Wine – the best seasoning of the year
Entering the waxing moon is the year, and out of the first month is the end of the year. In this way, the year of the Chinese people has a period of nearly two months, of course, the seven-day annual leave is only a small episode. Sixty days of the New Year's Festival, to say what is the most important, think about it or think that wine is the best condiment for the New Year's Festival.
Chinese people are known for the custom of drinking and celebrating on holidays, but only this year's festival has the most drinks and the largest amount of drinking. Isn't there already a saying that "whoever visits who has a lot of alcohol" has long been said? It is also true that the person who accompanies the wine should accompany the guest well, even if he is drunk and confused, he will not fall into this fold, the so-called sacrificial life to accompany the gentleman is also.
There are many traditional festivals, and it seems that only the Spring Festival is a festival for visiting relatives and friends. This may be related to reunion, which is the eternal theme of the Spring Festival. The Southern Song Dynasty poet Wu Wenying said in "Si Jia Ke · Decoction Removal night": "Ten years of old dreams have nowhere to be found, and several times the new spring is not at home." Lazy clothes change, wine is difficult to credit. "I didn't go home for a reunion at the time of the New Year's Day, it was so boring that I didn't even bother to change the clothes I was wearing." Now, people living in other places also hope to return home and reunite with their families during the Spring Festival. However, the Spring Festival "going home" is not a unique behavior of "wandering", but almost all the common customs and behaviors of Chinese sons and daughters, of course, "going home" is not only a reunion with parents, "going home" also means returning to the "acquaintance society", which is an important factor in visiting relatives and friends.
People's family reunions from Chinese New Year's EveChinese New Year's Eve meals, to the New Year's Eve and the subsequent visits to relatives and friends, means that the Reunion of the Spring Festival is not only a family reunion, but also a reunion between relatives and friends. For people with more relatives in their father's generation, it is necessary to go to the homes of relatives such as uncles, uncles, aunts, and aunts to take a walk and take a look. In this walk and look, wine culture comes in handy. No matter whose home he goes to, the host will enthusiastically bring delicious dishes such as chickens, pigs, cattle and sheep slaughtered years ago to the table, push the cup to change the wine, summarize the past, and look forward to the future. Under the action of alcohol, the confused eyes are not forced lips, telling their own hearts, sometimes it seems to be incoherent, but most of them are the expression of true feelings.
The ancients had "no flowers, no wine, and qingming, and the interest was like a wild monk." This Spring Festival is also a bit of a surprise to me. In October last year, his body was not safe from alcohol, he rarely participated in the dinner, and during the Spring Festival, he did not take the initiative to attack, saying that he was thin the intention of many relatives and friends, but he thought that his heart was not cold, and his blood was still hot.
Recently, idly looking at Mo Yan's calligraphy works of "taking up and putting down, eating enough, and sleeping", I was quite touched. Being able to afford to put it down has nothing to do with us ordinary people, but eating enough and sleeping is exactly the number of our roads. I want to stick to it and let "eat enough and sleep" accompany us through the rest of our lives.
February 10, 2022 Shinma by Ginger
