Those things in prose during the Chinese New Year.

In a blink of an eye, the annual Spring Festival has come again. Speaking of the current Chinese New Year, many people lament that the taste of the Chinese New Year is getting weaker and weaker now, so it is better to live well in the early years. Yes, "flowers are similar every year, but different every year". The feeling of Chinese New Year really varies with age. ......

(1) Looking forward to the New Year in childhood.

Speaking of Chinese New Year, I have many feelings. Besides, when I was a child, I always looked forward to the New Year. In the 1950s and 1960s, China's economy was poor, and the people's lives were even poorer, with little food and clothing. I remember when I was a child, I was never interested in eating breakfast. I ate two meals a day, just plain tea and light rice, and seldom saw oily meat. The only time to improve your life and eat good things is the New Year. Therefore, whenever the cold winter comes, especially after a heavy snow, I feel that the new year is coming, and I am looking forward to it.

In fact, the Chinese New Year at that time was very different from the Chinese New Year now. Things are not as rich as they are now, so you can buy whatever you want. At that time, materials were scarce, and everything had to be bought by ticket. Even if you have money, you can't buy anything, let alone have no money. It is under such circumstances that a young childlike innocence will have a beautiful yearning for the new year.

Speaking of this, some scenes of Chinese New Year when I was a child are vivid: First, eating rice cakes and making rice cakes are the necessary Chinese New Year food for every household. After the twentieth day of the twelfth lunar month, the next door arranged to steam glutinous rice together and invited a group of teachers to pay the bill. We children stood by and watched while they shouted one by one. Sometimes the teacher pays money to pull a dumpling for the watching children and says, "Go to one side and eat"! The child flew away like a rabbit and ate it. Cool the cooked Ciba on the door, dry it, cut it into small pieces, and soak it in a water tank with wax water, so that it can be eaten for several months. This Ciba became the best food in our childhood. If we want to eat it, we will take one or two pieces out of the jar and barbecue them on the stove. After a while, the Ciba will swell up. Then we will use chopsticks to dig a hole in the rice cake and put the brown sugar in it. It tastes really sweet. Families with good conditions will also make some fried rice candy, cut it into squares and put it in jars, which is already a favorite food for children.

On New Year's Eve, after the reunion dinner, all the children should take a bath and put on new clothes. Although the fabric is not good, they feel flattered when they wear it, and they also compete with other children to show that their clothes are fashionable and beautiful. As for toys, because my family is poor, I can't afford good toys. In my childhood memory, there are two kinds of toys that are the most vivid: one is a one-dollar kaleidoscope. If you look inside with one eye and turn the kaleidoscope at the same time, it will transform colorful patterns, so that you can never get tired of seeing them. Then there are glasses for 50 cents each. During the China New Year these days, I always see an old man carrying a load of zongzi to sell in the street. At that time, we all had three or five lucky money in our hands, and we all wanted to buy one and blow it. Toot-toot bells are ringing one after another, which is very pleasant to listen to, but it will be broken in three to five minutes, and children will continue to buy it. But this kind of toy has not been seen for decades, and it can only be a permanent memory in my mind!

The Spring Festival in childhood is unforgettable, leaving many good memories. At that time, I kept thinking, when I grow up and get married, I must have a good year! How to spend the second year after marriage?

(2) Busy New Year after marriage

After getting married and starting a business in the early 1980s, the general feeling was that Chinese New Year was a busy word. In the early 1980s, China began to implement reform and opening up. Since then, China's economy has gradually improved and people's living standards have gradually improved. As far as Chinese New Year is concerned, in order to make this year not as shabby as in the past, every family pickled and bought new year's goods early, so that the year would be festive, lively and cheerful.

Let's talk about the production of new year's goods. In order to visit relatives and friends, spring travelers are invited to prepare enough new year's goods. Every winter solstice, they start to buy fish and meat and pickle wax products. Salted fish range from thirty to forty kilograms to sixty or seventy kilograms. In some years, the unit also divides 40 to 50 kilograms of fish, so it is necessary to brake the fish out overnight and put it in the tank for pickling. When you are busy, you are busy. Then we have to tie the pickled wax goods with ropes, take them out to bask in the sun, and go in and out ten times. Busy people are upset and lazy. Then I have to buy my own sausage and some other new year's goods. Hehe, on the 27th of the twelfth lunar month, my home is full of new year's goods, which are hung on the wall, on my head, in the cupboard and in the refrigerator. In fact, these things can't be eaten up during the New Year, and sometimes they have to be given to others in June and July, and some even throw them away.

