After staying in New York for a week, Zhao Weidong and Ji Lingjun returned to Hong Kong, and Alice also came to Hong Kong as a full-time secretary, and arranged more professional secretaries for the chairman of the board of directors in the United States and the United Kingdom at the group headquarters, and arranged a special secretary office for her.

In the very intense work, unconsciously ushered in the Spring Festival, the atmosphere of the Spring Festival in China is very strong, is the most important festival of the year, but in Hong Kong is obviously much lighter, Zhao Weidong knows that Hong Kong in the past hundred years of colonial rule, public festivals are Western festivals, so Hong Kong is deeply influenced by Western culture, focusing on "Christmas", "Carnival" and other Western festivals,

In the long run, China's traditional festivals have been diluted, and of course, there are many Chinese who insist on living the traditional Spring Festival.

The Spring Festival is the first day of the first lunar month, also known as the lunar year, commonly known as the "New Year". This is one of the most solemn and lively traditional festivals among the people of our country. The Spring Festival has a long history, and it originated from the worship of gods and ancestors at the beginning and end of the Yin Shang period.

According to China's lunar calendar, the first day of the first month of the first month was called Yuan Ri, Yuan Chen, Yuan Zheng, Yuan Shuo, New Year's Day, etc., commonly known as the first day of the new year, and in the Republic of China period, the Gregorian calendar was used instead, and the first day of January in the Gregorian calendar was called New Year's Day, and the first day of January of the lunar calendar was called the Spring Festival.

The Spring Festival is coming, which means that spring is coming, Vientiane is recovering and renewing plants and trees, and a new round of sowing and harvesting season is about to begin. People have just passed the long cold winter of ice and snow and withering grass and trees, and have long been looking forward to the days of spring flowers, when the new year comes, it is natural to welcome this festival with joy and singing and dancing.

For thousands of years, people have made the celebration of the New Year extremely colorful, every year from the 23rd day of the lunar month to the 30th day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, the folk call this period of time "Spring Day", also called "Dust Day", sweeping dust before the Spring Festival, cleaning and hygiene, is a traditional habit of the Chinese people.

Then every household prepares the New Year's goods, about ten days before the festival, people begin to be busy purchasing items, New Year's goods include chicken, duck and fish, tea, wine and oil sauce, north and south roasted goods, sugar bait and fruits, all have to buy enough, but also to prepare some gifts when visiting relatives and friends during the New Year, children to buy new clothes and hats, ready to wear during the New Year.

Another name for the Spring Festival is Chinese New Year. In the legend of the past, the year was an imaginary animal that brought bad luck to people. The year is coming. The trees are withered, and the grass does not grow; As soon as the year passes, everything grows and flowers are everywhere.

How can the year pass? It is necessary to use firecrackers, so there is a custom of lighting firecrackers, which is actually another way to set off the lively scene.

The Spring Festival is a happy and peaceful festival, and it is also a day for family reunions. The night before the New Year is the 30th night of the old lunar month, also called Chinese New Year's Eve, also known as reunion night, in this time of the old and the new, the observance of the New Year is one of the most important annual activities.

On the night of Chinese New Year's Eve, the whole family stays up together to celebrate the New Year, gather to drink, share the joy of family, and the northern region has the custom of eating dumplings on Chinese New Year's Eve. The dumplings of dumplings and symphony, together and have the meaning of getting together, and take the meaning of changing the age of the child.

In the south, there is the habit of eating rice cakes during the New Year, and the sweet sticky rice cakes symbolize the sweetness of life in the new year, step by step. When the first rooster crows, or the New Year's bell rings, firecrackers on the street are ringing, the sound comes and goes, and the family is jubilant, and the new year begins.

Men, women, and children all wear festive costumes, first give New Year's greetings to the elders in the family, and during the festival, there are also New Year's money for children, eat reunion dinners, and begin to visit relatives and friends on the second and third days of the new year, greet each other, congratulate each other, congratulate and bless, say some words to congratulate the new joy, Wishing you prosperity, congratulations, good New Year, etc., and worship ancestors.

The warm atmosphere of the festival is not only permeated in every household, but also filled with the streets and alleys of various places, and there are customs such as lion dance, dragon lantern playing, performing community fire, visiting flower markets, and visiting temple fairs in the street markets in some places.

During this period, the city is full of lanterns, the streets are full of tourists, the excitement is extraordinary, the grand occasion is unprecedented, and it is necessary to make trouble until the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month, and the Spring Festival is really over.

When the Spring Festival was approaching in Hong Kong, Zhao Weidong did not see Spring Festival couplets and "Fu" and other New Year's decorations pasted in front of every household; There are no red cloth strips and red lanterns on the streets that read "Happy the Spring Festival" that you see in mainland cities.

It was already approaching Chinese New Year's Eve, and the people were still walking steadily, their faces were calm, and everything seemed to be the same as usual. One day driving, I happened to see a New Year's market, although there were a little more people, but people did not crowd or fight, and it was orderly.

They are holding flowers or other items in their hands, and they have never seen a large number of people hurrying with difficulty, but it is not difficult to see that there are still many people who are busy buying New Year's goods.

Zhao Weidong thought to himself, no matter what the folk customs of Hong Kong are, he is a Chinese who will definitely have to celebrate the Spring Festival, the most important traditional festival in China, and it is a Spring Festival with a strong flavor of the year.

For this reason, he asked the housekeeper Sister Yu to ask the family to have a strong Spring Festival atmosphere, and the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner should also be sumptuous, so as to have a lively Spring Festival.

