Chapter 436 New Year's Day
New Year's Day is said to be Zhuanxu (znx), one of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors who began more than 5,000 years ago. This person, in legend, was the grandson of Huangdi, one of the five emperors. He was the Emperor in charge of the north, also known as the Black Emperor or Xuandi.
The historical records that can be found nowadays are the first to appear in the Book of Jin. There is a record in it: Zhuanxu used the first month of the ninth month of the summer, but in fact, the spring of the New Year's Day is on the first day.
After that, there were many statements about New Year's Day and different festival customs in all dynasties. Many historical books and poems also recorded the festival "New Year's Day".
New Year's Day in China has always referred to the lunar calendar, which is the first day of the first lunar month of the lunar calendar. However, the algorithms for the first day of the first lunar month are very different in specific dynasties and dynasties.
According to historical records, the Xia calendar of the Xia Dynasty was based on the first month of the Yuan Dynasty, and the Yin calendar of the Shang Dynasty was based on the twelfth month, that is, the twelfth month, that is, the twelfth month. In the Zhou Dynasty, the Zhou calendar was based on the winter month (November) as the first month.
Later, after Qin Shihuang unified the world, he used the spring month, that is, October as the first month, which means that New Year's Day was on the first day of the tenth lunar month in the lunar calendar.
It was not until the reign of Emperor Wu of Han that Meng Xiyue, that is, the first month of the month was the first month, and the first day of this month was called New Year's Day, and has been used until now.
In 1911, after the success of the Xinhai Revolution, representatives of governors from various provinces held a meeting to decide to use the Gregorian calendar (that is, the current Gregorian calendar) year, calling the first day of the lunar calendar the Spring Festival, and the first day of the Gregorian calendar the "New Year's Day".
However, at that time, the first day of the Gregorian calendar was not directly called "New Year's Day", but instead stipulated that the first day of the Gregorian calendar was "New Year".
New Year's Day really became a national statutory holiday. After discussion, the representatives decided to adopt the internationally universal CPPCC law.
In order to distinguish the two new years of the lunar calendar and the solar calendar, it is also considered that the beginning of spring is usually around the lunar calendar New Year in the 24 solar terms, so the first day of the lunar calendar becomes the "Spring Festival", while the first day of the lunar calendar is defined as the beginning of the year, which is New Year's Day.
Now, especially in some rural areas, New Year's Day is called the "Gregorian Year". In fact, this New Year's Day has existed for thousands of years before the Gregorian calendar appeared and became popular!
According to legend, the origin of New Year's Day is because that day was the day when Emperor Shun worshipped the Emperor of Heaven and Emperor Yao. People gradually regarded that day as the beginning of the year, called New Year's Day or Yuanzheng.
In ancient times, all dynasties held grand celebrations, sacrifices, prayers and other activities on New Year's Day, and there were some similar customs among the people, such as worshiping ancestors, writing door couplets, writing blessing characters, dancing dragon lanterns, staying up with the New Year, eating reunion dinners, setting off firecrackers, etc.
From this perspective, New Year's Day in ancient times should be equivalent to our current Spring Festival.
On New Year's Day, Wang Yong slept in until after 10 o'clock in the morning as usual. He couldn't sleep anymore, so he reluctantly got up and put on his clothes, washed and dressed up randomly. Then he left the house.
Today is called the Gregorian Year in rural areas. Generally, for rural people, it is just the Gregorian Year, and what everyone cares more about is the lunar year, that is, the Spring Festival.
However, with the holiday policy of New Year's Day, a statutory holiday, more and more rural people have begun to celebrate New Year's Day.
Because many young people who go out to school and work are on holidays these New Year's Day, most of the people who are closer to home choose to go home to check out.
The children are back, no matter what day it is, in the eyes of the elderly at home, it is the same as celebrating the festival.
The family gathered together lively, chatting, and talking about family matters. Studying, working and life, happy or unsatisfactory things, and finally having a reunion dinner together, the Spring Festival is nothing more than that.
There are not as many leisure and entertainment venues in the countryside, nor are there shopping malls with dazzling array of goods everywhere. Everyone is more of a family gathering together to chat and talk, especially those elderly people who rarely have time to see their children.
