"What are the customs of the Spring Festival? "Eating dumplings, sweeping houses, buying New Year's goods......"For those who come after me, when they were young, they must have often done this question in exams and homework. Slowly, the test questions are projected into life, and the answers that we can memorize in one minute have become the testimony of childhood and adolescence, and also become the practice, persistence, understanding, and inheritance in the days when we grow up.
Time has passed the river beach of the year, or scoured, or deposited. Today's young people, although they are no longer familiar with many customs, are also enthusiastic about building bridges in customs, times, life, and growth. Some of these customs point to the cultural core of the Spring Festival, such as family reunions and ancestor offerings; Some show the ritual sense of life, such as sprinkling and cleaning, buying new clothes, and buying New Year's goods; Some reflect the characteristics of the times, such as the Chinese New Year's Eve rice with more and more patterns, the big steamed buns that "only can't be imagined, nothing can be done", and various forms of window ......
It is in these customs, which are either deep and stable, or flexible and moving, that young people touch the texture of culture, weave the texture of life, and feel the pulse of the times. It is also in the interaction with the New Year's customs that generations of young people have realized the growth of "I liked the New Year when I was a child, but I really understood the meaning of the New Year when I grew up".
As a "quasi-post-00s", from university to graduation and work, I have always been full of respect and importance for many customs, and I have gradually deepened my understanding. In my opinion, the New Year itself is a return to the essence of life. Our daily life is often more like a movie with filters and BGM, but during the Chinese New Year, we really pay attention to ourselves and the most simple aspects of life - that is the warmth of "family sitting around, amiable lights", a steaming plate of dumplings, a clean and tidy room and a delicate hairstyle. No matter what kind of workplace dramas, youth dramas, and idol dramas you have experienced this year, they will become "life dramas" at this moment. Our fathers rarely use the word "sense of ritual", but the feelings in it can probably be empathized.
In some years, it also contains the profound life wisdom and philosophical thinking of the Chinese. Every year, I attach great importance to the "please God" part - that is, before the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner in the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve, I "invite the ancestors and ancestors home" for the New Year. At this time of year, I always feel as if I can see my roots in the depths of time, and feel the power of time and the weight of inheritance. Our generation of young people is more active and diverse, and they have never given up on the question "Who am I?" I'm from **? Thinking about the ultimate philosophical question, we will find that our ancestors have already given their own answers.
Playing different roles in the practice of the New Year's customs, footnotes to our growth. This year, I have already joined the work and took the initiative to take on the responsibility of buying New Year's goods for my family. From the moment I first entered the Layue Gate, I followed my mother's example and began to think about what to buy at home this year, when it is more appropriate to buy, how many things can be put in the freezer, and so on. I really felt that I had grown up in this busy and interesting process, and when I came home from vacation and walked into the house to see that my mother had already bought my favorite yogurt and favorite fruits, I realized that no matter how old I grew up, I would always be the child in my parents' hearts. Isn't this exactly what year after year of hope has brought us?
I often think, if you use ** to compose music for the New Year, what kind of melody should it be? Maybe it's probably like "Spring Festival Overture", maybe it's not so exciting, but it's full of eloquent sound, the appropriateness of the long stream, and the warmth of warmth. Whether it is the elderly, middle-aged, or teenagers, I believe that they all have different perceptions of the customs of the year, and also have common emotions, which is the "common language" between us across time and space.
*: The Paper.