How long has it been since you went home? What things are on your must-do list when you go home for Chinese New Year this year?

I haven’t been home for three years.

I can finally go home during the Chinese New Year this year.

Time flies, and before you know it, another year has passed.

An epidemic has disrupted the rhythm of our lives. Some people struggle to maintain a bleak business, working from dawn to dusk all day long. Some people unfortunately lose their jobs and shuttle back and forth in office buildings, struggling to find opportunities.

This year has not been easy for us. But no matter where we are, at the end of each year, the only hope in our hearts is to go home.

For every Chinese, going home is never a simple word. It is a kind of expectation for hometown and attachment to parents.

Bring a gift to your parents

Parents are the people who love us most in this world, and they are also the most "duplicitous" people.

Always thinking about us, and at the same time reassuring us that it will be okay if we don’t come back, everything is fine at home.

I always resent our spending money indiscriminately, but at the same time I am so happy that I "show off" to everyone that my child bought me something again.

Our parents are always shy to tell us they love us, but they care about our lives quietly and never ask us for anything in return; but they are full of joy for our feedback.

When you go home during the Chinese New Year, remember to prepare a gift for your parents. No matter how high or low the gift is, it is a thoughtful gift.

Get ready to return home

Life is not easy. We are far away from our hometown and making a living outside. Although our parents say they are not worried, they have been silently caring about us in their hearts.

What they look forward to most is not that their children will succeed, be promoted and make money, but that we can be happy and healthy.

So no matter how many ups and downs you have experienced this year, how many grievances you have suffered, remember to clean up your mood before going home, put happiness and joy on your face, and hide sadness and unwillingness in your heart.

Give your parents a bright smile and talk about the growth and harvest of the year. As long as the family is together happily, it is the greatest happiness.

Buying a new suit

We are in a foreign land, and when we usually communicate with our parents, we can only express our thoughts and concerns through the cold mobile phone screen.

Going home for the New Year is a long-lost reunion.

In the eyes of our parents, we can tell whether we are living well away from home by looking at the clothes we wear when we come home and the expressions on our faces.

So no matter how frugal you usually are, remember to prepare a new suit of clothes for yourself when you go home during the Chinese New Year.

A clean and tidy new suit can make your parents’ hearts, which have always been concerned about you, feel stable and practical. It can also help you bid farewell to all the unpleasantness of the past year and welcome a new future.

Cooking New Year’s Eve dinner with parents

We Chinese have two festivals where family reunion is most important, one is the Mid-Autumn Festival and the other is the Spring Festival.

Especially on New Year's Eve, the family prepares the New Year's Eve dinner together in the kitchen, gives a favor to the mother, and chats with the father about what they have seen outside. This is the warmest moment for the family.

When you go home during the New Year, remember to cook a New Year’s Eve dinner with your parents. No matter whether it is rich or not, this is the happiest taste of a home.

Visiting familiar relatives and friends

Due to the epidemic, most of us stayed at home last year, and it was difficult to meet and chat with familiar relatives and friends.

If the epidemic in your hometown is not serious this year, you can go out and get together with them. The relationship between people lies in frequent contact and greetings.

Sending a WeChat message is convenient, but it is not as good as sitting together with several people, chatting and laughing face to face.

Let parents rest and do a general cleaning at home

As for the rituals of Chinese New Year, in addition to staying up late, changing into new clothes, and setting off firecrackers, general cleaning is also one of them.

Going home during the Chinese New Year, let your elderly parents take a break and do a general cleaning of the home.

Cleaning the windows of the house will make everyone feel a sense of comfort. If you welcome the New Year in such a clean and tidy environment, you will definitely be happy and splendid in the coming year.

Take a family photo with your family

In this life, there are many moments worth recording.

Learning to walk for the first time, carrying a schoolbag to school on the first day, getting paid for the first time, bringing your lover home for the first time...

Our lives when we were young The shadows of our parents are everywhere in our lives. After we grow up, they gradually drift away and quietly withdraw from our lives.

Going home for the New Year is almost the only time of the year when we can reunite with them. The happiness of reunion at this moment is naturally worth capturing in photos.

Go home during the Chinese New Year and take a family photo with your parents. No matter when and where you are, as long as you take out the photo and look at your parents’ kind and warm smiling faces, you will always gain the strength to continue working hard.

In the first half of their lives, our parents kept worrying and working for us and gave everything unconditionally. In the second half of their lives, we need to let them learn to let go of their obsession with their children and enjoy their own wonderful lives.