I want to be like a child, happily accompanying my parents for the New Year, this may be the voice of every Chinese. This year, the way home encountered heavy snowfall again, many people were blocked on the highway, and some people stopped in the heavy snow for more than ten hours, and the way home was so difficult.
After the twenty-third day of the lunar month, the New Year's drama will begin. Adults are unfurling with delicious food and new clothes for the New Year. Steaming, frying, boiling, and stewing are busy, and then the processed steamed buns, flower cakes, steamed buns, small crispy meat, fried dough sticks, meatballs, etc. are stored in the tank, in order to be able to eat until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month or more. In order to turn the new cloth bought from the market into a fitting new clothes before the first day of the Lunar New Year, my mother worked in the dim light at night, sometimes until the fifth watch.
Adults generally do not work during the first month, and parents who have worked hard for a year have a rare rest, taking their children to relatives, friends, lantern exhibitions, and temple fairs. Children pay New Year's greetings to their elders, earn a New Year's money of five cents or a piece, use some of them to buy snacks or firecrackers, and put the rest into a piggy bank to save hope for the future. Of course, what makes the children happier is that at night the parents can finally make time to hold their children in their arms and watch TV together, the house is full of laughter, and the tin pot on the stove makes a "sizzle." Sizzle. sounds.
The friends are on vacation and can play without scruples, until the streets are full of shouts "Army." Just. Strong. It's time to go home for dinner! ”。The country sounds come and go, and a beautiful landscape often appears in dreams to this day.
The streets are full of colorful flags, and there are many games for children, such as pushing steel rings, jumping rubber bands, shooting foreign fire films, rolling glass balls, etc., but the happiest thing at this time is to set off firecrackers, which is a unique "gift" only during the New Year. From the beginning of the Chinese New Year's Eve to the sixth day of the new year, the whole village is immersed in the encirclement of firecrackers, especially on Chinese New Year's Eve, the most enthusiastic, the sound of "呯呯**" one after another, three miles and eight towns are endless, like a symphony that resounds over the earth.
The friends disassembled a hundred or two hundred firecrackers, put them in their pockets and took them out one by one, or put them on the side of the road, or stuffed them into the brick cracks, and the bold ones took them in their hands. Aim the burning incense at the lead, and with a "pop", all the troubles will disappear, and the happiness will ripple with the smell of gunsmoke.
Thirty nights are basically not sleeping, the old people say that it is called Shou Sui, the children can't stay up, and they fall asleep in the bed in a daze. As soon as I felt asleep, I was blown away by the loud sound of firecrackers in the yard, and my mother shouted, "Children." Get up and eat dumplings. It was still dark outside the window, and the house was already steaming, and the dumplings were already ready.
After eating dumplings, my brother took us out to pay New Year's greetings. After five o'clock, the streets and alleys were already full of neighbors. First go to grandpa's house, kowtow to grandparents, and then basically go to the New Year without leakage. The elder brother said that if there are old people in the house, those who have a mat in the house should kowtow, and the others should let them go, so as not to stain the new clothes.
The feedback of the New Year's greetings is peanuts, melon seeds and sugar, and the neighbors' grandparents, aunts and uncles, etc., say "haha...... as soon as they see us."Don't kowtow, coming is equivalent to kowtowing, come on, eat melon seeds, eat sugar. So my mother deliberately made the pockets of her clothes very large, and when they were full, she went home and took them out before going out.
As time passed, the taste of the New Year became weaker and weaker, which made me suddenly feel inexplicably lost, and the more convenient the transportation, the farther the way home.
The seventy-seven-year-old mother said in the morning that she bought a steamed bun for 20 yuan this year and simply steamed some flower cakes. She said that she couldn't steam anymore when she was old, and she didn't want to fry anything, anyway, the supermarket was not closed for the holidays, and she could buy whatever she wanted to eat at any time.
The eldest brother has to be on duty during the holidays, eat and drink with his colleagues and relatives during the New Year, and rarely eat with his parents. My younger brother has been living in Guangzhou for 12 years, and he comes back less and less during the Chinese New Year. I work in the railway, and the Spring Festival is the busiest time, I am in the front-line position, and I can't go back during the Chinese New Year. It turned out that parents had to prepare more carefully for the Chinese New Year every year, but then because their sons came back less and less, they gradually became less prepared.
Not only us, but many colleagues and friends around me have gone back to their hometowns and accompanied their parents. Now the living conditions are better, but the feeling of the New Year is gone.
Nowadays, dumplings with big fish and meat are not uncommon, and they can be eaten at any time. Wearing new clothes and hats is no longer a New Year's wish, and even the custom of setting off firecrackers is gone, as most parts of the country have banned fireworks. "In the sound of firecrackers, the spring breeze sends warmth into Tusu" can only be frozen in ancient poems, and I can no longer experience the simple happiness of childhood. New Year's pictures have long been discarded, and many family Spring Festival couplets do not need to be written, instead of cookie-cutter advertising prints.
I have been working in the railway for 27 years, and the scene of thousands of troops and horses migrating in the past Spring Festival is gone, and the transportation is becoming more and more convenient, but there are fewer and fewer people going home, perhaps because the homesickness of the wanderer is less, and the heart to go home without any hard work is also less. Some of them are troublesome, some are trying to make money, some have taken root in the city, and many of them feel that even if they go back, what will happen? It's not the same boring, the Spring Festival is to be locked up at home to eat, drink and have fun?
My son is 13 years old and grew up in the city, he doesn't know what firecrackers are, he has never seen New Year's paintings and Spring Festival couplets, and he doesn't know the origin and customs of the New Year. It's been less than ten days since the first day of the Lunar New Year, but his daily life is still homework, online classes, punching cards, Douyin, games, and Ultraman. Compared to me, his Spring Festival and childhood are even paler.
I want to be happy with my parents for the New Year like when I was a child, which may be the voice of every Chinese. This year, the way home encountered heavy snowfall again, many people were blocked on the highway, and some people stopped in the heavy snow for more than ten hours, and the way home was so difficult.
I hope that the mountains and rivers will be safe and sound in the coming year, and the years will be quiet! May all the wanderers go home for the New Year, and may the happy and peaceful Spring Festival accompany their children and parents!
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