In the era of industrialization, the confusion of the disappearance of the flavor of the year
Produced by the school captain, it must be a high-quality product! I would like to remind everyone that today is the first day of the Lunar New Year. Regarding the relationship between the changes in the flavor of the year and the changes in China, the school captain has always wanted to go deeper, but he always feels that the expression is not precise enough, including this article.
Although it is not in the ideal state, I still want to send it out first, and I hope you like it. Classics require a long period of thought and repeated scrutiny to come to fruition. However, for the sake of the occasion, I will share it with you first.
Finally, Happy New Year to my friends! I've been a little tired of writing lately, so let's change the topic and talk about it: Where did the New Year's flavor go? Whenever the Chinese New Year is celebrated, everyone will hear the most sentence, that is, the Chinese New Year is becoming more and more non-flavorful.
To figure out where the New Year's flavor went, we first need to figure out what the New Year's flavor is. In the school captain's view, the taste of the New Year is family affection, folk customs, food and the joy of reunion during the New Year. "
The flavor of the year is inseparable from the embellishment of folk customs.
The taste of the New Year has faded, not because the flavor of the New Year itself has changed, but because the feelings between family members have faded. The foundation of kinship is blood and shared life experiences. In the last century.
In the seventies and eighties, most families lived together for a long time, whether it was three or four generations.
Even if the family members are scattered, the same extended family will still come together and maintain close ties whether it is participating in group activities or daily life.
As a result, the feelings between family members become estranged, and the flavor of the New Year fades.
In the era of farming, it was the most basic way of life to live together, and the family affection brought by this way of life to support each other and resist the rebels was incomparable to the family in Tiannan and Haibei.
Although the school captain generation rushed to all parts of the country with the trend of reform and opening up, their family affection will not dissipate, but will become stronger and stronger over time, like old wine.
However, for the next generation of school captains, almost all of them are only children, they grew up in the city, and the familiar city is the foreign land of their parents. In addition to their parents and elders who have cared for them, they have lost the conditions for close contact with other relatives.
So, while the lieutenant longs to go home for the New Year, the children are deterred by the unheated winter in the south, and they are not close to relatives who do not speak the language and have no common topics.
In the damp and cold environment of the south, not only the children, but even the school captain felt unwell, and every time he came back, he would feel old back pain. People are products of the environment, and if the children have not lived in their parents' hometown, for them, the hometown is like a short trip, full of all kinds of indifference and indifference of family affection.
This anxiety, as a link between my hometown and my children, I believe that parents of my age will have it, but it is not easy to change. We have worked hard to get out of the countryside and experienced countless challenges in unfamiliar cities to win the opportunity to change our destiny for ourselves and future generations.
However, it is our yearning for a new life that cuts off the connection between future generations and their hometown. Those family and nostalgia that we continue to give up, the next generation cannot experience and understand.
For the school captain's generation, the experience of green cars and migrant workers is normal, and their family and hometown can only rely on the city they grew up in. However, for their parents, these cities seem to be forever alien.
There is a saying in the Book of Songs: "This place of peace is my hometown", but this detached and open mentality is not something that everyone can do. Only by understanding that we come from can we truly have a sense of security and belonging, which is the normal mentality of those of us who are laymen.
Respect for the freedom and frankness of Dongpo, this is the boldness that we can never achieve, because our home is our roots, so we have fallen leaves to return to our roots, and only then can the Chinese nation not be able to give up the local feelings and national feelings no matter how far we go.
For children, they were born in the city, but they only had classmates and friends, and no relatives. The big city is always just a place to make a living, and the social and interpersonal patterns of rural and small cities are difficult to produce in the big cities, because there is no such environment here.
The urbanization and population migration brought about by the reform and opening up, as well as the family planning policy for decades, have determined that these second generations born in big cities are destined to be a generation that seriously lacks family affection, and they are also a generation that can hardly experience nostalgia.
From a broader historical background, this is also the essential difference between industrial and agricultural societies. In industrial societies, work and life can be completely separated, and urban life in the industrial era can rely on established service industries without the help of acquaintances, and co-workers may be more like competitors than relatives and friends.
