The Customs of Festivals Essay 600 Words

People on the streets are in a hurry, big bags to home, vendors also put out red spring couplets and fortune words. On the eve of the New Year, many people are very busy. Many of those who went to work outside the country brought big bags of New Year's goods with them and headed for home.

On the evening of New Year's Eve, my mother was in the kitchen cooking a fragrant New Year's Eve dinner. I was waiting in front of the TV for the Spring Festival gala to begin.

My favorite Spring Festival Gala finally started, and my mom's meal was almost ready.

I was woken up by the sound of firecrackers early in the morning of the first day. Firecrackers four, fireworks in the sky, everyone's laughter added to the atmosphere of New Year's Eve, which is a lively street became cold, the traditional Spring Festival is so year after year, generation after generation of the continuation of the ......

The most worthwhile I am not only in the New Year's Eve can wear new clothes, play firecrackers, the most important is to be able to The most important thing is to be able to receive the New Year's money from your family, which can also be described as a red packet, because the color red symbolizes vitality, happiness and good luck.

The brightly lit neighborhoods are decorated with Chinese New Year couplets, inviting the God of Door and the God of Wealth for the happiness of the whole family, as well as the hope of the New Year.

2. As far as I can remember, the Chinese New Year is pretty much the same every year, lively, festive and peaceful.

The first few days of the Spring Festival are the busiest time for adults to organize this and that, but it's the time we kids long for the most. Mom and Dad bought a lot of good food, and lying can only look at the eye, can not be expected, so, they are eagerly looking forward to the arrival of the Spring Festival.

New Year's Eve night, of course, is also the happiest time for my family, the family of three people together quietly watching the Spring Festival Gala, and occasionally a few firecrackers outside, will feel particularly interesting. The TV's funny skits and beautiful dances often make us laugh, and this laughter, along with the sound of firecrackers outside the window, makes the atmosphere more and more joyful.

Finally, it's time to celebrate New Year's Eve, which is a priority for our family. Each to a family, I have to say an auspicious words, such as: "Happy New Year", "congratulations on wealth" and so on, and mom and dad will send a New Year's gift necessary, the host will take out a red envelope handed to me, which is the most happy thing I have, and then heart I was thinking about what to do with the money, buy some snacks? Or stationery? Buy some play is also good, who knows a return home to the "merciless" mother to take away, I had no choice but to blow these bubbles of fantasy to extinguish.

The next few days, we will be everywhere as guests, sumptuous meals, dazzling lights, adults drinking blessings surrounded me, and I? And my brother and I one person to bring a bottle of drinks, East East quickly drink a enough, I know a moment my stomach will be very painful, unbearable, regret ah.

The Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first month, I have gone to school, the beginning of the new school year, will mean the end of the Spring Festival, but on this day, our family still have to eat the Lantern Festival, the New Year's atmosphere has not weakened in the slightest, as usual, the laughter, as usual, the celebration, as usual, happy.

In this way, the happy Spring Festival has passed, and whenever I think back carefully, I can't help but laugh out loud.......

3. According to the old rules in my hometown, the Spring Festival almost started on the 23rd day of the Lunar New Year. This day, is the hometown of the New Year's day, said the New Year, rather than the Spring Festival rehearsal. In the evening, as soon as it gets dark, you can hear a burst of firecrackers, which is the time to eat dumplings. Every year, before going to bed on this day, you have to set off firecrackers and burn some paper money to send Zaowang up to the sky, and you can only eat dumplings after you finish these things. On this night, a burst of firecrackers will be heard in the village, and the sound will go up to the sky. On this day, the house is also cleaned up and prepared for the New Year. On the 30th day of the Lunar New Year, which is also known as the New Year in the hometown, at 12:00 p.m., every family puts up couplets. In the evening, the whole family sits down at the table to have a reunion dinner. After dinner, the men of the family go to other people's houses to pay their respects, while the women wait at home for others to pay their respects. When the Chinese New Year party starts, all the families start making dumplings, but they do it on the kang, waiting for the dumplings to be made. After the dumplings are wrapped, they sit together in front of the TV to watch the Chinese New Year Gala, and they can't go to bed until 12:00 p.m., and they can't go to sleep until they have finished eating the dumplings. On the morning of the first day of the first month of the Chinese New Year, people put on their new clothes, and this is the happiest time for children, because this is the time when they have to ask their grandparents and parents for New Year's money, and after receiving the money, they go out to pay their respects to the Chinese New Year, stringing together the families and walking around the houses, and then waiting for other people to come to pay their respects to the Chinese New Year at home. The days after the Spring Festival are even longer, as they go back and forth to other relatives' houses, and in the evenings, they invite the elders in the village for dinner. On the evening of the second day of the Lunar New Year, dumplings are wrapped, and at four or five o'clock in the morning, they go to the graves of their dead relatives. A few nights after Chinese New Year, streetlights are turned on in the village, and children go out to set off various kinds of fireworks. These days continue until the fifteenth day of the first month, when we must eat the Lantern Festival, and at night, the whole village sets off fireworks together, and all kinds of fireworks are displayed in the sky, adding a few strokes of color to the azure sky. The Spring Festival lasts until the fifteenth day of the first month, after which the weather gradually warms up, children start going to school, and everyone gets busy again for the new year.

