"Thousands of households always replace the new peach with the old one. "Today is Chinese New Year's Eve, the most anticipated day of the year for Chinese, Chinese New Year's Eve refers to the night of the last day of the lunar month every year, which is connected to the Spring Festival (the first day of the first lunar month). The word "except" in "Chinese New Year's Eve" means "go, easy, alternate", and Chinese New Year's Eve means "the end of the month", people have to remove the old and the new, there is the old year to be removed, and the next year is the meaning of the new year, which is the last night of the lunar year. During this period, all the activities carried out by the people revolved around removing the old and renewing them, eliminating disasters and praying for blessings.

The day before Chinese New Year's Eve, I took Lin Lan home to live, but my mother didn't let us sleep together, saying that it was best to sleep separately when we went home before we got married. So I arranged Lin Lan on the second floor, and I was on the third floor.

When Lin Lan and I were still asleep, my parents got up early in the morning and started to work. Every Chinese New Year's Eve, the first thing every family does after getting up is to clean the house, although the house has been cleaned in the previous days, but according to customs, it is still necessary to clean the house inside and out, commonly known as dust, in order to pave the way for the "New Year". Therefore, early in the morning of Chinese New Year's Eve, people will clean the interior and courtyard, and throw away the garbage to sign goodbye to the old and welcome the new. During the Chinese New Year, the confetti from firecrackers will no longer be cleaned up, implying that the New Year will be rich and colorful.

Breakfast on Chinese New Year's Eve, our family is generally very casual, today because Lin Lan came, my parents deliberately changed the style of previous years, after cleaning the house in the morning, I wrapped a pot of dumplings, and made a few dishes, I slept up and saw it, said that it was not the first day of the new year, the first meal of the new year, it was necessary to be so grand, my mother said that it was not for me to eat, mainly for Lin Lan to eat, I rolled my eyes, snorted, sure enough, it was still my own mother.

After breakfast, it was already ten o'clock in the morning, because it was already more than nine o'clock when Lin Lan washed up and put on makeup and came out to eat, I said to Lin Lan that I would take her to paste the Spring Festival couplets, Lin Lan said excitedly yes, okay, she said that her family rarely pasted Spring Festival couplets, because the people who live in the building stick a pair of doors every year, paste a few window flowers on the balcony, and hang a few lanterns to finish. And for those of us living in self-built urban villages, sticking Spring Festival is an important part of the morning of Chinese New Year's Eve. Spring Festival couplets should be pasted before noon (i.e. 12 o'clock), called "sealing the transport" or "sealing the door", and more than 12 o'clock is considered unlucky. In the past, there were no ready-made Spring Festival couplets sold in the market, so we all bought red paper ourselves and asked an elderly elder to write it. Every year when the closure is imminent, it is the most beautiful time for that elder. Put a square table in the living room, prepare a bag of dry tobacco, smoke it before starting, and then pick up a pen to write one after another for the neighbors who come to ask for the union, and enjoy it.

The content of the Spring Festival couplets is mostly auspicious and harmonious, and the main entrance is pasted with "the days increase the years and people increase their longevity, and the spring is full of blessings" and the like, and at the same time, they also have to paste the symmetrical Dafu characters and the portraits of the door gods based on Yu Chi Jingde and Qin Qiong, which are intended to block the intrusion of ghosts. The rooms of the elderly are pasted with the words "Happiness is as wide as the East China Sea, and the longevity is higher than that of the South Mountain"; the rooms of the newlyweds are pasted with the words "Birds with wings flying in the long sky, and the earth is tied with knots and branches"; the bedroom wall is pasted with "Look up and see joy", the pigsty and stables are pasted with "Fat pigs are full of circles" and "Cattle and horses are flocked"; the car is pasted with "The car travels thousands of miles", and the front of the ship is pasted with "The bow of the ship travels thousands of miles without waves, and the wind behind the rudder sends ten thousand journeys". The Spring Festival couplets are mostly four-character sentences such as "auspicious stars shine high", "Vientiane is renewed", "mountains and rivers are like brocade", and "all industries are prosperous". The auspicious pattern of hanging stickers cut with thin colored paper is colorful, swinging with the wind, and it is good-looking.

