The Chinese New Year is coming soon again. We start to buy new clothes and shoes for ourselves and our families, start the general cleaning to get rid of the old and welcome the new year, start planning the time to return to our hometown, and start preparing the New Year’s cured fish and bacon.

A year’s work can be a success or a failure; a year’s life can be happy or depressing. We will all naturally forget our worries and welcome the arrival of the New Year.

When we grow up, we have less expectations and more memories for the Chinese New Year.

When I was young, material things were not as abundant as they are now, and the conditions at home were not that good. The Chinese New Year is the happiest time for us as children.

Because during the Chinese New Year, we can wear new clothes and new shoes. The excitement and joy are even worse than those of today’s children wearing new clothes.

Because of the Chinese New Year, we can eat a lot of delicious food at one time, such as chicken, duck, fish, candies, biscuits, melon seeds and almonds. Some of them are delicacies that can only be eaten once a year. The memory of the taste has always been deeply cherished and will never be forgotten.

Because of the Chinese New Year, we have a holiday. We can set off firecrackers and watch TV, and parents no longer push us to study.

Thinking back on the Chinese New Year when I was a child, I suddenly realized that what I remembered most was that I was not accompanied by my parents during the Spring Festival. It turned out that I was a left-behind child.

At that time, my parents were in Hubei and I was in my hometown in Guangdong. The transportation at that time was not as developed as it is now, let alone communication. There were no mobile phones, only letters, and you had to go to a far away town to make a call.

My parents couldn’t take me with them due to work, so I had to stay in my hometown and be looked after by my grandparents.

Because it is too far away and the transportation is inconvenient, my parents are not able to go back to my hometown to reunite with me during the Spring Festival, so most of the time, I spend the Spring Festival without my parents by my side.

As soon as the Spring Festival comes, I will be taken to my grandparents’ house by my grandparents to spend it with them.

In my memory, my grandparents’ house was colder than my grandparents’ house. Because their house is at the foot of the mountain and is an adobe house. My grandparents’ house was a brick house in the town.

However, they were all so good to me that I didn’t miss my parents at all. At that time, I didn’t feel like a left-behind child, and I didn’t resent my parents at all.

Every year when I come to my grandparents’ house during the Chinese New Year, they will buy me new clothes and new shoes. I can still remember the new red clothes. The pockets of the top were patterned with little rabbits. No matter it's cold or not, I always put my little hands in my pockets.

Although it is colder at my grandparents’ house, my little face is always red when grandma cooks and I help light the fire. The bed is covered with thick straw and exudes the fragrance of rice. Sleeping is sweeter than sleeping with Simmons.

When I was a child, I was simple and rich. When I recall it, I will be unforgettable and nostalgic.

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