About the Author. Lu Qinhai, whose name is Yushan, was born in 1965, a native of Gaomi Chaigou, and a freelancer.
Spring. Section. Old. Affair.
The Spring Festival is the most important festival for the Han people. Therefore, no matter if you are in **, as long as you can go home, even if you are wandering the world, you will strive to return to your parents and elders.
I felt that way when I was a kid. However, my understanding of the Spring Festival is actually still far away. When my parents were alive, I was young at that time, but when I returned to my parents' hot kang, there would always be endless words. Although his father is not very talkative, whenever he sees his children return home, he is always busy with his own affairs with irrepressible joy. At that time, I was either still in school or had just started working, so I didn't understand the full meaning of anticipating the Chinese New Year. It's just that when you see healthy parents and a career that continues to progress and develop, you will have a kind of effort for a better future from your heart. And this effort is not all there is to the Spring Festival! It's just a summary of the year!
The Spring Festival is first of all a reunion. And the reunion of the living is only one aspect of the Spring Festival. It is said that every family, those who have passed away, as long as there are people in the family who know them, they will return to their own or their relatives' homes today to celebrate the New Year. It is said that one year, a family in his hometown, on the night of Chinese New Year's Eve, suddenly a lot of people came, and these people were their deceased relatives. These deceased relatives did not say anything when they arrived, but sat silently at the table where they were eating. And none of the family talked nonsense, but sent away Chinese New Year's Eve in accordance with the traditions left by their ancestors. And as soon as Chinese New Year's Eve passed, these deceased relatives also floated away hand in hand.
Therefore, in order to have a good year, especially for the deceased relatives, the living must go to the grave of their relatives before Chinese New Year's Eve to burn paper! It is said that burning paper means inviting relatives home for the New Year! Therefore, there are many wanderers who wander the world, find a junction facing their hometown on Chinese New Year's Eve, and then draw a circle to their hometown, and then burn paper to invite their deceased relatives home for the New Year.
The Spring Festival, followed by the grandeur. Of course, the solemn way is sacrifice, but the purpose of sacrifice is actually to let the living and deceased people know the beauty of our life today. In my hometown, when life was difficult, many families even couldn't eat white flour steamed buns, but they still tried their best to wrap a layer of white noodles on the head of the black flour nest, so that our ancestors could see that our life today is beautiful!
Moreover, until today, in the Spring Festival of the hometown, at the beginning.
On the first and second days of junior high school, it is not allowed to wash dishes and clothes.
During the Spring Festival, the third is equality. On Chinese New Year's Eve, no one's name needs to be called. Adults and children use very respectful mute language, or simple and soft words, and never shout at anyone. Because, it is said, on this day, all the gods will come out. I don't know if this is out of respect for the gods or out of consideration, so this tradition is still preserved today.
Moreover, on Chinese New Year's Eve in my hometown, men cook dumplings, and women do not need to do it. I don't know where this tradition came from, but it's still alive today.
The Spring Festival, the fourth is a great baptism of etiquette. Every year, after eating dumplings and kowtowing to the elderly, the immediate relatives must pay New Year's greetings overnight. And the New Year's greeting must also be a very grand kowtow. I still remember that when I was a child, when I had just finished kowtowing to my parents after eating dumplings, my parents would tell me to go to my grandmother who was still alive to pay New Year's greetings, and they also told me to kowtow to my grandmother first, and then kowtow to my uncle and aunt ......
Although kowtowing seems to be a thing of the past, when our knees are on our knees, I feel that there is something more valuable than **! That is, I reflect deeply on my past every time! Thus reflecting on my future in a proper manner!
Spring Festival, the fifth is a kind of relaxation. On the days of the Spring Festival, in my hometown, on the first and second days of the new year, I am not allowed to work. I still remember the saying that the first two miles of the first day did not move the needle, and the needle pierced the banker's core, which means that you don't want to work, just wait to rest and meet guests.
I remember, one year, I went home for the Spring Festival. My father, who had never believed much in gods and ghosts, saw that the pigsty was too dirty, so he took a shovel and disposed of it. But soon, I felt uncomfortable all the time on the kang, and I was panting very strangely. That's when I told my mother about my discomfort. The mother immediately said to the father, "It must be that you have provoked the god in the pigsty just now, so the child is so uncomfortable." So, my father immediately burned a few pieces of paper in that place. Coincidentally, I was fine immediately.
I still don't know if this was a coincidence or if it really provoked the god. However, the importance of the Spring Festival made me really feel different from other festivals from this time.