Happy New Year, my hometown
Text/Tang Feng
Firecrackers sound in the one-year-old except! Every festive season, I think of my family. Perhaps as I get older, nostalgia grows stronger.
The East Stone Horse under Wuyang Mountain was the paradise where I grew up, and on Children's Day in 1980, I was born in the West House of the Tang Family Compound in Juxiang Gate.
Years do not live, time is like a stream, the childhood home is still clear in the mind, when he was six years old, his father turned over the blue tile house to build a big red tile house, and in the 80s, Juxiangmen was also a landmark building that caught up with the trend. When he woke up in the morning, his father removed pieces of green tiles on the roof, and his mother waited under the eaves for transportation, and the old house that had been many years gone would never return to his face!
Although it is less than 6 square meters of two grass houses, it has fed 4 generations of dozens of people, if the uncle is still alive, he is nearly 90 years old, and the spine on the roof of the gate is still clearly visible——— Guangxu twenty-two years of construction.
Uncle Tang Entai, who is far away from Xinjiang to guard the frontier, every time he returns from Xinjiang thousands of miles away, he comes to visit the old house, and in the blink of an eye, Uncle Tang entai has also walked for nearly 4 years. After the death of uncle Rong Ma's life, his brothers and sisters-in-law took the opportunity to send uncle back to the homeland under Wuyang Mountain!
Mother's feelings for the hometown are getting stronger and stronger, listening to the grandfather told about the old days of the hometown, unwilling to leave the hometown, to stay with the father to stay in this homeland, this year's Spring Festival and the mother agreed to go to Boshan White Tiger Mountain for the New Year, because the lover spring festival does not take a vacation, can not go back to the hometown for the New Year, the heating here is also open, and considering the custom of Chinese New Year's Eve to serve vegetables, the temperature late at night is low Mother's physical discomfort. Still convinced them, the afternoon of the second day of the first month of the first month can not wait to return to their hometown! I am in love with the sisters of my hometown.
A few photos in the old house photo frame, remembering the unity and prosperity of the family, the second brother Tang Tao, born in 64 years, has been living in Toronto, Canada for more than 20 years, returned a few years ago, the epidemic has delayed the way home, every day with the nearly ninety-year-old father, and the brother and sister-in-law who wait for filial piety to maintain video calls,
The small courtyard of the hometown, after the baptism of the years, has been ruined and broken, collapsed everywhere, parents in the open space of the small courtyard to plant some vegetables, supply their own needs, in the spring also out of the slope to plant some grain, harvest some new grain to make a delicacy to share with relatives and friends.
The New Year's bell has been ringing! We are one year old, a few loud kicks in the distance, the crisp sound of firecrackers in the near distance, breaking the quiet sky, the young father tiger who flipped the new house is also 66 years old, the epidemic does not know when it will end, how long is the way home for overseas frontier brothers? ...
Peng bird thinks of the old tree, the horse remembers the north wind, turns the homesickness into the power of helping the hometown, and remembers our hometown, an alley in the Juxiang Gate, from the new memory. The door of Boshan's hometown is always open, the new year and new atmosphere, the roots are in Wuyang Mountain, and the love is in the Jinsi River. In the new year, we are cheering up and moving forward together!
About author:Tang Feng, pen name Xiaoshan, born on June 1, 1980, a native of Boshan, Shandong, with a college degree. His works have been published in China Morning News, Qilu Yidian, etc., and have been engaged in decoration work for many years, and are currently the head of Zibo Wanlong Decoration Engineering Co., Ltd.
One point number Boshan District Writers Association