Do the 60s and 70s miss the flavor of Chinese New Year when they were kids?

In the words of Song Dandan, it is quite nostalgic. I remember when I was a child, Jilin Spring Festival climate is very cold, dripping into ice, the morning dad went to the well to pick water on the beard are frost, the little ones wearing a thick cotton jacket and pants, dog skin hat, mom made of cloth cotton shoes to play on the ice. Into the waxing moon on the Tao rice steamed bean buns to kill the pig, kill the pig to eat two on the burial of the New Year's Day, twenty-eight nine posting of Spring Festival couplets, New Year's Eve on the farm on the tribute to burn paper to receive the God of Fortune, firecrackers is our entertainment projects, pockets in the pockets of the walk that put that a group of small children walking east string of homes, into the Bangjiejie to see the rice-planting songs, is really happy and joyful, carefree and do not want to think about anything. The most happy is the Spring Festival can eat a few meals of fat pork, rice, white flour cake, usually is not that treatment, so every family. Now we must admit that the people's standard of living has improved, usually eat and the Spring Festival is not much difference, at any time can be New Year's, so the taste of New Year's is diffuse fade, not like before so excitedly colorful list of expectations.

When I was a child, people's happiness index was generally higher than now, especially the innocent children, in order to be able to wear new clothes once a year, the whole month of waxing is waiting for ah hope ah,

On the first day of the New Year, just dawn, the first than adults get up, wash your face and comb your hair in front of the mirror to tie on the pink ribbon that your mother bought for you, and then run to the big wooden box for new clothes, to find their own! The green fabric bought by my mother, which was made by the lady in the west yard with a sewing machine, was put on my body in a hurry, and I ran out of the house as if in a puff of smoke.

In a short while, a group of brothers and sisters from the aunt and uncle's family gathered around, discussing who's clothes look good, and I am the fourth sister, I lead a group of younger siblings every year to pay tribute to the relatives one by one.

At that time there were no people working outside the home, all the relatives almost all live in a Tun, only the old aunt's family live in the power station, 2 miles away from our Tun, jogging a moment to arrive.

In accordance with what I thought in advance, first go to the 5 uncle's home to pay tribute to the New Year (grandparents live in his home) and then the mother's family, my aunt's family three uncles and four uncles, the old uncle will be in the army, and so on, we all completed the task, the time is almost to the morning of 9 o'clock ah, each of our clothes pockets all bulging, full of sweets peanuts and sunflower seeds given to the elders, we are going to go home to eat dumplings to go.

At that time, people and people, especially relatives are very close, rarely heard of a gap ah cold ah and other words, although they do not have a lot of money, can not buy a lot of New Year's goods, but really very nostalgic ah!

The real flavor of the year begins with the purchase of new clothes. The new clothes, in fact, is the parents to catch the New Year's fair for the children to pull a few days or blue or flower of a few feet of cloth but their own, spend a few cents to the production of sewing will be completed, it happens to be my family in the mid-sixties purchased a sewing machine, so we are a few sisters to wear the system of clothing, rather than like the general small friends hand-sewn. Girls loved flowery clothes, and boys loved firecrackers. I treasured the thousand flowery green whips that my grandfather gave me for a dollar before New Year's Eve. Not to the New Year's Eve, basically was dismantled and put half. I remember is seventy-five years it, the village for the first time on the electricity, along the street intersection also set up a street lamp, that through the excitement beyond words, almost all the children in the village are out of the house, jumping for joy, chasing the west and running until the home of the cooking smoke, dumplings under the pot. At this time, the village firecrackers, smoke, a strong flavor of the New Year. Just when the farmers' income is extremely low, the general farmhouse is a symbolic put a small whip meaning, straight to the big whip, listen to the big sound is in the big package after the people have enough to eat before they really have the money to live a relatively rich, the remainder of the New Year. Now living conditions are good, the state does not advocate fireworks, eating and drinking has been no new ideas, New Year's Day to make is tasteless, never find the past flavor of the year.

Chinese folklore photographer Jixi Gao Mingyang

In those years, the family was poor, looking forward to the New Year, the family made a good meal, especially pork, pig dishes, blood sausage to eat, all year round there is no meat to eat, is the Spring Festival New Year's Eve there are good food, frozen pears, frozen persimmons, eat dumplings, the children have new clothes, firecrackers, hot and bustling, the family reunion, reunion, how meaningful. Never forget the Spring Festival of childhood, we usually can not eat dumplings when we were young, only the Spring Festival, looking forward to the New Year, and now grow up afraid of the New Year, childhood memories. 60s can not be compared to the 60s, and now grow up every day to eat dumplings.

