Say "New Year's Greetings"
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"New Year's Words" are not false words, it is the big truth that everyone wants to say; "New Year's Words" are not clichés, it is a Chinese New Year's Rule; "New Year's Words" are not nonsense, it is like a fable or a rune, and the luck of the four seasons of the year may be in this "New Year's Words".
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A friend of mine came to me almost every New Year's Eve to hide from a "disaster." He said that he had a relative who spoke "fur" (the local vernacular) language well, usually talked about it, the New Year's door still could not put the "door", counted down the friends' home, this is not OK, specifically mention the "pot" that is not hot, the more he says the more "spread the hair", the more he says the more annoying, frustrated, until everyone is not happy and dispersed. In the new year, why bother, can't afford it, can't afford it! So whenever the "stinky mouth" came to the door, my friend quickly took the opportunity to hide from me. He also said that in fact, the situation of the "stinky mouth" is not good, can such a stinky mouth be better? That's the way things are in the world, and people who are keen to laugh at others may be worse off themselves. This is a counter-evidence of the "New Year's words"!
In my hometown, the rules handed down by the ancestors are to clean up the New Year and clean the mouth. 365 days a year, only these days of the New Year, the whole village should be happy, whether men, women or children, they are very concerned about what to say and what not to say. Absolutely "purify" the language environment and revere taboos. The village is full of streets and alleys, which are gentle and frugal. The unconscious Mao Bao'er was also strictly controlled by adults, lest the indiscriminate "hair laying" words sweep away everyone's happiness and spoil the Good Omen of the New Year. For example, when eating Chinese New Year's Eve meal, you can't say "finished eating", you can say "eat well". "Finish" and "good" are only one word apart, but it is said that it determines the fortune of the year. In case something is broken, you can't say hurtful words, but say "shattered (years) of peace." There are ten kinds of sayings, why not pick up the most auspicious ones. The couplet "Heaven says good things, return to the palace and descend auspicious" pasted on the kitchen stove prince more vividly depicts the importance of "speaking".
In the elderly people, in the folklore experts, "New Year's Words" have a set of accumulation and exquisite. It is part of folk traditional culture for thousands of years. Although with the change of the times, some "New Year's words" have been lost, some have changed their taste, and some have been replaced, most of the "New Year's words" are now popular on the Internet. However, "want to hear, listen, love to hear, auspicious, auspicious, blessed" is still the proper meaning of the "New Year's words", and it is inseparable from its origin.
Only "spreading words" is a taboo! Think about it, every family has a difficult scripture, all have their own pain, and nine times out of ten people have unsatisfactory lives. When it comes to the New Year, if you don't clean up the language environment and soothe your "very tired" heart, what is the momentum this year? At certain times, at certain moments, saying a good word is better than creating a seven-level floating slaughter. Sincerity is the so-called "attitude determines everything", language is an attitude.
To put it bluntly, "New Year's Words" may be a collective wish, collective expectation, collective consolation, and collective blessing specially customized for the Chinese New Year! It has rules, conventions, and is also developing and updating. In short, "New Year's Talk" is the warmest and most lovely note of the year, it is the first "flower" to open in spring, which can be described as "New Year's Talk" Primrose!
Therefore, on the occasion of the coming year of the tiger, may everyone say a good "New Year's word", comfort each other, cherish each other, appreciate each other, bless each other, and give the "New Year's Words" as a generous gift to relatives and friends. Let the vitality and divine power of the Year of the Tiger become a reality in a sentence of "New Year's Words".
I wish you a happy, healthy and auspicious year by year! I wish the world Chinese the Year of the Tiger to show their grand plans and stay in Fanghua in their hearts!
(Written on January 27, 2022.) Illustration: Written in a row of perimeter lines)
【About the author】Zhou Changxing (male), born in February 1949 in Huangnan Village, Nanzhan Town, Wenshang County, Shandong Province. He joined the army in February 1969. In September 1990, he returned to the local government to work for Jining Television. He is a member of the Chinese Writers Association, a senior journalist and a poet. He has published long-form reportage "The Place where Kunpeng Took Off", long-form biographical literature "Don't Get Drunk and Don't Say Qiao Yu's Love of the Great River", "Qiao Yu's Love Song", "Great Us", "Big Wave Gold Rush" and so on. He was the author of the 39-episode large-scale TV series "Dajingjiu" of CCTV, and its "Commentary on Dajingjiu" published by Railway Publishing House has been used as an official textbook by the Communication University of China. After retirement, he devoted himself to the writing of online literature and won praise from readers at home and abroad for his grounded and independent works. The concept of "work first, reader first, life first" is the motivation and goal of his efforts to cultivate the subliminal folk.