The Spring Festival is the most important, solemn and long-standing ritual of the Chinese, and New Year's greetings are one of the most important contents of this ceremony.
The way of greeting the New Year has changed, and these decades have exceeded those of the past few hundred or even thousands of years.
When I was a child, we got up to eat New Year's dinner before dawn on the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve. Early in the morning, I heard the sound of firecrackers in the village, which meant that a neighbor had started to eat New Year's dinner. Before eating, the ancestors should be placed on the incense table in the hall house, and then firecrackers will be set off outside the door, and the family will sit together to eat the New Year's dinner. After dinner, we went up the mountain to worship our ancestors.
On the first day of the Lunar New Year, adults and children wear new clothes and go out to greet the New Year. Start with the close neighbors in the village, or start with the elders, and the family follows the prayers.
There are people in the main family who go out to pay New Year's greetings, and there are also elderly people who stay at home to greet New Year's visitors. Generally, a few words of congratulations and auspicious words are said, and the host family takes out peanuts, melon seeds, candy, and tea to entertain them. In a few minutes or ten minutes, I will leave and go to another house.
If an old man dies in the village in the first year, the first thing to do is to go to this house. Don't talk when you go, bow down on the ground, and speak again when you get up.
New Year's greetings should be completed in the morning, and in the afternoon, everyone will play cards, chess, and chat. If a family marries a new daughter-in-law a few years ago, they usually go to his house to have a lively time. Adults may also have to do some housework, and children are already in the wild.
On the second day of the Lunar New Year, I went to my grandmother's house to pay New Year's greetings. At that time, when they were poor, the Bai family usually took two things, such as a large piece of glutinous rice cake with flowers printed on it, and a packet of brown sugar or other sweets. Relatives often won't let you come back empty-handed, and will give back one or two things, at least some peanuts and melon seeds.
From the third day of the Lunar New Year to the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, I went to visit relatives farther away.
One of my family's farthest relatives was my aunt, who was about twenty miles away. Generally, we go from the third to the fifth day of the junior high school, because there is a family in the same village that also has relatives in that village, and our two families will make an appointment to go.
After breakfast, I will set off, take the ridge road, machine farming road, and I can only arrive in the morning. After lunch, sit down and talk for an hour before returning home, otherwise it will be dark when you come back.
When I was in junior high school, I rode my bicycle to my aunt's house for New Year's greetings. Because it's all paths, sometimes I fall and get my clothes dirty.
At this time, some people are already taking the passenger shuttle bus to greet the New Year, provided that the two are just not far from the highway, it is convenient to wait for the bus, and there is a suitable line.
After 2000, mobile phones gradually became popular, and text messages became popular. However, relatives and friends who are closer still have to come to the door to pay New Year's greetings.
In a few years, when I watched the Spring Festival Gala, the text message prompts on my mobile phone kept sounding, which were all text messages from colleagues, classmates, relatives, and friends to greet the New Year.
I usually copy a few of the better ones from these texts and send them to other people. There are some popular New Year's greeting text messages that are estimated to have spread all over the country. Because of the sameness, everyone has aesthetic fatigue with these New Year's greeting text messages, and the replies are becoming less and less.
QQ and WeChat New Year's greetings are the same as SMS New Year's greetings, and they have also been popular for a while. Now the limelight of WeChat has overshadowed QQ, and there are some relatives and friends who are far away from WeChat contact.
The way of New Year's greetings has changed a lot, but the connotation of New Year's greetings has not changed much, and they all want to use the Spring Festival, the most traditional festival of the Chinese nation, to connect feelings, enhance friendship, and express thoughts.
Friends, do you have any new ways to share New Year's greetings?
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