Later, after the elder was gone, there were also commercial Spring Festival couplets in the market, and people rarely bought red paper to find someone to write Spring Festival couplets, and they were all bought on the street for a few yuan a pair. In addition to pasting Spring Festival couplets, we also have to paste window grilles on the glass of each room, and hang a few red lanterns under the eaves. Lin Lan and I tossed until noon, and in a blink of an eye, the whole courtyard had the atmosphere of the New Year, standing on the third floor and looking at it, every household was red in the Spring Festival, and the streets and alleys were full of ink fragrance, and the festive atmosphere was suddenly set off warmly. Lin Lan and I both had a lot of red paint on the Spring Festival couplets on our hands, I stretched out my hands, and the two red palms shook back and forth in front of Lin Lan, Lin Lan felt the danger approaching her, and screamed not to run downstairs.

The reunion dinner at noon on Chinese New Year's Eve is the biggest lunch of the year. It is characterized by a complete family and a rich set of dishes. No matter where the family is employed, they must rush back to their parents for a reunion dinner and share the joy of family. The must-have dishes for lunch include fish, which means abundance, chicken, which means good luck, tofu and cabbage, which means happiness and wealth, vermicelli, which means longevity and good luck, canned peaches, which means escaping from disasters and curing illness and good health, and fine wine, which means that the world lasts forever and life is good. Other dishes vary depending on the family's financial situation.

Downstairs, my parents had already prepared a Chinese New Year's Eve lunch when Lin Lan and I were hanging lanterns on the Spring Festival couplets and window flowers, and a big table was set up, braised pork ribs, sweet and sour carp, spiced chicken, fried pork, oily pork, fried garlic sprouts, ground three fresh, tomatoes and eggs...... I feel that I am continuing to talk like this, can become the name of the dish, in addition to the dishes on the table, of course, there is also indispensable drinking, Shanxi people love Fenjiu Xinghua Village, so my dad usually buys a few bottles of 20-year-old Fenjiu or Xinghua Village during the New Year.

Lin Lan ran to the kitchen and said to my mother that I was bullying her, my mother took a rolling pin and waved it at me violently, so frightened that I quickly shouted that the master was wronged, my mother said that he could still wronged me, Lin Lan was a weak woman who could still bully me, Lin Lan hid behind my mother and coaxed me, that is, it was obviously he who bullied me. I wondered if I would be like my dad in the future, and I didn't dare to make up for it.

I received a variety of blessing messages on my mobile phone, from text messages, WeChat and various APPs, and the TV kept playing New Year's programs, a lively scene. I also edited a message and sent it out in groups, and after a while, I received the same group post, a few of which were not, and the content was also two words of fun. In the WeChat department group, I don't know who sent a red envelope, I clicked it casually, it was actually the best luck, and then I was asked to send one, I sent it, and clicked on my own hair, the worst luck, one mile and one outside, I am a loss! After I told Lin Lan about this, Lin Lan laughed at my hand must have just touched the shit, I patted her, and said that it seemed to be hey, and the angry Lin Lan ran to my mother to complain, it seems that Lin Lan has found a backer.

During the meal, Lin Lan suggested that everyone raise a glass and take a photo together, and my parents happily raised their glasses, smiling and showing all their teeth, it was really festive. After eating lunch on Chinese New Year's Eve, my father would solemnly hang the genealogy on the wall opposite the hall house, commonly known as "please genealogy", and set up incense tables, offerings, candlesticks, and prepare to welcome the ancestors at night, invite the gods, and worship the ancestors. After doing this, he will also build a pagoda shape with charcoal in the courtyard, commonly known as Wanghuo, in order to be auspicious and congratulate the prosperity of the whole year. Firewood is placed inside, and a big red note is written on it, "Vigorous". At 12 o'clock in the middle of the night, when the firecrackers go off, the fire will be lit. After being lit, flames erupt from countless small holes, like a floating picture, which is both cold and spectacular. Adults and children gather in a circle, some play games, some set off firecrackers, men, women and children have to come to roast the fire, in order to "soar to the sky". Children can also walk the streets and alleys to observe and comment on the size of the fire, whose 'fire is big, the brightest, and whose fire is also big. As stated in the Qing Dynasty's "Datong County Chronicles": "On New Year's Day, every family chiseled charcoal and cut down the salary base high, like a small floating map. In time, it is called Wanghuo, that is, the provincial city of Dada Fire. This is also due to the fact that Shanxi has abundant coal resources since ancient times, and coal has long been integrated into people's living habits, infiltrated into people's customs and folk feelings, and slowly has the custom of making a prosperous fire.

