"Child, child, don't be greedy, it's the New Year after Laba!"
When I was a child, every time the Chinese New Year came, the adults would say the characteristic Spring Festival slips, which were not only very smooth, but also had a strong New Year's atmosphere.
But now the New Year, at best, is a holiday, and a few years ago during the New Year, I was not even allowed to run, there was no New Year's spirit at all, unlike 30 years ago, although the days were poor, but the New Year was full of flavor, and the children were full of happiness!
So, today, let's take a look at how we celebrated the Spring Festival 30 years ago without a mobile phone!
Chinese New Year 30 years ago
In the previous New Year, no matter how busy they were, the family had to go home neatly for the New Year, and the family would eat around the house and talk, and the unhappy things of the year would pass.
After eating, the children will come out to set off firecrackers, at that time the firecrackers always feel louder than now, if you don't cover your ears, you may be close to the ears will shake the pain, despite this, the children still like to watch together.
From the mouths of adults, I learned that at that time, they were very happy to have new clothes to wear for the New Year, and they would honestly clean at home in the first few days before the New Year.
Sometimes the Chinese New Year will call the village butcher to come over to help kill the pigs to prepare for the New Year, and on the day of the New Year, the elders will get up early to cook a big table of meals, and when everyone has arrived, they will start.
At that time, there were many children in every household, so it would be very lively to eat together, and when the meal was over, everyone would go to play their own games.
Wait until about 5 o'clock in the evening, start to busy preparing the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, probably wait until it is all dark, the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner is almost ready, so I get together to have a lively Chinese New Year's Eve dinner.
After eating, most of the children will follow the adults to set off firecrackers, an adult with a match in his hand, as soon as he wipes it, the children directly start to run around, and then they hear a crackling fire, and the children start laughing.
When everyone is tired of playing and starts to go home, adults usually wait until 12 o'clock to go to bed, which may be called a vigil. Adults will never have the momentum of children, so what does the New Year look like in the eyes of children?
Children's favorite Chinese New Year
At that time, the children of every family wanted to celebrate the New Year quickly, because they could wear new clothes during the New Year, because at that time, every household was relatively poor, and the clothes that the children usually wore were either old clothes that were modified after the older brothers and sisters wore them, and only the New Year could they wear new clothes.
Therefore, during the Chinese New Year, the children will get up early, can't wait to put on new clothes, play on the street with a few friends, and from time to time compare whose clothes look better, and show him when they meet a neighbor.
Generally, parents buy clothes that are relatively large, and they hope to wear them for a longer time in the future, so that the children's faces are filled with happy smiles.
When I was a child, I looked forward to the New Year, and another reason was that I could only eat pork during the New Year, when the family was relatively poor, and I didn't see meat at all on the dinner table, and I could only let go of it during the New Year.
Every few days of the New Year, the family will begin to slaughter pigs, commonly known as "pigs", an average of four families are divided into a pig, and after the pig is slaughtered, the parents will begin to be busy, the pork in the hands will be cut into slices, salted with sugar respectively, left until the New Year either their own family to eat, or go to relatives to use.
If there are other places that are superfluous, they will be cleaned up and made into a large stew, and the family will open the meat before the New Year, so at that time, only the New Year can eat fragrant meat, and now although you can eat meat at any time, it is completely without the feeling of eating meat before.
In the New Year, the happiest children are to have New Year's money, at that time in the countryside, most of the people's economic conditions are not good, usually the children have no pocket money in their hands, only when the New Year will have.
Although the annual New Year's money is cheated away by parents in every possible way, they can also secretly leave a little, buy their favorite snacks, or buy a box of cannons, and put it slowly, some girls will save it and buy toys they want to buy.
However, if you want to ask about the strongest day of the year, it is the Chinese New Year's Eve of the Chinese New Year's Eve.
Chinese New Year's Eve, Chinese New Year's Eve
The thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve is the busiest day, and in order to prepare the most sumptuous dinner of the year, the elders are busy buying all kinds of things that need to be prepared.
The fathers need to go to the incense and kowtow, and the children are preparing the cannon in advance, eagerly waiting for the evening to come, and in the evening, everyone will finish the meal in a noisy noise.
The children have no heart to eat, anxiously waiting to come out and fire the cannon, start their childhood happiness, and the most important thing is the Chinese New Year's Eve New Year's Eve money, adults will prepare in advance, and then the children kowtow one by one to receive the New Year's money.
When the children were happy with the red envelopes, their mothers appeared, snatched the red envelopes when they went up, and said: Save the money for you first, and return it to you when you grow up.
Until I grew up, I didn't see the red envelopes when I was a child, if you want it directly, then my mother will say, you need money for food and drink, you give the money out first, and you won't be able to speak in an instant.
Nowadays, even if everyone doesn't have to get together, as long as they pick up their mobile phones, they all start to send red envelopes in the group, all of which are fighting luck and surgery, and some adults will prepare QR codes for children, and they can scan them directly, which is completely without the previous feeling.
It's just that at that time, the family could sit together at night to watch the Spring Festival Gala, and sometimes a sudden sentence from the Spring Festival Gala might be popular all over the street the next day.
On the night of Chinese New Year's Eve, adults will also keep the New Year, light up all the lights in the house, adults will gather around to rub mahjong, and some children will fall asleep in a daze when they are crazy and tired.
In the past, there were no mobile phones and no WIFI, but life was very happy. "The more people grow up, the more they miss the taste of the year when they were young, not how happy they were at that time, but that they can no longer find the feeling they once had!"
When I was younger, I preferred the snow during the Chinese New Year, because I could play in the snow with a few children, and sometimes when I was tired, I would stick out my tongue to catch the snow falling from the sky.
The last flavor of the New Year should be the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the Lantern Festival, the children will take out the lanterns early, looking forward to the lanterns, because this night is the last carnival, and the Lantern Festival in the past means that the whole year is over.
epilogue
30 years ago in the Spring Festival, there was no mobile phone company, but there are more real and precious interpersonal relationships, recalls are vivid, that kind of expectation, always make people linger, a New Year's Day, a family gathered together for a reunion, watching the Spring Festival Gala, eating dumplings made by their parents, thinking about how happy.
The older generation has left one after another, and a few of the remaining young people know the happiness of the time, with the change of the times, the taste of the year is getting weaker and weaker, and the previous full childhood memories will become unforgettable memories in life.