The New Year's Eve is the main event
Before the New Year's Eve
Dusting - cleaning the house clean, the windows and doors of the furniture brushed spotless, after the big cleanup. After such a cleaning, every family is like moving into a new house.
Buy New Year's goods --- eat and drink well is the most important thing during the year, these days to buy enough food for seven days to eat dishes, because the first day of the first seven, the food market is nothing to sell. Rural families also have to make their own tofu, kill the New Year's pig and steam some noodles.
Lunar New Year's Eve
In the morning, the men in the family are hanging lanterns, paste spring couplets, etc., of course, the most important thing is to pay homage to the ancestors, each family should sweep the ground, pour all the garbage and sewage, burn incense, light candles, set off firecrackers, set up offerings, kowtow to the ancestors, if there are old people in the family in the year of the death of the family, but also to go out to the grave, "burning money", send New Year's Eve dinner! "and send New Year's Eve dinner, the home of the Spring Festival couplets can not paste red.
Women are buried in the kitchen to make dishes, cooked enough to eat three days of New Year's Eve. According to the custom, you can't eat raw rice three days before New Year's Eve. Older people repeatedly tell their children and grandchildren to be careful about what they do and say during the New Year, otherwise the year will be unlucky.
2:00-4:00 p.m., said the New Year's Eve dinner, but in fact most families eat in the afternoon, housewives set out dishes wine and rice, invited out the elderly elders, into the table. And the table is usually more than twenty dishes, the number of dishes is an even number, the dishes should have meat rounds and chub fish (fish is not allowed to move chopsticks).
My favorite is the firecrackers before the New Year's Eve dinner, home firecrackers New Year's Eve atmosphere is very strong, and the New Year's Eve dinner before the release of the largest firecrackers is bound to be my uncle every year will be prepared under the thirty-thousand loud firecrackers, and then take drying clothes hanging on the bamboo poles to light, and the children are the most excited about this moment, because in addition to the firecrackers, in the New Year's Eve dinner, they will be expected to get the New Year's Eve money for a year.
0:00, zero is the time belonging to the fireworks, thousands of households at the same time set off fireworks to form a spectacular scene, the sky is reflected in the red half.
After the first day of the New Year
On the first day of the New Year, the first thing to do to open the door is to fire "open the door cannon" in front of their homes, the deafening sound of firecrackers, heralding the New Year's red-hot new life. After the "open door cannon" let go is the time to pay New Year's greetings, if in accordance with the customary order, generally the first to the nearest uncle and family elders to pay New Year's greetings, and then to the uncle, father-in-law, aunt, cousin and aunt to pay New Year's greetings, and finally to the friends and neighbors to pay New Year's greetings. Every family has to prepare cigarettes, wine and fruits to entertain the guests. But for people like us, who have limited vacation time, we don't go to all of them.
■ "to" the year
The first seven "people day" to see Nuo opera
My grandfather's Liu Street is the most concentrated area of Nuo opera in Chizhou. Nuo opera is generally in the first seven "people day" this day, the location of the ancestral temple. Nuo opera is actually used to worship the land or ancestors of the ritual theater, the afternoon, Nuo opera troupe will walk through the door from every house, and we need to set off firecrackers, pick up the "Bodhisattva".
For example, "Liu Wenlong catching the test" this section of the play, before the official opening is a section of the umbrella dance as a pad, this is the worship of God's dance, only to see a play robes with masks, constantly rotating a large red umbrella, stepping next to the rhythm of the gongs or squatting or standing.
This time I happened to see the play I bumped into the Chinese Nuo Nuo opera research adviser, more than 70 years old Wang Zhaoqian teacher, he began to pay attention to the local Nuo opera in Chizhou from 1953, every year the first seven hitched here, he told me, Nuo word from the oracle bone, is the Shang and Zhou Dynasty wizards to drive away the ghosts and gods of a dance. The umbrella dance is one of the most representative, ancient books have records, the Shang and Zhou that the sky as a cover, the sky as an umbrella, the dance umbrella is actually the dance of the sky, I hope that the Tao of Heaven are to help people to bring a good year of wind and rain.
After the umbrella dance is the main play on stage, all the people are still wearing masks, or female or male, or young or weng, the mouth also issued a babble of words --- I do not understand, Mr. Wang explained that the play is divided into eighteen sections, and now playing the New Year's Eve a play, but also the Spring Festival is the most often performed, sung by Liu Wenlong's famous song. The first one is about Liu Wenlong's birthday celebration for his hometown parents.
To be honest, and then look down, I really can not see the beauty of the play, but I was infected by the ancestral shrine of the hometown fathers and mothers, their faces are overflowing with the joy of the New Year, as well as the expectations of the coming year. View Nuo opera this habit from their very young when they penetrated into their blood, has become a necessary content of the New Year.
■ "old" year
"send stove master" ceremony than before fade