Anhui Xuancheng holiday customs (essay)

New Year's Day is getting closer and closer, the home mind is getting thicker and thicker, can not help but miss the hometown New Year's Day customs. ***The first thing you need to do is to get out of the house. Now a lot of young people are out, are accustomed to life outside, so the hometown New Year's custom lost a lot! When I was a child, there were more customs, and the New Year was more flavorful, so I said more of the customs of that time.

First of all, let's start with making New Year's goods:

Making New Year's goods:

Besides hitting the streets for New Year's goods, we are there on New Year's Day, three to five days before the New Year's Day, families began to make their own New Year's goods, such as grinding of tofu (usually made into a series of tofu, such as water tofu, oil tofu, and "tofu," and let the tofu, etc.), frying of oil fruit (that is, similar to those sold on the street), and then making the tofu. (usually made into tofu such as water tofu, oil tofu, and "let tofu"), pan-fried fruits (similar to the kind of glutinous rice fritters sold on the street), and made mochi (rice cake), which are basically foods that cannot be easily kept. The bacon and wine are made a month or two before the New Year.

New Year's Eve:

The 30th day of the New Year should be considered the busiest for the whole family. After breakfast, parents start to kill chickens and ducks to prepare the New Year's dinner, while the youngest members do the sanitation, put up spring scrolls and New Year's paintings.

The female members of the family also basically have the New Year's dinner ready, and after the firecrackers are set off, the family begins to eat the reunion dinner. So it is called New Year's Eve dinner

First day:

On the first day of the New Year, a lot of things that are done, have to be done with care. According to the old generation, whether the first day of the first day of the year is joyful and peaceful, predicts whether the new year will be smooth.

Breakfast also has to pay attention to, generally eat the leftovers of the New Year's Eve (which means that "year after year"), noodles or vermicelli (expressed wishing the elderly longevity, the whole family long luck)

The first day of the first year to pay attention to the peace and good fortune, so there is a taboo to speak, can not bring "dead!

The first day of the year is about peace and good fortune, so it is taboo to talk, not with the word "death", and not to curse and quarrel.

In fact, these N more than the old "preach", are the ancestral legacy of customs, some superstitious and some stupid, but in addition to those in the latter generation can not accept the rules, still will not be deliberately to change it, to break it, like the birthday blowing out candles to make a wish, are praying for their own and their families in the coming year, peace and security, It's just like blowing out candles on your birthday and making a wish.

New Year's greetings:

In our hometown, New Year's greetings is considered a long-term "project" and task, occupying the "New Year's" time this most of the time. Relatives, basically from the first day of the year, to the Lantern Festival, have to be the process of going from house to house to pay homage to the New Year.

"The first pup, the first two Lang", the first day is generally to grandparents, uncles and neighbors to pay tribute to the New Year, the beginning of the second is to go to Grandma, aunt and uncle to pay tribute to the New Year, and usually a family has to eat a meal, encountered in the evening, but also have to sleep at night, so many relatives, the location of the distribution of a wide range of New Year's Day took a particularly long time. It should be noted that the man who goes out to pay homage to the New Year is usually the host with the children, and the hostess has to be at home to receive the guests who come to pay homage to the New Year. After all the relatives have come to pay their respects, the hostess can call on her sisters to go back to her mother's home to pay their respects.

With the increased contact of the present generation with the outside world, many of the customs of the hometown have changed. The night sky on New Year's Eve, more and more, more and more brilliant fireworks; New Year's Eve, some people began to learn to cook dumplings, eat wontons; 0:00 a.m., the beginning of the family set off firecrackers, in the true sense of the word "out with the old and in with the new"; New Year's Eve no longer takes half a month, stringing through the door of the main relatives, even if it is the end of the main few relatives; And so on ......

But the advent of more modern culture has also seen the loss of what should have been preserved. More and more adults gathered around the mahjong table, no one is no longer interested in the theater troupe, the dragon and lion dances; more and more children guarded by the television, watching cartoons and soap operas also seems to come to some comfort; the first day of ripping fights can be seen everywhere, no one cares about so many taboos ......

Customs are changing, the humanities is changing, but As long as the loved ones around that enthusiasm remains unchanged, the cozy atmosphere of the home remains unchanged, every year looking forward to going home for New Year's Eve mood will remain unchanged.