Happy New Year everyone! @kisslifeyiaixin would like to extend my New Year greetings to all my friends. I wish you all good luck, happiness and health in the new year.

Have you noticed that in the past few days, I have been looking forward to the new year, and looking forward to the new year seems to make the new year more intense. At that time, the older generation paid great attention to traditional culture and had rich and colorful traditional customs during the New Year. The year before was so busy and the atmosphere of family reunion was strong. It felt very disappointing to have one less person in the family. The younger generation kowtows to their elders to pay New Year greetings, everyone wears new clothes, and various ceremonies such as worshiping ancestors, receiving blessings, lanterns, pasting New Year pictures, singing, dancing, and opera are held. The house is filled with the smell of fish, meat, and oil, and the sound of laughter and firecrackers comes one after another.

The flavor of the New Year is my mother’s ingenious craftsmanship, my father’s smile when posting couplets, the strong stove at home, and the steamed buns and rice cakes that I still want to eat after eating them. For me, it’s the floral cotton-padded jackets sewn by my mother, and the firecrackers, fish and shrimps my father bought for the family.

Now that my parents are old, they still have the taste of the New Year, but they always feel that this taste of the New Year is not as good as before. It is not as "delicious" as the taste of the New Year when I was a child, not only because the "mother" is missing from the food. Taste", and they can no longer eat the delicious food.

Nowadays, there are many people in the family, but the flavor of the year has gone into the electronic products that young people love. Children go home and New Year greetings seem to only ask about the number of red envelopes. Elderly parents are busy in the kitchen. In addition to cooking during the New Year, they also wash dishes. Taking care of the whole family is also physically and mentally exhausted.

It feels like people are becoming more and more impetuous, and they don’t even have time to appreciate folk customs and sentiments during the New Year. In the past, watching lanterns, listening to operas, going to the streets to watch yangko, visiting friends' homes, walking around and listening to the blast of firecrackers outside, the flavor of the new year will ferment in my heart. Nowadays, the affection between people seems to be much indifferent, including the affection between brothers and sisters. If parents are not around, they rarely move around each other during the New Year.

In the past, we used to pay New Year greetings, and we would do them together very early in the New Year. Nowadays, various blessings are "copied and pasted" on the Internet, and video and audio New Year greetings are all over the streets, saying in a loud voice, thinking who is greeting me, but in fact they are holding a mobile phone and speaking.

It turns out that the flavor of the New Year is in red envelopes, audio and video, and articles. It is also wonderful in every ordinary day. But the flavor of the New Year is still there, and it has been passed down.

It is not space that creates distance between people. The main reason is that my living conditions are so good now. I can eat meat, fish and dumplings every day. Every day is like celebrating the New Year. The New Year’s Eve dinner is almost the same as usual. Besides, I really don’t have time to go to various houses to pay New Year greetings, and I am afraid of bothering others. .

Except for going to their parents' house, today's people are willing to close the door and like to surf the Internet, watch TV and be quiet. Family members use red envelopes to pay New Year greetings, friendships use dinner parties to pay New Year greetings, and love members use dates to pay New Year greetings. That’s why I feel that the flavor of the New Year is getting weaker and weaker.

This is hard to explain, and I can’t figure it out.

At the end of the twelfth lunar month, we make baba here. The indica rice is called baba, with pickled vegetables stuffed, and the pickled vegetables are added with dried tofu and lean meat. Those made with glutinous rice are called dumplings, those filled with bean paste, and some are filled with sugar. Pure glutinous rice cakes without fillings are called Yuanxiao in some places. Put it in water and change the water frequently, it can be stored for a long time. Evaporate the cake and boil the spiced eggs.

Above is the spiced egg cooked by my wife. We call it Yuanbao. In the first month of the year, when I go to someone's house and hand them cigarettes to make tea, the first thing on the table is this "Yuanbao". After putting on the ingots, the housewife will cut the steamed cake (steamed at her home at the end of the twelfth lunar month) into small pieces. Steam the dumplings and dumplings in a steamer and then serve them to the table. There are also ginger, square cakes, sesame candy, melon seeds, peanuts, fried rice candies, peach cakes, etc. on the table, which are called tea ingredients. Eat these with tea.

