On the way home, I heard a conversation between an old woman and her grandson: Eggs, tomorrow is your lunar birthday. Grandma will cook some eggs for my baby!
Boiled eggs? Milk, who still eats boiled eggs on their birthdays? Old-fashioned. Grandson is obviously unhappy.
When you were young, you always boiled eggs with milk!
You don't have to worry about milk. My father gave me money and we will go out for dinner tomorrow. Help yourself to boiled eggs! Yang Yang's father gave money and jumped up in high spirits. Grandma shook her head helplessly.
Yes, the child is right. Who still eats boiled eggs on their birthdays now? Compared with the elderly, they don't understand the relationship between having a birthday and eating boiled eggs.
For them, how can this ordinary boiled egg be associated with such a "major" event as "birthday"? In their minds, this day of boiling an egg every day has long been boring.
Since kindergarten, the same thing every day is to eat boiled eggs and drink milk (National Egg and Milk Project). I don't want to drink milk for people. I don't want to eat eggs as game toys. The dining room table is littered with egg white, yolk and skin, empty or half-empty milk boxes, and there are often intact eggs and milk in the trash can. Whenever a student flinches, the janitor or the older teacher will always say, "I have always been guilty!" " " .
If you ask me, it's really "sinful". "No matter how poor you are, you can't be poor in education. No matter how bitter you are, you can't be poor in children." There used to be too many kind-hearted dolls in this country. As long as children study well, everything else is secondary, which is what parents often say.
The dolls at home are all treasures and ancestors. Parents don't want them to suffer. Eat and dress well. The country is rich and does not want the people to suffer, so the conditions are good and the equipment is good. There is nothing wrong with anyone's original intention, but full of ideals makes the reality of reality black and blue, and his face is covered with blood.
It is said that children are the hope of the family and the future of the country, and they are spoiled from top to bottom for fear of being wronged. Hard work and dirty work are only for parents and only for adults. The land is divided into north and south, people are divided into old and young, and the whole people are fond of it. The phrase "the doll is small" and "I am still a child" naturally forms the priority idea of "I want to eat well, dress well, take well and use well", regardless of the family's ideal future for the motherland. As long as I am comfortable!
Poor, sad, alas!
Birthday, birthday, the day my mother gave birth. Once upon a time, my mother was lying in bed or on the kang, suffering from boiling! The bitter days have passed and the dolls have grown up. When this day comes, should we celebrate our birth, or should we be grateful to our parents for their greatness?
A boiled egg contains too many blessings and expectations from parents. Actually, not many people know this.
As the saying goes, "the child's birthday is a hard day for the mother." Birthday is meant to "mourn my parents and give birth to me" ("baa" qú overwork). Birthday is actually to remember the pain of mother's childhood and experience the hardships of parents' feeding. It is recorded in "Sui Shu Emperor Gaozu Ji" that Emperor Wendi of Sui asked the whole country to be vegetarian on his birthday to commemorate his parents. And boiled eggs are the "top grade" in vegetarian food. Naturally, boiled eggs have become a necessity for birthdays, and eating boiled eggs has also become an essential part of the ceremony. There is also a folk tradition that eating boiled eggs on your birthday represents "disaster", and you will be safe for one year as soon as you turn around! This is the blessing and expectation of parents.
Birthdays have never been celebrated since ancient times. It is recorded in Yan Jiaxun's Wind Exercise that Emperor Liang Yuan of the Southern Dynasties "fasted and lectured" in the palace on his birthday. It is mentioned in the article that some areas in the south of the Yangtze River celebrated their birthdays by setting up wine celebrations at that time, which was denounced by the author as: "People without education, though lonely, offer offerings every day and enjoy their vocal music, I wonder if they are sentimental." It can be seen that in northern China during the Sui, Tang and Five Dynasties, birthdays were mostly due to the Confucian concept of filial piety, mostly serious and formal ceremonies, full of sadness.
However, many people have thrown these things on the "two beams" now. Birthdays are not called "birthdays", but "celebrations". I changed the original gratitude blessing to today's carnival "Patty". I don't want my parents cooking and eating at home. I want to pay three or five hundred yuan to invite three or five students to set the table in the dining room. Smart merchants also changed boiled eggs into cakes, which are euphemistically called "birthday cakes". They lit some candles, made a wish and sang a foreign song. It was the birthday of three friends and four friends eating in the sea. They don't care about "it's difficult to have children, but it's difficult to raise children". In their minds, all this is "natural" and normal. There is no need to thank anyone!
What's this called? I call these things forgetting!
Some parents even add fuel to the fire, loving their children and giving them whatever they want, thinking that "children should be grateful", but they are afraid of "inadvertently" offending their ancestors. Other children have dolls, so we must not let the children's "birthdays" lose face. Birthday parties are getting bigger and bigger. Make an exception and let the dolls drink and sing KTV! It gave birth to their adulthood prematurely.
"The moonlight at home is how bright!" It is taught by the school, and it is preached on TV that "the moon in foreign countries is round". The former "loyalty and filial piety, courtesy, thrift" has become "running teenager, where is the father of the fast girl?" Become famous overnight and entertain to death. There is a strong contrast between "struggling life" and "smart star". Different lifestyles confuse the thinking of the world and the world of children. Who can you expect to believe that "reading is like a book?" Who dares to say that "there are roads in the mountains, but there is no limit to learning the sea" is the only way?
Luxurious life, flashy society, who will inherit the national self-confidence and the fine tradition of the Millennium?
Alas! This stranded boiled egg!