How do grandparents celebrate New Year? How do mom and dad celebrate Chinese New Year? How do we celebrate Chinese New Year? Survey Format

Me: Was Chinese New Year lively when you were young? What are the differences compared with now?

Mom: There was relative scarcity of materials at that time, of course it was not as good as now, but it was a lot of fun.

Dad: In the past, family dinners were held at home because there were a lot of relatives in the family, so your grandpa would prepare a lot of New Year's goods before the festival, such as chickens and ducks, I had to kill 3 or 4 of them in one morning!

Me: In the past, when supplies were scarce, what was there to eat on New Year's Eve?

Mom: Usually a day or two before New Year's Eve, your grandpa would start frying peanuts and melon seeds, while we kids stood around waiting for the hot, fragrant peanuts and melon seeds to come out of the oven so we could try some.

Me: Besides these dried fruits, were there any other snacks? Any fish or meat?

Mom: In the past, fish and meat were not available every day, because these were supplied by ticket, and at Chinese New Year, usually every family would buy some fish and meat. I remember at that time, your grandpa would cook a big pot of braised meat, and your uncle and I used to steal it, hehehehe!

Me: Do you have new clothes and New Year's money?

Dad: when we were young, there was only one children's store in Ningbo, and there wasn't much children's clothing to choose from, before kindergarten, new shoes, new clothes, new pants are all made by mom, and then the new clothes are to the tailor store to do to the elementary school junior high school, only gradually have to buy.

Me: Ah? Do it yourself?

Mom: Of course, there was no children's clothing store, so almost every family's mother will make clothes and shoes, your grandmother will be the New Year's Eve for me and your uncle each have a set, including sweaters and sweaters, cotton clothes and pants, cotton shoes, cotton jacket and smock.

Me: So there's a lot of New Year's money?

Mom: From a few cents, a few dollars to dozens of dollars, increasing year by year. There were no hundred-dollar bills back then, and they were worth a lot more than a few dollars now.

Me: Were there firecrackers in the old days?

Dad: Of course there were, but there weren't as many varieties as there are now. We would break up the long firecrackers into smaller ones and put them in the holes in the walls.

Me: hahaha ......

Summary:

Mom and dad had a lot of fun when they were young, even though they were short on supplies. New Year's Eve, although not as good as now eat sumptuous, wear good, but also the same lively, very distinctive, listening to mom and dad to recall how to celebrate New Year's Eve in the past, the feeling of New Year's Eve, as if more than the current flavor!