In daily study, work or life, it is inevitable for everyone to come into contact with compositions. Compositions must focus on the theme and make in-depth explanations around the same theme. Avoid rambling, scattered topics or even no theme. . I believe that many friends are very troubled by writing essays. The following is a collection of essays on New Year's customs (selected 12) that I have collected. You are welcome to share them. New Year Customs Composition 1
In my hometown, at the end of every year, every household has to offer sacrifices to gods.
The day before worshiping the gods, dusting (cleaning) is carried out. Everyone cleans every corner of the house together, including tables, chairs, and stoves, which means: to sweep away the evil spirits of this year and welcome the arrival of the New Year. Then buy chicken and meat from the street and cook them in a big pot. In the early morning of the next day, the adults got up early, put on new clothes and styled their hair in fashionable styles. Three generations of grandparents (or two generations of father and son) carry out the Eight Immortals table from the house and face it to the door, which means to block all good luck.
There are large pieces of meat on the table, weighing seven or eight kilograms; a whole chicken with three green onions in its mouth, which means health and intelligence; two large carp, which means there will be more than enough every year. Their placement is also very particular: the carp's head is facing inward, which means that the fish is coming in, and the chicken's head is facing out, which means that everyone is healthy and smart. There are also rice cakes and apples on display. Rice cakes represent prosperity every year, and apples represent peace and security. All the food is covered with a small piece of red paper, which means prosperity in the coming year. I heard from the old people: All the food for worshiping gods cannot be put in ten kinds, but generally eight to nine kinds are put in it. Because "ten" means perfect, and a perfect life will have no goal to pursue in life. It seems that worshiping gods also contains profound philosophy of life.
In Lu Xun's work "Blessing", there is also a similar ritual of worshiping gods. If Mr. Lu Xun could live to this day, he would definitely sigh: cheering for the liberation of women. Because in the current custom of worshiping gods in my hometown, men and women have the same status, and they can worship gods together with their ancestors and fathers. Of course, this change in customs only appeared after the practice of allowing a couple to have only one child.
I heard from my mother that this custom of worshiping gods was banned for more than ten years in the era when the Four Olds were destroyed. Now, people’s living standards have improved, people’s cultural literacy has improved, and computers have also entered farmhouses. . Farmers worshiping gods is not a foolish superstition, it is a manifestation of New Year culture. It expresses people's love for life and hope for life.
It is unknown when the New Year worship to gods originated in the long history. Its form is changing, but its core culture will never change. The pursuit of a better life is the common wish of people. New Year Customs Composition 2
"Twenty-three, sticky melons, twenty-four, write the word "blessing", twenty-five, sweep the dust, twenty-six, eat bacon, twenty-seven, stew a chicken, Twenty-eight, make your hair dry, twenty-nine, prepare a jar of wine, stay up all night at thirty, twist and turn on New Year's Day." This nursery rhyme has been widely circulated since the Ming Dynasty, and it made me understand. Ancestors’ New Year customs.
According to legend, there is a monster called "Nian" that comes to cause harm to the world every New Year's Eve. An immortal taught people to put red paper on their doors and set off firecrackers, which finally scared away the "Nian" beast. From then on, every New Year's Eve, people would post red couplets on their doors and set off firecrackers; every house would be brightly lit with candles to wait for the new year; early in the morning of the first lunar month, people who had avoided the "Nian" beast would visit relatives and friends one after another , Daoxi said hello. This custom has been passed down to this day.
The customs of the Spring Festival began in the Shang Dynasty. After more than three thousand years of evolution, there are many interesting customs and etiquette. My favorite thing is to worship the Kitchen God. You can eat sweet maltose, drink Laba porridge, and receive red envelopes.
On New Year’s Eve, my mother personally cooked the New Year’s Eve dinner. The smell of chicken, mutton, and fried fish filled the room...it smelled so good! It's really "the saliva is flying down three thousand feet, and it is suspected that a god has descended to the world."
While my mother was busy in the kitchen, I was also busy in the living room - sweeping the floor, wiping the table, collecting shoes, and taking out the trash.