The picture above is a handwritten Spring Festival couplet. What is the flavor of the year? Write Spring Festival couplets and post them for door celebrations (nothing is sold anymore). If you look at the Spring Festival couplets in every household nowadays, some of them have handwritten Spring Festival couplets! They are all bought and printed, and they are all the same. In this way, the flavor of the New Year will be much lighter. At the earliest, people in rural areas would set off firecrackers and have New Year’s dinner. How could we have New Year’s dinner so early now? At least we don’t eat the New Year’s meal until after dark, when the elders pay the New Year’s money. Then, release the gate cannon. Let go of the cannon on the morning of the first day of junior high school!

After releasing the door cannon, the whole family was at home. There are cake and fruit ingredients, melon seeds and peanuts on the table. Drink tea and eat tea ingredients. When you're hungry, you can bake cakes on the fire and eat whatever you want. It's cold, so the whole family gathers around the brazier, which is called staying up late, and goes to bed after twelve o'clock. How many people are keeping the New Year's Eve now? One is to play mahjong, and the other is to watch the Spring Festival Gala. Nowadays, apart from those who play cards, everyone plays on their mobile phones!

Get up in the morning on the first day of junior high school and let go of the cannon. In the past, on the first day of junior high school, we did not visit other people's homes or enter their homes. After the second day of the Lunar New Year, I only visit relatives and friends to pay New Year greetings. These are too long to write and the narrative is incomplete, so I will stop writing them here. Times have changed, society has progressed, and many customs have changed and disappeared. Only then can we sigh, “Where has the flavor of the New Year gone?”

What is the flavor of the New Year?

The taste of the New Year is a table of delicious dishes cooked by my father.

The taste of the New Year is a new set of clothes and a new pair of shoes sewn by my mother.

Now, both parents are gone. They took away the flavor of the New Year.

Only the memories of childhood are left, the lasting nostalgia.

Why is it becoming less and less like the New Year? This is a very complex issue, and there are many reasons for it. Let me briefly explain it.

What does it mean to have a "New Year flavor"? In my opinion, "New Year flavor" means respecting and following the traditional customs that should be followed during the New Year, that is, various rituals and etiquette. These rituals and etiquette have strong cultural symbolic meaning and form the cultural background of the New Year.

For example, drinking Laba porridge, worshiping the Kitchen God, sweeping dust, paying New Year greetings, drinking and feasting, setting off firecrackers, etc., all have their own cultural meanings, as well as worshiping ancestors, drinking Tusu wine, eating dumplings, and dancing to the Kitchen God. , hanging peach charms, sticking door gods, staying up all year long, etc., all have their own specialties. Once these necessary rituals and etiquette are eliminated, the New Year will lose its original color and lack the "New Year flavor".

Nowadays, life is richer, communication is easier, and the expectation for the New Year and reunion is not so strong. Therefore, people find that the flavor of the New Year is gradually fading, and the New Year seems to be more and more formal. Even this once most grand traditional festival is almost not as grand as those foreign festivals. Perhaps, we need to try to pick up those customs that are about to be slowly forgotten, so that the flavor of the new year can be stronger.

Twenty-five years ago, there was a very classic Chinese New Year film called "New Year". It used a very rare tragic method to tell the story of the New Year, but it happened to coincide with our current Chinese New Year.

The cast of this movie is quite strong, including Zhao Lirong, Ge You, Liu Xiaolingtong, Ding Jiali and many other big names. It can be said to be a real "gathering of big names",

"New Year" I 1991

The film is adapted from the stage play "New Year's Day". It uses the traditional Spring Festival as the background and tells the trivial story that happened to Lao Cheng's family on New Year's Day.

At the beginning of the film, the screen is filled with the flavor of the New Year with Chinese characteristics

For example, several children are dragging a Goat dyed red

In the dazzling New Year’s market, there is an endless stream of people buying New Year’s goods

Of course, Lao Cheng’s family is not idle either, the old mother is buying at the market Chickens and fish were bought, and the old father also came back from working in the city, earned some hard-earned money, and brought back a small cart full of new year's goods.

