CCTV News: January 18, 2024 is the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month of the lunar calendar. As the saying goes, “After Laba, it is the New Year.” As soon as “Laba Festival” is over, people all over the country buy New Year’s goods and make reservations for New Year’s Eve dinners, and the “New Year’s flavor” becomes more and more intense.
Citizens queue up to celebrate Laba Festival
In Shanxi, which is famous for its vinegar, local people have the custom of pickling “Laba garlic” with old vinegar. Early in the morning, long queues formed at the entrances of some time-honored vinegar shops in Taiyuan, Shanxi.
“Laba” vinegar is one of the important ways for Taiyuan citizens to welcome the New Year. Citizens who make vinegar mostly use various containers they bring with them. There is a long and bustling queue outside the store, and the store is filled with a strong aroma of vinegar, which expresses everyone’s good expectations for the New Year.
The fragrant Laba porridge is full of “New Year flavor” and brings happiness to neighbors.
Over the past two days, red lanterns were hung high in Anju Community in Beidaihe District, Qinhuangdao, Hebei Province. Elderly people living here from Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei gathered together to participate in the “Love Laba Happy Neighborhood” event held by the community. The Laba porridge made with peanuts, rice, red beans, mint and other ingredients is full of aroma. In addition to tasting the Laba porridge, the elderly also gather together to make Laba garlic and visit the New Year market.
Small town’s Spring Festival market attracts many tourists
In Dayin Town, Yuyao City, Zhejiang Province, traditional cultural activities such as guessing lantern riddles, dragon dancing, writing blessing characters, and throwing pots for blessings have attracted many tourists. The children had on-site experience making various local specialty snacks to bring good luck to the New Year. The strong “New Year flavor” also attracts many foreign friends.
Go to the market to buy frozen fish for the New Year market, supply and sales are booming
In the weather of more than minus 20 degrees Celsius, a large market in Tongjiang, Heilongjiang was filled with frozen fish. Merchants are busy greeting customers, weighing, and packaging at one go.
Rural fairs welcome the New Year with smoke and fire
The Spring Festival is approaching, and new products for the New Year are being launched all over the country. The large market in Caoqiao Village, Yandan Town, Jianhu County, Yancheng City, Jiangsu Province is filled with all kinds of New Year’s goods, and the scene is filled with a prosperous “New Year’s flavor”.
The New Year’s goods market is lively and festive, with stalls filled with various local specialties, such as chicken, duck, fish, dried vegetables and mountain products, rice, noodles, grains and oils.
Walking in the lively market, you can also taste various delicacies, such as fried rice, dried sweet potatoes, lotus root balls, big fish balls and other local specialties, which attract many foreign tourists. Everyone shuttled between the markets and felt the strong flavor of the New Year.
In addition to the dazzling array of New Year goods, the local area has also prepared a variety of cultural and artistic programs. Huai Opera, Allegro, sketches, a good show. The bright red character “福” and a pair of festive Spring Festival couplets created on the spot made people feel the strong “New Year flavor”.
[Editor in charge: Dong Jing]
2024-01-18 12:58:00
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