There are customs here - "sweeping the floor and wiping the table" is to celebrate the New Year cleanly; "collecting shoes" - is not to let the "evil spirits of the old year" block the "new year" "To bring wealth, blessing, joy, and good luck." Taking out the trash is to throw away all the bad luck and bad luck of the old year. Everyone in our family took out the trash, hoping that the whole family will have good luck in the new year.
There is another important New Year custom - during the Chinese New Year, every household must display beautifully packaged pastries and candies. "Sugar" means that in the new year, life at home will be sweeter than honey. New Year Composition 3
The crackling sound woke me up from my sleep. Before I could open my eyes, the little girl sleeping next to me was like a lion dancer, standing up with the quilt on her back, It seems to have been premeditated. She shouted: "It's the New Year, it's the New Year...". It adds another color to the home that is already full of Chinese New Year atmosphere! I was infected by her and pushed the pillow to show my joy. With this push, two big bulging red envelopes came out. I couldn't wait to open the red envelope, took out the money, and counted it, wow! A full 600 yuan.
After counting the red tickets, my mother got me another pair of red socks. I was just about to ask my mother why she wore red socks, but my mother seemed to have figured out what I was thinking, and said: "This year you are celebrating your birth year, wear red socks to ward off evil spirits!" "How can it be so suspenseful?" "Just put it on. .
"I suddenly discovered that there was a yellow little person on the bottom of the sock. Next to him was written "Step on the little person." I understand this. It means stepping on the little person under your feet to prevent him from hurting you.
< p> Time flies, and in the evening, our family puts on new clothes and goes to grandpa's house. When we arrive at grandpa's house, we see several cars parked in front of the house. They are probably all visiting my mother's house. Of course it’s indispensable.The adults were making dumplings. The children wanted to help, but they were stopped by the adults. The reason was: we were too noisy. Although we were making dumplings, we were afraid that we would end up making dumplings as stuffing.
It’s time for the New Year’s Eve dinner. The whole family is sitting around the table, waiting for the steaming plates of dumplings to be served. We children all stand up. I stood up and looked for the bulging dumplings, because there might be money in them. I took a bite and felt that there was something hard inside. I picked it out with paper. The shining dime is only a dime, but it still has a good meaning.
Having New Year's Eve dinner has become the most exciting moment for us children, and we can exchange a few good words for two or three. One hundred dollars, really worth it!
In the modern era, electronic products and the Internet have replaced many things in our lives, but the traditional customs of our motherland will always have an irreplaceable place in our hearts! Composition 4
Every place has its own New Year customs, and my hometown is no exception! Although it is similar to other places, I like it very much.
We have one. What’s an interesting custom: We have a reunion dinner with big fish and meat on New Year’s Eve, but on New Year’s Day we can only eat vegetarian food. I asked my mother many times, “Why? ""Why? "My mother would only reply: "How do I know why? It's just been passed down! "We still have many customs, let me tell you one by one!
During the Chinese New Year, we will do something that is done everywhere - set off fireworks. What we set off is not ordinary. They are specially customized fireworks. A few days before the New Year, we will go to my uncle’s house to order fireworks and ask him to engrave them on the fireworks, because there is a legend: “In the past, God had to do many things every day. , you can’t rest until the New Year, but let’s have New Year’s resolutions! If God can’t hear our New Year’s resolutions, how can we fulfill them? So, people came up with a way to wake up God with fireworks. But what's the use of waking him up? God doesn’t know our New Year’s resolutions. People came up with another way - to engrave words on the fireworks so that God will see them. "Although the custom-made fireworks are no different from other fireworks when they are put up, I heard that wishes are upward, and only God can see them. There is also a saying in Europe that if you let others see your wishes, you will It doesn’t work anymore! How about it? Isn’t it interesting?
