[Fireworks in the world].
Author: Yin Xueyun (Chairman of Tianjin Writers Association).
Chinese are the most taste-conscious, and New Year's Taste is an example. Regarding whether there are fewer fireworks and firecrackers, there will be less New Year's flavor, which has caused heated discussions on the Internet, but in fact, there are many things that represent the New Year's flavor. Customs, or personal habits and hobbies, vary greatly from region to region. The so-called difficult to reconcile is most reflected in this moment.
I remember one year when I was young, I was still sitting at my table and climbing the lattice in the thirties of the Chinese New Year's Eve. On that day, the lover will be on duty at the unit and will not return home until 12 o'clock at night. What am I doing? Aside from reading and writing, there is nothing special to do. But the guest came that day, a relative of my husband's family, who was older than us, but a junior. The scene was slightly awkward. I don't know what the guests are thinking, I have never communicated over the years, but I am relieved of that day, so more than 30 years later, I still remember it. Do you feel that your home is not full of New Year's flavor and can't live with guests, or is it because you don't have a New Year's flavor and are worried about being looked down upon by guests? A lot of ideas come in a flash. Life is one's own, and how you live it has nothing to do with others. Fortunately, this relative did not die because of this, and now he is still like a family. When we meet again this year, I will ask her how she felt back then, and maybe people didn't pay attention at all. But I haven't forgotten it for decades, which means that I left something in my heart. I put it down to being sensitive to people and things when I was young. Now that we see it, the more such imprints, the better.
My lover has a small firecracker business, and he sends a box of firecrackers to him on the twenty-ninth day of the lunar month every year, and it will be many years since he sent it. We don't like to put it, we don't even open the box, and we send it directly to my sister's house, and my brother-in-law and nephew are all firecracker lovers, and they are very happy to put it away. I never thought that if I didn't set off firecrackers, I would lose the flavor of the New Year. All I think about is – be sure to be safe when setting off firecrackers. I can still remember the scene when my nephew set off firecrackers, he was alone, in a poplar field, lighting a firecracker, and covering his ears to hide it. The sound and the smoke were a great joy for him. A string of firecrackers was taken apart and put in his pocket, and after putting one and then touching out, he could hold it for an entire afternoon. It's really hard to agree on a lot of things. One year, I stood alone on the top of a mountain and watched the fireworks all over the city, just like being in a space outside the earth, and I felt a warm feeling in my heart. It's a good feeling too.
As the old saying goes, "If you quit the stove, the year will come." The girl wants flowers, the boy wants cannons, and the old man wants a new felt hat. "Young man, I probably don't know what a felt hat is.
The folk call the Spring Festival the New Year and the festival, as evidenced by the expression of the New Year's Festival. Many of the older generation are illiterate, and they don't bother much with the meaning of the words. There is a folk saying that is very vivid: a fool looks at the neighborhood during the New Year. Even if you are a fool, you know that the New Year is celebrated, because the strong smell of the New Year in the neighborhood will come over the wall and smoke your eyes. It's a big day. The wanderer wants to return to his hometown, and his relatives want to be reunited. A year's hard work is placed on the table, and if you eat well at the New Year's dinner, all the hard work of the year will be worth it. In the barren years, the family had a large population, and this meal was also grand and warm, and the family was full of wine. From time to time, a long and warm picture is reflected in my mind, and suddenly I am confused: which day is the New Year, the last day of the old year or the first day of the new year?
The lover rightly said that it was the first day of the New Year, of course. No matter where you are, as long as you rush back on the first day of the new year, it is to catch up with the Chinese New Year, and the old people in the family used to say so.
But I don't think so. I grew up with a tradition that noon on the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve is the right day. I vaguely remember that my father was working far away, and sometimes even if he walked for half the night, he had to come back to catch this New Year's meal. This New Year's meal sometimes doesn't start until two or three o'clock in the afternoon. When my father was full of wine and food, he pushed the table forward, and tilted his body towards the wall of the kang partition, and he would sigh: This year is over. The effects are far-reaching, and I've said it many times. After putting down the chopsticks at lunch, I sighed that the passing of one year was over, and the remaining ten hours of the year were negligible, which was influenced by the older generation. Eating dumplings for Chinese New Year's Eve is a saying of "Jiaozi", the so-called "one night even two years old", no matter what month your birthday is, the New Year will be long, this is the convention. After we ate dumplings, we wandered around the streets with lanterns, like a string of large fireflies. Sitting on the kang head to keep the year, that is, eating peanuts and eating melon seeds, sleepy and falling asleep, and then opening your eyes, it is "new peach for old charm", the ground is full of overnight melon seed skin, stepping on the foot, creaking. And these melon seed skins should be left for cleaning in the coming day, which is also a custom.
Chinese New Year's Eve is also known as Chinese New Year's Eve. Legend has it that the monster that comes out to harm people at the end of the year is called "Nian", and some people call it "Xi", so there is a saying that Chinese New Year's Eve, which means to get rid of the monster "Xi". If it is taken literally, the evening is the evening sun, and the disappearance of the last ray of the evening sun means that the eternal day is over forever. There is a sunset every day, and the end of the year is to remove all the days that go to decline, to welcome a new sun, I don't know if this understanding makes sense.
The name of the year began to appear in the Zhou Dynasty, and it was not officially fixed until the Western Han Dynasty, and it is still used today. In the oracle bone inscription, the hieroglyph of the character "year" is the image of a person carrying "he", indicating that the crops are ripe, that is, "the year is full". According to records, in ancient times, people called the growth cycle of grains "years". "Year, the valley is ripe. If you play it again, it takes a year for those "he" to be carried home, because the grain is generally one year old and one ripe.
There seems to be no doubt that the Spring Festival refers to the first day of the first lunar month. "Shangshu Da Biography" said: "The first day of the first month is the dynasty of the year, the dynasty of the moon, and the dynasty of the sun, so it is called 'three dynasties' and also called 'three beginnings'." In ancient times, the first day of the first lunar month was called "New Year's Day", and it was not until after the victory of the Xinhai Revolution that in order to conform to the agricultural time and facilitate statistics, there were regulations on the use of the summer calendar among the people, and the use of the Gregorian calendar in institutions, schools, factories and mines, and organizations. The first day of the first month of the Gregorian calendar is New Year's Day, and the first day of the first lunar month is the Spring Festival.
After all, the end of the old calendar is most like the end of the year. This sentence in Mr. Lu Xun's "Blessing" is still remembered today. Every time I see it, I smile. After so many years, for me, there is no year that has a special meaning and formed a deep memory, only the year when my husband's relatives visited more than 30 years ago. All the days are chaotic in the daily fireworks, all the way from the young, all the way unconsciously, there is only the days and years to increase the wrinkles.
Go home for the New Year" is still a major tradition of the Chinese. It's just that how to live and what to follow, everyone has their own exquisiteness. Saying that the word "love" is the main taste of the year, probably there will be no objection. Family reunion is one aspect, and there is a more specific task, which is to visit relatives and friends. In the second year of junior high school, I saw my mother-in-law, in the third and fourth and fifth years of junior high school, I saw my aunt and uncle, and those old cousins, lined up from near to far. Old classmates, old friends, old colleagues, some of them rarely contact, a common New Year's greeting during the New Year, it continued all the past friendship, and those old years came back together.
In a new year, there is always new hope.
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