Write a composition about 400 words about the customs of the Spring Festival

Essay 1: Customs of the Spring Festival

The Spring Festival is a traditional festival, and there are many traditional customs, such as putting up spring couplets.

The first thing to do at the beginning of the Spring Festival is to put up door gods and couplets. On the 30th day of the Lunar New Year, families go out to the streets to buy spring couplets and decorate the portals inside and outside their houses. Spring Festival couplets are also called door pairs, spring stickers, couplets, pairs, peach charms and so on. It is a unique form of literature in China, which depicts the background of the times and expresses the good wishes in neat, pairwise, concise and exquisite words. The real popularity of Spring Festival couplets began in the Ming Dynasty, which is related to the promotion of Zhu Yuanzhang. According to the Qing dynasty's Chen Shanggu's The Hairpin Cloud Tower Miscellany, one year when Zhu Yuanzhang was preparing for New Year's Eve, he ordered that a pair of spring scrolls should be posted on every door to celebrate the occasion.

Originally the spring couplets were inscribed on mahogany boards, but later they were written on paper instead. The color of mahogany is red, and red has the meaning of good luck and avoiding evil, so most of the spring couplets are written on red paper. But the temple with yellow paper, keep system with white, green, yellow color, the first year with white paper, the second year of green paper, the third year of yellow paper, the fourth year of mourning full before resuming with red paper. Because of the Manchu still white, the Qing dynasty court couplets with white paper, blue edge wrapped in the outside, red strips set in the inside. There are many other customs of the Spring Festival, such as firecrackers, dust, New Year's paintings, New Year's greetings and so on.

Posting Spring Festival couplets is one of the customs of the Spring Festival, which can drive away evil spirits and bring a better tomorrow.

Essay 2: Chinese New Year Customs

Why do we all set off firecrackers and put up spring couplets in the Spring Festival?

Originally, legend has it that a long, long time ago, there was a monster called 'Nian' who climbed ashore to eat innocent people whenever New Year's Eve came. Therefore, before New Year's Eve came, people ran away to other places to avoid the attack of 'Nian'.

One year, an old man came to the village, and an old woman, seeing that he was so poor, gave him something to eat, and said, "Old man, you should go to some other place to hide, or else 'Nian' will eat you up." The old man said, "I will help you get rid of the year if you let me stay here for one night." With that, the old woman kept the old man.

At night, a roar came from far away. "Ah! Ah!" The old woman said, "Old man, what shall we do when 'year' comes?" The old man said nonchalantly, "No need to be anxious, watch me." As the old man said this, he told the old woman to cook the rice. Immediately, the stove hall issued a crackling sound, reached the ears of the year, the year will be a little afraid up. Nian turned around and saw the fire in the stove, and heard the old man's laughter, and was so frightened that he fled back to the mountain. It was then that the old woman realized that Nian was afraid of loud noises, firelight, and the color red.

Since then, every Chinese family has set off firecrackers, put up red paper, and made delicious food during the Spring Festival.

Posting red paper is too monotonous. Some people just draw something on the red paper and write some words. Slowly, people wrote all kinds of words on the red paper, wishing everyone peace and health, and gradually formed the current Spring Festival couplets.

Essay 3: Describe the customs of the Spring Festival

With the sound of firecrackers, the New Year has arrived, and many people have returned to their hometowns to celebrate the New Year.

We bought new Spring Festival couplets with fireworks and firecrackers, when I got home, I couldn't wait to tear down the old Spring Festival couplets and put the new ones on, I was just about to put the new ones on, I was stopped by my mom, she said, "Look at it first!" I looked left and right, and squared a little to paste it up, mom shouted anxiously: "No, no, not like this." After saying that, she pasted the spring scroll upside down, and I laughed out loud, "Mom, you're making a mistake. I laughed out loud, "Mom, you're making a fool of yourself. The spring scrolls are upside down. Mom said seriously: "Don't talk nonsense, the blessing is pasted upside down, which means the blessing has arrived". Then I realized. Thus, the task of getting rid of the old and welcoming the new is done.

My brother and I each took a fireworks firecracker lighter, suddenly "hiss" sound, fireworks firecrackers on the small sparks, then, fireworks crackling, every 20 seconds, the fireworks on the color will be changed to the new, when the last color, I can not help but sigh: "This is so much fun!"

Dad lifted the firecrackers and walked out of the house, obviously he was going to set off the firecrackers, to the designated ignition point, dad with a lighter in the ignition port on the fire, and threw it far away, the firecrackers "crackling". The flavor of the year is getting stronger and stronger.

This New Year is so beautiful!

Essay 4: Chinese New Year Customs--Firecrackers

The Spring Festival is an ancient traditional festival, and one of the most important festivals of the year, therefore, the Spring Festival has a variety of customs. Because it is said that the New Year beasts are afraid of red color, fire and loud noise, so people have the custom of setting off firecrackers.

On New Year's Eve, after New Year's dinner, my mom said to me, "Do you want to go set off firecrackers? This time you to point firecrackers okay?" But let me do it by myself, or I was scared, because I was afraid of watching adults light them, and I always hid far away from them. But I plucked up my courage and said to myself, "Let's give it a try.

Find an empty space to put a good firecracker, I hold a lighter in my hand, trembling, I walked over, shivering, hit the fire, light the fuse, once I heard the sound of giggles and giggles, I ran away, running faster than a rabbit, heard an ear-splitting firecrackers, I turned around to see their own lighted pyrotechnic firecrackers, rushed up to the sky, turning into a beautiful flower, red, green, colorful, I was joyfully I'm jumping up and down.

Launching firecrackers is a custom that has been passed down for thousands of years, "the sound of firecrackers in a year," contains elements of culture, festive colors, but in order to protect our environment, we still need to put less firecrackers Oh!

Essay 5: Spring Festival customs

The Spring Festival, the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar, also known as the lunar year, commonly known as "New Year". It is one of the grandest and most lively traditional festivals in China.

The Spring Festival has a long history. How to celebrate this festival, in the development of thousands of years of history, has formed a number of customs and habits.

Customs of the Spring Festival_Dusting

When the Spring Festival comes, every family will clean the environment, wash all kinds of utensils, take down and wash the quilt curtains. Everywhere is filled with the joyful atmosphere of laughing, cleaning and welcoming the Spring Festival.

It is a neat, concise and beautifully written expression of good wishes. Every Spring Festival, whether in urban or rural areas, every family will choose a big red Spring Festival couplets posted on the door, for the festival to increase the festive atmosphere. At the same time of posting the Spring Festival couplets, some people have to put big and small "Fu" characters on the doors and walls of their houses. The character "福" refers to good fortune and luck, and it expresses people's desire for a happy life and their wish for a better future. Some people simply put the word "Fu" upside down to show that "happiness has arrived" and "good fortune has arrived".

Customs of the Spring Festival_Vigil

On New Year's Eve, the whole family gathers together, eats New Year's Eve dinner and waits for the time to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new, and keeps vigil all night long to symbolize the driving away of all the bad things and the expectation of a new year of good luck and prosperity.

Customs of the Spring Festival_Crackers

At the dawn of the new year, the first thing to do when families open the door is to set off firecrackers to crackle the sound of firecrackers to get rid of the old and welcome the new.

This is the wonderful Chinese New Year custom, and I look forward to the arrival of the Spring Festival in 20xx.