“爆竹声中一岁竹，春风送暖入屠苏”春节是我们一年中最轻松，最愉快的时候，在这个节日中，全国人民举国同庆，处处洋溢着笑容，可热闹了呢！
我的家长在章丘，那里的人们勤劳善良，一进腊月人们就开始为春节做准备，杀鸡宰猪、扫房、蒸馒头，花卷……可谓是没有一刻闲着的，到了除夕春节便迎来了第一个高潮。
除夕是家家户户贴春联的日子，这一天，我一大早就起来了，帮助奶奶一起和贴春联用的糨糊，爸爸和妈妈也没闲着，忙着把一卷厚厚的春联全部打开。哇！红红的纸上写着几个工整的大字，纸的形状也各有不同，有大的，有小的，有宽的，有窄的，有短的，有长的……让人看的眼花缭乱。
听爸爸说，在我们章丘，贴春联的时辰也是大有讲究的呢！今年要在上午10时才可以贴，因为寓意着美好，幸福！于是我等啊等啊……
大人们在往春联的反面刷淋糨糊，而我最感兴趣的是这么多春联都该贴在哪呢？
“一帆风顺年年好，万事如意步步高”我小心翼翼展开这幅春联，“这是贴在门房上的，因为房门最大！”我胸有成竹地嚷着。
“你说对啦！那你知道春节贴春联有什么寓意，来历与发展吗？”爸爸满脸笑意。
“额……”这下可给我难住了，我挠了挠头发，脸上充满了疑惑。
“哈哈！这下不知道了吧！春联起源于桃符，桃符这种形式在周代就已经形成了。最初人们也不刻什么桃符，直接用桃木刻成人的形状挂在门房，后来感觉太麻烦了，干脆直接在这个木板上题写门神的名字得了。一直到了第五代西蜀的宫廷里就有人在桃符上题写联语了。我们现在贴的春联是为了辟邪除灾、迎纳祥福，还象征着美好的祝愿和愿景，在我们这儿，除了家里死了人的，都要贴春联。有的春联上还有鱼纹，寓意着年年有余的美好寓意。大门上的这幅春联，你感觉是什么意思呢？”爸爸为我解释道。
“应该是寓意着我们全家在新的一年中一帆风顺，万事如意吗？”我又读了两遍，按着字面意思，不确定地回答。
“说得好呀！这次新冠疫情，让我们知道了健康的重要性，买这幅春联不仅希望我们一家平平安安，还希望我们的国家更加繁荣富强。”爸爸点点头表示同意。
我又好奇地指着写有“财源广进”的春联问：“爸爸，这个又小又短的是什么呀！”
“这是横批，完贴在大门的最顶端，是对春联内容的概括，我们新的一年，必定财源广进！”爸爸回答道。
时辰终于到了，爸爸一边笑眯眯地和我谈论着，一边在我的帮助下贴好春联。爸爸还仔细地用扫帚轻轻地抚平边边角角。接着把所有的字都审视一遍，仿佛贴上的那一刻，家人们的美好期许都实现了呢！
“还有一个“福”字，让我来贴吧！”我恳求道。
“好！”
我学着爸爸的样子，把糨糊淋到“福”字上，拿着“福”准备往大门上贴，就在快要贴上之时，“别，等等！”爸爸喊住了我。
“在咱们这，福子要倒着贴，表示“福到”，所以快点倒过来贴吧！”爸爸对我解释道。
我立刻把福子倒了过来，贴在了大门中间，用扫帚修饰了边边角角，我抚摸着，一个完美的福字就贴好了！
“别看春联只有寥寥数字，其中的寓意可深呢！咱老百姓对新一年的盼头可都在里面呢！这是我们流传千年的传统美德，一定要传承下去呀！”爸爸语重心长的说道。
我和爸爸看着火红的春联，感受它的魔力――这意味着我们一定会越来越好！我们的祖国一定会繁荣昌盛！
“千门万户瞳瞳日，总把新桃换旧符”这时，门外又响起了“噼里啪啦”的爆竹声，这是人们对年的念念不忘，更是人们对美好生活的盼望！我永远热爱春节的氛围――热闹，温暖。
"One-year-old bamboo in the sound of firecrackers, and the spring breeze brings warmth into Tusu." The Spring Festival is the most relaxing and pleasant time of our year. During this festival, the people of the whole country celebrate together, with smiles everywhere, and it is very lively!
