Home to the South Nadau River
Whenever the Spring Festival comes, there is always a little bit of sorrow. This kind of melancholy is not the "nostalgia" in the afterglow, but it is similar to "nostalgia", which is related to the Spring Festival, which is called frugality.
Buds bloom in the cold wind
When I was a child, I spent the Spring Festival in my hometown. I remember someone saying that there are parents calling hometown, and no parents are calling hometown. Whenever the Spring Festival comes, the countdown goes through every day. What to do and what to do every day has a head start. At that time, the family was not very rich, in addition to the happy New Year meal that everyone could share together, it was very good that each child could buy a "Liuyang" 100 firecrackers. If a good family can wear a new dress, it is not an ordinary New Year. At that time, the conditions were poor, but the happiness index was not low. Not only can I not find the word "sad", but on the contrary, the interest in "what to buy next year's New Year" is increasing year by year.
The bridge on the east side of the house
When I was studying, I definitely spent the Spring Festival in my hometown. Where do you go without getting married, without a job, without going home? Studying has made it less likely that you will stay at home. When my father died of illness, various problems exposed by financial constraints came to me. Although the glory of the examination is still unfinished. But the strong spring festival flavor of childhood is difficult to find.
At the beginning of the work, the Spring Festival was also spent in my hometown. Just entered the society, do not understand anything, confused, silly living every day. Back home, I no longer see you as a student or an ignorant child. The frail mother needs money for a better health, and every aspect of the family needs money. Although you need to be serious, where is it? Although you need to be spoiled in front of the elderly, where can you sprinkle? Work, life, a person alone, staggering step by step. Not to mention that in the Spring Festival, it is more about the complexity and helplessness of life. The Spring Festival thus became tasteless and dispensable.
The temple in Jiadong (from the picture of the Battle of Laiwu)
At the beginning of the Spring Festival after marriage, half in the hometown and half in the workplace. Men should marry women. At that age, it is natural to get married and have children. Men work first, and work naturally feels busy. The child is small and no one looks at it, and the two bear the unbearable hardships of the moment. The child was sent to the nursery at the age of one and a half, and now that he thinks about it, his heart is still sour. Coming home to see the elderly during the holidays, of course. The child can't stand the cold. The Spring Festival swings between home and new home. Although the taste of the Spring Festival was still strong at that time, it could not be felt.
After the Spring Festival after the work is solid, there is no geographical limitation. When I feel solid about myself at work and life, stand up and start looking around, my mother, who was already frail and sick, is not as good as a day. When I really wanted to feel the love of mother and child around my mother and repay the grace of nurturing, my mother left us. The Spring Festival without parents has no geographical limitations, whether it is in the past hometown, or the current hometown, or in another place, although it is still difficult to adapt psychologically, neither feel the taste of the Spring Festival of being a child, but also do not feel the taste of the Spring Festival raised by grateful parents.
That alley in the village
This Spring Festival not only has no geographical limitations, but also can spend the Spring Festival anywhere. As long as there is a holiday, it is the Spring Festival; as long as it is carefully and carefully cleaning is the Spring Festival; as long as it is preparing the New Year goods, although it is usually eaten as the New Year goods, it is the Spring Festival; as long as there are firecrackers, although it is not environmentally friendly, it is the Spring Festival; as long as the children and wives eat a meal together, it is the Spring Festival.
The spring festival, the taste, the expectation, and everything that was once left in the memory remain.
Maybe that's frugality!
(Originally published on the Sina blog "Festival of Sorrows" on February 18, 2015, and included in the compilation of "Nostalgia Like Lights" published by Jiangsu People's Publishing House)