The Chinese New Year is a big event, whether poor or rich, at the end of each year, people will take out the best food, wear the best looks, this is the day to enjoy the harvest of the year, is to forget the worries, forget the hard and carefree days.

Of course, such a major event as the New Year has its own rules, the rules of each place are similar, and the customs of various places are different, which also creates the different customs of the New Year, for example, the north wants to eat dumplings, while in Chen Shi's home, there is no habit of eating dumplings in the southwest.

Here, on the night of the Chinese New Year's Eve, the most sumptuous table of food must be placed, the best wine should be bought, and children can also secretly drink some wine on this day, and adults will not care even if they see it, because this is a happy day, a day to celebrate, and no one will be unhappy about it, and make people unhappy. You can't finish a table of hearty food, but you can't finish it, you have to leave it behind. Because there is a saying that if you can't eat it this year, you can keep it for next year, which means that you have more than enough every year, and this custom is very important.

Chen Shi remembers that when he was a child, every Chinese New Year, he didn't have to eat, he was full just by drinking, but even so, his mother still had to serve him a bowl of rice and put it away, and when he waited until the next day, it could be said that it was leftover from last year, but even if it was leftovers, he would never throw them away. This custom can only be understood by those who have been poor, and it is also a habit inherited from poverty.

Chen Shi remembers the most about a bowl of vegetables on the dinner table, and his mother told him that he must eat vegetables first when eating, so no matter how rich the food on the table is, a bowl of vegetables is absolutely indispensable. He still doesn't understand what this habit means, and he hasn't asked his parents, and maybe they don't know, but it's just an ancient hand-down, passed down from generation to generation, and as for the original meaning, it's long forgotten.

Chinese New Year's Eve has the habit of keeping the year, which seems to be not much different in each place. However, the customs of the first day of the Lunar New Year are very different, here, you can not eat meat and oil on the first day of the new year, you can only eat vegetarian, vegetable oil is not listed. Also, on the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, you have to eat a kind of dumpling shaped like a dumpling, but the filling inside is sweet, mixed with sesame seeds and sugar, like a rice ball but not a rice ball.

This is a unique custom here, according to Chen Shi's observation, this is a bit like a combination of Lantern Festival and dumplings, they did not have the habit of eating rice balls during the Lantern Festival, so Chen Shi guessed that it may be because of the busy farming, so the Lantern Festival and dumplings are combined to eat, so that you can save time and save ingredients.

New Year's greetings, New Year's money to send and receive New Year's money, this is the same in every place. Only children collect the money of the year, adults do not have the right to collect the money of the year, only the money of the year, Chen Shi is also an adult, and he is not short of money now, so the Chinese New Year's Eve wrapped a lot of red envelopes. The only people in the family who collect the New Year's money are the younger brother and sister, both of them are still studying, they are young, but there are not a few years left, and in a few years, they have also reached the age of the New Year's money.

New Year's greetings are a big event, and because there are a lot of brothers and sisters in the parents, so the relatives are also special, the mother has four sisters and two brothers, and the father has three sisters, that is to say, he has four aunts and two uncles, and three aunts, so many relatives, not a day or two can be completed, of course, if the time is not enough, the road is too far to go, generally the aunts will find a time to meet at the grandmother's house, so that the mother and sisters can also meet, and the aunts will come to the house before the fifteenth year to pay New Year's greetings, and then it will be their busy days。

Chinese people are very particular about the world, although there are no hard and fast rules, but this invisible convention is the most efficient, more effective than the law, this is thousands of years of customs, it is very difficult to change, and no one wants to change, but the change of the times often leads to the disappearance of some customs, often leads to the decline of these habits.

This year's New Year is very important for Chen Shi, not only to go door-to-door to pay New Year's greetings, but also to send heavy gifts, because he is about to get married, and his daughter-in-law has brought back, of course, he has to lead her to meet relatives and friends, and then the two have to return to Li Yalian's house, her family has a lot of relatives and friends, and naturally it is indispensable to take a trip, and you can't favor one over the other.

On the evening of the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, Chen Shi lit firecrackers before dinner, and in a crackling joy, he ushered in the most lively thirtieth night. At home, the dining table is placed in the living room, and while watching the Spring Festival Gala, eating and drinking to celebrate this festive day.

On TV, Chen Shi saw an advertisement for a unified water plant, not only saw Yao Giant, but also saw Xiao Tianwang, both of whom endorsed a product, a unified water. Being able to put advertising on the TV of the Chinese New Year's Eve is already half the success, and after the New Year, he believes that the bottled water of the water plant will grow by leaps and bounds, truly open the market, and then become the main brand.