As a 70-year-old, for the Spring Festival as a child the flavor of the year will never forget, although there has been a decade or two can not find the feeling of the flavor of the year, but now, the flavor of the year as a child is still fresh in my mind. Nostalgia for sure. Almost every New Year's Eve will miss.

I remember that time, after the Lunar New Year, the flavor of the year will gradually appear. The family began to busy for New Year's Eve. The first thing you need to do is to get your hands on a new pair of shoes or boots, and you'll be able to get your hands on a new pair of shoes or boots. Dad gradually began to clean up the yard and the house. At that time, the family raised pigs and almost always killed a pig for the New Year's meat. The family couldn't afford to eat so much, so they would give some to the neighbors who didn't have pigs. Neighborly relations were really good at that time, and people's thinking was relatively pure and simple. Neighbors would give each other things they had that other neighbors didn't have, and it was really a real exchange of gifts.

By the 25th day of the Lunar New Year, when the health of the home and outside of the house is almost cleaned up, you will start to go to the market to purchase new year's goods, every year after the New Year's Eve, the town almost every day there will be a New Year's Eve market, purchasing new year's goods of people in an endless stream of people. At that time, the economic situation of most families was similar, not very rich, but at that time it was really about having a good New Year's Eve with or without money. Most people often purchased Chinese New Year goods, such as new clothes and shoes for children (adults did not often buy new clothes), fruits, dried fruits, candies, snacks (mainly for visiting relatives after the first day of the lunar calendar), lily pads (a kind of plant, which was inserted into door frames in rural areas during the Chinese New Year), Spring Festival couplets, bonuses, New Year's paintings, firecrackers, and ingredients for New Year's Eve dinner, etc. Although people were poor at that time, they did not have much money, but they did purchase a lot of Chinese New Year's goods. Although people were poor at that time, they were all smiling and happy when they started to prepare for the New Year.

After the 28th day of the Lunar New Year, the flavor of the New Year was even stronger, and every family started to put up Spring Festival couplets, put the door foot stone (a small piece of coal with a red paper strip on top of the cross, and put it in the corner of the door and window sill, which is a New Year's Eve custom peculiar to some areas in the northern part of the country), build up the prosperous fire pots, and make New Year's cakes and various kinds of meat, etc., and they were very busy and happy.

After everything is ready, the whole family sits together on the evening of the 30th of January and watches the Spring Festival Gala while making dumplings. There will also be a welcome to the God of Happiness (composed of a few people from the village gong and drum team, who will go from house to house beating gongs and drums to welcome Hsi Chun, and ask for 50 cents, a dollar and other change to reward). At around 0:00 on New Year's Eve, firecrackers would go off in every house, almost at the same time, and the cracking sound of firecrackers would be loud and clear. At that time most families bought some small firecrackers and two-kickers, fireworks were too expensive and not many people set them off. This is also the happiest time for all the children in the family, looking at the sky full of firecrackers jumping and happy. You can y realize that "the sound of firecrackers to bid farewell to the old year" is not just a phrase, is to bring the true feelings of people. The sound of firecrackers greatly added to the festive atmosphere of the New Year, so that the flavor of the year has become more intense.

In the early hours of the first day of the morning, family members will rush to get up early (there are also many people stay up late, playing poker, mahjong while waiting) to light the fire pots and put on the fire, heralding the new year's prosperity. After eating breakfast dumplings, the family will start for the noon Spring Festival meal busy, because many northern regions of the New Year's most important meal is the first day of the New Year's noon meal, for the New Year's Day to prepare all the food will be on the table at this meal. The whole family sits around together, pushing cups of wine, talking and laughing, paying tribute to each other, to the children's New Year's money.

After the first day of the New Year, they began to go to relatives to pay tribute to the New Year, and families with elders would prepare a sumptuous meal to welcome the guests, from the third day of the first month to the tenth day of the first month, there was hardly any idle time, either to string relatives, or to entertain the relatives who came to pay tribute to the New Year. At that time, the relationship between relatives was really good, and you could feel the special closeness after meeting them. The first thing you need to do is to get a good deal of money from your family, and then you can get a good deal of money from your family.

