Essay | is new year's time

In another twenty days, the Spring Festival is coming, so the various customs of the New Year in my hometown have entered my mind. It can be said that these customs range from the family to the streets, from adults to children, from men to women, from eating to dressing, from fashion to tradition.

Entering the twenty-third day of the Waxing Moon, until the first day of the Chinese New Year, my hometown will set up a custom every day to welcome the New Year, such as the twenty-fourth is the day of sweeping the house, on this day, in the morning, go to the market to buy goods. After eating in the afternoon, my father covered the contents of the house with sheets, then put on a mask, tied a broom with a bamboo pole, and swept the corners of the house.

The remaining days are all kinds of preparations, pig farmers, and pigs are transported to the slaughterhouse. There are no pigs in the family, go to the market to buy pork, and then cook the meat on the fire. Families with careful hearts also have to marinate some fatty meat for wine and vegetables. The women began to prepare a variety of food, steamed steamed steamed buns (flower rolls), steamed rice cakes, croquettes, tofu, pancakes, a complete variety, a lot of variety.

The skillful women made all kinds of steamed buns, white and fat, fancy, and some of them also put a few dates on the flower rolls. The whole month does not have to worry about what to eat three times a day, just enter the kitchen and take a few things to eat a hearty meal.

The twenty-fourth day of the lunar month is also our big market there, and on this day, my father is ready early, we only need to take a few bags and follow my father's figure to the market. Although the distance is not far, it is already crowded with people every time it passes. The stalls were surrounded by water, shouting, trading, the sound of the sound into the ears, for a long time.

Father pulled us tightly into the crowd. Sometimes he pulled out of the crowd to go inside to see the firecrackers, sometimes he looked at the candy snacks, listened carefully to the bargaining and ridicule of buyers and sellers, and interjected from time to time to ask about unclear things. The purchased New Year goods piled up, all kinds of spices, all kinds of vegetables, bag after bag, bag after bag, really full of pots and cupboards.

New Year goods also include our new clothes, but the clothes are mainly the responsibility of the mother, she will pull some fabrics to make at home. The time to buy cloth was earlier, and my mother went to the market to find a department store to pull some fashionable cloth, and then returned home to tailor it for us. At that time, there were already sewing machines in the house, and my mother lit a kerosene lamp at night, stitching and threading until deeper, until dawn.

Chinese New Year's Eve this day, cleaning the yard in the morning. Go through all the places that should be cleaned up and stacked. After eating in the afternoon, I began to paste couplets and hang lanterns. My mother who made dumplings would boil a handful of flour into a paste, and I would carry a pot of paste, and my father would climb high and low. At the entrance of the compound, at the door of the house, etc., in an instant, the red couplets were pasted.

Lanterns hang at the gate, and the festive atmosphere coupled with the smell of meat in the kitchen makes the New Year's atmosphere suddenly thicker. Not only on the courtyard and on the walls, but also on the trees in the yard and on the agricultural tools, etc., there will be colorful strings of small lights. At night, turn on the switch, everything is dressed in new clothes, makeup, and people are dazzled.

The first day of the Chinese New Year is the beginning of the first day of the New Year, and before six o'clock, families have eaten breakfast and then gathered family members to go to the street to visit the New Year. The adults greeted each other and smoked, and we laughed and played on the side until the adults pulled each other out of the house, and then we followed to the other house. But everyone is jubilant and smiling, and this atmosphere continues until the sunrise of three strokes.

Now that I have grown up, I have also left my hometown, running in the north and south of the motherland, but the taste of the year is always the most beautiful taste, although the customs of the New Year in my hometown have undergone rapid changes, my New Year's clothes as long as I walk into the mall, I can buy several pieces, no longer need my mother to stay up late under the lamp to make, and the villagers have also changed the way of visiting the New Year, but the nostalgia has not changed, the family affection is still strong.