Features of the Spring Festival in Nanchang Essay 700 Words

The Spring Festival has a long history. How to celebrate this festival, in the development of thousands of years of history, has formed some customs and habits.

Sweeping dust

Whenever the Spring Festival comes, every household has to clean the environment, wash all kinds of utensils, dismantle and wash the quilts and curtains. Everywhere is filled with the joyful atmosphere of laughing and engaging in hygiene, cleanliness and welcoming the New Year.

It is a neat, concise and beautifully written expression of good wishes. Every Spring Festival, whether in urban or rural areas, every family will choose a big red Spring Festival couplets posted on the door, for the festival to increase the festive atmosphere. At the same time of posting the Spring Festival couplets, some people have to put big and small "Fu" characters on the doors and walls of their houses. The character "福" refers to good fortune and luck, and it expresses people's desire for a happy life and their wish for a better future. Some people simply put the word "Fu" upside down to show that "happiness has arrived" and "good fortune has arrived".

Vigil

On New Year's Eve, the whole family gathers together, eats New Year's Eve dinner, and waits for the time to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new, and keeps vigil all night long, symbolizing that all the bad things are driven away, and looking forward to a new year of good luck and prosperity.

Crackers

At the dawn of the new year, the first thing every family does is to set off firecrackers, to crackle the sound of firecrackers to get rid of the old and welcome the new.

This is a wonderful Chinese New Year custom, and I look forward to the arrival of the 2010 Chinese New Year.