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The Chinese New Year is stepping into the city and countryside of Guilin with the bell ringing at zero hour on December 24th of the lunar calendar. This day is the Guilin people's "New Year's Eve", also known as the "New Year's Eve". On this day, people slaughter dogs and ducks to celebrate the arrival of the Spring Festival. The sound of firecrackers on this day, with people to send Zaowang master "to the sky to say good things" wish crackling, sound transmission of the high world. People believe that the God of the stove is the master of the family, a family of good and bad work and misfortune are in charge of it, so the end of each year, we have to send the God of the stove to the sky to the Jade Emperor to play, for the whole family to lower the blessing from disaster. The ceremony of sacrificing to the God of Zaos is mostly done by the elders of the family, who put candies on the head of the stove to sacrifice to the God of Zaos, praying that the God of Zaos "says good things in heaven and descends to the earth with good luck". The purpose of sacrificing candies to Zaoshen is to make the candies "stick" to Zaoshen's mouth, so that his sweet mouth can say good things and not cause disasters on earth. After New Year's Eve, firecrackers will be set off to bring the Zao Wang down to earth. This is the ancient custom of Guilin's "New Year's Eve", and now even the firecrackers are only a remnant of the ancient rituals.　From the 24th to the 30th day of the Lunar New Year, people are busy shopping for New Year's goods and cleaning up inside and outside their homes to welcome the New Year in a clean and tidy manner. There are many kinds of traditional food for the festival, and they have good wishes: on the twenty-ninth day of the Lunar New Year's Eve, people steam rice cakes, which are sweet and sweet, meat and veggies, and eat them to make their lives and work prosper in the new year.　New Year's Eve dinner, people like to get together as a family, the dishes must have "round", "happy", to take its meaning of reunion, happy. On this night, thousands of people are at home to observe the New Year. During the vigil, the charcoal fire in the fire pit is burned red-hot to symbolize the prosperity of life year after year. When the zero hour arrives, young and old are filled with joy and welcome the New Year with the sound of firecrackers. The sound of the firecrackers, one after another, until late at night, people still do not sleep, the fire is still strong, is to go to rest, but also will not forget to nestle the fire of the fire bowl, leaving kindling, and so on tomorrow morning to burn a good fire on the pot. New Year's fire is like a human life, it is a good omen of the New Year's prosperity, family prosperity. People have such a deep affection for fire, perhaps because the fire has brought civilization and warmth to mankind. Love of fire is like love of one's own life, especially in the New Year. Early in the morning on the first day of the New Year, people scramble to get up early to open the door, with the sound of firecrackers to meet the God of Fortune's grandpa's visit. Neighbors, friends, and colleagues, the first thing they say when they meet is to wish a good new year. Children pay New Year's greetings to adults, and adults give children New Year's money. The Spring Festival is a good time for people to enhance their relationship and consolidate their friendship. People pay New Year's greetings to each other, have fun, review the past and look forward to the future.　At the end of the street, a team of New Year's Eve lions dance and walk, very active, many children follow the lion team to see the lively lion New Year's Eve. When the lions went to a store door, the owner will light firecrackers to meet, the lions in front of the door to the owner of the salute, the leader also went up to the owner of the arch bow to the New Year blessings. The lion's humane New Year's greeting and the leader's auspicious words will make the owner's heart happy and the store's business will be prosperous. The lion dances in the sound of firecrackers, dancing out of a good luck, dancing out of a strong wind. Its big head of joy, broad forehead, big eyes, raised nose, square mouth, golden-red hair, its image of both mighty and naive, amusing. See the lion robust and courageous, out of the cave, across the bridge, in the head up chaotic clouds flying over, head down, "ten thousand feet deep" on the bridge to rise up to God's might. At this time the lion drums such as stormy, thrilling and wonderful lion performance thrilling. Then it is up and down the mountain, drinking water and eating green, step on the star walk pile, on the ladder, nine days to catch the moon, etc., the lion head, lion tail with the tacit understanding. Dance to the sound time, stacked Luohan picking green, the lion picked green after nodding to the audience bowing. And then hair, cut the collar, quite interesting. Drums stop, the lion from the nine days Guanghan straight down, shocked the audience, to be fixed eyes, the lion is stable in the hands of all the Luohan, is looking back at the moon. This stunt in the silence of the heart, won the applause.　Lion to pay homage to the New Year is the Guilin people's favorite traditional projects, so every Spring Festival eve, the lion team will be dressed up a new lion, practicing the traditional lion dance routines. Spring Festival, the lion dance on the streets, to people or stores to pay tribute to the New Year. The lion walks all the way to dance all the way, jumping, intruding, Rin, roar, step, leap and other performances in a lively manner. Playing the lion's big head monk, big head doll step three twisting, teasing the lion's monkey monkey full of energy, the lion team's gongs and drums, to add to the joy of Guilin, bring the melting of spring.　Lion New Year's Eve, also accompanied by blessings of auspicious lion song: lion head on the three points of yellow, today on your hall, congratulations to the master of the family to give birth to a noble son, all over the world to the name.　The lion's head is three points of green, today to pay respect to your court, congratulations to the master of the house good fortune, and add to the wealth and add to the family.　The lion's tail is a ball, come to your house to pay respect to the pig and cow, congratulations to the master's family, the pig will be big soon, and you will have food and clothes without any worries.　The lion's eyes are mesmerized, congratulating the master's family on their good fortune, and their six animals are prosperous, with geese, ducks and chickens.　The lion sings beautifully, and has been passed down in the folklore for thousands of years, blessing and cheering for the neighbors every Spring Festival, making people happy. In the lively New Year's greetings, unknowingly to the Lantern Festival.　In the old days, the Lantern Festival in Guilin had dragon lanterns traveling from the 13th day of the first month. The dragon lanterns traveled through the streets and alleys for three nights, and wherever they went, families set off firecrackers and burned incense and candles, praying that the dragon lanterns would bring good luck and prosperity. Dragon lantern parade there are a variety of shengxiao drum music, stilts, card lamps, gongs and drums shed together on the streets, forming a vast dragon lantern parade, the scene is very spectacular. On the night of the festival, the lanterns are lit up all night long, which together with the fluttering dragon lanterns turn Guilin into a city that never sleeps.　Nowadays, the custom of lighting lanterns on the night of the Lantern Festival is still preserved in Guilin. On the night of the Lantern Festival, it is refreshing to look at the lanterns from afar. The flickering lights converge into a river of lights, just like the Milky Way in the sky falling several times. The light or quiet, or flow, flash leap in tall buildings, open in the green leaves, so that the night sky of Guilin brilliant. At this time the halls and rooms of families, all the lights are shining brightly, and the whole family sits under the lights and eats osmanthus sugar-centered Lanterns, peanut and sesame Lanterns ...... that sweet, fragrant traditional food, so that every family is immersed in the joy of the festival. "New Year's Eve fire, fifteen lights", New Year's Eve fire pots red hot, and this fifteen lights, including lanterns, halls of the big red candles and so on all bright, to be sixteen early firecrackers to send away the family god before all extinguished.