600 words of Spring Festival custom composition in Shiqian County, Guizhou Province

Lunar calendar1February 23rd is a traditional "off-year". On this day, people will clean the stove and slaughter chickens and ducks to sacrifice to the Kitchen God.

Around the 25th of the twelfth lunar month, people choose auspicious days to clean their houses and welcome the New Year. At this time, thousands of families are busy, buying food, cutting meat and preparing all kinds of new year's goods.

New Year's Eve is really lively! Every household is scrambling to make New Year's Eve dinner, and there is a smell of wine and meat everywhere. Men, women and children put on beautiful new clothes and put red Spring Festival couplets outside the door. Conditional families will hang two red lanterns at the door. All the houses have lights on all night, and firecrackers go on day and night. People who are away from home must come back for a reunion dinner. On this night, people must watch CCTV's Spring Festival Gala.

New Year's Day is the climax of the Spring Festival. On this day, people are not allowed to kill. In the morning, we should exchange auspicious words to congratulate each other, and adults should give their children lucky money. From the first day to the fifteenth, people are not allowed to say unlucky things. After breakfast, people poured into the streets from all directions and got together in groups of three and five to play chess and chat, which was very lively.

On the second day of the first month, people will visit relatives and friends to pay New Year greetings.

On the third day, everyone got up early in the morning, opened the door to sweep the floor and cleaned piles of firecrackers.

As soon as the glutinous rice balls are listed, the Spring Festival will be over. The fifteenth day of the first month is called Shangyuan Festival. On this night, there are Lantern Festival, quiz and songs, highlighting the word "noisy", and people want to eat glutinous rice balls to show happy and auspicious New Year. After this day, the Spring Festival is over. Farmers are preparing for spring ploughing, students are about to start school, and people are busy again.