When the festival is given a special meaning, the festival itself loses its meaning, and the festival becomes one after another different forms, different themes of performance. And it's gorgeous, with a punchy performance.
When I was a child, because of material poverty, I could only eat delicious food during the New Year, and I usually wanted to eat but couldn't eat things, so in the year, I always looked forward to the Spring Festival, of course, there was another reason, that is, new clothes or new shoes made by my mother. Chinese New Year's Eve night, my mother opened the lock of the large wardrobe (there were actually no valuable items in it, just the family's ID card and household registration book), and gently held out a beautiful dress from the inside, and the polished light bulb that was polished was polished and shined on the dress, making the Spring Festival of childhood look particularly grand and meaningful.
In high school, I began to live in the county seat, only once a semester, and the concept of the Spring Festival began to blur, and the Spring Festival became a month's winter vacation, which meant that I had to spend a month in the old dark house, following my mother to the smoke-filled stove, receiving smoke and fire. So what I was looking forward to at that time was not the Spring Festival, not that my mother was busy nagging about a month of food, and it was not new clothes. Instead, in the provincial city, there are bright classrooms, and there are happy friendships with classmates, and the city is brightly lit and bustling.
When I was in college, I secretly made a boyfriend, and the winter vacation of the Spring Festival became a torment for us who tasted the sweetness of love for the first time. At that time, the meaning of the Spring Festival was parting. Every time I think of the Spring Festival, we will be thousands of miles away from each other, I will feel a thousand thoughts. Therefore, I would call home a month in advance and tell my mother: I will not go home for the New Year this year, and I want to use this time to prepare my graduation thesis. Mom was on the other end of the phone, looking a little lost, she said: I also made fried rice cakes this year, which is your favorite food, and 、、、、、、。
I was on the other end of the phone, extra excited, I said: Eating too much rice cake is not good for the stomach. Mom, you don't have to do it. I can buy anything here, rest assured. After hanging up the phone, I was excited about the small long holiday I had won, while Mom and Dad's Spring Festival seemed particularly cold and shabby, because after the holiday, they packed all the food and delivered it to me.
What is the Spring Festival, and what is the meaning of the Spring Festival? I have always believed that the Spring Festival is to let relatives and friends who have not seen each other for a long time meet in greeting, the Spring Festival is a feast that cannot be escaped, and there are noisy and chaotic gatherings.
Later, my husband and I formed a small family of two of us, and the Spring Festival turned into a long journey, and we had to keep reversing and going further afield for the New Year. There, we saw many unfamiliar faces, as well as traces of each other's growth. Of course, this is not the most important thing, what matters is what kind of gift you bring to the seven aunts of the family. Therefore, the Spring Festival at this moment has become an annual filial piety competition to see whose daughter-in-law is the most filial and capable, and whose aunt is the most capable.
There is always no escape at the dinner table, whose children have appreciated again, and whose girls are married well. Whose children took their parents on a trip during the Spring Festival. When visiting relatives and friends, we have to see who brings heavy gifts, who drives a luxurious car and who wears more material abundance. If you pack two hundred in a red envelope, I will pack five hundred. The intention of sending the elderly has become a fake performance, and as soon as the holiday is over, it immediately changes back to its original appearance.
Therefore, the Spring Festival at this moment is comparable and has been packaged by money. Although it looks golden and shiny, there is always less of the real atmosphere of the festival and more of a copper smell.
When I stepped into the threshold of middle age, I realized that the meaning of the so-called Spring Festival is actually to take a little time to accompany my parents in the years when they are old, in the past they helped you to make an unforgettable New Year, and now, it is our turn to help them restore one good memory after another.
What is the significance of the Spring Festival? It is a family sitting around the table; the Spring Festival is to go thousands of miles to see the elderly parents; the Spring Festival is to make a few delicious meals for the parents; the Spring Festival is to sit with the parents and talk about the past; the Spring Festival is also to remind us in another way that time passes, and we must cherish every inch of the time we are together.
Today, we live in an era of material abundance, and more and more people become material efforts, wrapped up in material. We like to move more festivals into ordinary life, which is not wrong, but we should not let the festival change its flavor, and we should not let the festival become a means for us to achieve some end. The festival should retain its most original, purest meaning.