An 800-word composition for the second day of the new year with a full house full of joy

1 The first to third day of the first lunar month of the lunar calendar was called Luduan and New Year's Day in ancient times. Now it is called Spring Festival. People in Fuzhou call it "Zuo Nian". It is the most solemn folk festival with the longest holiday in the year. At dawn, every house opens its doors, burns incense and fires cannons to welcome the New Year. There are many taboos in this festival. The first thing you say and the first thing you do is to have good fortune, hoping for a safe year. At the beginning of the new year, the first thing you say to anyone you meet is "congratulations", "get rich", "peace" and other auspicious words, and the other person will respond with corresponding kind words. On that day, you will not sweep the floor, fetch water, carry loads, chop firewood, wash clothes, bathe, get a haircut, or say any unlucky words. After the whole family gets up, they put on new clothes or clothes of the best quality. For breakfast, some people eat noodles (noodles, chicken, duck eggs) to wish for peace and longevity; some eat rice cakes (brown sugar cakes) to wish for good fortune every year; some elderly people eat vegetarian food to pray for a safe year for their family and grandchildren. On the first day of the Lunar New Year, the younger generation pays New Year greetings to their elders, and the elders give them lucky money or candies or oranges.

On the first day of the lunar month, people are not allowed to travel far. On the second and third days of the lunar month, people can visit relatives and friends and wish each other the New Year. Just as Wu Jiyun, a native of the Qing Dynasty, said in "The Bamboo Branch Poems of Fuzhou Years": "New clothes of the tribe come to people, and the etiquette is modest and joyful; when they meet on the road, they bow to each other, and they get rich and congratulate them on the new year." This is the new custom of Fuzhou in ancient times. landscape. Families with married daughters will hold spring banquets and invite their daughters, sons-in-law and grandchildren back to their parents' homes for a feast and reunion. The women of the boatmen (folks) on the water, wearing red flowers on their heads, blue shirts, blue trousers, and blue shoes with cloth soles, go ashore together, visit each house, and sing New Year greetings in Fuzhou dialect: "Aunts and sisters-in-law both wish the New Year, and red umbrellas and lanterns hang in front of the hall; OK "Good Kueh is sent to the slave, and the gold-letter plate stands in front of the door." "The old year is over and the new year is coming, business is prosperous and you make a lot of money; I wish you good fortune and a safe life, and you are sending the Kueh to the door." This is called. "Poetry for asking?" is also a New Year's greeting. Asking for "Poetry for New Year's greetings" shows good luck. During the Spring Festival, the streets and alleys of Fuzhou are decorated with lanterns, fireworks, and laughter, creating a festive atmosphere everywhere.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, party and government leaders at all levels brought gifts to the residences of military martyrs, retired cadres and old model workers before or during the holidays to pay New Year's greetings. Relevant departments organize Spring Festival garden tours, parties from all walks of life, cultural evenings and other activities. Those old superstitious customs gradually disappeared. In the early 1990s, most homes were equipped with telephones. Relatives and friends generally used the phone to send New Year greetings to each other to reduce holiday traffic congestion.

On the early morning of the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, every household burns incense to "receive the gods" and welcome the Stove King back to Luan to take charge of matters. All walks of life have holidays, firecrackers are set off, shops are open for business, factories start working, and agencies start working. After the 1990s, the homework time was adjusted, and now I work on the eighth day of the lunar month. Some service industries are still open during the Spring Festival.

2 Flowers is a multi-ethnic country with fifty-six ethnic groups surrounding one flower, with different ethnic groups and different customs. Different customs create different festival customs. When it comes to festival customs, I first think of going to temple fairs. I believe everyone has admired this custom in Beijing for a long time, but not many people have really seen it. So let me Let's take everyone to see this interesting folk custom.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, temple fairs are held in temples inside and outside Beijing, and temple fairs are large-scale fairs. Early in the morning, the stalls outside the temple gate started shouting, and the street was packed. Full of good mood, I walked into the temple gate. The first thing that caught my eye was this year's zodiac animals, including plush, porcelain, and jade. The dazzling array of things is dazzling. The exquisite and clear gadgets are arranged on the container, neat and orderly, which is very eye-catching.