In addition, it will take a day or two to eat New Year's Eve. In fact, there are only four people in the family, but we should be polite. The New Year's Eve dinner is going to be made into eight dishes and one soup, so I started to prepare on the 28th, went to the vegetable market to buy food, and went home to kill chickens and feed soup, so I was too busy to turn around. The 30-year-old New Year's Eve dinner is ready, and a few people can't eat much. As a result, these dishes can't be eaten in a few days, but it's a pity that they get bored after a long time, which really makes people laugh and cry

Spring guests will be invited after dinner, and they will be busy until the fifteenth day of the first month. First, invite relatives and friends to dinner. After a busy day, I am tired to arrange meals, entertainment and playing cards. As soon as the bell rings, I have to arrange a midnight snack and go to bed at two or three. Then I went to my relatives' house and took turns to go into battle. I can't go home until the clock turns every day. Again, colleagues in the unit, as long as anyone invites everyone to dinner at home, everyone takes turns sitting in the village and eating for a period. As a result, after this year, they all felt very tired.

Yes, don't feel too busy and tired during the Spring Festival. How can we change it?

(3) People don't celebrate the New Year until middle age.

After entering the 2 1 century, especially after more than 30 years of reform and opening up, China's economy has developed rapidly, its comprehensive national strength has gradually become stronger, its people's living standards have improved rapidly, and its material supply is sufficient. Gone are the days when you can only eat and wear during the Spring Festival.

You can buy anything now, as long as you want to eat, you can buy it anytime and anywhere, and you don't have to wait until the New Year to enjoy it for a while. Nowadays, many people look down on Chinese New Year, especially those over middle age, and feel a lot in this respect. In other words, the concept of preserving Chinese New Year wax products has changed greatly. In the past, due to the shortage of materials, many new year's goods had to be kept for several months. Now there are abundant materials, so there is no need to pickle a lot of wax products, because the pickled wax products are not fresh and delicious, and the news media reports that too much pickling is easy to cause cancer, so now families rarely pickle wax products, and some families simply don't pickle them, so they want to buy some from the supermarket, which is convenient and economical. In recent years, there is no bacon at home, so I want to go to the supermarket to buy some, which reduces a lot of trouble.

Besides, having a reunion dinner will change some concepts. I used to cook several dishes and soups-a big table, which I couldn't finish in a few days. Not eating is a waste, but throwing it away is a pity. My wife once said a classic saying: there are only three or four people in the New Year's Eve family. They cook three or five dishes if they want to eat, and no one comes to your house to check, saying that your home cooking is less criticized! Therefore, my family has not cooked so many dishes according to tradition in recent years, only a few dishes that I want to eat, and then make fresh ones after eating, which is both warm and convenient.

Inviting spring guests is also a troublesome thing for Chinese New Year, which wastes time and makes people feel very tired. Sometimes, when playing cards, some unpleasant things will happen. Therefore, in recent years, guests in the spring are generally not invited to our home, and others invite us to dinner. We try our best to refuse for various reasons, which reduces the chances of eating and inviting each other, so that we can have more time to spend the New Year at home and make this year both relaxed and comfortable.

We should also underestimate the etiquette of Chinese New Year, such as putting couplets on the door, putting a whip before the reunion dinner, setting off fireworks when the New Year bell rings and so on. As I get older, I look down on these things. Couplets are no longer posted, and firecrackers are no longer set off on New Year's Eve, because the office garden is small and paper dust is everywhere when firecrackers are set off, which affects hygiene. I don't set off fireworks in the New Year, because I am old, unlike children and teenagers, who set off fireworks in the yard and on the street to run bamboo. You can only watch the Spring Festival Gala on New Year's Eve. When the New Year bell rings, you can stand on the balcony, enjoy the fireworks in the night sky and listen to firecrackers. This is also a wonderful enjoyment.

With the progress of the times and the renewal of ideas, we should also have a new understanding of the New Year and update some traditional ideas in the past, so that the New Year is both civilized and innovative, making people feel warm and happy. Let's have a happy and just New Year every year!