What is the flavor of New Year

Domestic ⊙ Liu Shitong modern city, life can play with the details of the city by the increasingly rapid urbanization process abandoned. Almost everything that is handmade can be taken care of by production lines, and human interactions do not need to be face-to-face, but are replaced by modern communications and networks. Many traditional things have been fading away in the squeeze of concrete and steel, and the flavor of the New Year is getting fainter and lighter, and human feelings are getting lighter. In the coming season of the Year of the Snake, let's look for the places where the flavor of Chinese New Year is strongest. In order to make this Spring Festival vacation more than just a walk, but with more connotations of the New Year, our "search for the flavor of Chinese New Year" has come to the second stop - the domestic chapter. In the "search", we are y touched by the vastness of traditional folklore, just New Year's Eve, there are so many differences between the north and the south, so many differences between the east and the west, is in the same place, different villages have their own preoccupations. However, the theme of Chinese New Year: family reunion, the old and the new, is unchanging. We hope that wherever you go, there will be more surprising New Year's flavors waiting for you, so that we can still find the simple, warm and joyful New Year's flavors, and the interesting Chinese New Year folk cultures with their own styles. When our hearts want to return, we can still find a place to return to. Beijing New Year has a proverb: "(Lunar December, that is, Lunar New Year) 23 (day) sugar melon children sticky; 24 (day) sweeping day; 25 (day) paste windows; 26 (day) stewed meat; 27 (day) kill the rooster; 28 (day) to the surface of the hair; 29 (day) steamed buns; 30 (day) the night of the evening to stay up all night; the first day of the New Year twisted a twist." During the Spring Festival, Beijingers love to visit temples and fairs, such as the Dazhong Temple Temple Fair, the Baiyunguan Temple Fair, and the Factory Garden Temple Fair. Shanghai on the 24th day of the Lunar New Year for the "God of the Stove" to the sky to play the day, so the night of the 23rd, every family to "send stove", "sacrificial stove", celebrate the New Year thus kicked off. The 25th day of the Lunar New Year is the day when the gods come down to the world. According to tradition, every family dusts and sweeps inside and outside. From the 26th to the 29th, families begin to grind flour, make dumplings and rice cakes, prepare new clothes, hats and shoes, and buy spring scrolls, New Year's paintings and "door gods". On New Year's Eve, all the elders and children gathered in the household, sitting together under the lamplight to eat New Year's Eve dinner, so called "Hopscotch". Shandong in the old days, there is the first five "send poor" custom. The day of worship, to firecrackers to show "catch five poor". Qufu on the evening of the fifth, students should go to the teacher's home, to the statue of Confucius incense worship. And then by the teacher to do an article, completed by the teacher it burned off, called "Wenquxing will". Anhui Province, Anhui Province since the New Year's Eve at twelve o'clock at noon on the beginning of the New Year's Eve, until twelve o'clock at noon on the first day of the year to worship. And compete with each other who puts the thickest firecracker paper, said who has the grandest New Year's Eve. The young people play "hit the nest" game. After the New Year's visit, digging holes in the ground, put in the copper, each person with their own copper plate hard throw hit, out of the hole out of the money belongs to him. Shouchun on the fourth day to welcome the God of Fortune, businessmen must have fish head, Zimushu and taro and other offerings, harmonic "Yu head", "time to", "Luck", as an auspicious omen of wealth. Guangdong Hai Feng area, the younger generation to the elders to congratulate the New Year, the elders will be rewarded with red envelopes or mandarin oranges to the younger generation. In Chaozhou, the Chinese New Year festivals include vegetable kuey teow, rotting dumplings, leavened buns, pipe-frying, and five-fruit soup. On the fourth night of the first day of the Lunar New Year, every family has to light a lamp and prepare a jar of water, which is called "Waiting for God's Water". Dongguan on the first day of the first month of sacrifice to the gods, to be provided with sugar water boiled taro, called "wealth and fortune". Xiamen, Fujian people on the first day of the first day before going out, have to pray to the Jade Emperor in the air, known as the "sacrifice to the gods". Early morning offerings with flowers and fruits, midday offerings with sacrificial wine, and a bowl of spring rice. Spring rice is on the white rice inserted with red paper made of spring flowers. Min Yin "spring" and "leftover" resonance, spring rice is to take its "year after year" of good taste color. Zhangzhou on the fourth day of the first month known as the "pick up", in addition to burning incense in the temple, but also to prepare a box of sweets and cakes, called "recommended box", for the hall to welcome God down. Wuchang, Hubei to the fourth day of the first month for the "new son-in-law He Nian", the new son-in-law back to the in-laws, must endure the teasing of the in-laws and shall not be angry. Huangpi New Year's order for "the first worship home, the second maternal uncle, the third back to the in-laws". The family has a bereavement, must write a blue paper service word pasted on the door, thank you for the New Year.