If you want to talk about the flavor of the New Year, it is still stronger in Li Tie's hometown.
Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, in fact, is to continue to eat the rest of the noon, but because there are too many, there is still no finish, the family happily finished the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, sitting in front of the TV, waiting to watch CCTV's Spring Festival Gala.
Li Tie's TV is still the fourteen-inch Changhong brand black-and-white TV that I bought for more than ten years, although it is a black and white picture, but the family still watches it with relish, probably only Ivan is a little bored, because she doesn't understand Chinese very well, and can only understand a few words.
Li Tie accompanied her to watch and chat, and told her in English what was on TV.
Of course, Li Tie can't say those complicated sentences in English, and he can talk about some simple ones.
At eight o'clock in the evening, the CCTV Spring Festival Gala officially opened.
Shen Huan's family, who were far away in the staff community of Zhonghai Changxing Island Port Machinery Factory, were also sitting in front of the 25-inch Changhong color TV at home at this time.
At the end of the nineties, the 25-inch color TV was still a big screen, but in the eyes of the reborn Shen Huan, it was still smaller, of course, there was a disadvantage that the rainbow at this time was still a cathode ray tube, so it looked like the picture was bulging, and the picture distortion was more obvious.
In the Spring Festival Gala of 99, the host is still four veterans, Zhao Zhongxiang, Ni Ping, Zhu Jun, Zhou Tao, the most popular song of this Spring Festival Gala is probably the song "Always Go Home to See", when Shen Huan heard this song again, his eyes turned red all of a sudden.
It is true that he did not go home often, because he was too busy with work, and it was indeed not so convenient to go back to Changxing Island.
Maybe it's really time to buy a car, and if you have a car, you can go home and see it even if you have a day off.
Of course, Shen Huan is looking forward to the day when Jiangnan Changxing Shipbuilding Group moves to Changxing Island, so that he can go home every day to reunite with his family, his parents are old and need the company of their children.
The Spring Festival Gala first began in 1983, and the Spring Festival Gala held by CCTV that year should be said to be an accidental event.
But later this party has become a new folk custom for the Chinese, and it is a must-see TV dinner every year on Chinese New Year's Eve.
The Spring Festival Gala is full of well-known actors and artists, and it brings together opera, song and dance, cross talk, sketches, acrobatics and other programs, which naturally becomes everyone's favorite program.
So whether it is Shen Huan's family, Li Tie's family, or thousands of Chinese families, almost all of them are in front of the TV tonight, enjoying this wonderful time!
When the song "Unforgettable Tonight" on the CCTV Spring Festival Gala sounded, everyone stood up unsatisfied, and Lin Miaoyu was busy calling her parents to greet her, and it turned out to be a mutual greeting between the two families, at this time the Shen family and the Lin family were really about to become in-laws.
And Li Tie's house, which is far away in Shuangqing, can hear the sound of firecrackers in the village one after another at this time, and even some people went out to make a fortune, and when they returned to their hometown, they bought fireworks to set off, the brilliant fireworks in the night sky are so beautiful, Ivan excitedly pulled Li Tie's arm, pointed to those fireworks and said: "Next year, we will also buy some and come back to put them off, it's so beautiful!"
” Li Tie nodded happily and said, "Okay, let's also set off fireworks next year!"
” Ivan suddenly blinked his big blue eyes and asked, "Li, why is it that every family here has to keep watch until this time to set off firecrackers?"
” Li Tie smiled and said, "This is the traditional custom of China.
We call it the New Year's Celebration, that is, the Waiting for the New Year.
This custom has been around since the Han Dynasty, and the time of the transition between the old and the new year is generally in the middle of the night.
People all over the world are looking forward to the arrival of the New Year.
The custom of keeping the New Year not only has the feeling of regret and nostalgia for the passing years, but also has the meaning of placing good hopes on the coming New Year.
People hope that firecrackers can be used to dispel all kinds of bad luck in the first year and have good luck in the new year. ” Ivan said happily: "Then we can also let it go!"
” Li Tie nodded and said, "Of course, I will do this task!"
” After speaking, Li Tie and his brother-in-law unfolded the plate of 500 earthen firecrackers and placed them on the courtyard dam, like a long dragon.
Li Tie took the cigarette butt that his brother-in-law gave him, and then used the red and shiny cigarette butt to light the fuse of the firecracker, Ivan and they all stood far away, watching the string of firecrackers being lit, and then began to crackle and burst, the whole yard was filled with gunsmoke, but everyone's face bloomed with the most beautiful smile.
After the firecrackers were over, Li Tie stepped forward and kicked them a few times, and then said happily: "Dad, Mom, sister, brother-in-law, great, there don't seem to be any squibs this year, next year, oh no, our family will have good luck this year!"
” The whole family was excited, including Yang Guang, the little guy, who didn't seem to be sleepy at all.
There is another activity next, and that is to go to pick up money.
Li Tie and his brother-in-law Yang Xiubo picked up a bucket and rushed to the only old well in the team.
Of course, Ivan also followed, she was very curious, what kind of wealth Li Tie told her to pick money.
In fact, this is a custom in the rural areas of Shuangqing, that is, on the first day of the New Year, whoever picks it early will be lucky, and will make a fortune in this year, and the well water of the New Year is the so-called wealth.
Li Tie and the three of them rushed to the old well with flashlights, only to find out at this time that they were still the earliest, Li Tie happily said to Ivan: "Ivan, we are the first, it seems that we are all stained with your light, our family has never picked the first load of water before, this year is different!"
” Ivan smiled and said, "Really?
Looks like I'm in luck. ” Li Tie and Yang Xiubo pulled two picks of water, and at this time, people came one after another with flashlights.
Li Tie and Yang Xiubo happily carried the water and walked back, and when they met the villagers along the way, they also greeted them with a smile.
When they got home, they poured the money into their own water tank, and the family went back to their rooms to sleep.
Li Tie and Ivan were so excited that they couldn't sleep, and the two began to have a long talk.
In Shen Huan's house, because there were not many rooms, Lin Miaoyu had to sleep in the same room with Shen Huan, anyway, it was very logical to have the first time, the second and third times, and the two families were about to become in-laws.
The next morning, Shen Huan and Lin Miaoyu overslept, and it was their sister Shen Le who woke them up.
Lin Miaoyu's face was still red, she felt very embarrassed, after all, she and Shen Huan were not married, they lived together, and she was a more traditional girl.
On the other hand, Shen Le and Zhou Zhaodi are as if they haven't seen anything, in their minds, they have long regarded Lin Miaoyu as their daughter-in-law, just two certificates and a ceremony.