The old couple prepared a big New Year’s Eve dinner and waited happily for their children to come back, but unexpectedly none of them came home

The couple spent a deserted time ’s New Year’s Eve

The children are back one after another on the first day of the new year

The eldest son Cheng Zhi, played by Liu Xiaolingtong, is a teacher. Compared with Sun Wukong, this character is simply heavenly. Different places

He is honest, dull, cowardly and pedantic, and is a typical wife-controller

His wife is both aggressive and snobbish. She has never been here since she ruined the New Year's Eve dinner last year< /p>

This time I heard that my father-in-law had made money, so I rushed home to see if I could make some money

My second son, Cheng Yuan, is a graduate student. He is young and handsome and has a high-ranking girlfriend< /p>

Asking his father for 1,000 yuan for room and board for a social survey is probably the story of "Phoenix Man and City Girl" nowadays

The younger son Cheng Yong, an unemployed young man Money, good food, lazy work, and idleness

The reason why I didn’t come back on New Year’s Eve was because I watched a movie with the girl all night long. This time I also made an engagement gift list of 2,500 yuan for my father

Cheng The eldest son-in-law, Ding Tu, is the only cadre of the Cheng family

He is tactful and flirts with women outside. His lover got pregnant and he forced his wife Cheng Rong to have a miscarriage. This time he forced his wife to come back and defraud his parents of their money.

The eldest daughter's character is like that of the eldest son, she is tolerant and cowardly

She dares not speak out about her husband's viciousness, and will beat her up if she resists at all

The second daughter Cheng Ping is the only child who is not worrying about, but she disobeyed her father's orders, stole her household registration book and ran away with her lover, which made her father want to sever ties with her

Now the young couple has become rich. This time I went home with a guilty heart and "asked for forgiveness"

The family was finally reunited. On the surface, they seemed happy, but in fact, everyone had their own Xiao Jiujiu in their hearts

Finally, in At the New Year's Eve dinner table, the time bomb was finally detonated...

The old father said helplessly

"If we start family planning early, we will plan for them one by one." .

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People who have seen it must be deeply impressed by this dish - "What are you waiting for? Aren't you waiting for this dish?"

The old father hit the nail on the head

This was the "Chinese New Year" for many families at that time

Why is the Spring Festival becoming less and less like the New Year? This is a very important question, related to how Chinese culture is inherited, developed and inherited. The problem of interruption. First: It is caused by the development of Eastern and Western cultures.

In recent decades, Western culture has been greatly admired in China, and the mentality of "worshiping foreigners and favoring foreigners" has become so common. Western festivals, such as Christmas, Valentine's Day, Thanksgiving, etc., are very popular in China, while traditional Chinese festivals, such as Spring Festival, Chinese Valentine's Day, and Double Ninth Festival, have become less popular. Second: Western culture is good at marketing< /p>

Western culture will be packaged into various festival activities and packaged into various festival products, which caters to the various psychological characteristics of people who like liveliness, novelty, and festivals, so everyone They all like Western festivals and abandon their own festivals that have existed for thousands of years. Third: The promotion, packaging and popularity of traditional festivals are low

Especially those after the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s. Among young people, we lack the continuous and interesting popularization of the origin, meaning, connotation, and role of traditional Chinese festivals. In addition, there are deviations in the promotion and popularization of the broad and rich expressions and ideological content of traditional festivals. They have not been fully popularized, making China's traditional festivals seem to have less and less content, more and more single forms, more and more same, and more and more boring, making traditional festivals become mere formalities. Fourth: China. The problem caused by the Western calendar is the question of whether to use the Gregorian calendar or the lunar calendar. The lunar calendar actually refers to our current lunar calendar. If we use China's own lunar calendar, then the traditional festival of the Spring Festival. It is the standard New Year, but now we use the Gregorian calendar and the Gregorian calendar festivals, that is, New Year's Day in the West is regarded as the New Year, and Christmas, two weeks before New Year's Day, is used as a pre-New Year's event.