New Year's Eve is a very busy time! People are busy, put up couplets and hang pictures; crackling firecrackers like frying sesame seeds in the pan one after another; popping fireworks sound like Beijing Tiananmen Square to hold a grand celebration, through the streets and alleys, through the skyscrapers, the dark night shines as the day. The New Year's Eve in my hometown is filled with a joyful scene.

The night is coming! Waiting for a long time, my sister and I happily took out the "kaleidoscope". I was excited to take the fireworks and lighters, ready to implement my first plan for New Year's Eve - fireworks. The first firecracker we set off is "a whistling in the sky", with a loud bang, the sky is like daytime, so spectacular Oh! Followed by the "heavenly maiden scattered flowers", the so-called heavenly maiden scattered flowers, as the name suggests, it must be a very beautiful scene. As expected, the fairies scattered a basket of flowers in the sky. The flowers were floating in the air, and they were beautiful! At that moment, the sky became a colorful world. My sister and I were so happy that we danced around. Afterwards, we released "parachute", "seven fairies", "a hundred flowers in full bloom" ......

My second plan for New Year's Eve, without a doubt, was of course to watch the Spring Festival Gala. Our family sat in front of the TV, waiting for the arrival of the Spring Festival Gala with great interest. Suddenly, my father's face turned gloomy. I thought: what's wrong with dad? Do not let me think too much, Dad at this time pulled open the box: "Now the days are really heavenly days ah!" Dad suddenly came up with such a sentence, I was puzzled, and hurriedly asked, "Dad, what heaven's day ah?" Dad turned down the volume of the TV and said to us: "Children, you don't understand! In the past, our people suffered a lot."

The Spring Festival is an ancient festival in our country and one of the most important festivals of the year. How to celebrate this festival, in the development of thousands of years of history, has formed a number of fixed customs and habits, many of which have been passed down to the present day.

Sweeping dust

"Lunar New Year 24, dust sweeping the house", according to the "Lv's Spring and Autumn Annals" records, our country in the Yao and Shun era on the Spring Festival sweeping the dust of the custom. According to folklore: because "dust" and "Chen" harmonized, dust sweeping in the New Year has the meaning of "get rid of Chen Bu Xin", the intention is to sweep out all the poor luck, bad luck. This custom is a symbol of people's desire to break away from the old and bring in the new and their prayers for the old and the new. Whenever the Spring Festival is approaching, every household has to clean up the environment, wash all kinds of utensils, dismantle the bedding curtains, sprinkle clean the courtyard of the six capitals, dust the cobwebs and dredge the nullahs and ditches. Everywhere overflowing with happy health, clean and welcome the new year's happy atmosphere.

Spring Festival couplets

Spring Festival couplets, also known as door-to-door, spring stickers, couplets, couplets, peach symbols, etc., it is neat, couplets, concise, sophisticated text depicting the background of the times, expressing the best wishes, is China's unique form of literature. Every Spring Festival, no matter in the city or in the countryside, every family has to choose a big red Spring Festival couplet to paste on the door to increase the festive atmosphere for the festival. This custom began in the Song Dynasty, began to prevail in the Ming Dynasty, to the Qing Dynasty, the ideology and artistry of the Spring Festival couplets have been greatly improved, Liang Zhangrui prepared the Spring Festival couplets monograph "Threshold Lian series of words" on the origins of the couplets and various types of works of the characteristics of the discussion.

There are many kinds of spring couplets, which can be categorized into "door center", "frame pair", "horizontal cape", "spring strip", "bucket square" and so on, according to the places where they are used. "Door" in the upper center of the door panel; "frame" on the left and right two door frame; "horizontal phi" on the horizontal wood of the door Mei; "spring stripes "according to different content, posted in the corresponding place;" bucket catty "also called" door leaf ", for the square diamond-shaped, more posted in the furniture, shadow wall.

Pasted window and upside down "Fu" character

In folklore, people also like to put all kinds of paper cuttings on the window - window flowers. Window flowers not only set a festive atmosphere, but also decorative, appreciative and practical in one. Paper-cutting is a very popular folk art in China, which has been loved by people for thousands of years, because it is mostly pasted on the windows, so it is also called "window flowers". Window decoration with its unique generalization and exaggeration will be auspicious events, good wishes expressed to the fullest, will be decorated with festivals red hot and rich.

At the same time as the Spring Festival couplets, some people have to put large and small "Fu" characters on the doors, walls and lintels of their houses. Posting the word "Fu" on the Spring Festival is a long-established custom in China's folklore. The character "福" refers to good fortune and luck, and is a symbol of people's desire for a happy life and their wish for a better future. In order to more fully reflect such aspirations and wishes, some people simply put the character "福" upside down to indicate that "happiness has arrived" and "good fortune has arrived". Folk there will be "Fu" word fine as a variety of patterns, patterns of longevity, longevity peach, carp jump Dragon Gate, the five valleys, the dragon and phoenix, and so on.