春节老规矩

照我们那里的老规矩，春节差不多在过小年就开始了。在过小年时大人们忙着预备过年吃的、喝的、用的。小孩子们准备过年玩的鞭炮。好在新年时显出万象更新的气象。在腊月二十七左右，家家都要做年糕，那金灿灿的年糕直让人流口水，使人迫不及待的想吃几块。

腊月三十真热闹。家家赶做年菜，空气里弥漫着酒肉的香味。男女老少都穿起了新衣，门外贴上了红红的对联，屋里贴好了各色的年画。在吃团圆饭时，饭桌上无论如何都要有鱼，因为俗话说的好“年年有余(鱼)”，大家边吃边聊天，还边说吉祥话。小孩子们最喜欢过年了，有好多好多好吃的、有瓜子嗑、有饮料喝。饭吃完了有的打会儿牌，聊聊天。除夕夜家家灯火通宵，不会间断。每家每户都看央视“春节联欢晚会”。快到了十二点时，联欢晚会的主持人还没有报时，鞭炮声就啪啪的响了起来，大人们都把鞭炮放完了，就该我们小孩子们上场了，大家都拿出了自己准备的鞭炮，等待已久的孩子们都迫不及待的拿出打火机，你家一个“飞轮”上了天，他家一个“冲天炮”也飞上了天，大家好像都在比谁家的玩意儿多，飞得高。

正月初一的光景与腊月三十截然不同:各家店铺都关了门，门前堆着昨夜燃放的爆竹纸皮。小孩们一大早就到亲戚家拜年。一句吉祥话，一个大红包，拿着红包跑到角落里偷偷的看:哇!五张一百元耶!，高兴的跳了起来，嘴里边喊:“哦，我发大财了。”心想一大早就有这样好的开头，今天的收获一定会不少。回家的时候，口袋里鼓鼓的，可是最大的红包最多的钱都被妈妈拿去了。

元宵上市，又是春节的一个高潮。妈妈拿出特意留下的猪耳朵、猪尾巴，还端出香喷喷的元宵。在我们那里元宵节被称为“尾巴年”。在那天晚上，每家每户都要灯火通宵，也要放鞭炮，可能是送走春节的最后一天吧。

春节的最后一天就从那香喷喷的元宵中，灯的世界中、啪啪直响的鞭炮中过去了。大人们照常做事，小孩子们该去上学了。

英语翻译：

According to our old rules, the Spring Festival begins almost in the new year. During the new year, the adults are busy preparing food, drink, and use for the New Year. Children are going to play with firecrackers for the New Year. Fortunately, in the New Year, Vientiane is renewed. Around the twenty-seventh of the twelfth lunar month, every family will make rice cakes. The golden rice cakes make people drool and make people want to eat a few pieces.

The 30th of the twelfth lunar month is really lively. Every family is rushing to make New Year dishes, and the air is filled with the aroma of wine and meat. Men, women, children, and children all wore new clothes, red couplets were pasted outside the door, and New Year pictures of various colors were pasted inside the house. When having a reunion dinner, there must be fish on the dinner table anyway. As the saying goes, "There is more than (fish) every year", everyone eats and chats and says auspicious words. Children like the New Year the most. There are so many delicious foods, melon seeds, and drinks. After dinner, some play cards and chat. On New Year’s Eve, every house is lit up all night without interruption. Every household watched the CCTV "Spring Festival Gala". When it was almost twelve o’clock, the host of the gala hadn’t reported the time, and the firecrackers rang out. The adults had all set off the firecrackers. It was time for us children to play. Everyone took out their own preparations. The long-awaited children can’t wait to take out the lighter. A "flywheel" in your house has gone to the sky, and a "sky cannon" in his house has also flew into the sky. Everyone seems to be doing more things than others. , Fly high.

The scene on the first day of the first lunar month is completely different from the 30th day of the twelfth lunar month: all shops are closed, and the firecrackers that were set off last night are piled up in front of them. The children went to their relatives to pay a New Year greeting early in the morning. An auspicious remark, a big red envelope, took the red envelope and ran to the corner to look secretly: Wow! Five sheets of one hundred yuan! He jumped up happily and shouted: "Oh, I'm rich." I want to have such a good beginning early in the morning, and I will have a lot of gains today. When I went home, my pocket was bulging, but my mother took the biggest red envelope and the most money.

The launch of the Lantern Festival is another climax of the Spring Festival. The mother took out the pig ears and pig tails that she had left behind, and also brought out the fragrant Lantern Festival. In our place, the Lantern Festival is called "The Year of the Tail". On that night, every household had to light up all night and set off firecrackers. It might be the last day of the Spring Festival.

The last day of the Spring Festival passed from the fragrant Lantern Festival, the world of lights, and the crackling firecrackers. The adults do things as usual, and the children should go to school.