The Movement of Paying New Year Call
Fang Yingwen
Chinese had suffered hardship of political movement, they swore that they will never launch any movement. Swear, is an extreme way of language, and the suspicion of our own power. The successive political movement in those years just like being addicted to smoke, and it is hard to quit smoking after that. His smoking addiction will come back if he sees other people smoke. He urges himself get rid of smoking in rational, which doesn’t mean that he doesn’t want to smoke. It is all the more so if launch more movements. We fully know that it is harmful to launch movement, when there is an opportunity, we will do so.
There is a fantastic festival in China. The year’s festival, we usually call Spring Festival. This is the day that can satisfy the willing of establishing campaign. Therefore, when the time is in the twelfth month of lunar year, it is the sound of starting gun, all over the China b
ecomes a huge playground in a moment, and all the Chinese are sportsmen. They are busy and noisy, the transportation in sea, land and sky are overloading operation. Telegram and phone are always busy working; a lot of money is drawn from the bank; million tons of foods break up into part, which seems that it is the last dinner of life. We can consider Spring Festival movement in different aspects: it can be shopping movement, dumping activity, middle-distance race campaign. It also can be the activity of gathering blood relationship, party of relatives, drinking alcohol, playing mahjong, watching boring evening party on TV and don’t divorce temporarily. Here I just talk about the movement of paying New Year call, which in fact full of political complexion.
When it comes to politics, the comprehension of many people is always single and partial. When mention politics, it is the business of officials. Please look up the Modern Chinese Dictionary and we can read the explanation of “politics”：“The activities include government, political party, social organization and personal in domestic affairs and international relation. Politics is the concentrated
expression of economics. Any classes of politics should regard their aim as protecting the interests of their classes and obtaining dominant position.”
At present our country is working on economic construction, which is an obvious politics. While each of us is an independent person, we have our own internal affairs and “international relation”(interpersonal relation), and we fill with strong utility (politics) purpose joining to pay Spring Festival call actively. The sounds of “paying early New Year call” come from everywhere as soon as the midmonth of December comes. This is compulsory course of politician. They pay New Year call to the people who have lower level than themselves with sweet words, but these words don’t worth a farthing. But if the lower level people want to pay New Year call to higher level people, they have to have presents to send rather than nothing. If township chief pay New Year call to county chief, the township chief makes a bow with hands folded in front when he gets to the door and says that he is coming for saying “happy new year”without any gifts, the county chief will kick him out of door if he has bad temper and says that he isn’t qualified to greet him just with empty hands. On the contrary, county chief pay New Year call to township chief, alth
ough he takes nothing with himself, the township chief still feel so glad. Before his guest goes back, he will send him a lot of local products. He will also send local products to his secretary and driver if he is smart. Therefore, if you work in official circles, you must know the rules of paying New Year call: high level people greet to lower level people, “software”is crucial, news and media hype reflect their diligence. Both official and civilian will happy; on the contrary, the crucial thing is “hardware”. Just like the enemies invade to the village quietly that nobody knows.
According to the folklore that year is a scary animal, that’s why we have to pay New Year call. The power of the year is much stronger than human, therefore I affirm, we can’t defeat greeting new year whatever how the technology is advanced. If we don’t pay New Year call, the year will curse us. That is to say that paying New Year call will continue generation after generation without stop. Paying a call, is obviously an unequal relationship and we have no other choices. Because it isn’t love, we are not willing but forced to do it. I used to see a very interesting couplet: the spring
comes to the yard of farmer, the year goes to the home of officer. Why does the year go to officer’s home? Because there are many people greet to officer, which means the year hides in his home. Officers have power, if we want to satisfy some of our worldly desires, there is no way without officer’s coordinate and award. If the officer who accepts paying a New Year call willingly is boring, then the one who likes paying New Year call to officer will be laughed. They are like slaves with coquetry on their faces, the motivation of their paying New Year call is definitely bad. One sir used to tell me personally that he expected for celebrating the New Year, so that he could pay New Year call to his boss. Because a deputy chief of his company would be transferred, and he wanted that position. He even eagerly looked forward to that deputy chief has car accident or has acute disease to be in hospital, so as to have the chance to send him gift. Therefore, I seriously remind some leaders who are interested in letting others pay New Year call to themselves: you must strengthen the culture of Marxism-leninism theory, enhance the ability of distinguishing black and white. The one who pays New Year call (even consist of your immediate family) to you has harmful motivation! If you have read some excellent literature, you would deepl发誓的英文
y discern the weakness of humanness. It will be easy for you to imagine that the people who payed New Year call to you on his way to home and they must be think like this: wish this time would not be no return.
The people who can pay New Year call openly can just be relatives. Of course firstly we pay New Year call to our parents. Then to the relatives who have blood relations with parents, like aunts and mother’s (or father’s) brother. Generally speaking, relatives are not contacting in usual time, the friends who pay New Year call on Spring Festival are not real friends. Just because of blood relation, connects people from different class and position. If there is an officer in village, the thing he is most afraid of is the relatives visit his house. But if he refuses this, he is coldblooedness. The rich don’t like Spring Festival because they don’t want to contact with his poor relatives; the poor hate Spring Festival because he has nothing to serve his rich relatives if they come. That is why everybody pays New Year call. You can’t avoid having Spring Festival, you can only kill time in this way. A married man doesn’t
have to pay New Year call to his parents, his boss or relatives and friends. But if he doesn’t pay New Year call to his father-in-law, the life of his family next year will in a mass. It’s interesting to think that your father-in-law gives you his daughter who is brought up by himself, which just like you saved your money in the bank as deposit, but actually he will never receive interest except a little bit in Spring Festival. If his son-in-law is a heavy drinker, and he drinks a lot on lunar January when he pays New Year call, his father-in-law can do nothing but bear it. That’s the reason why man always drunk at home of his father-in-law…
Paying New Year call movement will not finish until the last day of the first month of lunar year. On lunar January, many Chinese people forget the date of the Gregorian calendar but remember the lunar date, in order to complete all the stuff within lunar January like paying New Year call, getting close to people and paying back gratitude. Otherwise, you will lose the good opportunity. For this reason, besides innocent kids, hardly any sober adults like Spring Festival. When February the first of lunar year comes, everyone will feel released and say: “oh my, that damned Spring Festival finally went away!”
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