After the Spring Festival, the wanderer returns home： the bag is full of delicious food, but the dissatisfaction is homesickness.
Poster journalist Sun Dianxiao reports from Beijing
At present, the Spring Festival holiday has come to an end, and the wanderers who go home for the New Year have also embarked on the road of returning home. Earth eggs from my hometown, carefully packed crispy meat, meat dumplings wrapped until late at night, peeled dried longan … The travelers’ full suitcases are filled with not only delicious food from my hometown, but also the deep love of my parents, and the heavy and indelible homesickness.
The 29-inch suitcase is full of parents’ love.
Zhang Ting, who lives in Nanchong, Sichuan, set foot on the way home early on the seventh day of the Lunar New Year (January 28th). With her, there is also a 29-inch suitcase full of parents’ love.
"I am currently working in Chengdu, which is more than 200 kilometers away from my hometown. Since I worked, the number of times I went home has decreased. Only Labor Day, National Day and Spring Festival holidays will go home in a year, so my parents prepared a lot of things for me in advance when I returned for the Spring Festival. " Zhang Ting said that her parents prepared bags for her, including bacon, sausages, beef, crispy meat, earth eggs, lard and all kinds of fruits, which filled her 29-inch suitcase.
Zhang Ting’s parents carefully packed the crispy meat.
"Every time I go home, my parents will bring me some lard. Whether it is used for cooking or cooking, it is very fragrant and smells like home. In fact, they still want to load me with a lot of things. As long as they have something at home, they want to load me with everything, but I really can’t carry it. " Zhang Ting said.
Looking at a full suitcase, Zhang Ting couldn’t help feeling deeply. "We are ordinary people, and we are not the kind of rich and expensive family, but the atmosphere in our family is very harmonious and harmonious, and there has never been any contradiction. My parents have never let me suffer. Growing up in such a family environment makes me feel very happy. " Zhang Ting said that since she left home for college at the age of 17, she insisted on opening a video with her parents and sister for half an hour every night to share the people she met and what happened that day, which has lasted for eight or nine years.
Zhang Ting’s photo with his parents and sister.
"When I was on the train today, I watched my parents help me with all kinds of things and then sent me to the station to wave at me. I suddenly felt particularly uncomfortable and felt that the number of times I went home every year was getting less and less." Speaking of which, Zhang Ting has choked me. She admits that in the new year, she wants to earn more money, help her family to alleviate some economic pressure, and strive to "shorten" the distance of more than 200 kilometers and make her parents live a better life.
"Homesickness is a red plastic bag"
"Is every mother the same and likes to hide love in food?"
Dayan’s hometown is located in a small town in Maoming, Guangdong Province. Just on the fifth day of the Lunar New Year (January 26th), she hurried back to her place of work-Guangzhou. Before her return trip, her mother asked her again and again, "What do you want to take with you?" "Is there anything else you want to eat?" Dayan said no, but mom wouldn’t give up, turning left and right at home, thinking about it … So, on the day Dayan returned, there were a few more red plastic bags in her hand besides the suitcase.
Big-eyed return baggage
These red plastic bags contain: meat dumplings wrapped until late at night, bottles and cans filled with dried radish and dried longan, biscuits and fruits eaten on the road, thermos cups filled with warm water, and red envelopes specially prepared by my mother.
In the memory of Dayan, my mother is a person who is not good at words. She has never directly expressed her feelings, can’t say beautiful words, and won’t say "I can’t bear to leave you". Mother only knows that before her daughter leaves home, she will take a few more red plastic bags and fill them with food. "These things are not good in the eyes of outsiders, even a little shabby, but we are not a rich and expensive family. This is the best thing she can give her daughter." Big eyes say.
Big-eyed mother and aunt wrapped meat dumplings (part I), peeled dried longan and dried radish (part II) that were not made until late at night.
In the past, Dayan always felt that the red plastic bag was very earthy, and he just wanted to leave the village quickly and return to the big city to be a "professional beauty." But when she saw the outside world and returned home, she found that her parents were "hiding" her and secretly getting old. "Parents can do less and less for their children. If even red plastic bags are rejected, does that mean that unspeakable love and care are gradually’ withered’ like their age? It’s hard for me to be so cruel, so I set out with a red plastic bag. They remind me: don’t forget love and home. "
"Red plastic bags will bless children who leave home." In the eyes of big eyes, homesickness is just a red plastic bag. She is outside and her mother’s love is inside.
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