Release date: 20 12-03-28
Some folk words are really meaningful, such as "New Year's Eve". A year is coming to an end, just like a tree with only a few roots left-every time I say this, I will feel the emptiness and profundity of the years. I always wonder whether the years of life have become shorter or longer.
It is cold enough this year. Snow hanging and icicles that have been extinct for many years have also miraculously appeared. It is said that the warm winters in recent years are caused by El Nino; This year, La Nina created this charming earth wrapped in silver. It sounds like La Nina is a female name, but El Nino is a male name. It seems that women are always more amorous than men. In this long-lost snow, there is no dirt and shadow, the night sky is illuminated, and those illuminated windows are full of gold and deep warmth. Only in this dense snow, a year is more affectionate. China people's New Year is red, just like the festive color. The red on the earth matches the silver and white of nature, which is the standard color in 2008. The red money hanging in the flying snow, the snow dyed red by the light of lanterns, and the particularly bright red firecrackers in the snow are deeply embedded in our childhood feelings for the New Year.
In the past, there were three main procedures. One is to have a New Year's Eve dinner, the other is to set off fireworks at noon, and the other is to stay up late. When I was a child, firecrackers were my first hobby. At that time, I lived on Dali Road in the old British Concession. Firecrackers are all sent by my father to the gun market in Gongbei Street to buy and transported home in three rounds. I hold the beloved colorful cover "Double Lights with Guns" in my arms, and naturally I can't see my sisters who are beautifully dressed and complacent. As for staying up late, I swear to stay up until dawn every year. As a result, I was so sleepy that I had a fight with my eyelids that I didn't even know how to lie down, take off my shoes and take off my clothes every year. When I woke up in the morning, a red apple was in front of me. Because it was too close, it was very big. This is an old example. It is said that putting an apple on a child's pillow at night can keep him safe. When I was a child, I never felt anything special about New Year's Eve. I just think the food is richer. But it's my turn to get married as an adult, trapped in the encirclement of life and society, and the New Year's Eve dinner has gradually become particularly important.
The most important thing for Chinese New Year every year is to plan this New Year's Eve dinner. Shops in the 1970s had no market concept. The seller is God. Frozen pig heads of chickens and ducks are thrown on the outside of the store. The pig's "back seat" is cut and sold with a straw cutter; Hairtail frozen into a lump will fall on the road. The first big project of making New Year's Eve dinner is to make great efforts to sort out these primitive meat birds. I remember a bowl of stew, two dishes of stir-fry, fried peanuts, preserved eggs, cold jellyfish, and my wife's famous spicy cucumber skin-of course, a little of everything. In addition, there is an essential thing, that is, a kind of stewed duck unique to Ningbo people, but it was a luxury to eat this duck in the 1970 s, and it can only be eaten once a year at the New Year's Eve. This kind of New Year's Eve dinner can be said to have reached the acme of life at that time. For thousands of years, China people's New Year's Eve dinner has always been the "water level" of the truest upper limit of China's social and economic situation. When I say China people, I mean ordinary people, not official families. The preciousness of a year is often because people have realized their expectations of life at the dinner table at this time. In those years, the years are the life ideals that you strive to realize once a year in your life! Idealize the reality on weekdays and realize the ideal in the New Year. This is a great creation of China people in 2008.
However, this year's dinner has a deeper meaning. Because New Year's Eve is a reunion dinner. It is this New Year's Eve dinner that beckons family members from all over the world to get together once a year. Is it to relive the joy when we were together yesterday, or to wish each other a smooth future and a rich life at the ends of the earth? At the moment, the wine in the cup and the food in the bowl are just added with a sweet adhesive. At that time, when my father was alive, he would go to his house every year, get into his dark hut and have dinner with him. He was punished at that time. The punishment every day is to clean thirteen toilets. If the urinal freezes in winter, you have to clean it. They all say, "cleaning the toilet is cleaning the thoughts in your head." So our New Year's Eve dinner added another layer of will-asking him to forget the reality for a while! But it's hard for us to make him laugh happily. Sometimes laughing is like a spasm, but it's better not to laugh. My father's strange and painful expression was collected in my memory in 2008. I take it out every year.
In the old society of China, God was always invited to the lower world. That's just that life is too hard and I want to ask the gods to help a group of people. But do people really believe that there will be a fairy to help? China people's way of life in the long feudal shackles is to paralyze themselves. 1967 I named the eight-square-meter hut where I lived at that time Kuanzhai. Forgiveness is inner generosity and a relief to oneself; Forgiveness is also lenient, a poor delusion of that cruel era. But after this name, my life is like being caught in pliers. I remember that when shooting at midnight that year, I hurt the tiger's mouth of my right hand, so that I couldn't hold the pen for a long time.
I sometimes think. Just like the old days, but with a little meat and some firecrackers. But how can people have so much energy for the New Year? At that time, there was no TV Spring Festival Gala, no Spring Festival concert and new product exhibition, and no family dinner. But with all this today, why complain that the taste of the year is too weak? We miss the taste of the past, but if we really celebrate the New Year like that, we will definitely feel even more boring!
I think, is this because we have always misunderstood Nian?
We always think that 2008 is all about eating and drinking. Contrary to this understanding, there will be nothing in 2008 after eating and drinking. In fact, eating and drinking is just a carrier, and the more important year gives it meaning. For example, the feeling of reunion at the New Year's Eve, affection, filial piety, and hopes and wishes for a better future. Because of this, the more regret, the stronger the desire. Time is supported by a desire. So, is the year spiritual or material? Of course, first of all, it is spiritual! It is by no means an annual national clothing festival or food festival. This is the annual outbreak of our national life emotion, a family reunion and a great expression of our realistic dreams. Because of this, 2008 has a long history; Time and tide wait for no man. As long as we persist in the yearning and pursuit of life, the lanterns in 2008 will be lit in the new year.
Write here, suddenly there is a passion, rush away, quickly exhibition paper, pen into a sentence, saying:
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〓〓 Qinglong drives Chitose;
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〓〓〓flowers· Bloom accompanied me all the way.
At that time, the ink was dripping, the front was flying, the lights in the house were bright, and the snow was bright outside the window. There is no obstacle in the heart, and the mind is mighty.