Chapter 1815 Interest First
On the morning of the first day of the new year, before it was bright, many people got up from their beds. The men cleaned up and started to gather together to pay New Year's greetings to the elders of each family.
Women can sleep a little longer, and then get together to chat.
When paying New Year's greetings, the elders at home lead the younger generation to pay New Year's greetings to the elderly. There is no custom of kneeling when paying New Year's greetings in Yangjia Village. Only when paying New Year's greetings to one's own parents, or grandparents, who are elders with direct blood relations, will one kowtow. Others don't need to.
Of course, if you don't kowtow to others to pay New Year's greetings, there will naturally be no red envelopes. Unless you are joking and arguing with each other, you will get some red envelopes when you ask the younger generation to kowtow to pay New Year's greetings. At other times, the equipment of direct relatives will give red envelopes, and others don't need to give red envelopes.
When paying New Year's greetings, the most things that the young people receive are various melon seeds, candies, fried peanuts and other food.
Now, when people in the city pay New Year's greetings, they start to give a red envelope of five or ten yuan. This is not popular in Yangjia Village. Giving some small snacks feels more real.
Of course, compared to these small snacks that every family has, children definitely prefer money. Unfortunately, it is not their turn to make the decision now, and it is all up to the adults.
Nowadays, adults always feel that they should give small snacks instead of red envelopes to avoid unnecessary comparisons, so they can only put some melon seeds in their pockets when they pay New Year's greetings.
It is estimated that when they grow up and become parents, they will also feel that giving melon seeds, candies and other New Year's gifts is good, and it is uncomfortable to send and receive red envelopes.
After paying New Year's greetings, the sky is almost bright. Adults hold fire paper in their hands and firecrackers under their arms, and children carry fireworks, or small firecrackers in their bags follow behind.
Whoever's direct elder's grave will light the first fire paper, and then they will set off firecrackers and fireworks to notify the deceased elders to get up and collect money.
Finally, everyone stands in a row, with adults in front and children in the back, kneeling down to kowtow to the old grave to pay New Year's greetings, and a group of people begin to rush to other old graves to continue visiting the graves.
Yang Dongxu feels that the burial method in Yangjia Village is actually quite good. There is no designated cemetery. After the old man dies, he will be buried in the appropriate place after he finds a yin and yang master.
Because the cemetery is not concentrated, it is also stipulated that no tombstones or graves should be built, so the old graves surrounding the village will disappear after a hundred years or more, and there will be no phenomenon of dead people occupying the place of living people.
For example, the custom in Yangjia Village is to add graves to the deceased elders during Qingming Festival, because the graves are all in the fields. When it is usually farming or when it is windy and rainy, if no one adds graves, the old graves will become shorter and shorter until they disappear.
Now Yang's father will add graves to his great grandfather and great grandmother, that is, Yang Dongxu's ancestor. As for the elders before, the graves are no longer known.
When it is Yang's father's turn to add graves when he is old and can't add graves, Yang Dongxu will probably add graves to the ancestor's generation. But when Yang Dongxu is old and Wen Chen grows up.
It is estimated that the tombs of Yang Dongxu's ancestors will not be added to, but to the tombs of Yang Dongxu's great grandfather, or Yang Dongxu's grandparents, and Wenchen's great grandfather.
In short, the older the elders are, the less close they are to the younger generations, and the graves will gradually disappear without anyone adding to them, thus forming a virtuous cycle.
Generation after generation, the graves of the deceased are built in the fields, and the graves of the older elders disappear in the fields, and so on.
If a special old grave is built, all the elders of a family are buried in one place, and the tomb is well built, and graves are added during festivals, as long as the descendants are not extinct, the old graves will not disappear, and as time goes by, there will be more and more graves, so many that the dead occupy the place of the living.
Therefore, if there is no major contribution, it is normal not to build graves or erect monuments, and the new generation of people will die and the graves of the older elders will disappear.
So the emphasis on cremation and not burying in the ground to occupy farmland resources is actually not necessary in Yang Dongxu's opinion.
As long as tombs are not allowed to be built and monuments are erected, the coffins buried in the ground will be corroded and collapsed after four or five generations, and the descendants will gradually become estranged from the earlier ancestors, or there will be no one to add to the graves for other reasons, and these graves will naturally disappear and become farmland again.
"Let's go, let's play cards!" No one is hungry after coming back from the ancestor worship.
Because they had eaten dumplings when they got up in the middle of the night to welcome the New Year, and they didn't sleep for a few hours and got up to celebrate the New Year without being hungry at all.
It is normal to eat breakfast on the first day of the New Year when you are hungry at around 10 o'clock in the afternoon. So since there is nothing to do, playing cards has become today's entertainment.
"You go first, I have something to do, I will go over later." Yang Dongxu shook the phone in his hand to indicate that he had something to do, and let Daliang and a few others go to play first.
The news that Dai'er inquired about has been replied. Qianliang's mine was suddenly closed and asked to stop working. He has something to do with picking out various problems and not allowing the mine to open.
Because it was the Morgan Consortium in the United States that pushed this matter, but this is not the main relationship.
The real reason has a lot to do with the good cooperation that Huaxia had when investing in other countries or negotiating cooperation.
So the fact that Qianliang Mine was blocked from starting operation is essentially because the Morgan Consortium just went with the flow.
It is precisely because this kind of going with the flow is not the main target that makes this matter difficult to deal with. Unless you agree to let the United States, there is no way to get rid of it, even if Yang Dongxu comes forward.
Because the United States is not only targeting Northern Russia, but also other weak countries. This is the overall interest of the United States.
It is not that he had previously cooperated with Little Jack, the Kennedy family, and the American bigwigs with military backgrounds. Because the interests of their cooperation were threatened by the Morgan Consortium, they were prompted to cooperate.
Qian Liang's mine did not have the interests of Yang Dongxu's partners, so the Morgan Consortium did not hinder them this time.
Even behind the Morgan Consortium's smooth sailing, there might be the shadows of Yang Dongxu and other partners. Therefore, in this matter, Yang Dongxu could not use the relationship between these partners to perfectly solve this problem so that Qian Liang would not suffer.
Because if he helped Qian Liang this time, he would stand on the opposite side of his partners, the Morgan Consortium and all the big American capitals, and he did not have the power to confront them now.
Not only him, but the entire international investment was the same as the United States.
Although China is developing very fast now, the domestic economy is thriving and the international status is constantly improving. Its influence in the world is also increasing day by day and it has begun to establish its image as a great power.
In the international community, if you fall behind, you will be beaten. If you don't have a strong fist, you will have no confidence to stand up and speak.