In fact, strictly speaking, the Chinese New Year is not just the first day of the Lunar New Year.
It refers to the period from New Year’s Eve to the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the Lunar New Year.
Of course, for most ordinary people, it is quite good to be able to reunite with their families on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day to celebrate the New Year. How can they dare to ask for more than ten days of rest during the New Year?
For thousands of years, the New Year has been a very important traditional historical and cultural festival for every Chinese people.
Because the Chinese nation has always been the most empathetic nation in the world, from ancient times to the present, Chinese people all over the world will celebrate this important festival very grandly and live every New Year's Eve lively.
And what is the true meaning and significance of the Chinese New Year?
Why does everyone value and treat the Chinese New Year more?
In fact, the meaning of the Spring Festival lies in reunion and harmony.
People who travel far away from home have to go home to celebrate the New Year.
Therefore, the Spring Festival is a hot topic every year. The Spring Festival is a festival for the reunion of the Chinese nation. It has been integrated into the blood of every descendant of Yan and Huang for thousands of years.
Therefore, the meaning of the Spring Festival is reunion, which is the ultimate meaning.
It may be different for everyone.
If you are a student, you can play freely and relax for a while during the holidays. This is also the meaning of the Spring Festival.
For those who work outside, this is the time when they can take a break from their busy schedules, go home to meet their parents, and get along well with their children. This is also the meaning of the Spring Festival.
For the elderly at home, being able to see their children who are working hard outside is something they have been looking forward to this year. This is also the meaning of the Spring Festival.
It can be said that the biggest expectation for the Spring Festival may be family gatherings on New Year’s Eve!
Coupled with the economic development in recent years, many people have gone to work across the country.
Parents and children cannot see each other all year round, and they can only have a good reunion during the Chinese New Year.
Therefore, New Year has become a sentiment that countless people cannot let go of.
On the morning of New Year's Eve, Chen Fang led Yang Jianguang and Yang Dazhi around the house to clean up the house.
According to Chen Fang's words, they came back late.
The time to tidy up the house is also short, so naturally I have to seize every minute and every second to tidy up the house.
In fact, it was not just Yang Jianguang and his family, but every household in Yang Village, whether they had money or not, started cleaning the house and kept tidying up.
Yang Jianguang naturally didn't have any objections, but happily started busy with his parents.
This kind of time he can spend with his parents makes him particularly enjoy it.
I remember that the conditions at home at that time were not very good and the house was in tatters.
However, my parents have always loved cleanliness. No matter how shabby it is, they will keep the house tidy and clean, so that everyone who comes to Yang Jianguang's house to pay New Year's greetings will give them a thumbs up.
While cleaning up, Yang Jianguang also made up his mind. When he returned to Xinyong County after the New Year, he would ask Sun Cheng to pay benefits to the store manager in the name of the supermarket, and ask Chen Fang and his wife to go to the hospital for a comprehensive check-up.
Physical examination.
In my previous life, my family's conditions were poor, so when I got sick, I could only endure it slowly.
Now that he has financial conditions, Yang Jianguang is also trying every means to keep his parents safe and healthy.
Several people were busy all morning. After eating, Chen Fang started cooking the paste non-stop.
This kind of paste is actually made of rice, which is thicker than porridge. Only this kind of paste can stick couplets to walls made of adobe bricks.
After Chen Fang prepared the paste, the father and son happily pasted up the couplets.
It sounds like it would be better to be in the countryside.
As soon as this couplet is posted, the flavor of the new year will come.
If you live in a pigeon cage like that in the city, you can only post two couplets on the door. It can't be too big, otherwise it won't fit.
But if you are in the countryside, in addition to the front door, yard door, back door, pig pens, chicken pens, toilets and kitchens, all kinds of things have to have appropriate couplets. You can see New Year elements everywhere.
After pasting the couplets of three times five times two, it’s time to start preparing for the New Year’s Eve dinner.
Although the name of the New Year's Eve dinner contains the word "night", for many people in Yangcun and even Xinyong County, this meal is actually held in the afternoon.
The reason is that in the past, most families in rural areas had no electricity and could not afford to light the lights, so they could only eat this precious New Year's Eve dinner at dawn in the afternoon. Although there is electricity now, this habit is still in Yangtze.
