When Huineng was young, although his family was poor, every time the Spring Festival was approaching, his mother would go to the lime kiln a few miles away, pick up some lime fragments, and then melt them with water and stir them into a slurry, and then dip them with a millet broom and smear them on the blackened soil walls of the house, so as to decorate the old house a little whiter.

My mother said that the people in my hometown call this sweeping the house. After that, it is time to make him a new pair of shoes, modify or sew a new dress.

At that time, there was a shortage of materials and a hard life. A few years ago, I could reserve a little more rice, and I would be satisfied if I took it to the rice room to make white rice. On Chinese New Year's Eve, if you can eat a meal of white rice, the year will be okay. However, even if it is so difficult, the family can get together for a reunion, and the anticipation of the New Year, the feeling of the Spring Festival is very profound and even cheerful.

Huineng still remembers that his father once said: Sticking New Year's pictures at home during the Chinese New Year. Twenty-eighth, applique flowers. But the highlight of the decal flower is not twenty-eight. For example, Spring Festival couplets, door gods and blessing characters. All three of these are all bright red colors, and they are all public. Just like the Chinese people are known as the descendants of Yan and Huang, red and yellow have always been the traditional auspicious colors of China. Especially during the New Year, red symbolizes red fire, auspicious, warm and happy, at this time, the Spring Festival couplets, door gods and blessing words, the flamboyant red will ignite the enthusiasm of the New Year to boil.

There are also Qin Qiong, Jingde, or Guan Gong and Zhang Fei painted in the door god, one door and the small one is pasted together, and the two doors are in the door and the door is pasted separately, as the historical figure of the door god, it is often two generals who often meet and do not know each other, and the lines drawn are not symbolic, nor are they stream of consciousness, but the thick lines, bold school, and freehand Spring and Autumn brushwork, painted on the red paper, it looks so direct and festive.

Huineng's father, Lu Xingyao, is one of the most literate people in Xinzhou, and he has a good hand in calligraphy, and is a well-known calligrapher in Chang'an. Therefore, every time the Spring Festival is approaching, the neighbors in Xialu Village and even the villagers in Fangyan for dozens of miles come to visit him, in order to ask him to write Spring Festival couplets as a blessing.

Before Lu Xingyu was demoted to Xialu Village, Xinzhou, most of the Spring Festival couplets, door gods, and blessing characters posted by every household in the village were bought from people who set up stalls on the street to write before the Chinese New Year. The words are not from famous artists, and they are all cheesy.

Lu Xingyao is quick to think and has a good character, and he can always create and write Spring Festival couplets that are satisfactory to those who come according to the requirements put forward by the comers, so that the comers come and go away satisfied. The old scholar Li Xueru, an isolated neighbor, praised the Spring Festival couplets he made: swaying freely, comfortable, and rare good words and good writing!

On the thirtieth day, since the New Year arrived, Huineng put on new clothes early in the morning, and Li always said: "Put on new clothes in the afternoon, otherwise it will be dirty before the New Year." ”

But how could these words be controlled by Xiao Huineng, who was anxious to wear new clothes, he put on new clothes and ran out to show off.

Generally, on the evening of thirty nights, the children patiently abide by the rules of the family after eating the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, and after eating, they run out happily, and run outside all night, not feeling cold at all.

Huineng still remembers that he did not sleep all night on the thirtieth day of the lunar month, and kept his eyes open until the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year. Dad said that this is called the New Year's "New Year's Celebration".

At that time, the observance of adults, especially the elderly, was completely different from that of children. The adult's observance of the year is because of the thirtieth day of the lunar month, and there are endless things to do. Busy with New Year's goods, busy cooking, busy changing quilts for the whole family, busy preparing new clothes for the children, busy coaxing the children happy.

Anyway, in Huineng's eyes, in the thirtieth night of the lunar month, adults have busy things that they can't finish, so they are so busy that they simply don't have time to sleep, so they have to keep the New Year.

He is the child's keeper, but he has nothing to do with himself. I thought that there was going to be candy to eat, there were so many delicious foods, there were so many good new clothes to wear, and there were firecrackers to put off, so I went to isolate and find the little sister next door Li Lan and Shi Gou, Wen Tsai and a group of childhood friends, went door to door to pick up firecrackers, went to play, until dawn, this is his child's New Year's Eve.

The morning or evening of the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve is a good time to paste the Spring Festival, Fu Zi, and Door God. Li Shi made a small pot full of sticky paste, and then Lu Xingyu taught Hui Neng to paste it:

First of all, we must tear off the old ones from last year, and if they can't all be cleaned up, we will smear the paste along the old traces of last year and paste them directly. In this way, it is more important to see the New Year's atmosphere of removing the old cloth and making it new.

The door is small and the door is big, and most of the doors are uneven, and the door gods are attached to the door, and the convex and concave vivid three-dimensional sense is seen. There is also the word blessing, to be far away from the outside, step by step to the home of the blessing and joy. Fu should be pasted head down, which is called blessing. The word "joy" is going to go out and you can see it when you look up. It's called going out and seeing joy. This is called the layout of the Tang people, the wisdom of the Tang people, and the carefulness and thoughtfulness from the small sections of the New Year's life.

The red Spring Festival couplets, door gods and blessing characters, plus the red firecrackers that can't be swept all over the ground, are blown up by firecrackers at the door during the New Year. Spring Festival couplets, door gods, blessing characters, firecrackers, red into a piece, just like the visible chili peppers in the spicy hot, red enough hot enough taste, this is the pure New Year's flavor.

The red fire is the Spring Festival couplets, door gods, blessing characters written on the big red paper, and the red paper is wrapped, and the powder is not afraid of broken bones, and it is necessary to leave a festive firecracker in the world.

Huineng listened to his father: firecrackers, also known as firecrackers, commonly known as "firecrackers". In the Chinese New Year, firecrackers play a pivotal and indispensable role in bidding farewell to the old and welcoming the new. To welcome the New Year on Chinese New Year's Eve, people light bamboo with fire to make a loud crackling sound. This is the origin of the firecrackers made of gunpowder that later generations called firecrackers.

During the New Year, firecrackers are suitable for all ages, but there are differences between men and women. Firecrackers have always been a game for the brave, a patent for men. When the boys were happily setting off firecrackers, the girls over there couldn't help but cover their ears, and ran out quickly and quickly in fright, only to turn around and look at them with a look of adoration.

At that time, Huineng was just a two-year-old boy, and he had a soft spot for the New Year's firecrackers, and he was very fascinated by the New Year's firecrackers. He saw the young man smoking, taking a puff and lighting the cannon; Hui Neng used incense to light it.

While he was pouting and trembling and shivering from afar, he lit the cannon with incense, and the young men held the cigarette in their left hand and the big thunder cannon in their right hand, and then stopped for a few seconds before throwing it, to show their courage to be ashamed of the company of the little boys.

Due to the firecrackers set off during the New Year, I often don't pay attention to the big holes in my new clothes. It's not uncommon to accidentally get your fingers blown up. Or, how to say, firecrackers are the sport of brave men? Otherwise, why do you say, "The sound of firecrackers is the sound of the old year?" On the night of the thirtieth day of the lunar month, in the early morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, the sound of firecrackers comes and goes, and the sky continues to resound day and night, which is deafening.

No firecrackers, no Chinese New Year's Eve; No guns, no New Year.

The loud and loud sound of firecrackers is the enthusiasm and unrestrainedness of the New Year. The strong smoke emitted by the firecrackers is the lingering smell of the New Year.