Therefore, our next generation is not only facing the confusion of family affection during the Spring Festival, but also the loneliness and loneliness brought about by urban life in the industrial age.
The lights are shining, but who is alone for me? This is a common dilemma faced by urban people in the industrial age. Why does folklore remain unchanged for thousands of years? Because the economic base determines the superstructure.
In the long history of agricultural society, people's living patterns have hardly changed, so folk customs are relatively stable. However, since the beginning of industrialization and urbanization, especially after the reform and opening up, the model of small-scale peasant economy has been completely broken, and people's lifestyles have undergone fundamental changes.
This change is not only reflected in family affection, but also in folklore. For example, the most typical folk custom of the Spring Festival dance lantern has also undergone profound changes.
Title: Lantern Dancing Team and Chinese New Year's Eve Dinner in Memory When the school captain was a child, the lantern dancing team in the countryside would enter the house through the door, but now it can only be seen in the city. In the era of the smallholder economy, after the autumn harvest, farmers would gather for a rehearsal of a lantern dance procession, which was like a small theater troupe with a variety of performances.
However, with the advancement of urbanization, young people began to go out to work in large numbers, and they had no time to participate in rehearsals, so they could only rely on the older generation of local artists. When the older generation can't do it, such folk customs will lose their inheritance.
Moreover, with the development of the economy, people's cultural life standards have improved, and more attractive entertainment programs such as television, movies, and video games are more likely to be loved by people.
Although the essence of traditional Chinese culture has accumulated in folk customs, social changes will inevitably lead to the elimination of some old traditions. We live in an era of change, the folklore on the basis of agricultural civilization is rapidly disappearing, and the folklore on the basis of industrial civilization has not yet been fully constructed.
This process affects not only our generation, but also future generations. For the captain's generation, the fun of celebrating the New Year when they were young was mainly to eat, especially the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner.
The deepest memory of the school captain is 1982, when the field was just divided. That year, the diet in rural Hunan began to shift from being full to eating well. White rice began to be sufficient, although it was still dominated by unpalatable early rice, but at least it was no longer cooked by measuring rice, and sweet potatoes were no longer used as a spare staple food.
People with good conditions can occasionally see meat, and they can even stew a chicken and eat it.
In the past, sweet potatoes were regarded as an important food supplement, and sweet potato shredded rice was a shadow of the captain's childhood. Since then, the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner has become the best place for families to compete for the fruits of a year's hard work.
At that time, the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner had several must-have dishes. One of them is the stewed trousers, that is, the upper part of the pig's thigh, usually with a large piece of pork shoulder, which is a homonym in the Xiangdong dialect, and the school captain has not found a standard way to write it, if you have a friend who understands, please advise.
When you can't find the ** of the trouser lift, you can use the elbow instead, one trouser lift is equivalent to the size of two elbows, which is like an oversized pork knuckle, and the weight can be reached.
Five, six pounds. In the captain's hometown in the eighties, this was one of the most hardcore dishes during the Chinese New Year, and even in the most difficult families, the dish could not be left out, but the size was different.
The second is a stewed whole chicken, which is also a hard dish, using a few pounds of old hens, adding Codonopsis, Angelica and other precious Chinese medicinal materials to stew, and then put more than a dozen eggs, it is quite spectacular when it is served.
When he was a child, the school captain always avoided stewed whole chicken, and the smell of Chinese medicine made it difficult for him to accept. However, in the rural areas of Xiangdong, stewed whole chicken is a precious delicacy.
In daily life, chickens are used for stir-frying, and a chicken can be eaten for several days. Only during the Chinese New Year will the whole chicken be stewed. Pan-fried grass carp is also a specialty, just like pigs and chickens are home-raised, and fish are also fished out of their own fish ponds.
After the field was divided into households, the four families were assigned a one-acre fish pond, and everyone took turns to cut the grass and feed the fish, and then cleared the pond at the end of the year and divided it equally. The fish pond belongs to themselves, and everyone is like crazy to grass.
