywhere. Under the lanterns, people sit in circles on the cross streets, gongs, drummers, and cymbal players play enthusiastically, and folk songs are also sung enthusiastically. The firelight turned people's cheeks red. The performers were mesmerizing, the singers sang passionately, and the audience listened attentively. People's thoughts were drawn by the music and folk songs, forgetting the hard work of the year, and looking forward to the beautiful new year.

Many activities during the Spring Festival in my hometown are superstitious. Even if people don’t believe it, the customs are still passed down from generation to generation. People in my hometown believe that this is a tradition, a kind of entertainment, and a kind of entertainment. kind of hope and hope.