Chinese New Year's Eve, commonly known as Chinese New Year's Eve.

On this day, the daytime days are usually the first to carry out the "cleaning", of course, some families for convenience, will not be in a hurry at that time, will also be implemented a few days in advance, here, there is also a saying called "sweeping", that is, to clean the whole home, the dust of the year, will be unwanted things all cleaned out, for the new year to get a good start.

For ordinary families in China, this is a very important thing, because it requires everyone in the family to do it themselves, and no one can be lazy and not work, otherwise, it will not be good for the "fortune" of the coming year.

Although "Buddha" may not be believed in by everyone, it is always good to do these things, and everyone regards this as a criterion for the New Year, an indispensable thing to do.

After sweeping, it's time to put up couplets and hang lanterns.

Couplets, meaning festive, in ancient times, there is also a saying to prevent evil spirits, are written on red paper, in the past, generally used ink to write, with the development of the times, with the development of the times, with gold dust to write, or directly with gold paper to paste, it is also very common.

However, like Xu Yang's hometown, which belongs to the countryside and the town, it still follows the red paper and ink characters of the ancient era, and on the door, there is also the red paper with "left and right door gods", and at the door, few people will paste the word "Fu", and the general "Fu" will appear on the "door" of the room, or on the "wall" of the living room, which is related to customs and legends.

First of all, the first piece of the paste is the upper one, which is pasted on the right side of the door, and the couplet here cannot be pasted with tape or the like, but needs to be pasted with a "paste" made of "surface".

First, the paste is pasted on the back of the red paper, and what stands out is only the content of the couplet, which is very smooth at a glance. Second, it is not easy to be blown away by the wind, and in the future, it will be easy to dismantle.

After the upper link, the next step is the bottom link, which is pasted on the left side of the door, and then the topmost horizontal link.

The order of the words is from right to left, otherwise, the person who writes the couplet is "fooling people".

Spring Festival couplets, in general, are dominated by "seven characters".

For example:

Shanglian, the financial resources roll in with the spring

Downlink, jubilant with blessings

Horizontal linkage, financial resources

For example:

Shanglian, high residence treasure and prosperity

Downlink, blessing shines brightly

Horizontal linkage, all wishes come true

For example:

Shanglian, go to the mountains and rivers in winter

Downlink, Xilai peach is fragrant

Horizontal linkage, the new year is auspicious

The couplet selected by Xu Yang's family is: The mountains and rivers are beautiful in winter, the peaches are fragrant, and the New Year is auspicious.

After pasting the couplet, it is time to hang the red lantern, which is also exquisite, there are two lanterns, respectively hung on the left and right sides of the couplet "horizontal couplet", can not cover the word of the couplet.

In this way, the day's work is completely done.

Next, it will be the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner in the evening.

In the north, usually, in the 25th to 28th of the year, there is a custom, called "steamed bun", that is, in order to entertain guests from the first day of the new year to the eighth day of the new year, people who live here all the year round are accustomed to pasta, and the New Year often belongs to the flowing water seat, only vegetables and soup, no rice, then, steamed bun has become the only staple food.

Steamed buns, most of them are steamed buns, meat filling, vegetarian stuffing will be available, often, there are families will fry oil cakes, and oil cakes, but not the same is used to entertain guests, but, there are gifts, of course, the gifts are generally their own close relatives.

The Chinese New Year's Eve dinner in the north has a special point, that is, the family gathers around the table, while watching the Spring Festival on TV, while eating, usually, before the Spring Festival Gala starts, the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner will not be eaten.

It has also become a custom, or a habit of many years, generations.

The current relatives in Xu Yang's family are only the grandmother's family, so Bai Ying fried some oil cakes a few days ago, and didn't make anything else, and the couplets were also hung up by Xu Yang and Xu Wan'er, which is also the first time that their family has done these things since Xu Yang's father died.

Since Xu Yang went home last year and gave his mother some money, the TV and refrigerator at home have all been replaced, and seeing that the Spring Festival party is about to start, Xu Wan'er immediately took out the meal that had been prepared in the kitchen and put it on the dining table at home.

With the start of the show, Xu Yang and the three of them began to eat.

Speaking realistically, the Spring Festival Gala, at the moment, people who seriously watch it are usually after 10 p.m. on Chinese New Year's Eve, or on the morning of New Year's Day, at the beginning, everyone just habitually turned on the TV, and there were not many people watching the program.

There are three people, Bai Ying doesn't cook many dishes, just three dishes and one soup.

Eating is secondary, and chatting is the main thing.

Although it has been a few days since he went home, because he was in Haishi, he had a lot of things to worry about, and often, Xu Yang's spirit was in a tense state, and when he returned to his hometown, he relaxed, resulting in a long time to sleep, looking at him like this, Xu Wan'er and Bai Ying were both interested in not talking to him too much, but now, in this rare time, the two of them couldn't help but be curious about some things about Xu Yang in the entertainment industry.

For these, Xu Yang did not shy away from them, picked up a few things, and chatted with his sister and mother.

With the extension of the meal time, Xu Yang's mobile phone also began to ring non-stop, and the first person to call Xu Yang was her girlfriend Liu Ruoning, and then, Zhang Wenchao, Su Zhendong, Cao Han, Jiang Ying, Shi Fei These people all called him one by one, nothing else, the New Year is coming, everyone is greeting the New Year, saying blessings.

may be due to too many people calling, during this period, he also received many text messages and blessings, including Su Wan'er's, Jisha's, Gao Beibei, Lu Hui, and so on.

Xu Yang was frantically answering the phone here, and Bai Ying and Xu Wan'er on the side were speechless, but from the side, they also saw that Xu Yang was not as smooth in the entertainment industry as he said, at least, so many phone calls, which means that he has made a lot of friends, and when there are many people, there are naturally many things, and it is not so easy to deal with the relationship between so many people.

Then, Bai Ying looked at Xu Yang's direction with great concern, this child is really not easy!

It wasn't until almost 11 o'clock in the evening that Xu Yang finished his hot mobile phone, and at this moment, a text message suddenly popped up in his mobile phone, which said "Happy New Year, good luck!", and the person who sent the message was Xue Bingbing, at this moment, Xu Yang was very surprised.

Since the Golden Needle Award, the two of them have not been in contact again, he has always regarded each other as a very ordinary peer who knows him in the entertainment industry, but judging from the other party's behavior, she regards him as a friend.

People blessed themselves, and Xu Yang couldn't help but reply, so he replied: "Happy together, Happy New Year!"

When he sat on the sofa and watched the Spring Festival Gala with Xu Wan'er and Bai Ying, the mobile phone that was charged on the side slowly vibrated for a while, and there was a message inside, displaying: "Have fun!"

The last thing on Chinese New Year's Eve is not to eat Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, but to brighten the long night light, that is, from the night when it gets dark, all the lights that can be turned on in the house must be turned on, and they cannot be turned off at night until the next day.

And at 12 o'clock in the morning, it is time to "set off firecrackers" for the New Year's celebration, at this time, the whole town, the county, and even the whole country will sound the celebratory "salute" at the same time.

The moment the clock falls to 0:00, it means that the new year has arrived!

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