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Essay 500 on New Year’s customs in Yulin, Guangxi

Yulin people call the Spring Festival "Chinese New Year", or "New Year's Day". This is the biggest, liveliest and grandest festival of the year. In order to celebrate a good year, rural areas are accustomed to serving tea and fruits, burning incense and candles on the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month, sending the Kitchen God to heaven, and praying for a good harvest and safety for people and animals in the new year. After seeing off the Kitchen Lord, people began to clean up and maintain sanitation. Lu Chuan and Bobai Hakka people commonly called it sweeping the dust. Then there are evaporated cakes, pounded glutinous rice cakes, beaten rice cakes, made rice dumplings, made glutinous rice balls, fried rice crackers, and fried rice balls as gifts for entertaining guests during the Spring Festival and visiting relatives. Buy new year's goods, including pigs, chickens, goose, duck, fish, fruits, biscuits, sauces, vinegar and tea, firecrackers and incense, clothes and furniture, everything you need.

New Year’s Eve, also known as New Year’s Eve. On this day, people are busy putting on reds, that is, pasting Spring Festival couplets, pasting door gods, pasting lucky money, and hanging lanterns. In ancient times, the door gods were attached to the left and right sides of the household, with Shen Tu on the left and Yu Lei on the right. After the Tang Dynasty, they were changed to Qin Shubao and Yuchi Jingde. In recent years, some are attached to the God of Wealth to attract wealth. After pasting the Spring Festival couplets on the door gods, people first commemorate the commune and then worship the ancestors. In the past, respecting ancestors was better than respecting gods. People with good family backgrounds believed that they were blessed by their ancestors, while poor people believed that they had bad luck. After worshiping the ancestors, it was time to have the reunion dinner. This meal is particularly sumptuous, with plain-cut chicken, fried pork belly, and Bisui goose becoming must-have dishes. Among Hakka people in Luchuan County, it is customary to kill geese to bid farewell to the New Year. Without geese, it is not considered a New Year. After the reunion dinner, the older middle-aged and elderly people sat in the hall and made daily arrangements. Those who are still alive in the hall are accustomed to staying up until midnight. Then came the earth-shattering sound of firecrackers and fireworks, "the sound of firecrackers marks the end of the year, and the spring breeze brings warmth to Tusu."

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, we enter the climax of celebrating the New Year. Hakka people have a custom in the past New Year: On the first or second day of the new year, every family fights and talks. On the third and fourth day of the year, people come and go. On the fifth and sixth day of the new year, there is wine but no meat. On the seventh or eighth day of the new year, every family holds a porridge bowl. On the tenth day of the new year, it is still the same as before. When I am fifteen or sixteen, I eat the remaining meat, plow and read. On the first day of the Lunar New Year, people get up very early. The first thing they say when they meet is wishing them good fortune, and everyone says auspicious words. After drinking morning tea, people greeted each other and congratulated each other on the New Year. When the younger generation sees their elders, they say congratulations on getting rich and having a long life, and the elders send red envelopes to the younger ones. After worshiping the ancestors, brothers, uncles and nephews, and the whole family eat together and enjoy family happiness. In the past, the family rarely went out at the beginning of the year. The New Year only started on the second day of the new year, with a rooster and a lion, dragon and unicorn dance, and there was an endless stream of people visiting relatives, from relatives to strangers. A child from a rural area in Rong County went to a relative's house with his parents for the first time. He was given a chicken as a gift in exchange for a gift, so that the child would remember this relative from now on. While visiting relatives and friends, various cultural and sports activities are often carried out in urban and rural areas.

Lion dances, dragon dances and unicorn dances, as well as tea picking and Cantonese opera singing to celebrate the New Year, have become a tradition for hundreds of years