In the rural areas of the 1980s, production had been divided into households, especially in the years when ramie prices were good, and industrious villagers got up early and greedily, and made their money bags bulge with their own hands. Whoever has a happy event in his family will use money to post it to the family of the person who does the happy event. The characters "Shou", "囍", and "Fu" are all collaged on a large piece of cloth in renminbi. The time when the neighbor's sister spent her birthday, I still remember it vividly.
On the day Hua Hua was six years old, her family gave her a big banquet, and our whole family ate at her house. Soon after breakfast, the guests came one after another. Towards lunch, a mighty procession approached her house. With his eyes sharp and the crowd still far away, he began to blow with his cheeks, his face flushed. Hua Hua heard the scream, put down the stone in her hand, ran to the road, saw the crowd and immediately shouted: "Quack! Quack! "Everybody went out and greeted them.
I squeezed into the crowd and saw two young uncles carrying a bamboo pole, and on the bamboo pole hung a cloth the size of a sheet, and the four big characters of "Flowers and Flowers hundred years old" were written on the cloth. A man carried a load of firecrackers and walked in the front, and when he reached the place where the most people were, the firecrackers were lit. The team soared through the fog amid the sound of firecrackers... When I saw clearly the four words "flowers and flowers are 100 years old", I was stunned: these words were actually pasted in ten yuan. In my understanding, there is no more than ten yuan worth of money, how much does the four words "spend a hundred years" have to be used?
"It's so lively in the gaga house!" Someone in the crowd went on to say: "Gaga's family conditions are good, Huahua's mother is the boss, this niece is very important, Gaga of course to paste four words for her." Everyone kept echoing, Huahua's parents smiled and closed their mouths, and their faces were full of happiness and satisfaction.
Hua Hua jumped and touched the four words: "My name!" ”
This made me envious without my grandmother: how good it is to have a grandmother, she will organize relatives and friends to make her granddaughter's birthday beautiful and decent, and she will let her granddaughter dance in front of her friends. My mother is an old man at home, my grandparents died early, my aunts and uncles have their own homes, who gives us affixes? Mom looked at my envious silly look, stroked my head, and put her arms around my shoulders, and I could clearly feel the hand exerting itself. Looking up, I read the envy in my mother's eyes. Innocently, I looked up at my mother and asked, "I'm the biggest too." After I have a daughter, on my birthday, you also bring your younger brothers and sisters to post to my daughter, okay? The aunts and aunts laughed incessantly, and some laughed and burst into tears. The enlightened mother quickly agreed: "Good, good, good!" ”
Hua Hua's mother hurriedly put away the clothes dried on the bamboo pole and hung up the "Hua Hua Bai Shi", I watched silently, hoping that I would grow up quickly, silently fantasizing about my daughter's birthday, my mother took a brigade of people and horses, carried the cloth with the stickers, and walked towards my house in the clouds and fog...
I don't know when it began, the custom of sticking paper money gradually faded out of our sight. But Chinese loves to be lively, pays attention to etiquette and exchanges, and still has to do wine when there are happy events in the family. The economic situation is getting better and better, the number of gifts with the portion is getting bigger and bigger, the frequency of the whole wine is getting higher and higher, the waste is getting bigger and bigger, and the cost of eating wine has become a big burden. Fortunately, there are policies that have effectively prevented this undesirable phenomenon.
Hua Hua's mother has been ill for many years, and now Hua Hua is the mother of two high school students. My son is also about to graduate from high school. For more than a decade, my son's birthday has never disturbed anyone, but Grandma's red envelope has never been absent. When I was a child, my mother's dream of posting to my child has never been realized, and I know that it will not be realized in the future. Whenever I think about it, it seems to be mixed with a faint pity, and it seems that I am calm and satisfied...
【Source: Changde Evening News】