Chapter 223: Chinese New Year's Eve

The large colorful balls overlapped, colorful and sparkling, and the sky became a sea of light. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

After a while, it turned into gems inlaid in the night, and finally, it gradually turned into a starlight waterfall and slowly fell down, and the whole capital was illuminated by fireworks as if it were day, and the deafening explosion sound made people feel a little tinnitus.

During this period of time, more than one billion people across the country should look up at the sky almost at the same time, all regions, all kinds of Chinese children, celebrating the same festival, there will be countless children in fear of fireworks while hiding in the arms of their parents, listening to their parents tell stories about 'Nian and fireworks', and then slowly fall in love with this seemingly terrible, but warm fireworks.

This is the custom that has been passed down from generation to generation in China for thousands of years, and it is also the gentleness of inheritance.

Looking at Wang Yao, who was chased all over the yard by Mo Ke and He Saifei with small fireworks in the yard, Mr. Big smiled and shook his head, "What a group of children." ”

"yes. Mr. Qigong also smiled and looked at Zheng Jingjing, who was helping to clean up on the other side of the living room, "Jingjing is still obedient." ”

"He just didn't bother to move. Dad Zheng smiled.

This should be the happiest Spring Festival he has ever had. Xu Feng smiled with the teacup.

Jin Wensheng also smiled, "I haven't celebrated the New Year like this for two or three years, and I'm still a little uncomfortable." ”

"The New Year still has to be lively. Zhao Lirong smiled, "But I follow my colleagues on the TV station every year for the New Year, and this year is a special situation." ”

"Celebrating the New Year at home is still different from spending the New Year outside. Mr. Big smiled, "In the past, the whole town spent the New Year together, and that was called lively." ”

"Hundreds of households together?" Zhao Lirong asked in surprise.

"Not so many, more than a hundred. Mr. Big smiled, "But then it became less and less." ”

Everyone smiled, they all knew what Mr. Big meant, the people in the town would slowly move outside, especially after the elders of the family passed away one after another, and the hometown became a lot weaker for the group of children who might have been born outside.

Like the old people of their generation, no matter where they go, they only know where their hometown is, and Wang Yao's generation may only be able to find their ancestral home in the household registration book, which cannot be said to be human progress or regression, but can only be said to be a change in spiritual outlook and cognition.

But there are pros and cons to this change.

Wang Yao was scared enough to light fireworks and choked this incident became a trick for Mo Ke to make fun of him, after He Saifei and Mao Weitao came back from the TV station, Mo Ke spread it everywhere, and now Wang Yao is also a big boy of more than one meter and eight, and he was scared like a rabbit when he set off firecrackers, which is indeed a bit embarrassing.

In a hurry, Wang Yao challenged Mo Ke, when Wang Yao was very young, about five or six years of elementary school, at that time Wang Yao was not a somewhat autistic child, and he would follow the neighbor's children everywhere during the New Year.

It just so happened that Zheng Xixi also bought this kind of small firecracker, so there is the current scene, He Saifei, Zheng Xixi, Mo Ke, and Huang Jiani, who came to pay New Year's greetings, chased Wang Yao all over the yard, the sound of the small firecrackers crackling was insignificant under the cover of the big fireworks overhead, but the explosion under the feet was still quite scary.

"Okay, don't make a fuss, it's all fluttering in the future. Zheng Jingjing helped her mother clean up the house, looked at the people who were still playing outside, rolled her eyes and shouted at the door.

Now this level of firecracker firecrackers, after the explosion in the sky, will scatter the flocculents, and it is a fluttering flocculent with the smell of gunpowder burning, like snow, but the smell is not very good, and it falls on the hair like dust, very dirty.

Wang Yao took the opportunity to run into the house and catch his breath.

Zheng Jingjing looked at Wang Yao speechlessly, and didn't know whether it was excitement or tiredness, and her flushed face was "childish." ”

Wang Yao grinned, "Don't blame me for this, they were naïve first." ”

"You were the one who started the war first. Mo Kejiao, who ran in with her, jumped up with a smile, and felt a little cold feeling that her little hand was sticking into the hem of Wang Yao's shirt, as if she had stuffed something in, which frightened Wang Yao and exclaimed, and his face changed.

"Tut-tut, tsk. Looking at Wang Yao's expression, Mo Ke leaned forward and leaned back with a smile.

"Don't dig it, if it was a cannon battle, it would have exploded a long time ago. He Saifei also walked in with a smile and shook the scarf around his neck.

"Oh my mom, I'm tired. Zheng Xixi chuckled: "I haven't run as much as I have today in a year." ”

"It's good that this yard is big enough, otherwise it wouldn't be enough for a few of you to have fun. Zheng's mother came over with water and handed it to a few people and smiled.