After visiting the exquisite handicrafts, we went to the food street to prepare for a meal. The fragrance is everywhere here, and people can smell the fragrance from ten miles away.

The food street is full of snacks, with delicious food from all over the world. Just looking at it will make you salivate, so come here and taste all kinds of delicacies. It will be comfortable! I heard that the Alibaba mutton skewers in the Beijing market were delicious and fatty. I couldn't hold back my excitement. I found some experienced people and ordered more than a dozen skewers in a row. I sat on a small chair and ate while looking at the busy market. It was so happy. , the mutton skewers are so delicious, even after eating them one after another, it’s not enough. Who says Beijing’s snacks are full of color, flavor and flavor?

After eating and drinking, follow me to continue watching. After jogging all the way, we came to the children's paradise. Here there are various games with prizes for children to play, as well as rare toys launched only in the new year, "air rifle target shooting". ", "Sheep Pulling Carts", "Splitting Huashan Mountain", there are various temple fair games with different characteristics. Some are exciting, some are interesting, and all of them make people open their mouths and eyes wide, feasting their eyes, it is endless fun, I

< p>Although I didn’t play (it felt too childish!), these activities made countless children happy.

Have had enough fun, say goodbye to the amusement park, come with me to listen to the "Quality of China" and feel the true meaning of culture with your heart. If you don't arrive at the theater early, it's really difficult to see the actors performing on stage. The theater is packed with art lovers from ten miles to eight floors. The programs here are colorful and endless, including Peking opera, Pingju opera, cross talk, sketches, pantomimes, etc., one after another, which makes the audience fully addicted. They hum a few familiar songs, and those who don’t understand also put their hands in the air. Make up and down gestures, follow the melody, shake your head and head, and enjoy the melody of Peking Opera and the joy of the sketch. After the performance, the sound of clapping echoed throughout the entire venue, echoing over the temple fair for a long time.

I jumped around and was sweating profusely, but I also enjoyed it. Although it was not as festive as firecrackers, it still had a festive atmosphere and added endless fun. Old temple fairs, new ones The temple fair is a big gathering of east, west, north, and south. It has its own unique charm and excitement. The motherland has given birth to different nationalities and different folk customs, and they are all colorful, but the style of old Beijing makes me happy!

3 Traditional Chinese Festival - Spring Festival

Every year on the first day of the first lunar month, it is the Chinese New Year. Among Chinese traditional festivals, this is the most important and lively festival. Because the Lunar New Year is celebrated at the end of winter and the beginning of spring, people also call this festival "Spring Festival".

Chinese people have many traditional customs during the Spring Festival. Starting from the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, people begin to prepare for the New Year. During this period, every household has to do a general cleaning, buy New Year's goods, put up window grilles, hang New Year pictures, write Spring Festival couplets, steam rice cakes, prepare various foods, and prepare to bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new year.

The eve of the Spring Festival is called "New Year's Eve". New Year's Eve is a time for family reunion. The whole family sits together, eats a sumptuous New Year's Eve dinner, talks and laughs until dawn, this is called staying up late. As soon as the bell rings at midnight on New Year's Eve, people still eat dumplings. In ancient times, zero o'clock was called "Zi Shi". Zi Shi on New Year's Eve is the time when the old and new years turn over. People eat dumplings at this time, which means "Geng Sui Jiao Zi". This is also the origin of the name "dumplings".

After New Year’s Eve, it’s the first day of the Lunar New Year. Starting from the first day of the Lunar New Year, people visit relatives, see friends and pay New Year greetings to each other. New Year greetings are an important custom during the Spring Festival. When paying New Year greetings, everyone should say some auspicious words to wish happiness and health.

