[7 Jars of Beautiful Essays] Celebrating the New Year with Great Prosperity
The sound of firecrackers bids farewell to the old year, and the New Year is celebrated with prosperity and prosperity.
In China, there is nothing more delightful and ecstatic than celebrating the New Year.
\ Throughout the year, China's traditional festivals come one after another—Qingming, Duanyang, Mid-Autumn, Double Ninth, and so on. Only the enduring Spring Festival stands out as the most prominent, hence the folk name "Celebrating the New Year": the warm night at the turn of the New Year is called "Chinese New Year's Eve"; the first day of the lunar new year is called "Lunar New Year's Day"; visiting relatives and friends to send blessings is called "Paying New Year"; and the lively celebration on the fifteenth day is called "New Year's Fifteenth." This shows that the ways to celebrate the New Year in China are rich and colorful, with long-standing customs.
In Chinese folk tradition, the "New Year" actually begins on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. By the end of the year, it is commonly called "Little New Year." After eating Laba porridge, everyone is busy without rest: cleaning rooms, washing bed sheets, sending the kitchen master to heaven; Preparing New Year goods, pasting couplets, buying everything inside and out. The thirtieth day of the twelfth lunar month marks the end of the year; every household busily steams dumplings and cooks New Year's meals to welcome the New Year, families gather together to reminisce and watch TV all night, giving a new concept to family vigilance. On the first day of the Lunar New Year, people visit relatives and friends to send blessings, and with the warmth of festivities, they raise their glasses and drink fragrant wine. People are completely intoxicated and enchanted, savoring the sweetness of life in the festive atmosphere of the New Year!
The most joyful part of celebrating the New Year is "festivities." Celebrating the New Year, celebrating Shehuo, celebrating lanterns, especially the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, which symbolizes completeness, is called "Lantern Festival celebration," bringing the celebration of the New Year to its climax. It is not until the "Great Spring Ox" that the farmers' encouragement brings a perfect conclusion to the New Year.
In the New Year, which is deeply rooted in the deep consciousness of Chinese cultural tradition, people celebrate prosperity year after year, exchange auspicious New Year greetings, and maintain the bonds between countless Chinese families, blending into the inseparable cohesion of the descendants of Yan and Huang for thousands of years.
\ Celebrate the New Year, celebrate the New Year! Bright red firecrackers go off, bright red lanterns hang, red 'Fu' characters are pasted up, and bright red China becomes prosperous.
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