In the childhood that Huineng spent, spending the New Year with his father and mother as a child was the most memorable time in his life, and the flavor of the year was the strongest at that time.

During the Spring Festival when I was a child, Spring Festival couplets were posted on the doors of every household in my hometown. This is the strongest New Year's flavor in Huineng's memory, perhaps the scent of ink wafting when Lu Xingyan wrote Spring Festival couplets when he was a child.

Five or six days before the Spring Festival, people came one after another with red paper to find Lu Xingyao to write Spring Festival couplets.

Lu Xingyao set up a special small square table in front of his house, with stacks of red Spring Festival couplets and a large bottle of black ink. The people who asked to write the Spring Festival couplets were all neighbors, so Lu Xingyan not only did not receive a penny when writing the Spring Festival couplets, but also selected the corresponding Spring Festival couplets according to the needs of the visitors.

When Huineng was two years old, he followed his father to imitate and write the word "Fu", and imitated it in a good way. Therefore, Huineng also came to join in the fun, spreading out the red, holding a brush, and impromptu waving.

Although the word "Fu" he wrote has not yet reached the level of his father's calligraphy, the neighbors don't mind, they want an auspicious picture, and see the word "Fu" flowing out from the bottom of Huineng's young wrist, and the strong New Year's flavor and ink fragrance will come to the face.

At that time, Huineng's mother also made a homemade paste out of tapioca flour for everyone to use. Huineng's father would bring the benches in the house and brush the paste on both sides of the door. First, put the Spring Festival couplets virtually in the air at the position to be pasted, and then two meters away, the naked eye to judge whether the Spring Festival couplets are correct.

At that time, my father changed his seriousness from the past, had a very good attitude, and especially "obeyed" Huineng's command. "High on the left", "Low on the right"...... In the end, with the efforts of the old and the young, the red Spring Festival couplets were firmly attached to both sides of the gate. This content was basically completed in the afternoon of the Chinese New Year's Eve.

Huineng remembers the Chinese New Year's Eve when he was a child, and there were many taboos: such as not being allowed to curse or swear; Do not sweep the floor and go out to take out the trash. Otherwise, people who have been scolding for a year, swearing for a year, and a year of wealth will be swept away. Before the New Year's dinner, my father would always light candles and incense in the shrine in the hall and worship a few times. At that moment,

He and his mother were silent, and they stood aside respectfully and watched: Daddy was solemn, in the swaying of the candlelight, bending his back, his hands folded, trembling against his forehead, bowing and worshipping.

Huineng bathed in the warm candle incense, looked at the wisps of green smoke wafting upwards from the burning incense, and pondered the blessings from the bottom of Daddy's heart: it must be to pray for an auspicious New Year, all wishes come true, all the best, and family happiness. At the end of the ceremony, Dad would light a cigarette and take out the firecrackers from the cabinet: "Come on, let's set off firecrackers together" So Huineng ran out of the door with joy, and the deafening sound of firecrackers rang out immediately......

Nelly is also unforgettable. When Huineng was a child, the most anticipated part of the New Year was to "send pressure on the New Year's money". However, most of the "New Year's money" issued by the elders has to be handed over. The mother said that the elders gave the children the New Year's money, and the association helped save it, as for where it was saved and when it could be used, I don't know at all.

Later, Huineng reacted, only the benefits given by uncles, aunts and married adults in the village belong to them, and this time period generally occurs from the first day of the new year to the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, and it must not be missed.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, my consignment store was the most lively. Because the neighbors are coming to buy "catties". "Jin tou" is a gift for visiting relatives and friends in the seventies and eighties of the last century. That would,

Walking the king is also Huineng's favorite folk performance show when he was a child.

When he was a child, he shouted with his father to see the king. Integrated ruins of Guandong, Yagang, Xialu and other villages, the Chinese New Year prevails to "go king".

"Walking the king" is the common name of "wandering god", but the "wandering god" activity of Xialu Village is to take a unique "walk" way to carry the king to the village, so it has always been commonly known as "walking king".

