Disclaimer: This article is the original debut, unauthorized and any form of plagiarism will be held accountable! Almost all of the young and middle-aged people in our village have left their hometowns to work in the cities.
In the past, we thought that the fifteenth day of the first lunar month was the end of the year, but now, many people start to leave home on the second day of the new year.
I took leave in advance to go home for the Chinese New Year, although it was not far from home, but due to motion sickness, it took seven hours to drive home and experienced motion sickness three times.
In previous years, when I went home, my parents had been waiting for me at the entrance of the village, took my luggage, greeted me with cold greetings, and went home to eat delicious meals.
Now that my parents are gone, I can't see them anymore, and I can't help but feel sad in my heart.
When I got home at night, I was very tired, and I had no appetite for the food my wife cooked, so I only drank half a bowl of porridge.
Early the next morning, I went around the village, immersed in mottled memories, and my mood was particularly peaceful.
This is my home, the home of my soul.
After visiting the village, I prepared to "leave the New Year", bought New Year's goods, and rushed home to cook a table of dishes.
The son's family of three also returned, and the family was grateful to the ancestors for their protection and prepared to welcome the Spring Festival.
In the afternoon, the family went shopping in a big supermarket, and it seemed that they had to buy something, very busy but happy.
The Spring Festival is coming.
In the morning, my brother sent glutinous rice dumplings and sausages, happily prepared gifts, and felt the priceless family affection between brothers and sisters.
In the afternoon, I gave gifts to relatives and felt at ease.
Chinese New Year's Eve gets up early to visit the New Year, fireworks are restricted, and the taste of the year fades, but enjoy the embrace of home in the hometown and purify the soul.
Prepare for Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, a busy and happy moment.
The annual dinner of the hour, which is carefully prepared by the parents every year, will be very rich, and the amount of cooking is more, and it will take five or six days to eat, and now think about it, the taste of happiness is still within reach.
At that time, we would find our friends to go crazy and make trouble together, and we didn't have to do anything at all.
Just wait for the New Year's money given to us by our parents, put it away, and when school starts, the classmates will compare and show off with each other, and then use it to buy what they like.
But now, time flies, my parents have passed away, I am over half a hundred years old and have become the pillar of the family, and I am also full of children and grandchildren, and I have to bear everything by myself.
People often say that if you don't raise children, you don't know the kindness of your parents, and if you don't have a family, you don't know the price of oil and rice.
At this time, I really understood the meaning of this sentence, and only then did I understand the hardships and difficulties of my parents raising us back then.
Eating the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, watching the Spring Festival Gala is a happy moment for our generation, the family laughs and talks freely, as if time has forgotten the footsteps, to keep this beauty forever.
With blessings, with hope, the New Year shows its vibrant side, everything is bright and new, full of hope, all of them are radiant and energetic, and they greet each other on the first day of the new year.
Because of the normal work, everyone has to go their separate ways to make a living, and it is difficult to get together.
Therefore, in general, people in rural areas marry their children during the Spring Festival, so during the Spring Festival, it is also the time when the wedding banquet is most concentrated, and some families participate in five or six weddings, which is normal.
This year, the nephew of the second family is going to get married, and the third year of the new year, the daughter of another nephew is celebrating her twentieth birthday, and I want to wrap red envelopes, so in the past few days before and after the Spring Festival, our family began to be as busy as catching up with the market.
In my free time, I have to get together with a few friends from the same village and classmates.
So these days, I've been spinning like a spinning top, saying I'm not tired, it's fake, but I'm still very happy in my heart.
A few days have passed quietly, and it is time to return again.
Looking back on the past few days of the Chinese New Year, it was really like a war.
When people reach middle age, they have experienced more things and rich experience, although their sharpness has been smoothed out by life, but the yearning for a better life in their hearts has never changed.
The above is my personal experience of the Chinese New Year, but it is also the common experience of many young and middle-aged people in rural areas - returning home in a hurry, buying New Year's goods, visiting relatives, having dinner with Fa Xiao and classmates, and cheering with people in the village, from front to back, it is only about a week, but it feels like a blink of an eye.
I left home at half past six in the morning on the fourth day of the first lunar month, leaving the village with my suitcase, I found that the village had returned to the way it was before the Spring Festival, the road was empty, the village was silent, only some old people were left, waiting for the village.
Sitting in the returning car, looking at the back of the distant hometown, a feeling of loss came to my heart unconsciously.