It is precisely because more and more young people in rural areas began to enter the city and gradually settled in the city that New Year's Day, as they returned home on this day, began to become well-known in rural areas and began to pay attention to it.
This kind of attention is different from the Spring Festival. The Spring Festival is more like a big gathering and exchange between the entire society or the entire family and friends. Every day, it is a very fake. The taste of family affection is much less, especially nowadays.
But New Year's Day is different. Generally, New Year's Day only takes three days off at most. The time is very short and there is no time to visit relatives and friends. Most of the whole family gathers together to chat and have dinner.
Therefore, this festival can be more comfortable and relaxing. At least there is no longer the socializing at the table all day during the Spring Festival, nor the fear of spending all your money when you buy gifts to prepare for New Year’s money. You just need to go home and go to the kang. When you wake up, the hot and fragrant meals are already served on the table.
I remember there was an article called "Happiness is on the way back".
Compared to the feeling of being nervous and helpless when you go home during the Spring Festival, you may be able to feel the feeling of happiness on the way back on the New Year’s Day!
But these have nothing to do with Wang Yong. Now he is full of thoughts on how to deal with the anger of those younger brothers and sisters later.
I had an appointment yesterday that the whole family would have a big gathering. In addition to the New Year's Day today, what is more important is that there is another family in the family, that is, Fu Lili, the godmother's godmother's goddaughter.
Although they held a home banquet in the village the next day of their wedding, they were not all here. Before, the mistress personally ordered the uncle to call each one. Unfortunately, many times, people always couldn't help themselves!
So today I took this opportunity to take advantage of the opportunity, even my uncle, who always has endless work every day, came here with my aunt to reunite with everyone.
Wang Gang, a guy who had no news after he ran to the poor area of Bashang, is coming back. I don’t know how he is doing? With his ability to be incompetent and not distinguish between grains, don’t do bad things with kindness!
The only person who cannot be present is probably Wang Liang, because of his unique identity, he can't just ask for leave in military academies.
Of course, there is no need for Second Master to do this. Wang Yong asked someone to call him. He criticized Wang Liang for a few days off. The key is that Second Master does not allow it!
The second master now regards Wang Liang as a continuation of his dream and as a successor, and never allows his family to rely on his power to help Wang Liang make special.
When laying the foundation in a military academy, if the foundation is not laid firmly, then don’t think about any further development in the future.
The soldiers in the army are not as easy to fool before. If you don’t have any real skills, how can you convince others!
The family had long been familiar with Wang Yong's living habits. After getting up in the morning, no one called him, so they rushed to the big yard where the mistress was.
When Wang Yong arrived near his mistress's house, he had not yet entered the door, and he heard the crowds of people inside, which was very lively!
What a good guy, the yard is almost full of adults and children. Think about it, I have two grandfathers in my lineage, four descendants of my biological grandfather, one of my second masters, and five of them in the second generation.
These five people get married and have children, and this family has at least two children. This is the third generation, and with the wife, you can still have a size of more than ten.
Fortunately, the number of the fourth generation of little guys is not large. Otherwise, I would have to exhaust my second grandparents who happily coaxed my great-grandchildren.
"Oh! Isn't this Wangda Village? What big thing are you doing? Why did you come?"
Before Wang Yong could enter the door, Zhang Wei, who had just become a formal son-in-law the day before yesterday, scolded him sarcastically.
However, Wang Yong had developed a pair of steel and iron bones for these words, and his defense was directly ignored by Zhang Wei.
"You kid sleeps every day, and you're not afraid of getting a little trouble when you sleep? You have to get up and do more exercise if you have nothing to do in the future! Look at me now? Look at this muscle!"
Wang Gang, who had arrived at some point, also came to join in the fun, and even bent his forearm to show the small muscle mass.
"I think they are all mean!"
Even Wang Qiang's nose is not the nose, and his face is not the face glaring at Wang Yong.
Wang Yong tilted his head and thought for a while. He didn't seem to offend them, right? Why did he fire at him? There are many conspiracies here!
Before he could figure it out, the few lesbians who were picking vegetables next to the faucet began to receive the firepower of the attack.
