I have been away from home for many years, and I don't go home many times a year, so the Spring Festival is even more precious. Although some things are different from before, my family is still full of flavor. I can share with you how my family lived. My home is a city in northern Jiangsu, and the Spring Festival has always followed a timetable that has remained unchanged for almost ten thousand years, as well as some Spring Festival food that will always appear. This is also a sense of ritual for the New Year.

before the 29th of the year: prepare new year's goods, pay new year's greetings to relatives and get a good haircut, because you can't get a haircut from the beginning of the first day to the 15th of the first month. In addition to those on the dinner table, every year, my aunts will buy new year snacks for each family-the old eight kinds (honey three knives, croissants, hemp chips, crispy strips, glutinous rice strips, golden cakes, peanut candy, hawthorn cakes)+fried hemp leaves+fried meatballs+children's crisp candy.

Old Eight Kinds

Fried hemp leaves

Fried meatballs

Crispy candy for children

Twenty-ninth and Thirty Years: cleaning up, buying New Year snacks, posting Spring Festival couplets, eating New Year's Eve, watching the Spring Festival Gala and setting off firecrackers in the early morning; Also, grabbing red envelopes on New Year's Eve. My family's Spring Festival couplets and blessings have always been written by myself, and occasionally I ask my friends who are professional calligraphers to help me write blessings. Although my level is average, I am full of achievements, and I feel that this is the beginning of the New Year.

You can make full use of your own writing. I plan to try Chinese and English this year, haha ~~

My early works haha ~ I will see this masterpiece every time I go to grandma's house?

PS: Thanks to the update of WeChat, I can turn to the pictures so many years ago ...

On the first day of New Year's Day, my mother would drag me and my father to the temple to burn incense and pray early in the morning, and then go home to pack meat in jiaozi and have dinner with my parents, grandparents;

incense is strong

? On the second day of the lunar new year, my aunts went home. On this day, jiaozi ate vegetarian stuffing and had a big reunion dinner together. The entertainment was playing cards. My family basically eats at home during the Spring Festival. Instead, they usually go to restaurants. My family has always agreed that only eating at home can be regarded as Chinese New Year.

Every year, during the Spring Festival, there will be various activities in the city, such as B&B Culture Festival, Lantern Festival and Plum Appreciation Festival ... There is a strong flavor of the New Year everywhere. Apart from New Year's Eve and entertainment, the family will certainly find several activities to enjoy the atmosphere of the New Year. Now, they will also visit neighboring cities to find the flavor of the New Year.