The third grade composition "The custom of the Longwang Temple in Heze City, Shandong Province"

Spring Festival is an ancient festival in China, and it is also the most important festival in a year. During thousands of years of historical development in China, there are still some relatively fixed customs and habits that have been passed down to this day. For example, sweeping the dust, pasting Spring Festival couplets, stick grilles, pasting the word "Fu" upside down, painting New Year pictures, keeping the old age and so on.

"Cleaning the house on the 24th of the twelfth lunar month" is recorded in the ancient book Lv's Spring and Autumn Annals. In addition, dust removal also means "getting rid of the old and not getting new".

Spring Festival couplets, also called couplets and peach symbols, express good wishes with dual and exquisite words, which is a unique literary form in China. The custom of sticking couplets on the Spring Festival originated in the Song Dynasty. Spring Festival couplets are divided into upper couplet, lower couplet and horizontal batch.

The word "fu" refers to good luck. The word "Fu" is posted in the Spring Festival to express the blessing to friends and relatives. But in order to fully reflect this blessing, people simply put the word "Fu" upside down, indicating that "Fu has fallen".

Nowadays, it is very common to hang New Year pictures in cities and rural areas during the Spring Festival. Thick black and colorful New Year pictures bring prosperity and joy to every household. The earliest collection of New Year pictures in China is woodcut New Year pictures of the Southern Song Dynasty, which depicts four ancient beauties: Wang Zhaojun, Zhao, Ban Ji and Lvzhu.

Here, I will send you another couplet: "Fireworks are all over the sky, colorful, celebrating New Year's Eve, and golden dragons are everywhere, and people are buzzing to welcome the auspicious year"!