New Year’s Eve composition novel 400 words

It’s Chinese New Year! It’s Chinese New Year! Every household is busy putting up Spring Festival couplets, shaving hair, cooking New Year's Eve dinner, setting off firecrackers... There are too many things to do, and there are too many "rules"! Some of the customs are so strange that they make me, a monk named Zhang Er, confused. In desperation, I was going to ask my father who was posting Spring Festival couplets.

"It's wrong, it's wrong!" I saw my father pasting the word "福" upside down and shouted anxiously. "It's correct!" Dad replied calmly. "Then why do you stick it upside down?" I was puzzled. Dad explained: "It is a custom to paste the word '福' upside down. Pasting '福' upside down means that '福' has arrived!" "Oh, that's it! So what other customs and rules are there during the New Year? "I asked again. Dad stopped what he was doing and patiently explained it to me.

It turns out that there is a custom of setting off firecrackers during the New Year, which comes from the story of the "Nian Beast". A long time ago, there was a "Nian Beast" who lived in the deep sea for a long time. On New Year's Eve, he jumped out of the sea to do evil everywhere. One year, an old man drove away the "Nian Beast" by setting off cannons, wearing red clothes, and pasting red Spring Festival couplets. Only then was he able to calm down. Since then, this method has been spread to this day.

After listening to my father’s explanation, I suddenly realized. I asked my father again: "Why do you have to get a haircut at twenty-seven?" "Oh, there is a saying among the people, 'Twenty-seven means a fine shave, twenty-eight means a stupid shave!'" "So that's it!"

I asked again: "Then why is there a general cleaning?" Dad said: "The purpose of general cleaning is to get rid of a year's bad luck! This is a good...