Lin Lan and I helped clean up the table, and my mother washed the dishes and chopsticks, and then started to work on dinner again, in short, this day was both happy and busy. Chinese New Year's Eve dinner without exception, everyone in the north eats dumplings, in the south may be rice balls, the proverb "who does not eat dumplings for the New Year" refers to this meal, called "please New Year dumplings". The dumplings are wrapped into the shape of ingots, which means that the wealth is extensive, and because of the round shape, it means that the whole family is reunited. Chinese New Year's Eve dumplings are mostly filled with meat, because the meat dumplings are full, meaning rich life, peace and auspiciousness. What I didn't expect was that Lin Lan would actually make dumplings, and the wrapping was very professional, in addition to being able to wrap dumplings in the shape of ingots, she could also wrap crescent moons, ears of wheat, and lace...... Those dumpling wrappers and dumpling fillings seemed to come to life in her slender hands, and after a few casual tosses, a beautiful dumpling was made. I looked at Lin Lan in surprise, Lin Lan rubbed her nose with her hand covered with flour, and asked me what I was looking at with a smile, I said that she was so good, she could make so many cute and beautiful dumplings, Lin Lan put down her hand and said that I was rare and weird, there was a little flour on the tip of her nose, and she looked very much like a virtuous and virtuous little woman living at home, not at all like the artist with extraordinary temperament on weekdays.

My mother said to look at how ingenious Lin Lan is, and after showing off her wisdom, she pointed to the dumplings I wrapped, and said look at me again, what are the wraps, strange shapes, in the words that young people often say, they are crippled. I told my mother that now I feel that Lin Lan is her biological daughter, and I am just an outsider, my mother said that it is not, Lin Lan stuck out her tongue at me mischievously.

At about six o'clock in the evening, my father opened the gate of the courtyard, took out a few two kicks and a large box of fireworks, lit them one by one, and began to pick up the ancestors and welcome the gods. With the sparks, in an instant, the yard and the house were filled with the deafening sound of the two kicks exploding. Lin Lan covered her ears, stood in front of the window, looked at the fireworks flying into the air, and said that it was so beautiful.

After the cannon was fired, my father knelt in the open space in front of the ancestral tablet to burn incense and paper, and asked the souls of the ancestors to go home for the New Year, calling it "Please New Year". After the whole Spring Festival "send the New Year" before, the incense on the incense table continues, the tribute does not stop, when I was small, I have to light the candle at night, and worship in the morning and evening, and now I get the kind of electric lamp similar to the candle.

When I was a child, what I looked forward to most was Chinese New Year's Eve, which is the most special night of the year, commonly known as the New Year's Eve, and the family stays up all night, because this is the time when the family members are most complete, and the time is right to talk about the old and the new, and family events are mostly planned and decided here. According to historical records, the custom of keeping the New Year first began in the Northern and Southern Dynasties. The Liang Dynasty's Geng shoulders have a poem: "One night is even two years old, and the fifth watch is divided into two years." At that time, people lit candles and lit lamps all night, symbolizing that all evil spirits and diseases were driven away, and they looked forward to the auspicious new year. Poets of the Tang Dynasty wrote many descriptions of the custom of keeping the New Year. Bai Juyi's poem "Keeping the New Year in the Guest": "There is no wine in the New Year's bottle, and homesickness is full of tears." Meng Haoran also has the poem "Continue to urge the painting of candles, keep the year and receive the long feast". In the Song Dynasty, the custom of keeping the New Year was all over the city and countryside. Su Dongpo's poem "Children don't sleep, keep vigil and rejoice" is a representative work.

At that time, the New Year's guard will put firecrackers in his pocket, run out and set off firecracks with his friends, blow up the cracks in the wall, fry cow dung, tie the ice cracks, in short, all kinds of gaps will not be let go, after the cannon will play the picture, we play the picture at that time are not with our hands, but with a deck of cards, learning to play the card game in the movie. When the clock strikes midnight, every household lights a fire and starts setting off firecrackers. We will disband, go back to our respective homes to say hello to our parents, and then get the red envelopes that our parents have prepared with the New Year's money, which is commonly known as "begging for money", which is also the most exciting moment for us at that time, because the New Year's money given by our parents is mostly kept by us and at our disposal, and this kind of good thing only happens once a year at this time. In addition to the New Year's money given by my parents, the New Year's money given by other relatives had to be coaxed and taken away by my parents, and they kept it on their behalf.

