500-word composition of Jiangxi Spring Festival custom

Spring Festival custom in Jiangxi hometown

Among the traditional festivals in China, the most important ones are Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival. Among these festivals, the Spring Festival is the most important. Every year, there is a phenomenon of "Spring Festival travel rush fever" with China characteristics, which is formed by the confluence of vagrants, migrant workers and students who go home for the Spring Festival. As the saying goes, having money but not going home for the Spring Festival shows that people attach great importance to the Spring Festival, which is reflected in the fact that China people attach great importance to reuniting with their relatives. This may explain why people are still eager for the last bus before the Spring Festival, despite the high ticket prices and crowded people during Spring Festival travel rush.

In our usual sense, "Chinese New Year" not only refers to the day of "Spring Festival", but also includes from the day of "Spring Festival" until after the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month. During this period, the festive atmosphere is quite strong. Because only after the Spring Festival, can we meet our long-lost relatives and reunite with them. Children can not only taste a lot of delicious food that they can't usually enjoy, but also get a lot of lucky money that is completely at their own disposal. That's the happiest thing.

Let's talk about the preparatory stage in 2008. The most important preparation for the Spring Festival is the Spring Festival. In order to make family and friends have fun, women usually have to prepare many Spring Festival gifts. When the autumn harvest is over, they have time to buy back distillers' yeast in the market and brew an altar of sweet wine with newly harvested glutinous rice to entertain relatives from afar and relatives and friends who come to pay New Year greetings. Rice wine is cooked with the wine girl. Take a sip, it's sweet from the mouth to the heart, but it doesn't lose its bouquet. In addition to brewing wine, they will also make delicious salted duck with their own ducks, sausage with delicious color and flavor with pork, or preserved fish with silver carp in collective fish ponds, and so on. When these meat products are ready, as long as it is sunny, people hang them with bamboo poles and dry them in the sun until they are oily. Every family is like this, which constitutes a landscape in our hometown in winter. The above is the new year's goods that need to be cooked and served in one pot. There are also rice noodles mixed with seasonings and then kneaded into smaller fried fruits with different shapes. The melon seeds and preserves bought in the market are specially used for drinking tea and chatting.

On the 24th of the twelfth lunar month, the family called it "Small New Year's Day", saying that it was the day when the Kitchen God returned to the Heavenly Palace to report on his work, so he had to cook a lot of delicious food on this day, so he could have a good talk in front of the Jade Emperor. His return will be a blessing to the world, so there is a saying that "heaven performs good deeds and returns to the palace to bring good luck." On this day, every household removed all the electrical appliances in the house, including benches, tables and chairs, cabinets and so on. Then clean the dust and cobwebs inside and outside the house to make the whole house clean and tidy.

Two days before the Chinese New Year, each family will send representatives to the nearby market to buy the last new year's goods, such as firecrackers, candles, incense couplets, paintings of door gods and so on. Of course, if any family has someone who is good at calligraphy, the couplets will be directly under his control. The paintings of Spring Festival couplets and door gods are posted on the Spring Festival, both for a prosperous and festive occasion.

The most important thing is the Spring Festival, which has been prepared for so long, and finally "Chinese New Year", the highlight is the New Year's Eve. At four or five o'clock in the afternoon, people began to set off firecrackers to eat New Year's Eve. The sound of firecrackers adds infinite excitement and festive atmosphere to the festival. In a short time, colorful fireworks and magnificent firecrackers were actually set off. As in other places, the family sat at the table and tasted those delicious dishes. Everyone raised their glasses to express their good wishes to their families. The difference is that we don't eat jiaozi for the New Year like most areas in northern China. We just cook a hearty meal and don't eat it all, which means "more than a year". Before eating, you must put chopsticks on the set rice bowl, and pour a few drops of tea into each bowl. The youngest person in the family will call: Grandpa, Grandma, grandparents go home for the New Year (the called people should all be dead), then put down the tea in each bowl and invite the oldest person in the family to sit on the table before everyone can move chopsticks. Although these processes seem a little troublesome, they show respect for ancestors and filial piety to elders. They unconsciously provide us with a stage to teach us and our children how to be human. In the process of talking and laughing, everyone enjoyed the most abundant New Year's Eve dinner. Later, as usual, adults will give lucky money to the elderly and children, and let the children put the lucky money under their pillows to pray for peace for one year.

On the first day of New Year's Day, it is a day to worship Guanyin. On this day, the whole family can only eat vegetarian food, such as tofu, cabbage and radish. And they should be vegetarian for every meal, which means that crops are growing well in the new year. Don't pull weeds in the farmland. After breakfast, boys and girls are often ready to go shopping in the city to buy clothes, hats, shoes and socks, while kind men and women go to the local Buddhist temple to burn incense and pray for visas, so there are quite a few pedestrians on this day, which often leads to traffic jams. However, people will never visit relatives and friends and pay a New Year call to relatives on this day. On the second day of the second day, "drinking soup" is actually not drinking soup, but cooking rice noodles and boiled eggs. It turns out that every household will prepare a bowl of rice noodles with two peeled eggs on it and send them to this family with elderly people. It is really a respect for the elderly, because rice noodles represent longevity and peeling eggs represents rebirth. Old people usually only accept rice noodles and one of the eggs, and return the other egg to the owner. If there are old people on both sides, both sides will send each other. From the second day of junior high school, people can pay New Year greetings to relatives and friends. Especially for girls who got married years ago, they must go back to their parents' homes on the second day of the second year. Moreover, they will stay at their parents' home for a week, and those brothers, sisters and uncles will invite the newlyweds to their home for a meal in a certain order, which is called "inviting them to dinner". At this time, it is also a good opportunity for the groom to get familiar with his relatives. Generally speaking, New Year greetings can last until the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first lunar month.

Chinese New Year is a time for people to communicate with each other, and the most important performance is the exchange of "courtesy". When you are a guest at a relative's house, you usually only eat two meals, one is called "soup" and the other is called Chinese food. The former is the host's welcome to the guests from afar. They will provide wine and some side dishes and let the guests sit at the bottom first. While enjoying the delicious food, everyone talked about their work and family, thus unconsciously reducing the fatigue of the guests on the way. In a short time, the host removed the side dishes, served more than a dozen good dishes at home, and started real Chinese food. When they left, they sent back some homemade or bought fruits and peanuts, which enhanced their communication and feelings. On the fifteenth day of the first month, after the Lantern Festival, the festive atmosphere has gradually faded, because a new year has begun. In order to strive for a better life, we should work hard. After a "Spring Festival" break, people's tired body and mind have been recuperated, which makes them more energetic to start their work and life in the new year.

It should be said that the Spring Festival in our hometown is not only a display of family and friendship, but also a lubricant to enhance harmony between people, and it is also a way to educate future generations to respect the old and love the young, be kind to others and strive for progress. Through the Spring Festival, friends and relatives from different places will get together, talk to each other about the gains and losses of the past year, share happiness and the sufferings of others, so that people will not feel lonely inside!