Spring Festival custom - setting off firecrackers

When midnight comes, the New Year's bell rings, and the sound of firecrackers rings across the entire land of China. In this "three yuan" moment of "the yuan of the year, the yuan of the month, and the yuan of the time", some places still build "vigorous fires" in the courtyard to show that the energy is strong and prosperous. Around the blazing fire, the children set off firecrackers and jumped happily. At this time, there were bright lights inside the house, brilliant sparks in front of the court, and loud noises outside, pushing the lively atmosphere of New Year's Eve to the climax. .

The sound of firecrackers is a symbol of saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new, and an expression of festive mood. Business family. Setting off firecrackers has another meaning: they set off firecrackers on New Year's Eve to make a lot of money in the new year. However, according to old customs, you should be the first to honor the God of Wealth, and the last to set off firecrackers. Legend has it that if you want to make a fortune, the firecrackers should sound until the end to be considered sincere. In the old days, when the Wealth Gate was opened at midnight during the Spring Festival, people would send gifts to the God of Wealth. Holding a piece of paper printed on the door, the God of Wealth would shout: "Here comes the God of Wealth!" At this time, the owner of the house, in order to express his welcome, The God of Wealth will give the reward to the visitor, and of course he will inevitably say some auspicious words when giving it to the God of Wealth.

For example: "The gold and silver treasures are rolling in"! "There are a pair of golden lions on the left and a pair of golden phoenixes on the right"! Words like that. Another way is to dress up as the God of Wealth, wearing a red robe, a gauze hat, a fake beard, and a yellow bag for collecting money, followed by a few gongs and drums, going from house to house. Distribute statues of the God of Wealth in order to collect rewards. Every time he comes to someone's door, he sings: "The left compartment is full of gold and silver, and the right side is full of treasures." A lot of auspicious words are uttered, until the owner happily takes the red paper statue of the God of Wealth. , gave them some money, and these people who pretended to be the God of Wealth, thanked them repeatedly, beat hard for a while, and moved to another house amidst the sound of gongs and drums.

The first thing everyone does after setting off firecrackers and returning home is to worship heaven and earth, welcome gods, and worship ancestors. In ancient times, this kind of custom was very popular. Due to the different etiquette and customs in different places, the forms of ancestor worship are also different. Some go to the wild to visit their ancestors' tombs, some go to the ancestral hall to worship their ancestors, and most of them place the ancestor's tablets in the main hall in sequence at home, display the offerings, and then the worshipers press the long The younger ones offer incense and kneel down in order. After paying homage to their ancestors, southerners check the auspicious direction of the year recorded in the almanac, light lanterns and torches, carry pots of wine, offer incense and blast firecrackers, open doors and go out to welcome the God of Joy, which is called "Chutian Fang" or "Travel", Zhejiang It's called "Chu Xun", and in Shanghai it's called "Dou Xi Shen Fang". This custom is to seek good luck and pray for the gods to bless everything smoothly in the year. Staying up all night on New Year's Eve means staying up all night. It's night, and the housewives are busy hanging lanterns, posting Spring Festival couplets, cutting window grilles, and pasting New Year pictures. They decorate the house with red and green flowers, adding a rich atmosphere to the festival. Perhaps the thing that children look forward to most is New Year’s money. New Year's money is given by the elders to the younger ones. In some families, after the New Year's Eve dinner, everyone sits at the table and is not allowed to leave. When everyone has finished eating, the elders give it to the younger ones and encourage their children and grandchildren to make the best of it in the new year. Learn to make progress and be a good person. In some homes, parents wait for their children to fall asleep and put them under their pillows at night. In other homes, children gather in the main hall, shout Happy New Year to grandparents, parents, and mom, kneel down in line, and then reach out for red envelopes. They even went to the grandparents' bedroom and ran to the edge of the bed together, shouting: "New Year's money, New Year's money!" The old man didn't think it was lively enough, so he pretended to be stingy, went from bargaining to besieging and groping, and finally dug out the ancestor's red envelope. After everyone looted everything, they dispersed. The old man was overjoyed when he saw this scene, thinking it was a good sign that everything would go well in the new year.

