023 One year old is eliminated in the sound of firecrackers
The 29th or 30th day of the twelfth lunar month is called "New Year's Eve". New Year's Eve means getting rid of the old and welcoming the new. The old year is gone, and the new year is replaced. The years are exhausted and stretch...
The woman got up early, pulled the man beside her and said, "Get up quickly, what are you doing lying down during the Chinese New Year?" The man sat up as soon as he stood upright, mumbling "Get up, get up, wake up."
The man put on a coat and the woman put on a cotton-padded jacket and walked outside together. They said in unison, "It's so cold, the ice knives have come down." After that, the doors and windows were opened one after another, and the chickens, ducks and geese were released. As for the fat ones,
Pigs have long been slaughtered into fresh meat or cured into sausages.
Every household in the village is like this on New Year's Eve.
Older grandparents may wake up earlier because they pay more attention and have more things to prepare.
Younger couples may stay in bed for a while before getting up. Without red tape, what they have to do is much easier.
As for the young men and women who get married during the New Year, all trivial matters at home are still under the control of their parents for the time being. They will inevitably be gentle when the morning dew first falls and the yin and yang energy is slowly emerging...
"Get up, get up..." Father Chen roared as always.
Chen Zishen was still immersed in a sweet dream. Several manic roars had already wiped out his erotic dream. He regretted for a moment and immediately smiled. It was basically the same at home as at school. He was called inexplicably at dawn.
When he woke up, he didn't know why his father was like this. It seemed that if Chen's father didn't sleep, no one else was allowed to sleep. Chen Zishen comforted himself and said, "Going to bed early and getting up early is good for the body and mind."
"What's going on today?" Zi Shen asked.
"You ask me what's the matter? Don't you know it's the Chinese New Year today? There's so much going on. For such a big kid, others are married at your age and you still don't understand anything. You still have the nerve to ask me what's the matter. Dirty clothes
, dirty shoes, the floor at home, and the bedside table must all be neatly tidied up, and you still want me to talk about these things? You useless guy!" Father Chen said angrily.
Chen Zishen bared his teeth, forced a smile from his face, and said, "Oh, okay..."
The first thing to do is to stick the couplets on the door. There are many couplets on the main door, the room door, and the kitchen door. Father Chen always takes a thick roll of red paper and throws it to Chen Zishen and says: "After reading so many years of life books, it's time to
Is it useful? Take a look and see how to stick it on. Don’t stick it upside down and make the villagers laugh."
Chen Zishen thought of the "Zi Qi Ping Fa" in Chinese class. The oblique sound is the third and fourth sounds should be placed in the front, the flat sound is the one, and the two should be placed in the back. But he does not know which side of the east and west is the front and which
One side is the back.
He asked: "Is it bigger in the east or in the west?"
Chen's father said angrily: "How did I know that you have read so many books in vain?"
Chen Zishen thought: The book doesn't seem to say whether the east or the west is respected in traditional culture. Chinese language classes are not important now, and traditional culture has been completely wiped out. How could I know?
Chen Zishen smiled, took the couplets and pasted them randomly, as long as they were neatly arranged up, down, left and right. No one in the countryside would understand them anyway.
"It's finished!" he said with a smile.
"Yeah! Keep them aligned, don't stick them crookedly!" Father Chen said casually and nonchalantly.
Chen's mother was busy in the house, and Chen Zishen was too lazy to care about it. He took a bath and observed his little brother by the way. He felt good. He was humming a tune and taking a shower with hot water. After ten or twenty minutes, he took a shower
After that, I changed into dry clothes and felt a bit like the New Year.
After changing clothes, I heard the sound of "beep beep... beep beep...".
Chen's father shouted "Answer the phone". Chen Zishen was not interested in answering the phone because no one was looking for him. He picked up the phone and said "Hello". A girl's voice rang on the other end of the phone. Chen Zishen's first reaction was Cui.
Cui called.
He lost his voice and said: "Cui..." He reacted instantly, thinking that it might be another girl calling him, and he almost forgot about Xiaowei.
"Who were you talking about just now?...Don't you even know who I am?" the girl said unhappily on the other end of the phone.
"Ah? I didn't say who? Are you?... The signal in rural areas is not good, and the phones are all fake phones. The sound quality is not good, I really can't hear clearly!" Chen Zishen made up a bunch of reasons at random.
"You, you? Can't you even hear my sister's voice? You can go and die!" the girl lioness roared, and at the same time there was only a "plop" sound, and the phone was hung up.
"Sister Xiaowei!..." Chen Zishen shouted blankly.
He had no choice but to call again. After three calls, someone finally answered the phone.
"Sister Xiaowei! Haha..."
"You heartless pig, you finally remember me." Xiaowei said angrily.
"Haha... I've been thinking about it. I had a lot of sex in my dream last night. My brain has never been as smart as my sister's, as you know. I had a short-circuit in my brain just now and didn't think about it. The quality of the copycat phone is too bad.
