子どもの頃の大晦日は

今年も押し迫って来ました

お正月の過ごし方は各家庭様々であるのと同様に大晦日もそれぞれの習慣がありますね

僕が子どもの頃👦🏻の大晦日の思い出と言えば…

朝から大掃除🧹🧽

子どもたちは神棚の神器を磨く当番

三人でピカピカに磨きあげると

親戚の家に煮物をもらいに行きます

紅白歌合戦を観て

12時少し前に年越し蕎麦を食べます

いよいよ新しい年を迎える午前12時ぴったりに恵方の向きを確かめ、冬至の日に神社でもらって来たお札を貼ります

そして福茶を飲み🍵　　

新しい年を祝い🎉

神様と仏様にお参りします

でもこれで終わりではありません

年越し蕎麦を2、3本炙った煙を燻らせてお財布に入れます

これで金運が上がるって言うことで…💴💴💴

とにかく慌ただしく大晦日が過ぎ   元旦を迎えたものです

皆さまの大晦日はどんなですか？

門之助

Two more days left.

How you spend New Year’s Eve depends on each family.

It was the children’s responsibility to polish ritual articles in my family.

Proud to be part of qualified adults to prepare annual family events, my sisters and I would furnish them.

Then we all go to my relative’s to pick up some dishes they had made for us.

When we went home, we enjoy watching the famous special year end TV program.

Right before 12AM, we would have soba called “Toshikoshi Soba”.

At twelve sharp, we check the coming year’s good luck direction and paste the amulet on a wall that we had had gotten at the shrine on the day of winter solstice. 

Then we drunk “Fukucha” to celebrate new year and pray to our ancestors and Japanese Shinto deities.

Phew...

But this is not the end!

You roast two to three soba noodles and have the smoke go into wallets because they say with this, you can receive financial windfall.

As you see, the New Year’s Eves in my childhood were quite hectic.

Just out of curiosity, how are your new year’s eves?