new year
The year is the end, but also the starting point, the connection between the beginning and the end, the result of the harvest, and the beginning of hope. The year is full of happiness, reunion, auspiciousness, happiness... All the goodness is presented in the "year", and all the blessings are noisy in the "year".
The Chinese New Year's Eve of the first year and the first day of the new year are the closest distance, but the first day of the new year and the first night are the farthest distance. 365 days, like a rope, one end tied to the year, one end tied to the end of the year, with the gradual reduction of 365 days and nights, the year is getting closer and closer, closer and closer. Nian is the most solemn, the most exquisite, the most ritual, the most complicated and the most meaningful of all the traditional festivals in China. It represents the intangible traditional culture of China for 5,000 years, condensing people's wisdom and civilization and longing for beauty. Every year has a surprise, every year has a new meaning, every year is a new look, so the year is also called the new year.
People often say: "Three miles are different customs, ten miles change the rules", at the beginning of the year, I will talk about the customs and habits of my hometown new year that I only know a little bit.
As the saying goes, "after the lap eight is the year", when I was a child, the children who loved the New Year began to break the hand index from the lap eight, until the adults stopped running and working outside and began to be busy at home for a long time, in order to confirm that the year is really close. "(Twenty) three sacrificial stoves, (twenty) four sweeping houses, (twenty) five steamed
From the twenty-third year, on this day every household should clean the kitchen, and the pots and pans should be polished, just like new. Then change the vesta god into new clothes, and paste the portrait of the vesta god who "pleased" in advance on the wall near the stove, and the best height is about the height of the bellows. When buying a stove painting, you can't say buy, you have to say "please", and if you say the wrong thing, you will be laughed at. Some of the sellers of Vesta are set up in a stall in the market, and the paintings of Vesta, Grandpa Tian, incense, candles, etc. are sold together, and some are sold in the streets and alleys to households. Every time we enter the waxing moon, there are constantly people who sell stove gods and daily masters who come to the house, stand at the door and shout: "Please stove grandpa." "The mother came out of the house, and if she had asked for it, she would tell the people that there was no need to invite, and if she did not invite it, she would ask for two pictures together with Grandpa Tian." I admire the man who painted the portrait of "Vesta". There is a luni-solar calendar on it, and there are things that should be done on any day and things that should not be done on which day. A total of thirty-six gods perform their duties on the portrait of Vesta, blessing the homes of ordinary people. The portrait is cross-criticized as "the head of the family", the left link "Heaven says good things", and the right link "Netherworld to ensure peace", writing people's expectations in it.
The twenty-fourth day of the lunar month swept the house, sweeping out the annual dust and cobwebs in the house. On this day, my mother changed into an old dress that she usually did not wear, wrapped a towel around her head, and surrounded her face with a towel, showing only her eyes. While cleaning up the dust, the mother chanted the words "dust, dust, you hide, sweep." It wasn't until the walls inside the house, on the cupboards, and on the tables were spotless that my mother stopped and said, 'This is clean, like new.' Finally, the New Year painting bought from the market was pasted on the wall, and the painting of that year had "Nian Nian Yu", "Blessing Star Gao Zhao", and "Years of Peace", all of which mean auspiciousness.
Steamed steamed steamed steam The first pot of steamed white fat, hot steamed buns, the mother used a bowl to put out one, first reverently and respectfully to the god of vesta, and then to the grandfather and ancestor. This is a custom, a custom that has remained unchanged for thousands of years, and it is necessary to fear the heavens and the earth and the ancestors in order to bless the peace of the whole family.
The closer the year, the stronger the taste of the year, everyone does not forget to buy some new daily necessities or furniture for the family, usually reluctant to buy always through the New Year's "new" word are bought, the new year always has to start with a "new" word. Every household enriched the basket of vegetables and the table in a festive mood. In the pot, in the bowl, in the plate are all hearty, and the food that usually makes the children hungry can be eaten in these days of the year.
Chinese New Year's Eve, all the busyness prepared for the New Year will be done and terminated on this day. In the morning, the men of the family met to take firecrackers, paper money, and wine, and went to their ancestral graves to take the deceased ancestors to their families for the New Year. This is also a custom that has been continued for thousands of years, the New Year to eat well, drink well, naturally to take the ancestors to the family offerings, let them and their own family members enjoy the happiness of the New Year, this is also a manifestation of filial piety. Women wash and wash shabu at home, cut and chop to prepare dumplings. In the afternoon, the women began to be busy wrapping dumplings, and the men were busy pasting couplets, "always replacing the new peach with the old charms", then tearing off the couplets pasted last year's New Year, cleaning them up, and pasting the new couplets on the door. The clean door, the new couplet of red and red, and the atmosphere of the festive and auspicious year immediately appeared.
In the sound of firecrackers in the sky, Chinese New Year's Eve was ushered in. Parents put the brand-new pressed money they had prepared under their children's pillows. Pressing money is a kind of mascot for children, which blesses children with health, peace and happiness. On the first day of the New Year, the family got up earlier than the other, the sound of firecrackers almost did not stop all night, the children rubbed the sleeping eyes of the pine, the parents only needed to shout "New Year's Day, get up quickly", the children immediately had the spirit. Put on the new hat, new clothes, new shoes that your mother has prepared from head to toe, and your whole body will be refreshed, and you will run in the new year...
On the day of the "year", there is a new beginning, a new plan, a new expectation, and a new future. May people embark on a new journey, open up new hopes, create new achievements, and harvest new results in a safe and happy auspicious year.
About author:Cao Qiufang, member of Shandong Young Writers Association, member of Shandong Prose Literature Society, member of Jining Writers Association, member of Jining Prose Literature Society, member of Jiaxiang County Writers Association, editor of Qilu Literature, preschool teacher. He likes to read, loves literature, poetry and essays have been published in many newspapers, magazines and online platforms, and campus press releases and educational essays have been displayed on many educational platforms.
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