Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - Traditional festivals - The full text of Beijing Spring Festival describes a large number of Chinese New Year customs in old Beijing in chronological order. What are the details?

The full text of Beijing Spring Festival describes a large number of Chinese New Year customs in old Beijing in chronological order. What are the details?

Write New Year's Eve, the first day of the first month, and the fifteenth day of the first month in detail, and briefly write the seventh and twenty-third days of the twelfth month.

Original text:

According to the old rules in Beijing, the Spring Festival begins almost at the beginning of the twelfth lunar month. "La Qibala, freeze to death in western Western jackdaw", which is the coldest time of the year. On Laba Festival, everyone cooks Laba porridge. Porridge is made of all kinds of rice, beans and dried fruits. This is not porridge, but a small agricultural exhibition.

In addition, laba garlic will be soaked on this day. Put garlic cloves in vinegar, seal them, and serve as jiaozi for the New Year. By the end of the year, garlic is soaked like jade, and vinegar is a little spicy, which makes people want to eat more jiaozi. In Beijing, during the Spring Festival, every family eats jiaozi.

When children prepare for the Spring Festival, the first important thing is to buy miscellaneous company. This is made of dried fruits such as peanuts, dates, hazelnuts and chestnuts mixed with candied fruit. Children like to eat these odds and ends. The second important thing is to buy firecrackers, especially boys. I'm afraid the third thing is to buy all kinds of things-kites, diabolos, harmonicas and so on.

The children are happy and the adults are busy. They must prepare food, drink, wear and use for the new year to show the new atmosphere of the new year.

Lunar New Year's Eve is almost a preview of the Spring Festival. As soon as black firecrackers go off, it smells like Chinese New Year. On this day, I want to eat sugar. There are many vendors selling maltose and glutinous rice candy in the street. Sugar is rectangular or melon-shaped, sweet and sticky, and children like it best.

After twenty-three, everyone is busier. We must clean up once, and we must prepare enough meat, chicken, fish, vegetables and rice cakes-most shops are closed from the first day of the first month to the fifth day of the first month and don't open until the sixth day of the first month.

New Year's Eve is really lively. Every household is scrambling to make new year's dishes, and there is wine and meat everywhere. Men, women and children all put on new clothes, with red couplets outside the door and all kinds of New Year pictures in the room. On New Year's Eve, every household lights up all night and firecrackers are not allowed to stop. People who work outside will go home for a reunion dinner unless they have to. That night, except for very young children, no one slept, and everyone had to stay up late.

The scene on the first day of the first month is completely different from the scene on New Year's Eve: all the shopkeepers put up boards, the firecrackers were piled up in front of the door last night, and the whole city was resting.

Men pay New Year greetings to relatives and friends before noon. Women receive guests at home. Many temples inside and outside the city hold temple fairs, and vendors set up stalls outside the temples to sell tea, food and various toys. Children especially like to visit temple fairs, in order to have a chance to see the wild scenery outside the city, ride donkeys and buy those special toys for the New Year. There are horse races and camel races at the temple fair. These competitions are not to see who is the first and who is the second, but to show the graceful posture and skillful skills of horses, camels and riders in front of the audience.

Most shopkeepers open their doors on the sixth day of the first month, but they are not very busy. The guys in the shop can also take turns visiting temple fairs, flyovers and operas.

The listing of the Lantern Festival has brought another climax to Spring Festival travel rush. On the fifteenth day of the first month, lights are decorated everywhere, and the whole street seems to be a happy event, prosperous and beautiful. Hundreds of lamps are hung in famous old shops, some are all made of glass, some are all made of horns, some are gauze lamps, and some are all painted with all the stories of a dream of red mansions or the outlaws of the marsh. This is also the advertisement of that year. As soon as the light is hung, anyone can visit the shop. At night, more people will watch by lighting candles under the light.

Children buy all kinds of fireworks to set off, even if they don't go to the street to be naughty, they can still play with sound and light at home. There are also lights at home: lanterns, palace lanterns, all kinds of paper lanterns, and gauze lanterns, with small bells inside, which will jingle when the time comes. On this day, everyone must also eat Yuanxiao! This is indeed a beautiful and happy day.

Blink of an eye to the residual light temple, the end of the Spring Festival on the 19th day of the first month. Students have to go to school and adults have to do things as usual. The twelfth lunar month and the first lunar month are the most leisure times for everyone in the countryside. After the Lantern Festival, the weather turned warmer and everyone went to work again. Although Beijing is a city, it also celebrates the New Year with the countryside. It's too noisy.