When the Spring Festival Gala program "Fast Ready-to-Wear" ended, Yue Haohan went out to the bathroom, returned to the living room, and added charcoal to the brazier. Did you call Aunt Jiang's house? If he hadn't hit, I guess Ziyan's kid would still be waiting.

Yue Haohan said, I will come to fight.

In the study, he connected the phone of Zheng Ziyan's house, and when the phone rang, Zheng Ziyan answered, Yue Haohan felt as if Zheng Ziyan was standing by the telephone, waiting for the call.

Yue Haohan just said "Hey" into the microphone, Zheng Ziyan was on the other end of the phone, interrupting Yue Haohan excitedly, and said, Brother Haohan, I will give New Year's greetings to my uncle and aunt! Hello Chunfang, Chunxia, and Haojiang!

Yue Haohan said, Sister Ziyan, your father and mother? Are you watching the Spring Festival Gala?

Zheng Ziyan said, no, they have already slept, and they will rest after watching for a while, I am watching alone in the living room, so boring. Brother Haohan, your house must be very lively.

Yue Haohan smiled and said, Well, they are all watching, there is a big pot of charcoal fire burning at home.

Zheng Ziyan asked, Brother Haohan, didn't Sister Ziying go to Jiangyang for the New Year this year?

Yue Haohan said, no, Ziying's brother, sister-in-law, and nephew have returned to the East China Sea, and she is spending the New Year in the East China Sea. Ziyan, your father and mother are sleeping, then I will get up early tomorrow morning and call them again to greet the New Year.

Zheng Ziyan said, okay. Brother Haohan, did you just watch Pan Meichen's singing "I Want to Have a Home"? It's so touching, I like her songs, Pan Meichen is dressed like a tomboy, so cool!

Yue Haohan said, yes, her songs are very good, and the lyrics are also so touching.

Zheng Ziyan said, Brother Haohan, how about I sing this song to you next time I see you?

Yue Haohan said, okay, Sister Ziyan sings any song well.

Zheng Ziyan said with a smile, are you hurting me or praising me!

Yue Haohan said, of course he praised you!

Zheng Ziyan said, Brother Haohan, I won't give you a chat, you let Chunfang and Chunxia's sisters answer the phone.

Yue Haohan said, Okay, you wait a minute.

Yue Haohan put down the phone, walked out of the study, and said, Chunfang, Chunxia, go quickly, Ziyan's phone.

Yue Chunfang and Yue Chunxia, the two sisters, hurriedly got up and went to the study. In the living room, father Yue Yulin was washing his feet and preparing to rest, mother Wang Sulan had already arrived in the bedroom, and Yue Haojiang was still sitting there, staring at the show with his eyes engrossed. Yue Haohan sat down, watched the show with Yue Haojiang for a while, and went to sleep in the bedroom.

The next morning was the first day of the Lunar New Year, Yue Haohan got up early, and saw that his father Yue Yulin and mother Wang Sulan were already busy wrapping the New Year's money with red envelopes.

The first day of the first lunar month is the first day of the Lunar New Year. The Spring Festival is the most solemn and distinctive traditional festival of Chinese folk, which marks the end of the old year of the lunar calendar and the beginning of the new year. Spring Festival generally refers to Chinese New Year's Eve and the first day of the first lunar month. However, in Chinese folklore, the traditional Spring Festival refers to the festival from the eighth day of the lunar month or the twenty-third or twenty-fourth day of the lunar month to the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, culminating in Chinese New Year's Eve and the first day of the first lunar month. During the Spring Festival, people in most places hold various activities to celebrate. These activities are mainly based on sacrificing to gods and Buddhas, paying tribute to ancestors, removing the old and cloth the new, welcoming the jubilee and receiving blessings, and praying for a good year. The activities are rich and colorful, with strong national characteristics.

The most important custom on the first day of the first lunar month is "New Year's greetings", which is a traditional custom of Chinese folk to celebrate the Spring Festival, and is a way for people to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new and express good wishes to each other.

In ancient times, the original meaning of the word "New Year's greeting" was to celebrate the New Year for the elderly. New Year's greetings generally start at home. On the morning of the first day of the new year, after the younger generation gets up, they should first greet the elders and wish them a long and healthy life. After the elders are worshipped, the "New Year's money" prepared in advance should be distributed to the younger generations. After greeting the elders in the family, people should also congratulate the New Year with a smile on their faces when they go out, and exchange auspicious words such as "Wishing you prosperity", "Four seasons are happy", "Happy New Year", and neighbors or relatives and friends also visit each other to greet the New Year or invite each other to drink and have fun.

