New Year is an important traditional festival for Chinese, the return of wanderers, the expectation of elderly parents, and the yearning of countless people for a short and beautiful life after a busy year. The New Year is over, the year's work and life is over, the new year is about to begin, people put down the usual tiredness, gather with their families, go back to their hometowns, see their parents, accompany their children, go to relatives, everything is beautiful. With the continuous growth, the meaning of the New Year to us is not the same, when I was a child, the New Year is looking forward to wearing new clothes, collecting New Year's money, and eating well; When I grow up, I look forward to going home, accompanying my parents, and staying at home; After getting married, the New Year is to marry a chicken and a dog to go back to the in-law's house, enter the kitchen, and cook the New Year's dinner.
When I was a child, I was very poor, and I couldn't wear new clothes a few times a year, and I began to be excited at the beginning of the month of the month every year, and in the middle of the month, my father would plan the day in advance, and take me and my brother and 2 big hemp bags to go down to Lanzhou.
There is a distance between the hometown and the town, if you want to go to Lanzhou, you have to take a ride to the town first, and then wait for Qinchuan, Xishan and other places on the side of the road to Lanzhou long-distance buses, the traffic will be really inconvenient, some people in the village in order to earn time to put up a canopy to block the wind, pull people from the village to the side of the road in the town, five yuan per person, and collect the fare according to the capitation, mainly to do New Year's goods in the month of Lala and the people who go to relatives in the first month to earn some money to subsidize the family.
The next day we got up early, and after eating the breakfast that my mother had made for us, we set off, and the car was agreed the night in advance, and everyone who wanted to take the car was waiting at the entrance of the village, and it was half an hour before we arrived in the town. There are basically no seats on the long-distance bus in Layue to our town, and my father pulled my brother and me all the way to Lanzhou, and I didn't feel tired after more than an hour of travel, and I couldn't tell the excitement and happiness in my heart.
When we arrived in Lanzhou, it was basically more than eleven o'clock, and we took the killed New Year's pork to my aunt's house for lunch, and after eating, my aunt took us to the West Railway Station to buy clothes. The West Railway Station is a bustling city in our hearts, selling mutton skewers and hairy chestnuts are all delicious things that we can't eat in the countryside on weekdays, and my brother will first eat 20 skewers of mutton, a string of 2 cents; I will eat processed beef noodles and add more beef, and no matter how tight the days are, my father will also satisfy us.
After eating, I went to Jianlan Road to buy clothes, looked at this and that, picked and chose to buy new clothes, new pants, and new leather shoes for our brothers and sisters, the village was poor and backward in those years, and there were not many children who could wear leather shoes during the New Year, under the protection of my parents, I was one of the few children who wore leather shoes almost every year, and after the beginning of the school season of the New Year, the clothes and shoes of the New Year were worn until April and May, and the leather shoes were opened, and the clothes were hot and could not be worn, so I would change into cloth shoes made by my mother.
In the evening we would stay at my aunt's house in the city, my father would talk to my aunt and uncle about the year, and my cousin would take me out to the park in the city for a day's walk, but the excitement of entering the city did not subside for half a minute.
Early the next morning, my father brought up the hemp tendon bag, we last year goods wholesale market, buy hairtail, carp, ham sausage, vegetables, melon seeds, peanuts, candy, etc., that will be the hometown of inconvenient transportation, on weekdays there will occasionally be people from nearby villages to pull vegetables to the village to buy, but the winter in the countryside is mainly to hoard potatoes, sauerkraut-based, there are not many people who buy vegetables, and there are not many varieties of vegetables to sell, so we go to Lanzhou to do the New Year's goods.
The next afternoon, we carried the new clothes and all kinds of delicious New Year's goods on the long-distance bus back to our hometown, and returned with a full load, and it was still the tent in the village that pulled us in.
When I got home, I excitedly began to try on new clothes, put them on for my grandmother to see, let my mother see, and within three minutes my mother shouted for me to put them away and wear them again on the 30th day, for fear that we, the dirty eggs who crawl in the mound all day and play all day, will stain the new clothes. One year, my brother and I were happy to try on new clothes on the kang, my brother suddenly cried, the whole family asked him nervously, he cried and said that he didn't buy new clothes for my grandmother, I was only happy with my new clothes there, which is why my grandmother has always preferred the eldest grandson.
Now my grandmother is 86 years old, and her favorite is her eldest grandson. As soon as Laba passed, the mother began to be busy, pinching a baby (a kind of handmade noodles made during the New Year in the hometown, pinched out like two small ears), pressing dry noodles, steaming flower rolls, fried oil cakes, killing New Year pigs, stir-frying cheeks, fried fish, washing carp, cleaning windows, sweeping the house, asking the readers in the village to write couplets, the mother arranged clearly, busy until the thirty years of the Chinese New Year's Eve, the things for the New Year were almost prepared, thirty mornings, the mother washed the big bones and boiled them, the dumpling filling was done, and there was a tradition in the thirty nights, Generally, long noodles are eaten, and dumplings are wrapped in advance on the morning of the first day of the New Year.
At noon on the thirtieth day, my mother boiled water to wash my hair and feet for my brother and me, and the dirt of the year must be washed, and after washing, my father called us to paste couplets, door gods, and door money, not only the big house and the west house, but also the gate, and the pigsty and chicken pen must not be left behind, and the five grains and six birds will be prosperous in the coming year. After pasting the doors and windows, the big bones cooked by the mother are also out of the pot, the pigs that will be fed by themselves, it is really fragrant, dip a little salt and eat it, the mother says every year: eating meat is not as good as gnawing bones, gnawing bones is not as good as sneering fingers, coaxing us in the end even licked our fingers clean. After eating the bones, you can wear new clothes, I am always the unstable one, put on the new clothes and immediately go to the neighborhood, discuss new clothes with my friends, change candy to eat, very happy.