Later, I grew up slowly, and the New Year became a CCTV Spring Festival Gala, and then it became a watch for the Internet Spring Festival Gala, swiping mobile phone Weibo, grabbing all kinds of red envelopes, red envelopes are collected more and more year by year, but I feel that there is no fun when I was a child, and now I understand that the Spring Festival is for children, and adults are just a summary of the year. This year's Chinese New Year's Eve is also, after dinner, my dad stayed by the TV, watching the Spring Festival Gala, my mother washed fruit in the kitchen, cut fruit, and Lin Lan's fingers and I never left the mobile phone, constantly grabbing all kinds of red envelopes, WeChat groups, APP, tired of grabbing, just swept around with the blessing characters posted on various doors, my mother held a plate of fruit curiously asked what we were sweeping, we said Fuka, an activity from Alipay, collect all kinds of Fuka can get red envelopes, my mother said Alipay she will use, but what Fuka how to get, Lin Lan volunteered to teach my mother how to get, and then taught my dad, and then it turned into the four of us sweeping around against the blessing word posted on the door.

At 12 o'clock in the morning, there was the sound of firecrackers everywhere, and it was the New Year! My dad also went out into the yard, lit a fire, and set off firecrackers. When Lin Lan saw the Wanghuo burning, she took out her mobile phone and kept taking pictures, she said that this was the first time she saw Wanghuo, and she felt amazing. Together with Wanghuo, I called various relatives and elders to pay New Year's greetings, and after I finished with Lin Lan, I gave New Year's greetings to my parents and her parents.

Received the red envelope from my parents, I opened it and took a look, and stepped on the red banknote inside, I smiled and said that my mother and father were really bleeding this time, my mother gave me a white look and said that the New Year was bloody, I suddenly remembered that I couldn't say such words during the New Year, I had to say auspicious words, and hurriedly hit my mouth with my hand, Lin Lan looked at my appearance and bent down with a smile.

I said to Lin Lan that I hadn't gone out for a day, how about driving out for a turn on this festive day, Lin Lan shook her eyebrows, and said okay, she has always wanted to go out to see what the city is like on Chinese New Year's Eve, but there is no chance. My mother asked us to go out and pay attention to safety, I said don't worry, in the middle of the night, or Chinese New Year's Eve, there are few cars on the road, my dad said that there is also attention, Lin Lan took my arm, smiled and said Uncle and aunt don't worry, we will be back in a while.

At this time, on the road, you can rarely see people, the lanterns on both sides of the road are hung high, the lanterns are next to the red Chinese knots, and the colorful lights of the streets and alleys are flashing, which shows the strong flavor of the New Year.

I sat in the car with Lin Lan, giggling, kissing me, when a figure suddenly appeared in front of the car, it scared me a lot, it must have been too late to step on the brakes at that time, I hurriedly hit the steering wheel and rushed into the green belt on the side of the road, Lin Lan was shocked, covered his chest, with a dead face, and said that he was scared to death, what happened to that figure just now, husband, we didn't hit anyone. I'm better than Lin Lan, because before I had time to be scared when the accident happened just now, I instinctively reacted and drove into the green belt. I comforted Lin Lan and said that it was okay, it was okay, I didn't hit anyone, and let her stay in the car, after saying that, I opened the car door, got out of the car, and first went over to look at the figure that suddenly appeared, it turned out to be Li Yu, she was squatting in the middle of the road and vomiting, as if she had drunk a lot of wine. I shouted to Lin Lan to the car and asked her to come down quickly and take a look, it was Li Yu. Lin Lan poked her head out, sighed, and got out of the car and ran over. Lin Lan saw that it was indeed Li Yu, reached out to help her up, and asked her if she was okay and why she was on the street in the middle of the night. While saying that he also fanned the smell of wine on Li Yu's body with his hand, he said how much he had drunk. I got back to the front of the car and found that one of the tires in the back had been punctured by broken glass in the green belt. I told Lin Lan that a car tire had burst, I would change the spare tire first, Lin Lan said okay, and then helped Li Yu to the side of the road to avoid repeating the incident just now.

Opening the trunk of the car, I took out my phone, pressed the flashlight, took out the jack, wrench and spare tire and started to change the tire. After about half an hour of tossing, the spare tire was finally replaced. After packing up the tools on the ground and the bursting tires, I closed the trunk of the car, found a box of wet wipes from the car, took out a few and wiped my hands clean, and saw Lin Lan not far away standing with Li Yu in her arms, Li Yu still looked drunk and unconscious.

I said to Lin Lan that the tires were changed, look at Li Yu's current state, take Li Yu home first, Lin Lan said okay, so I called my parents, briefly talked about the situation, did not say that there was almost an accident, just said that I met an acquaintance, drunk, no one to take care of the New Year, we will take people back to me first, and we will not go home, my mother said that this is the New Year, let's take people home to celebrate the New Year together, my father also echoed and said yes, I said no, but also fortunate to them, let them rest early, and we will go back when it is over。 After speaking, he hung up the phone and took Li Yu back to Star River.