1 Holiday Life

Now it is officially the Eleventh Golden Week that I have been looking forward to for a long time. Originally, in my imagination, it would be a joyous holiday. After all, I haven't slept in since the beginning of school. I will have a good addiction in these precious 7 days. Maybe god has eyes, maybe it is a godsend, and the homework assigned by the teacher is very few, simple and simple. I have eliminated all my homework on National Day, and it is so easy. After a few days, because there is no travel arrangement, I will have a good time even here in Shaowu, a native of Shaowu. However, imagination is far from reality ... I still can't change the habit of getting up early in the morning. After breakfast, I sat alone on the sofa and watched TV. But TV is not interesting at all, just like tasteless water, which is annoying. I turned off the TV with anger and wanted to eat it in one gulp. Unconsciously, I walked into the study. I habitually open the bookcase. In the dust, that neat old book exhibition appeared in front of my eyes. I took a cigarette at random, and a copy of "111,111 Why" was a lucky one, waiting for me to acquire knowledge. However, I don't care about campus literature and novels, which I like and yearn for on weekdays. I turned off the bookcase in great boredom. I looked everywhere for something I could play with, but nothing could meet my needs. God! I sighed. This holiday is so unlucky and boring! There are still several days left. How can I endure it? I covered my face with my hands helplessly, and my mind went blank. Looking at the locked computer box, my heart is cold. I lay on the cold floor. Although this floor is my good friend on weekdays, because it can bring me a calm mood. But from today's point of view, this floor is also boring, so rigid, without a trace of tenderness. I looked up at the old clock on the wall, and the ticking made me feel like a year. My heart feels particularly stuffy and I can't wait to vent. What can I vent on? ! I picked up the phone to play with my friends. But there was either a hateful "beep" on the other end of the phone or the news that my friend had gone to travel. I hate it, why is the teacher's homework so little and why is my holiday so boring? I am eager to go back to that laughing campus; I am eager to go back to that classroom where books sound loud; I am eager to meet those intimate and friendly friends; I am eager to carry that heavy schoolbag again ... Although school days are hard and tiring, at least, it is full. I stuck out my tongue and closed my eyes ...

2 Talking about clothes

Every year, my parents always buy me some clothes in different seasons. Looking at the dazzling array of clothes in the cupboard, I suddenly thought: my grandparents and parents were not as good as they are now. I wonder what kind of clothes they used to wear? Is it so comfortable and beautiful?

with these questions, I took out a large stack of photos. Turning it over, a 4-inch black and white photo caught my attention. This is a photo of the whole family. The grandmother in the photo is in her early forties, wearing a silver-gray tweed suit with a black round neck sweater and a white dacron shirt, and the collar of the white shirt is turned over on the sweater. Grandpa stood at the back, like grandma, wearing a black vest with a white shirt and a tie neatly. Grandpa looks young and fashionable. It seems that it was very popular to wear white shirts at that time. I found that my uncle and menstruation were all wearing white shirts, one inside and one outside. My mother told me that the clothes of a large family in the photo were basically made by my grandmother herself or someone else. Because of the photo shoot, the whole family put on their best clothes.

while listening to my mother's story about the past, I continued to turn over the photos. After a while, I found a handsome young man, that's my father! Look, my father had a small part at that time, and he looked a little shy. He was toasting his colleagues! My father wears knitted long sleeves, and his colleagues all wear knitted T-shirts, which look very energetic. I heard that pants are all made of polyester fabric. Although it's not as comfortable as cotton cloth, it's very crisp to wear after ironing. There was little cotton cloth at that time. Hey, what are my father and uncle wearing around their waists? My mother told me that it was called a bp machine, and now it has been replaced by a more convenient mobile phone. I see!

Then, I continued to scroll down, and a photo of me and my classmates appeared in front of me after watching the puppet show. You see, we are wearing colorful T-shirts and dresses, and the fabrics are all cotton, which are beautiful, generous and comfortable. We are all filled with happy smiles, just like butterflies dancing in a big garden.

