Go home for the New Year, Zhang Baotong 2017.1.16

Chinese New Year is the most important event of the year for every Chinese. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoPeople have worked hard for a year and looked forward to a year for this day, so this day is a day for people to enjoy themselves. Happiness naturally comes when you are with your own family to feel the most satisfying and real. Yes, the whole family, young and old, happy and happy, that is the beautiful scene that people yearn for.

On the contrary, if you can't go home for the New Year, you don't actually have the feeling and meaning of the New Year at all. Those who can't go back to their homes because they are busy or for other reasons are spending every day. Because I can't go home for the New Year, I will feel very unhappy on the day of the New Year, lonely, irritable and bored, it will be a very difficult day. Even after the New Year, you will feel that you have not been rested for a year, the hard work of the year has not been relieved, the tiredness of the year is still on your body, you have not been rested and relaxed, you have not been close to your wife and children and the joy of your family, you have no expectations for a new life in the coming year, and it is easy to get bored of the new year. Therefore, no matter how busy people are in normal times, they will be busy going home before the end of the year. Especially for wanderers who are far away from home, going home is not only a call for family affection, a necessity for reunion, but also a reward for their parents and family for a year. Of course, there is also the ardent longing for his wife and children.

Relationships and affection between people are maintained by feelings. If you are estranged and separated for a long time, it is easy to lose family affection and love. We can see that some children do not see their parents for many years, and when they do, it is as if they do not know their parents. And some men don't go home all year round, and when they get home, they find that their wives have lived in someone else's house. Some people even return home to find that their parents have been dead for many years. These are the greatest regrets and sorrows in the world. So, no matter how busy a person is, they should go home often. As a result, the Chinese New Year has become the reason and reason why people have to go home every year. For many people, working outside the home is just a temporary way to earn a living, and when they are old, they still have to go back to live. Therefore, they have to go home every year for the Chinese New Year to send money to their families, get close to their wives and children, reunite with their fathers and brothers and sisters, visit relatives and friends, and make salutes to compensate for the shortage of affection when they are not at home all year round.

Because I came out of my home very early, it has been more than 40 years now, and my feelings and dependence on my hometown have been very weak. I remember when I first left home to work in Xi'an, I couldn't go home for two years, and I missed my hometown indescribably, when I was working at Xi'an Station, whenever I sent off the 114th train from Xi'an to Wuchang, listening to the HN folk song of "Farewell", I couldn't help but burst into tears. At that time, it was very inconvenient to go home, and when I went home, I had to transfer to Wuchang, and when I returned after the New Year, I had to transfer to Zhengzhou, and when I got on the bus, I was squeezed to the car. After entering the carriage, he kept crowding at the junction of the carriage until Wuchang could loosen it, but he still stood in one place. It was late at night when I arrived in Zhengzhou, and when I got off the train, I had to squeeze up the 72nd train from BJ to WLMQ. There are more people coming to WLMQ, as long as they can squeeze into the carriage, it is a blessing. At that time, it was only 1,380 kilometers from Miluo to Xi'an by train, but it took at least 28 hours to walk. Later, after I got married, I went home less often, and I always went back once every two or three years. The main reason is the fear of the car. So, every year before the year, my mother called me and asked if I would come back for the New Year. I said I had already sent you the money and would not be going back this year. The mother listened and did not speak for a long time. I could feel my mother's deep disappointment. Because I know that my mother doesn't care about money and wants me to go home for the New Year. After a while, my mother said, "Why don't you come back after you have taken that long vacation during the Chinese New Year as a teacher?" So, I made up a reason for my mother, but I couldn't go back. Mother looked very disappointed, and said that if she didn't come back, she wouldn't come back, and I would smoke all the fish for you. Because she knows that I like to eat smoked fish from my hometown.

Since my father died, I said that I would send money to my mother for the Chinese New Year, and my mother said that she didn't want any money and wanted me to go home for the New Year. Moreover, I also know that my mother is usually alone, and I hope that we have been looking forward to it for a whole year, and I can't let her down. So, for more than 10 years, I have to go back to my hometown every year to visit my mother. Mother has experienced many ups and downs and hardships in her life for us. But when we were older, we all flew out, and no one was with her. Especially last year, she suffered from cataracts in her eyes and couldn't even see boiling water in a hot water bottle. Once, she dropped a hundred dollars on the stove and when she burned half of it, my brother's daughter saw it. When my granddaughter took the half-burned money out of the fire, it made my mother feel distressed for a few days. During that time, she felt very helpless and helpless. When I heard this, I had just taken a back seat and went home early to be with her. However, when I left home after the year, she didn't want me to leave, and for the first time in many years, she had such thoughts and demands. Even though my brother, my eldest sister, and my brother were all in the area, and they came over every three days to bring her something, she still longed for someone to be by her side. Because just half a year ago, she stepped on a chair and put the quilt in the big cabinet, and suddenly fell back from the chair and fell on the concrete floor. After all, she is 86 years old, how can she withstand this kind of mishap?

