Long Ao Marvel

The taste of the Spring Festival undoubtedly plays a decisive role among the ups and downs that people have experienced.

In Liu Zheng's memory, the Spring Festival has always been a distant and vague dream: the sound of firecrackers when he was a child, the fragrant New Year's Eve dinner on the dining table, and the New Year's money given by adults. His impression of his parents has been very weak, even

He could no longer remember their faces, only the kind smiles of his grandparents accompanied him as he grew up. Later, the two elders passed away one after another, and Liu Zheng became completely alone. From then on, he never had a decent Spring Festival again. Later, even

He himself is used to this kind of life, and any festival has no meaning to him.

But this year is different. Thinking about it carefully, this should be the first serious Spring Festival he has celebrated as an adult.

Because of the reconciliation between father and son, Fu Shenzhou decided to take time to go home to celebrate the New Year. This was great news for Huxin Island. The housekeeper Huang Zhao was so excited that he started preparing various New Year goods on the fifteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, vowing to celebrate this year's Spring Festival.

Make it the most grand event ever.

So Ding Lue and Liu Zheng were naturally captured as young men, but this was what Liu Zheng wanted, because in this way they could be freed from painful physical training.

At the beginning of the new year, Hunan people pay attention to "getting rid of the old year and welcoming the new year", so they will definitely clean their homes before New Year's Eve to give a good meaning to the new year. In addition, in order to celebrate the return of the old island owner

, Shangqi decided to open the island in the middle of the lake on New Year's Eve, the 30th day of the twelfth lunar month, allowing villagers from nearby villages to visit the island. Therefore, the pressure of cleaning became extremely great, and Huangzhao hired more than a dozen village women to be responsible for cleaning.

In addition, the three of them are all experts, and they can climb over the walls easily. They helped with the cleaning at high places. Finally, it took them two days to clean the entire courtyard in the middle of the lake.

In addition to cleaning up the house, one also has to put up New Year pictures at home. This ancient folk art, New Year pictures, was once present in Liu Zheng’s hometown. In the old town of Qiantang, New Year pictures were also put up during the New Year, but later this custom evolved with the development of the city.

And gradually disappeared.

To be honest, the flavor of the New Year in most areas of Zhijiang has faded. People only care about making money and don’t pay much attention to the inheritance of traditional culture. Many of the customs and habits of childhood can no longer be found today.

Traces. Therefore, Liu Zheng is particularly active in preparing for the New Year. Any task is a new experience for him.

The Spring Festival couplets on the door of the house were written by Huang Zhao himself. The old man did have a brush. Although his hands were as thick as steel claws due to practicing claw skills, he unexpectedly learned beautiful regular script and wrote a couplet with just a few strokes:

Submit a letter [Sanyang Kaitai people wish for five blessings and go in spring]

Next book [Wanhou’s Reform and the great fortune coming from heaven are coming day by day]

Hengbiao【Good times and good years】

The pen is powerful and the edge penetrates the back of the paper. As soon as you see it, you can feel the simple and desolate momentum rushing towards you.

After all the preparations were done, the time came to the 24th of the twelfth lunar month. This day is the "Little New Year" in Hunan. The most important custom is to worship the Stove Lord. It is said that the Stove Lord will return home on the 24th.

Heaven reports on the good and evil in the world, so on the day of worshiping the stove, every family must clean the stove, tables, pots and pans, and paste a couplet next to the statue of the stove god: "God speaks good things, and the lower world keeps peace."

After the sacrifice begins, people place candies, water, beans, and mosses on the table in front of the Stove King's statue. Among them, the last three items are to prepare materials for the Stove Lord's mount to ascend to heaven. When offering sacrifices to the Stove, the whole family bows and bows to make wishes.

You also have to apply honey on the lips of the Stove God in the portrait, hoping that after eating it, the Stove God will not say bad things about people. This is called "sending the stove". The entire sacrificial activity is not completed until the stove-sending is over.

After the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month, Hunan has officially entered the Spring Festival mode. Even on the island, you can hear the sound of firecrackers coming from the villages and towns by the lake. The days are getting closer to New Year's Eve, and the New Year's flavor is getting better and better.

