A 500-word essay on New Year’s customs in Zhao’an County
New Year Customs in Zhao'an County
The Spring Festival is the most important festival in our country and the most solemn festival of the year. Every household will celebrate. Some ethnic groups will also engage in some activities to celebrate the New Year, such as dragon and lion dances, storytelling and singing, land boat running, stilt walking, Yangko dancing, etc.
At the end of the New Year, adults and children are all busy. They are busy preparing New Year’s goods, cleaning the house, and worshiping ancestors! Pasting Spring Festival couplets is an essential item. Either do it yourself or ask someone to do it for you, and write down the harvest of the year and the hope for the coming year into this small couplet. Classmates, speaking of Spring Festival couplets, there is another story! Spring couplets originated from peach charms. They first appeared in the Zhou Dynasty and were rectangular peach door panels hung on both sides of the door. It is said that peach wood has the function of suppressing ghosts and exorcising evil spirits. Because the evil spirits in the world are afraid of the two gods "Shen Tu" and "Yulei", people carve their images out of peach wood and place them at their doorsteps to ward off ghosts and evil spirits. Later, people simply engraved the names of the two gods on peach boards, believing that doing so could also suppress evil and drive away evil. This kind of peach board is called "peach charm". During the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, people began to write on peach charms. Once, Meng Chang, the monarch of Shu, ordered the bachelors to write on the Taofu board on New Year's Eve. Because he couldn't see clearly what the bachelors wrote, Meng Chang simply wrote "Every year, we will meet in Yuqing, and the festival will be called Changchun." From this came China's first Spring Festival couplets.
Go home often and visit. No matter how far away you are, you must rush home to reunite with your family and eat the New Year’s Eve dinner carefully prepared by your parents. In the old days, people called this staying up late on New Year's Eve. This meal should be eaten slowly and until late at night.
Watching the wonderful programs of the Spring Festival Gala, gathering around the steaming hot pot, and listening to the bursts of firecrackers outside the window, the family enjoyed family happiness. At this time, children are happiest when their elders give out lucky money. It is said that this practice existed during the Wei and Jin Dynasties. New Year's money is also called "New Year's money" and "Evil money to suppress evil spirits" because "Sui" and "Evil spirits" are homophonic. New Year's money can suppress evil spirits and enable children to spend the New Year in peace.
It’s the Chinese New Year, and it’s indispensable to visit relatives and friends. Relatives and friends gather together, eat sumptuous food and wine, exchange blessings, and plan development plans. This activity will last until after the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first lunar month.
The Spring Festival is not only about eating, drinking and having fun together, but more importantly, it embodies a national spirit of our country. What it integrates is a kind of family affection, a pursuit of a better life, and harmony and tranquility between people
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