When I grew up, I went out to study far away from my hometown, because my home was far away from the school, and the transportation was still inconvenient, so I could only come back during the winter and summer vacations.
The year of high school tutoring, because of the pressure in my heart, I went to Lanzhou for a year of tutoring, and I lost more than a dozen pounds at once, and then I came back to some old people in the village who didn't know me, and I asked whose girl this was on the road, and I said that the girl of the Deng family (my father was sick when he was a child, so he got his nickname), and it suddenly dawned on me, only to know that I went out to school, went to high school, went to college, and finally went to graduate school.
When we were children, the ideology of the countryside was still relatively backward, many people would not let women study too much, and generally went out to work after primary school, and the better ones went to junior high school to graduate, so I had almost no classmates in the same village, and among the women of the same age at the same level as me, I was the only one who went to junior high school, not to mention the back.
In the winter vacation of 2012, I just took the graduate exam in my senior year, and I may have known at the beginning that I was beyond my ability, and I couldn't take the exam at all, I didn't have a good time throughout the year, the results didn't come out for a long time, I couldn't sleep with insomnia all night, I forgot the taste of big bones and dumplings that year, and I forgot what delicious food my mother had prepared for the New Year.
Grandma sleeps with me at night, enlightens me, and makes me happy, but I can't be happy, I remember the pressure of that year, and I don't remember the taste of the year at all. After the New Year's results came out, I unexpectedly fell off the list, after the beginning of spring, I followed my mother to work in the field all day long, and there was no direction on the road to graduation, it was the first time in my life that I felt confused and numb, and I followed my mother to the field every day to deal with the clods of soil, numb my body and mind, and forget myself.
At the beginning of the adjustment, the teacher in charge of graduate admissions in the college kept calling me ** to ask me to adjust, and the grades were in line with the adjustment score line, but I kept refusing, I don't know why, probably because I gave up the guaranteed quota of the school and felt that it was good to come back and have no face, or maybe I didn't want to go to the graduate school of this school. On the last day of the adjustment, I still followed my mother to work in the field as usual every day, and came back at more than two o'clock in the afternoon on the mobile phone more than a dozen missed **, I went back to the teacher and yelled at me: "I don't care if you can't get on or not, you first fill in the system of adjustment for me, it will end at half past four, and you still have 2 hours to spare."
I asked my classmates to help me fill in the information, and then I obeyed the transfer to the graduate school of the university, and the graduate students also had a lot of gains and growth in three years, and the teacher's hard work could not be wasted.
Every year after getting married is spent at my mother-in-law's house, and my parents-in-law have many brothers and sisters, it is a big family, and the New Year is very lively. My mother-in-law has two sons and two daughters, 7 grandchildren and grandchildren, and there are 17 people in our own family for a meal, and my sister-in-law and I are busy in the kitchen all day long, from morning to night, basically can't get out, relatives come wave after wave, our dishes are also fried wave after wave, and the pots and bowls can't be washed.
I usually go back on the last day of the holiday, and it will be Chinese New Year's Eve, and my sister-in-law has prepared everything for the New Year, and I just have a hand. Hedong and Hexi are not far away, the customs of the New Year are similar, they are more lively than us, the door of every household should hang a small lantern, the night of the New Year is illuminated all night, and the door of every household is colorful and shining.
At the end of the thirtieth night, the men in the family, from the old people to the children, all went to the house to pay New Year's greetings to their own family, and as soon as they entered the door, they first kowtowed to the fairy table three times, and then kowtowed to their own seniors one by one according to their seniority.
My father-in-law's eldest brother and my grandmother are about the same age, so there is a nephew who is about the same age as me and calls me the fifth mother, on the 30th night of the first year of marriage, the men in the family have gone out to pay New Year's greetings, I am on the kang and my mother-in-law and sister-in-law are noisy (that is, the meaning of chatting), suddenly a large number of people came in, kneeling on the ground and began to kowtow, full of kneeling people, after kowtowing a group of people of the same generation and mother-in-law stood up, the rest of the people kowtowed to mother-in-law, and then kowtowed to a group of people of our generation all stood up, several nephews, The big ones began to kowtow to me and my sister-in-law, and the first time I saw this formation, I was nervous and didn't know what to say.
The first day of the Lunar New Year is also to eat dumplings, dumplings are wrapped by me and my sister-in-law thirty nights while watching the party, after eating dumplings, the men began to visit the door, the women are waiting at home to cook and stir-fry for the people who come to the door, from the first day to the fifth day of the new year, there are relatives every day, sometimes several batches, my sister-in-law and I basically stay in the kitchen all day long, there are too many nephews and nieces of my parents-in-law, I have been married for several years, I have not distinguished the second cousin and the third cousin, and the five uncles are also a little vague, and the little uncle sent me the annual money, I turned my head and asked my mother-in-law who it was. I got up in the morning on the sixth day of the new year to pack up, packed up and went back to Lanzhou, went to my mother's house, went to my aunt's house, and was ready to go back to work.
The year is over, everything is back to the daily life, as the saying goes, the year is good and the life is not good, and then it is a busy year, going to school, going to work, each in its place, each performing its duties. Year after year, we are growing, the flavor of the year is also changing, the year when I was a child is the same as my hometown, it is a harbor that we can't go back to, and it is a feeling that we can't forget but miss for a long time.
About the Author. 
Yang Wanfang, born in September 1988, is a native of Yongdeng, Gansu Province. Open-minded and cheerful, the road to growth is very ordinary but unforgettable, I have gained a lot of insights about life, I like to read all kinds of books since I was a child, and I have a shallow hobby to write, just to remember the important people and unforgettable things in life. List of high-quality authors