Our life now is really different from before. A photo reflects the material level of an era. The development of high technology is rapidly changing our lives. As time goes by, we should cherish time, be the master of time, study hard at school, make greater contributions to the construction of the motherland when we grow up, live a better life and take more wonderful photos!

3 "Customs I Know"

The Spring Festival is an ancient festival in China, and it is also the most important festival in the whole year. How to celebrate this festival has formed some relatively fixed customs and habits in thousands of years of historical development, and many of them are still passed down to this day.

Sweep the dust

"Sweep the dust and sweep the house on the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month". According to Lu Chunqiu, China had the custom of sweeping the dust in the Spring Festival in the Yao and Shun era. According to the folk saying: Because of the homonym of "dust" and "Chen", sweeping dust in the Spring Festival has the meaning of "except Chen Buxin", and its intention is to sweep away all bad luck and bad luck. This custom is entrusted with people's desire to break through the old and establish the new and their prayer to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new. Whenever the Spring Festival comes, every household should clean the environment, clean all kinds of appliances, tear down and wash bedding curtains, sweep the six yards, dust cobwebs and dredge open channels and culverts. Everywhere is filled with the joyful atmosphere of engaging in sanitation and welcoming the Spring Festival cleanly.

posting Spring Festival couplets

Spring Festival couplets are also called door couplets, spring stickers, couplets, couplets, peach symbols, etc. They depict the background of the times and express good wishes with neat, dual, concise and exquisite words, which is a unique literary form in China. Every Spring Festival, no matter in urban or rural areas, every household should select a red Spring Festival couplets and stick them on the door to add festive atmosphere to the festival. This custom began in the Song Dynasty and became popular in the Ming Dynasty. By the Qing Dynasty, the ideology and artistry of Spring Festival couplets had been greatly improved. Liang Zhangju's monograph "Poems on Spring Festival couplets" discussed the origin of couplets and the characteristics of various works.

There are many kinds of Spring Festival couplets, which can be divided into door hearts, frame pairs, horizontal stripes, spring strips and square fights according to their usage places. The "door core" is attached to the center of the upper end of the door panel; The "frame pair" is attached to the left and right door frames; "Cross-dressing" is attached to the crossbar of the door; "Spring strips" are posted in corresponding places according to different contents; "Dou Jin", also called "door leaf", is a square diamond, which is often attached to furniture and screen walls.

stick grilles and the word "Fu" upside down

In the folk, people also like to stick various paper-cuts on the windows-window grilles. Window grilles not only set off the festive atmosphere, but also integrate decoration, appreciation and practicality. Paper-cutting is a very popular folk art in China, which has been loved by people for thousands of years. Because it is mostly stuck on the window, it is also called "window flower". With its unique generalization and exaggeration, window grilles show auspicious things and good wishes incisively and vividly, and decorate the festival with splendor.

At the same time of putting up Spring Festival couplets, some families should put large and small "Fu" characters on the doors, walls and lintels. Sticking the word "Fu" in the Spring Festival is a long-standing folk custom in China. The word "Fu" refers to good fortune and good fortune, which places people's longing for a happy life and wishes for a bright future. In order to fully reflect this yearning and wish, some people simply paste the word "fu" upside down, indicating that "happiness has arrived" and "blessing has arrived". There are also people who elaborate the word "Fu" into various patterns, such as longevity, longevity peach, carp jumping over the dragon gate, abundant grains, dragons and phoenixes, and so on.