We all know that after the first month of the fifteenth, the year is late. That was indeed the case at that time, from the fourteenth to the sixteenth of the first month, there will be red-hot cultural performances every day during the day in the county, and the gongs and red-hot teams from various villages and towns will gather in the county, and each team will have a colorful car. The performances also seem to compete to find out who will lose and who will win, and all the cultural and artistic teams are particularly energetic, and the performances are the most comprehensive.

In our area, the more representative programs are the Xugou Back Stick, Iron Stick; Prying Stick (this program has long been lost for many years, and is seldom seen nowadays); Dragon Dance, Lion Dance, Shanxi Weifeng Gongs and Drums, and so on. Moreover, Qingxu's special program of back stick and iron stick has become part of the national intangible cultural heritage as early as 2009. The county was packed on all three days, with people coming from all directions to watch the Lantern Festival red hot, including many from the city, as many of the programs can't be seen in the city at all.

Not only during the day, but also on the nights of the 15th and 16th of the first month, there are two grand fireworks displays, or fireworks displays as we call them now, which are held from 7 or 8 p.m. until 11 or 12 p.m. The displays are held at the same time as the fireworks displays. Not only are the fireworks themselves beautiful, but the layout and design of the fireworks displays are also unique, adding to the beauty of the fireworks parties. Therefore, the number of people watching the fireworks party at night is even more numerous, adding infinite flavor and fun to the New Year.

From a certain point of view, as a 70 years later is really catching up with the good time, that time from too many aspects can experience the flavor of the New Year. From the 23rd day of the lunar month to the 16th day of the first month of the lunar year, there is always a strong flavor of the New Year, and after the 17th day of the first month of the New Year, the flavor of the New Year will gradually fade away. So, even though people were not economically and materially rich at that time, the strong flavor of Chinese New Year during the New Year period gave people great spiritual satisfaction.

Nowadays, on the contrary, although people's material life has generally improved, the flavor of Chinese New Year during the New Year has become more and more diluted. Because some traditional culture and traditional customs are gradually banned and discarded, people now can no longer feel the strong flavor of the year! The only thing left is the nostalgia for the flavor of the year before the 90s!

How do you remember the flavor of the year?

Occasionally nostalgic, 50 cents New Year's Eve money, is the tycoon, can be loaded with a pocket of firecrackers, drop guns, and a whole lot of snacks, happy to finish the fifteen. New Year's Day, New Year's Day, wear new clothes, wear new hats, eat dumplings, firecrackers ...... and fifteen lanterns, lanterns, too much.

That kind of New Year's feeling can not be found, the reason is that people's minds are put on the money, folk entertainment, traditional culture are abandoned, selfishness and self-interest and in the Erlou filled the folk.

There, the flavor of the year when I was a child is now gone.

As a 70-year-old rural people, in order to make a living far away from home, uprooted, alone in a foreign land for a foreigner, every festival doubly think of relatives. The year is coming soon, and I am still living alone in the city. Because of life and other reasons forced, this year in Foshan City over the Spring Festival. Late at night, often miss the flavor of the Spring Festival when I was a child. At that time, although life is not rich, but had a happy and cheerful, the family ate New Year's Eve dinner around the table, neat and tidy, reunion, rice Fragrant, everyone smiles, life is happy happy happy times.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, wearing new clothes, new shoes, smiling mouth always open, see people say congratulations on wealth, body health, prosperous business, financial resources and so on the classic New Year's greetings, enthusiastic, happy, men and women, young and old, full of wine and rice, pasted Spring Festival couplets in front of the house, stickers, put the cannonballs, lively, children happy to the predecessor of the Lunar New Year to greet the new year, congratulations on the New Year's Day, the collection of lai Si, the laughter does not continue, the New Year, a new phenomenon. New Year's greetings, every family pays homage to the New Year, burns incense and worships God, prays that this year will be better than the old one, and looks forward to good weather, national peace, abundant harvests, living and working in peace and happiness, good health and well-being, and everything will be fine, and everything will be accomplished. The drums and gongs, the firecrackers, the crowd, very New Year's flavor.

Previously, when materials were scarce, we looked forward to having new clothes to wear, chickens and meat to eat, as well as oil horns, candies, cookies and other snacks to eat on New Year's Day. The happiest thing was to burn firecrackers and light fireworks with children and go to the park to play. Now the material abundance, a lot of fun has disappeared.