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Chapter 407 The Sense of Ceremony

"After dinner, let's go visit, shall we?"

"Yeah, I'm going out with my lamp."

It seems that on New Year's Eve, the palace lantern sent by Liu Feng won Peng Peng's favor, and now she has to carry the lantern with her wherever she goes.

Zhang Zhong said, "After dinner, you go to visit, I want to go out."

"Then you also have to go to your Aunt Wu's house." Hu Huifang said.

Zhang nodded, "Well, I'll go out after I've been to Aunt Wu's house."

Hu Huifang glanced at her son, but didn't ask him what he was doing out there.Zhang Zhong also breathed a sigh of relief. When he started eating just now, he was worried. He was afraid that his mother would say that there were only four people in the New Year and it was too deserted.

Fortunately, it was okay tonight, and I didn't enter the marriage urging mode.

After dinner, it was still early, but the family was not in a hurry to leave, fearing that it would be early, and Wu Aiying's family was still eating.

The custom here is that the door of the house cannot be opened until the New Year's Eve dinner is finished.Although this custom does not have to be followed now, it is still necessary to pay attention to it.

After staying at home for a while, the Spring Festival Gala hadn't started yet, and the family sat in the living room watching some uninteresting news.

Pengpeng wandered around the living room with a lamp, and told her grandma to turn off all the lights in the room and keep her palace lantern.

Hu Huifang doted on her and turned off all the lights in the room.

Zhang Chong looked at Pengpeng running around with a lantern, shook his head and smiled, if he had told his mother to turn off the lights when he was a child, he would probably have been beaten up.

It is also their custom to not turn off the lights at night during the New Year, and all the lights that can be turned on must be turned on.

There are many theories about this custom. Some people say it is to keep the year old, while others say it is to drive away animals. It probably has the same meaning as New Year’s Eve. There is also a saying that once upon a time there was an old woman who escaped thieves because she didn’t turn off the lights. Everyone can learn from it. Sample.

Anyway, this custom may no longer exist in Peng Peng's generation, and everyone doesn't care, so it will naturally disappear.

Many people have suggested that these old customs are too wasteful and should be abolished.

However, Zhang Chong felt that although it was wasteful, if too much consideration was given to whether it was wasted or not, then the festival would have no meaning.

Life still needs a sense of ritual. These seemingly unnecessary things can just place people's emotions.

The sense of ritual is not a vain performance, but the most direct way for people to express their inner emotions, and the sense of ritual is everywhere.

Zhang Zhong recalled a passage in "The Little Prince": the sense of ritual is to make a certain day different from other days, and make a certain moment different from other moments.

Life needs this kind of difference. If there are more than 360 days in a year, every day is exactly the same, and life is meaningless.

Zhang Zhong wanted to leave Pengpeng with a sense of ritual, at least so that she would have some special memories when she grows up, instead of just thinking about Chinese New Year, just eating more abundantly than usual.

In fact, even the food may not be richer than usual. No matter how many dishes are cooked at home, they cannot keep up with those in the hotel.

The lamps that Liu Feng sent are pretty good, maybe we should add two new lamps to our home every year in the future.

After Pengpeng grows up, every Chinese New Year, she will think of the lanterns that were raised in those years.Or when you usually see lights, you will think of Chinese New Year.

There is a memory point, which is very good.

When Zhang Zhong and the others went to Wu Aiying's house, Wu Aiying's family had just finished eating.

When Li Zhuo opened the door, he said with a smile, "I just wanted to go to your side."

Before the adults spoke, Pengpeng had already walked in with a lamp, "Uncle Zhuo, look at my lamp."

"Wow, such a beautiful lamp, did your father buy it for you?"

"No, Uncle Liu sent it." Pengpeng said.

Zhang Zhong explained, "The father of her classmate, she has a good relationship with that little sister."

"Come on, let's go into the house, my mother and Xiaoyan are doing the dishes."

Zhang Xingjun said with a smile, "What kind of bowls are you doing during the Chinese New Year?"

The kitchen was not far from the door, and Wu Aiying heard Zhang Xingjun's voice inside, saying, "If I don't wash this bowl, I will have to wait until next year."

"Next year will be next year, which year will I not wash the dishes?"

"Wait a minute, my side is almost over, Xiaoyan, go out with your brother and pour tea for your Aunt Huifang and the others."

Li Yan came out to say hello to Hu Huifang and the others, then looked at the Pengpeng lamp and said, "Wow, Pengpeng's lamp is so beautiful, can you show it to my aunt?"

"Okay, but don't be like Dad."

……

After sitting at Li Zhuo's house for a while, Hu Huifang and the others moved to another house, and Zhang Zhong left after telling them.

He drank some wine in the evening, so he couldn't drive the car, so he hailed a taxi and drove to the city.

There are few cars now, and it only takes ten minutes to go to the city. I didn't expect to meet a master who loves to talk.

As soon as Zhang Zhong got into the car, the taxi driver said with a smile, "The young man just finished his New Year's dinner?"

"what?"

"I also just finished the New Year's dinner. I thought I would come out to do some work after the meal. I didn't waste a second when I saw you waving."

"That's quite a coincidence."

"My wife asked me to watch the Spring Festival Gala at home. There is nothing interesting to watch. I have been watching it for decades, and the Spring Festival Gala has become more and more boring in recent years. Only Shen Jian's sketches are not bad. There are fewer and fewer sketches now. It’s singing and dancing, and I can’t understand it. The director of the Spring Festival Gala doesn’t know what to think. Isn’t the Spring Festival Gala just for us ordinary people to watch, and they just make things we don’t understand. Isn’t this putting the cart before the horse.”

"Hmm." Zhang Zhong didn't know what to talk to him about, after all, he hadn't watched much of the Spring Festival Gala in recent years.

"The young man is going to play in the city?"

"Well, meet some friends."

"That's right. If I were a teenager younger, I would definitely go out like you. At your age, are you married?"

"not yet."

"Don't worry, the times are different. We used to get married when we were over [-]. Now it's different. Young people are in their twenties after finishing their studies, and some of them are in their early thirties after finishing their studies. Besides, You don’t want to fall in love with children when you go to school. How can you find someone just after reading this book. My daughter is just a freshman, and her mother tells her every day not to fall in love, but to study hard. I can see it, girls are so big Now, she can decide whether to fall in love or not."

"Brother is quite open-minded." Zhang Chong added with a smile.

"Times are changing, and people are changing too. Even if we drive taxis, we can't follow the same way as before. Now that online car-hailing is so convenient, it will be the same as before. Sooner or later we will not be able to eat. I plan to take my The operating license was sold, and I went back to buy a private car to go to work.”

Listening to the driver's words, Zhang Zhong actually thought of Sha Zilong in "Soulbreaker Gun".

Although it is not as good as it is, it also has a sense of giving up tradition.

(End of this chapter)