Write a 400 words essay on New Year's Customs in Ninghai for the Chinese New Year

There are many customs in my hometown when we celebrate Chinese New Year. Every year to the month when we are going to celebrate the New Year, it becomes Lunar New Year. Every festival in the month of Lunar New Year is related to the New Year.

The day of the eighth day of the first month of the Lunar New Year is the day of drinking Laha congee. On this day, every family has to make a kind of congee, and all of them have to put eight things in the congee, there are red beans, mung beans, glutinous rice, wheat seeds, black rice, lotus seeds and lilies, and delicious raisins, and the congee that comes out of the boil is thick, sweet, and delicious! Not only do you have to drink congee, but every family also has to make Laba garlic! I heard the old man say that after drinking the congee, we have to spend money to prepare the New Year's goods.

On New Year's Day, red couplets are put up and long firecrackers are set off. Do you know why we need to put up couplets and firecrackers? Legend has it that there is a beast called "Nian" with a unicorn horn and a fierce and unusual head, which will come out on the night of New Year's Eve to cause trouble and take the lives of many people. But it was most afraid of sound and the color red. One night, "the year" and out to eat people, he saw in front of a family that the family is using bamboo built fire to warm up, burning bamboo "crackling" sound, the "year" to scare away, and the "year" to the door of the family. "to scare away, people cheered happily. This is the custom of putting up couplets and setting off firecrackers on New Year's Day.

This is the interesting custom of New Year's Eve in my hometown.