#This is the taste of the year # This winter we only drifted a little snowflake in Zaozhuang City, Shandong Province, the ground is not white, there is no snow during the Spring Festival, this year we xuecheng district banned fireworks and firecrackers, although there are also a few people still put, but also converged a lot, occasionally can hear the sporadic sound of firecrackers, after a very quiet and peaceful Spring Festival.
When I was young, I would get up before dawn and start to leave with my elders with the same surname to pay respects to my elders. First of all, the elders who give themselves a surname to worship the New Year in turn, more than a dozen brothers with the same surname, the boss line up to take the lead, with a large team into the door, if there is an offering table in the courtyard, and there are all kinds of fresh fruits, this is the elders in the offering to the heavens, the eldest brother will take us to kneel down solemnly, first prostrate to the offering table, this head is for the Lord. Then will come to the door of the hall, the eldest brother shouted loudly to the elders, at this time the elders hurried to open the door to see, so that the eldest brother will take us to kneel down together, to the elders prostrate the New Year, if the elders are alive, you need to prostrate two heads, one person, if the elders are only one person, only one prostrate. This is still very exquisite, can not be chaotic prostration, bumping wrong is a big taboo.
If it is a big surname, the population is very large, the scene of paying homage to the elders is very spectacular, some dozens of hundreds of people kneel in the courtyard, the row can not be outside the courtyard, kneeling together to prostrate the New Year, looking at it is still very shocking 1
The elders of the original surname all worship the New Year, the eldest brother will take us all over the village to worship the New Year, as long as the elders have to go to worship, and we go to other people's homes, other people's children will also come to our house to worship the New Year, this is to come and not to be rude! So the new year worship team of various surnames in the village is huge, and they are all almost equal generations to form a team, and children around the age of ten will also be pulled up to follow the young people's team to worship the New Year, and the older elders will go to the New Year alone.
Our brother here also wants to give the brother and sister-in-law a New Year's greeting, the girls who are not married do not pay homage to the New Year, and the girls who marry only pay homage to the elders (in-laws, uncles, uncles, brothers-in-law) in the in-laws' house, that is, the second year of the first year back to the mother's home, but the son-in-law kowtows to the father-in-law and mother-in-law, and the daughter does not need to kowtow to the New Year.
Although now it is still to the elders to kowtow to the New Year, but has changed a lot, these years of the younger generations only to their own very close elders to the New Year, parents, uncles and uncles, there is no village to other surnames to worship the New Year, and now we all know to enjoy the blessing to sleep until the natural awakening, very few days do not get up to worship the New Year, now generally more than eight o'clock to start walking around to worship the New Year, I went to the New Year at six o'clock when I was a child. Mainly now the pace of life is accelerating, usually is busy, especially migrant workers, all year round is the Spring Festival these days can really rest a few days, to the first five or six, but also to leave to work in other places.