It got thicker and thicker, and finally on the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month, they waited for the old island owner Fu Shenzhou, who had been away from his hometown for a long time.

Huang Zhao personally went to the shore of the lake to pick up people. Shangqi, Liu Zheng, and Ding Lue were waiting on the island. Not long after, they saw dozens of boats rowing toward the island in the center of the lake. The one on the front boat was exactly

Fu Shenzhou and Huang Zhao.

When the boat docked, the three of them hurriedly paid tribute to Fu Shenzhou. After the incident at Jingci Temple, Shangqi's estrangement towards Fu Shenzhou had been completely eliminated, and he became more and more proficient in pronouncing the word "father".

of embarrassment.

Fu Shenzhou patted his tired shoulder, nodded slightly to Liu Zheng and Ding, and walked towards the courtyard first.

I haven’t been back for decades. This house is of great significance to Fu Shenzhou’s heart. From the moment he walked in the door, the memories of the past came flooding back, and the scenes from that year seemed to reappear before his eyes...

There is a deck chair under the pear tree full of small white flowers in the yard. A woman in a goose-yellow dress is half-lying in the chair, concentrating on reading a book.

The soft spring breeze blew by, ruffling the black hair on her forehead. The woman reached out to take care of it, and then she realized that Fu Shenzhou was standing next to her.

She smiled, with ripples of happiness in her warm, watery eyes, and the little tiger teeth in her mouth were slightly playful.

"Brother Fu, you are back."

When he was out of breath, he saw his father in front of him suddenly stopped, and then his body swayed slightly. He quickly stepped forward and stretched out his hand to support Fu Shenzhou, and asked with concern: "Father, are you okay? Are you too tired?"

"

Fu Shenzhou waved his hand, indicating that he was fine.

After drinking the tea presented by Shangqi, he took a shower and changed clothes to wash away the dust and dust from his body. Fu Shenzhou paid homage to his ancestors' tablets and officially declared that he had returned home.

Now everyone on the island in the center of the lake has arrived, just waiting for the arrival of New Year's Eve.

The 30th day of the twelfth lunar month, New Year’s Eve.

During the day, the island in the center of the lake is crowded with tourists. People who have been blessed by Shangqi over the years have come to visit today with gifts. And the elderly people in the surrounding villages and towns who still remember the owner of the island, Fu Shenzhou, also come to the island accompanied by their families.

When we met and talked about the development and changes in the past few decades, we couldn't help but sigh with emotion. After the New Year, all the cooks and helpers on the island went home, so the task of receiving guests could only be done by Liu Zheng.

, Huang Zhao went to the rear kitchen to cook, and Ding Lue went to help. The army made dumplings every year and festival, and he planned to show off his skills for everyone to try today.

A fellow villager gave them a TV set. Because Shangqi has lived an ascetic life for many years, except for water and electricity on the island, there are no Internet TV signals. Even if they want to watch TV, they can only rely on antennas to receive the signal.

, but fortunately, the fellow villagers were well prepared, and after a while of tinkering, they actually received the CCTV1 program.

By 6 o'clock in the evening, the New Year's Eve dinner was all ready. As soon as more than a dozen dishes were served, Liu Zheng's mouth was immediately drooling.

Hunan people are very particular about the food they eat during the Spring Festival, requiring chicken, meat and fish. The chicken is a rooster, stew it whole, and keep its head held high when putting it on the plate; the fish should use silver carp, which is called "tuan".

"New Year Fish" is steamed and then sprinkled with red chili powder on top, symbolizing abundance every year and abundant harvests. A pork elbow of about 3 kilograms is also required, which is called "New Year Elbow". At the same time, the dishes on the table

Most of them are interesting, such as fish balls (meat balls), meat balls symbolize reunion, radish means good fortune, and whole chicken means "starting a family by eating chicken". Hunan people also like to eat fried food, because after frying, it means

"Prosperous family fortune".

Amidst the festive music played by the TV speakers, people at the table raised their wine glasses. Fu Shenzhou, the head of the family, spoke and said a few words of blessing. Everyone shouted "Happy New Year!" and drank from the glasses.

