What traditions do you still have in your family that have not changed for more than ten years?

The Chinese New Year's Eve is one of the most important annual customs activities, and the custom of observing the New Year has a long history. The earliest record is found in the "Chronicles of the Customs" in the Western Jin Dynasty: on the night of Chinese New Year's Eve, each phase and gift, called "Gift Year"; Wine and food are invited, called "farewell year"; The young and old gather to drink, and the blessing is complete, which is called "dividing the year"; Everyone stays awake all night long, waiting for the dawn, and is called "keeping the year".

On Chinese New Year's Eve, the whole family gathers together, eats Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, lights candles or oil lamps, sits around the fireside and chats, waits for the time to say goodbye to the old and welcomes the new, and keeps vigil all night, symbolizing the exorcism of all evil plagues and looking forward to the auspicious new year. This custom gradually prevailed later, and in the early Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin, Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, wrote a poem of "Keeping the New Year": "The cold leaves the winter snow, and the warmth brings the spring breeze."

To this day, it is customary to celebrate the New Year on Chinese New Year's Eve. New Year's greetings during the Spring Festival, the younger generation should first give the elders a New Year's greeting, wish the elders a long life and good health, the elders can be prepared in advance to distribute the New Year's money to the younger generations, it is said that the New Year's money can suppress the evil, because the "year" and "Zhen" homonym, the younger generation can get the New Year's money to spend a year in peace. There are two kinds of New Year's money, one is to thread a colored rope into a dragon shape and place it at the foot of the bed, which is recorded in the "Yanjing Chronicles", and the other is the most common, that is, the money distributed to the children by parents wrapped in red paper.

Drink Laba porridge, eat dumplings in the new year, clean the house before the year, steamed steamed buns in the twenty-eighth, will make all kinds of small animals look, paste couplets, paste blessing characters (upside down), hang red lights, sometimes also paste window flowers, Chinese New Year's Eve dinner must have a whole fish, there are four happy balls, but there is no chicken (the old man thinks that chickens are aggressive and bad), all lights must be on before twelve o'clock on Chinese New Year's Eve. Break five to eat dumplings, at the beginning.

Seven, ten. Seven, eat noodles on the twenty-seventh day, eat Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month, and walk a hundred steps. That's about it.

Chinese New Year's Eve stay up late, make dumplings, sleep with lights on, do not speak unlucky language, ** New Year's greetings, early morning dumplings must be cooked by the men in the family in the early morning to get up early. Wear new clothes, get up early to greet the New Year, go to other places must be home before 12 o'clock, and it is not allowed to stay overnight at other people's houses.

Dad, it's almost seven o'clock, and the news broadcast will start immediately. My dad is a farmer, graduated from elementary school in the second year, has no education, can't speak Mandarin, but he loves to watch the news and doesn't understand the content of the news, so every time he asks me to translate to him. Since I was a child, my dad taught me that children should watch more news from an early age, but at that time I didn't understand it, I just liked to watch TV dramas.

So sometimes I hate my dad. Later, I went to high school, went to the county seat, and sometimes, I only went home once a month. Occasionally, when I was translating for my dad, I noticed that my dad had grown a lot of gray hair, and suddenly my nose was sore, and I found that my dad was also old.

Memories bits and pieces. The years are unforgiving. Changed our looks.

It also changed my heart. Since then, I've been very serious about translating news broadcasts for my dad every time.

Firecrackers can create a festive and lively atmosphere, and it is a kind of entertainment activity of the festival, which can bring joy and good luck to people. With the passage of time, the application of firecrackers is more and more extensive, and the varieties and colors are also becoming more and more numerous, every major festival and happy event celebration, and marriage, building a house, opening a business, etc., firecrackers are set off to celebrate, and the picture is auspicious. Now, Liuyang in Hunan, Foshan and Dongyao in Guangdong, Yichun and Pingxiang in Jiangxi, Wenzhou in Zhejiang and other regions are the famous hometown of fireworks in China, the production of firecrackers is colorful, high quality, not only best-selling throughout the country, but also exported to the world.

The posture of bowing is to first raise your hands in front of your fists. This fist can not be held indiscriminately, the man is still left, that is, the man holds the right hand with his left hand, this is called "Jibai", on the contrary, it is "fierce worship". Holding fists and arching hands is a unique traditional etiquette of the Chinese nation.

Holding a fist is to hold the right hand with the left hand, naturally hugging, moderate tightness, arching the hand, naturally shaking slightly in the chest, not too strong, too high. This kind of etiquette is mostly seen in New Year's greetings among the elders.

My hometown is in a small town in Meizhou, Guangdong, and the Spring Festival customs that are still preserved here should only be left to sacrifice the ancestors, to prepare a lot of coins and incense candles, and there are many things that cannot be said during the New Year, such as unlucky words. There can also be no wild cats in the house during the Chinese New Year, even if it is a neighbor, because the cat's meow is a meow, which is the same sound here in our dialect, these are all bad symbols, so they can't appear.

During the New Year, the Spring Festival couplets should be pasted, lanterns should be hung, and the lights should not be turned off all night, so as to create a bright phenomenon. On the first day of the new year, everything has to be stopped, so many people will get together and talk a lot.