We also eat rice cakes made by ourselves during the New Year, because rice cakes mean "sticky" and I heard that only children eat them. The rice cakes will grow taller and taller in the new year! Every New Year, what I want to eat most is rice cakes. They are fragrant, sweet and delicious. In my hometown, there are many children. The first time I ate rice cakes with my friends, I felt an inexplicable sense of excitement. Maybe it’s because the rice cakes are so delicious!
In our hometown, newly married couples eat something called rice cakes. "Gui Zi" purple steamed buns ("Gui Zi" is the name we gave it there.) You have to watch the fireworks while eating them! And the fireworks have to be set off in the morning. You may want to ask, what to do in the morning? , it doesn’t look good in the morning, but it looks good in the evening. Actually, you are wrong, because there are only four words to describe "having a child early" ("rising Guizi early"), isn't it interesting? p>
We still have the custom of posting couplets during the Chinese New Year! In my hometown, the most literary old man in the family has to write them. After writing, he has to add the decorations himself. The decorations are usually painted by children. I am no exception. Every time I draw, my hands shake with excitement and I never draw well, but the adults keep saying, "What a great drawing! What a great drawing!" ". Adults think it looks good, but I don't think so at all. I think my paintings are ugly. Just like monsters. Although I keep failing, I still like the custom of posting couplets!
< p>The red couplets, the cheerful door gods, the hot reunion dinner, and the happy family portraits... symbolize: "The new year is here again!" " New Year's Customs Composition 5Red couplets, cheerful door gods, hot reunion dinners, happy family portraits... People have just passed through the long winter of ice and snow that only happens once in ten years. I have long been looking forward to the arrival of spring. Spring is the most important day among the three hundred and sixty-five days, and it also contains many long-standing ancient cultures of the Chinese nation.
There are many annual customs during the Spring Festival: hanging and posting Spring Festival couplets. , pasting New Year pictures, cutting window grilles, setting off firecrackers... Why is the word "福" posted upside down? What story does it contain? With questions, I ran to ask my grandma, and she told me: The origin of the custom of pasting "福" upside down. In the Qing Dynasty, he went to Gongxin Palace.
On the eve of the Spring Festival, in order to please Prince Gong, the housekeeper wrote many words "福" and asked people to paste them on the doors of the warehouse and the palace. One family member mistakenly posted the word "福" on the door because he was illiterate. Pasted upside down. For this reason, Prince Gong was very angry. The chief steward explained: "Prince Gong has a long life, great fortune, and great fortune. Now, the great fortune has really arrived (falling), which is a sign of good luck." After hearing this, Prince Gong thought to himself: Say the auspicious words a thousand times, and the gold and silver will increase by thousands. Therefore, he was very happy and rewarded the chief steward and his family heavily. Afterwards, the custom of inverting the word "福" spread from high-ranking officials to common people in each family.
Therefore, the custom of pasting the word "福" upside down has been passed down.
After listening to grandma’s story, I realized that New Year customs are also very interesting! New Year's Customs Composition 6
"Congratulations on getting rich, bring me the red envelope." Whenever people say this, it heralds the coming of the New Year. In mid-December, preparations for the New Year begin in full swing.
The first and biggest activity is to kill the New Year pig. Although living standards have improved, pork still accounts for the largest proportion of dishes on the New Year’s Eve table. Bacon is also a must-cook in every household. Pig blood meatballs are a major feature of our Shaoyang restaurant. These raw materials are all in pigs that have been raised for more than half a year. Every year before New Year's Eve, butchers are the busiest and every household needs their help. Usually on this day we invite relatives and friends to have dinner together and have a lively time together before the Chinese New Year. When I was a kid, I loved taking turns eating at relatives' houses like this. The atmosphere was warm and happy.
In addition to the New Year’s Eve dinner, another highlight of the New Year is New Year greetings. On our first day of the Lunar New Year, we can't go around to pay New Year greetings. Another thing is not to spend money on this day. It is said that if you spend money on the first day of the new year, it will be difficult to make money this year. For children, New Year greetings mean more New Year's money in the piggy bank. I just hope that relatives and friends will come more "violently"! Some places in our area will give gifts in return to relatives who pay New Year greetings. For example, pull a strip of red cloth and add an apple. The red cloth strip means that this year is prosperous, and the apple is the "spokesperson" of peace.