Liquor. The worst alcoholic drink because the first sip was too strong, which made my nose and tears flow. Amid everyone’s laughter, the wine drinker from the island in the middle of the lake was

The Eve banquet has officially begun.

New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, why is it called New Year's Eve?

Chu means "getting rid of the old and spreading the new". The last day of the lunar year is called "Sui Chu", and that night is called "New Year's Eve". On this night, every household will cook an extremely sumptuous dinner, no matter how poor the family is.

No exception, this tradition was originally intended to reward everyone for their merit in "staying up late". So why is it called staying up late? This word is also closely related to New Year's Eve.

There is a legend about the origin of "New Year's Eve": In ancient times, there was a powerful and bad-tempered monster called "Xi". It would come out to harm people at the end of the year when there was heavy snow and there was nowhere to find food. Later, people

It was found that Xi was afraid of three things: the color red, fire, and noise. So people decided to hang red peach boards on their doors, light fires at the door, stay up all night, and sometimes make loud noises to drive it away.

This winter, "Xi" broke into the village again, but all he could see was a red fire and a loud noise. He was so frightened that he ran back to the mountains and never dared to come out again. After the night passed, people congratulated each other.

Everyone decorated the lanterns, drank and held banquets to celebrate the victory of "keeping the New Year's Eve up". With this experience, people would put up red Spring Festival couplets and set off firecrackers in every household on the next New Year's Eve to drive away the New Year's Eve beasts and bring good luck to the new year.

Tranquility. This custom has been passed down since then, and the night of New Year's Eve is called New Year's Eve.

Everyone drank and ate while watching the Spring Festival Gala. The time soon reached 12 o'clock in the middle of the night. The fireworks outside the island rang on time. Everyone left the table and went out to watch. When they got outdoors, the sound of the fireworks was even more deafening, and the sky was dyed.

The colorful flowers are so beautiful. Huangzhao had already prepared the fireworks on the shore of the lake. Huangzhao, Liu Zheng, Ding Lue, and Shangqi started to ignite them. 12 36-gun salutes were launched at the same time. Soon, the sky above the island in the middle of the lake was

It was illuminated as bright as day.

Liu Zheng, who was sitting by the lake watching the fireworks, was a little distracted again.

When he tried to put aside the surging smiling faces in front of him and peek at the panoramic view of the "Spring Festival" in the midst of joy, Liu Zheng discovered that every minute of the festival showed the longing, hope and passion accumulated in the past.

In the life journey of Chinese people, although people have different pursuits and choices for their lives, the Spring Festival has always been a cup of wine that can never be drunk, allowing many people to taste another meaning of life.

Therefore, Liu Zheng thought, I am afraid that no one in this world can truly and profoundly understand the meaning of the Spring Festival. Every detail of it is displayed to the Chinese people in different forms such as making dumplings, eating New Year's Eve dinner, staying up late, setting off fireworks, watching the Spring Festival Gala, etc.

In front of our eyes, we ponder these details and savor the humanistic meaning and cultural heritage behind these details. What we can experience is always sweetness and family affection.

The Spring Festival has long become an indispensable spirit in people's lives. Walking through the Spring Festival and the Spring Festival year after year, facing the passing and upcoming thoughts, people are always eager to use the symbol of the Spring Festival to omit the past.

After all the difficulties or sadness in the year, we raise our hands to welcome the new sun.

Although with the development of society and the change of people's concepts, the Spring Festival may no longer be everyone's expectation for the new year. However, the lights of the Spring Festival, the celebration of the Spring Festival, and the taste of the Spring Festival have indeed resolved yesterday and today.

Full of thoughts, it intoxicated everyone who had worked hard for a year around the dinner table on New Year's Eve, and also intoxicated Liu Zheng who was watching the fireworks by the lake.

In a daze, he felt as if there was a person sitting next to him, with a petite body and a yellow coat. Warm little hands touched the back of his hand. He quickly turned his head to look, but saw nothing. There was nothing around him.

Those two gentle glances and the touch on his hands still vaguely remain.

Liu Zheng clenched his hands, smiled and looked at the sky in the distance, thinking: "Although I don't know why I forgot you, we will definitely meet again. Happy New Year, girl."