Guide:
As our most important traditional festival, the Spring Festival makes each of us full of infinite expectations, which gives us our yearning for reunion, a short break after a year of hard work, and an important node for us to get ready to embark on a new journey to achieve our good wishes. Looking forward to it, looking forward to it, the Spring Festival is coming, but we have to admit that the taste of the New Year is becoming weaker and weaker.
Who stole the taste of the year that once haunted us? Is it because we have grown up, or because the material life is too rich, or the sound of firecrackers that is gradually disappearing, it seems, it seems that it is not.
Starting from today, I will launch the "Who Stole Our New Year's Taste" series, starting from recalling my childhood Spring Festival past, sharing my past Spring Festival with you, analyzing the reasons for the gradual weakening of the New Year's taste, and exploring the possibility of recovering the New Year's taste. In the hope that we can regain the strong taste of the year that we once had, and also let our traditions be maintained for a longer time, as far as we can find the taste of the past.
The second day of the Chinese New Year is the day when the girl who got married in the previous year returns to her mother's house with her new son-in-law, and on this day, the new son-in-law is a distinguished guest, and the mother's family should be entertained, and at the same time, it should be generously entertained by relatives and neighbors.
In the past, the son-in-law to the village where the mother-in-law is located, because of his aunt's identity, the treatment is very "miserable", no matter the adults and children, the level of generations, can change the pattern of "scolding" him, the generations can even go to his pocket to pay money, he can not be angry and anxious, this is a different way of greeting, but also a simple folk style of ease.
However, on the second day of the first year, but the son-in-law's most exuberant day in her mother's house, when she goes, she must bring one or two retinues, and there are people with prestige in the village who are warmly received, and when eating, we must sit in the most honorable position, and the table (meal) is also the last table.
Sitting in the middle is the new son-in-law of the second cousin's family
However, the son-in-law's big meal, eating is not so easy, first, the family has arranged to go to the mother-in-law's house to behave properly, not too casually; second, in the process of eating, from time to time, there are neighbors who are big girls and daughters-in-law, come and brazenly stand at the door of the house, look at the new son-in-law, and arbitrarily and exaggeratedly judge.
This is not nothing, and when it is time to finish eating and go, the real test for the new son-in-law has come.
At this time, there is already a group of people outside the house to "rectify" other things, beating the new son-in-law is a custom in the hometown for many years, whether it is a man or a woman, adults or children, you can pull your arm, or stretch your legs to beat a person, as long as the new son-in-law gets it, it will cause a burst of laughter.
The banquet for the second year of junior high school
At this time, the new son-in-law will be protected by the mother-in-law's family, and try to help her avoid "attacks". It was hard to get out of the mother-in-law's house, and I couldn't breathe a sigh of relief, because a bigger test was still ahead.
At this time, the village mouth has already gathered more people, our village is relatively large, generally every year there are more than ten new sons-in-law, the village mouth is a must-pass place, the adults and children in the village are almost all out, the scene is very spectacular. There are all kinds of spoof tools, some with mud in their bare hands, some with grass and wood ashes, some with broken hats, and some with cattle and donkeys and other animals for farm work.
Get ready to make trouble with your new son-in-law
Which family's new son-in-law has not left, which family's dinner has just ended, which son-in-law has tried to cut a path away from the village, etc., there are "intelligence personnel" who have timely inquired into the news. In this situation, even if the new son-in-law who has seen the world again, he can't help but "tremble" in his legs.
However, the position is frightening, the fight is also a certain degree of moderation, generally more emphasis is placed on making the new son-in-law "ugly", bringing the new son-in-law down, or which animals commonly used utensils are put on the neck of the new son-in-law is a common situation, everyone is often attracted by the new son-in-law's embarrassment, leaning forward and backward, laughing incessantly.
At this time, the new son-in-law was protected by two strong and strong family members, burying their heads and hurrying away, not daring to stay in the slightest.
Rural frolicking customs
Some mothers-in-law, distressed by their new son-in-law, would follow him and shout loudly to stop everyone. Instead of being effective in stopping the constant spoof attacks, this adds comedic effects, and the scenes are hilarious and hilarious.
Over the years, the custom of "beating the new son-in-law" has gradually disappeared for many reasons, but every time I think of this once big New Year custom, it makes people endlessly reminiscent and linger.