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Here, like everyone else, I am just a witness. My life has become part of this event. I live here, with everything. ——S.A.Alexievich

On the 28th day of the second month, Dasao’s son and my cousin drove 800 kilometers from Nanning, Guangxi, back to their hometown in Lianyuan, Hunan. Not only was they reunited with the family for the Chinese New Year, the more important task was to return home to marry a daughter-in-law.

After being used as a matchmaker, my cousin quickly found a desirable object after returning home. In just two days, he “talked about marriage”. According to the customs of the hometown, engagement is required to hold a banquet, and relatives and matchmakers are invited to have a meal, everyone is happy.

On the 29th day of the last month, Wuhan announced the closure of the city. That night, Er Er, a village committee member, called his mother to inform him of the epidemic. Engagement wines are lively. The more relatives, the better, but everyone is in trouble: Now that there is an epidemic, the government and experts have called for fewer parties, but it ’s not good to not attend.

Lianyuan is located in the middle of Hunan Province. It belongs to Loudi City, has a resident population of more than one million, and has 19 townships under its jurisdiction. Yangshi Town is one of them. Yangshi Town has 29 administrative villages, and my family lives in one of them. The village is extremely ordinary. Apart from the pure local sounds of everyone, who can appreciate the traditional taste, it is probably the New Year customs, but this year these customs are facing the challenge of the pneumonia epidemic.


New Year’s Day (January 25): One person’s doorstep

The first day of the Chinese New Year is the day of worshiping ancestors and visiting neighbors. According to the customs of the hometown, eachEach family went to the grave to commemorate their ancestors and went to the neighbor’s house to celebrate the New Year. Generally, family representatives (often young people) were sent, and they rarely ganged up.

The scope of Chinese New Year is generally the same group. The so-called brigades are production teams from 1958 to 1984. Although this system has long been abolished, in many cases it still serves as a standard for defining distant and close relationships in the village. According to the experience of the New Year, I can visit more than 30 families on the New Year’s Day.

But this year, just in case, I didn’t step out of the house.

Not only did I not go out, the whole family did not go out. The decision to cancel the visit was unanimously adopted by the whole family on New Year’s Eve. As someone who was concerned about the epidemic earlier in the family, I consciously disseminated relevant information, but it did not attract the attention of my parents. My sister often communicated with me, and she also paid attention to the information released by some professional media.

The phone call to the mother on the 29th day of the 2nd month of the lunar month attracted the attention of parents: a family not far from my home just returned from Wuhan. My father said we must avoid contact with these people. There was a lot of news about new pneumonia on WeChat. In the thirties, he forwarded a document called “Returning Persons in Hubei” to the family WeChat group, which contained the ID number, gender, and home address of the people returning from Hubei.

My father suggested a grave sweep at the beginning of this year instead of paying New Year.

(Screenshot of WeChat group chat)

Although the New Year’s Day holiday was cancelled, the mother still prepared melon seeds and fruits for the possible guests, but there was only one visitor on the day-my cousin Yuanfang. He said that he learned about “this disease” from WeChat, “I didn’t go to many people, I wore a mask on the road, but I took it off at home.”

New Year’s Day (January 26): Unsuccessful dinner

There is a saying in my hometown: “The first cub, the first errand, the third junior and the fourth junior.” “Sister-in-law”, so-called mother-in-law, is similar to “sister-in-law”.

The second day is the day when my daughter returns to her maiden house. Grandpa and grandma have six children. On the second day of the second day, they will go to the two elderly to celebrate the New Year. In previous years, there were thirty or forty people at the grandmother’s dinner, but only a few people went this year.

Grandma and grandma asked their mother to help order food and prepare dinner a few days in advance. Four or five tables of food. My grandmother over eighty years of age couldn’t be too busy. In the past few years, two aunts have been busy. If they are too busy, their mother can help. On New Year’s Eve, Dasao made two phone calls to complain that her mother had bought too few ingredients, and pork and pork ribs were not enough for four or five tables.

On the second day of the new year, what made Grandpa and Grandma feel wrong was that few people went back. My home is close to my grandmother’s, and it takes more than ten minutes. My father and sister acted as representatives to pay New Year’s greetings to the elderly. My sister told me that my grandmother didn’t know what happened before the aunt’s family came, and it was strange to see them wearing masks. Grandma and grandma don’t know how to surf the Internet.

According to previous years, the second day of the fourth year is a lively day in the same family. The grandmother will prepare more than a dozen red envelopes to give grandchildren, grandchildren and great-grandchildren one after another. My sister said that this year her grandparents’ house was deserted and quiet.

(taken by my sisterGrandma ’s second day of the new year)

The first meal on the second day is the result of a family discussion. My father was a staunch opponent of the dinner, and he gave various news to support it, such as “As of January 25, Guangdong, Hunan, and other 30 provinces have initiated a major public health emergency response.” I also promised not to go to dinner, and began to discuss with my uncle and aunts; they learned the epidemic situation from their children or WeChat, and understood that dinner was not good at this time.

However, there are also objections. Two of the three aunts insist that they should not be so scared. They are not so dangerous at all. Everyone had told her grandmother not to go home for reunion on the second day of the second year, but an aunt still drove to the grandmother’s house and wore a mask to the elderly to celebrate the New Year. Grandma saw the aunt’s family coming, and quickly asked her aunt to take out the ingredients in the refrigerator, but the aunt’s family left without a few minutes.

The grandmother’s family reunion dinner failed.

