Phoenix City is as bright as a rainbow: A happy New Year greeting

Phoenix City is as bright as a rainbow: A happy New Year greeting "On the first day of the first lunar month, every household celebrates the New Year, hangs lights in the streets and alleys, and takes to the streets to pay New Year greetings! Seven mid-winter days of fighting for the east, taking to the streets...

Phoenix City is full of energy: A happy New Year greeting "On the first day of the first lunar month, every household celebrates the New Year, hangs lights in the streets and alleys, and goes to the streets to pay New Year greetings! For seven long winters, we rush to the east and go to the streets to pay New Year greetings! Pang?#12301; As the Lunar New Year welcomes spring, Chinese people who love music will probably not forget this "New Year's greeting" song. It was composed by Yan Hua and lyrics by Jin Quan half a century ago. It was used as an episode in the movie "Spring Is Not a Day to Study" and was sung by two Mandarin movie stars at the time, Yan Jun and Lin Dai. Young students at that time loved this song very much because it was relaxed, natural, unpretentious, and full of reality, making it very popular. This year, on the first day of the first lunar month of Renchen, there was a dance to the accompaniment of this song in the Spring Festival dance of the Senior Citizens Association. It can be seen that the beautiful songs are endlessly listened to, unforgettable, and widely circulated. The lyrics of "New Year's greetings" are actually very simple, and the singing is not perfect. However, the lyrics describe the process of young people's New Year's greetings, their childhood quarrels, their innocent harmony, and their joy in celebrating the New Year together. It is this sentiment that makes people love it. Every year when the Lunar New Year comes, I will naturally hum this song, and I will naturally think of the issue of New Year greetings. In Arizona and Phoenix, the joyful atmosphere during the Chinese New Year is far less than that in Vietnam. However, the Chinese and Vietnamese people organize more and better events every year. This is also a fact. It makes me, a person with traditional ideas, very happy. It is indeed comforting to see the various celebrations of the Year of the Dragon in Renchen. Although the mainstream society has not yet integrated into the celebration, it is difficult for the Chinese-Vietnamese groups to carry out the Spring Festival activities in accordance with the schedule, and it may become too early or delayed. For example, when it was supposed to be a celebration at the end of the Lunar New Year, it was named Renchen to welcome the Spring. However, the dragon soared, which was a fly in the ointment; it was already the Lantern Festival with bright lights, but it was still called to welcome the New Year in the Year of the Dragon, and the good news was delayed. Fortunately, the Chinese Senior Citizens Association in Phoenix played a huge role in ensuring the correct Spring Festival banquet. Speaking of New Year greetings is a traditional custom during the Lunar New Year. Even if we move to European and American countries, we must still try our best to maintain our national traditions and continue to promote the celebration of the Spring Festival and the activities of New Year greetings. There is a Cantonese proverb that goes: "If you are willing, you are not afraid of being late. It is time to send New Year greetings in March." In other words, during the Spring Festival, if you cannot arrange time to send New Year greetings to relatives and friends, it doesn't matter if you postpone it a little. Of course, no one extends it to March. That is just an emphasis. The traditional custom of New Year greetings is to visit each other at the homes of relatives and friends. It is a good activity for the agricultural society to celebrate the New Year and to be friendly and neighborly. However, with the prosperity and development of industry and commerce, everything is fast and it is difficult to welcome the New Year leisurely. People use their brains to reform and advocate new life. In Vietnam, in the 1960s, various Chinese associations took the lead in setting an example and holding group worship. For example, the Chinese Council of the Five Gangs, county associations, clan associations, trade unions in different industries, school boards, parent associations, etc., during the Spring Festival, make an appointment on a certain day at the beginning of the year to hold a Spring Festival group worship at the club site or in a restaurant, congratulate each other, and wish everyone well. If you want to give generous gifts or red envelopes, you can also do it on the spot. In some factories and large stores, where there are many employees, the wealthy bosses organize spring banquets and large banquets; the poor bosses can organize spring tea and drink tea and cakes, which is just as happy. In Phoenix, like other cities in the United States, Chinese and Vietnamese people cannot welcome the Spring Festival according to the festival. They can only adapt to the times and local conditions. The custom of individual New Year greetings is still maintained, and collective group worship activities are also carried out. However, some people sincerely went to pay New Year greetings, and some specially organized group worship, which was carried out simply and harmoniously without grand publicity or deliberate reporting. Taking the eleventh day of the first lunar month as an example, that is noon on Thursday, February 2, 2012. Professor Lu Kanghua, who lives in Tucson, Arizona, is over eighty years old and has difficulty moving. He used his daughter to go to Phoenix for a meeting. He spared no effort to travel and pay New Year's greetings to the president of the Alberta Times. As for President Lao Zhen, who had undergone surgery for back pain at the end of the year and had not recovered from the disease and had to use crutches to support his walking, he even held a banquet in the newspaper office to welcome guests with such kindness and kindness that it was touching. He also took this opportunity to organize a small and simple New Year party, and sincerely invited me, Uncle Jia Kwong Tim Quan, veteran Yu Wenjin and Yu Jiangying to participate. The invitation only said it was a tea party, and I was full of doubts. I asked with a smile at the time: "What kind of auspicious day banquet is this?" Later I found out that it was the Alberta Times that welcomed Professor Lu Kanghua and his wife to visit for New Year greetings, and organized a Spring Festival gathering for several elderly friends. It can also be called a Spring Tea Party, where people can talk freely and speak freely. Professor Lu is worthy of being a famous scholar in Heilongjiang. He has a great memory. He even remembered meeting me at Zhang Huafang’s house at the Phoenix Writers Association gathering in 2006. He said he often reads my works. Professor Lu is a scholar who has been studying Chinese comparative literature for a long time. He published the first "Comparative Literature Materials" book in the 1980s. He has great experience in this field, and his eloquent talks and valuable opinions made this gathering very interesting. Although this Spring Tea Party is simple and unremarkable, it is a manifestation of the inheritance of Chinese Spring Festival customs. It is a New Year greeting and a group greeting. We ended the party with harmonious conversations and waved goodbye with joyful laughter! Now it’s fun to hit the keyboard again and talk about New Year greetings.