Wind and rain send spring home, flying snow welcomes spring arrival. The Spring of the Northern Kingdom is opened by snowflakes, and the Spring of the Southern Kingdom is unveiled by the Annual Flowers in the streets and alleys. Hanging lanterns, pasting Spring Festival, setting up New Year flowers, making food... The New Year is approaching, wandering through the cities and villages of Pingyuan, revealing a strong New Year's flavor everywhere.
Members of the public are shopping for festive jewelry. (Photo by Zhu Shuangling)
Under the epidemic situation, this Spring Festival is destined to be unusual. Non-essential non-gathering, non-essential non-provincial, non-essential non-returning... Due to the spread of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, many people's travel has stopped. From the traditional plot of "having money and no money, going home for the New Year" to the epidemic prevention and control initiative of "for the sake of health, celebrating the New Year on the spot", how are you going to spend this year's Spring Festival holiday? The reporter visited this.
The trees in the People's Square of Pingyuan County have been hung with red lanterns, adding a festive atmosphere to the festival. (Photo by Zhu Shuangling)
Near the Spring Festival, there is a kind of "red", which reflects the joy on people's faces, that is, the red spring league and the red lantern. In the park, on the square, on the side of the street, red lanterns of different sizes and Chinese knots are hung high, attracting many citizens to take photos and punch cards. In the major stores, the citizens who come to buy New Year goods are endless, and lanterns, couplets, Chinese knots, and dolls for the Year of the Ox are particularly suitable. In a bookstore on Huancheng Road in the county, the red-hot and dazzling New Year ornaments are festive and beautiful. Mr. Li, a merchant, introduced to reporters that Chinese knots and various red lanterns full of traditional charm, as well as New Year couplets and Fuzi with beautiful meanings, are still the first choice for citizens to buy. In addition, the imitation fabric silk flower has also become a popular ornament for people to decorate their homes and dress up the New Year. "This year, there are fewer people returning to their hometowns, which has a little impact on the business, but for the safety of everyone, it is okay to make less money." Mr. Lee laughed.
At a Huangluo sales store on Xinjian Road in the county seat, merchants are rushing to make Huangluo (Photo by Zhu Shuangling)
Soft glutinous fried rounds, crispy fried steamed buns, delicious yellow dumplings... Everywhere is filled with a unique aroma of the new year. At a Huangluo sales store in Pingyuan County, Ms. Liu, the inheritor of "Meishe Huangqi", is busy with her family. Since 7:00 a.m., the masters have been making them non-stop, and every day 400 to 500 kilograms of yellow dumplings are sold out. Ms. Liu said that many Pingyuan people who stay in other places for the New Year will buy various snacks for the New Year through the e-commerce platform. "They are all sold every day, and the demand for purchases in the New Year is large, and in order to ensure the supply, many masters have been added to the store to support."
The picture shows the public buying phalaenopsis orchids in the flower garden. (Photo by Zhu Shuangling)
With the suspension of the Yingchun Flower Market, the owner of the QuanJi Flower Garden Zhang on the old eight feet road in the county town transferred the sales of the New Year flowers to his own flower garden. Boss Zhang told reporters that when he learned that the Yingchun Flower Market was canceled, he adjusted his sales strategy in time, did not hoard too many New Year flowers, and the current sales were still based on the traditional Phalaenopsis orchids and Hongyun Dangfeng Annual Flowers, which were generally stable.
Every festive season, I think of my family. During the Spring Festival, many "hit workers" outside are homesick. Ms. Gao, a native of Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, who lives in Cuiyonghuating, originally planned to return to her mother's house with her family to reunite with her parents, but in response to the government's call, The Gao group decided to "celebrate the New Year on the spot" after much thought. "Although you can't go back to your hometown in Jiangxi, you still have a sense of ceremony for the New Year, and you can clean the courtyard, put on the lights, post the Spring Festival, and prepare meals." Gao said, "Responding to the call for 'Local New Year' is to ensure the safety and health of yourself, your family and the whole society, and also to better reunite in the future." ”
Members of the Pingyuan Calligraphers Association sent spring festivals to the public. (Photo by Yuan Zhipeng)
Keep an eye on people first. During the Spring Festival, the Pingyuan Federation of Trade Unions, human resources and social security, health and health, market supervision, culture and tourism and other relevant departments have also taken action, launched a series of heart-warming measures, so that everyone in the second hometown can also feel the "warmth and warmth", so that Liuping New Year is like "full of flavor", such as: condolences to Liuping New Year employees, for the Liuping New Year migrant workers to send warmth, send Spring Festival, launch to designated hospitals to enjoy preferential activities for medical examinations, enjoy scenic spot tickets and other cultural activities to benefit the people, enrich the spiritual and cultural life of Migrant Workers in Liuping.
Along with the warm sun, walking in the countryside of Pingyuan, plum blossoms, plum blossoms, firecracker flowers, camellias can be seen everywhere... Tree after tree, branch after branch, even if you wear a mask, you can still smell the fragrance of flowers.
Remember last year's engagement? When the spring flowers bloom, we will meet again. Nowadays, you who stay in other places do not have to worry, a beautiful picture will record a different heart-warming Spring Festival, after all, we can only celebrate a happy year if we have a good and healthy year.
May the spring blossom after the festival, and everything will be beautiful in the end.
Special correspondents: Zhu Shuangling, Zhu Weijia, Yuan Zhipeng
Trainee Editor: Xiao Mengting