Putian people's 600-word New Year greeting composition

Putian, like other parts of the country, celebrates the Spring Festival. From the 25th day of the twelfth lunar month, every household will wrap red balls made of glutinous rice flour, which means the same as jiaozi in the mainland: red is a festive color, and the round shape symbolizes family reunion.

Sticking Spring Festival couplets is also a unique custom in China during the Spring Festival. Is to write all kinds of auspicious wishes on red paper and stick them on both sides of the door. But the Spring Festival couplets in Putian are also very different from those in the mainland. They all have to add white edges to the red paper. Why?

The Chinese nation respects its ancestors, and people will abide by the customs and habits left by their ancestors, which may not change for thousands of years. But in Putian, a major change took place more than 300 years ago, which led to the change of Spring Festival customs. This is the invasion of Japanese ronin and Japanese pirates from the sea.

That year, the Japanese invaders invaded Putian and occupied it for several months, killing countless people. It was not until China's famous anti-Japanese star Qi Jiguang came from Zhejiang that they were driven away. It is already the first day of the second year. People who have taken refuge in the mountains have come home one after another. Where will they have the idea of Chinese New Year?

Now the custom of Putian people celebrating the Spring Festival has changed since then. On the second day of that year, many families lost their loved ones in the Japanese invasion and were holding funerals. Many relatives and friends came home to mourn the dead. So this is a taboo and sad day. Continued, it formed the custom of not coming to the door on the second day. On the third and fourth days, people began to arrange various items for the festival to prepare for the New Year. On the fourth night, the family sat together again and had a New Year's Eve dinner. On the fifth day, as on the first day of New Year's Day, people go door to door to recall the past history, contact the feelings of neighbors and talk about their hopes for the future. Putian people's custom of celebrating the Spring Festival is engraved with their painful historical memory.

Putian's White-headed Spring Festival couplets also started from this time. In the past, Putian people put red couplets on their doors for generations. After the massacre in Jiajing period, people put white foreheads on the heads of red Spring Festival couplets to express their mourning for their dead relatives.

Lantern Festival is another big festival in China after the Spring Festival, and its date is on the 15th day of the first month. However, Putian people have spent more than 20 days of Lantern Festival activities since the sixth day of the first month. There are two main programs for the Lantern Festival: one is to eat Yuanxiao and the other is to have lanterns. Putian people turned these two contents into a large-scale carnival. ...