A snow in the beginning of spring in 2024 instantly fills the sense of New Year's flavor. In these days when the New Year is approaching, my daughter often chats with us about some customs and things in her hometown after tea and dinner. I once heard my neighbor say on the bus: "I have booked more than thirty tickets, and there has been no news, it was the day before Chinese New Year's Eve." The return ticket was not grabbed either. ”…Looking at the people around us who are making various preparations for going home for the New Year, our hearts are full of envy, going home for the New Year, it is really a happy thing!
Yes, "I have money but no money to go home for the New Year!" "What many families are looking forward to. We used to be part of the Spring Festival army. When we first got married, the couple carried our luggage upside down and squeezed the last train, and finally arrived home on the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve. Then it is to drive home, on the eve of the Spring Festival, we will pack up our things to prepare, the night before departure, although we are early ** rest, but will always be unable to sleep, especially the military lover almost in the case of a sleepless night must be the first to get up, call us up early, and then move the things to the car. Our breakfast is usually eaten in the service area after a quarter of the journey. Then along the way, I kept replying to different people from my hometown, "Where are you?" "How long do you have to get home?" "Do you have lunch at home?" and so on.
When you arrive at your hometown, you can feel the smell of the New Year, along the way, you can only see the smoke curling in the village, and you can smell various dishes from time to time, of course, the meat smell is the main thing. In the courtyard, there are New Year's goods, quilts and the like, and you can hear the laughter of children playing with firecrackers. When I meet familiar villagers, my lover will always roll down the window and hand a cigarette to say hello, and the cold and laughter all contain the taste of hometown, and that kind of intimacy is the taste that those of us who work hard in the countryside often miss.
When I entered the house, all the dust and dust were dusted off, and I was directly submerged in the smell of home, and we were busy together: leaning in the kitchen while talking to my mother, while tasting all kinds of things that my mother stuffed and only knew what they were after chewing; While adding firewood to the stove, at the same time, in response to the instructions of my mother and the tasks handed over by my father from time to time, I moved a table and carried firewood; Then take a big broom to clean the courtyard together, go to the vegetable garden to pull vegetables together, go to the market to do New Year's goods together, and stew vegetables together to make kueh ......When the time comes to post couplets together, the Chinese New Year's Eve of the reunion of thousands of families has really arrived. So, set off firecrackers to eat Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, change new clothes to seal the New Year's bag, and watch the Spring Festival Gala around the fireplace. The sound of firecrackers was mixed with the sound of television and the shouting of New Year's greetings from the other side. That feeling is warm, and there is a sweet feeling in my heart, which is only found in my hometown during the New Year.
Year after year, time always flies so fast, now we can no longer hear the nagging of our parents, our hometown has become our hometown--- the place that has always haunted our dreams, but the familiar figure is only in our dreams.
The daughter said that the traditional customs of her hometown are so beautiful in retrospect. Indeed, whether it is the previous New Year or the New Year in memory, it is beautiful, and this beauty will always accompany every New Year in the future.
The Chinese New Year is always beautiful!