There are two theories about its origin: one is that it is said that according to legend, the people of Xia Lu Village surnamed Wu who moved from Gao Yao, no matter how hard they worked in the early days of the village, it was difficult to make a living, and the latter elder said that there were immortals who reported their dreams to him, and the terrain of Xia Lu Village was in the shape of a boat, and the boat had to move in order to have vitality, and the elders and the clansmen recalled the appearance of the immortals in the dream, and made it out of clay, and carried it all over the village by the people, and there was a good harvest that year, and then it persevered, forming the custom of "walking the king". Another saying is: according to legend, one year because of the mountain flood waterfall, the Longshan River next to the village was flooded, the king of a village temple upstream was washed away by the water, until the turn of a village called "the tail of the water" in Xia Lu Village stopped, the rain stopped immediately, the sky was also clear, the villagers saw this and carried the king back, put it in the village to worship up, at that time the Wu surname clan has multiplied to the eleventh generation, at that time there was an elder in the clan proposed to carry the king back to the day of worship, the eighteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar, set as the auspicious day of "walking the king". At the beginning, only Shengtangfang had a king, just at that time many people in the village took the test and many people in the village added Ding to get a son, for this reason, the people in the village felt that the king was very aura, everyone went to worship, so after discussion, it was determined that the king was carried to each square to worship people. With the increase in the population of the village, each workshop also enshrined the king of the village. Later, someone proposed to build a shrine on a flat land in the "tail of the water" to enshrine the kings of each square. Because the king is the flowing water flowing here, it is also known as the "king of the water flow". Before the Lantern Festival on the thirteenth day of the first month, the king will be taken back to the various squares for resettlement, and a grand village tour will be held on the 18th.

A few days before the king, a series of folk activities will be carried out in the village. "Please king", in the eight-tone class music, in the sound of firecrackers, the king will be invited out of the king's house in each square, set up a scaffolding in the village, and set up an incense burner for the villagers in the workshop to come to incense. The people of each square hang lanterns in the ancestral hall of the village, generally hanging the white lanterns and newlyweds of last year's children or marriages, and the lamps of the new houses are generally hung on the stoves or land. At the same time, there are fireworks and fireworks activities, everyone pays to throw fireworks, the highest price wins, the winner will go to the king on the 18th day of the first month by the lion, the eight tones sent to the home ** for one year, to the second year to send back to the king's house.

On the day of "Walking the King", men, women, children, and children in the village, as well as the married women of the county, the four towns and eight neighbors, and the descendants who went out to work will come back to participate. The whole village poured out of the nest, which can really be called an unprecedented grand occasion.

After the noon banquet on the same day, at one o'clock, after intensive preparations, the old people in each square will summon the young and strong men in the square to gather in each square and prepare to carry the king to the village. As soon as the auspicious time of "walking the king" arrives, after the sound of firecrackers, under the guidance of the lion awakening, a pair of "pioneer boys" (the pioneer officer who opened the road) and the "Qingdao flag" open the road, and parade in the village according to the "Dawang Road" that has been walked away in history. Placed at the main intersection of each square, when the noisy procession of gongs and drums arrives, the waiting square will also beat gongs and drums in front of the square, and the lion dance will wave the flag to greet them. After a firecracker was made, the team of the king of the back workshop followed the team of the front workshop and joined the team of the king. After concentrating the pioneers, Qingdao banners, and kings of each square, after passing through eight squares, circling the village for two and a half weeks, the distance is about ten kilometers, and the team arrives at the last stop, ——— the location of the Dawang Temple, at this time, people are looking forward to the arrival of the kings from all walks of life. On the playground, each square holds up all kinds of flags, guide signs, and all kinds of pennants with the words "Guotai Min'an" and "Wind and Rain" are clearly painted, and the villagers can see the most simple wishes from the pennants in the hands of the villagers who wave the flag and shout. The gongs and drums in the square are noisy, the lion dances, the crowds of people everywhere, the voices of the people are boiling, the scene is very grand, the number of people is as many as tens of thousands. There is a saying that "go to the king, the rice tank is half, and the urine tower is full" is the best interpretation of the grand occasion of the king activity.

When walking the king, pedestrians and vehicles on the road are all avoided, the king is a veritable walk and run, in the lion team of each square, the people of each square and many people along the way join, the sound of firecrackers along the way, the sound of gongs and drums, the shouts of lifting the king to move, make the scene very lively, especially every square or a vacant land, the person who carries the king of each square will lift the king high, shake or bump the king, and then shout to rush forward, the king of each square behind is like this, in the past, there will be a fierce competition, see that square first to the king temple. The first one to arrive means that the workshop where it is located will be blessed throughout the year. Later, out of consideration for safety, it is now time to celebrate in the playground of the school after walking to the king, and then beat the gongs and drums to send the king back to the king house in each square, and then send the firecrackers to the shooter, which lasts about 3 hours. After the matter was done, it was time for the feast.

"Walking the king" is a traditional Chinese New Year program in Xinzhou, the villagers happily carry the king in the village in various squares, passing in front of the villagers' houses, which is a folk science called "along the door to chase the epidemic" symbolic ceremony. "Walking the king" is the spiritual sustenance of the people in the village and their yearning for a better life; The activity of walking the king is to maintain the spiritual bond of the villagers——— rich nostalgia and family affection, and entrust the villagers to the simple yearning of the gods, in order to pray that the "king" can bless the village, so that the wind and rain are smooth, and the grains are abundant. At the same time, it embodies the unity and harmony of the villagers.