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It's the annual Spring Festival again. Although I am not interested in celebrating the Spring Festival at my age, the formal way of celebrating the Spring Festival is still boring. We spent this Spring Festival in the city because we moved to a new house. The first Spring Festival was spent in a new house according to the custom to show our joy.
Although I have lived and worked in Shiyan for four or five years, it is the first time to celebrate the New Year in Shiyan. The ban on flogging has been implemented in Shiyan for many years, but with the increasing voice of people in the past two years, the ban on flogging is no longer as strict as in previous years, but a little loose. This year, it is stipulated that from New Year's Eve to 1 month 16, centralized discharge is allowed in specified places and areas far away from flammable and explosive places. The community I live in deviates from the downtown area, surrounded by mountains and far away from some inflammable and explosive places, so flogging is naturally prohibited. This may make some owners find excuses and opportunities for happiness. On New Year's Eve, every household set off firecrackers representing their wealth and set them off heartily. Firecrackers are louder and last longer than firecrackers. At 0: 00 on New Year's Eve, firecrackers came and went. You have 10,000 firecrackers at home, and my family may have to set off 100,000 firecrackers, or even hundreds of thousands of firecrackers; Your family has two letters, my family has three letters and five letters; The host can put it on for three or five minutes, and the western family can put it on for ten minutes or even half an hour. If it is not enough, it is like a competition between the rich and the poor, as if it is a symbol of wealth, identity and even status. Listening to these murderous firecrackers, I suddenly felt tired of the Chinese New Year. This has long lost the lively atmosphere of the traditional Chinese New Year. Although they set off fireworks and firecrackers without the idea of being more expensive than the rich and the poor, gunpowder and firecrackers are already full of competition. I don't have the heart to compare with them, and I have no intention of comparing with them. I am me, a civilian from the countryside, living an ordinary life in the city, not arguing with people or things, doing my humble writing work and living a bad life. In the smoke filled with firecrackers, I can't help but recall the rural Spring Festival that I never forget.
The Spring Festival in the countryside is a memory I will never forget. At that time, although the countryside was poor, we always looked forward to the arrival of the Spring Festival every day in childhood, so as to change our bad taste and wolf down fish and meat. Although the times experienced by our generation are not rich, they are dozens or even hundreds of times more than the Spring Festival of our parents. Fish and meat are naturally indispensable in the Spring Festival. Although it is not much at ordinary times, it is essential for the New Year. Just before the firecrackers sounded in the Communist Youth League, when adults were still busy with the Chinese New Year, our lively and lovely friends would naturally bring some firecrackers in groups to have fun with us. Of course, there were not so many kinds of firecrackers at that time. The most we can do is to buy one or two small firecrackers and let them go one by one, which is economical and brings infinite joy to our childhood. Only the children of people whose fathers or mothers work outside the home and have some money will occasionally set off firecrackers or fireworks. At that time, they were considered as "high-end products" and would be envied by many small partners.
In the year of the Communist Youth League, there was only one firecracker in each family, including long firecrackers, short firecrackers and thousands of firecrackers. Even when the family was a little poor, the form of flogging was omitted. In today's New Year atmosphere with firecrackers, there seems to be less joy of whipping when I was a child.
Although there are no moons and stars on New Year's Eve and no street lamps in the countryside, a door lamp should be hung in front of every household. Even without electricity, lanterns lit with kerosene will light up the countryside. At that time, a group of children would naturally take a box of matches and a set of firecrackers and wander around the homes of neighboring villages looking for small partners. Adults talk about a year's harvest at every family dinner, while friends visit each other to celebrate the New Year. At this time, the host will bring popcorn and sweet potatoes that make friends happy. No matter whether the children leave alone or there are adults present, all kind and simple farmers should be treated equally. No matter adults or children, no matter how poor they are, they should serve three or five cold dishes. Adults drink and chat, children eat popcorn and diced sweet potatoes, set off firecrackers and laugh in the mountains.
Whenever I think of it, I think of that boring city. People not only show off their wealth in firecrackers, but also eat and drink in their own homes after the security door is closed. I don't know the surname opposite, and I don't know where the neighbors upstairs and downstairs are from. Tired of it, I didn't wait until the second day of the first month, so I took my wife back to the countryside again to find and appreciate the Spring Festival that we will never forget.