People’s traditional concept is that they always like to seek more good luck during the Chinese New Year and hope that everything will go well. There are many old customs in this. For example, there is a custom in various places that prohibits the use of brooms. It is believed that using a broom during the New Year will sweep away luck and wealth, making it difficult to have good luck in the new year. If you must sweep the floor, you must sweep from the outside to the inside. In order to make this custom popular, the first day of the first lunar month is also designated as the "Broom Birthday". You should not scold your children during the New Year, and you must pay special attention to what you say. If a child accidentally smashes his rice bowl, no one will scold him. Instead, he will be said to be "safe and sound every year" because "broken" and "year old" are homophonic to create an ominous atmosphere. During the New Year, adults are most afraid of children slipping up and saying unlucky words at the beginning of the new year. In addition to paying attention horizontally and vertically, some places also use a piece of red cloth or straw paper to wipe the children's mouths, which means to wipe their mouths. As a butt, even if you say something unlucky, it is equivalent to farting. Some people put oranges and lychees next to their pillows, calling them "lucky fruits." Oranges and lychees are homophonic for "auspiciousness", which means good luck in the coming year. There is also a custom in some areas that is to steal the statue of the God of Wealth and hide it in the crotch of the trousers after stealing it, so as to take the meaning of the idiom "The God of Wealth goes into the treasury (trousers)". Buried in these whimsical customs are the good intentions of many hardworking people throughout the ages to flatter the God of Destiny.

On the morning of the Spring Festival, when the door is opened, firecrackers are set off first, which is called "opening the door firecrackers". After the sound of firecrackers, the ground was filled with red, as bright as clouds and brocade, which was called "Full of Red". At this time, the streets were full of auspiciousness and joy.

Spring Festival custom - window grilles

During the Spring Festival, people in many areas like to put various paper-cuts - window grilles - on their windows. Window grilles not only enhance the festive atmosphere, but also bring people beautiful enjoyment, integrating decoration, appreciation and practicality.

Paper-cutting is a very popular folk art that has been loved by people for thousands of years. Because it is mostly pasted on windows, people generally call it "window flower".

Paper-cutting is a very popular folk art that has been loved by people for thousands of years. Because it is mostly pasted on windows, people generally call it "window flower". With its unique summary and exaggeration techniques, window grilles vividly express auspicious symbols and good wishes, decorating the festival with prosperity and joy.

Spring Festival custom - pasting the word "福"

Every Spring Festival, every household must paste the word "福", large and small, on the door, wall and lintel. Posting the word "福" during the Spring Festival is a long-standing folk custom in my country. According to "Meng Liang Lu" records: "On the first day of the new year, I shop for department stores, paint door-god peach charms, and welcome the Spring Festival..."; "Every family of scholars and common people, big or small, sweeps the door, removes dust, cleans the courtyard, and The door god hangs a bell, nails peach charms, puts up spring signs, and offers sacrifices to the ancestors." The "spring card" in the article is the word "福" written on red paper