Sorry, I almost made my sister’s voice sound like that of an aunt.”
Chen Zishen made up nonsense. He didn't know why as long as he talked to Xiaowei, he was very relaxed and seemed to have no scruples.
"You're just making it up. You might have caused trouble to a little girl at home. I think your voice has changed a bit. It seems less crisp than before. The phone quality is really bad. Why did your voice become so loud?"
"That's right, that's why I didn't recognize my sister's voice right away. How did my sister know my home number?"
"Didn't you tell me your landline number before? Do you have juvenile dementia? You are so forgetful."
"..." Chen Zishen laughed for a while.
He had so much fun during the winter vacation that he forgot everything. Not to mention his phone number, even a beautiful woman like Xiao Wei, if he could not see her again, he would probably forget what she looked like. He is now
Just thinking about Cuicui like a little fox.
After talking for about an hour, Chen's father shouted outside: "What are you doing? It takes you so long to make a phone call? Are you discussing state secrets with someone? If your grades are not good, you will make some bad friends and come out to help."
Chen Zishen said a few more words to Xiaowei, and then said: "My dad called me, Happy New Year, Happy New Year sister!" Xiaowei also gave the same blessing. Chen Zishen exchanged kisses on the phone, and Xiaowei laughed several times.
, and then both parties hung up the phone.
Starting from three or four o'clock in the afternoon, the sound of "pop, pop, pop..." firecrackers sounded one after another in villages across ten miles and eight towns. The sound of firecrackers was loudest at five or six o'clock. After the sound of firecrackers, every household in the countryside began to eat New Year's Eve.
It’s dinner.
At five o'clock in the afternoon, Chen Zishen also took the incense, lowered his head, bent over and lit the fuse of the firecracker, and then ran quickly into the house.
"Close the door, close the door..." Father Chen said seriously.
Closing the door means closing the wealth. If the door is left open during the reunion dinner, all the wealth for that year will escape, which is unlucky. Chen Zishen has some doubts, why can't the door be opened to let the world between heaven and earth?
All the wealth has come in, how much wealth can be contained in a room, but he doesn't want to discuss or argue with his father. Anyway, every time he talks, it will end on bad terms, and it's useless to talk.
The New Year's Eve dinner was a harmonious one. The father and son clinked glasses several times and drank a few sips of wine together. Chen Zishen thought how great it would be if father and son could be like friends and brothers. Unfortunately, this wish rarely comes true.
.
After dinner, Chen's father packed up his luggage, took a flashlight and went out to play cards and gamble. Before going out, he burned some yellow paper, lit a few sticks of incense, and bowed respectfully in front of the Buddha statue, mouthing
I also recited several prayers silently, almost asking the Bodhisattva to bless me and win a lot of money tonight.
Then Chen Zishen also went out to play by himself. It was not interesting to stay at home alone. As for the bullshit Spring Festival Gala, he had not watched it for many years.
"At twelve o'clock, you have to come back and set off firecrackers to honor the Bodhisattva!" Mother Chen reminded the two of them. In rural areas, women are not allowed to participate in matters related to spiritual matters, and in the early morning, when the new year is handed over to the old, every family member
Every household must set off firecrackers, burn incense, and worship Bodhisattvas. These can only be done by men in the family. Although Chen Zishen is not married, he is still a member of the men.
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After getting up early in the morning on the first day of the Lunar New Year, Chen Zishen went to the homes of his uncles, aunts, grandparents, relatives and friends to pay New Year greetings. When he was young, he still carried a bag in his hand to hold melon seeds, peanuts, apples, etc. Now that he is older, he also
You don’t need to mention anything, just greet people with empty hands and a smiling face. If you meet familiar neighbors and folks on the road, you should also hold your hands with a smile and say: "xxx! Happy New Year! Happy New Year! I wish you a happy New Year."
There are many brothers and sisters in the Chen family, and there are even more children of his generation. After paying New Year greetings to their elders, they carry incense and firecrackers to their ancestors’ tombs to pay homage. They light incense, paper money, firecrackers, and fireworks.
, and then the descendants of several generations of the family bowed their hands and bowed their waists, saying "ancestors bless you", the children who were studying said "bless you for taking the exams in college", and the adults said "all the best, and wealth..."
New Year greetings are not limited to the first, second, third, and fourth day of the Lunar New Year... New Year greetings can be done up to the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, but that being said, there don’t seem to be many people who do this. The first day of the Lunar New Year is almost reserved for people with the same surname.
Relatives pay New Year's greetings. On the second day of the Lunar New Year, I pay New Year's greetings to my mother's relatives. After these two days, the New Year greetings are completely over. On the third and fourth days of the Lunar New Year... people in the village also go out to work one after another, and the lively village gradually becomes deserted.
Come down.
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