Primary school students’ New Year composition

You can write about how you celebrate the New Year, or you can write about the origin of the New Year.

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New Year's Eve, also known as "New Year's Eve". This day is a day for people to eat, drink, play and have fun. Northerners make dumplings, and southerners make rice cakes. The shape of dumplings is like "Yuanbao" and the sound of rice cakes is like "Nian Gao", which are both good omens of good luck and good luck.

On New Year's Eve, the whole family eats a "reunion dinner" together, which feels like a family reunion to celebrate the New Year. When having a reunion dinner, the "fish" on the table cannot be moved, because the fish represents "wealth" and "abundance every year" and symbolizes "wealth and luck" in the coming year. It is a kind of decoration and cannot be touched.

There is also a legend about the origin of year. It is said that in ancient times, our ancestors were threatened by one of the most ferocious beasts. This beast is called "Nian". It preys on all kinds of animals. In winter, when there is a shortage of food in the mountains, it will break into villages and hunt people and livestock. The people are in panic all day long. People have struggled with "Nian" for many years. People found that Nian is afraid of three things: red color, fire and sound. So in winter, people hung red peach boards on their doors, lit fires at the door, and stayed up all night, banging and banging. That night, "Nian" broke into the village and saw red and fire lights in every house. Hearing the loud noise, he was so frightened that he ran back to the mountains and never dared to come out again. As the night passed, people congratulated each other, put on lanterns and streamers, drank and held banquets to celebrate the victory.

In order to commemorate this victory, every household will paste red paper couplets on the door at this time in winter, use electric lanterns, beat gongs and drums, and set off firecrackers and fireworks; at night, they will keep vigil all night; , congratulated each other early in the morning. In this way, it is passed down from generation to generation and becomes "Chinese New Year".

The climax of New Year's Eve is when the elders give out "lucky money" after the New Year's meal. The next step is to post Spring Festival couplets and door gods, and close the door. The door is not opened until the morning of the first day of the new year to "receive the God of Wealth". The next step is for the whole family to stay up until early in the morning.

The lights on New Year's Eve stay on all night, commonly known as "Light Years".

The New Year’s Eve customs in various places are roughly the same, but the customs in some places are very unique, such as Suzhou, Beijing, Taiwan, etc. On New Year's Eve in Suzhou, everyone has to wait for the loud bells from Hanshan Temple in Fengqiao. When the bells ring through the dark night and reach thousands of households, it marks the arrival of the New Year. Regardless of spring, summer, autumn or winter, at midnight every day, the loud ringing of this huge bell will be heard in Hanshan Temple, which is known as the "Minute Bell" among the people. This clock has become the time information in the lives of people within dozens of miles of Suzhou's urban and rural areas. The bells of Hanshan Temple also appear in poems. The most widely circulated one is "Mooring at Maple Bridge at Night" by Zhang Ji, a poet of the Tang Dynasty:

The moon is setting, the crows are singing, and the sky is covered with frost, and the rivers, maples, and fishing fires are facing melancholy.

At Hanshan Temple outside Gusu City, the bell rang at midnight to reach the passenger ship.

Now, every New Year's Eve, Hanshan Temple in Suzhou still follows the ancient custom of ringing the bell to mark the year. In urban and rural areas of Suzhou, at the last moment of keeping up the New Year's Eve, the loud ringing of Hanshan Temple bells will be heard from the radio, announcing the beginning of the year. Thousands of households heard the bells ringing and firecrackers blasting, making the ancient Hanshan Temple bells a symbol of the times.

Beijing’s New Year’s Eve is even more busy with ancestor worship, gods, and stoves. As soon as the ceremony of worshiping gods and ancestors began, the entire city of Beijing was drowned in the deafening sound of firecrackers. People also spread sesame straw in their yards and the whole family would step on it, which is called "stepping on the new year", which means longevity. The lights are bright all night long on New Year's Eve, and people bid farewell to the New Year and stay up late on New Year's Eve. When the New Year's bell rang, each family's dumplings were cooked, and people enjoyed themselves.

New Year's Eve is not called New Year's Eve in Taiwan, but "New Year's Day". In the afternoon, the animal body is offered in front of the shrine in the hall. In the evening, the whole family burns incense and bows before saying goodbye to the elders. Then comes "circling the stove", which is a sumptuous New Year's Eve dinner. The family sits around a table filled with dishes and a brazier placed under the table. "Circuit around the stove" brings the climax to New Year's Eve. Travelers who are far away from home, unless absolutely necessary, have to rush home for reunion no matter how far away or busy they are. After the New Year's Eve dinner, wax torches are burned to keep the New Year's Eve. Daughters-in-law wish to bring wealth and longevity to their elders. They cannot go to bed early. The longer they sit, the longer their elders' wealth and longevity will be. This shows filial piety.