If Nantong's local customs, scenery and special products are required to be arranged into paragraphs of not less than 300 words.

Composition "I spend the Spring Festival in the South"

My grandmother lives in Nantong, Jiangsu. In 20 13, my mother and I went back to my grandmother's house for the Spring Festival. Spring Festival is an ancient festival in China, and it is also the most important festival in a year. I think the Spring Festival in Nantong is particularly lively and left a deep impression on me.

As soon as I entered my grandmother's house, I saw bright red Spring Festival couplets and big blessings. Grandma said: it is a long-standing custom in Nantong to post the word "fu" during the New Year. The word "Fu" symbolizes good luck and wishes for a happy life and a bright future. In order to fully reflect this yearning and wish, some people simply put the word "Fu" upside down, indicating that "Fu has arrived" and "Fu has arrived". There are also "Fu" calligraphy and painting, which are made into various patterns, such as longevity, longevity peach, carp yue longmen, abundant grains, dragons and phoenixes, etc.

On New Year's Eve, the whole family get together for dinner. Grandma said: the night before the real Chinese New Year is called reunion night. Wanderers who are away from home have to travel thousands of miles to go home, and the family has to sit around jiaozi for the New Year. After the reunion dinner, everyone eats sugar and melon seeds together. 12 ended, everyone came out and started to set off firecrackers. There is a saying in Nantong 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. Setting off firecrackers can create a festive and lively atmosphere, which is a kind of entertainment in festivals and can bring happiness and good luck to people.

After the firecrackers were set off, the adults sat around the dining table and chatted, waiting for the moment to bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new year, and kept vigil all night, symbolizing driving away all evil diseases and plagues and looking forward to a happy New Year. Grandma said it was "guarding the old". This custom has been popular in Nantong for hundreds of years. "Cold winter snow, warm spring breeze". To this day, people are used to celebrating the New Year's Eve. Grandma said: observing the age has two meanings: the old man's observing the age means "resigning from the old", which means cherishing time; Young people keep their age in order to prolong the life of their parents.

On the first day of the new year, people get up early, put on the most beautiful clothes, dress neatly, go out to visit relatives and friends, and wish each other good luck in the coming year. Because grandma is an old man in the local area, all the villagers nearby come to pay New Year greetings to grandma. Grandma said that during the Spring Festival, the younger generation should first pay New Year greetings to their elders and wish them a long and healthy life. The elders can distribute the lucky money prepared in advance to the younger generation. It is said that lucky money can kill evil spirits, because "old" and "expensive" are homophonic, and the younger generation can spend a year safely with lucky money.

During my holiday in Nantong, I ate delicious food every day. Jiaozi on the first day, noodles on the second day, zygotes on the third day, and steamed rice cakes. Because of the homophonic "rice cakes" and varied tastes, rice cakes have almost become a must-have food for every household. The styles of rice cakes are square yellow and white rice cakes, which symbolize gold and silver and express the meaning of making a fortune in the New Year. But I like grandma's steamed buns best, jiaozi. Grandma first wrapped jiaozi in flour, and then wrapped it in a leather bag, which contained pork, eggs, seafood, cabbage and so on. After wrapping it, she cooked it with clear water, picked it up and mixed it with vinegar, minced garlic and sesame oil. Because the word "he" in dough mixing means "he"; Jiaozi's "jiao" and "glue" are homophonic, and "harmony" and "glue" have the meaning of reunion, so jiaozi is used to symbolize the reunion of acacia; It is very auspicious to make friends with older people; In addition, jiaozi, which is shaped like an ingot, has the auspicious meaning of "making a fortune" when eating jiaozi in the New Year. All the families get together to pack jiaozi, so it's fun to celebrate the Spring Festival.

It's so happy to spend the Spring Festival in the south. I want my mother to take me to my grandmother's house for the New Year next year.