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What are the Spring Festival customs written in Memories of the Year of the Sheep? Can you talk about the cultural connotation behind it?

Stir-fry popcorn, drink Laba porridge, celebrate the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, send the kitchen god incense sticks and paper horses, and eat jiaozi's wallet. The yard is covered with sesame stalks, and the little girl is not allowed to go out. Although the little boy is allowed to walk, he can't pee outside to avoid colliding with the gods. Shounian; Set off firecrackers; Stick couplets; Break someone's head; Old people should enjoy lucky money; On the first day of the first month-I want to pay New Year greetings to hundreds of families;

This passage describes two things, asking for lucky money and celebrating the New Year. Although it is an ordinary life custom, it contains profound cultural connotation. There are two links in asking for lucky money. First, children should "kowtow to the elderly one by one" before serving food in jiaozi, and the elderly will give them lucky money. Here, children's respect, gratitude, blessing and filial piety for the elderly are reflected, and the care and expectation of the elderly for their children can also be seen. Between the old and the young, respect for the old and love for the young, live in harmony, filled with deep affection. Second, boys can "step on sesame stalks and go to relatives' homes" to go out and ask for lucky money. Love each other and visit each other is a vivid portrayal of family ties. But only boys can go out, which implies the unequal reality that men are superior to women in rural areas in the old society, which makes people feel more worried while celebrating. New Year's greetings are written in a comprehensive way, combining point with surface, which just shows the interpersonal relationship of harmonious coexistence, friendship and mutual assistance among rural households and neighbors. "Various Words" congratulates the Spring Festival by highlighting the auspicious and festive atmosphere from the "face", and "I" traveled to hundreds of homes to celebrate the New Year by highlighting the harmony and friendliness of rural interpersonal relationships from the "point". There is no fraud, hypocrisy and indifference of city people here, only sincerity and kindness, friendship and mutual assistance between people. From this, we can easily understand that the author recalls these almost trivial life fragments with relish, in fact, he is calling for a simple, authentic and humanized interpersonal relationship.