"Nian", does it taste? I'm not sure, but I often hear people sigh that the year has passed. I smacked my lips and tasted the memory of the year in my mind. It seemed that the picture in my memory, even the sound of the festival, gradually faded with age. What about the flavor of Spring Festival? With doubt, I stepped on the train home.

On February 3, the 29th lunar month, Sun Pengqi is still busy, although the next day is the 30th lunar new year. He is a post 95 express boy, and also the "king of calls" - the user who took the longest time to talk in Liaoning Province in 2018.

In the interview, the express brother amused his girlfriend who sat beside him with a sentence. He said that beer was the most popular commodity delivered to customers during the Spring Festival, and more than 30 pieces could be delivered in one day. My brother's words activated the blind spot in my memory of the Spring Festival. Beer has always been the indispensable protagonist on the dinner table of my hometown during the Spring Festival. The words "all in wine" on the table reflect the warm and forthright regional culture of Northeast China. With the arrival of the Spring Festival, the package in the hands of the express brother is full of local characteristics, and we are integrated into the joy of the Spring Festival, often unable to smell the flavor of the year close at hand.

My second interviewee is a grass-roots cadre, whose name is Park Meihua. She has worked in the street for eight years. On New Year's Eve, she came to the conservation center to make dumplings with the elderly for the New Year. In the interview, Park Meihua talked about her understanding of happiness: some people are happy when they have ten kilograms of eggs, some people are happy when they have their own houses, some people are happy when they invest 50 million yuan, and some people are happy when they earn 1 billion yuan. Now I feel very happy as long as I can burn myself like a candle and illuminate the people in my lifetime.

I have never compared ten jin eggs with one billion yuan; But for different people, both may be called happiness. For me, it is happiness to wear new clothes and have new toys during the Spring Festival; Now, family health is happiness in my heart. Here at the street secretary, I tasted the "happiness" in the flavor of New Year.

February 8, the fourth day of the first lunar month. On this day, I was surrounded by smiles, because I took the taxi of "Smiling Taxi". Teng Jiazhi, who is over 60 years old, has served in the front line of taxi industry for 27 years. Since 2011, Teng Jiazhi has been smiling with passengers every day. Now he has taken more than 60000 smiling group photos. "I feel like going home." The passengers on Master Teng's car told reporters, "If only every taxi driver were like Master Teng." Master Teng has a childlike innocence, and his signature smile infected countless passengers.

Master Teng's signature smile makes passengers feel very friendly

After returning to work in Beijing, I sent the screenshots of microblog comments to Master Teng. He returned several facial expressions and said that when I returned to Shenyang, he would invite me to eat the chicken stewed with mushrooms.

At the last stop of the grassroots in the Spring Festival, I came to the most year-round place in my hometown - Shenyang Huangsi Temple Fair. It is often said that people will go to temple fairs, pray for good luck, enjoy various plays and eat sugar paintings on New Year's Day. But I only visited a temple fair once many years ago. On the fifth day of the first lunar month, the old streets of Beishi were crowded with people. I was surprised by the changes of the temple fair. People buy the best New Year products, eat special snacks, drink the northern and southern flavor, and taste the "temple fair on the tip of the tongue". Here we live a happy life, and there are various folk performances on the stage. People feast their eyes on them. "What is happiness? Happy mouth and happy eyes are happiness!" said Uncle Zhao, who was taking his family to the temple fair.

Does "Nian" taste good? I think there is, but this is not the taste of cognition in a broad sense, but from our inner "taste buds"; He can feel happiness, smile and memory. Some people say that it is not because you are old, but because you have grown up. Yes, the era has also "grown up". While shortening the "distance" between mobile phones and the Internet, it is also easy to "window" the world. This time when I returned to my hometown, I realized the rich flavor of Spring Festival through "going to the grassroots". I deeply felt that only by going out and getting closer to life step by step, can I grasp the most authentic "flavor".

When I finished coding these words, I remembered what Master Teng said about the chicken stewed with mushrooms. My heart was full of warm "taste".

Extended reading:

[The Spring Festival goes to the grassroots level] After 1995, the little brother of express became the "king of calls", pursuing dreams for love during the Spring Festival

[Go to the grass-roots level in the Spring Festival] The happy dream of the street secretary of "I will be happy if the people are happy"

[Go to the grassroots in Spring Festival] Take his car and enjoy it. "Smiling taxi" and 60000 photos of passengers

[The Spring Festival goes to the grassroots level] Good mouth and good eyes are the year flavor of Shenyang Huangsi Temple Fair

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