My parents are in Zhangqiu, where people are hard-working and kind. As soon as they enter the twelfth lunar month, people start preparing for the Spring Festival, killing chickens and pigs, cleaning houses, steaming buns, and flower rolls... It can be said that there is never a moment of idleness. Ushered in the first climax.
New Year's Eve is the day when every family pastes the Spring Festival couplets. On this day, I got up early in the morning to help my grandmother with the paste for sticking the Spring Festival couplets. My father and mother were not idle and were busy opening all the thick rolls of Spring Festival couplets. Wow! Several neat large characters are written on the red paper, and the shapes of the paper are also different, some are large, some are small, some are wide, some are narrow, some are short, some are long... Dazzled.
I heard from my father that in Zhangqiu, the timing of sticking Spring Festival couplets is also very particular! This year, you can only post at 10 am, because it means beauty and happiness! So I wait and wait...
The adults are putting paste on the back of the Spring Festival couplets, and I am most interested in where should all the Spring Festival couplets be posted?
"Every year is smooth sailing, everything goes well, backgammon" I carefully unfolded the Spring Festival couplet, "This is posted on the doorman, because the door is the largest!" I shouted confidently.
"You're right! Then do you know the meaning, origin and development of the Spring Festival couplets?" Dad smiled.
"Uh..." This time I was stumped, I scratched my hair, and my face was full of doubts.
"Haha! I don't know now! The Spring Festival couplets originated from the peach talisman, and this form of peach talisman has been formed in the Zhou Dynasty. At first, people didn't carve any peach talismans, but directly used peach wood to carve an adult shape and hang it in the gatehouse. Later, it felt too troublesome. Now, let's just write the name of the door god directly on this wooden board. Until the fifth generation of the palace of Xishu, someone wrote couplets on the peach symbols. The Spring Festival couplets we paste now are to ward off evil spirits and eliminate disasters and welcome good luck. It also symbolizes good wishes and visions. In our place, except for those who have died in the family, we must paste the Spring Festival couplets. Some of the Spring Festival couplets have fish patterns on them, which means the good meaning of having more than one year. This Spring Festival couplet on the gate, What do you feel?" Dad explained to me.
"Should it imply that our family will have a good year and everything goes well in the new year?" I read it twice, and answered it literally, uncertainly.
"Well said! This new crown epidemic has taught us the importance of health. Buying this Spring Festival couplet not only hopes that our family will be safe, but also that our country will be more prosperous and strong." Dad nodded in agreement.
Curiously, I pointed to the Spring Festival couplet with "Prosperity of wealth" written on it and asked, "Dad, what is this small and short one!"
"This is a horizontal batch. It is posted on the top of the gate. It is a summary of the content of the Spring Festival couplets. We will definitely make a lot of money in the new year!" Dad replied.
When the time finally came, my father was talking to me with a smile, and he posted the Spring Festival couplets with my help. Dad also carefully smoothed the edges and corners with a broom. Then look at all the words, as if the moment you paste it, the family's beautiful expectations have come true!
"There's another word for "Fu", let me post it!" I pleaded.
"it is good!"
Following my father's example, I poured the paste onto the word "Fu" and prepared to stick it on the gate with the "Fu" in hand. Just when I was about to put it on, "No, wait!" Dad stopped me.
"Here we are, Fuzi is going to post upside down to mean "blessed arrival", so hurry up and post upside down!" Dad explained to me.
I immediately turned the blessing upside down, pasted it in the middle of the gate, decorated the edges and corners with a broom, I stroked it, and a perfect blessing was pasted!
"Don't look at the only few numbers in the Spring Festival couplets, the meaning of which is very deep! Our people's expectations for the new year are all in it! This is our traditional virtue that has been passed down for thousands of years, and it must be passed on!" Dad said earnestly.
My dad and I looked at the red couplets and felt their magic - which meant we were bound to get better and better! Our motherland will surely prosper!
"Thousands of households will always exchange new peaches for old talismans." At this time, the sound of "crackling" firecrackers sounded outside the door. This is people's unforgettable year, and it is people's hope for a better life! I always love the atmosphere of the Spring Festival - lively and warm.
