Write a 400-word essay on the topic of "Chinese New Year customs in my hometown".

1 Our hometown is bustling every Spring Festival, you see the street pedestrians are shopping malls, a variety of New Year's goods, a variety of toys, let me but very heartfelt.

Our New Year's Eve custom is actually the same throughout the country, we all have to get together and eat, eat happily. On the first two days of the first year, the younger generation go to the elders to pay tribute to the New Year, and we? Can be said to be a bumper harvest, red envelope full of their pockets, filled with the happiness of the whole family. The Lantern Festival, everyone has to go back to their own home firecrackers, pull pull pull, very lively, everyone is playing very happy, the streets are full of new and different lanterns, people on the street face full of smiles, visible Spring Festival how lively ah, my hometown is so lively, so festive, so happy.

Zheng Ganjun

2 Spring Festival

The first day of the first month of the lunar calendar every year is the Chinese New Year. Among the traditional Chinese festivals, this is one of the most important and lively ones. It is also called "Spring Festival" because it is celebrated at the end of winter and the beginning of spring.

The Chinese have many traditional customs for the Spring Festival. From the 23rd day of the Lunar New Year, people start to prepare for the New Year. During this period of time, families clean up, buy New Year's goods, put up window decals, hang up New Year's paintings, write Spring Festival couplets, steam New Year's cakes, and make all kinds of food to prepare for the old and welcome the new.

The night before the Spring Festival is called "New Year's Eve". New Year's Eve is a time for family reunions. The family sits together, eat a sumptuous New Year's Eve dinner, talk and laugh until dawn, which is called the New Year's Eve. When the clock strikes zero on New Year's Eve, people also eat dumplings. Ancient times called the zero hour for the "Zi Shi", New Year's Eve Zi Shi is the time of the new year and the old year, people at this time to eat dumplings, is to take the meaning of "more years of the child". This is also the origin of the name "dumplings".

After New Year's Eve, it is the first day of the New Year. From the first day of the year, people have to go to relatives, see friends, and pay respect to each other. The New Year's greeting is an important custom of the Spring Festival. When you pay your respects, all of you have to say some auspicious words to wish for happiness and health.

3 Posting the word "Fu"

Every Spring Festival, all the families have to post the word "Fu" on the door, wall and lintel. Spring Festival sticker "Fu" word, is China's folk customs from a long time ago. According to the "Dream Liang Record" records: "the New Year's Day in the near and far, the mat store hundreds of goods, painting the door god peach symbols, welcome the spring card child ......"; "the common people's home regardless of size, all clean the door, to the dust and dirt, the net family, change the door god, hanging bells Xu, nail peach symbols, stick the spring card, sacrifices to the ancestors, and the Chinese people. Posting spring cards, sacrifices to the ancestors". In the text of the "stick spring card" that is written on red paper "Fu" word

"Fu" word current interpretation is "happy", and in the past, the word "Fu" is the word "happy", and in the past, the word "Fu" is the word "happy". "and in the past it meant "good fortune", "good luck". Chinese New Year sticker "Fu" character, whether it is the current or the past, all the people of the happy life of the desire, but also the wish for a better future. Folk in order to more fully embodied this yearning and wishes, simply will "Fu" word upside down sticker, said "happiness has been down" "fortune has arrived." Fu" word upside down in folklore there is a rumor. Zhuzhang, the founder of Ming Dynasty, used the character "福" as a secret mark to prepare for murder. In order to eliminate this disaster, the kind-hearted Empress Ma ordered the whole city to put the word "Fortune" on their doors before dawn. Naturally, no one dared to disobey Empress Ma's order, so all the families put the word "Fu" on their doors. One of the families could not read or write, so they put the word "Fu" upside down. The next day, the emperor sent people on the street to check, and found that all the families have posted the word "Fu", and one family put the word "Fu" upside down. The emperor was furious, and immediately ordered the imperial guards to decapitate the family. Queen Ma saw that things are not good, busy Zhu Yuan Zhang said: "The family knows that you visit today, deliberately put the word of blessing upside down, this is not the meaning of "blessed to"? When the emperor heard that it made sense, he ordered the release of the people, and a big disaster was finally eliminated. From then on, people will be posted upside down, one for good luck, the second to commemorate Queen Ma.

Folk will also be "Fu" word fine as a variety of patterns, patterns have longevity, longevity peach, carp jump Dragon Gate, five grains, dragon and phoenix, and so on. In the past, the folk have "the 24th day of the month of Lunar New Year, the family wrote a big word", "Fu" word was mostly handwritten, the current market, the store are sold.

The Spring Festival is an ancient festival in China, but also one of the most important festivals throughout the year, how to celebrate this festival, in the development of thousands of years of history, the formation of a number of more fixed customs, many of which have been passed on to the present