The word "福" is now interpreted as "happiness", but in the past it meant "blessing" and "luck". ". Posting the word "福" during the Spring Festival, whether now or in the past, expresses people's yearning for a happy life and their wishes for a better future. In order to more fully reflect this yearning and wish, the people simply paste the word "福" upside down, which means "happiness has fallen" and "blessing has arrived". There is also a folk legend about the word "福" being pasted upside down. Zhu Zhang, Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, used the word "福" as a secret sign to prepare for murder. The kind-hearted Empress Ma decided to avoid the tragedy of killing, so she ordered everyone in the city to put a label with the character "福" on their doors before dawn. Naturally, no one dared to disobey Queen Ma's will, so every door with the word "福" was posted. One family among them was illiterate and actually pasted the word "福" upside down. On the next day, the emperor sent someone to go to the street and found that every family had pasted the stickers with the character "福", and one family had the character "福" upside down. The emperor was furious after hearing the report, and immediately ordered the imperial guards to kill the entire family. Empress Ma realized what happened and said to Zhu Yuanzhang, "that family knew you are coming today, so had purposely turned the label with the character "福" upside down. Doesn't that mean "luck arrives"?" When the emperor heard that it made sense, he ordered Let him go, and a catastrophe is finally eliminated. From then on, people began to paste the character "福" upside down, firstly to bring good luck, and secondly to commemorate Queen Ma.

There are also folk people who carefully draw the word "Fu" into various patterns, such as longevity stars, longevity peaches, carps jumping over dragon gates, good harvests, dragons and phoenixes, etc. In the past, there was a folk saying that "on the twenty-fourth day of the twelfth lunar month, every family writes big characters". The word "福" used to be mostly handwritten, but now it is sold in markets and shops.

Spring Festival Customs - Staying New Year's Eve

Chinese people have the habit of staying up late on New Year's Eve. The New Year's Eve dinner starts with the New Year's Eve dinner. This New Year's Eve dinner should be eaten slowly, starting from the time when the lanterns are turned on. Some people have to eat until late at night. According to Zong Mao's "Jingchu Years' Records", the custom of eating New Year's Eve dinner has existed at least in the Southern and Northern Dynasties.

Staying up late at the age of thirty is commonly known as "staying up late". Why is it called "staying through the year"? There is such an interesting story that has been passed down from generation to generation among the people: According to legend, in the ancient prehistoric times, there was a ferocious monster, and people called him "Nian". Every New Year's Eve, the Nian beast will crawl out of the sea to harm people and animals, destroy farmland, and bring disasters to people who have worked hard for a year. In order to avoid the Nian beast, people would close their doors early on the 30th night of the twelfth lunar month before it gets dark. They would not dare to sleep and wait for dawn. In order to kill time and strengthen their courage, they drank alcohol. Wait until the Nian beast stops coming out on the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year before you dare to go out. When people meet, they bow to each other, congratulate each other, and are glad that they were not eaten by the Nian beast. After many years of this, nothing happens, and people relax their vigilance against the Nian beast. One year on the eve of the 30th, the Nian beast suddenly rushed to a village in the south of the Yangtze River. Almost all the people in the village were eaten by the Nian beast. Only a newlywed couple wearing red curtains and red clothes were safe. There were also a few children who lit a bunch of bamboos and played in the courtyard. The fire was bright red, and the bamboos made a "pop-pop" sound after burning. The Nian beast turned here and turned around and ran away when it saw the fire. Since then, people have known that the Nian beast is afraid of the color red, light, and noise. At the end of each year, every household would put up red paper, wear red robes, hang red lanterns, beat gongs and drums, and set off firecrackers, so that the Nian beast would not dare to come again. . After the ancients burned the bamboo poles, the air in the bamboo joints expanded, and the bamboo cavity burst, making a crackling sound. This is the origin of "firecrackers". But in some places, villagers don't know that the Nian beast is afraid of red, and they are often eaten by the Nian beast. This incident later spread to Ziweixing in the sky. In order to save people, he determined to destroy the Nian beast. One year, when he waited for the Nian beast to come out, he knocked it down with a fireball, and then locked it to the stone pillar with a thick iron chain.

From then on, every New Year, people always burn incense and ask Ziweixing to come down to the next world to ensure peace.

