With the Spring Festival approaching, the festive atmosphere on the street is also getting stronger. At this time in previous years, many foreigners have packed their bags and are ready to embark on the road back to their hometowns for the New Year. But in 2021, the epidemic has blocked people's way home, and many people have chosen to respond to the call of the state: celebrate the festival at work and express their blessings in the form of online videos, telephone greetings, and text message exchanges. New Year in a different place, wake up the New Year's taste in the memory, so that the New Year's taste in the heart is still the same.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > home for the Spring Festival this year?</h1>
Every year during the Spring Festival, the lights in the city are dazzling; especially the decoration of the big red lanterns, so that people who are in a hurry suddenly realize that it is almost the New Year. Li Jing is a foreigner who has been working here for more than three years. The annual Spring Festival is the day she looks forward to the most, because only at this time can she go home to reunite with her parents. Spending time with her parents, nagging at home, meeting relatives and friends, and having parties are all her long-awaited pleasures. For her, the Spring Festival in 2020 is "particularly long": because of the epidemic, returning home from other places needs isolation and observation, and she cannot go out at home, cannot go home to visit the New Year, and cannot enter work as soon as possible after returning to her place of work, and has felt many inconveniences in both life and work. She said, "I feel that I have become a housewife, and I have gained 10 pounds in one Spring Festival." Unconsciously, a year has passed, this year's Spring Festival is still shrouded in the haze of the "epidemic", Li Jing's unit suggested that she celebrate the New Year on the spot to reduce the risk of personnel flow, and the unit that usually "cuts the door" even sent a letter of condolence and distributed a New Year gift package.
In the second half of 2020, China's epidemic prevention and control is promising, but just after New Year's Day in 2021, the epidemic in Hebei has once again made people feel the breath of the eve of the lockdown in Wuhan last year. Experts say that it is not possible to relax now, and this Spring Festival is the most critical node in China's epidemic prevention work. Although her family is looking forward to the New Year reunion, li jing has a little retreat when she thinks of the possibilities of illness and isolation. She did not dare to open this mouth first, for fear of seeing the lost eyes of her parents.
When Li Jing and her parents talked on the phone, she tentatively asked them if they knew that this year the state recommended that people working in other places celebrate the festival on the spot. Her parents said they knew, and then immediately asked her if she couldn't go home for the New Year this year. Li Jingduo hoped to answer no, because she did not want to hear her parents' disappointed words. She had to endure homesickness, and could only bravely tell her parents that she would not go home for the New Year this year, and after the situation eased, she would find a time to go home to see them as soon as possible. "When everyone is vaccinated, the outbreak will disappear." Li Jing thought so.
This is Li Jing's first time outside for the New Year.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > hometown specialty acacia</h1>
After determining that Li Jing would not go home for the New Year, the parents of the hometown immediately carefully selected and sent Li Jing many of her favorite hometown specialties: Taihe tempeh, soup pond old sauce, potato bacon... Fill the whole box so that she can eat the taste of her hometown outside. Arriving with the courier was also the advice of his parents: "We are very good at home, and this year we will have a special Spring Festival." When the epidemic is over, you come back, safety first. ”
The understanding of her parents makes Li Jing miss like a spring, the streets of her hometown, delicious food and friends from childhood to adulthood all linger in her heart: Xiao Chinese New Year's Eve favorite casserole pot stinky tofu rice noodles, accompanied by everyone's past troubles; get together to eat "Eight Bowls of Pigs" in the New Year, talk to her parents about the joy and tiredness of work; swim with friends to chat with the lake, and think about their future without boundaries. Li Jing said: "The best Fa Xiao gave birth to a baby last year, this year I would like to visit, I don't know how the baby looks now, will I call me an aunt." ”
Li Jing recalled that during the Spring Festival in her hometown, people would paste a new portrait of vesta on a wooden board in the kitchen to give the vesta a fresh face. Legend has it that vesta is the god who manages the fireworks in the world, and he will tell the Jade Emperor what the family has done in a year, and if he serves well, the family will have a good life. Therefore, in front of the statue of Vesta, it is necessary to offer stove sugar, that is, to seal the mouth of vesta with sugar and prevent him from complaining. Li Jing said: "Eating assorted sugar, offering to the god of vesta, and welcoming the god of vesta, even if the New Year has begun." ”
At this point, li jing raised a smile at the corner of her mouth, and it seemed that the scene of the New Year's Eve in her childhood was displayed in front of her eyes. "Make pickles, worship ancestors, set off firecrackers, eat bait," Li Jing said, "when I was a child, my favorite was the dragon and lion dance." "In Qingyun Street, the appearance of those big lions who are cute and shake their heads is very attractive." They're going to dance at almost every door. Li Jing was still radiant when she spoke, as if she was still in the joyful land of dragons and lions fighting when she was a child.
