My hometown is Hebei, and I would like to talk about the customs of my hometown.
Whenever the Spring Festival comes, mom and dad always prepare a lot of goods in advance, such as spring couplets, lucky charms, lanterns, firecrackers and countless other things. The Spring Festival also has a lot of customs, such as eating the New Year's Eve dinner, the New Year's Eve vigil, pay respects to the New Year. Sweeping dust, offering ancestors .... These are all essential.
Lunar Lunar New Year's Eve twenty-ninth, after lunch each family began to paste spring couplets, paste New Year's paintings, hanging lanterns, the home will be decorated. On the 30th day of the Lunar New Year, parents, grandparents, uncles and aunts, brothers and sisters, younger brothers and sisters gathered together. They sat in the courtyard and chatted happily. At night, everyone sat around a TV and watched the Spring Festival Gala. I heard the old generation say that we must go to bed very late on the night of the New Year's Eve to observe the New Year's Eve!
"The sound of firecrackers is the beginning of the year, and the spring breeze sends warmth into the Tu Su." That's right, the New Year is like this, in the sound of firecrackers, the new year is coming, the old year is about to pass. In the sound of firecrackers, people ushered in the new year with laughter.
The older generation always love the New Year's Day on the 30th day to tell us the legend of the New Year's Day beast: according to legend, in ancient China, there was a monster called the year, head long tentacles, fierce and unusual. "Year" always live deep under the sea, every New Year's Eve only climbed ashore, devouring livestock and harming the people. Later, people found a way to deal with the Nian Beast, which was afraid of red color, loud noise and fire. From then on everyone would .... whenever Chinese New Year is in full swing. Even though they will hear this story every year, they will always feel not tired of it at all, but find it very interesting instead.
On the first day of the Lunar New Year, we have to get up early in the morning to kowtow to the elders to pay respect to the New Year. After kowtowing and paying respect to the New Year, it's time for the children's favorite time to send out red envelopes, but the adults don't like this time at all, because the money earned in a year will be sent out in this way. So after Chinese New Year, every child's wallet is bulging, but the adult's wallet is shriveled. The first morning of the first day to eat dumplings, noon to eat boiled pot of vegetables, their own family group of meatballs absolute!