In addition to these annual customs, let’s introduce a special dish of our Shaoyang—pork blood meatballs. As the name suggests, pig blood balls are made from pig blood, tofu, and minced pork, and then dried over charcoal fire. Even though it's dark, it tastes really good. In addition to cured meat
This is also a must-have for every household.
As I grow older, the customs of celebrating the New Year have not changed, but I always feel that the flavor of the New Year is getting weaker and weaker. The environment has not changed, but there are fewer people around me, and the mentality has changed as well. New Year's Customs Composition 7
My hometown is Suixi County, Zhanjiang City, Guangdong Province. This year, my parents and I returned to my hometown where we had been away for three years to celebrate the New Year. What are the New Year customs in my hometown? Let me introduce you one by one.
Every household has to make rice cakes and cakes by themselves on the 28th and 29th of the New Year. Both rice cakes and cakes are made of glutinous rice flour, but the rice cakes have no fillings, while the cakes have much richer fillings, including sesame, peanuts, shredded coconut and sugar. They taste sweet and delicious. My mother told me that it heralds a new year. Life is sweet every year, and the rice cakes mean that everyone’s work and life are improving year by year.
On the morning of New Year’s Eve, every household will kill chickens to worship gods. At noon, the family gathered together for a reunion dinner. After the meal, they began to post Spring Festival couplets on the door gods. The red Spring Festival couplets were so beautiful. I found a handful of carrots with leaves at home. After asking my father, I realized that they symbolized prosperous days. After dinner, the children take a bath and put on new clothes, the adults give out lucky money to the children, the children set off fireworks, and the adults chat until twelve o'clock, every household firecrackers go off to welcome the new year.
In the sound of firecrackers, the first day of the New Year is ushered in. Have a vegetarian breakfast and then visit a neighbor's house. From the second day to the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, we visit relatives to pay New Year greetings. The most lively event is the Wandering God activity on the 17th day of the first lunar month after the Lantern Festival. Even people who go out on that day will rush back to participate. The "god" is carried by a young man in a sedan chair and parades from house to house. At each house everyone comes out to worship, asking the god to bless the whole family in safety and success.
This is the New Year custom in my hometown. Classmates, what are the New Year customs in your hometown? Come and share with me. New Year's Customs Composition 8
The air is filled with the smell of the New Year. The New Year brings joyous gatherings, and joyful gatherings bring laughter. My hometown is Chenggu. Although I grew up in Chenggu, I am no stranger to the Spring Festival in my hometown of Chenggu.
The New Year in Shaanxi Province is divided into the small year and the small year. December 24 of the lunar calendar is the small year and New Year's Eve is the big year. On New Year's Eve, adults give red envelopes to children to express good luck and good luck. However, the weight of Chenggu and Jiangxi is very different. In Chenggu, most red envelopes are 5 yuan or 10 yuan. In Jiangxi, a red envelope costs at least 12 yuan and a maximum of several hundred yuan, with the most common being 102 yuan. Whole money plus change means there will be more than enough every year.
On New Year’s Eve, everyone will eat meat dishes, chicken, duck, pig, fish, etc. However, on the first day of the Lunar New Year, everyone has to eat vegetarian food and not eat meat. In Chenggu, during the Spring Festival, everyone usually has meat and vegetables, and there are no clear regulations. On the first day of the first lunar month in my hometown, you cannot wash your hair, wash your clothes, or sweep the floor, because people think that washing will wash away wealth, and sweeping will sweep away wealth.
I still remember that on the first day of the Lunar New Year, I went to my grandma’s house to pay New Year’s greetings wearing a new red dress.
