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Requesting a composition on "New Year Customs in My Hometown", no less than 500 words, attached: My hometown is in Shaoyang

The Spring Festival is the first day of the Chinese lunar calendar, and it is also the most solemn and lively ancient traditional festival among Chinese people. The custom of Chinese people celebrating the Spring Festival probably evolved from the "December Festival" in the primitive society era. Come. After a year of hard work, the ancient Chinese people used their agricultural and hunting harvests to offer sacrifices to the gods and ancestors at the end of the year and the beginning of the new year to thank nature for its blessings. The Spring Festival is also called "Chinese New Year", commonly known as "Nian". "Nian" is an imaginary animal that brings bad luck to people. When the "year" comes, the trees wither and no grass grows; when the "year" passes, everything grows and flowers are everywhere. On the 30th day of the twelfth lunar month, when the hour hand moves past midnight, the Spring Festival has arrived. According to the Chinese lunar calendar, commonly known as the first day of the new year, traditional celebrations last from New Year's Eve to the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first lunar month. Before the first day of the first lunar month, ancestor worship is performed and dirt is swept away. On the 30th day, there are ceremonies such as posting door gods, couplets, eating dumplings, setting off firecrackers, and "keeping the year old" on New Year's Eve; on the first day of the first lunar month, younger generations pay New Year greetings to their elders, and then go to the homes of relatives and friends to wish them a happy New Year. When relatives and friends meet for the first time, they congratulate each other with words such as "get rich" and "happy New Year". The new son-in-law will visit his parents-in-law's home to pay New Year's greetings, usually on the third day of the Lunar New Year. In addition, in addition to visiting each other's homes to pay New Year's greetings, there are also other festivals in various places. There are customs such as giving lucky money to children, lion dance, dragon lantern play, social fire performance, flower market visit, lantern viewing and other customs. During this period, the city is filled with lanterns and tourists fill the streets. It is an unprecedented event until the Lantern Festival. (The fifteenth day of the first lunar month), the Spring Festival is over.