Spring Festival in Shuozhou (Essay)

With the unanticipated arrival of winter, the year is getting closer and closer to us. As the saying goes: while adults look forward to planting fields, children look forward to the New Year. The main reason why children look forward to the New Year is that they have new clothes to wear, good food to eat, money to collect, and fireworks to set off.

On the 25th day of the Lunar New Year here, people in the village will start making patties. The scene of playing mochi can be described as a spectacular and harmonious landscape painting. Often three or five households are invited to move the soaked glutinous rice to a spacious household, large pots and stoves, dry wood fire, a moment of effort, the steam steamer glutinous rice steaming, the aroma wafted all over the house. While the adults will be steamed glutinous rice poured into the "ground nest" (roost scoop), the children from the "ground nest" with the speed of a handful of fragrant glutinous rice stuffed into the mouth, followed by four or five young and strong men each holding a wooden stick, surrounded by the "ground nest", the "ground nest". The next four or five young strong men each holding a wooden stick, around the "ground nest" you on my next "fast, accurate, stable, ruthless" pestle up. "Hi-Yo! Hi-Yo! The rhythm was like a symphony of sweet life. The children also jumped around, saying "Hi-Yo" in their mouths. In a short while, the grains of glutinous rice turned into a white paste, and the men then used wooden sticks to pry the white paste up onto a door panel sprinkled with paste, and an older man used his hands coated with rapeseed oil to make the white paste into a round cake, symbolizing the reunion of the whole family and a full circle!

The first day of the Lunar New Year is to be considered the happiest day for children. On this day the children get up early in the morning, followed by the next brother and sister, as if a vast army, to every house to pay tribute to the New Year. When we came to the host's house, our brothers and sisters would pay New Year's greetings to them and say some auspicious words, after which the host would immediately show a smiling face and praise us for being good. Then they would take out a plate of snacks from the room, all kinds of snacks, and help us fill up a pocket full of them, and before we left the house, they would let us grab some more on our hands to eat. Sometimes, to go to the grandparents' home to pay New Year's Eve, aunts and uncles on the sidelines will be coaxing: "New Year's Eve is not just talk, to pay New Year's Eve is to pay, do not pay can not be the New Year's Eve money oh!" As soon as you hear the New Year's money, "punt" a large number of kneeling: "I wish my grandparents good health, longevity than South Mountain." At this time, grandparents, aunts and uncles were all laughing. After getting the money, they thanked their hosts and drove to the next house!

Now our lives are getting better and better, and the festivals in our hometown are getting richer and richer. Not only the Spring Festival, the people are celebrating every day of the year, every day is happy!