[New Year Chronicle] New Year’s Taste in Memory: A New Year’s "Sense of Ceremony" Endorsed by a Wall Calendar
[Concurrent] Jin Anguang, owner of calendar shop
At the beginning of the new year, there must be a new atmosphere and new changes.
(In the past) Every unit bought each other and every household had a calendar.
It's New Year's Eve, and everyone hangs up happily.
[Explanation] The size may be large or small, the color may be bright or elegant, and the new calendar will show that you are ready for the new year.
This is the sense of Chinese New Year ritual that a wall calendar once gave us, and it is also one of many people's memories of the taste of the new year.
[Explanation] At the end of the new year, in this calendar shop known as "the last one in Beijing", Mr. Jin Anguang, who has sold calendars for nearly 40 years, told reporters that the calendar not only represents the "Farewell to the Old and Welcome the New", but also a kind of Cultural heritage.
[Live Voice] Jin Anguang, the owner of the calendar shop
This is the "Five Bulls" from the Palace Museum's collection, which belongs to the collection and can be hung.
Hollywood, USA, in the 1997 era.
[Concurrent] Jin Anguang, owner of calendar shop
Flowers, landscape paintings, Chinese paintings, calligraphy.
It reflects the changes of the times, the culture of the times, all the changes of the times, and all the historical changes.
(The number of people buying now) is not as much as before. In the past, the unit bought them into boxes. Now they are all elderly people. The main thing is to think about the traditional Chinese culture. The key to this culture is not to be lost.
[Explanation] Uncle Jin said that although there are fewer and fewer people buying calendars nowadays, there are still people who insist on buying them every year for the New Year, and he insists on selling them day after day for decades.
In recent years, as this store became known on the Internet, some young people came to buy it.
[Concurrent] Customers
It is a feeling.
Because after all, there is a new atmosphere in the New Year. I hope that my family members are healthy, my friends are safe, and I am rich. These are all a (wish), and I think this is quite practical. For example, you can paste it into the refrigerator. That piece, it is more convenient to look at it at will.
[Concurrent] Customers
When I was young, my father’s unit would post it, and then our community would also post it, especially with a sense of ritual.
The taste of the new year is here, and you will know that the new year is here.
Nowadays, like mobile phones, digital media are changing faster, but there is a desk calendar that allows you to remember the slow passing of time, which is very ritual and memorable.
[Explanation] For many people, this sense of ritual is the most memorable and essence of the middle-aged taste in memory.
[Concurrent] Customers
When I was young, I used to set off firecrackers, playing with lanterns and firecrackers. This is the most basic taste of the year.
After the family cooked something to eat, there were fried and steamed goods, the atmosphere of the New Year was particularly strong.
[Concurrent] Jin Anguang, owner of calendar shop
When the family has money, they will wear new clothes. When they run on the clean streets, the children hope to wear new clothes for the New Year.
There are melon seeds and sugar, so happy.
When I got up in the morning, I bowed and my parents gave him some money, and 1 cent and 2 cents was just so happy.
[Explanation] Uncle Jin said that for this sense of ritual, there are many people who are still insisting on the tradition of buying calendars, and his calendar shop will continue to open.
[Concurrent] Jin Anguang, owner of calendar shop
I have been sitting here 366 days a year, and I have been sitting here for 40 years.
This man went up to the old man to go shopping.
You are gone, what do people think about running away.
Otherwise, I would not insist on this.
Just thinking about the needs of others, you have to persevere if you do what you want.
Wang Shibo Report from Beijing
Editor in charge: [Li Yuxin]