On this night of "two years in one night and two years in the fifth hour", the family reunites and gathers together happily. The whole family sat together, and the table was filled with refreshments and fruits. When making offerings during the New Year, a large plate of apples is indispensable. This is called "peace and peace". In the north, some families also offer a bowl of rice, which is cooked years ago and served during the New Year. It is called "every other year's rice", which means that there are leftovers every year and can't be eaten all year round, so this year they still eat the old rice. This pot of rice and millet is usually cooked with a mixture of rice and millet. As the saying goes in Beijing, it is called "two rice rice" because it has yellow and white. This is called "gold and silver, and the pot is full of gold and silver". The cakes, fruits and pastries prepared in many places during the observance of the New Year are all intended to bring good luck: eating dates (early spring), eating persimmons (all goes well), eating almonds (happy people), and eating immortality fruit (immortality) ) and eat rice cakes (which get higher every year). On New Year's Eve, the whole family ate, had fun, talked and laughed. There are also ordinary people who play pai gow, throw dice, bet on stud, and play mahjong. The noise and laughter form the climax of New Year's Eve joy.

Spring Festival Customs - New Year's greetings

New Year's greetings are a traditional custom among Chinese people. It is a way for people to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, and to express their best wishes to each other. In ancient times, the original meaning of the word "bainian" was to congratulate the elders on the New Year, including kowtowing to the elders, giving wishes, wishing them a happy new year, and greeting them with well-being. When you meet relatives and friends of the same generation, you should also give congratulations.

New Year greetings usually start at home. On the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, after getting up, the younger generation should first pay New Year greetings to their elders, wishing them good health, longevity and all the best. After the elders are worshiped, they should distribute the "New Year's money" prepared in advance to the younger generations. After paying New Year greetings to the elders at home, people should also greet each other with a smile on their faces when they go out to congratulate each other on the New Year. They should also say auspicious words such as "Gong Xi Fa Cai", "Blessed Seasons", "Happy New Year", etc. Neighbors, relatives and friends also visit each other's homes. New Year greetings or invitations for drinking and entertainment.

In ancient times, if there were too many relatives and friends in the neighborhood and it was difficult to visit them all, servants would be sent to bring business cards to pay New Year greetings. This was called a "flying post". A red paper bag was posted in front of each house with the words " The two words "receive blessings" are used to express flying invitations. To this day, giving out New Year's cards and greeting cards during the Spring Festival is a legacy of the ancient tradition of sending flying messages to each other.

With the development of the times, the custom of New Year greetings has constantly added new content and forms. Nowadays, in addition to following the previous methods of New Year greetings, people have also developed ceremonial New Year greetings via telegrams and telephone calls.

Traditional Chinese Festival - Lantern Festival

The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the traditional Chinese Lantern Festival. Because the first lunar month is also called Yuan Yue, the night of the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the first full moon night in the year, and "xiao" means "night", so the festival on the fifteenth night of the first lunar month is called the Lantern Festival.

During the Lantern Festival, Chinese people have the custom of admiring lanterns and eating Lantern Festival. As the saying goes, "On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, there are lanterns." Therefore, the Lantern Festival is also called the Lantern Festival.

The custom of viewing lanterns during the Lantern Festival has a history of more than 2,000 years. On the day of the Lantern Festival, lanterns and colorful lights were everywhere, and it was very lively. As soon as night arrives, people flock to watch the lanterns. Colorful palace lanterns, wall lanterns, character lanterns, flower lanterns, revolving lanterns, animal lanterns, toy lanterns... merge into a sea of ??lanterns. Some lanterns also have riddles written on them, causing lantern watchers to rush to guess.

Eating Yuanxiao during the Lantern Festival is a traditional custom of the Chinese people. This kind of food existed as early as the Song Dynasty more than 1,000 years ago. Yuanxiao is a small round ball made of glutinous rice flour, filled with fillings made of sugar and various nuts. After being cooked, it tastes sweet and delicious. Because this food was eaten on the Lantern Festival, people later called it Lantern Festival. Chinese people hope that everything will go well. They eat Yuanxiao on the first full moon night of the year, hoping that their families will be reunited, harmonious, happy and complete.