Chapter 382: New Year's Goods
Seeing that the Chinese New Year's Eve was about to end, Ding Jianhui and other scientific research workers also began to take holidays, asking everyone to go back for the New Year first and come back after the New Year.
Liang Yu and the others also went back together, Jackton and the others did not have the habit of celebrating the Spring Festival, it was the same everywhere, and they were ready to spend a New Year in Chujiazhai.
In the village, everyone has begun to prepare New Year's goods. Chu Jiaqiang and the others are no exception, they are going to go to the town for half a day today to get all the things they need.
went together, in addition to Chu Jiaqiang, Ye Caiping, as well as the second aunt and Chu Jiawan's girl, as well as Jackton and others, the second uncle did not go.
Everyone is very familiar with New Year's goods, which is to buy some good food before the Chinese New Year, and the procurement process is called New Year's goods, to comfort the days of hard work for a year, and to celebrate the arrival of the New Year. In some places, people will buy candy and melon seeds and put them in the whole box, and when relatives and friends come to pay New Year's greetings, they will invite them to eat candy and melon seeds.
In addition, the New Year's goods are gifts given during the New Year, and it is popular in urban areas to give chocolates, cookies, etc., because when visiting relatives and friends' homes, the traditional custom is to bring some gifts.
In ancient times, people called the New Year's goods to catch up with the market, that is, everyone conventionally carried out the common name of the trade activities at a fixed time and a fixed place, and the annual market is the largest and largest number of participants in a year, generally on the twenty-fifth day of the lunar month before the New Year of the old calendar. The varieties of New Year's goods include fragrant wax, paper codes, firecrackers, New Year's paintings, red paper, sugar, tobacco tea, candy, condiments, etc.
In rural areas, for ordinary people, New Year's goods may be a good meal that is rare to eat on a table; New Year's goods are new clothes that you have tried on for a long time and finally bought; New Year's goods are the red, green and green fruit candy in children's pockets; The New Year's goods are small felt hats that the grandmother has been reluctant to buy.
Yesterday, Chu Jiaqiang and others had already listed the things, so just go out and find them one by one today. Otherwise, who remembers so many things clearly? When you get to the streets, there are already crowds, and if you are not careful, you may forget a lot of things.
Chu Jiaqiang's mother-in-law also came out. Sourcing together. The things everyone buys are actually similar, but because Xu Qian doesn't have children at home, she takes fewer of those candy and biscuits.
During this time, prices have obviously risen quite a bit. It used to be seven or eight pounds of candy biscuits. Now it's all ten dollars.
There are too many people on the street. Seeing that, Chu Jiaqiang frowned. He had expected so many people, but he had underestimated the population of the town. In rural areas, the population is already large, and the streets are small. Everyone is busy coming out these days, squeezing together, and there are not many people to blame.
"Or, go and see the clothes first." Xu Qian suggested.
In the countryside, all year round, I will buy one or two new clothes for the Chinese New Year. Wearing new clothes and hats during the New Year is a traditional practice, even in the city, this should not change.
The second aunt nodded, there should be fewer people in the clothing market. But when they came to the door of the market, they didn't dare to go in at all, because some people inside couldn't get out, and all kinds of voices intersected. This is the real Chinese national situation, and there is no way.
"Forget it. Let's take a look at the city! The urban area is fully equipped with things, and it shouldn't be crowded like this. Chu Jiaqiang put forward his own ideas.
When everyone heard it, they also felt that it made sense. It seems that the second aunt has not been out for two or three years, and has been in the village all year round. At most, it's a walk around town. However, she was a little worried that things would definitely be much more expensive when she went to the city. But think of this year's bumper harvest. Don't worry about that little money.
Jackton is a bit huge because of his size. Although it has shrunk significantly from the beginning, it is still very difficult to be in this environment. When he heard this proposal, he immediately raised his hand and agreed. The rest of the people don't have much, they just like to be lively.
"Okay, let's go to the city. Anyway, there is a car, and it is not too far. "Driving out on your own, which is more than an hour, didn't make much of a difference.
Now that it's decided, everyone gets on the bus and heads to the city.
When I arrived in the urban area, although there were many people, it was obviously not so concentrated and terrifying.
First went to the Jinjiang market to pick out two or three sets of clothes per person, even if the second uncle did not come in person, the second aunt took it casually, it would not be ill-fitting, and the husband and wife were the most familiar.
A few foreigners in Jackton have attracted the attention of many people, and foreigners are rare in an underdeveloped mountain town like Gaoxin City. Now, there are actually several of them, and they are still buying New Year's goods, can they not be surprised?
However, foreigners have a very good mentality and don't care about other people's eyes. This view is obviously that people are monkeys!
After buying clothes, everyone went to the temporary New Year's goods street in the city. These New Year's goods are all placed on the stalls, which are much cheaper than those in the shopping mall. It was precisely because of this that the second aunt and others came over.
In fact, these things are directly launched by the manufacturer, with the consent of the government, and there should be a certain guarantee in terms of safety. Many things are actually the same, but some people have to go to the mall to buy them so that they feel tasteful. Those clothes and shoes are in specialty stores and brand-name stores.
Everyone's materials are the same, but the logo is different. Of course, maybe in terms of quality, it will be better. But this problem is also very obvious, it is several times more expensive, and if it does not win in some aspects, then it really can't be said.
"I have to buy more wax." The second aunt spoke. In the countryside, there will not be many such things, worship gods, worship the sky, worship ancestors, and so on.
Many people are puzzled, rural people are troublesome, worship everything, but there is no way, people just believe in these, it is a kind of faith! If you don't have faith, you feel powerless, and you don't have the power to do something.
Chu Jiawan took a lot of Want Want products, and many children in the village liked them, because they were all advertised on TV.
Chu Jiaqiang picked a lot of red seals, and when he got married, he was going to give red envelopes to others, and he should also have this ideological awareness. Some time ago, he also went to the postal savings to get a lot of new banknotes, which were prepared for the purpose of sealing red envelopes.
Ye Caiping selected some Chinese knots, blessing characters and other New Year's ornaments. And Jackton and the others took everything, so that those merchants and stall owners regarded them as wronged bosses one by one, but Mu Dezhen and others were happy. I didn't talk about the price at all, just a shopping mood.
They are different from our people, we have to pull the price when we buy things, so it is interesting. Although it may be cut for half a day, it will be a few dollars cheaper, but there is still a sense of accomplishment.
I bought everything and loaded it into the car, and all four cars were almost full. The least of them is Ye Caiping's mother's, followed by Chu Jiaqiang's. The most of them are Jackton and a few of their gringos. I really don't understand, whether they celebrate the New Year, or Chu Jiaqiang and others celebrate the New Year.