Essay about Spring Festival in Beijing

The Spring Festival in Beijing ? Author: Lao She

1.According to the old rules in Beijing, the celebration of the Lunar New Year (Spring Festival) begins almost at the beginning of the Lunar New Year. "It is the coldest time of the year, when the crows freeze to death. However, since spring comes soon after winter, people do not let the cold dampen their enthusiasm for celebrating the Lunar New Year and welcoming the spring. On the 8th day of the 12th lunar month, people make congee at home and in temples. This special congee is for the gods and ancestors.

2, but on second thought, it is an agricultural society - a kind of pride - this porridge is with all kinds of rice, all kinds of beans, and all kinds of dried fruit (almonds, walnuts, melon seeds, lychee meat, cinnamon meat, lotus seeds, peanuts, raisins, diamond horn rice) to boil into. ......) boiled down. It's not porridge, but a small agricultural fair!

3, Lahai this day also bubble Lahai garlic. The garlic cloves on this day into the high vinegar, sealed, for the New Year to eat dumplings with. By the end of the year, the garlic soaked as emerald color, and vinegar also has some spicy flavor, color and taste double beautiful, so that people want to eat a few more dumplings. In Beijing, every family eats dumplings on New Year's Day.

4, from the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, shoppers have stepped up on the New Year's goods, the street plus more stalls - selling Spring Festival couplets, selling New Year's paintings, selling honey for the sale of daffodils and so on are only in this season will appear. These New Year's stalls make children's hearts beat a little faster. In the hutongs, there were more and more sophisticated voices than usual, including those that only appeared in the month of Lunar New Year, such as those selling gendarmes, pine branches, barley, rice cakes, and so on.

5, when there was an emperor, schoolchildren do not go to school on the 19th day of the lunar month, the annual vacation in January. Children prepare for the New Year, almost the first thing is to buy mixed children. This is a variety of dried fruits (peanuts, jujubes, hazelnuts, chestnuts, etc.) mixed with candied fruit, ordinary with skin, high-level without skin - for example: ordinary with the skin of hazelnuts, high-level with hazelnuts.

6. Children love to eat these bits and pieces, and even if they don't have dumplings to eat, they have to buy a mix. The second most important thing they do is to buy firecrackers, especially the boys. I'm afraid the third thing is to buy playthings - kites, firecrackers, harmonica, etc. - and New Year's paintings.

The children are busy and the adults are nervous. They had to prepare everything for the New Year, everything to eat, everything to drink. They also had to make new shoes and clothes for the children, so that the New Year would be a time of renewal.

7. The 23rd day of the Lunar New Year is almost a "dress rehearsal" for the New Year. In the old society, the night of the family sacrifices Zao Wang, from a dark child firecrackers will sound, with the sound of firecrackers to Zao Wang's paper like incineration, the beautiful name called Zao Wang sent to heaven. In the first few days, the street has more or less how much to sell maltose and sugar, sugar or long square or the size of the melon shape. According to the old saying, by sticking Zao Wang's mouth with sugar, he will not report bad things in the family to the Jade Emperor when he gets to heaven. Nowadays, there are still sellers of sugar, but it is only enjoyed by everyone and no longer sticks to Zao Wang's mouth.

8. After the twenty-third day, everyone gets busier, and the New Year comes in the blink of an eye. Before New Year's Eve, every family must put up the Spring Festival couplets, must be cleaned once, called sweeping, must be meat, chicken, fish, vegetables, rice cakes and so on are prepared enough, at least enough to eat a week - according to the old custom, most of the store closed five days, to the sixth day of the first month before the opening of the shop.

9, if you do not prepare the next few days of food, temporary not easy to replenish. Also, in the old society, the old mother theory, preaching in the New Year's Eve to cut out everything that should be cut out to save the first day of the first month to the first five and then move the knife, move the knife and cut is unlucky. This contains superstitious meaning, but it also shows that we are indeed peace-loving people, in the first of the year even cut the knife are not willing to move a one.

10, New Year's Eve is really lively. The family rushed to do the New Year's dishes, everywhere is the smell of wine and meat. Young and old men and women are dressed up in new clothes, red couplets posted outside the door, the house posted a good colorful New Year's paintings, which family lights all night, not interrupted, the sound of artillery day and night. People who work outside, unless absolutely necessary, must rush home to eat a reunion dinner, ancestor worship. On this night, except for very young children, no one sleeps, but all have to observe the New Year.

11, New Year's Day is very different from New Year's Eve: New Year's Eve, the streets are crowded with people; New Year's Day, the stores are on the boards, the door piled up in front of the firecrackers last night's cardboard; the whole city is resting.

