New Year's Day is meant to be observed, so everyone waits until the New Year's bell rings. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 None of them went to bed early as usual, and even the children had to stay until midnight and watch their parents and elders set off firecrackers in high spirits.

Since the Han Dynasty, the time of alternation 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. The ancients wrote in a poem "Keeping the New Year": "Invite the Arong family to keep the New Year, and the wax torch spreads red to the blue yarn; Therefore, in the countryside and cities in the 90s, everyone attached great importance to this custom of keeping the New Year and setting off firecrackers, hoping that firecrackers could be used to dispel all kinds of bad luck in the first year and be auspicious in the new year.

On the contrary, later, these customs became less and less valued by people, and the taste of the New Year became weaker and weaker, and most people no longer continued to watch the Spring Festival Gala until zero o'clock, but lay down on the bed and fell asleep. Chen Zhiping has a deep understanding of this, especially in big cities, because fireworks are not allowed to be set off, and many people have begun to complain about the Spring Festival Gala, so there are fewer and fewer people watching the Spring Festival Gala.

At twelve o'clock, every household set off firecrackers, and for a time there was a crackling sound of firecrackers everywhere, which was extremely lively. Chen Jianjun took a few puffs of cigarettes, then put down the cigarette on his mouth, and used the red and shiny cigarette butt to light five hundred earthen firecrackers, and then quickly withdrew a few steps, as the firecracker fuse was ignited, there was a burst of roaring sound, one after another as thick as a thumb of the earthen cannon fell, emitting a series of explosions, and suddenly the entire courtyard was a crackling sound, accompanied by this lightning and thunder, there were bursts of rapidly diffused gunsmoke, the whole courtyard and dam were filled with the smell of fireworks, and the smell of celebration.

Everyone happily watched the 500 cannons be fired, this year is particularly good, none of the cannons are squibs, and there is no interruption, which means that the coming year will be auspicious!

Of course, at this time, there are still very few people who have money to buy fireworks, especially in rural areas, almost no one is willing to spend tens or hundreds of yuan to buy fireworks.

However, this year, Chen Zhiping prepared two large boxes of fireworks. Because he gave Xia Xiaomo a different Spring Festival, after all, this is Xia Xiaomo's first return to his house, and it is also the New Year, of course, it is better to be romantic.

The two brothers, Chen Zhiping and Chen Zhiyuan, took out the fireworks and placed them in the middle of the dam, when the firecrackers were over, it was time to set off the fireworks.

Chen Zhiping said with a smile: "Xiaomo, don't you want to set off fireworks with your own hands? It's okay now, you can take my lighter and light the fuse." If you're scared, hide under the eaves and look. ”

Xia Xiaomo grinned and said, "I won't be afraid, it's just a firefire, not a firecracker." ”

After speaking, Xia Xiaomo took the lighter in Chen Zhiping's hand, lit it carefully, and sent it to the lead of the fireworks barrel. Xia Xiaomo hurriedly retreated far away, and soon one by one fireworks bombs were launched into the air.

The colorful fireworks add a beautiful view to the night sky, and they bloom one by one, like beautiful flowers, which makes people amazed.

Xia Xiaomo jumped up excitedly and kept clapping. Looking at her extremely happy appearance, Chen Zhiping was also very happy.

After a while, the first box of fireworks was over, and Xia Xiaomo said excitedly: "Zhiping, you can put the second box of fireworks!"

Chen Zhiping said with a smile: "Okay, let's put one each, buy more next year, and everyone will put one." ”

As he spoke, Chen Zhiping lit the second box of fireworks, and soon these fireworks were lit up in the dark night sky, illuminating the entire courtyard and dam as bright as daytime. At this time, the people in the village came out one by one to see the fireworks set off by Chen Zhiping, after all, fireworks were rarely seen in the countryside at this time.

After the fireworks, there is one more thing to do!

Liu Sufen smiled: "Okay, now our family can't think of being famous." The three of you, father and son, now hurry up to the old well to pick up money and see if you can grab the first one, if it is the first one, then our family's luck this year is the best. ”

There is such a popular tradition in the countryside of Yindu for the New Year, that is, to dig well water in the New Year, which is also called picking money. In fact, not only in China, but also in some places abroad, such as the United Kingdom, the popular New Year's custom of "digging well water", people are striving to be the first to fetch water, thinking that the first person to fetch water is a happy person, and the water that comes is auspicious water. This is actually the same meaning as the tradition of the countryside of Yindu.

Xia Xiaomo saw that Chen Zhiping had already taken the flat pole and pecked the hook, hooked the bucket and was about to go out, so she asked curiously: "Do you still have to go to fetch water so late? Can't you go tomorrow morning? I can't see the road at night." ”

Liu Sufen said with a smile: "Xiaomo, this is a custom in our countryside, it has been like this for decades, and people nearby will go to that old well to grab the first bucket of water." Because the first bucket of water in the new year is wealth, whoever can grab the first bucket is of course the luckiest, even if you can't grab the first bucket, it is also very lucky. ”

Xia Xiaomo said happily: "Okay, I'll go too." I'll give you a flashlight!"

Liu Sufen smiled: "Okay, Xiaomo, you go slowly, it's all dirt roads, don't fall." ”

Xia Xiaomo said: "Mom, I know." This mother's cry was crisp, which made Liu Sufen's face bloom with joy.

The group of four set off like this. The father and son each picked a bucket, in order to pick up more money to come back, even if they couldn't grab the first load, they picked as much as possible.

The old well is more than 200 meters away from Chen Zhiping's house, and when they arrived at the well, they found that no one had come yet, because there were no water stains on the ground, and they didn't know if the big guy knew that Chen Jiafa was there, and he didn't want to rob them or what, in short, Chen Zhiping and his father couldn't grab the first one every time they came before, but this year it seems to be the first.

Chen Zhiping said strangely: "Dad, it seems that no one has been here this year?

Chen Jianjun said with a smile: "It seems that we are the first, which shows that our family's luck will be particularly good this year." Whatever, let's talk about the water first. ”

Chen Zhiping picked up the bucket by the well, put a rope on the head of a long bamboo pole on the bucket handle, and then threw the bucket into the well. This well is very deep, and the water is also very sweet and abundant, so there are many times when even people who have a well at home will come here to fetch water because the water from this well seems to be particularly good.

Xia Xiaomo picked up the flashlight and shone it into the well, not to mention that the water in the well looked very transparent, and when Chen Zhiping lifted the water, he could see it more clearly, the water quality was extremely clear, and it was indeed good water. Chen Zhiping smiled and poured the water in the bucket into his own bucket, threw it down again, and continued to draw water.

When they finished carrying three waters, they saw a little bit of light, which was when the nearby villagers began to come out to fetch water.

The father and son happily carried the water home and poured it into their own water tank, which was considered to have completed this great event. It's time to sleep, Chen Zhiping and Xia Xiaomo chatted for a long time before falling asleep.

I slept very soundly this night, and when I got up in the morning, Xia Xiaomo felt refreshed, as if the New Year was indeed different, and all the bad luck in the whole person was gone.