Mr. Zhou Qizi in Taipei wrote "New Year's Feelings", and at the beginning of the book, he was quoted to read a few sentences that he read "under the lamp".
I haven't celebrated New Year's in my hometown for more than 20 years. Probably in this life, it will never be. The New Year of the city is like liquor with water, and it has no real taste, because the human taste of the city has long been fake.Mr. Dong's "Wenlin Reminiscences" said that it has been noted at the end of the official document that these words are from Mr. Xu Fuguan's handwriting. He also quoted his father-in-law as saying that these words "have a very ordinary meaning, and there is a deep sense of depression in the pen, which makes people feel unwillingly unwilling to read them, and this is a state that is not easy to reach."
What they are talking about is an article, and it is a difficult article. And when I read this text today, I was thinking about the New Year, and it is not easy to celebrate the New Year. A few days ago, I participated in the recording of a "variety show" program hosted by Yu Chi Linjia of Phoenix Satellite TV, and according to the script, I need to answer a question from Wei Chi: "You always say that the taste of the New Year is fading now, so tell young people, what is the taste of the New Year that you regret?" ”
I hadn't read these words of Mr. Xu Fuguan that day, otherwise I would have read them to them on the spot. "Liquor with water", just this short metaphor, it is clear what is the "light" taste of the year. As for the reason, of course, there is a reason to say that "the taste of the city has long been fake", but if you continue to ask a few more "whys", it is also very difficult to answer.
Our current attitude towards the city is too different from that of Mr. Xu's generation. They live in the city, and they feel that life is dull in the midst of traffic, not only the smell of the year is thin, but the smell of people has become unpleasant. They still have an unchanging "country" in their minds, and they just lament that they will never go back in this life. In our generation, the countryside is no longer the "countryside", and it has been "turned upside down and generous" for several rounds in the past few decades. Now in the countryside for the New Year, although it still looks stronger than in the city, but more is just the surface of the lively, the true taste of "New Year" has long been gone, and it is impossible to save. I'm not saying it's not normal. This is normal. Since the agricultural civilization and rural life on which the festival and customs depend for survival have been changed beyond recognition, how can the "year" be intact?
In this sense, Mr. Xu is in the city, nostalgic for the countryside, and sighs that "it is difficult to return home". Those of us who have long accepted the city, settled in the city, and cannot do without the city, and the "pastoral thought" is just a curtain of spring dreams on the day of the beginning of spring (such as today). Even if you return to the countryside for the New Year, most of the New Year's flavors you taste have become "water-soaked liquor". Compared with Mr. Xu's generation, "it is difficult to return home", we can also say that they have "homeless".
What is the smell of the New Year that you regret? ”
I forgot how to answer Wei Chi when I was doing the show. The answer that comes to mind at this moment is: I don't regret the fading New Year's flavor. The flavor of the year in my memory, such as setting off firecrackers, such as wearing new clothes, such as eating dumplings, such as visiting relatives, such as inviting God to send God, kowtowing to the New Year, although there is some fun in recall, but these interests are beautified by memory, just like the current beauty**, they are all retouched by software. I often remind myself that nostalgia is okay, but I must be sober and vigilant enough to be nostalgic, nostalgic, and even glorify the old life. Now there are people online who express a desire for life to come back.
Forty or fifty years ago. I'm sorry, but I won't be with you. If you are willing to go back, please feel free.
In this sense, those New Year's flavors that grow out of the silent years in the countryside, those that are self-created because of poverty, those that use some rituals to comfort and entertain themselves because there is no hope in life, and those New Year's flavors that make normal needs difficult to meet because of scarcity and ......scarcityIf it's light, it's light, what's the matter!
I can also answer it this way: What is the smell of the New Year that you ask me to regret? What I regret is that my family has not evolved enough new "New Year's flavor", it is because I used to take some "pseudo-New Year's flavor" as the real New Year's flavor, and I have thought that smirking at the TV Spring Festival Gala for New Year's Eve is a New Year's flavor. I regret that my own life is not enough to have my own true taste. I believe that if I live my life well enough, I won't be looking for any "New Year's flavor" everywhere.
Hu Hongxia text.