Should say what the most lively festival is one year? That affirmation is the Spring Festival! My native place is in Heibei a village of Baoding, in dried meat 8, have when the New Year's Eve, festival of lanterns those who differ is consuetudinary.
要说一年最热闹的节日是什么？那肯定是春节啦！我的老家在河北保定的一个村子，在腊八、除夕、元宵节时都有不同的习俗。
Dried meat 8, it is the biggest climax during the Spring Festival, also be the first main festival. Dried meat this days 8, we can write a composition endure rice porridge with nuts and dried fruit eaten on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. invocatory new the bumper harvest in a year is lucky.
腊八，是春节期间的第一大高潮，也是第一个重要节日。腊八这天，我们都会熬腊八粥。这种腊八粥是用来祭祖、祭先和祭神的，祈求新一年里丰收吉祥。
During the New Year's Eve is the Spring Festival the the most lively, most festival when. Domestic home wears new clothes, put firecracker, stick spring festival scrolls. About these consuetudinary still have a fokelore: Be in very long a long time ago, have a kind of beast of prey, be called year of animal, also cry " evening " , every arrive the twelfth month of the lunar year this days 30, can run to harm the mankind and livestock. People is very scared. Came at this moment an old person, the old person puts a firecracker, affix Gong Gong's couplet, year animal is frightened so that move also did not move. The old person puts on red garment to burst out laughing again, frighten year of animal is directly escaped. Had then spend the New Year these are consuetudinary.
除夕算是春节期间最热闹、最喜庆的时候了。家家穿新衣、放鞭炮、贴春联。关于这些习俗还有一个传说：在很久很久以前，有一种猛兽，叫做年兽，也叫作“夕”，每到腊月三十这天，就会跑出来伤害人类和牲畜。人们十分恐惧。这时来了一位老人，老人放起鞭炮，贴上红红的对联，年兽吓得动也不动了。老人又穿上红衣哈哈大笑，吓得年兽直接逃跑了。于是就有了过年的这些习俗。
There still is a few in Heibei consuetudinary: Firecracker opens the door to pay a New Year call at the beginning of the first month of the lunar year, mammon of the 2 hold a memorial ceremony for at the beginning of the first month of the lunar year, at the beginning of the first month of the lunar year 3 do not go out... in Baoding, spend the New Year to do snuff even, use pray blessing. Small snuff is nodded in house, headlight of the dot outside house is beautiful, red like dragon is same,
在河北还有一些习俗：正月初一开门炮仗拜年，正月初二祭财神，正月初三不出门……在保定，过年还要做灯花，用来祈福。屋里点小灯花，屋外点大灯花，就像一条红龙一样，家家连在一起。
My native place is in a country, but also mix spend the New Year euqally in the city, and outside notching too lively.
我的老家在农村，但也和城里一样过年，而且过得分外热闹。(文/陈隽竹)