Growing up, I never spent the Spring Festival outside. Because of my habit, I never thought that the custom of Chinese New Year in my hometown is actually very interesting. Come to think of it, the Spring Festival in my hometown is quite interesting. My hometown is Meixian County, Guangdong Province. Because it is a mountain city, it is still lush everywhere even in severe winter. The green in my hometown all year round always gives people a feeling of vitality. The Spring Festival in my hometown is very hot, and there are thriving scenes and happy people everywhere. Like green, it gives people the feeling of sunshine. Hometown people have always followed the old customs and attached importance to festivals. From 1 month to1February, there are festivals every month, and each festival has different rules and regulations. However, the Spring Festival is the most important festival. The Spring Festival in my hometown is from the twelfth lunar month to the fifteenth day of the first month, and people are immersed in the happy atmosphere of the Spring Festival. Every year when the twelfth lunar month comes, people start to get busy. Busy eating, busy wearing, busy washing, busy rinsing. Kill chickens, ducks and pigs, and wax these things that will become one of the new year's goods in the first month to entertain guests. At the same time, we should make rice cakes with the word "Fu" printed on them, steam "Fa" cakes with red spices, which means "getting rich", fry "fried piles", brew Hakka Niang wine, brew tofu and so on. Prepare all Chinese New Year food before Chinese New Year. In addition, I think we should prepare new clothes for the whole family, old and young, because the New Year is coming, and the whole family should put on new clothes. Children are the key and need both internal and external training. Adults don't have to change them all, but they have to change into a new coat. All the houses, bedding and clothes should be cleaned to show a new beginning in the new year. On the day before New Year's Eve, all households put up couplets and hung red lanterns. From then on, lanterns can be extinguished during the Lantern Festival, which means exorcising evil spirits and eliminating disasters. On New Year's Eve, burn paper and set off firecrackers in a pious place in the morning, wishing the whole family happiness and well-being in the coming year. After lunch, the whole family will take a bath and put on new clothes. After lunch, the elders will give the unmarried junior lucky money, which means that the elders will live long and the younger generation will grow up healthily. Later, they began to worship their ancestors. After the ancestor worship ceremony, they began to have a reunion dinner on New Year's Eve. Before the sun goes down, they will start to eat New Year's Eve dinner, which means "celebrate the festival early and have a reunion". After dinner, a plate of food will be placed next to the kitchen stove to commemorate the hard work of the kitchen god for a year, which also means that there is no shortage of food and drink for a year. When New Year's Eve comes, all the lights in the room are on all night, which means peace and longevity in the four seasons, and also means "watching". Before the end of New Year's Eve, the house should be cleaned, because it can't be cleaned on New Year's Day, which means "saying goodbye to the old (sweeping) and welcoming the new". On New Year's Eve 12, open the door wide and set off firecrackers in front of the house, which means "receiving the god of wealth". On the first day of the first month, people get up at dawn, because they can't sleep late on this day, otherwise their fields will collapse during spring ploughing, and no one will find out. In short, everyone gets up early. The first thing after getting up is to fire the "opening gun", which means that the door is open. Then, the adults are busy picking up the "chef king" and the children go to pay a New Year call. When adults say "Congratulations on getting rich", the elders happily give their children "benefits", which means to let them grow up healthily. On this day, you can't eat in other people's homes to show that the family is round and round all year round. In the afternoon of this day, the highlight is "Lion Dance to Welcome the New Year". The lion dance team in the village went door to door beating gongs and drums. Every time you go to a house, the lion dancers will dance around the house and bow to the master. At this time, the atmosphere is lively and the courtyard is bright, and the owner will happily send "welfare" to the lion dancer for good luck. Go back to your mother's house on the second day of the first month, go back to your husband's house on the third day of the first month (usually staying at your mother's house for one night), pay homage to everyone on the fourth day of the first month (meaning visiting relatives and friends), stay at home on the fifth day of the first month (you can't go to other people's homes), and eat seven dishes on the seventh day of the first month (each dish represents a meaning, such as: onion: smart, celery: hardworking and so on). ) ... these are the same customs as in your hometown. Lantern Festival is the climax of the Spring Festival on the 15th day of the first month. On that day, all the country lion dance teams went to the town for the Lantern Festival. At night, the moon is bright, colorful lights are bright, gongs and drums are loud, firecrackers are ringing, and people are like a tide. The lion dance competition is the opening program of the Lantern Festival. After the competition, the villagers' representatives will select the top three. As long as there are activities in the county in the future, these award-winning teams are the primary performance teams. "Burning a cigarette rack" is also a necessary activity of the Lantern Festival. People use bamboo poles to support a long dragon made of bamboo sticks. Dragons are equipped with all kinds of fireworks. When the dragon turns around, all the fireworks are lit together, and the fireworks are uniformly ejected to form a dragon. At this time, the flames were blazing, the drums were clanking, and the people were laughing and buzzing. People enjoy themselves and declare their passion and ambition in the drums. As the saying goes: Turn a dragon into a phoenix, and people live ninety-nine. When the fire dragon is lit and turned, it means that the new year will be safe. There are lanterns everywhere except the fire dragon. Under the lanterns, people sit on the floor in a circle, gongs and drums players and cymbals players play enthusiastically, and folk songs are also singing enthusiastically. The light of the fire reddened people's cheeks. The performers were intoxicated, the singers sang passionately, the audience listened attentively, and people's thoughts were drawn by music and folk songs, forgetting the hard work of one year and looking forward to a new and beautiful year. In my hometown, many activities to celebrate the Spring Festival are superstitious. Even if people don't believe it, this custom is still passed down from generation to generation. People in my hometown think this is a tradition, an entertainment, a hope and hope.