How do you spend the Spring Festival?
The first day of the first month is another happy day.
I used to be the last person to get up, but today I won the first place, because I really want to smell the firecrackers. Strings of firecrackers are lit in people's hands, and the sound is really loud, splashing everywhere, as if to send every blessing to thousands of households. The firecrackers continued and crackled. After dinner, I invited some friends to play together. Firecrackers lit in the street produce beautiful flowers on the ground, very beautiful. The pocket money given by my parents is in my bag, let alone how happy I am. Today's birds also come out to join in the fun, and probably they are also very happy.
The street is really a street, with everything to play and eat. Most of the people I see are children. I took a look and counted the spicy food stall as the best business.
How about going somewhere else? I stopped again in front of the booth of a stationery store. There are all kinds of interesting things: airplane models, binoculars, electric cars ... all of them are interesting things. I find the most popular things are those fun things.
In other places, I also saw some selling balloons, pistols, skipping rope, some selling snacks, snacks, fruits, clothes and food. It's amazing. After playing all morning, I will visit relatives and friends for the Spring Festival in the afternoon, which is undoubtedly a happy thing. At night, every household is brightly lit, and every household dresses up the house in a unique way, each with its own personality. They put the new year's goods they bought all over the floor. How to paste the bought New Year pictures depends on your own style and preferences. Some are posting, some are posting backwards, and some are posting askew, each with its own merits. People have already prepared all the dishes they bought, and only in the Spring Festival can they have a big meal. Every household has firecrackers, and people put on new clothes to welcome the New Year. Before the Spring Festival, when people go out, if they meet good friends, they always say, "Go to the streets!" " What a wonderful time today! It's really pleasing to the eye. It's delicious, and it's delicious. The luckiest are the vendors, but business is booming today!
Some relatives and friends got together, sipping wine and delicacies and saying some happy words. The happiest thing is that we can save a lot of lucky money and then go shopping to buy many interesting things, such as cars, four-wheel drive cars, toy guns, football and so on. And we can make a lot of money as long as our mouths are sweeter and we say more blessings!
People have been playing until late at night, chewing delicious fruit in their mouths and putting firecrackers and fireworks in their hands ... adults and children are singing and dancing and having a good time.
I hope that children all over the country will be happy and have no troubles in the new year, but don't "play with things"!
This year's twelfth lunar month is not thirty, and the twenty-ninth twelfth lunar month is New Year's Eve. New Year's Eve is a time to bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new year, so people will happily send the Year of the Horse to welcome the arrival of the Year of the Sheep.
On New Year's Eve, our yard is very lively. Red lanterns have long been hung at the door of each unit, and big couplets with gold characters on a red background have been posted; The yard is full of flowers; There are New Year's Eve dinners floating in the doors and windows of every household.
How fast! It's Spring Festival again. "Inadvertently", I changed from a black-haired teenager to a white-haired old man. I even stumbled when I walked. As soon as I climb high and look from a distance, I am panting, as if I were an air cylinder. Who knows what happened. When I was a child, I looked forward to the New Year. New clothes, new shoes, new meat and new steamed bread seem to be crowded behind the door of time. As soon as the "Chinese New Year" Festival arrived, I suddenly rushed to your eyes. In fact, the so-called "new" is just to tear down the old and replace it with the new. At that time, life was hard, and it was difficult for my mother to do everything possible to make the whole family eat and wear on New Year's Day. Chinese New Year is the most stressful day for my mother. Growing up day by day, my interest in the Chinese New Year is also indifferent. Sometimes I even think: Who invented the Chinese New Year? It makes people tired, poor, helpless and naive. Therefore, every Spring Festival, my home is still as cold as before, which in turn provoked unanimous protests from the children. It was not until I reached this age that I realized that the Chinese New Year was for a word "harmony". Our sages attached great importance to "harmony" and "order" and tried to achieve orderly harmony. Celebrating China New Year is one of the ways. For thousands of years, we have built our country based on agriculture. In the Spring and Autumn Period, the harmony between farming and harvesting, heaven and farming realized the harmony of family, society and country. Don't curse "building a country by agriculture" as a backward command. If there were no "building a country by agriculture", there would probably be no suitable calendar in the world so far. Whether it is the solar calendar or the lunar calendar, the relationship between the sun and the moon is always the basis of the calendar. With the calendar, there is a "year". Summing up the past and waiting for the coming year, "Year" is full of experience, lessons, ambitions and fantasies, making it the most interesting day of the year. Affection, friendship and love are concentrated in one day and night, and we can't get enough of them. In order to make