Chinese New Year custom composition 300 words

When the sun sets and the stars move, looking back, history has left us too many thoughts and mysterious ideas, and this "old custom" is one of them. For example, the custom of Spring Festival has become the largest traditional folk festival in China. People in the ancient capital pay more attention to the Spring Festival, thus forming a complete set of Spring Festival customs. The first day of the first lunar month is the Spring Festival, commonly known as "Chinese New Year". The Spring Festival originated from the activities of offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors in the beginning and end of the Shang Dynasty. The ancient Spring Festival was called "January Festival" and "New Year's Day". After the Revolution of 1911, the first day of the first month was officially named Spring Festival.

As far as Beijing is concerned, from the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, every household has to soak Laba vinegar (garlic), and it has begun to have a "taste of the year". The folk song says, "Don't be sad, old lady. After Laba, it is the New Year. Laba porridge, how many days? Ber Ber La La 23rd ... ",the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month is also called" off-year ". There is a ballad that says, "Melons offer sacrifices to the stove. When the New Year comes, girls want flowers and boys want guns ... ". From this day on, Beijingers are busier, offering sacrifices to stoves, sweeping houses, steaming steamed buns, buying new year's goods, putting up the word "Fu", putting up New Year pictures, cutting window grilles and putting up couplets. Sticking to the door and sticking to the money, I have been busy until New Year's Eve to start a new year.

Beijingers always put the word "Fu" upside down on doors, wardrobes and water tanks, which means that Fu has arrived. Sticking Spring Festival couplets is also very particular. Generally, people stick red Spring Festival couplets at home and put "horizontal approval" on the lintel. The Forbidden City and the royal residence are decorated with rice paper with white background and red edge; People who guard the system (people who have lost their parents) should use blue paper; Yellow paper for temples. The Spring Festival couplets first began in the Five Dynasties in Houshu. It is said that Prince Shu wrote on the door of this palace: "The sky hangs down in Qing Yu and the ground meets Changchun." Eight characters, this is the earliest Spring Festival couplets in China. Beijingers posted "Look up and see happiness" in the inner courtyard, "Go out and see happiness" outside the house, and "Glory to the whole hospital" inside the courtyard.

In the past, most people in old Beijing provided shrines or statues. By the thirtieth of this year, the most important thing is to place nine offerings. Youtang's honey supply, a set of cakes and flower cakes in Cheng Tang are fresh, fruits in Cheng Tang, dried fruits and flower cakes in Cheng Tang are eight pieces in size, rice cakes and rice, vegetarian jiaozi (or steamed food) and vegetarian cooking (or fried food). Those from poor families should also offer three or five offerings. Beijingers talk about eating, drinking and having fun in the New Year. These offerings are actually for people.

Beijing people's New Year's Eve (also called reunion dinner) is essential and the most abundant dinner in a year. On New Year's Eve, we should serve meat and vegetables together. There are cold meat, large pieces and green vegetables. Cold meat includes cold stewed pigs, mutton and cold stewed chickens and ducks. Major items include: braised pork, braised pork, rice flour meat, red and white meatballs, and Four Joy Meetballs. Clear mouth dishes generally include tofu, green vegetables, Luo Shi, pickled bergamot and so on. The staple food is mostly vegetarian sleep.

Beijingers eat jiaozi on New Year's Eve and the first day of the first lunar month, which means "making friends when young". Jiaozi is always wrapped into an ingot, and sugar, copper coins, peanuts, dates and chestnuts are all put in the jiaozi. If you eat sugar, it means that your future life will be very sweet; Eating copper coins means spending money; Eating peanuts means longevity, because peanuts are also called longevity fruits, and eating dates and chestnuts means early fruiting. ...

The Spring Festival custom in Beijing is really interesting!