The village has been passed down from generation to generation.
In addition, there are many customs on New Year's Eve. For example, before eating, you must light incense and serve rice to worship the Kitchen God, the Earth Master, and other gods. At the same time, before the New Year's Eve dinner and before going to bed at night, no matter whether the family situation is good or not, you must
Buy a firecracker to hit...
It can be said that it is precisely the many large and small customs that make people feel that the Chinese New Year is particularly different from what they usually know.
It is the smell of gunpowder smoke that permeates the air and the constant sound of firecrackers and fireworks that gives people the lingering flavor of the New Year.
During this New Year's Eve, at Yang Jianguang's insistence, family conditions have indeed become better, and his parents bought a lot of good food for this New Year's Eve dinner.
After a while, a table full of dishes was brought to Yang Jianguang.
Looking at the fragrant food, Yang Jianguang almost couldn't help but use his chopsticks.
It was Yang Dazhi who stopped him, "What are you so anxious about, kid?
We haven’t even set off firecrackers yet, so we have to eat.”
"Let's go and shoot firecrackers with me."
Yang Jianguang then followed his father to the yard as if he had just woken up from a dream. The yard door was already open.
This is a custom in my hometown. Once the firecrackers are set off, the yard is not allowed to be closed until tomorrow, so as not to block the entry of wealth on New Year's Day.
Soon, Yang Dazhi placed an extra-large firecracker on the ground and handed a box of matches to Yang Jianguang with emotion on his face.
"This time, in order to celebrate that our family's life is getting better day by day, I specially bought a big firecracker, and I will let you set it off this time."
Looking at his father in front of him, Yang Jianguang fell silent.
In the past, setting off firecrackers before the New Year's Eve dinner was the mainstay of the family, and children were not allowed to interfere.
This time Yang Dazhi took the initiative to hand over the matter to Yang Jianguang, not because he was too lazy, but because he felt that his son had grown up and was an adult who could stand upright.
Feeling his father's recognition, Yang Jianguang finally nodded vigorously and took the match from his father's hand.
Slide the match on the matchbox, the match will be lit quickly, and then put it on the lead.
The fuse was quickly lit, and the sound of crackling firecrackers resounded throughout the yard.
Looking at the white smoke produced by the burning firecrackers in front of him, Yang Jianguang couldn't help feeling a little emotional.
In the past, there was a poem that was said during the New Year: At the beginning of the first year of the year with the sound of firecrackers, the spring breeze brought warmth to Tusu.
During the Chinese New Year, basically every household will set off firecrackers. This is not only to celebrate the arrival of the new year, but also to increase the flavor of the new year and bid farewell to the old and welcome the new.
In fact, judging from the history of setting off firecrackers, this matter has been circulating for 2,000 years.
At first, people set off fireworks and firecrackers to drive away ghosts and "nian beasts" and pray for peace. Not only that, in addition to these major festivals, many rural areas now often set off firecrackers to celebrate weddings or birthday banquets.
What Yang Jianguang lamented is that in later generations, with the implementation of environmental protection policies, the policies of various regions are constantly changing and adjusting. Many regions have banned the setting off of fireworks and firecrackers. From this perspective, this shows that rural areas should also abide by the new regulations.
Regulation.
However, many people cherish the flavor of the New Year. They feel that if they do not set off fireworks, they will lose the flavor of the New Year. Therefore, many people oppose it from the bottom of their hearts and they do not understand why such a ban is issued.
Although it is true that experts have concluded this through research, setting off firecrackers and fireworks will have a certain impact on the environment. As a law-abiding citizen, you should respect this.
Just like experts swear that farmers have grown rice, wheat and other crops for thousands of years, and burning them will pollute the environment.
Even though we know this is outrageous, we still have to accept it reluctantly.
At that time, everyone had to admit it after they really stopped setting off fireworks and firecrackers.
The flavor of the year, which has been passed down for thousands of years, is indeed fading little by little.
Finally, the sound of firecrackers stopped.
Yang Jianguang turned around and saw his parents standing behind him, looking at him with smiles on their faces and looking at the firecracker fragments all over the yard.
Seeing her son turn around, his mother Chen Fang also smiled at her son.