Turn the page in 2023 Who stole the flavor of the New Year.
The winter moon is halfway, and it is not far from the New Year when it enters the wax moon in the blink of an eye.
For Chinese, the Chinese New Year is the most important, grand and elaborate festival of the year. Say goodbye to the old and welcome the new, receive blessings, family reunions, family and friend gatherings, fade away the tiredness and unhappiness of the past year, and integrate into the new life, new dreams and new journeys with a new mood, new attitude, new spirit and energy. Every New Year's Festival, regardless of the countryside and the city, rich and rich families, men, women and children, all are immersed in the joyful festival.
In the past, the dolls always thought that the days of the previous year were slow, and they counted with their fingers every day, wishing that Ming'er would be the twenty-third year of the lunar month. As soon as the new year passes, it means that the prelude to the big year has begun. Killing pigs and slaughtering sheep, buying New Year's goods, pasting Spring Festival couplets, setting off firecrackers, wearing foreign culture, eating fragrant incense, going to relatives, visiting doors, receiving New Year's money, watching big dramas, and social fire, like a small mule and foal, sprinkled with joy and joy, a festive and vibrant taste of the New Year.
There is a saying in Naishi, "Once the Laba people are confused", this is not false at all. It means that people drink Laba porridge and have a feeling that the New Year is approaching. I can't afford to buy anything on weekdays, and when it comes to the New Year, I forget all about the thrifty habits of ordinary days, "I'd rather be poor for a year than be poor", and it's still the New Year!This is also the time of the year when ordinary people, especially rural people, are most willing to spend money.
The outside family (the male owner) is worried about turning over the money for the New Year, and handing it over to the house (hostess) to make a planned exchange (expense). It is often said, "A man is a rake, and a woman is a box." I am not afraid that the rake will have no teeth, but I am afraid that the box will have no bottom." The blind life of the year depends on the house (hostess) to smooth it. Nowadays, women's families are also financially independent, and then the man is tighter, and the mobile phone can be swiped vigorously, it seems that the money spent is the melon, and how many "boxes" are there?
The people who order the day 婐 (wo) 偞 (ye) (good meaning) will press the bowl of New Year's hospitality before Chinese New Year's Eve. Sliver meat, steamed pork, crispy meat, bad meat, square meat, eight-treasure sweet rice, etc. After these bowls are pressed, firstly, they are not busy on the day of hospitality, and secondly, there are these hard dishes that are both solid and high-grade. When I followed my father to Uncle Po's house in Wujiapo, I went to two or three doors, and my father inquired early to see who had more bowls and more oil and water, so he took me to someone's house for dinner. In those years, people had little oil and water in their stomachs, so they naturally liked meat and fat soup, and now they are eating and eating back, and Qingsu wild vegetables have become their favorite
The house (hostess) should sew new clothes for the New Year, take new shoes, use socks to make new socks, dismantle and wash the bedding, beat the house (do hygiene), steam the jujube cakes at the door, oil towers, and then steam the buns and buns eaten for the New Year. After the twenty-third year of the lunar month, the woman's family was busy "hooking shoes and not picking up hats". Smooth the clothes for the babies are all borrowed from the dark people to stay up under the lamp (night) to prepare. Now you go to the street and see, which one still wears dismantled clothes and makes their own shoes and socks?
During the Chinese New Year, there are at least five or six relatives at home, aunts, uncles, sisters, aunts, and fathers-in-law, and the relationship between relatives is diverse. Ordinary relatives should be courteous to at least three or four generations, and the farther the relationship, the more enthusiastic they will greet each other. Eat whistle noodles first for distant relatives to get a bowl of noodles, give enough old relatives face and lining, now it's good, the New Year's relatives can't even go through three generations, many descendants don't know their roots. In addition to the influence of people's utilitarian tendencies, who still knows how many young people now, who still has so many aunts and aunts?Not to mention my aunt and aunt's generation.
Wang Anshi, a politician of the Northern Song Dynasty, wrote in a poem on the first day of the Yuan Dynasty: "In the sound of cannons and candles, the spring breeze sends warmth into Tusu." There is "the sound of firecrackers to bid farewell to the old year, and red plums to welcome the new year". There are countless verses about fireworks and firecrackers, all of which show that fireworks and firecrackers bring joy and joy to people during the New Year. Especially from midnight on Chinese New Year's Eve to the time when the chickens crow, the sound of firecrackers in every household comes and goes, and the carpet-like red tongtong skin on the first day of the new year is so festive and warm!But listen, in recent years, with the local "ban on burning", there is no crackling sound, no more colorful fireworks in the sky, and no more red and fiery vitality!
