Year after year

One year after another, time flies so fast. One week has passed since the holiday, and the Chinese New Year is less than twenty days away. I am like a person who has just woken up, with hazy eyes, still immersed in the laziness and fatigue of the holidays. I feel like I am still in a state of hibernation. Maybe this is Spring Festival Syndrome!

Ever since I became an adult, I have found it very troublesome to celebrate the New Year. I have become more and more annoyed about celebrating the New Year. Maybe this is the pain of growing up, maybe it is a test for an adult. After all, it is the responsibility of adults to let the whole family have a happy Spring Festival. A happy new year can only become a beautiful memory.

When I was a child, I always looked forward to celebrating the New Year. I felt that time passed very slowly, and one year was longer than ten years now. Every winter vacation, I count the days, wishing that it would be New Year's Eve soon, and even more wishing that every day would be the New Year, looking forward to having new clothes to wear every day, and eating the same as the New Year every day...

During the winter vacation, I played wildly with my children. The ice in the river was very thick at that time. I used wooden sticks to make a tic-tac-toe skateboard. In order to reduce friction, I nailed it on the bottom. Use the steel wire to make two more forks, sit on the skateboard, hold a fork in each hand, and fork the ice back hard on the ice in the river. The skateboard will move forward very fast, and you will feel like you are flying. Experience the thrill of that time It’s so fast, it’s really fun….

Playing with a homemade top on the ice is much more fun than on the ground. If you whip it with a whip, the top will spin very steadily and can spin for a long time. You have to be careful when riding a bicycle on ice. If you turn a corner too quickly, you will fall immediately. If you fall on the hard ice, it will be very painful...

After having enough fun on the ice, let’s go do other things. At that time, the winter vacation was only two weeks. After the holiday, the New Year was very close. My parents had already bought the firecrackers, leaving them for the New Year and the fifth day of the Lunar New Year. Yes, the excess will be distributed to us. We won’t have to wait until Nian Gen to set off the firecrackers. I took down some fragmented firecrackers, lit them and threw them in crowded places. I often heard the frightened screams of girls...

At that time, I often played pranks with my friends. I tied a small firecracker to the dog’s tail. After lighting it, the firecracker went off. The frightened dog didn’t understand what was going on and was frightened everywhere. Running and screaming. If there was no time to play anymore, they would stick firecrackers in the cow dung, light it on fire and run away quickly. Anyone who ran slowly would have the cow dung flying from the explosion stuck to their body, and they would be scolded again when they got home. .

The family was poor at that time, so they kept their new clothes for the Chinese New Year. They only improved their lives before and after the Chinese New Year. Farmers with good conditions would cook a pot of pigs in the next year, and the whole family would eat. After a rare meal of pork, the rest is reserved for entertaining relatives and friends later in the year.

When I was a kid, I was much busier during the Chinese New Year than I am now. Maybe I took the Chinese New Year more seriously. Every family steamed steamed buns, and you could smell the aroma of the steamed buns coming out of the pot everywhere. Every household has fried meatballs, fried chicken nuggets, fried fish, etc. fried in a large basket and hung on the roof beams. Even so, mice can follow the hanging rope and climb into the basket to steal the fried goods.

There were no gatherings before the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, so you couldn’t buy anything. Besides, we were backward at that time, and relatives couldn’t communicate with each other. Relatives suddenly came, and it was too late to prepare now. There were many relatives, and every household was very busy a year ago. .

It was cold at that time, and the food did not spoil easily. Most of them prepared some food before the new year, so that relatives would not have to worry when they came after the new year. In the past, there was no family planning, and every household had many brothers and sisters. The more sisters there were, the more relatives there were, and there were more interactions with each other. The closer the relatives got, the closer they became, and the family affection was very strong.

On New Year’s Eve, people post couplets, visit graves, tell their ancestors that the New Year is coming, and then set off firecrackers after kowtowing. In the evening, the whole family stays together to watch the New Year's Eve. The adults usually prepare a few dishes, and the whole family drinks and chats. No unlucky words are allowed. After drinking until twelve o'clock at night, they make dumplings and set off firecrackers. The climax of the New Year has finally arrived.

Neighbors often compete with each other to see whose firecrackers are the loudest, who sets off the most firecrackers, and who sets off the earliest firecrackers after midnight. After setting off the firecrackers, eating the dumplings, putting on new clothes, we start to greet the New Year. We always say "Happy New Year" to everyone we meet. It is a New Year's greeting and a blessing, which heralds the beginning of the new year.

Most of them are brothers of the same generation, forming a large group. Whoever has a larger family means that the family is prosperous.

After gathering, go to the homes of the elders within five servers to pay New Year greetings. Starting with the highest generation, after entering, first say hello to the New Year, and then kowtow. After a few words of praise, the elders will grab a few pieces of candy and some melon seeds. Points, this is the biggest motivation to go to New Year greetings, because you can earn something...

One year old, one year old, one year old. When I grow up, I feel that each year passes quickly. My life is getting better. I don’t pay attention to the New Year as much as I did when I was a child. I buy some things and visit relatives and friends during the New Year. It’s also very warm to go home and reunite with my parents, meet with friends I haven’t seen for many years, and get together with classmates nearby.

, the taste of the New Year is also much lighter.

In the past few years, there has been a trend of visiting each other's homes. We have relationships before the new year and visit relatives after the new year. Spending the new year is much more tiring than working. Every time after the Chinese New Year, people will inevitably get angry and feel tired, and some even fall ill from exhaustion. Things have gotten much better in recent years. After the eight regulations were introduced, the Chinese New Year has been simple and refreshing, with fewer unnecessary people coming to see me off. It is quite happy to spend the New Year quietly with my family.

The New Year is temporarily far away from us, and people have returned to their previous posts and returned to their previous status. Reunion is short-lived, and perhaps it is the short time that makes us feel happy, and the short time is worth cherishing. Before we know it, the next year is approaching us quietly.

Year after year, children grow up day by day, young people slowly move towards middle age, and middle age gradually moves towards old age. At a certain age, perhaps they no longer look forward to celebrating the New Year. Every year makes you grow older. I always feel that the days go by too fast, and I don’t even realize how old I am.

What changes is the annual rings, but what remains unchanged is the festive festival of the New Year. Whether it is overseas Chinese or Chinese people working and studying abroad, the New Year has been engraved in their bones. In ours In the genes of the Chinese nation, wherever there are Chinese people, there is Nian, and Nian is our symbol.

The new year has begun. We make wishes in the new year. I hope the new year will have a good start and a new atmosphere. I wish every household good weather and peace. Stay healthy and get stronger every year!