"My second brother is busy with national affairs all day long, and it is not something you just like the people who are just the people who are not imaginable!"
"That's right, my second brother is pursuing the highest level of sleep art. If you don't understand, don't join in it!"
"That's not the case. Look, it's only eleven o'clock now, but you still have a lot of face. Usually, he usually buys breakfast once a few times, when will he go out in the morning?"
"Stop!t! What are you doing in this matter? Do you want to join forces to bully my brother?"
Zhang Mei's position was still very firm at the critical moment. Seeing that her younger brother was being run by a group of people, she immediately stood up and said a few fair words.
"You are not allowed to say bad things about your godfather!"
At the critical moment, the goddaughter Wenwen also stood up and stood up for her godfather and stood up for her unfairness.
This made Wang Yong very moved, especially when he looked at the little girl staring at her eyes angrily, pouting her mouth, her eyes were red, and tears were rolling in her eyes, she felt even more distressed.
The little girl is still too young and doesn’t know what it is to joke. She told them that she was going to hold a critical meeting of Wang Yong!
In the little girl's mind, the godfather should be the best godfather in the world. How could they say that godfather like that? When they were anxious, tears came out.
Now, the group of people had nothing to do to urge Wang Yong to hold a critical meeting, but they didn't expect that Zhang Mei, especially Wenwen, would be disrupted.
Especially Wenwen, the very beloved little girl, once she stood up like this, she immediately realized something was wrong without saying anything else.
When I saw my baby's great-granddaughter crying again, I felt so distressed that I almost burst into tears.
"Are you all done nothing while you are idle? What's wrong with Wang Yong doing? Just the thing he did, it's enough to take out one of them for a lifetime! It's okay to rest while you're idle, what's wrong?"
While hugging Wenwen to comfort her, the mistress opened fire on her grandchildren and grandson-in-law.
At this moment, for the old lady, no matter whether her grandson or granddaughter, she did not have the help of her, and now she is filial to her.
Especially for her favorite granddaughter Wenwen, she usually doesn’t want to deal with Wenwen, but she is Wenwen’s grandfather. Her parents say something harsh. As long as she knows, she will take Wenwen to support her little baby, let alone scare Wenwen to cry today!
Those guys were not stupid either. When they saw Wenwen, they burst into tears and immediately knew that something was going to be bad. When the mistress ran over with big strides, they could only silently pay silence for themselves in their hearts!
After swearing, he swears and lets the mistress let them go. Then a group of people squat down and persuade Wenwen. After talking for a long time, he didn't explain what was going on.
The group of people were helpless and had to turn their heads to Wang Yong, the "victim".
Wang Yong originally wanted to take it and let them know how powerful they were, but when he saw the bad eyes of his mistress, he was clever and quickly stepped forward and pulled his daughter over.
First, I wiped my daughter's tears with great distress, and then I smiled and whispered to her.
"Good daughter, it's okay. Look, they've been scolded by their wives, don't cry?"
"But why do they say godfather so much? Godfather is the best godfather in the world! Wenwen doesn't want to listen to them saying godfather like that."
Hearing this sentence, Wang Yong's eyes became warm and he couldn't burst into tears. He hurriedly hugged Wenwen tightly and patted her back twice with his hands.
"Is their godfather so nice to Wenwen?"
"Then you will treat them as good as Wenwen in the future. OK? Aunt, uncle and uncle are all very good to Wenwen. Will Wenwen also give them a share of the pocket money you give to Wenwen in the future?"
Looking at his daughter's big eyes full of expectations, Wang Yong was speechless. Not only him, but also the group of people who listened to him and Wenwen were also moved.
"No, they are all adults, so adults can no longer ask for pocket money from their godfather. If you don't believe me, please ask them?"
How could Wenwen say this? Before she could turn her head around, the group of people spoke out in a slight manner:
"Yes, Wenwen's godfather is right."
"Well, sir, can't ask for pocket money anymore."
"Adults have to make money by themselves and spend it for their parents."
"Oh, then when Wenwen grows up, she will earn money to spend for her godfather!"
After saying this, he saw his wife looking at her worriedly, and then added, "I'll give it to the wife too!"
Chapter completed!