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Wang Meng. People** 2024-02-10 Edition 04).
After the Spring Festival, I think of the childhood when the mountains and rivers were broken and the countryside was worried, and the memories of the "New Year" at that time still aroused a sense of anticipation for the prosperity of the family and country. Dumplings, rice cakes, laba porridge and sugar melons, frozen steamed bun rolls and pickled melons and crispy fish in outdoor clay pots, the sweet sleepiness of the children who insist on "keeping the New Year" and waiting for the new year in the roar of firecrackers and laughter, the auspicious prayers and rituals of the New Year, the spring in the cold wind, the reunion of the whole family, and the characters of the lower realm of the gods (ancestors and folk gods full of life) are all so innocent, so ancient, and so unforgettable.
The custom of wishing you prosperity and the game of giving the god of wealth are not so much a superstition as a self-understanding and self-consolation of the difficulties of the past, as well as nostalgia for the ancestors. In fact, even back then, how many people really thought that one of Zhao Gongming, Fan Li, Li Yizu, Guan Yu and other characters could send treasures to change their own poverty? How many people are not looking forward to the day when they can usher in the accumulation of development and construction as soon as possible?
Turning over the accumulation of development and construction, it has finally yielded fruitful results, and has entered a new era of realizing a rule of law China, a digital China, a green China, a beautiful China, and a healthy China, and people are marching towards the Chinese dream of realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
While dumplings and rice cakes were still available, more and more families were sharing the New Year banquet at the hotel restaurant. CCTV Spring Festival Gala has become a must-have program for people to celebrate the New Year for decades, and people are looking forward to the "Spring Festival Gala" excellence and step by step. The Spring Festival transportation that reached the size of 450 million compatriots mentioned that year, as well as domestic and foreign tourism during the Spring Festival holiday, are all human wonders. It is very different from the time when the upper board was turned off and closed during the Spring Festival, and customers could only hear the left-behind clerks beating gongs and drums and shouting a few words of drama on the street. The current Spring Festival is the best season for the retail service industry, and it is the "highlight moment" of a happy life.
At the same time, it is also the hot front line of tourism, catering, transportation and services in both urban and rural areas. During the happy and beautiful New Year's holiday, I don't know how many policemen, service workers, drivers, and on-duty personnel are sticking to their efforts.
I would also like to say that the Spring Festival is the first day of January in the traditional Chinese calendar. The Chinese calendar is definitely not just a lunar calendar, a lunar calendar, and a lunar calendar. The Chinese calendar notifies not only the rotation of the earth, but also the relative position of the earth with the moon as a reference, the rotation of the earth, and even the relative position of the earth with the sun as a reference. In the compilation of the ancient Chinese calendar, people also paid attention to the movement and position of other planets in the solar system. I like the name "Big Year". Rejoice in the New Year, what is its joy, what its luck is, and what its beauty is!
The author is a writer and former Minister of Culture).