New Year’s Day (January 27): Notifications in WeChat group

In the third day of the new year, my father received various messages from the WeChat group. Some of them were worded fiercely, but the authenticity was difficult to distinguish, such as this:

The important notice is issued three times: According to the latest instructions of Lianyuan City’s Prevention and Control Command in Loudi, Hunan, the following points are required to be done quickly:

1. The traffic between villages and between villages and between groups must be cut off. All access roads must be cut off. It must be cut off before 4:00 pm and upload the cutoff pictures to the party building group;

2. In principle, personnel within the jurisdiction of each village can only go out, cannot enter, and will not return without returning home.

3. For those who find fever, cough and other symptoms, each village must report to the town headquarters office immediately and do a good job of stability control;

4. Change the propaganda method, adopt large groups to lead small groups, villages to build large groups, form small groups, households, family groups, friends and friends, and friends. All call text messages to pay New Year;

5. The cadres of the two committees of the village will all cancel their vacations, and the grouping, slicing, and joint households shall implement their responsibilities, and shall not directly contact the farmers during investigation;

6. No special meeting is allowed to hold the meeting. The cadres of the two village committees try not to concentrate in one office.

7. It is strictly forbidden for farmers to do funeral events, and village cooks are not allowed to serve at home. Once the offenders are found, they will be held accountable according to law and regulations.

This notification was not found on the official websites of Loudi and Lianyuan. In order to verify the authenticity, I put on a mask and went to the village entrance at 6 pm on the third day of the third day.”.

The Lianyuan Municipal Government issued three circulars, prohibiting the holding of various banquets and other collective activities, and prohibiting mass cultural activities, such as dragon lanterns, lions, flower drums, and gods of fortune, which are traditional folk activities involving population movement and gathering.

On the third day, the government issued the “Notice on Further Prohibiting the Use of Mahjong Hall, Chess and Card Room for Aggregation Activities”, announcing that the city banned the use of Mahjong Hall, Chess and Card Room for aggregation activities. In order to reduce staff turnover, even buses and rural passenger train lines were temporarily suspended.

(Notice on the official website of Lianyuan Municipal People’s Government)

People around you have a kind of fear of the epidemic, and you can’t tell the truth about the various notifications before they turn. People rarely visit each other and hear from their mothers that several mahjong pavilions smoky all year round are also “stopping.” There seems to be a fear of plague-like dodging for those returning from Wuhan.

New Year’s Day (January 28): Difficult engagement wine

The fourth day of the new year is a lucky day chosen by my grandfather. My cousin is going to hold an engagement banquet. All the relatives should participate in the custom, but my sister and I strongly opposed it. My mother hesitated and started talking with the relatives by phone.

Everybody’s embarrassment once caused Dasao to change her mind and decided to push the days backward. Dasao told his mother that he also knew that the situation was grim. Some people even canceled the long-planned wedding banquet; but on the third day of the year, Dasao called again to say that the engagement banquet was normal.

The feedback from my mother-in-law and aunt was “should go” or “send at least one person”, she shook, and also learned the words of the aunt: “Where is this dangerous?”

Sisters and fathers carried various data and news to tell their mothers that they were indeed “dangerous.” Finally, my family decided to be absent. Mother said that many relatives should not participate.

The engagement wine is in the fourth gradeIt was held at noon as scheduled, and I could hear the sound of fireworks and firecrackers when Dasao’s family picked up at home. My mother called several aunts one after another at about 11 am, and found that two aunts still went to participate. The mother had a kind of “betrayed” loss, and only one aunt agreed with her. I heard that although there are few people attending the banquet, there are also three tables, which is 24 people based on 8 people per table. I don’t know how many relatives and friends wore masks.

New Year’s Day (January 29th): “Huge fare”

At 11 am on the fifth day, someone retweeted Dr. Lilac ’s “National Real-time Pneumonia Epidemic Situation” in the circle of friends, commenting that Hunan was already the “third epidemic area”: As of 9 am, 221 cases were confirmed in Hunan Province. There were 13 cases in Loudi and 4 cases in Lianyuan.

At around 5 pm, there are propaganda cars with horns in the village to broadcast prevention and control measures and repeat the six calls of “New Pneumonia Epidemic Prevention and Control Headquarters in Loudi City”.

A passing mother said: “This disease is too dangerous! More than a hundred people have died! I heard that there are more than 200,000 people coming out of Wuhan!”

“Not more than 200,000, but more than 5 million.” Father said.

“More than five million, that’s amazing!” said the aunt passing by.

The neighbor ’s house rented a car early in the morning to take the child to a “special place” in Loudi. Fortunately, no problem. The child had frequent contact with the family who came back from Wuhan a few years ago. fever. The buses to the urban area were stopped on the second day of the second day. They had to pay 300 yuan to rent a car, and the return trip was 30 yuan.

The neighbor didn’t tell anyone else about it, keeping my mother secret.

The mother said that when she saw a handful of burnt paper money, her neighbor’s grandma believed it, and she burned the paper to ask her deceased to bless him.

Reference:

The official website of the People’s Government of Lianyuan City Overview

Lianyuan Municipal People’s Government Official Website Notice:

1. Order of the Prevention and Control of Pneumonia Epidemic Situation of New Coronavirus Infection in Lianyuan City No. 1

2. Lianyuan City New Coronavirus Infected Pneumonia Prevention and Control Command Order No. 2

3. Notice on further expressly prohibiting the use of mahjong halls, chess and card rooms for gathering activities (No. 3)

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This article comes from WeChat public number: Xinchao (ID: njunewtide) , NTU students home quarantine documentary, South new Biography” next newsroom “produced, author: Long hope