1. After twenty-three, everyone is busier and the New Year is coming. Before New Year's Eve, every household should put up Spring Festival couplets and have a general cleaning, which is called general cleaning.
We must prepare enough meat, chicken, fish, vegetables and rice cakes for at least a week-according to the old custom, most shopkeepers close their doors in Wutian Gate until the sixth day of the first month. If you don't prepare food for the next few days, it's not easy to make up temporarily.
2. New Year's Eve is really lively. Every family is scrambling to make new year's dishes, and there is wine and meat everywhere. Men, women and children all put on new clothes, put up red couplets outside the door, and put up various New Year pictures in the house. All the houses were lit all night, and guns were fired day and night. People who work outside will go home for a family reunion dinner and worship their ancestors unless they have to.
That night, no one slept except very young children, but everyone stayed up late.
The scene of New Year's Day is completely different from that of New Year's Eve: on New Year's Eve, the street was crowded with people; On the first day of New Year's Day, all the shops put up wooden boards, and the firecrackers set off last night were piled in front of the door, and the whole city was resting.
The Spring Festival is the grandest and most lively ancient traditional festival in China. Different regions and nationalities have their own unique customs when celebrating the Spring Festival.
The author of this paper, Mr. Lao She, a famous language master, described the folk customs of the Spring Festival in Beijing with his elegant style and Beijing-style language, showed the warmth and beauty of China's holiday customs, and expressed his recognition and love for traditional culture.