Wuwei countryside, visiting relatives in the New Year is full of New Year's flavor

China's Gansu network on February 4 (this network reporter Qu Jiewen) Dingding Dong, on the second day of the Chinese New Year, Zhao Kaihu, whose family is in Wuqiao Village, Hedong Town, Liangzhou District, Wuwei, got up early and was busy preparing a noon meal.

"Relatives are coming today, so prepare a few more dishes." Old Zhao Le said haha.

The reporter learned that in the wuwei countryside, the second day of the Chinese New Year is the day when the son-in-law visits his father-in-law and mother-in-law, the daughter-in-law returns to his mother-in-law's home, and the nephew visits his uncle.

At noon, Old Zhao's girl, son-in-law, nephew, and so on came to the door one after another, and 9 adults and children sat in a room full of people. The "New Year's Gift" brought by everyone is some fruits and milk, which seems relaxed and not rude. Nowadays, the countryside is rich, and people's "etiquette" of worshiping the New Year has also changed from steamed buns, canned and brick tea in the early years to simple nutritional products, but what has not changed is the feelings of rural people for the New Year, and the family and friendship continue in the year of your coming and going.

Large plates of chicken, braised pork ribs, steamed sea bass... As plates of seductively coloured and aromatic dishes are plated, the feast officially begins at 12 noon. Relatives sat down according to generations, after Lao Zhao said a few opening remarks, everyone raised a glass to change cups, toasted each other, exchanged New Year's wishes, everyone's face was full of happy smiles, the children in the sound of childish blessings, from time to time from the grandmother and father's hands to get the old money, the adults were fist-bound orders, shouting five drinks six, family affection in the tip of the finger docking, boiling in laughter, floating among the wine fragrance... The atmosphere of harmony fills every corner of the home.

In the 1980s and 1990s, rich families entertained guests with five or six dishes, all of which were vegetarian dishes, and there was very little meat. Look at the group feast in front of you, full of a table of hot and cold dishes, more than 20, in addition to local beef and mutton, fish, shrimp and other seafood are available, color and umami are good. The wine drunk is no longer a single liquor, not only fruit juice, red wine, beer, but also home-brewed rice wine, and people who drink wine have more civilization and arbitrariness.

"Over the years, our rural children have had birthday parties with exquisite cakes; young men and women have beautiful cars for marriage, and professional videographers have been invited to take videos, so that the wedding ceremony seems to be both fashionable and elegant; in leisure time, several families travel to the south together..." Eating the reunion dinner, everyone talked very happily, and the words were full of changes in the countryside.

While eating vegetables and chatting, while looking out the window at the brand-new farmhouses and the asphalt roads that lead to all directions, I can't help but marvel that the countryside has really become beautiful. Many years ago, the good life that the villagers were looking forward to really came to them, and their wishes came true day by day.

In addition to first visiting the mother-in-law and uncle, everyone also has to go to each other to visit the New Year, such as uncles, uncles, aunts, aunts, etc., these relatives generally have to go, just like this, until the new year after the twelfth and third day of the first month, the New Year's worship activities will not come to an end.

As the saying goes, the more you go, the more you go, the closer you get. Walking relatives is not only a custom passed down from generation to generation by the ancestors, but also a pure interaction between families, a sincere contact, the warmth between relatives, the continuation between clan veins, and the good love in the world!