The Customs of Chinese New Year in Fujian Essay 150 Words

My hometown is in Fujian, where the Spring Festival is celebrated with lanterns everywhere, lights of all colors hanging at the door, men, women and children wearing new clothes, and families cooking reunion meals, with the smell of rice everywhere.

The Spring Festival is the most traditional festival. Every lunar month 23 "sacrificial stove" day, we have to put on good clothes, in the home for poultry, fish, livestock and seafood, as well as fruits, sweets, tea and other offerings, and then burn incense and firecrackers, for the stove God send off. And from the beginning, "New Year's Eve" also began. On New Year's Eve, every family will first put the Spring Festival couplets, which symbolize the auspiciousness of the New Year, all the best, and inviting wealth and treasures, in front of the door of their house. Thereafter, offerings, incense and candles are placed on the table in the hall to worship the ancestors and welcome them "home for the New Year". From this point on, fireworks are set off and the festivities continue until the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year.

New Year's Eve dinners include fishballs and meatballs, which symbolize family reunion, chicken, which means "eating chicken to start a family," and longevity vegetables, which indicate "long life," as well as a variety of deep-fried foods and rice cakes, which are rich in local flavor, and especially the "turtle and bean paste rice cake," which is the most popular dish. In particular, eating "turtle rice cake with bean paste" means "longevity". After the New Year's Eve dinner, it is the elders to give their children and grandchildren "New Year's money" to give the law is also quite distinctive: older children, its "New Year's money" is pre-wrapped in red paper into their hands; and young children's "New Year's money", is the "New Year's money", is the "New Year's money", is the "New Year's money", is the "New Year's money", is the "New Year's money". New Year's money", is the first to the elders to say auspicious words before giving red envelopes. The first day of the first month of the day, people will get up early, after dressing and washing up, is the beginning of a very humane mutual blessings, as well as visiting friends and relatives or visiting parks, etc., ushered in, bustling, people are generally immersed in the joy, celebration, happiness, and fullness of the festive atmosphere.

This is how we celebrate the Spring Festival, and this is the unique way to do it.

This is the unique way of celebrating Chinese New Year.