Accompanied by firecrackers, the spring breeze warmed Tu Su. Thousands of families always trade new peaches for old ones every day. "January Day" leads us to recall the traditions and customs of Jiading Spring Festival in Ming Dynasty 400 years ago with the eyes of a child, and staged a "most dazzling national style".
As far as I can remember, everyone's only hobby as a child was thinking about all kinds of delicious food and fun.
The children in the short film are all the same, whether they are given by their mothers, presented at the dinner table, rewarded by their fathers, or candied haws and candied people sold on the street. As long as they can get them, they want to eat them.
However, China has been a country of etiquette since ancient times, and many traditional customs and etiquette must be observed. So when the children reached for the food on the altar, their father stopped them in time and reminded them that "something is wrong."
When the children realized their mistakes, the father said happily that "mistakes can be corrected and obedient ones can be taught", so he took out longevity fruit as a reward.
As the saying goes, "it is the father's fault not to teach". When children are young and ignorant and everything is forgiven, a father's greatest responsibility is to tell them what is right and what is wrong. At this time, it is best to combine leniency with severity.
In this short film, the creative team also tells a traditional custom of Jiading County (now Jiading District, Shanghai) to eat New Year's soup (commonly known as "paste soup") through a scene of "students visiting the home of Jiading celebrity Tang (one of the four Jiading gentlemen)".
In the old society, no matter rich or poor, every year, the Lunar Lantern Festival (also known as Shangyuan Festival), in Jiading County, in addition to hanging lanterns and holding lanterns, every household had to eat New Year's Eve.
In this short film, students of Tang come to visit during the Lantern Festival. Due to the large number of people coming, Tang's wife didn't know how to entertain at the moment. At this time, Tang thought that "there is no need to choose the gifts to eat", so he asked his wife to cook a piece of "food cooked in the first month, water chestnut, pear, meatball and fermented grains grown in his own field" to make New Year's soup.
"A spoonful of food, a spoonful of drink, in the mean alley, people can't bear their worries, and they don't change their fun when they go back." When Tang entertained students with "New Year's Soup", he inadvertently quoted Confucius' praise of Yan Hui's noble quality and warned students to endure poverty.
Although Tang is a scholar, his conduct is noble and noble, and his words and deeds are enough to set an example for students. The so-called "words and deeds" is nothing more than this.
Not preaching, unreasonable, but subtle, deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. This is the beauty of this animated short film and the original intention of the creative team.
Besides, a lot of fun in the short film is exactly the same as the Spring Festival in many childhood memories of the post-70s, post-80s and even post-90s! In this era of rapid decay of everything, perhaps this is the correct way to open the Spring Festival!