New Year pictures

Hanging New Year pictures during the Spring Festival is also very common in urban and rural areas. The thick black and colorful New Year pictures add a lot of prosperous and happy festive atmosphere to thousands of families. New Year pictures are an ancient folk art in China, reflecting people's simple customs and beliefs and pinning their hopes for the future. New Year pictures, like Spring Festival couplets, originated from "door gods". With the rise of woodblock printing, the content of New Year pictures is not limited to monotonous themes such as door gods, but has become rich and colorful. In some New Year pictures workshops, classic color New Year pictures such as Three Stars of Fu Lushou, heavenly god blesses the people, Harvest of Five Grains, Prosperity of Six Livestock, and Greeting the Spring with Happiness have been produced to meet people's good wishes of celebrating and praying for the New Year. There are three important producing areas of New Year pictures in China: Taohuawu in Suzhou, Yangliuqing in Tianjin and Weifang in Shandong; Three schools of Chinese New Year pictures have been formed, each with its own characteristics.

China's earliest collection of New Year pictures in China today is the woodcut New Year pictures of the Southern Song Dynasty, which show four ancient beauties: Wang Zhaojun, Zhao Feiyan, Ban Ji and Lvzhu. The most popular among the people is a New Year picture of Marrying a Mouse. It depicts an interesting scene in which a mouse marries a bride according to human customs. In the early years of the Republic of China, Zheng Mantuo of Shanghai combined the calendar with the New Year pictures. This is a new form of New Year pictures. This new year's picture, which combines two into one, later developed into a calendar and has been popular all over the country.

observing new year's eve

observing new year's eve is one of the most important annual customs, and the custom of observing new year's eve has a long history. The earliest record was found in the "Local Records" in the Western Jin Dynasty: on New Year's Eve, all parties gave gifts, which was called "giving the year back"; Wine and food are invited, which is called "don't be old"; It is called "dividing the age" when the young and the old gather to drink and wish a complete song; Everyone stays up all night, waiting for the morning, which is called "keeping the old age".

"One night is even two years old, and the evening shift is divided into two days". On New Year's Eve, the whole family get together, eat New Year's Eve, light candles or oil lamps, sit around the stove and chat, wait for the time to say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new year, and keep vigil all night, which symbolizes driving away all evil diseases and epidemics and looking forward to good luck and good luck in the new year. This custom gradually became popular. At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin, Emperor Taizong, wrote a poem "Shounian": "Cold resigns from winter snow, and warmth brings spring breeze". To this day, people are used to keeping the new year's eve and welcoming the new year.

In ancient times, observing the old age had two meanings: the old people's observing the old age means "resigning from the old age", which means cherishing time; Young people keep their age to prolong the life of their parents. Since the Han dynasty, the time when the old and the new years alternate is generally at midnight.

Firecrackers

There is a folk saying in China that "open the door to firecrackers". That is, at the arrival of the new year, the first thing for every household to open the door is to set off firecrackers to eliminate the old and welcome the new with the sound of firecrackers. Firecrackers are a specialty of China, also known as "firecrackers", "firecrackers" and "firecrackers". Its origin is very early, and it has a history of more than two thousand years. Setting off firecrackers can create a festive and lively atmosphere, which is a kind of entertainment in festivals and can bring happiness and good luck to people. With the passage of time, the application of firecrackers has become more and more extensive, and the varieties and colors have become more and more numerous. Every major festival and happy event celebration, as well as marriage, building a house, opening a business, etc., firecrackers should be set off to celebrate and make a good luck. At present, Liuyang in Hunan, Foshan and Dongyao in Guangdong, Yichun and Pingxiang in Jiangxi, Wenzhou in Zhejiang and other regions are famous hometown of fireworks in China. The firecrackers produced are of many colors and high quality, which are not only sold well in the whole country, but also exported to the world.

Happy New Year

On the first day of the New Year, people get up early, put on their most beautiful clothes, dress up neatly, go out to visit relatives and friends, and wish each other a happy New Year. There are many ways to pay New Year's greetings, some of which are led by the same clan leader to pay New Year's greetings door to door. Some colleagues invite several people to pay New Year greetings; There are also people who get together to congratulate each other, which is called "group worship". Because it took time and effort to pay a New Year call at home, some elites and scholars later used stickers to congratulate each other, thus developing the later "new year card".

