When the twelfth lunar month comes, children are looking forward to the New Year, especially those from poor families. They usually can't put on new clothes or eat anything good, but in the New Year, their parents will prepare some food and drinks for their children, even if they are tired, they will make new clothes.

At that time, as long as I drank Laba porridge, it was not far from the New Year. So the children sang nursery rhymes:

Children, children, don't be greedy, after Laba is the year;

Laba porridge, after drinking for a few days, is twenty-three miles away; Twenty-three, honeydew melon is sticky; Twenty-four house sweeps;

Twenty-five, frozen tofu; Twenty-six, go to buy meat;

Twenty-seven, slaughter the rooster; Twenty-eight, send face;

Twenty-nine, steamed bread; Stay up for 30 nights;

Walking all over the street the first day and the second day.

Because every family has to go out to pay New Year's greetings on the first and second days of New Year's Day, the streets are full of people coming and going at this time. This nursery rhyme vividly summarizes the whole custom that people are busy with the Chinese New Year, and has been widely circulated in Beijing for many years.

Make fun of ... make fun of ... beg Doby;

Rice cakes dipped in sugar, jujube chestnuts, begonia.

China New Year is coming. Adults will go shopping for new year's goods, and children will follow adults to go shopping for all kinds of delicious food and fun. There were many snacks and fruits in the street at that time. The seller spread the rice cake on the chopping board, how much to buy, cut it with a knife, and then put a spoonful of sugar on it, and the child dipped it in sugar. In the twelfth month, the children added:

Honey melons worship the stove, and the new year is coming;

Girls want flowers, boys want guns;

The old man wants a new felt hat.

The old lady needs a new cotton-padded jacket.

Offering sacrifices to stoves is an old custom in Chinese New Year. Once the stove is provided, it will be closer to the New Year. At this time, children can not only eat Guandong candy, but also go shopping to buy all kinds of firecrackers. On New Year's Eve, put on new clothes and light lanterns, and you can enjoy yourself. After setting off firecrackers and eating jiaozi in the middle of the night, you will kowtow to your elders and pay New Year's greetings. In nursery rhymes, I say:

Samsung is in the south, and every family pays New Year's greetings;

The younger generation kowtows and the older generation pays.

If you want money, turn around and leave.

At this time, the children became very good and kowtowed to the old man one by one. The old people smile at their grandchildren, and each of them will get a small red envelope to make the children safe and lucky. This red envelope contains lucky money.

In the past, when children said nursery rhymes, they often improvised words, some of which were out of tune and some were for reading, so sometimes there were several versions of a nursery rhyme. Generation after generation of children are talking and singing like this. When they grow up, they walk out of the quadrangle and the hutong. Nowadays, children celebrate the New Year almost every day, and the living standard of every household is many times better than in the past. However, the customs of old Beijing are still intact in one nursery rhyme after another.

Has the Spring Festival passed? No, it's still there, just waiting for next year!