Time is in a hurry, and the New Year will soon be coming. I've been thinking, how can I make the New Year more ceremonial?
I remember when I was a child, every New Year I felt very excited, inexplicably excited.
There are several peculiar things about maintaining that feeling.
The first is to paste couplets, pasting New Year paintings, and the kind of red big joy. The couplets of previous years have long been blown away by the wind, and the old New Year paintings have long been dusted. At this time, it is very important to leave the old and welcome the new.
The second is to buy New Year goods, the kind that is usually difficult to eat. At that time, my family was relatively poor and could not eat anything good on weekdays. As a result, the common fruits, canned drinks, beef, chicken, and fish have become a taste of the New Year when I was a child. In addition, new clothes may be added. I think the biggest feeling of the New Year at that time was to spend money crazy within my ability.
The third is to set off firecrackers and fireworks to create an atmosphere that is not normally available. Before the New Year, we played with small firecrackers, the kind that could be lit casually, only one sound. During the New Year, we played that kind of big string of cannon fights, and after Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, we started to set off fireworks, one for each person.
The fourth is the entertainment activities during the New Year, basically playing poker. Many people frantically stimulate their bodies in the playing card activities day and night, so as to regain the feeling of freedom. All this melted into the atmosphere of the New Year.
The fifth is a routine New Year greeting event, where people in the family meet together to pay New Year's greetings to their common ancestors. Walk nearby, drive or take public transportation farther away.
The sixth is to go to relatives and become the last program of the New Year. Relatives nearby, everyone shouted to each other to eat and chat together, eat at your house at noon, eat at my house in the evening, and take turns to come like this. Distant relatives, the kind who used to stay a few more days, and after returning, the year will be over.
This is a big Chinese New Year trip in my rural hometown when I was a child.
Until now, there is no big change, the only change may be how many people because of work, because of the establishment of a new family, it is difficult to return to the place where they grew up together to celebrate the New Year.
But today, how many people are still seriously celebrating the New Year as they used to be?
The more I grow up, the more lonely I feel, and the more I feel that the New Year has no taste. In the past, I was single, and I also gave the year in confusion.
But now, with my own family, I feel the need to spend the New Year well. We need to seriously make the New Year also have a sense of ritual, and rediscover the taste of the New Year in the sense of ritual.
For yourself, for children, for parents, for a New Year family reunion!
So how can you make the New Year more ceremonial?
After thinking about it, I will say a few suggestions for everyone's reference and for their own practice.
First, really attach importance to this matter from the heart and prepare well for the New Year.
What we have to prepare is probably these three: buying New Year goods, Chinese New Year's Eve meals, and New Year schedule.
First of all, which New Year goods should I buy?
It is recommended to buy some couplets, paste the important entry and exit doors of the home, and recruit the red joy into the home; Buy some New Year paintings and decorate your home so that the walls are less white and flawless.
Then buy something to eat for the New Year, fruits, canned food, melon seed sugar tea, meat, poultry and egg products, and so on. Eating enough and eating well is the standard for the New Year, and we must not snub our stomachs. However, mountain and sea delicacies are not recommended, the taste does not need to be too different from weekdays, there is no need to spend more than half a month's salary for food, moderation is more important.
Put fireworks as the last option, if your place allows it, or if you can rush to a place where fireworks are allowed, it is recommended to buy some as well. Especially prepare a serving for the little ones and teach them how to put it. While enjoying the festive atmosphere of firecrackers and the dazzling scenery of fireworks, pay attention to safety.
Secondly, What about Chinese New Year's Eve rice?
Do you go outside and book a restaurant, or do you do it yourself? Do you live together as a small family, or do you have more relatives?
These need to be arranged in advance.
Chinese New Year's Eve meal is the last meal of the year, it is a meal to welcome the new, probably the most hearty meal of the year, and we have to do it well.
Finally, how to arrange the New Year schedule?
As soon as the Chinese New Year's Eve night passes, it will be our six-day holiday for the Spring Festival.
Whether this 6-day holiday is well arranged or not is the biggest focus of the whole year.
For example, from the first to the sixth day of junior high school, how do you live every day? What are the activities? How many relatives to go? How to deal with special situations, etc.
When we have a good plan for the Spring Festival, this Spring Festival will definitely be a nostalgic Spring Festival.
Because we will find emotion in it, find regrets, find a summary of the past, and find hope for the new year.
Everything, good and bad, will leave a mark on our schedule.
Second, according to the preparation, according to the plan, enjoy this Spring Festival well.
It is recommended that on Chinese New Year's Eve day, you will have a big cleaning of your home, and everyone will participate. Sweep away all the bad things of the past year and welcome a new and hopeful new year.
It is recommended to make the home festive and lively, and use red to render this atmosphere. Paste red couplets, hang red lanterns, decorate the room with New Year paintings, and feel happy in a warm atmosphere.
It is recommended to raise a glass Chinese New Year's Eve dinner and say something joyful. After dinner, go outside for a walk, it's time to set off fireworks and enjoy them. A beautiful year will gradually end in the process of looking up at the brilliant night sky.
From the first to the sixth day of the junior high school that follows, let's spend it well in paying New Year's greetings to ancestors and visiting relatives. Talk to friends and family about the past and the future.
In the happy entertainment activities, release all the pressure of the past year, challenge your physical fitness, and easily welcome the new year with a paralyzed and casual body.
Third, put a happy heart into the entire New Year.
It is recommended to adjust your emotions in the past few days, think more about good things, calm down when you encounter bad things, do not show it in front of people, and then find a place to release your emotions alone.
It is recommended not to talk about sad things these days, greet people with a smile when they meet, and do not talk about sensitive topics such as income. You can ask about work plans, exchange experiences with each other, see if you can help each other, and don't spoil the festive atmosphere with contemptuous words.
It is recommended to keep a calm heart in private in the midst of the excitement, with joy, but also always be prepared to be poured cold water. All things cannot be passed without a smile, whether they can be solved in the end or not. At least during the New Year, it's not the time to really solve the problem.
Leaving the old and welcoming the new is the end and the beginning.
I wish everyone a happy few days before meeting the pressure of work in the future.
Sometimes I ask myself, what is the sense of ritual?
It may just be to make your life difficult, with a few hints of brightness occasionally.
As if to say, in those days, it is enough to think about nothing, relax well, and be happy.
Then, there is the hard work of the social person for a year.
Not only must you know how to carry the weight of life, but also learn to have fun occasionally.
Perhaps this is the most important reason to have a sense of ritual during the New Year.
Written at the end, I wish everyone a happy New Year, family reunion, happiness and well-being in advance!
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