The Sound of The New Year
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The Spring Festival of the Year of the Tiger has entered the end, but the aftertaste has just begun. The first impression given to the author by this Spring Festival is a "quiet" word. In the seventy-two Spring Festivals I have experienced, no Spring Festival can compare with the "quietness" of this year's Spring Festival, especially the night of Chinese New Year's Eve, which has been inherited for thousands of years, and the firecrackers that have been inherited for thousands of years have "made noise" in the new year, and the sound of transformation into firecrackers has completely faded, and people are "in a silent place" waiting for the arrival of the new spring.
A "noisy" becomes a "quiet", but this year's Tiggo has a Sven style, and it is interesting to think about it.
Around the "countdown" of Chinese New Year's Eve night, I couldn't hear a single burst of firecrackers in the city where I lived, including in the countryside. This is obviously the effect of "banning release", and it is also the embodiment of the prohibition of all people. All the fireworks were forbidden to the "fullest" and clean, until the author wrote this little article, and even the children's "Drip Gold" and "Throwing Ground Cannon" had never been seen or heard. The stormy firecracker frenzy is a kind of memory.
The sound of firecrackers stopped, and everything seemed to be muted. People probably know why they want to "be quiet", and they seem to be carefully waiting for a "quiet" word. It is not so much about keeping the age as it is about keeping "quiet". The so-called "dragon leaping tiger leap" New Year dedication can be considered a dumb language. In the middle of the night, I wandered on the River Road in the center of the city, only to see that the lights were bright, the cars were sparsely populated, and the scene of the busy traffic in the past was very quiet.
However, it is precisely because of this word "quiet" that I can hear other voices in this city shrouded in great silence, or the gospel that has been forgotten and ignored. At this moment, I heard the sound of the train whistle more than ten miles away, heard the natural sound of the church bell tower, heard the noise of kittens and puppies, heard the chirping of the birds in the green belt, and heard the trumpet sound of a card floating out of which window I did not know which window I was extremely touched by...
The direct effect of the "ban" is to ban the usual "noise" and prevent the dangers associated with firecrackers, but it also sets off other "sounds" of holiday life, more authentic sounds. The voice of life lives forever, and the heart of emotion is always there. I was surrounded by this wonderful feeling, "hearing" one by one, enjoying the sound of the long-lost New Year. This may be the gift and compensation of the quiet of the Year of the Tiger.
Although it is difficult to predict what this Year of the Tiger will look like, it is not a meaningful event to cut into the new ring with the word "Jing" and outline a new beginning in the state of mind and environment of "Jing"...
(Sketched on February 19, 2022)
【About the author】Zhou Changxing (male), born in February 1949 in Huangnan Village, Nanzhan Town, Wenshang County, Shandong Province. He joined the army in February 1969. In September 1990, he returned to the local government to work for Jining Television. He is a member of the Chinese Writers Association, a senior journalist and a poet. He has published long-form reportage "The Place where Kunpeng Took Off", long-form biographical literature "Don't Get Drunk and Don't Say Qiao Yu's Love of the Great River", "Qiao Yu's Love Song", "Great Us", "Big Wave Gold Rush" and so on. He was the author of the 39-episode large-scale TV series "Dajingjiu" of CCTV, and its "Commentary on Dajingjiu" published by Railway Publishing House has been used as an official textbook by the Communication University of China. After retirement, he devoted himself to the writing of online literature and won praise from readers at home and abroad for his grounded and independent works. The concept of "work first, reader first, life first" is the motivation and goal of his efforts to cultivate the subliminal folk.