On the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, many people got out of bed before dawn. The men tidied up and began to gather together. The elders of each family went to pay New Year greetings.
Women can sleep a little longer, and then get together and chat if they have nothing to do.
When paying New Year greetings, the younger generation will lead the elders at home to pay New Year greetings to the elderly. There is no custom of kneeling during New Year greetings in Yangjia Village. Unless it is to pay New Year greetings to one's own parents or grandparents, who are directly related by blood, they will only kowtow. No need to do anything else.
Of course, if you don't kowtow to others to pay New Year's greetings, you won't get red envelopes. Unless you are playfully trying to argue with each other and asking the juniors to kowtow to pay New Year's greetings, you will be given some points. At other times, red envelopes will be given to the equipment of immediate family members, and others do not need to give red envelopes.
During the New Year greetings, the most popular items that children take back are all kinds of melon seeds, candies, and fried peanuts.
Nowadays, when people in the city celebrate the New Year, they start to give a red envelope of five yuan or ten yuan. This is not popular here in Yangjia Village. Giving some snacks feels more real.
Of course, children definitely like money more than these small snacks that are available at home. Unfortunately, it is not their turn to make the decision now, it is all the adults who have the final say.
Nowadays, adults always feel that they give small snacks but not red envelopes to avoid unnecessary comparisons, so they can only put some melon seeds in their pockets when paying New Year greetings.
It is estimated that when they grow up and become parents, they will also feel that giving New Year gifts such as melon seeds and candies is very good, but sending and receiving red envelopes back and forth will be uncomfortable.
It was almost dawn after the New Year greetings. The adults were holding fire paper in their hands and cannons under their arms, while the children were following behind with fireworks or small cannons bumped into bags.
Whoever lights the grave of the immediate elder of the family will first light the fire paper, and then set off cannons and fireworks to notify the deceased elder to get up and collect the money.
In the end, everyone stood in a row, with adults in front and children behind. They knelt down and kowtowed to the old graves to pay New Year greetings. As a group, a group of people began to rush to other old graves to continue visiting the graves.
Yang Dongxu feels that the current burial method in Yangjiacun is quite good. There is no prescribed cemetery. After the old man passes away, he can check with Mr. Yin and Yang and bury him wherever he feels is suitable.
Because the cemeteries are not concentrated, and there are regulations not to build any tombstones or tombs, the old tombs surrounding the village will disappear in a hundred years or more, and the dead will not occupy the space of the living.
For example, the custom in Yangjia Village is to add graves to the deceased elders during the Qingming Festival. Because the graveyards are in the fields, during normal farming or when it is windy and rainy, if no one adds graves, the old graves will become shorter and shorter until Finally disappears.
Now when Father Yang adds to his grave, he will add his great-grandfather and great-grandmother, that is, ancestor Yang Dongxu’s generation. As for the elders from earlier, I don’t know where their graves are anymore.
When it's Father Yang's turn to add to his grave when he gets old, and when Yang Dongxu adds to his grave, he will probably add to his ancestor's generation. But when Yang Dongxu is old and Wen Chen grows up.
It is estimated that the graves to be added will not go to the ancestor Yang Dongxu's generation, but to the graves of Mr. Yang Dongxu, or Mr. Yang Dongxu's grandparents, and Mr. Wen Chen's generation.
In short, the longer the distance between the elders is, because they do not have a close relationship with the more distant descendants, the graves will gradually disappear without anyone adding them, thus forming a virtuous circle.
As generations pass by, the graves of the deceased people appear in the fields, and the graves of the elders disappear in the fields, and so on.
If you build a special old cemetery and bury all the elders of the family in one place, and build a tomb and add graves during every year and festival, the old grave will not disappear as long as the heirs continue, and the cemetery will become more beautiful as time goes by. There will be more and more people, until the dead people take up the space of the living people.
Therefore, if there is no significant contribution, if no tombs are built or monuments are erected, the new generation will grow old and die, and the graves of the elders will disappear earlier. This is a normal phenomenon.
Therefore, the current emphasis on cremation and not burial occupying land resources is actually not necessary in Yang Dongxu's opinion.
As long as tombs are not allowed to be built and monuments are built, coffins buried in the ground after four or five generations will corrode and collapse, and later generations will gradually lose contact with the earlier ancestors, or no one will add graves for other reasons, these tombs will naturally disappear and be reborn. Become farmland.
"Let's go for a walk and play cards!" Everyone was not hungry after returning from the ancestor worship.
Because when we got up in the middle of the night to welcome the New Year, we had already eaten a meal of dumplings. After not sleeping for a few hours, everyone got up to celebrate the New Year and were not hungry at all.
It’s normal to eat breakfast on the first day of the Lunar New Year when you’re hungry around midnight. So since I have nothing to do, playing cards has become today’s entertainment.
"You guys go ahead. I have something else to do. I'll be there later." Yang Dongxu shook the phone in his hand to indicate that he had something to do, and asked Daliang and others to go play first.
There was a reply to Dai'er's inquiry. The Qianliang Mine was suddenly closed down and required to stop working. He pointed out various problems to prevent the mining from opening and it had something to do with him.
Because it is the Morgan consortium in the United States that is promoting this matter, but this relationship is not the main relationship.
The real reason has a lot to do with the general environment in which when China invests in other countries or negotiates cooperation, the United States intervenes to disrupt the otherwise good cooperation, and even joins forces with local governments to swallow up China's initial investment.
Therefore, the fact that the Qianliang Mine is prevented from starting construction is essentially the United States' obstruction of China's international investment and development, and the Morgan consortium is just pushing the situation along.
It is precisely because this kind of push and pull is not the main target, which makes this matter difficult to deal with. Unless the United States agrees to let the United States get stuck, there is no way to get rid of this gangster, even if Yang Dongxu comes forward.
Because now the United States is so rogue not only against China, but also against Northern Russia and other weak and small countries. This is the overall interest of the United States.
Not that he had cooperated with Little Jack, the Kennedy family, or American bosses with military backgrounds. Because their interests in cooperation were threatened by the Morgan consortium, they were prompted to cooperate.
Qian Liang's mine does not have the interests of Yang Dongxu's collaborators, so the Morgan consortium did not hinder them this time.
Even behind the Morgan consortium's push, there may be collaborators like Yang Dongxu. Therefore, in this matter, Yang Dongxu was unable to use the current relationships with these collaborators to perfectly solve the problem so that Qian Liang would not suffer a loss.
Because if he helps Qian Liang this time, he will be standing on the opposite side of his collaborators, the Morgan consortium and all other major American capitals. He does not have the power to fight now.
Not only him, but the entire China has been frustrated by the rogue United States in terms of international investment.
Although China is developing rapidly, its domestic economy is booming and its international status is constantly improving, and its influence in the world is also increasing day by day, starting to establish its own image as a great country.
But after all, China has just emerged. Compared with the United States, an old gangster that has been rampant for hundreds of years, there is a big gap in terms of power, strength, and international influence.
If you fall behind in the international community, you will be beaten. If you don't have the fists of others, you won't have the confidence to stand up and speak out.