Because my mother stayed at home alone, we could only call to say hello, so we were anxious to go home to visit her during the Chinese New Year. This year, because my little sister came from Zunyi to attend my son's wedding, she went back to HN directly, so I didn't go home too early. And my mother also called and said that I had not spent the following year at my home for many years, and now my son had just gotten married, so I asked me not to go back to my hometown for the New Year, and to spend the New Year with my wife and son. Actually, I didn't really want to go home. Because it is very troublesome to go home once, every time the Spring Festival begins, the high-speed rail and trains do not stop at our station, and we have to transfer to Yueyang or Changsha. And tickets are very hard to buy. When I went home last year, I didn't buy a return ticket for a long time, and in the end I really had no choice, so I asked my wife's brother and daughter-in-law to find someone to buy a ticket at Xi'an Railway Station and send it quickly. This year, I asked my son to buy me a high-speed rail ticket for the 20th from the Internet, but my son bought it for several days before he could buy the ticket, and the return ticket still did not arrive. However, I couldn't let my mother wait for a year in vain. She's 87 years old today, how many more times will she see us? How many more times will we see her? So, I have to find every way to go home, to be with her, with my brothers and sisters. Because once my mother is gone, it will be very difficult for us brothers and sisters to be separated from each other, and it will be very difficult to reunite and see each other again.

Because I work and live outside all the year round, I have a lot of discomfort when I return home. There was no heating over there, and it was very cold in the winter, and it was as cold inside the house as it was outside, and it was raining non-stop. My daily work at home is mainly writing and playing. However, when I returned to my hometown, I spent all day playing cards with my brothers and sisters. HN people love to play mahjong, and they play mahjong almost all the time except for eating and sleeping every day. I didn't have time to sit down and write, and sometimes I wanted to go out and play table tennis, but I turned around the whole Miluo Street several times and couldn't find a place to play. And HN people like to eat greasy dishes. All the dishes seemed to be soaked in oil and water, and there was a lot of salt. I can't eat this kind of dish, and when I eat it, I feel greasy and nauseous. My mother asked me to stir-fry a plate of light vegetables and cook a plate of light fish. She knew that I loved apples, so she asked my eldest sister to buy apples a long time ago. After a while, he urged me to eat apples. Let me feel the warmth and kindness of mother's love.

My hometown is where I spent my childhood and student days, and it holds many of my fond memories and memories. However, due to the movement and relocation of the Railway Engineering Bureau, the students moved to other places with their units all over the world. So, there aren't many classmates to see anymore. The former school has been built into a residential complex by a foreign contractor. The places where I used to go to the countryside have become unrecognizable. So, I don't want to go any further. Therefore, although my hometown often appears in my dreams, it feels like there is nothing to be nostalgic for. Even if I can meet some classmates or acquaintances when I go home for the Chinese New Year, they all come to visit my parents. The old people in the family compound are all the older generation who came down from the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and they have almost died over the years, and there are very few who are still alive.

People are looking forward to looking forward to the New Year, but the New Year is very fast, and the first and second days of the new year will pass, and the third day of the new year will be sent to the grave of their father. Then, everyone began to prepare for the return trip. On the fifth and sixth days of the first month, they left one after another. I leave the last day of the year, and I don't return until the tenth day of the new year. It wasn't until I left my hometown and returned to Xi'an that I felt that the past year had come to a successful end. In this way, 365 days a year is a reincarnation, and the end of a reincarnation is the beginning of a new reincarnation, and the fulfillment of a wish is also the beginning of a new hope. Our lives and family relationships continue in this cycle.

The meaning of hometown will become weaker and weaker in our hearts, but it makes us unable to give up. We will always leave the hometown that we will never be able to let go of, just like the SD people did when they broke into Kanto. There's no way around it. Because we already have a new home of our own. Once our parents pass away, we will be like a kite with a broken string, floating around, and there will be no more cohesive belonging. So, we are also worried: once our mother dies, we will have no home to go back to, and then, what will happen to us?