Qingwei | the second day of the Chinese New Year, my grandmother's birthday

The second day of the first lunar month is my grandmother's birthday.

When you are alive, you feel that the sun and the moon are long. People die, and the days slip by. In a blink of an eye, my grandmother had been away from us for more than four years. On the second day of the first lunar month, this day of remembrance and remembrance of my grandmother has been reincarnated several times.

On the second day of the first lunar month in 1994, the sun was warm. In the small farm yard of several low mud houses, a large family of twenty or thirty people celebrated Grandma's seventieth birthday. Sons, daughters-in-law, and grandchildren toast the old man in turn. After that, cut the cake, listen to the old man's speech, eat vegetables and drink wine, lively and lively for the grandmother's seventieth birthday, and the red fire was too big.

Seventy years of life are rare. Twenty-eight years ago, when we had just settled on a full meal, in an era when only television stations could shoot news with video cameras, my father invited a videographer from the county town to videotape my grandmother's seventieth birthday, which was very valuable. The grandmother said in the video that several of her sons were celebrating her birthday, and she was very happy. But I didn't get my father (the second oldest) to ask someone to take a video. Apparently, my grandmother was very happy, but she neglected the important moment of facing the camera lens for the first time in her life; perhaps because of the first time she faced the camera lens, my grandmother was also a little nervous.

This 40-minute video has become a must-see program for us on the second day of the first lunar month every year. My grandmother lived to be 93 years old, and we watched her for more than twenty years.

At that time, the camera was still tape-style, and the images taken were still stored on the tape, and in 2002, uncle Six transcribed the images on the tape into A VCD, and later, we copied the VCD source files on a U disk, plugged in the TV, computer can be played. Up to now, the VCD format conversion is compressed and sent to the mobile phone, which is more convenient to see on the mobile phone.

Due to the conditions and technology of shooting and ripped at that time, today we see this image of my grandmother's seventieth birthday, and the picture is not very clear. But this does not prevent this video from becoming the best birthday gift we can give to our grandmother, nor does it prevent us from recognizing the characters on the screen.

Time flies. Looking at this video 28 years later on the second day of the first lunar month, it has really become a story. A few mud houses on the north side of our yard have been demolished; my grandfather, my grandmother, my great uncle, my grandmother, my uncle, and my uncle have passed away; and the grandson that my grandmother was holding in her arms has now crossed the threshold of thirty years. Just as a video of his grandfather telling us about his father and his grandfather; and my grandmother telling us about her father, her mother, and my grandmother's seventieth birthday will become a distant past. Fortunately, we and our descendants can still find the vivid appearance of our grandfather and grandmother from this video.

Some days do not require us to invest too much memory, and some years do not need us to deliberately depict. The second day of the Chinese New Year is too easy to remember, both new year and birthday. Every year, on auspicious and auspicious days, my grandmother spent her birthday happily and seriously, happily and happily.

Grandmother likes to be hot and loves to be lively. A large piece of children and grandchildren, the New Year, the birthday, the arrival of children and grandchildren she is very happy. Having children and going through hardships, the hardships of life have long been engraved in her deep wrinkles, and the vicissitudes of the years have also been integrated into her calm heart. She needs to correct the deviation of life on the second day of the first lunar month, surrounded by her children and grandchildren, enjoy the happiness and satisfaction of life, and comfort the weakness of a woman under her strong and spicy. In the course of more than ninety years of life that has been weathered by wind and frost, no matter how hard the days are, my grandmother always has to adjust the second day of the first lunar month to be exquisite and holy, lively and simple.

When I was young, I only remembered that my grandmother's birthday was the second day of the first lunar month. On the second day of the first lunar month, sons, grandchildren, granddaughters, and heavy grandchildren brought up more cakes, and then they thought that it didn't make much sense for my grandmother to have a birthday every year, but my grandmother was very happy. Happily accepted, happily took a small piece of each cake.

Year after year, the second day of the first lunar month arrives as scheduled. After 2018, there is no grandmother, no birthday cake. Looking at the grandmother on the video, we are already in tears. I know that year after year, the second day of the first lunar month, this auspicious and auspicious day, receiving joy and blessings, she needs the second day of the first lunar month to belong to the beginning of life, we accompany my grandmother to celebrate her birthday, and we will always miss her.

On the third day of the Chinese New Year this year, the third uncle and sister came to visit their father for the New Year, and asked about the video of the third uncle watching his grandmother's seventieth birthday yesterday, and the sister said that the floor of the hall was cold and cold, and the third uncle sat on the ground and watched the grandmother's birthday video over and over again. In the middle of the night last night, my father called and asked the third uncle to record the video of his grandfather's speech and send it to him.

When my third uncle and sister came, I turned on the TV, plugged in the USB stick, and showed them the video of my grandmother's seventieth birthday.

"First-class people are loyal and filial, and two things are to read and cultivate the fields. We must read the books, and if the books can't be read, we must cultivate the fields well. Books are not books, ploughing is not cultivated, and if you can't do anything well, you will become a second beam, and there will be nowhere to go when you are old," my grandfather said.

The words are short and affectionate, and the words are concise and concise. An old man who only attended private school for half a year when he was a child, it is indeed remarkable that he has explained family education so deeply and in place. This contains the wisdom of the grandfather, and contains the grandfather's hope and teaching for his children and grandchildren. The grandmother's hope that her son and daughter-in-law will unite and harmonize, which really reflects the solemnity of motherhood.

In the video, my grandfather and grandmother said that at that time, they were still alive, and today, when they look at it and listen to it again, it has become the last words of Cixun.

(Ge Changming, special commentator of Dandelion Review Network, signed author of Qilu Evening News • Qilu Yidian Qingwei Supplement)

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