"Grandma! Happy New Year!" I shouted as soon as I entered the door. The room is very neat and clean. Grandma came to greet us and was very happy to see us and said, "Okay! So good!" The wrinkles on Grandma's face stretched out, like a beautiful chrysanthemum. Grandma was wearing a faded red coat and black trousers, and her white teeth were very conspicuous. I just thought: Does grandma have no money? "Here!" Grandma took out a red envelope from her pocket and gave it to me. The mother quickly said: "No, Mom!" "It's okay! It's for the child!" In the end, the parents failed to stop the "powerful" grandma. I was overjoyed: "Thank you, grandma!" Grandma was also very happy. The sound of firecrackers outside kept ringing, like the laughter of the Spring Festival. New Year's Customs Composition 9
There are so many New Year's customs in rural areas. Today is the 30th of the New Year. Since the morning, I have followed my uncle and grandpa to enjoy all the interesting New Year's customs, including worshiping ancestors, posting couplets, and window grilles. , grave sweeping, the most interesting thing is stamping on the ashes in the middle of the night.
I heard from my grandpa that when the New Year’s bell is about to ring on the evening of the 30th in my hometown, I have to stomp on the ashes everywhere at home and outside. The ash mound is actually a coarse cloth bag filled with lime. There is a rope on both sides of the bag. As long as the bag is knocked on the ground with the rope, there will be a round lime mark on the ground. This is the ash mound. I'm curious why you stamp on the ash mound? My uncle told me that there is an ancient legend that at midnight on New Year's Eve, a monster will pass by every house. This monster never looks back and will never go back to any place it has passed.
In order to ward off evil spirits, everyone stomps on ash mounds one by one outside their homes. Monsters have poor eyesight and will think that the ash mounds are their own footprints when they see them, and they will never go to this place again. . Therefore, this custom has been passed down. After listening to what my uncle and grandpa said, I suddenly remembered a story in a book I once read. Every year on the night of the 30th, a monster named "Xi" comes out to cause trouble. Is the monster that my uncle and grandpa told about "Xi"... Uncle and grandpa are about to stamp on Huidun, and I want to experience it for myself. Under the "command" of my uncle and grandpa, I started to stomp on the ash mounds. After a "puff...puff..." sound, the yard of my wife's house and in front of the door were covered with ash mounds one after another, even those who went upstairs. There are also neat ash mounds lined up on the stairs...
Later, my grandma told me that there are actually no ghosts in the world, but any New Year's customs are everyone's best wishes for the new year... New Year's customs Composition 10
The old year is about to pass, and we will usher in 2021. Our New Year customs here include making wontons, making dumplings, posting Spring Festival couplets during the New Year’s Eve dinner, etc.
You see, my grandma and grandma were in the kitchen early in the morning preparing the ingredients for making dumplings and wontons. The fillings include shredded radish meat, bean paste filling, and green vegetable and meat fillings. Finally we started to make wontons. We took out the vegetable and meat fillings that we had prepared in advance, put the fillings in the middle of the wrapper, folded the wrapper in half and wrapped it around again, dipped some water on the wrapper with our fingers, and stuck the two corners on the wrapper. Together, such a wonton is wrapped. After everyone's concerted efforts, the wonton is quickly wrapped. At noon, we made a big pot of wontons, the fruits of our own labor, and shared them with everyone. I filled a big bowl and started to wolf it down. Wow, it was so delicious!
Next, we started making dumplings. Green dumplings are made of green lettuce and glutinous rice flour, and are filled with bean paste. This is my favorite. The white dumplings are stuffed with vegetables and meat and shredded radish. In the afternoon, the dumplings started to be steamed. They were put into the steamer one by one. After 20 minutes of steaming, they turned into a delicious dish with shiny skin. After it was out of the pot, I couldn't wait to eat another green dumpling. Wow, So hot!
Let’s talk about the New Year’s Eve dinner and posting Spring Festival couplets. New Year’s Eve is a day for family reunion. We happily eat delicious meals together and everyone raises glasses at the dining table to share. After the New Year’s Eve dinner, we started to put up Spring Festival couplets. We first tore off last year’s couplets, and then used double-sided tape to stick the new ones on the door. At this time, it felt like the facade had a completely new look.
