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"Thousands of families always trade new peaches for old ones every day." The Spring Festival is the most important festival in China, and those traditional ceremonies and rules are full of awe and vigilance. The Spring Festival written by Liang Shiqiu is the object of children's "spitting". In Lao She's eyes, the Spring Festival is full of Beijing flavor. Lin Yutang described the interesting scene of visiting temple fairs. The fireworks in Xiangxi, Shen Congwen's hometown, are the most famous. Mo Yan is looking forward to drinking a bowl of Laba porridge ... Under the wonderful pen of these literary masters, the scene of the Spring Festival has a unique meaning and is unforgettable.
The backyard of the vestibule is covered with lanterns, palace lanterns and gauze lanterns. Candlelight is bright, and sesame stalks are everywhere. It's certainly interesting to step on it, but the cold wind makes my face red and uncomfortable. There are no children on the kang table. Lucky money doesn't come for nothing. You should kowtow like garlic. ..... On New Year's Eve, when the children were handed in, the cooked cake was served. I'm too sleepy to eat. I ate two bites at random and fell asleep. I didn't know that Dongfanghong was white.
-Liang Shiqiu's "New Year"
Born in 1903, Liang Shiqiu experienced the social life in Beijing in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. In his article "Chinese New Year", he recalled the traditional Chinese New Year custom in China. Many people liked Chinese New Year when they were children, but Mr. Liang said that he didn't like Chinese New Year when he was a child because he had to celebrate the New Year's Eve. "This is a torment for a child who is used to going to bed early." Therefore, his description of the old customs at that time was carried out in a humorous tone, and these humorous "spits" made people laugh.
It's only 23 years since the last calendar year, but this time, three nights of flower explosions were released, which made the foreigner next door "hiss": this and flower explosions have become my only happiness in a year.
-Lu Xun's "New Year"
Mr. Lu Xun's attitude towards the old calendar year seems very dull. 1934, he said in "Chinese New Year", "I only spent 23 years in the old calendar, and this time it was three consecutive nights." It can be seen that Lu Xun has always been very indifferent to the old calendar year. For example, 1934' s general interest in Chinese New Year is also very rare in his life.
After twenty-three, everyone will be busy, and the New Year will arrive in a blink of an eye. Before New Year's Eve, every household should put up Spring Festival couplets and have a general cleaning, which is called general cleaning. Be sure to prepare enough meat, chicken, fish, vegetables, rice cakes, etc. for at least one week-according to the old habit, most shops in Wutianmen are closed 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. Also, in the old society, old mothers paid attention to cutting off all the things that should be cut on New Year's Eve, thus saving knives from the first day of the first month to the fifth day of the first month. It is unlucky to move knives and scissors. This implies superstition. However, it also shows that we are really peace-loving people, and we don't even want to move a kitchen knife at the age of one.
-Lao She's Spring Festival in Beijing
As a representative of old Beijingers, Mr. Lao She is familiar with the customs of old Beijing. In 195 1, I wrote a special article "Spring Festival in Beijing", describing the schedule, diet, etiquette and so on before and after the Spring Festival in Beijing. The language full of Beijing flavor depicts a folk picture of the Spring Festival in old Beijing for us.