During the Spring Festival, the younger generation should first pay New Year greetings to their elders, wishing them a long and healthy life. The elders can distribute the lucky money prepared in advance to the younger generation. It is said that the lucky money can suppress evil spirits, because "old" and "precious" are homophonic, and the younger generation can spend one year safely with the lucky money. There are two kinds of lucky money, one is to thread colored rope into a dragon shape and put it at the foot of the bed, which is recorded in Yanjing Year; The other is the most common, that is, parents wrap the money distributed to their children in red paper. The lucky money can be given in public after the younger generation pays New Year's greetings, or it can be secretly put under the child's pillow by parents when the child falls asleep on New Year's Eve. It is still popular for elders to distribute lucky money to younger generations.

Spring Festival food customs

In the ancient agricultural society, housewives were busy preparing food for the Spring Festival after the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. Because it takes a long time to marinate preserved meat, it must be prepared as soon as possible. Many provinces in China have the custom of marinating preserved meat, among which Guangdong Province is the most famous preserved meat.

steamed rice cakes, which are homophonic and have varied tastes, have almost become a necessary food for every family. The styles of rice cakes are square yellow and white rice cakes, which symbolize gold and silver and express the meaning of making a fortune in the New Year.

the taste of rice cakes varies from place to place. Beijingers like to eat red date rice cakes, hundred fruit rice cakes and white rice cakes made of glutinous rice or yellow rice. Hebei people like to add jujube, red bean and mung bean to the rice cake and steam it together. In northern Shanxi, in Inner Mongolia and other places, it is customary to eat fried rice cakes with yellow rice flour during the New Year, and some of them are stuffed with bean paste and jujube paste, while Shandong people steam rice cakes with yellow rice and red dates. The rice cakes in the north are mainly sweet, steamed or fried, and some people simply eat them with sugar. The rice cakes in the south are both sweet and salty, such as those in Suzhou and Ningbo, which are made of japonica rice and have a light taste. In addition to steaming and frying, you can also slice and fry or cook soup. Sweet rice cakes are made of glutinous rice flour with white sugar, lard, rose, sweet-scented osmanthus, mint, vegetable paste and other ingredients. They are fine in workmanship and can be steamed directly or fried with egg white.

The night before the real Chinese New Year is called reunion night. Wanderers who are away from home have to come home from Wan Li for thousands of miles. The whole family has to sit around and wrap jiaozi for the Chinese New Year. jiaozi's practice is to make dumpling skins with flour first, and then use leather bags to stuff them. The contents of the stuffing are varied, and all kinds of meat, eggs, seafood and seasonal vegetables can be stuffed. The orthodox jiaozi is cooked in clear water and mixed with vinegar after being fished up. There are also ways to fry jiaozi and bake jiaozi (fried dumpling). Because the word "He" in dough mixing means "He"; Jiaozi's "Jiao" and "Jiao" are homophonic, and "He" and "Jiao" have the meaning of reunion, so jiaozi is used to symbolize reunion of acacia; It is very auspicious to take the meaning of making friends at an older age; In addition, jiaozi, shaped like an ingot, eats jiaozi during the Chinese New Year, which also has the auspicious meaning of "making a fortune". All the families get together to make a package for jiaozi, so it's fun to celebrate the Spring Festival.

4 Talking about Food

When I first went to school, my mother asked me almost every morning what I wanted for lunch. Most of the time, I would say Zhajiang Noodles. Later, my mother rarely asked, so she used to eat Zhajiang Noodles. It was really insatiable. Why is Zhajiang Noodles not tired of eating for a long time? The reason is "exquisite", not only noodles, but also fried sauce, that is, with the change of the seasons, fried sauce can not be the same. Zhajiang Noodles is mom's specialty!

Zhajiang Noodles is a common occurrence, and it's more convenient to listen to my mother. Last Sunday, on a whim, I woke my mother, who was still awake from her sleep, and decided to let her teach me how to be a Zhajiang Noodles. So, we went to the vegetable market to buy condiments for Zhajiang Noodles: lean meat,