Over time, one thing is not what it should be. In fact, the original essence of the event has not changed, but the essence of the incident has been covered up by other things derived from the event, and you don't have the time, energy, and reason to think about the original situation, because you have to spend time dealing with the new problems that arise.

Originally, Wang En and Shen Bing made friends and talked about marriage, but now because of the other four things that have been derived. One is the birthday eight characters that Wang Xinghai is most concerned about. He didn't have the courage to face uncertainties that he couldn't control, so he could only pin his hopes and fate on a fortune teller who could make him feel at ease. One is that Ni Fengxia ate the wrong thing. She is most concerned about her son being snatched away, and she always feels as if she has lost something, knowing who snatched this thing from, and knowing that the reasons why others are snatching things are high-sounding and irresistible, but she still has to do a fearless struggle. One is that Wang En should take care of everyone. What he cares about most is how to satisfy his parents, make Shen Bing feel comfortable, and make everyone happy, but no one will give him face. One is that Shen Bing does his own thing. What she cares about most is whether she can marry Wang En, the rest has nothing to do with herself, she doesn't care about other people's opinions and feelings at all, she feels that those are inconsequential things. The original thing becomes the other four things that have nothing to do with the original thing, just like a painter who was supposed to paint a cat, but the result is a painting that looks like a wolf, a tiger, a leopard, and a dog, and he can't see the appearance of a cat, and naturally he doesn't care if there are cats' movements and forms in the painting.

On the day of the Midyear Festival, the whole village has been lively since the morning, and the people on the road are bustling, and every household is busy. The slaughter of chickens and fish, the blood of the slaughtered animals flowed along the low-lying places on both sides of the road, and the summer heat quickly evaporated the blood on the ground, giving off a pungent smell of blood. The wet chicken feathers were wrapped in blood and clumps of filthy stolen goods, and the colorful fish scales in the sunlight were tightly attached to the road, and some were mixed with the dirty chicken feathers.

People who went out at this time all went home for the festival, carrying large bags and small bags of things in their hands and shuttling through the three-fold road in the village. The people of the village showed a lot of humanity, and in the greetings with each other showed a potential mutual respect, although some false respect was hidden behind the conspiracy or flattery, behind the tacit acquiescence of everyone to each other in this redundant etiquette.

Qingming Festival and Zhongyuan Festival are both traditional festivals to worship ancestors, Qingming is more focused on remembrance and remembrance, and Zhongyuan is more focused on memorial and traceability; Qingming is sad, Zhongyuan is sad; Qingming is elegant, and Zhongyuan is heavy.

A few days before the Midyear Festival, Wang En's family had already placed all kinds of emergency fruits on the Eight Immortals Table in the hall, and the Eight Immortals Table where the offerings were placed was much higher than the one used for eating, and the position where people could stand up to their chests, such a height showed solemn might. This large table of eight immortals is hollowed out on all sides and carved with the circular character pattern of "Wanfu Suxi", surrounded by a pattern of branches. The black paint is thick and shiny, and deep marks can be seen when pinched with fingernails. The offering table is kept all year round, and only on Chinese New Year's Eve is it placed in the center of the hall, and a stool is placed around it to solemnly carry out the incense burning ceremony.

In addition to the tribute fruit on the table, two cypress branches had to be placed on both sides, and the cypress branches were inserted in a bottle filled with water. The shape of the cypress branch is preferably a round canopy row or a conical shape, which means that the canopy is transported and forge ahead. The verdant needle-shaped foliage of the cypress grows together like a well-pruned banyan tree. The green of the cypress branches is not enough, but also the colorful petals scattered on the canopy of the cypress branches.

The incense burner between the cypress branches is placed with an ancestral tablet made of red paper, and a small block is written with a black brush "The ancestor of the XX family is only incense", and the incense stick should be burned in front of the incense card at any time. The incense ash that fell outside the incense burner was quietly sprinkled on the table around the incense burner, and the falling incense ash burned the thick lacquered table top into gray-white spots with the last trace of heat, a bit of tear-stained bamboo artistic conception.

In the half month before the Midyear Festival, wine and rice must be served before eating every day, and the dishes offered can only be vegetarian, without any animal fat, and paper money should be burned on each side of the table of the Eight Immortals after the wine and rice, and the smoke in the hall creates a fairyland or otherworldly feeling.

In the evening, all the offerings, cypress branches, and tablets are moved to the courtyard for offerings, and then there is an additional offering—rice cakes fried in vegetable oil. The people in the family should all gather in the courtyard and burn all the dozens of catties of paper money prepared to provide for the expenses of relatives in that world. Before burning paper money, all the incense sticks should be lit and placed along the yard one by one on the road outside the yard, which is to guide the relatives in that world, and the incense sticks with red fire flickering are like street lamps neatly arranged on the roadside in the city. It is boiled and pressed with bamboo pulp and straw pulp into an earthy yellow paper money, and the rough paper surface has a trace of bamboo and weed fibers on it. Dozens of catties of paper money were pressed into a stack and torn apart one by one and lit it, it took about 3 hours for Wang En's family and Shen Bing to tear it apart and burn it out, and there were seven or eight piles of fires burned, which was enough to prove the generosity of the living to the dead. When you burn paper money, you must kneel and burn it, so that you can show your sincerity, and your relatives over there can receive the paper money. The fire was too solid to ignite by the unlit paper money, and the smoke filled the entire courtyard and rushed into the house, squeezing out of the roof tiles of the west wing. It was so smoked that everyone couldn't open their eyes, and tears were in their eyes. Choking everyone's cough and saliva gushing out. Wang Xinghai used a wooden stick to ignite the compacted pile of paper money, and the tongue of fire licked up along the thick smoke, making a deflagration sound. The firelight illuminated the entire courtyard, and the people in the courtyard were brightened by the firelight, and their faces jumped and floated with the firelight. Everyone's face was baked with a layer of grease that reflected the fire, and the outstretched hand was licked by the tongue of fire, and the smell of burnt hair was faintly imperceptible in the smoked nose. The whole village was lit up in the upper half of the fire, and the night was full of fires. Holding the hollowed-out pumpkin hollow carved lantern gourd, the children wandered around the village in three or five to feel this chic lively scene, the shadow of the swaying candle in the melon will be engraved on the melon surface hollow out of the various words on the dark road surface, several children while comparing the beauty of their melon shadows, while shouting "July and a half, ghosts are running around", with the firelight of the village with a bit of creepy language to scare some children younger than themselves.

After burning the paper money, people should eat all the offerings one by one, and eat the things that have been offered to the ancestors, and the ancestors can bless the descendants with health and longevity, no disease and no disaster, smooth sailing, successful career, and wealth. All the ashes of the burned paper money should be collected and put in pockets, and the next day the ashes should be scattered in the river in the village, and all the paper money that the ancestors had not taken should be transported over.

After Wang En went to university, he always felt that such customs were too harmful, and environmental pollution alone was terrible, so when he grew up, he knelt down on one knee every time he burned paper money to express his silent protest against this way of commemoration.