After dinner, we can also set off fireworks and firecrackers. Colorful fireworks bloom in the sky, lighting up the entire sky. The whole city is enveloped in this happy atmosphere, and finally enjoy the Spring Festival Gala. . New Year's Customs Composition 11
"Happy New Year, Happy New Year, I wish you all a Happy New Year..." Amidst people's laughter and laughter, the New Year old man came quietly to us.
The Chinese New Year is coming soon, and adults are very busy. Mom is busy preparing New Year's Eve dinner, dad is pasting Spring Festival couplets, grandma is pasting the word "福"...
In fact, whether it is writing Spring Festival couplets or pasting Spring Festival couplets; whether it is making New Year's Eve dinner or visiting temple fairs, these Saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new in various ways is a unique custom in my country, commonly known as "New Year's customs".
Today, I will introduce to you my favorite New Year custom-writing Spring Festival couplets!
Spring couplets are also called "spring posts" and "door pairs". It has upper and lower couplets, as well as horizontal batches. Traditional Spring Festival couplets are written on red paper with a brush. It has the meaning of good luck and warding off evil spirits. Every Spring Festival, every household, whether in the city or in the countryside, selects a large red couplet and hangs it on the door to increase the festive atmosphere. This is a unique literary form in China.
Since I started learning calligraphy in the first grade of elementary school, writing Spring Festival couplets has become a required course for me every Spring Festival.
In the process of writing Spring Festival couplets, I also deepened my understanding of "Spring Festival couplets" - sending different Spring Festival couplets to different people.
For example, I gave my grandma and grandpa this Spring Festival couplet, "The rain is good and the wind is making the horses strong and people are happy, the moon is full, the flowers are good, the birds are flying and the fish are leaping", and the horizontal scroll is "New Year's Peace". I wish them health and longevity; what I wrote to my aunt was "Peace, wealth, prosperity, good luck and good fortune" and "Prosperity" horizontally. I hope they have a successful career and lots of money.
I write carefully one by one, so that every stroke on the Spring Festival couplets carries my blessings, my joy, and my gratitude, and is posted on the New Year's door of my relatives... New Year's Customs Composition 12
Northeastern people pay attention to lively and festive New Year celebrations, and there are many New Year customs.
Eating dumplings during the Chinese New Year is a custom in many places. But in the Northeast, eating dumplings during the Chinese New Year is more particular than in other places. On New Year's Eve, the whole family stays up together to bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new year. Of course, they must eat dumplings. When eating dumplings this time, one or two dumplings must be filled with copper coins (nowadays, they are usually replaced by coins). Anyone who eats dumplings with copper coins must be very happy even if their teeth are broken. Because eating dumplings wrapped with copper coins means good luck in the new year. Dumplings are also eaten on the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, which is commonly known as "Po Wu" in Northeast China. When eating, it is important to bite the dumplings into pieces, which means that all unlucky things will be destroyed.
During the Chinese New Year, dumplings can be eaten in many places, but frozen pears are not available in ordinary places. Eating a frozen pear after New Year's Eve dinner is a unique custom in Northeast China. Because the Northeast is very cold in winter, fruits will freeze in their natural state. Some fruits are more delicious after being frozen, such as frozen pears. Usually we eat frozen pears after the New Year's Eve dinner. Frozen pears taste sweet, which not only quenches thirst, but also relieves greasiness. Especially those old and young men who have drunk too much wine can't get enough of frozen pears. Eat it, if you like it, you will definitely eat it until you can’t eat anymore. Who told us that the Northeast is a natural refrigerator?
Don’t think that the customs of us Northeasterners are only related to eating. We have many more things to pay attention to. Not cutting your hair during the first month is one of them. In the Northeast, it is said that if anyone cuts his hair during the first month, his uncle will be harmed (meaning it will be bad for someone, a superstitious saying), so people in the Northeast will not cut their hair during the first month. Almost all barber shops are closed during the first month of the year.
There are many traditions during the New Year in Northeast China. If you are interested, come and see for yourself!