拜大年

Greetings for the Spring Festival

在莱州一带,每逢过年,家家户户都有悬挂影谱祭拜祖宗的风俗,同时传承下来过年拜年的习俗。大年三十晚上,自古有“一夜连双岁,五更分二年”的说法。传统习俗,时钟响过午夜12点后,就是新的一年了,老人会把沉睡中的孩子们叫起床来,开始下饺子“抓元宝”了。这个时候,整个村子里就热闹起来,到处响起噼里啪啦的鞭炮声。三十晚上的饺子叫“元宝”,吃饺子叫抓“元宝”。

Every household in Laizhou observes the custom of hanging its lineage map to worship ancestors and hands down the convention of making a ceremonial call in the Spring Festival.As an ancient saying goes,the night of the Spring Festival Eve connecting two years at the fifth watch(3:00-5:00 am).According to the traditional custom,when a new year arrives as the clock strikes twelve in the midnight,the el-ders would awaken the slumbering children and boil dumplings as a token of seeking gold ingots.Then the whole vil-lage becomes jovial with the cracklings of firecrackers here and there.