Some thoughts on the Spring Festival

For several years, I have no expectations for the New Year, because my family is in the place where my parents work, and this place is mostly from other places, and they all go home for the New Year. The city has become an empty city, driving on the road, unprecedented, and no one has been here since. Without the lively atmosphere of the Spring Festival, it will be like this year after year. So the memory of Chinese New Year in recent years is cooking, washing dishes, cooking again, and washing dishes again. Chinese new year is no longer the happy expectation as a child. When I was young, I looked forward to the New Year, because I had new clothes to wear and friends to set off firecrackers. The first day was my own time. I can buy all kinds of delicious food such as barbecue with my pocket money, and I can also meet my parents who I haven't seen for a long time. So all the memories about the Spring Festival are beautiful and happy.

However, this year's Spring Festival, grandpa's little gesture of paying attention to etiquette made me feel very ashamed. I am ashamed of my indifference to the festival ceremony, and the whole festival has become meaningless. On the morning of the first day of junior high school, grandpa cooked glutinous rice balls with coins in them. Whoever eats this coin shows that this year's financial resources are abundant and endless. In the morning, I gave them a New Year greeting and specially prepared a red envelope for us. The cover of the red envelope also specially chooses the words that place different hopes on each child. Compared with parents and our generation, we pay less attention to these etiquette, and WeChat red envelopes are more convenient. Even it is a habit to receive parents' red envelopes on the first day of every year. At first, we didn't say anything to them about New Year's greetings. People have acquiesced that this is natural.

Grandpa's red envelopes are traditional and parents' red envelopes are modern, but grandpa's red envelopes make me feel more powerful, an invisible force, which can make me feel some excitement and ceremony of the Spring Festival, and also feel the care and deepest love of grandparents. From my grandfather's silver coin jiaozi to the special New Year's red envelope, I felt the power brought by the sense of ceremony. So I began to reflect on the significance of the Spring Festival. In modern life, I have to admit that I began to downplay the Spring Festival and marginalize traditional etiquette. In fact, we can give meaning to the Spring Festival through some ceremonies. What meaning you give it, what meaning it can contain.

I began to think about how to lead the next generation to inherit the meaning of the Spring Festival when I set up my own family. I think we must have a reunion dinner on New Year's Eve. There must be these dishes on the table: fried crispy meat, sugar Baba, fried tofu with lettuce and fish. I want to tell them that this is a dish that my mother will have during the New Year when she is growing up. After dinner, you must set off fireworks, big or small. The beauty of fireworks is fleeting, but when you see the moment when fireworks bloom, you will feel that the whole world is beautiful and worthwhile. There are few fireworks in our house, which I realized when I saw a family in the open space on New Year's Eve last year. So I must add this project to give them some expectations for the Spring Festival.

On New Year's Day, it is time for them to have free activities. On this day, parents should carefully prepare red envelopes for them and give them hope for the new year. I also ate jiaozi with silver coins this morning. Let them be full of expectations on the first day of the new year. Finally, we should write and paste couplets together. In modern times, we are used to buying couplets and pasting them directly. Now I think writing couplets together can make children feel that they are celebrating the Spring Festival. Whether it's going to see rape blossoms, playing mahjong or playing with friends, this day belongs to them, giving them free time and space and giving them the right to choose independently.