First, the new clothes
I was born in the early 80s, when I was a child, the family is not good, all year round will not add a few decent clothes, but every year on the eve of the Spring Festival, to buy a new clothes is our small town of East Henan custom, therefore, every year the Spring Festival to buy new clothes are my most happy, the happiest thing. "Laha sacrifice stove, some of the year to come. Little girls want flowers, little boys want guns. Wife want clothes, old man nothing to buy a broken straw hat ......'" Whenever this ballad recited by the number of people increasing day by day, is the New Year is approaching, my parents want to give me to buy new clothes.
The town's ridge will be, before the year is always a sea of people, I like a tail like in the back of the mother, a stall a stall to pick, try on, mother is always tired of bargaining with the people, as far as possible to save money. Sometimes, look at a piece of clothing, try on also suitable, because the price can not be negotiated, mom will deliberately pull me pretending to go, to see if the merchants will call us, sometimes even back and forth several times, and ultimately feel that can not be lowered before the real purchase.
Time past twenty years, the other clothes almost can not remember, can remember is to buy a police hat, I will be very excited, feel like shaking body into a police officer, as full of the street to run around to show off; to buy a military green hat, I will be happy for a long time, with the paper folded a hat circle set in it, quite windy.
At that time, the poverty and the way to buy clothes, I have an extremely far-reaching impact, as of now, I buy clothes almost still focus on the price, there will still be the habit of price, to which my wife often laugh at me, said I have no taste, too stingy, old-fashioned, I can only be embarrassed to laugh over the habits formed since childhood is not really good to change, there is no way.
Second, the sticker
Too young, should be to help dad sticker, I can not remember. 90's, my family built a building, I also on the junior high school grew up, sticker gradually shifted to my shoulders the heavy responsibility of the Spring Festival. Upstairs and downstairs, in the yard, large and small *** count 12 doors, I almost always eat lunch on the start of busy, pull the table set up, cut classified, torn off the old simple cleaning, brush pulp, a door a door posted to open, busy and happy.
Our local custom is that whoever puts up the spring scrolls early will have good luck and good fortune. Because I have a lot of doors and I'm a little young, I'm a little slow in posting them, so I'm always in the middle of posting them when I hear the sound of the cannons going off after they've been posted. At this time, my father, who was in the kitchen making dumplings, would urge me to speed up or just come out to help me. When I was sweating profusely and finally finished, I would take out a big whip and crack it to celebrate. When the firecrackers went off, I was relieved that the once-a-year task of putting up Spring Festival couplets had been successfully completed. Whenever this time, Dad will almost always sigh, the old year and the new year, the new year to have a new atmosphere.
Third, boiled seaweed
I do not know, and did not explore, why we inland areas, why the Spring Festival has a large meat boiled seaweed traditional customs. Maybe people are poorer, usually eat less meat, the Spring Festival is not easy to buy more meat, plus seaweed cooked on a large pot to eat a longer time, right? Whenever the New Year cooking seaweed, I basically two tasks, one is to wash seaweed, one is to burn the fire.
Wash kelp is really not a good job, parents have time to burn some hot water is good, sometimes a lot of hot water, I have to keep using their own pressurized wells keep pressing the water, over and over again to wash the kelp, the small hand ice red, bone piercing through the heart cold.
Burning is a technical job, especially when it comes to snow days, the firewood is wet and damp, and if I'm not careful, I'm going to make the smoke move to the ground and choke the individual to death. The more torturous is the burning of the fire, can not talk nonsense, mom and dad said that the stove will hear the master, unlucky words can not say, and even because of the fear that I said the wrong words directly do not let me voice, can only be stifled to burn the fire.
During the fire, the greatest happiness is almost cooked, parents will pick out a bone for me to gnaw on, said that let me taste cooked or not, in fact, may also be to let me relieve my craving, gnawing on the bones of the meat just out of the pot, for a child who can't eat meat a few times a year, it's really a great beauty, happiness.
I grew up to know that, compared to our Spring Festival cut on a dozen pounds of meat happiness, the South's killing of the New Year's Eve pig that is the real rich, atmosphere! However, I still can't imagine how to eat a pig in the family's kill?
Fourth, the new year's money
My memory of the new year's money is a happy process of gradual change with each passing day. Initial memories, 10 cents, 20 cents is normal, 50 cents is almost always a huge money; later, a piece of two, five; then later, five ten, twenty; I remember the most is fifty dollars.
Although the money is not much, but for the childhood I simply equivalent to the outbreak of the purchase is absolutely barrage. A dime to buy into the melon, I can get high for a long time; a dime to buy into the small fire whip, 50 or 100 rattles, I took it apart one by one, hand holding the ignition, and then immensely dashing thrown into the air, the feeling of happiness and excitement came to life, bragging rights, pride, beyond words. Five dollars would buy me a bunch of books, almost enough for a semester. Receiving the new year's money is happy, but at the same time there will be worry, lest parents want to go back for various reasons, completely crushing my plans and dreams of dirt-cheap squandering.
Fifth, watch the Spring Festival gala
Although now several years can not watch the Spring Festival gala vigil on time, but when I was a child to watch the Spring Festival gala joy and happy feeling, always can not forget. At first, my family did not have a TV, I went to my uncle, brother's house to watch TV, sometimes sitting in their nest to watch the laughter, sometimes sitting on a cold stool freezing still happy laughter. Song and dance programs, I can hardly understand, my favorite is the comedy sketch type of program, Zhao Benshan, Pan Changjiang, Zhao Lirong, Huang Hong, Feng Gong, Niu Qun, Chen Pesi, Zhu Shimao ...... to the people of the country to dedicate countless laughter, but also to my childhood added unlimited fun.
The Spring Festival Gala is over, the laughter stopped, I have to go home in the cold winter night, through a gloomy cemetery, whenever this time I am very helpless, very afraid! After many battles with fear, I created my own way to strengthen my courage, that is, I kept chanting the mantra "sooner or later, people will die, early death, early life", talking to myself, speeding up my pace, and soon I would be home. Now think of a little ridiculous, but it does work, perhaps this is now the chicken soup of the soul said "people are not even afraid of death, what else can be afraid of".
On the childhood taste of the New Year, and once a year to eat roast chicken, small friends snowball fights, snowballs, walking relatives have brought me unlimited fun and slow happiness, here will not repeat, can only bury them deep into the heart, leisure time to reminisce. Immediately the Spring Festival is coming again, looking forward to going home to honor their parents, sticking Spring Festival couplets, firecrackers, will be friends, eat food, through the fast drink a few games!
Now I feel that this program is tasteless, perhaps in old age to recall the feeling will be different, may also be a good memory. The past let it go, grasp the present is the most important, and live happily every day, is the true meaning of life!
Thinking back to the flavor of the year of childhood, is for the 26th article of the day shift!
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