If an enterprise has a main brand, it has embarked on an important step, and it is no longer a small private enterprise and a small factory, but a real large-scale enterprise, with popularity, brand guarantee, reputation will take off, and profits will follow like a snowball.

Chen Shike remembers that there were many famous brands in his previous life, but the big brands are foreign-owned, and there are relatively few large domestic brands.

The Spring Festival Gala program is being played on TV, Chen Shi has no special impression of this year's Spring Festival Gala in his memory, unlike the year of Xiao Shenyang's debut, he became popular with a single program, and he didn't have any impression on this year's program list, he didn't remember it, and it seems to be very fresh now.

Chen Shi remembered that in his last life, he and Li Yalian hid in a small rental house to watch, and he seemed to be very excited at the time, but he didn't remember any of the shows, he only remembered that he seemed to have seen Tony Leung, and the others were not much impressed.

But after thinking about it, he suddenly remembered that it seemed that Zhao Benshan's sketch was particularly famous this year, and the kidnapping and flickering sketch seemed to come out this year, and it was already two thousand and one years. It seems that the word flicker was spread by this sketch, and he only learned to have a word called flicker after watching this sketch. This year, Zhao Benshan has not become the bigwig-level figure in later generations, but he is also very popular, and the common people love to watch his sketches, especially northerners.

After watching a few programs, during the advertisement, Chen Shi saw the advertisement of Unified Water again, which made him even more excited, because this is the prime time, and the advertisement can be placed at this point in time, not to mention how great the benefit of this advertisement is. Now it has just entered the Internet, but there are not so many netizens, in addition to some game lovers, those who are high-paid people, such people are of course a minority, the current media is still traditional newspapers and television, therefore, CCTV is the existence of the hegemon, can be advertised on this, you can see the future income.

I don't know how long it took, Chen Shi finally saw the familiar sketch, it was really trafficked, the excitement of this sketch is self-evident, in Chen Shi's opinion, he is almost Zhao Benshan's pinnacle work, there are very few works that can be compared with it, and after his disciple Xiao Shenyang debuted, he seems to have never had a high-quality work anymore, and then withdrew from the stage of the Spring Festival Gala.

Abduction is becoming more and more exciting in the performances of several actors who are familiar with Chen Shi, and even her mother, who has not watched much TV, has been amused, although she can't understand a lot of northern dialects, but most of them can still understand what they mean, the dialect here belongs to the northern system, unlike the southern Fujian area, which is completely incomprehensible, and it is too far from Mandarin.

The dialects of the southwest are very close to Mandarin, and I heard that the Sichuan dialect almost became Mandarin at the beginning, which shows how similar and similar they are. The lively atmosphere ended with the end of the Spring Festival Gala, the family was sleepy, resting, but the mother and father were still keeping vigil, Chen Shi was also accompanying them, and Li Yalian was already sleepy and went to rest with her sister.

In the dead of night, when there was still noise on TV, Chen Shi said to his father and mother: "We will go to pay New Year's greetings tomorrow, and then go to Li Yalian's house on the tenth day of the new year." ”

The mother asked, "Where do you go?" so kindly, you must not be able to go these days, the two uncles' houses must go, the aunt's house is a little too far, and I will inform them when you get married, the aunt's house is not far away, and you can run back and forth in a day. ”

It is very difficult for this rural area to go so far away, because of the traffic, sometimes you go to a friendly home, starting from the morning, you have to walk to the evening, there is no way to stay overnight at his house, the countryside is full of deep mountains, there is no big road, and it is far away from the market town, many places can not even go to the motorcycle, you can only walk, under such conditions, unless you can fly, otherwise there is no way.

Chen Shi said: "The two uncles' homes are not far away, but the aunt's house is too far away, if you don't go, your aunt's house can drop by." ”

Several aunts' houses are on the side of the road, which is a place with better transportation, but aunts' houses are different, on the plateau of Yunnan and Guizhou, mountains and ravines, a mountain has to walk for half a day, in this case, there is no way to go.

Father said: "During the New Year, you may not find a vehicle, even if people have a car, they may not be used for you, on the first day of the year, go out to find a zodiac festival, I think you may not be able to go on the tenth day of the first year, and you will have a vehicle after the fifteenth." ”

Chen Shi suddenly, what his father said is indeed the truth, the first day of the New Year, the driver is also very particular, the first day of departure, not to mention how grand the ceremony is, but at least to find a good day, to set off a string or two of firecrackers, to drive away the evil spirit. This is the habit of rural people, and it can't be changed, and it seems that you can't go to Li Yalian's house until after fifteen.