According to legend, the first day of the first month is the birthday of the wife of the broom star Jiang Ziya, and the broom can not be used on this day, otherwise it will sweep away the luck and break the fortune, and attract the "broom star" to cause bad luck. If you have to sweep the floor, you have to sweep it from the outside to the inside. On this day, you can't throw water and garbage outside, for fear of ruining your money. Today, this custom is still preserved in many places, sweeping clean on Chinese New Year's Eve, not using a broom on the first day of the new year, not taking out garbage, preparing a large bucket to hold wastewater, and not spilling it on the same day.

In addition, on the first day of the Lunar New Year, the married daughter is not allowed to go back to her parents' home, and the daughter who marries out during the New Year will return to her parents' house, which will make her mother's family poor, so she can only return to her parents' house on the second or third day of the junior high school, but the implication is that the married daughter is already someone else's daughter-in-law, and there must be many people in the New Year's family to visit the New Year, and the daughter-in-law must help serve tea and serve, so she can not go back to her parents' house on the first day of the new year.

On the first day of the new year, avoid eating porridge and medicine for breakfast, and generally eat dumplings. In the past, the regular poor family only ate porridge on the first day of the new year, so at noon on the first day of the new year, they must eat rice, indicating that the family will be very rich throughout the year, and the morning of the first day of the new year is also called the grand meeting of all gods, which means that all the gods come out to pay respects to the new year, so in order to show respect, you must first worship the gods, and then you can eat breakfast.

After eating dumplings for breakfast, the four brothers and sisters of Yue Haohan gave New Year's greetings to their father Yue Yulin and mother Wang Sulan in turn, saying auspicious blessings, Yue Yulin and Wang Sulan sat in the living room, looking at the four children, and couldn't close their mouths with a smile. After blessings, Wang Sulan started with Yue Haohan and distributed a red envelope to each child in turn.

Yue Haohan took the red envelope and said with a smile, Dad, Mom, let's give the New Year's money to my sister and younger brothers, I have already gone to work, and I can't ask for the New Year's money anymore.

Wang Sulan said with a smile, take it, no matter how old you are, you are a child in the eyes of your father and mother, when will you let your mother hold your eldest grandson, and give me my eldest grandson this New Year's money.

New Year's money, in the Chinese New Year's customs, means to ward off evil spirits and drive away ghosts, and bless peace. The original intention of the New Year's money was to suppress evil and drive away evil spirits. Because people believe that children are susceptible to sneaky victims, they use New Year's money to drive away evil spirits, help children celebrate the New Year safely, and wish children health and peace in the new year.

During the Spring Festival, the elders should put the pre-prepared New Year's money into the red envelope and distribute it to the younger generation, according to legend, the New Year's money can suppress the evil, because the "year" and "Zhen" homonym, the younger generation can get the New Year's money to spend a year peacefully.

In history, there are two kinds of New Year's money, one of which is given to the elderly by the younger generation, which is really called New Year's money, and the "New Year's money" of the elderly refers to the fact that they can live a few more years in order for them to no longer grow their age. The other is the red envelope given by the elders to the younger generations, in fact, this money is called "pressure money".

There is also a legend about "pressing money":

Legend has it that in ancient times, there was a little demon with black hands and white hands, whose name was "Zhen", who came out to harm people on the night of the Chinese New Year's Eve every year, and touched the head of the sleeping child three times with his hand, and the child was frightened and cried, and then he had a fever, spoke babbling and became ill, and after a few days the fever subsided, but the smart and clever child became a demented and crazy fool. People are afraid of harming their children, so they light up the lights and sit down on the night of the Chinese New Year's Eve, which is called "Shouzhen".

There is a family surnamed Guan in Jiaxing Mansion, and the husband and wife have children in old age, which is regarded as the pearl of the palm. On the night of the Chinese New Year's Eve, they were afraid that "Zheng" would harm the children, so they forced the children to play. The child wrapped eight copper coins in red paper, unwrapped the bag, unwrapped it again, and played until he fell asleep, and then put the wrapped eight copper coins on the pillow. The couple didn't dare to close their eyes, and kept vigil next to the child all night. In the middle of the night, a strong wind blew open the door and blew out the lights, and when the little black man touched the child's head with his white hand, a bright light cracked from the child's pillow, and he hurriedly retracted his hand and ran away screaming. The Guan couple told everyone about the scare away by wrapping eight copper coins in red paper. Everyone also learned to wrap eight copper coins in red paper after the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner and handed them to the children to put on their pillows, and sure enough, they would never dare to harm the children again.

