Spring Festival returnees: a family together to have a taste of the New Year

"Only when I go back to my hometown to spend the New Year, my grandmother is waiting for us." Wang Jun (pseudonym), who lives and works in Beijing's Fengtai District and returns to his hometown in Zhaodong City, Heilongjiang Province, for the New Year is one of them.

On January 23, he told the People's Daily health client that because of the recent epidemic in Fengtai, he has been afraid of not going back to his hometown, but he is happy that he has returned to his hometown smoothly today, and after taking the initiative to declare to the community, he can isolate at home for seven days according to the requirements, and the nucleic acid test has also been done twice, and everything is normal.

Before returning home, Grandma put the ingredients of the two refrigerators in advance in the brothers' isolation room, including the most specialty sugar gourd and sorbet in her hometown. Courtesy of respondents

"It doesn't matter if you are quarantined for seven days, you can go home and spend the New Year before you have a taste"

Reunion is always the greatest spiritual belonging of Chinese New Year. On January 22, Wang Jun and his brother embarked on a flight back home in Beijing, one of the most anticipated days of the year. In the face of the epidemic situation in Beijing in recent days, coupled with the extremely strict requirements for returning to the hometown in many areas a few days ago, Wang Jun did his homework before leaving.

"We set off from Beijing yesterday, and before we left, we contacted the local community in our hometown, and the other party told us that we had to isolate at home for seven days, during which we had to do at least three nucleic acids, in order to catch up with the reunion dinner Chinese New Year's Eve night, I spent a year saving annual leave and decided to leave Beijing early." Wang Jun told the People's Daily health client that before leaving, he and his brother did nucleic acid according to the requirements, and after landing in Harbin, they were uniformly transferred to the railway station according to the requirements, bought tickets and returned to Zhaodong City.

The reason why I know that I have to go home in isolation, Wang Jun explained, is because the younger generations of the family have been working in the field all year round, last year the younger brother could not go home because he went to school in Singapore, this year the cousin also cannot return to China because of studying in Canada, if the brothers in Beijing do not go back, the old people in the family may be lost.

Wang Jun's notice sheet posted on the door of his home isolation residence. Courtesy of respondents

In the face of the current daily isolation at home, Wang Jun, who has been isolated for 7 times, seems to be familiar with it, "When the outbreak broke out in Wuhan in 2020, I happened to work in Wuhan for a period of time, and then I returned to my residence to isolate myself. Isolation is nothing compared to being reunited with family. Wang Jun said.

New Year's "Reserved Show": Playing cards with Grandma, and then brothers and sisters deliberately losing to her together

Before arriving home, Wang Jun contacted the grid members of the community and isolated with his brother in a single-family room, and has not yet seen his family.

"The community grid member came to the door to install the door magnet, and yesterday my mother came to the door and we shouted a few words through the window. And in order to be at ease for the New Year, Suihua district has recently done a nucleic acid test for all personnel, and we also understand it very well. Referring to the people who most want to see after contact isolation, Wang Jun said that Grandma and Grandma are the first to visit, usually busy working outside, and hope to give the elderly more comfort in the New Year. After that, go and give the children some money. And the "reserved program" of the spring festival every year at home also makes him yearn for it.

"Grandma has passed the ancient rarity, every year Chinese New Year's Eve night to eat 12 o'clock dumplings, we juniors, will tacitly accompany Grandma to play cards, for this day, Grandma will also change a lot of new dollars in advance." But this is no ordinary game, and losing to Grandma is the tacit understanding of our grandchildren. Making Grandma happy is our original intention. ”

The grandmother who is amused by her children and grandchildren, her parents and uncles talking about their daily routines at the dinner table, and the children chasing and running on the ground constitute the Spring Festival picture in Wang Jun's heart since childhood, and for every returnee, the short time spent in reunion and laughter will become the motivation for the whole year of 2022, and may be the meaning of the Spring Festival reunion.