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Chapter 1067 Life Needs a Sense of Ritual
Not long after the Spring Festival, "Magi's Gift" seemed to have nothing to do with the Spring Festival.

But in the end, surprisingly, some people were able to compare this short film with the current Spring Festival, which is getting more and more complained about.

The well-known editorial critic Li Chenxi found another way to link the work "The Gift of the Magi" with the Spring Festival in his personal column.

"The Spring Festival is undoubtedly the most special festival for each of us in China, but now, our material life is getting richer and richer, but every year people say that this year's Spring Festival will never pass That kind of taste.

Our "New Year's Taste" no longer has the old taste of the past.

Why is that?
I remember a friend who was a teacher once asked her first grade students this way.

What impresses you most about the Spring Festival?
The children responded very enthusiastically, and most of their feelings focused on the following points:
There are delicious, fun, lucky money and gifts.

In fact, this is not only the answer of the children now, but also the answer of us who used to be children.

The innocent childhood thoughts also made me realize what the ritual sense of our Spring Festival means to children?
Is it a gift?Red envelope?new clothes?or something else?
When I saw "The Gift of the Magi" directed by Li Yi, I couldn't help thinking a lot.

The story is simple, Della is frugal before Christmas trying to save money to buy her husband Jim a decent Christmas present, but poverty makes her frugality so futile.

Della couldn't stand the fact that she couldn't buy Jim a gift. She saw her proud long hair in the mirror-so she had a sudden inspiration. She sold it to a wig shop and bought it for Jim. A platinum fob chain as a gift to match Jim's gold watch that has been passed down through generations.

The ending of the story makes people have mixed feelings-Della cut off her long hair and bought a watch chain for Jim; Jim sold the gold watch and bought a full set of tortoiseshell hair combs that Della had loved for a long time.

At the end, maybe I was too emotional, and I couldn't help but wet my eyes with tears.

I couldn't help but reflect, what did I cry for?
I think behind the tears is the choice of love, the decision in the dilemma.

Life cannot always prepare us with surprises and great gifts.But the touch in life can be created and felt by the heart.

And in this moving, there is also the "sense of ritual".

Why did Della still buy the best gift for Jim in such a poor day, and Jim did not hesitate to sell his ancestral gold watch to buy a gift for Della, otherwise "I will not get through without giving you a decent gift" What about this Christmas?

We often say that the unsatisfactory things in life are nine out of ten!

The recent situation of Della and Jim is obviously not good. Through the camera, through the desolation of the house, and through Della to go shopping, they always choose those discounts, and it can be seen that their lives are very difficult and very tight.

But with such a hard life, why should they give up the only things they are proud of, their long hair and gold watch, and buy another non-essential item of life?The behavior of the two young people may be really clumsy in the eyes of those who are good at financial management or know how to treasure.

However, the first thing we need to understand is, a word, a sense of ritual!

Christmas in the West, similar to Spring Festival in China, is the most important festival.

And in the most important festival, there must be the most important theme:
Christmas - the most thoughtful gift for the most important person in your heart.

Spring Festival - use the most traditional rituals to celebrate, commemorate and experience reunion.

Then it dawned on me, maybe, the reason why I shed tears, maybe the most touching thing in "The Gift of the Magi" is their clumsy behavior, the simplicity they bring to each other in "Nine out of ten unsatisfactory things in life" moved.

Back to the topic of the Spring Festival and the flavor of the New Year, why is the flavor of the Spring Festival not strong anymore?

When we ask the children what the Spring Festival feels like, we will inevitably recall what the Spring Festival looked like when we were young——

The Spring Festival in my memory is the most important traditional festival of the year, which combines excitement, joy and mystery.

Just like the feelings of the children now, I was also happy during the Spring Festival when I was a child.

There is no need to go to school, and homework can also be temporarily put aside.

There will be delicious food, fish, meat, and lotus root boxes.There will also be melon seeds, peanuts, sugar and other snacks, which can be eaten openly.

But how many people still remember the mysterious sense of ritual during the Spring Festival?At that time, the old man kept the rule of not using knives, scissors, or brooms during the Chinese New Year, and avoided any words with homonyms that were not auspicious.

In the ridiculously rigid customs, the sense of solemnity and mystery is always hidden in every action.

Let people immerse themselves in the "new year taste" of the Spring Festival.

But what about now?
How much do you remember?Probably only watching the Spring Festival Gala shaking red envelopes, right?
In the past Spring Festival, there were big operas, lion dances, dragon lanterns, and Yangko dancing.
It's a pity that after the TV, the telephone, and the Spring Festival Gala, the only rural celebration program left is to twist Yangko during the day. Later, I left the countryside, and I don't know whether to dance Yangko during the day.

And those who visit families for New Year's greetings are also imprisoned in the middle of high-rise buildings and lost.

Even at the beginning, we didn't even need to make phone calls to pay New Year's greetings, leaving only group messages of blessings that you wouldn't even look at.

Just like in "The Gift of the Magi", behind the clumsy behavior lies the light enough to make life warm,
In the customs of our Spring Festival, there are not only prosperous blessings, but also the accumulation behind the prosperous blessings.

This accumulation is more like a long river, flowing with our culture and our heritage.

When we worship our ancestors, we not only want to show our ancestors our wealth and happiness, but also appreciate and inherit. How many generations of wisdom have made us today and today, and every footprint in the inheritance, And how worth it for us to see.

Just like "The Gift of the Magi", on the surface, it seems that the gifts from Della and Jim have lost their use value, but they undoubtedly collide with each other's strong "love"-this is priceless one's gift.

Della said: "Hairs can be counted, but his love for her husband is uncountable."The gift here has surpassed the material form, and is poured on a pair of true and sincere couples who love each other.Priceless love is so dazzling and has incomparable value in the "money first" society.

In the same way, in fact, the reason why our New Year taste has faded is not because of the fewer gifts, blessings and greetings we receive, but whether these gifts and greetings are from the heart and sincere.

A gift is just a carrier, and behind it is dedication, sacrifice, and the sublimation of humanity and love.

A gift has a price, but the friendship behind the gift is priceless.This may be the beauty and warmth conveyed by this slightly bleak story.The supply of love makes people get rid of the humbleness of being shy, and live a life with value, dignity, and joy and contentment that money cannot buy. "

(End of this chapter)