Childhood’s New Year’s Eve

This is a textbook in the first volume of the first grade textbook. The name of the children's song is "Spring Festival Nursery Rhyme". I still remember when I was teaching this text, I asked the children in our class whether they had eaten "Laba porridge" during the Laba Festival, and whether they knew that they had to eat "sugar melon" during the New Year, clean up, go to the market to buy new year's goods, and stay up late at night. It was a New Year custom all night long, and all the students looked confused and shook their heads in confusion.

I don’t know if the “New Year” flavor is not strong enough now. Now the concept of celebrating the New Year seems to have slowly disappeared from our minds. “New Year” is just the word “New Year”. Two words that just mean vacation.

Suddenly I feel a little lucky that I am born in the 90s. Compared with those born in the 10s and 2000s, we still have the "taste of the year" worth remembering from our childhood.

I still remember that at that time, the sky was still blue, there was no haze in the air, and the "whip ban" had not yet been promulgated.

As soon as the New Year’s Eve bells pass, my father will definitely go to the rooftop outside the balcony to hang a long whip. The surrounding area is filled with the sound of firecrackers and fireworks, and everyone greets them happily. The arrival of the new year is full of rituals.

In the past few days during the Chinese New Year, until the tenth day of the first lunar month, my friends always held firecrackers in their hands, including the firecrackers, skycrackers, little bees, and thunder kings... I still remember these firecrackers. name.

Everyone likes to throw firecrackers into small puddles or on the roadside. Sometimes during the holidays, they will go to school to play with some friends.

There are also some naughty little boys who like to "pick up firecrackers" and then threaten to throw them at you. If you are frightened, they will laugh happier than anyone else. Of course, some will be blown up before they can throw them out in time. After he got it, his friends all laughed at him.

At that time, people would put out Kongming lanterns during the New Year, write their wishes on them, and watch them fly higher and higher with their New Year's wishes.

The White Rabbit toffee at that time was always full of milky fragrance without any food additives, and the wine-filled chocolate at that time was always particularly delicious.

Shredded squid, pork buns, milk-flavored melon seeds, prawn cakes, all kinds of Wangwang gift packages... When I was a child, I didn’t celebrate the New Year just to eat the sumptuous lunch and dinner on the table, but always stare at the two big things on the table. Listen to carbonated drinks, but also think about keeping your stomach open for snacks for a while.

In the past few days, mothers will not nag them to eat less snacks, nor will they say that eating too many snacks is bad for children's health.

After all, it’s the New Year. If there’s anything, this or that is not allowed, we’ll talk about it after the New Year.

At that time, the economic conditions of every family were good, and the red envelopes were not small. Every night, I spread out the red envelopes and counted them on the bed. I was so happy that I felt like I owned the whole world.

At that time, we especially liked to visit relatives and pay New Year greetings, and we liked to gather around the adults and watch them play mahjong and fight landlords, and then we learned by watching.

The adults didn’t care about us. A group of friends happily ran to various canteens, arcades, and small squares with "huge sums of money" in their pockets...

That At that time, I would put two coins in the dumplings. At that time, I would go to the temple to burn incense on the first day of the new year. At that time, I would still think that the new clothes are beautiful. At that time, I would still feel that the money in the red envelope is too much to spend. At that time, you couldn’t sweep the floor or use needles or knives during the Chinese New Year...

But now, when I returned to my grandma’s house during the Chinese New Year last year, I saw a group of children sitting in a row on the sofa with their mobile phones, playing King of Glory or eating chicken. When you get tired of playing, just hold your iPad and watch cartoons or movies. Basically no one will go out to play in a place without WiFi.

I can buy new clothes anytime I like them, and there is no difference between those for the Chinese New Year and those in ordinary times; those born in the 1990s are no longer embarrassed to accept red envelopes but start giving them out; relatives at the dinner table begin to ask endless questions Xi, have you become friends? How is your job now, how much is your salary, whose children’s monthly salary and annual salary are now, whose children have settled in that country now, whose children are now married...

Chinese New Year is no longer easy and "good".

“Time has legs and can walk on its own.

If you don't treat it well, it will slip away. When you wake up and want to find it, you don’t know where it is? ”

Although the past has passed and the lost time will never come back, I will still miss the New Year’s Eve of my childhood more and more.

I miss the pure, happy and joyless New Year’s Eve. A restrained and interesting "New Year" that leaves us with deep memories

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