Chinese New Year has no flavor of the year. What should I do?

I bought clothes for two children for the Spring Festival online. After I received the clothes and tried them on, I told them to put them away and wear them during the Chinese New Year. Only then did the children ask me curiously.

I told them the story of my childhood. At that time, because of the limited living conditions, I hardly bought new clothes at ordinary times. My brother or sister wore old clothes, and they didn't have new clothes until the Spring Festival.

So when we were young, we looked forward to the Spring Festival, because we had new clothes to wear, snacks to eat and meat to eat.

"Wearing new clothes" is one of the customs and ceremonies of the Spring Festival, which means celebrating and bringing new atmosphere to the New Year. Regardless of the living conditions at home, men, women and children will wear new clothes to welcome the New Year, hoping for good luck.

Parents and elders are sometimes reluctant to add new clothes during the Spring Festival. New clothes worn during the Chinese New Year are put away after the Chinese New Year and worn until the next Chinese New Year.

The child nodded puzzled.

Speaking of wearing new clothes, I remembered the scene of Chinese New Year when I was a child, so I continued to tell them that we were looking forward to the Chinese New Year after Laba. We go to the market with our parents to buy new clothes and headdresses, put them away when we buy them, and give them to wear during the Chinese New Year. Children compare new clothes, new headdresses and watch firecrackers.

Speaking of Chinese New Year, children recite Chinese New Year nursery rhymes from textbooks:

Don't be greedy for children. After Laba, it's the New Year, Laba porridge. Drink for a few days, one mile at a time, twenty-three, twenty-three melon sticks, twenty-four to clean the house, twenty-five to grind bean curd, twenty-six to buy meat, twenty-seven to slaughter cocks, twenty-eight handfuls of flour, twenty-nine steamed buns, and thirty to stay up all night. On the second day, the streets are full.

I said this nursery rhyme is a true portrayal of our childhood. Grinding bean curd left a deep impression on me. There is a family in our village who grinds tofu brain. We took soybeans to grinding bean curd, and we also like to watch donkey grinding, which is full of childhood memories.

Kill pigs and chickens to buy meat, fish to buy meatballs, steamed sweet potato buns, flower rolls, jujube buns and so on. , which is full of strong flavor of the year.

Living conditions are better now, but the taste of the year is getting weaker and weaker. New clothes are delicious. You can buy them whenever you want, without waiting for the Spring Festival.

The taste of the year is getting weaker and weaker, and it is rare to have a lively scene of the New Year. Many people brush their mobile phones at home during the Chinese New Year and don't go out. There are no lively firecrackers and gongs and drums; I have food almost every day, and I have less expectations for Chinese New Year food. Without the sense of ceremony for the Spring Festival, this generation of children seems to have no concept and no expectation for the Spring Festival.

A year without the flavor of the year is a debt to children's childhood. When children grow up, they may not even want to go home for the Spring Festival, and the annual flavor and reunion of the Spring Festival may become weaker and weaker.

Realizing this, in order not to regret, I decided to use three simple ways to give my children a sense of Spring Festival ceremony and find back the flavor of the year.

1, take the children to buy new year's goods, Spring Festival couplets, etc. Take children to make small crafts for the Spring Festival, cut window grilles and write blessings to decorate the room, so that children can feel the breath of the New Year.

2. Let the children participate in cleaning, preparing New Year's gifts, making jiaozi, preparing New Year's Eve dinner, etc.