Chinese New Year's Eve party
Text/Zhang Fanghua
As soon as you enter the Wax Moon, you have quietly entered the countdown to the Spring Festival, especially after drinking lapa porridge, and then eating the sacrificial stove sugar, the rich New Year's taste is even more wave after wave, just as the so-called "Lapa Eight Sacrificial Stove, the year down to " also! At this moment, in addition to people's intense efforts to start showing up new year goods, there is also a crucial thing, that is, the annual emotional inventory and exchange between relatives and friends. This can not only consolidate and deepen the precious family and friendship, but also create a joyful and harmonious holiday atmosphere.
In addition to the mutual visits between relatives and friends, as well as various new year visits such as phone calls, text messages, WeChat, greeting cards, unit group worship, etc., another enduring and unforgettable form is the "Chinese New Year's Eve party". This form is mainly suitable for families, neighbors and friends, the time of "Chinese New Year's Eve gathering" is generally arranged on the night of Chinese New Year's Eve or a night near the Spring Festival, everyone takes this opportunity to exchange ideas, talk about their chests, send strong feelings to each other, and express good wishes to each other.
I remember when I was young, every Chinese New Year's Eve night, my parents would call our brothers and sisters together, in addition to saying some festive, blessings and other New Year's words, but also to give each person a few cents of pressure money, at that time, although the family was poor, but the New Year's waist could not be empty - "poor years are not poor festival"! At that moment, we suddenly felt the warmth of home and the warmth of father's love and mother's love. The imprint and influence of that feeling at that moment is unforgettable, so that the practice of my parents has made me persistently inherit and imitate it to this day. For many years, every Chinese New Year's Eve night, our family has to put delicious dishes, candy, snacks, melon seeds and red wine, etc., the whole family eats, drinks, talks, and enjoys the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, while I distribute the money to my grandchildren, I always do not forget to send a new yuan to the living old mother who has been exchanged early, not only to repay the great kindness that can never be repaid, but also to enable her old family to express their love for their grandchildren and grandchildren as they wish, so as to enjoy the joy of the New Year and the joy of heaven. However, since the death of our old mother Four years ago, we have not been able to continue this most noble filial piety in the whole world, but instead have been to prostrate ourselves reverently in front of the relics of our parents, offering blessing paper money and rich sacrifices. Writing this, my heart can't help but surge up again and again with the feeling of missing my parents.
In addition to family and friends, neighbors have always attached great importance to the form of emotional communication between neighbors such as "Chinese New Year's Eve gatherings". I remember that Chinese New Year's Eve night, when the family's affairs were arranged, my father would go out to party with the neighbors. At that time, my mother would make a dish early, either cold or stir-fried, and let my father bring it to the feast with the bottle of liquor that had been prepared in advance. And when it is the turn of our family to do the east, the parents should be carefully handled, especially the dishes made by the mother, although they use some ordinary raw materials, but after her skillful hands, they immediately become delicious and delicious, and will always win the praise of everyone. So the neighbors take turns to do the east, bring their own dishes and drinks, both simple and easy, but also happy and harmonious, everyone gathers together to speak freely, drink freely, the atmosphere, the kind of intoxication is self-evident.
The custom of "gathering Chinese New Year's Eve" has not known how many years and generations it has gone through, but it is still widely continued. It is only with the progress of society and the improvement of people's living standards that the taste and connotation of "Chinese New Year's Eve gathering" have also undergone profound changes. Especially in today's rapid development of the market economy, the pace of people's work and life has greatly accelerated. Whether it is a family member or a neighbor, usually work or work, or study, or stand up to start a business, or go out to work, everyone runs around, often come and go, go in a hurry, rarely can get together, so people cherish the "Chinese New Year's Eve party" and the Spring Festival reunion this good opportunity. Thirteen of our heavy cousins, plus more than ten adult juniors, are now distributed on various fronts such as party and government organs, enterprises and institutions, and rural areas. In order to make up for the shortcomings of the perennial gathering of more and less gathering, and to enhance mutual communication and understanding, the brothers will take turns to gather, every year around the twenty-seventh day of the waxing moon, everyone gathers together, their respective harvests, mutual encouragement, adult expectations, children's expectations, but also the feelings of the sun and moon reincarnation, the admiration for the vicissitudes of the great changes, the blessings of the beloved relatives, the attachment to Yin Yin's hometown, all of which are vividly reflected in the staggering of chips and laughter.
With the passage of time, "Chinese New Year's Eve gathering", which is popular with people, has become more and more aware of its infinite vitality, and now not only the family and neighbors are happy about it, even some relatives and friends are quite optimistic about it, on the eve of the Spring Festival, everyone gets together, worships each other in the early years, both exchange feelings, but also avoid the clichés and troubles of visiting each other, why not enjoy it!
About the Author:
Zhang Fanghua, pen name Qingquan, a native of Heze City, Shandong Province, is a member of the Chinese Essayists Association, a member of the Shandong Writers Association, a member of the Western China Essay Society, a member of the Shandong Provincial Prose Literature Association, and an advisor and former vice chairman of the Heze Writers Association. His works have been published in newspapers and periodicals such as China Procuratorate, China Discipline Inspection and Supervision Daily, Shandong Literature, Times Literature, Qinghai Lake, Writers Daily, Contemporary Prose, Selected Western Prose, Heze Daily, Peony Evening News, etc.; he has won the National Outstanding Literary and Art Works Award, the First Cai Wenji Literary Award, the Qilu Literary Works Annual Exhibition Excellence Award, the Times Literature Annual Prose Award, and the First Peony Literature Award. He is the author of the essay collection "Song of the Heart", "Looking Up and Flying", and the poetry collection "Feelings Of Attachment".
Editor: Ma Xuemin
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