It turned out that these eight copper coins were turned into eight immortals, who secretly helped the children to scare away the trouble, so people called this money "pressure money". And because of the homonym of "祟" and "year", it is called "New Year's money" with the passage of time.

In today's era, the New Year's money has quietly changed its taste, in the early days, the New Year's money is not to give real money, but only to give symbolic things like money, is to hope to play a deterrent role. But later, people gradually strengthened the practical meaning of New Year's money, so it became a real currency.

With the emergence of the situation where the elders gave a piece of ocean to their children during the Chinese New Year, the meaning of the New Year's money has changed significantly. Since then, the function of "avoiding evil and removing demons" has gradually ended, and its new "inspirational" roles such as "a million profits", "abundant financial resources" and "step by step" have come into being.

The custom of the elders giving the New Year's money to the younger generations is still prevalent in modern times, and these New Year's money is mostly used by children to buy books, school supplies and daily necessities, or is taken by parents for safekeeping, or deposited in the bank in the name of the children.

Nowadays, the emotional component, gratitude and blessing consciousness of "New Year's money" have gradually faded, and many people regard the amount of New Year's money as a tool to compare with each other. It is not an affectionate blessing to children, but a bad material upbringing and copper odor, and such customs should be corrected in time.

As the red envelopes become thicker and thicker, the New Year's money has become a financial burden for many families. New Year's money is more of a blessing, containing a special heart, and should return to the essence of New Year's money. Nowadays, many children also regard "getting more New Year's money" as an important goal, and have no sense of gratitude and gratitude.

After paying homage to their parents at home, Yue Haohan's brothers and sisters went to Deng Xuanchang's house to pay New Year's greetings first, and in the living room of Deng Xuanchang's house, everyone met and said some blessings and auspicious words to each other, sipping melon seeds, drinking tea, chatting, and everyone's face was full of happy smiles.

Coming out of Deng Xuanchang's house, Yue Haohan returned home, brought a few gifts, and went to Luo Kangmei's house with his sister and brother to pay New Year's greetings. The living room of Luo Kangmei's house was full of colleagues and neighbors who came to pay New Year's greetings, and when they saw that Yue Haohan's four brothers and sisters were coming, several teachers saw that there were too many people in the living room, so they said some blessings and auspicious words to each other and left.

Sending everyone out of the door, Liu Xiaofeng and Luo Kangmei returned, and let Yue Haohan's brother and sister sit down in the living room, after Luo Kangmei poured the tea, Yue Haohan asked, Mr. Luo, Brother Yuanhang hasn't come back for the Chinese New Year this year?

Luo Kangmei replied, saying that this time of year is also their busiest time, no way! Just now, Qiulin, the lover of the voyage, called and said that they were having dinner at his grandfather's place at noon.

Luo Kangmei's son is called Liu Yuanhang, who is a major in the Beijing Armed Police Force, and Liu Yuanhang's lover Wang Qiulin works in the Beijing City Public Security Bureau.

Yue Haohan took a sip of tea from the teacup and said, I gave Grandpa Luo a New Year's greeting on the phone at about twelve o'clock yesterday, and he said on the phone that he would come to Jiangyang to live in Jiangyang for a period of time in the spring.

Luo Kangmei said that when he called him in the morning, he said that he would come to live for a period of time almost every year, and later with the fall in love with your grandfather and grandson, he would prefer to come to Jiangyang.

Liu Xiaofeng, who was sitting opposite Yue Haohan, interjected at this time and asked, Haohan, didn't your girlfriend come over for the New Year this year?

Yue Haohan replied, saying, no, she is celebrating the New Year in the East China Sea.

Luo Kangmei said, I heard my old man say that he knows your future father-in-law, and said that your future father-in-law was a soldier under him, is it true?

Yue Haohan smiled and said, of course what grandpa said is true, not only did he serve as a soldier under his grandfather, but Ziying's elder brother is now the regimental chief of staff in Grandpa Luo's army back then.

Luo Kangmei smiled and said, how can it be so coincidental! That's really the case, you and your girlfriend are really fated to our old man, if we have the opportunity to go to the old man in Beijing, we must bring your girlfriend with you.

Yue Haohan's brother and sister left Luo Kangmei's house and returned home, seeing that the living room was also lively, parents accompanied the godfather Deng Xuanchang's family and two other school teachers, were sitting in the living room chatting happily, Yue Haohan greeted everyone after entering the door, congratulated each other, and the whole living room was filled with New Year's celebration.