The year of my hometown has a smell of longing.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > second hometown</h1>
Li Jing has been working here since she graduated, and she believes that "this is my second hometown.". But because the work is usually very busy, many places have not been, just take advantage of this Spring Festival holiday, take a good look at the scenery of the "second family", have fun, and leave a different memory.
In her eyes, there are beautiful mountains and rivers here, the scenery is beautiful, there are green trees, the face of The Cuiping Mountain, there is the long-standing, walking and entertainment Town, there are bustling shopping malls, intoxicating night scenes. Today's Yibin has become a charming city, and she can do a little better with her good friends during this long holiday. Li Jing said: "I have booked "Detective Chinatown 3" with another friend who is also on the spot for the New Year, shopping, hot pot, movies, I am already very much looking forward to it." Li Jing also arranged to visit museums, ancient town day trips, and bubble hot springs with friends after the Chinese New Year's Eve. "Take a good turn and relax."
For Li Jing, who chooses to "celebrate the New Year on the spot", whether her life is guaranteed during the Spring Festival is her most concerned issue. If all places and shops are closed for the New Year, as before, then this "one person's" big year is still too deserted.
However, during this year's Spring Festival, most of the catering stores and large supermarkets here will operate normally, and various scenic spots will also open as usual during the Spring Festival, "eating, drinking, entertainment and shopping" are all complete. In addition to the "taste of mother" sent back from home, there are various Chinese New Year's Eve meal packages launched by various merchants, which can be customized, and even Chinese New Year's Eve rice packages.
"Even if it's a person here, you have to live a new year." I bought a seafood gift box Chinese New Year's Eve rice and ate it with friends. Originally I was thinking of buying couplets, but then a friend sent it, and I also posted it. Li Jing said, "As long as I fill up the time line enough, loneliness will not catch up with me." The new way of New Year's Eve is also particularly interesting: Li Jing posted her New Year's greeting video on Douyin, and the red envelope was also stored on WeChat, waiting for the big Chinese New Year's Eve to send blessings. The rituals of the hometown should be done enough, and the taste of the year in the memory will come out. Leave the "magical year" of 2020 behind, enjoy the comfort of the soul, and feel a new style of new year.
Li Jing said quite easily: "Putting aside the regret of not being able to go home, I will definitely not be fat again during this year's Spring Festival, which is a blessing for me by the new New Year." ”
Celebrate the New Year on the spot, and the taste of the Year will not diminish.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > old new year</h1>
Chinese always homesick, this is the emotion that has been handed down in my bones. A year's thoughts will form a spring stream and flow on the streets of their hometown, which is not only a complex of a certain era, but a belief of all Chinese.
The love of the hometown is the mother's thought of waving goodbye at the station, the turbid wine and bold words in the father's cup, the tears of anticipation in the eyes of the grandmother; the knot of the hometown is the smell of Chinese New Year's Eve rice wafting in the heart, the sweet and tender taste of childhood chewing on the mouth, and the most beautiful and deepest kind of nostalgia in their hearts.
"The motherland is everyone, and everywhere is home!" This year, in the vast land of the motherland, there are also countless "Li Jing" who have not chosen to return home, but have stayed in the cities where they work and worked hard, and spent the New Year on the spot.
The homesickness complex has not changed, but we have attached the brand of a new era, in this second homeland that has shed sweat, in this second hometown where we have struggled and dedicated, the nostalgia is also strong. The warmth of Yibin is real, let us welcome the arrival of the new year in the strong new year flavor, and wish every "person who stays" a good year and the "cow" turns around.
Old nostalgia for the old hometown, new home for the New Year.
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