Spring Festival in Leizhou 150 words

Leizhou New Year

The Spring Festival, also known as "New Year", is the oldest, most solemn and richest traditional festival in Leizhou Peninsula. It has strong local characteristics. Press According to the current annual customs in Leizhou Peninsula, the Spring Festival no longer only refers to the first day of the new year. In the minds of the locals who love liveliness and festivals, the Spring Festival begins in the late twelfth lunar month and continues until the Lantern Festival. In the late twelfth lunar month, every household across the Leizhou Peninsula is busy preparing "New Year's goods". Urban residents are indispensable for New Year's oranges, Spring Festival couplets, flowers, candies, fashionable clothes, and children's toys; rural farmers are equipped with incense lanterns and candles, door god New Year pictures, firecrackers, and more. There are homemade cakes and other food offerings.

On the 24th or 25th day of the twelfth lunar month in the lunar calendar, various places in Leizhou carry out cleaning activities, commonly known as "dash-up" or "sweep-out". Every household conducts indoor general cleaning in order to keep everything clean. From the 26th to the 28th, rice is ground to make New Year cakes. Leizhou Peninsula is the hometown of cane sugar. The rice cakes are sweet and there are many kinds of rice cakes. The rice cakes are more than three or four feet in diameter, which surprises faraway visitors. Inch-thick giant rice cakes include: basket rice cakes, round cage rice cakes, cage rice cakes, basket rice cakes about eight inches in diameter and one inch thick, cylinder lid rice cakes, and cowhide cakes; rice cakes include: dumpling cakes, leaves, vegetable buns, Tian Aiwei, and red rice cakes. Indian, white rice crackers, fried dumplings, longevity peaches, rice-kneaded poultry and various kinds of dumplings.

The most lively scenes in rural areas are pig slaughtering, catching pond fish, and celebrating the New Year's Eve. Men, women, old and young They all went out together. Every household posted "New Year's red", including indoor New Year paintings, as well as traditional "door gods" and Spring Festival couplets (commonly known as "pairs").

On the evening of New Year's Eve, people in Leizhou set up incense to worship the God of Fire and ancestors, at the same time, they arrange wine, food, pond fish and other sacrifices "around the stove" in the corner of their own courtyard, and light firecrackers (firecrackers) to celebrate the old year. In the evening, the whole family gathers together and has a sumptuous "reunion dinner" at home, saying To "eat New Year's Eve dinner", some urbanites go to restaurants with their families to have New Year's Eve dinner. Firecrackers are fired to celebrate before dinner. After the meal, parents give red envelopes to their children, which is called "New Year's money." Before going to bed, mothers teach their children: New Year's Eve dinner You have to get up in the middle of the night. Avoid yelling at people who don't agree, avoid pouring water randomly, say congratulations on getting rich when you meet people, and avoid using harsh words. Many places also have the custom of keeping the year old. On New Year's Eve, the whole family gathers together to watch the Spring Festival. Party TV program, chatting and laughing, until the end of the day without sleep.