Wang Yao held the water glass, looked at the fireworks that were still being set off outside the window through the glass, and the unconscious smile on his face looked very sincere and immature.

"There are no fireworks in Hangzhou for the New Year?" Looking at Wang Yao's yearning look, Mr. Big joked with a smile.

"Put it too. Wang Yao smiled, "But I haven't seen it seriously for several years, and I used to think that fireworks were very disturbing to the people." ”

Wang Yao followed his adoptive father since he was a child, and later became an orphan, maybe the Spring Festival for him is indeed a little different from that of an ordinary family, and everyone looked at Wang Yao with a little more pity.

"Lu Xun said that the Chinese people invented gunpowder and used it to make fireworks, what do you think?" asked Mr. Big with a smile.

Wang Yao patted the clothes on his body, "Historically, no, the example of using gunpowder to fight in ancient China is not later than in the West, but the war in ancient China is about righteousness and light, and gunpowder is not in the stream, so naturally it will not be recorded." ”

"But Westerners use gunpowder to break open the country. Mo Ke said.

"This, it can only be said that Xiucai met the soldiers, and it is unreasonable. Wang Yao smiled, "After all, the war itself is wrong. ”

Mo Ke blinked.

"But I don't really appreciate some great inventions that praise the use of gunpowder in warfare, and anything that promotes war is not great. Wang Yao smiled, "But using gunpowder to make fireworks is indeed beautiful." ”

"If you have time, you can write an article like this and dedicate it to foreigners. Mr. Qigong smiled, "And then with the topic of 'Chinese New Year's Eve', you can also promote traditional festivals." ”

"Xi is a year beast, right? Mo Ke laughed.

"Look at the version. Jin Wensheng laughed: "Anyway, we heard many versions when we were kids. ”

"The most popular version now is that Xi is the New Year Beast, but in fact, it is not, from the names of New Year and Chinese New Year's Eve, you should be able to know the gap, girl, use your brain." Wang Yao sat on the sofa and chuckled.

Mo Ke rolled his eyes at Wang Yao, and asked Jin Wensheng curiously, "Grandpa Jin, then you can tell a reliable version." ”

"Reliable?" Jin Wensheng raised his eyebrows and smiled, "The most reliable thing in this story should be called the elimination of evil, the "Lü's Spring and Autumn" recorded about the day of Chinese New Year's Eve, using drums to drive away plagues and other disasters, asking for a good omen for the coming year, the versions of mythological stories are processed by later generations, but there are also more folklore, such as Xiao Yao said, the gap between the New Year and Chinese New Year's Eve. ”

Several young people sat down obediently, looking ready to listen to a book.

"Legend has it that in ancient times, there was a kind of evil beast, named Xi, snooze and angry, wake up once a year, that is, on the day of the New Year, come to the world to make trouble, one year a village organized people to expel Xi, but Xi is too powerful, one of the teams is called' Nian's children, probably younger than you, the team that expelled Xi was scattered, Nian seduced Xi with dumplings, led it out of the village, and then told the villagers to throw it with firecrackers, Xi was afraid of the sound of firecrackers, so he ran away, this child called Nian became a little hero, the next year Eve came to take revenge, Nian took people to wait for it at the entrance of the village, saw the red tongtong's firecrackers, Xi did not dare to make trouble again, and later according to the red skin outside the firecrackers, Nian created the Spring League to hang at the village gate, Xi saw the red village association thought it was a big firecracker, and did not dare to make trouble again, and later in order to commemorate this monster eve, people called this year, called New Year and Chinese New Year's Eve to commemorate。 ”

After Jin Wensheng finished speaking, Wang Yao said again: "There is also a saying that Xi and Nian are two brothers, both monsters, two monsters have opposite personalities, one is good and one is evil, who does not necessarily wake up every year, so people hope that it is the New Year beast that wakes up, so it is called the New Year, if it is the Xi beast who wakes up, it will be killed with firecrackers, Chinese New Year's Eve." ”

"I think it's still the old man who talks about love. He Saifei rolled his eyes, Wang Yao said, "What you said is emotionless." ”

"It's a story. Wang Yao's face was full of innocence: "You don't really believe it, do you?" ”

"Phew, don't be afraid of 10,000, just in case, just like I can get a gift every Christmas. Mo Ke said softly.

"Your gift was from your parents. Huang Jiani smiled and touched her head.

"But who is Christmas commemorating?" Wang Yao seemed to suddenly think of something, "I always thought that Christmas was related to Jesus, but why does it seem to commemorate Santa Claus." ”

"That's up to everyone. Xu Feng said with a smile, "Christmas is a Western festival that has something to do with Western marketing, haven't you noticed that Christmas shopping malls are particularly discounted?"