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How to treat the custom of kneeling down to the elders to pay New Year greetings?

The Spring Festival is coming. During the Spring Festival, many young people will go home for the Spring Festival, but now many customs and habits are still passed down to this day. For example, the younger generation should kneel down to pay New Year greetings to their elders. Moreover, in rural areas, many people go to other people's homes in groups to pay New Year greetings. I think this custom should be passed down.

This is a custom handed down from generation to generation and cannot be changed. Because since I was a child, I remember to kowtow to my grandparents every year, and also to my parents. Because my mother taught me to be grateful since I was a child, I was born by my parents and grandparents, so I should learn to respect life and fear it. And you can get a big red envelope every six months. As we grow older, we no longer kneel to our parents to pay New Year's greetings, but our children continue this custom.

There are also different manners to kneel down and pay New Year greetings. For example, adults bow down to their elders, and they should practice one knock and one worship. This is respect for their elders and they should bow down and salute. When children meet their elders, they will basically choose to kowtow three times, that is to say, they will always kneel and kowtow three times in a row, which is also respect and gratitude to their elders.

The etiquette of respecting the old and loving the young also exists in the custom of visiting the New Year. The present 5,000-year history contains not only various customs and habits, but also the feelings of ancestors. These customs also include interaction and respect between relatives, as well as care and gratitude. And now young people are very busy and spend little time with their parents at home. Therefore, it is a respect for the younger generation to go home every year for the New Year and kneel down to the elders.

Therefore, Lemon thinks that the custom of kneeling down to pay New Year greetings to the elders can be continued to our next generation, so that this beautiful inheritance can continue.