The captain was very impressed by the largest grass carp at the end of the year, which weighed almost ten pounds, and hung taller than him at that time. However, Xiangdong does not fry whole fish, no matter how big the grass carp is, it is also cut into pieces of about half a catty and then fried in camellia oil, which is nothing more than two more pieces during the New Year.
By the way, the camellia oil in the south is an artifact to remove the fish, all aquatic products, as well as mutton and dog meat with a strong smell, as long as they are fried in camellia oil, there is only the aroma of meat and no fishy smell.
Despite the beauty of the tea tree's fruits, it is a painful task to thrive because the dust of the tea tree can make people itch to death.
Hunan special delicacy - gooseneck meatballs, wrapped in yellow egg skin, resembling a thick goose neck. It is named for the fact that it can be pressed for oil in its cracked fruit. On festive occasions in Hunan, gooseneck meatballs are usually the first dish, cut into slices and placed on top.
Now you can also taste this delicacy in Hunan restaurants, and it is generally called a family portrait.
Children have a soft spot for sliced gooseneck meatballs, and as long as there are children present, adults usually let them eat two more slices. In particular, the peach crisp added when chopping the balls is a luxury-level dim sum, which is almost rare in ordinary times.
While the adults were chopping meat, the children gathered around to rub a piece of peach shortbread, which was one of the best memories of the school captain's childhood. The rule for the Chinese New Year is to prepare ten dishes, and most of them are meat dishes.
However, during the Spring Festival in 1982, our family of seven actually ate all the dishes. Since then, hard dishes are no longer the most popular on the Spring Festival table, because everyone's stomach has eaten oil and water.
Over time, some traditional dishes, such as trouser and steamed chicken, gradually withdrew from the menu for Chinese New Year's Eve dinner. Instead, dishes with better taste and lower meat content, such as stewed cuttlefish with pork belly, pink-skinned black goat, dog meat, braised chicken feet and stir-fried chicken gizzards, have gradually become frequent customers of Chinese New Year's Eve dinners, making the menus of Chinese New Year's Eve meals begin to diversify and no longer have a highly uniform model.
With the advent of the new century, people's living standards have been continuously improved, and food has become an indispensable part of daily life. Rare dim sum and sweets that can only be tasted during the Chinese New Year in the past, as well as seafood, fruits, and dried fruits that have never been heard of or seen, are now available.
In this process, traditional dishes such as black goat stewed noodles have become classics in people's hearts. However, with the improvement of people's living standards, people's requirements for food are getting higher and higher, which also makes the traditional New Year's flavor gradually fade.
The people take food as the sky, and they have lost the ** of food, and the taste of the New Year will naturally fade a lot. This is the transition from the traditional agricultural society and rural life that has lasted for thousands of years to the urban life of the industrial society, which is the background and underlying logic of the fading of the New Year.
This process began in the exploration of the industrial salvation of the sages of the late Qing Dynasty, laid a solid foundation in the difficult heavy industry construction in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, and set off a climax after the reform and opening up.
In the process, our lives have changed dramatically, and the taste of the year has changed from rich and diverse to monotonous.
Our generation is fortunate to have witnessed the magnificent scene of China's industrialization process. From the division of land to households in the early 80s of the last century, to the transfer of rural labor after the opening up of the coast, to the rapid development of the economy and industrial upgrading, it has promoted the largest population flow and urbanization process in human history.
What makes this mobility valuable is that it is a pure economic act, neither the forced urbanization triggered by the enclosure movement in the early days of Western industrialization, nor the great global migration symbolized by war and genocide in the Western colonial era.
Under the watchful eye of capital, not only blacks can be used as slaves, but white child labor can also be exploited. In the wave of change of this era, our way of life has undergone earth-shaking changes, including the unprecedented impact of traditional New Year's customs.
Although I miss the unique flavor of my childhood, as a writer, I am more willing to face the challenges and opportunities of the new era. I believe that when human civilization reaches a new height again, when the history of agricultural civilization and industrial civilization converge, traditional Chinese culture and civilization will be understood and inherited in a new way, and new Chinese folk customs will also emerge.
I firmly believe that a community with a shared future for mankind, universal harmony and new Chinese folk customs that incorporate more global cultural factors will become the future development trend.
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