Zhao Weidong also saw a large shopping mall on the eve of the Spring Festival, arranged with Hong Kong characteristics of the Spring Festival decoration, in the middle of the shopping mall a wishing tree, which has been hung with people's wishing charms, surrounded by the Spring Festival screen on the book "Golden snake flying to send auspicious, good luck and happiness." And two pearl curtain door shapes, next to the curtain door also hung a couplet, "peace and good health, singing and laughing farewell to the old year." "Happy Spring Festival", large and small colored hydrangeas are placed in the curtain door; Behind the curtain door, a colorful giant snake with gold as the main color, as a momentum of wanting to jump into the air, it is not difficult to see that the whole group of shapes contains the wish people for the auspicious New Year, such as the golden snake soaring spirit.

In these decorations, in addition to the hydrangeas, some small and delicate embroidery objects are subtly displayed, which blends in with the whole decoration and is both a part of the Chinese New Year decoration and a masterpiece of ingenuity.

It can be seen that the designer has not completely given up the economic benefits while considering the social benefits, which makes Zhao Weidong admire the ingenuity of his design.

Zhao Weidong also saw that most shopping malls only regularly hung some small banners with words such as "Happy New Year", and the festive atmosphere was very light, and they were open as usual every day during the Spring Festival.

There are also many small shops with closed doors, and there are signs with the words "closed for three days during the Spring Festival" and other words on the door, and at the same time, they have not forgotten to send New Year blessings to people; Many shops are open during the Chinese New Year and are only used to congratulate people on the New Year in the form of promotions.

And in Zhao Weidong's villa Spring Festival flavor is particularly strong, the villa door is hung with red lanterns and red couplets, the word blessing on the door is still pasted upside down, passers-by read the blessing down, that is, the blessing has arrived.

The place where the Spring Festival couplets are pasted, the Spring Festival couplets are also called door pairs, spring stickers, couplets, pairs, peach symbols, etc., it depicts the background of the times with neat, dual, concise and exquisite words, expresses good wishes, is a unique form of our country.

Every Spring Festival, whether in the city or in the countryside, every household should select a big red Spring Festival couplet and paste it on the door to add a festive atmosphere to the festival. This custom began in the Song Dynasty, began to prevail in the Ming Dynasty, to the Qing Dynasty, the ideological and artistic nature of the Spring Festival couplets have been greatly improved, Liang Zhangju compiled the Spring Festival couplet monograph "Threshold Couplet Cong Words" on the origin of the couplets and the characteristics of various works have been discussed.

There are many types of Spring Festival couplets, according to their use place, they can be divided into door hearts, frame pairs, horizontal drapes, spring strips, bucket squares, etc. The "door center" is attached to the center of the upper end of the door panel; The "frame pair" is pasted on the left and right door frames; "Horizontal draped" is pasted on the horizontal wood of the door; "Spring strips" are pasted in the corresponding places according to different contents; "Doujin" is also called "door leaf", which is a square diamond shape, and is mostly pasted in furniture and shadow walls.

Paste the window grille and paste the word "Fu" upside down, and people still like to paste all kinds of paper-cut paper-window flowers on the windows. Window grilles not only set off the festive atmosphere, but also set decoration, appreciation and practicality.

Paper-cutting is a very popular folk art in our country, and it has been loved by people for thousands of years, because it is mostly pasted on the window, so it is also called "window flower". With its unique generalization and exaggeration, the window flowers vividly express the auspicious mascots and good wishes, and decorate the festival with prosperity and magnificence. Every window of the villa is pasted with window grilles on the glass, and as long as you have money in Hong Kong, you can buy anything, not to mention this small window grille.

At the same time as pasting the Spring Festival couplets, some people want to paste the word "Fu" on the door, wall and lintel. Sticking the word "Fu" during the Spring Festival is a long-standing folk custom in China. The word "Fu" refers to good fortune and good fortune, which entrusts people's yearning for a happy life and wishes for a better future.

In order to more fully reflect this yearning and wishes, some people simply paste the word "blessing" upside down, indicating that "happiness has arrived" and "blessing has arrived". Sister Yu bought a lot of particularly beautiful "Fu" characters, all of which were carefully drawn into various patterns, such as birthday stars, longevity peaches, carp jumping dragon gates, five grains harvest, dragon and phoenix Chengxiang, etc., which are so beautiful.

New Year's paintings, Spring Festival hanging New Year's pictures are also very common in urban and rural areas, and the black and colorful New Year's pictures have added a lot of prosperity and joy to thousands of households. New Year paintings are an ancient folk art in China, reflecting the simple customs and beliefs of the people, and pinning their hopes on the future.

New Year's paintings, like Spring Festival couplets, originated from the "door god". With the rise of woodblock printing, the content of New Year's paintings is not limited to monotonous themes such as door gods, and has become colorful, and in some New Year's painting workshops, classic color New Year's paintings such as "Fu Lu Shou Three Stars", "Heavenly Official Blessing", "Five Grains Harvest", "Six Animals Prosperous", "Spring Blessing" and so on, to meet people's good wishes for the New Year.

There are three important production areas of China's New Year paintings: Taohuawu in Suzhou, Yangliuqing in Tianjin and Weifang in Shandong; Three major schools of Chinese New Year paintings have been formed, each with its own characteristics, and there are also a lot of New Year paintings pasted in the villa, which add enough festive atmosphere to the festival.