The lights of thousands of households are red in China, and the Spring Festival is filled with nostalgia for roots

2024-02-07

Longcheng Ancient Road, the majestic style of the Han and Tang dynasties. What is cultural confidence and national rejuvenation? At the end of the year, as a native of Yongzhou, Hunan, I am located in Gaotai County, northwest Gansu Province - the Grape Wine Night Light Cup, which is charming and intoxicating. But ultimately, it's a thousand miles away from home, alone in a different place. Chinese New Year has passed, and everyone is looking forward to going home, and I am no exception. Across the country, there are millions of Chinese people working in different places, cleaning ladies, construction workers, delivery guys, white-collar workers in office buildings... As the Spring Festival approaches, they all have a common identity - those who are looking forward to returning home for the New Year all want to rush back home before the New Year's Eve to have a warm reunion dinner with their long lost loved ones and celebrate a lively reunion year. For a holiday, make a promise, even if you have to hurry back the next day, even if it takes one or two months of salary, or even if you have to travel thousands of kilometers back and forth, you will resolutely return to your hometown at any cost. Returning home for the Chinese New Year is a deeply ingrained obsession among the Chinese people, passed down from generation to generation and lasting for thousands of years. What is culture? This obsession is the best annotation of culture, and it can be said that it is authentic Chinese culture. From grinding tofu and making rice cakes in the past to buying new clothes and setting off firecrackers, and now from the current large-scale collection of New Year goods, Spring Festival Gala to WeChat red envelopes and video greetings, the customs and etiquette of the Spring Festival are constantly changing, but what remains unchanged is the Chinese people's thoughts and expectations of traditional festivals. For every Chinese person, what is more heartwarming than the four words "going home for Chinese New Year"? Even if I can't go back to my hometown in Yongzhou, I can still imagine the festive scene on both sides of the Xiang River near the Xiaoshui River on New Year's Eve, where every household is adorned with red Spring Festival couplets and the characters "fu" in red; Even though I bid farewell to Longnan, Gansu, where I was temporarily employed this year, I can still vividly recall that as soon as it entered December, the big red lanterns by the banks of the Bailong River were hung high in rows. As night falls, the heroic city at the foot of the Qilian Mountains is adorned with red terraces, streets and alleys are covered in red and green, and squares and supermarkets are decorated with colorful lights - from Jiangnan in the Great Wall to Taiwan on the island of Baodao, from the snowy country in the north to the islands and reefs in the South China Sea, there is a common color tone in all directions. Only during the Chinese New Year can one truly understand what Chinese red is. Red, Chinese red, is the background color of the Chinese New Year. It is said that the taste of the New Year is becoming weaker and the customs are becoming simpler, but the Chinese people's belief in Chinese red has always been consistent and will never fade. The rich and passionate Chinese red, with a harmonious and eye-catching atmosphere, exudes a natural vitality from the inside out, conveying a spirit of uplifting progress. Can this be said to be an innate confidence? A cultural confidence imprinted in the national memory! Returning home during the Chinese New Year brings back tradition, faith, and a solution to the accumulated homesickness. Perhaps the hometown in my memory is becoming increasingly blurred and blurred; Perhaps we have long understood in our hearts that our hometown is no longer the same as our childhood hometown. But even though the mountains are thousands of miles and the water is thousands of miles, it does not hinder us from grabbing tickets early in the Spring Festival travel rush, and we return to our hometown with our families and souls wrapped in small packages. A person has their own homesickness, and a nation also has its own homesickness. On the towering Longcheng Ancient Road, imagine the majestic style of the Han and Tang dynasties; On the border Silk Road in Hexi, reminiscing about the sound of prosperity. no

Edit:Luo yu    Responsible editor:Wang er dong

Source:china.com

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