Online Reflections on the Year: There's a Happiness Called 'Coming Home to Eat'
The years are passing by.
The world is vast, but home is the best.
Are you going home for the New Year this year?
Have you decided on the menu for New Year's Eve dinner at home?
It's almost New Year's!
Eating at home is the warmest wish.
Some things in life may seem ordinary, but they are important.
Like, with New Year's coming, having a reunion dinner at home is a top priority.
When you cross mountains and seas, fly or take the high-speed train.
When you open the door, you embrace your family, and you sit together at the table, with your favorite dish on it.
Chinese people's feelings about food are often nostalgia, remembrance, and longing for the taste of home.
A happy family cannot do without a hot kitchen.
In Chinese people's traditional thinking, food is the best emotional carrier, and homesickness is always linked to taste buds.
Everyone has a dish they miss from their hometown.
No matter what, recalling the taste of home always involves New Year's Eve reunion dinner.
Parents are the best chefs, and the best flavors in memory are those made by Dad and Mom.
You realize that the taste of home has become unreachable as you pack your bags.
Many young people spend their days working overtime in the office and ordering takeout for three meals.
But when parents retire, if children don't come home to eat, they'll make do with leftover rice and vegetables.
Only when children come home will parents sit down with them to have a proper reunion dinner.
Eating at home is something to envy, not only because there's hot and delicious food at home, but also because it's a happy gathering of the family.
As long as children can come home, parents are happier than anyone else.
Home is always there, someone will always leave a light on and cook a hot meal for you, no matter how late you return.
When you get home, seeing the lights on, you know someone is waiting for you, and all tiredness disappears.
Home-cooked meals and home-cooked food not only warm our stomachs, but also soothe our hearts.
Some say that the happiness of life consists of four things: one, sleeping in your own bed; two, eating food made by your parents; three, hearing your lover's sweet words; four, playing games with your children.
Having a home to return to, someone is waiting for you, and having food to eat, is the happiest thing in the world.
At the moment when the New Year's atmosphere is getting stronger, overseas workers are ready to pack their bags and return home to reunite with their families.
Truly outstanding people will never abandon their families for work.
Don't let busyness be the reason you don't come home to eat.
Going home is the deepest longing; eating is the warmest companionship.
It's almost New Year's!
Remember to leave the best company for your family.
No matter how busy,
Don't forget to go home for dinner.
Source: CCTV4
Supervised by: Zhang Li
Edited by: Dai Wenchen
CCTV4