12, the men went out before noon to relatives and friends to pay New Year's visits. The women received guests at their homes. Meanwhile, many temples inside and outside the city were open for people to visit, and vendors set up stalls outside the temples to sell tea, food, and various toys. The Dazhong Temple outside the North City, the Baiyunguan Temple outside the West City, and the Fire God Temple (Fangdian) in the South City were the most famous. However, the first two or three days after the opening of the temple were not very busy, because people were still busy celebrating the New Year with each other and had no time to do so.

13, to the first five or six, the temple began to scenery, the children are especially eager to go to the shop, in order to see the wild scenery outside the city, you can ride a donkey, but also to buy those New Year's special toys. The square outside the White Cloud Temple has a car race; in the old age ① [old age] in the past, before. In the old age, it is said that there are also camel races. These races do not strive for who is first and who is second, but perform before the audience the beautiful posture and skill of mules and horses and riders.

14. Most of the stores opened on the sixth day of the month, and firecrackers were set off again, and the sound of cannon was heard all over the city from dawn until early morning. Despite the opening, people were not very busy, except for the stores selling food and other important daily necessities, and the shopkeepers were able to take turns visiting temples, strolling along the footbridges, and listening to plays.

15. The Lantern Festival (from the 13th to the 17th day of the first month) is the culmination of the New Year, when the Lantern Dumplings (soup dumplings) go on sale. New Year's Eve is lively, but there is no moonlight; the Lantern Festival, on the other hand, happens to have a bright moon in the sky. New Year's Day is decent, with bright red spring couplets pasted in front of every house and people wearing new clothes, but it's not beautiful enough.

16, the Lantern Festival, everywhere hanging lights and colors, the whole street is like a wedding, fire and beautiful. Famous old store to hang out hundreds of lamps, some are all glass, some clear is the horn, some are yarn lamps; some of the various shapes and colors, some through the colorful painting of all the Dream of the Red Chamber or the Water Margin story.

17, this, in those days, is also a kind of advertising: once the lights are up, anyone can enter the store to visit; evening lights are lit candles, the viewer will be more. This advertisement is not vulgar. Dried fruit store in the festival of lights also make a batch of miscellaneous business, so each unique, made all kinds of ice lanterns, or wheat seedlings made one or two turquoise dragon, to attract customers.

18, in addition to hanging lanterns, the square also put flower boxes. In the City God Temple and lit up the fire judge, the tongue of fire by the judge's clay statue of the mouth, ears, nose, eyes out. In the park, sky lanterns are released and fly into the sky like giant stars.

Men and women came out to walk on the moon, watch the lanterns and fireworks; the streets were crowded with people. In the old society, women did not go out easily, and they could have some freedom in the festival.

19, the children buy all kinds of firecrackers burning, even if they do not run to the street to play, in the home can still have sound and light play. There are also lights at home: horse lanterns - the original movie - palace lanterns, paper lanterns of all shapes and colors, and gauze lanterns, which have small bells, when the time comes to jingle. Everyone must also eat soup dumplings ah. It was indeed a wonderful and happy day.

20, in the blink of an eye, to the end of the temple, the students should go to school, adults go back to business as usual, the New Year in the first month of the nineteenth end. Lunar New Year and the first month, in rural society is the most free time, and pigs, cows and sheep are growing, so we have to kill pigs and slaughter sheep, reward for a year of hard work. After the Lantern Festival, the weather turns warm and everyone goes back to work. Although Beijing is a city, it also celebrates the New Year together with the rural society, and it is a very lively time.

21, in the old society, the New Year is inseparable from superstition. Lapa congee, Guandong sugar, dumplings on New Year's Eve, must first go to the Buddha, and then people then enjoy. On New Year's Eve, we have to receive the god; on the second day of the New Year, we have to worship the god of wealth and eat Yuanbao soup (wonton), and some people have to go to the temple of the god of wealth to borrow paper Yuanbao and burn the first incense. On the eighth day of the first month, we should give the old people Shunxing and pray for longevity.

22. Therefore, the biggest waste of money in those days was the money for buying incense, wax and paper horses. Nowadays, people are not superstitious, so they save this expense and use it for useful purposes. It is especially worth mentioning that children nowadays only celebrate the New Year happily, without being inculcated by that superstition; they are only happy, without fear - fear of God and fear of ghosts. Perhaps, the New Year is not as lively as before, but how sober and healthy it is. In the past, people New Year's Eve is the blessing of the gods and ghosts; now it is the end of the year of everyone's labor, we should also be happy New Year's Eve.