My opinion on the custom of Chinese New Year in rural areas

I come from Zouping Experimental Class 9.

The custom of the Spring Festival

Spring Festival is the most traditional and grand festival in China, and it also lasts for the longest time. From the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month to the 15th day of the first lunar month, people were busy for a month. The long historical years have made the content of the annual custom activities extremely colorful. Among them, the superstitious content of offering sacrifices to heaven and gods has been gradually eliminated, while the content rich in life interest such as posting Spring Festival couplets, New Year pictures, posting blessings, wrapping jiaozi, setting off firecrackers, vigil on New Year's Eve, and New Year's greetings is still very popular.

1. Shousui

Keeping old age on New Year's Eve is the most important custom, which was recorded in Wei and Jin Dynasties. On New Year's Eve, the descendants of China people still attach great importance to staying up late with their families, getting together for drinking and enjoying family happiness, which is a custom. After the first cock crow, the new year began. Men, women and children wear holiday clothes. First, they celebrate the New Year's birthday for their elders. Then they visit their relatives and friends and congratulate each other. At this time, the land of China is shining everywhere. From the first day to the fifteenth day, people are immersed in a festive atmosphere of joy, peace and civilization.

On New Year's Eve, the whole family get together, eat New Year's Eve, chat around the stove, bid farewell to the old and welcome the new. To this day, people are still used to setting off firecrackers on New Year's Eve, setting off firecrackers outdoors, sitting around the fire or watching TV indoors, and laughing again and again.

Setting off firecrackers

There is a folk saying in China called setting off firecrackers. That is, when the new year comes, the first thing for every household to open the door is to set off firecrackers to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new. Firecrackers are a specialty of China with a long history of more than 2,000 years. Now, most of us think that setting off firecrackers can create a festive atmosphere, is a kind of entertainment in festivals, and can bring happiness and good luck to people.

Paste the word blessing

During the Spring Festival, every household should stick large and small blessings on doors, walls and lintels. The word "fu" is now interpreted as happiness, but in the past it meant good luck and good luck. No matter now or in the past, people's longing for a happy life and their wishes for a better future are pinned on the New Year. In order to fully reflect this yearning and wish, the people simply put the word "fu" upside down, indicating that happiness has arrived.

pay New Year calls

New Year greeting is a traditional folk custom in China, and it is a way for people to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, and express their best wishes to each other. The original meaning of the word "Happy New Year" is to pay New Year greetings to the elderly, including kowtowing to the elderly, congratulating them on a happy New Year and greeting their lives. In case of friends and relatives of the same generation, you should also salute and congratulate.

New Year greetings usually begin at home. On the morning of the first day, after getting up, the younger generation should first pay a New Year call to their elders, wishing them a long and healthy life and all the best. After the elders worship, they should distribute the lucky money prepared in advance to the younger generation. After greeting the elders at home, you should also greet people with a smile when you go out to meet them, and exchange auspicious words such as congratulations on getting rich, good luck in the four seasons and happy New Year. Neighbors, relatives and friends will also visit each other, pay New Year greetings to each other or invite them to drink and entertain. With the development of the times, the custom of New Year greetings is constantly adding new contents and forms. Nowadays, people not only follow the old way of paying New Year greetings, but also begin to pay New Year greetings by SMS and telephone.

Eat jiaozi.

Jiaozi is a folk food with a long history and is deeply loved by people. There is a folk saying that it is delicious but not as good as jiaozi. Jiaozi has become an indispensable program food for the Spring Festival. The reasons are as follows: First, jiaozi is shaped like an ingot. During the Spring Festival, people eat the sound of jiaozi making a fortune, and jiaozi has stuffing, which is convenient for people to put all kinds of auspicious things into stuffing and place their hopes on the new year. When wrapping jiaozi, people often wrap Ruyi, money, sugar, peanuts, dates and chestnuts into stuffing. Eat the best and sugar, life will be sweeter in the coming year, eat peanuts, live a long and healthy life, eat dates and chestnuts, have a baby early, and eat money, which will bring good luck in the coming year.

Generally, jiaozi should wrap it up before New Year's Eve 12, and eat it at midnight. At this time, it is the beginning of the first day of the first lunar month. When eating jiaozi, it means that you can make friends at a young age. When a child was a child, jiaozi was homophonic, which meant celebration and reunion, and good luck.

6. lucky money

When visiting the New Year during the Spring Festival, the elders should distribute the lucky money prepared in advance to the younger generation. It is said that lucky money can suppress evil spirits, because the New Year is homophonic, and the younger generation can spend a year safely with lucky money. There are two kinds of lucky money, one is to put a colored rope in the shape of a dragon and put it at the foot of the bed; The other is the most common, that is, parents wrap the money distributed to their children in red paper. Lucky money can be given in public after the younger generation pays New Year's greetings, or it can be put under the child's pillow by parents when the child is asleep on New Year's Eve. At present, the custom of elders giving lucky money to younger generations is still prevalent. The amount of lucky money ranges from tens to hundreds, and it is increasing day by day. Fortunately, most of these lucky money are used by children to buy firecrackers, toys, books and school supplies.

China is a big multi-ethnic family, and each ethnic group in each region has its own unique customs and habits, so it can only be experienced by itself.