this day colorful, the sages thought many ways, such as what is the "year" and why do they pay so much attention to the New Year? This is a fascinating story. It is said that there is a monster named Nian who always comes out to harm people on that day. When people are afraid of smashing things, destroying farm tools, stealing food and eating animals, they hide. The more you hide, the more fierce you are. Every time, Nian turned the village upside down and left. Once, Nian came again as usual. At dawn, it was tired and hid in the woodshed to sleep. Careful people found that every family in the village suffered, only one was safe and sound. There is only an old woman and a little granddaughter in this family. They are wearing red clothes and trousers and guarding the red stove. The firewood crackled in the stove and they spent the night quietly. People suddenly realized that Nian was afraid of red, fire and noise. So people rushed over together, wearing red clothes and trousers, banging firecrackers, holding lanterns and torches, shouting and running around the village. Nian was so scared that he didn't know where to hide, so he ran away. As a result, people "keep watch" on New Year's Eve every year and wait around the stove for the arrival of "Year". The next day, they greeted each other and blessed each other. This is "Happy New Year". This legend fully expresses the desire to exorcise evil spirits, pray for blessings and welcome auspicious events, which should have happened before the calendar, about 7000 to 6000 years ago. Among our unearthed cultural relics, there is a 6000-year-old Jiangzhai site, which belongs to the Neolithic Age. A family centered on the old mother lives in harmony. There are stoves and crackling firewood. Their favorite color is red. Besides, they already know how to weave ramie. All this seems to meet the legendary objective conditions. Legend has it that the Yellow Emperor created a branch and made a calendar. The calendar of the Xia Dynasty was quite complete. It is said that today's lunar calendar is a continuation of the summer calendar, so it is also called the summer calendar. With the calendar, there is the concept of year and year, so there is no need to have this legend as a theoretical pioneer. In some places, the legendary "knocking on the buzzer" has been changed to "setting off firecrackers", which is simply ridiculous. Firecrackers should be the product after the Song Dynasty. In the Tang Dynasty, Du Fu traveled from Shaanxi and Gansu to Sichuan and arrived in Chengdu on New Year's Eve. At dawn the next day, Du Fu saw a bustling metropolis. During the Chinese New Year, it was nothing more than "playing the flute", and there was no louder sound, because gunpowder had not been invented at that time. It was not until Wang Anshi made meritorious deeds that he was "one year old in firecrackers." Putting this legend back three or four thousand years ago can only prove that our descendants are much more confused than before. Many Chinese New Year customs, such as hanging peach symbols, pasting doors, sweeping houses and offering sacrifices to stoves, etc. , are the products of years of accumulation and development, and are not completed at once. Many of them are ceremonies and festivals combining Buddhism and Taoism, which have gradually become China and authentic China festival etiquette. Recently, some western programs, or American programs, are mixed during the Spring Festival, much like the style of today's world: flashy and boastful. Recently, "Christmas" has greatly surpassed the Spring Festival. It seems that Christmas is to connect with the world, that is, globalization. In fact, Christmas is not the same holiday in all European and American countries. Many countries in Europe do not have this festival, which is the main festival in the United States. I went to Taiwan Province province that year, just in time for Christmas. Newspapers call it "Christmas", which is the birthday of Jesus. There is a term called "Christmas", which is reserved for saints in China. The sage is Confucius. I still support this approach. To celebrate Christmas, we should celebrate "Christmas" to commemorate the birthday of China saints. The reason is simple: we are not a Christian country, and we respect Jesus and our saints. His influence on China was far greater than that of Jesus. Why don't we commemorate him? ! From this, I thought of participating in a dialogue program on how to spend the Spring Festival in CCTV last year. It is suggested that the custom of Spring Festival should keep pace with the times, instead of sticking to China. Mr. Chen Yifei and I think that the Spring Festival must be China. Mr. Chen said that he has been overseas for many years and knows what the Spring Festival means to overseas Chinese. The strong Chinese flavor of the Spring Festival reminds everyone in China of their roots and culture, which is the red line that sustains the spiritual lifeline of China people. In my opinion, the power of custom is unshakable. After all, a temporary fashion can't compete with a long history of inheritance. Moreover, this inheritance is the embodiment of national culture concentration. The more prosperous the society, the more people will express themselves, which is the publicity of national pride. Therefore, it is necessary to maintain and consolidate the custom of the Spring Festival. Now Mr Chen Yifei has gone to heaven, but his words are still alive. He knows the weight of China culture, so we should remember his words. It's Spring Festival again. Say something auspicious. Not entertainment, not hypocrisy. Spring Festival means summing up the past and praying for the coming year. We made progress again last year, didn't we? Next year will definitely be better. I sincerely pray: May all families be happy.