How did grandparents spend the Spring Festival when they were young?

At that time, although the Chinese New Year was poor, it was very folk. Starting from the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, honeydew melons are made to worship the Kitchen God. On the 24th, the house was cleaned and the clothes were washed. Steamed rice cakes on 25th and 6th, buy some simple new year's goods, fruit candy, sunflower seeds, peanuts and red dates. Twenty-seven, eight buy fish, buy a small amount of meat, but also steam all kinds of steamed bread, that is, children wear new clothes and some old clothes to wash during the Chinese New Year.

Chinese New Year is also very tense. On New Year's Eve, we will put up new year cakes, window grilles, Spring Festival couplets, and some will have a pile of red thunder in the yard. It represents the new prosperity all the year round. ) On this day, people are the busiest. After lunch, they tinkle and trap jiaozi. Children are the happiest, frolicking around the fire all night, shooting all night and not sleeping. This may be called a vigil. On the morning of the first day of junior high school, the first thing for children is to pay New Year greetings to their elders. The elders give the prepared lucky money (20 points, 30 points and 50 points for the rich) to the next generation, and then follow the adults to pay New Year greetings to relatives and friends everywhere.