The Spring Festival is not over, and it will not end until the Lantern Festival. It's a pity that most adults should have finished their vacation. Although many places put it on the eighth day of the first lunar month this year, there is still a feeling of insufficiency. Those who pack their bags and head to another city even earlier, far from home, are probably used to this year-to-year schedule.
For Jiangyanggu drinkers, they have not left their hometown of Luzhou for more than ten years, and they have not had the same mood for a long time, of course, the feelings they once felt should be roughly the same.
Towards the end of the holiday, I finally caught a cold, and my nasal congestion was almost healed after two days, leaving my throat hoarse, and fortunately I didn't cough much. In 2023, I insisted on not catching a cold for a year, and during the Spring Festival, I was afraid that I would accidentally let the cold ruin the fun, although the Spring Festival was not fun for me, or even mediocre, but I still have an indescribable affection for the Spring Festival, it may not be an expectation, but it is the most affectionate day of the year.
This Spring Festival, I almost didn't go, and I also had very few people in Luzhou, except for the New Year's and ancestor worship, that is, I went back to the countryside on the fifth day of the new year and took some pictures.
In the past, we children who grew up in the city were very excited about the Spring Festival, visiting relatives and friends, eating endless New Year's dinners, endless fireworks, and of course, we could get more or less New Year's money.
I think it's a natural thing to hand over to adults, and the concept of money management was ignorant in childhood, which is really much worse than other peers. I don't know if it's good or not, but although I've never been rich, I've never been the kind of person who values money very much.
But this is also a very disadvantaged thing, to say that born in a rich and wealthy family, there is nothing, a common people, and the desire for money is not strong, is it also the reason why their earning ability is not good enough?
Because the more I grew up, I found that it was not the loneliness I felt, but the days when I had no money, and many things were not so refreshing, but fortunately, God did not die of hunger and blindness, and after more than 40 years, I finally came over like this.
I actually prefer other things, the "bits and pieces" of my memories other than money. I always have some idealistic views on wealth, which is fixed, and the time with my family and living a life of small satisfaction may be more pleasant.
Every year during the Spring Festival, I am reunited, and I have not been absent for more than 40 years, which is a very happy thing for me, but as I get older, ** is not missing? We have grown up and lost our childhood, our old parents, we have our own family, from a family of three to a family of five, and even because the other half has added more family relationships.
And the kind of family unity that my grandparents and grandparents were there when I was a child can never go back. I can only wait for the first day of the new year to go to Wangshan to worship the people, saying the wish to bless the children, but thinking about the kindness of the old people in the old days, the next generation is ignorant, I don't know what I am thinking about, I can only tell him, this is our Chinese tradition of cautiously chasing the distance, there is no scare, there is no me and you.
Only at this time, the seeds of tradition can be imperceptibly sown in their hearts, and they will take root and sprout in the future.
The best place for young life is carefree, and mature us are more aware of the preciousness of tradition, those who were not good at expressing family affection and follow the old rules, but now they follow silently in their hearts, although it is not necessary to impose on the next generation, but they are more willing to stick to it, and only when they grow up to a certain age can they have such a feeling.
Perhaps this is the meaning of many traditional Chinese festivals, which are forever passed down because of the friendship that blood is thicker than water.