Every year before the Spring Festival, as an older single young man who has been lying flat for a long time, I will prepare a set of rhetoric in advance to deal with the strange questions of my relatives. But in recent years, I've found myself a bit self-conscious, because there aren't many relatives coming to visit.
During the day on the 28th day of the lunar month this year, when I was buying firecrackers on the street, I began to think that on this night or the night of the 29th day of the lunar month, my relatives would probably come to my house to pay New Year's greetings. Sure enough, when I was sitting on the sofa at home that night to rewatch "Happy Comedian", Xu Qing's ** called and said that he was on his way to my house.
Love Only" stills.
Xu Qing is my grandmother's niece, and I call her an aunt by generation, but she is not the only aunt and nephew in my family. My grandmother has six older brothers and one younger brother, and the seventeen or eighteen children born to my elder brothers all call my grandma "aunt". Every year during the Chinese New Year, nephews and nieces who live far away are inconvenient to visit relatives, so they will say a few words to my grandmother in **. The nieces and eight daughters who live close to me have become a habit to come to my house to pay New Year's greetings.
About 20 years ago, when I was in elementary school, every year on the second day of the Lunar New Year, the day when I returned to my parents' house during the traditional Spring Festival, my grandmother's younger brother, that is, my aunt and grandfather's family of four, as well as my aunt and aunt would come to my house with their husbands and children to visit my grandmother and grandfather for a whole day. At that time, adults were busy chatting, watching sketches, and playing mahjong. My aunt and I were pulled out by the adults to compete in arithmetic, writing, memorizing ancient poems, and performing talents, which was quite annoying, but more than a dozen people were crammed into a small living room of more than ten square meters to talk and laugh.
New Year's Eve stills.
Habits change.
The change started when I was in high school. After I went to high school, my aunt's daughter was in her third year of junior high school, and my aunt's daughter was in her first year abroad. Since the children have academic tasks, my aunt, aunt and uncle-in-law no longer bring their two cousins to my house, and they no longer sit all day on the second day of junior high school every year, but greet my grandmother for ten minutes, throw down the red envelopes and New Year's goods and drive home.
When you have a child in high school or preparing to go to school, you rarely think about entertainment. Until now, I rarely see those two cousins again.
From college to work, the Chinese New Year was very different from when I was in high school. The aforementioned relatives still come every year, but instead of in groups, the time for New Year's greetings has changed from "after the year" to "before the year".
For example, this year, on the evening of the twenty-eighth day of the lunar month, Aunt Xu Qing said that she would soon come downstairs to my house, and I wanted to ask how many people came, after all, she had come with my aunt in the past few years, but she hung up before she could ask**. I went downstairs to meet her at the intersection, her car happened to be driving down the slope, and I could see the empty seat of the co-pilot by following the headlights, and I thought to myself: I'm afraid my aunt won't come this year.
Happy New Year" stills.
I really guessed it, my aunt just sat down a few minutes after entering the house, and said to my grandmother, "Auntie, my sister can't come this year" while saying that she took out a red envelope and put it on the table, "This is the red envelope my sister gave you, she asked me to say hello to you for her."
My grandmother didn't accept the red envelope, but she happily invited her, "When you are free for the New Year, you and your sister will come over for dinner with the children." Every year when relatives come to visit the New Year, my grandmother is this set of rhetoric, but even if she expected what the old lady was going to say, the old lady was still a little embarrassed when she refused, she said, "Auntie, we will go out for a trip during the New Year." Not coming. And we're going to have to worry about you when we eat together.
My grandmother is fake and polite, but my aunt really wants to go out and play.
In the past few years, the aunt and aunt have chosen to pay New Year's greetings around the 28th of the lunar month, just so that during the Spring Festival holiday, the family can go to other places to play for a few more days. This time my aunt didn't come, mostly because her home is in Shenyang, my home is in Tieling, although it is not far, but after returning to Tieling to pay New Year's greetings, I will go back to Shenyang to travel by plane, which is indeed a toss.
Stills from "Happy Events at Home".
There is no way, migrant workers who do not have annual leave want to go out to play, so they can only take advantage of the holiday.
In the past, the taste of the New Year was a family that had not seen each other for a long time and got together to talk and laugh. The current New Year's flavor is probably taking advantage of the rare holiday, and no matter how many tourists squeeze in, they have to go out to play together.
As for the questions that my relatives would ask me, it didn't happen at all, because in the face of my grandmother, "Does the child have a partner?" The question of when to get married", my aunt and I are in the united front, after all, her daughter is also unmarried. Therefore, during the ten minutes I sat at my house, she did not inquire about my situation, but said to my grandmother, "Auntie, we can't take care of the children's affairs, so let the children make their own decisions." ”
That's good, so that I can watch "Happy Comedian" happily and quietly with my family.
New Year's greetings, as long as the mind arrives, it is the most important thing to live a good life.