Wandering in a foreign land as a stranger, the people and things around you are like a carp crossing the river, and the continuous influx and departure are like the reincarnation of the four seasons, and also like a dream lightning, but the customs of the New Year in the hometown are remembered clearly. In our hometown, we only eat Chinese New Year's Eve dinner after 12 o'clock in the evening, and we start to greet the New Year at about 2 o'clock in the morning, and every household does not sleep on Chinese New Year's Eve.
Paying tribute to departed relatives is the most important event of the New Year, and many people choose to go to the grave in the morning or afternoon of Chinese New Year's Eve. At this time, the brothers got together and went to the woodland with the sacrifices, chatting all the way, talking and laughing, and the sadness was lighter, which was actually quite good;And there is a person who goes to the grave, the lonely figure is in the open and the mountains, and the ocean of his thoughts is rippling in the boat of remembrance, at that time he is lonely and his mood is low. Although we do not believe in the existence of ghosts and gods, we only go to the grave every year and send sacrifices to our deceased relatives before returning home to prepare for the New Year.
Photo: Wang Dao).
Sticking Rohmon money and red couplets on the New Year is the custom of the old hometown, so that even the old house can glow with the vitality of the festival.
Photo: Guo Taiyang).
Photo: Wang Zhigang).
Once the floodgates of memory are opened, a lot of interesting things come flooding back. On Chinese New Year's Eve, many families began to make dumplings and prepare for the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, but a lady held a bunch of shoes and asked my mother to help her put on the uppers, which were their family's new shoes for the New Year, and my mother complained about what she had done earlier while helping, but only remembered that the shoes were not done well on the fifth day of the year.
Photo: Li Baijun).
Photo: Wang Xia).
Photographer: Wang Wenhua) That night, the dogs in every household hid in the den after eating and drinking, and did not dare to make the old barks, because they were afraid of the sound of firecrackers, and the fragmentary sound was the small whip that the children dismantled, which was enough to make the dogs scatter.
Why did I look forward to the New Year at that time, because there are too many happy things on Chinese New Year's Eve. That night, my parents brought out new clothes and shoes that I had preparedThat night he drank wine and ate meat, and he ate sugar. These are the ordinary extravagant hopes of children, and it is the year that has helped them realize their dreams. Now that there is great material abundance, not many people are looking forward to the New Year, and every day is like the New Year.
Reverence for heaven and earth, this is the inheritance of rural culture, the air on Chinese New Year's Eve is filled with various tastes, including the smell of wine, the smell of burning paper, and the smell of incense. At that time, the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner was eaten after twelve o'clock that night, and the time for firecrackers to be set off needed to be New Year's Eve, and children could not talk casually, and they had to say auspicious words that night, everything was so mysterious, so that children also had a sense of awe for the New Year, knowing that they could not talk nonsense that night.
At that time, although the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner was not rich, it was also the work of a family, and the family sat around saying blessings and eating food that they could not usually eat, and happiness came so quickly. When I was young, I always wanted to keep the year, and this dream seems to have come true now, there is no shortage of new clothes and food, but what is missing is the atmosphere of the year. At two o'clock in the morning, there was no electricity in the village, and the families with good conditions had flashlights, and the average family needed to play the safety light to light the road when greeting the New Year, but in fact, you can find the road without lights. During the New Year's greetings, it is a great thing that people can give a toffee to eat, and they are reluctant to eat the toffee, so they put it in their pockets and wait until dawn to compare it with their friends.
Nothing is static, and now that New Year's greetings have become after 8 o'clock in the morning on the first day of the new year, it seems that something is missing.
Photo: Zhang Hua).
Photo: Zhang Hua).