After nightfall, the whole family will mobilize to prepare the New Year’s Eve dinner, and then eat the New Year’s Eve dinner around the stove while enjoying the CCTV Spring Festival Gala. There will

After nightfall, the whole family will mobilize to prepare the New Year’s Eve dinner, and then eat the New Year’s Eve dinner around the stove while enjoying the CCTV Spring Festival Gala. There will also be special chapters describing the New Year’s Eve dinner and Spring Festival Gala. First, Let’s talk about the process of staying up late on New Year’s Eve. On the night of the New Year's Eve, that is, New Year's Eve, except for very young children, they usually have to stay up all night, at least until two o'clock in the morning, because after twelve o'clock at night, there are two important things The first thing to do is to set off firecrackers, burn ingots, kowtow to worship ancestors, and the second is to eat vegetarian dumplings with coins on them as a whole family. These two things must be done after twelve o'clock, and they can only be started after twelve o'clock. Point, the sooner you start, the better. Therefore, every year on New Year's Eve, just after 12 midnight, the village is the most noisy and lively. The sound of firecrackers one after another is so deafening that people talking in the house can't hear each other clearly. My father has always followed the rules, and naturally he is not to be outdone for such a big event. Every year just after 11:30 on New Year's Eve, he begins to lead my mother and me to make all preparations in an orderly manner. The number of firecrackers is at least 2,000, and the most is When I was admitted to college, I bought a 10,000-ring ingot. I had to pick it up in advance with a long bamboo pole, or hang it directly from the roof. The folded ingots were brought out, starting from the courtyard door, and placed on the left and right outside the door. Three or five pieces should be placed on the left and right sides of the entrance to the main room, as well as the left and right sides of the altar table and the left and right legs of the bed in the bedroom. Then take two pieces of red cloth and spread them in front of the spring couplets "Spring is Full in the Courtyard" in the courtyard and in the main room. Before serving on the table, the vegetarian dumplings that have been wrapped have been cooked and served in bowls while they are still hot. As soon as the minute hand passed twelve o'clock, the filled dumplings were placed on the altar table and in the bedroom respectively. A pair of chopsticks were placed flat on the bowls. Three sticks of incense were added to the incense burner. Then they quickly ran to the yard to set off firecrackers. As soon as the firecrackers sounded, I ran to the courtyard door to light the ingots, and then lit the ingots in the hall and bedroom. The ingots were all burned, and I kowtowed to worship our ancestors with my parents. First kowtow in the yard in front of the Spring Festival couplets "Spring is Full in the Yard". When men kowtow, they must bow first, then kneel down when they stand up. They must straighten their bodies every time they kowtow, and then kowtow to the next one. They must kowtow four times before getting up. Then make a bow; women's kowtow is relatively simple, and the movement of making a bow is much smaller than that of a man. After kneeling, he nods his head four times in a row, and then makes another bow when he gets up. Then I have to repeat it in the bedroom, and then I can eat vegetarian dumplings with coins.

Li Hu, in Jining on March 28, 2019