Spring Festival in my hometown.
Wen Sun Zhanchun.
I don't know if it's because I'm getting older, or because the standard of living has improved, the feeling of "New Year" is getting weaker and weaker, and during the New Year, everyone always loves to reminisce and recall the scenes of the New Year, but I think the mood of the New Year will never change.
I remember that when I was a child, the atmosphere of the New Year was very solemn, and the Laba rice of Laba Festival should be eaten before the sun rises, and the door knocker should be fed before eating. Holding a bowl of laba rice and rubbing a little bit on each door knocker with chopsticks, this is to worship the door god and pray for a good harvest in the coming year. Twenty-three sacrifices to the stove master, the stove master is the head of the family, the year is over, the stove master has to go to heaven to report the merits and deeds of the year in the world, and the heavens want to ride a horse, so there must be forage in the offering plate; In order to let the stove master say more good things to his family in the sky, he also had to offer a small plate of hemp candy or candy, I don't know if the stove master ate the candy, but we waited for the pillar of incense to burn out, and my mother gave us the sugar to eat.
On this day, my mother always said to us:
It's the New Year, you can't swear, you can't swear, you can't scold people, otherwise the emperor will give people a sinner.
Therefore, I have been cautious since this day, and I am afraid that if I am not careful, I will say the words that will let the heavenly gods punish the sin.
The happiest thing is to go to the New Year's greetings on the morning of the first day of the new year, looking forward to it! I've been looking forward to it for a whole year, and I'm finally looking forward to the New Year. I got up early and put on new clothes, my sister and I sat around the small square table on the kang, and there was a big tea tray on the table, with peanuts, melon seeds, red dates, black dates and the like, as well as two or three kinds of tea food. We drank the brown sugar water that my mother brewed for us in a small pink teacup, and my mother said that drinking brown sugar water on the first day of the new year would be sweet for a year. When the day finally dawned, when the first New Year's greeting child entered my house, we rushed out of the house like swallows to pay New Year's greetings to the heads of the courtyard and outside the courtyard.
Today's laba rice is indeed rich, rice, purple rice, glutinous rice, peanuts, red beans, white kidney beans, as well as raisins and jujubes, when it is almost ripe, add white sugar (I like to add brown sugar), soft and glutinous sweet, that is really: "what a fragrant word". Nowadays, most people's doors are locked, but there is no knocker to feed. Even the twenty-three sacrificial stove masters, most of them are still the business of the parents, and the children only need to purchase New Year's goods. This New Year's goods are also the most troublesome thing, until the first day of the Lunar New Year, the New Year's goods will never be complete. Busy in the wax moon! Time flies quickly when you're busy.
The old people have a lot of attention to the New Year, and what day to eat is very solemn. Twenty-eight eat to make a fortune, as the name suggests, to make a fortune in the coming year; Twenty-nine eat dumplings for the next year, the dumplings can't be eaten, leave some for the next year; Drink rice soup in the morning of the thirtieth, boil a pot of porridge with millet and rice, add soybean sprouts (golden hook), tofu (tofu is blessing), daylily, shredded meat and the like can be added at will, and finally sprinkle green onion and coriander, drizzle with sesame oil, drink a bowl, relieve greasy and help digestion, the stomach is very comfortable, it is simply an appetizer.
Nowadays, the most important thing for the Chinese New Year is reunion. Even if you are thousands of miles away, the Chinese New Year is over, and you have to rush home no matter what. I saw several of my colleagues snapping up train tickets online, sitting for more than ten hours on the afternoon of the Chinese New Year's Eve, and spending the entire Chinese New Year's Eve on the train. I took the car at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, arrived at home at 7 o'clock in the evening, and arrived home just in time for dinner, and my husband and son prepared hot pot, which was hearty and simple. The Spring Festival Gala was broadcast on TV, the lights in the room were bright, fireworks were everywhere outside the window, and firecrackers were in the sky. The girl called ** on the mobile phone, and the little grandson happily called grandma! Grandfather! Uncle! We ate and talked. After eating, my husband drove my son back to the village, and I hung up my daughter's ** and my mother**. I will go to my mother-in-law's house tomorrow, and I will go back to my parents' house the day after tomorrow, and I am very busy during the New Year, busy with New Year's greetings and reunions, and visiting relatives and friends. The only drawback is that my daughter's family has not been able to come back this year, and the family seems to be a little deserted.
The second morning of the first to go to the grave, to the deceased ancestors to pay New Year's greetings, from morning to morning, there are a lot of people and cars in the wild, in addition to women, the men and children of the family have gone to the grave, there is a faint smell of incense in the air, the firecrackers have been controlled in recent years, people used to put firecrackers on the grave, it is very prosperous.
In the past, it seemed that the whole New Year was in the New Year, the village had to sing a big drama for a few days, and on the fifteenth day of the first month, the town watched the lanterns and played the social fire, until the second dragon raised its head after February, and the people's hearts could settle down. Nowadays, many people work outside, or work and study, as soon as the annual leave is over, they will go their separate ways, go out, ** and the taste of the year! But I know in my heart that my hometown is still in the middle of the Chinese New Year.