The New Year's money I received earlier was a dime or two cents. When I was a child, I went to my uncle's house a young man named Aunt gave me five cents of New Year's money, and came back happy for a few months, and then from time to time I took out the five cents to shine, and took a rare look. But the premise is that no matter how much money you receive, you have to kowtow to your elders as a big gift. And now the dolls are being given New Year's money, why don't they wake up from sleep, and they don't pay attention. Some parents have no education for their babies, and they can't even hold back people, and they are not the ones who make the New Year's money. What's even more ridiculous is that the mobile phone is not visible at all, and the red envelope is in hand. The amount of money has increased tenfold and hundredfold, or even tens of millions of times, and adult dolls seem to have no sense of ceremony, and the traditional culture of pressing New Year's money has been replaced by modern telecommunications tools, and there is not even a little taste at all.
At that time, when I went to the door, I carried the gift bun in a bamboo cage, wrapped a white skin snack, and gave my father-in-law a bottle of Xifeng wine, which was considered a heavy gift. Besides, I only go to one family of relatives a day, eat two meals, and then cheer up the family between the two meals, say some heart-wrenching words, share the experience of living with my confidants, and tell my relatives about the grievances they have suffered for life, which is quite cordial. It's good now, drive in the car and load a trunk Lixing, go to seven or eight relatives a day and don't eat a meal, and when you come back, you have to tell your wife to do it tightly for us, and make people hungry. Visiting relatives and friends has become a burden, and there is no such kind of kinship that should be felt from the heart!
I think that the older village will call the opera troupe to sing a big opera during the New Year's Festival, and the host will take the seven aunts and eight aunts to watch the play, not only to contact the feelings, but also to take the opportunity to cheer for the family or even to mention a family to the baby, saying that a matchmaker will do good deeds. It's a pity that there is no such meeting now, it's not that I don't want to have it, but the entertainment mode is diversified, there is a TV at home, a mobile phone with me, and I know the world without leaving home. It's not a humane society anymore, now there is not even an aunt and two aunts, and the title of people has long been out of generation, and it is not surprising that there is no uncle, no aunt, no uncle, no uncle, etc. If you don't say that you don't act, you just act, who do you invite, and who will eat and invite?
In the early years, there were many brothers and sisters, once the New Year arrived, they drank in the old family, and tomorrow they had dinner at the second child's house. Now that the Chinese New Year is in its own way, the young man only goes to his mother-in-law's house, and even his aunt and uncle's house don't move around. said that he was a nephew, and some of them didn't even bother to fight ** all year round. The young man has a second generation, and he doesn't even recognize the door of his grandparents' house, let alone his grandparents. But it's no wonder that the dolls' extracurricular homework, all kinds of cram schools and the next generation are out of breath, and parents are also running around for the day, not taking advantage of the New Year to rest and recuperate and relieve fatigue, who would want to spend so much energy to run relatives?
All in all, people generally feel that now that the New Year is less or even less flavorful - there is no sense of ritual that the New Year should have been in the early days. Although the food, clothing, housing, and transportation are all good inside and out, it still seems to lack a New Year's flavor. The reason is that abundant material replaces the expectation of life, the fast-paced and urgent life situation does not allow you to chew slowly and taste life, and utilitarianism replaces family and friendship.
In a fool's opinion, I still lead my daughter-in-law to walk around with the doll more through the New Year, this is our uncle's house, this is our second uncle's house, I saw your uncle just now, and I will go to your aunt's house in a while, so that our descendants have a concept of family affection. Through the New Year, I also told the dolls about the New Year of the elderly, so that they also know why and how the Chinese celebrate the New Year. Only in this way can relatives have the taste of relatives, friends have the taste of friends, meat has the taste of meat, Lai has the taste of vegetables, brothers and sisters have the taste of seeing it, and if they all do it, the world will be full of the flavor of the year and the taste of humanity.
The weather has cooled down lately, but it is important to remember that "family affection must not cool down." ”
Written by Wei Xufeng.
Proofreading Ren Bo Rope.
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