A few days ago, after dinner and preparing for a lunch break, I suddenly received a notice to collect condolences. When I saw the mooncakes, I remembered that the Mid-Autumn Festival was approaching. We are grateful to the overall team for their meticulous care for us. Although the work is busy, everything is moving forward steadily with the care of the overall team. I heard that the Cantonese people have a proverb - "If you are not full in winter, you will not be full in summer until you are full on August 15th." It seems that Guangdong attaches great importance to the Mid-Autumn Festival. At this time, every household will light lanterns, and the whole family, young and old, will gather together, place sumptuous fruits and pastries, eat moon cakes, and admire the bright moon.
As the old saying goes, if you are young and careless, you like to travel far away. Since I left my hometown to study ten years ago, I only go home for the Spring Festival every year. Although I can’t remember the Mid-Autumn Festival in my hometown as much as Fan Chengda said, “I’ll count the events of the past ten years and celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival in ten places.” How did we spend it? The memory of this traditional festival of the Chinese nation is already very vague.
I still remember the first Mid-Autumn Festival in a foreign country. My fellow countrymen gathered together to have dinner, drink wine and admire the moon. Sitting next to me was an older sister with exquisite makeup. I was chatting with someone, and she secretly peeled off the meat from a shrimp, then carefully put the shells together, placed them in front of me and invited me to eat them. I didn’t think much about it, and when I bit into it, there was only the shell. She made fun of her for a long time. .
Later, as the workload became heavy, the Mid-Autumn Festival became a time to relax and unwind from the busy schedule. I would go with a group of friends to find a lively place, eat common food, and talk about common things, just like what the counselor said in college. As the saying goes, "be noble together and secular together" with your friends and enjoy a moment of leisure in the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Later, as we got older, old friends dispersed, and there were not many new close friends. The Mid-Autumn Festival became an excuse for a few friends to go out and improve their food. Eat a good meal and strengthen their courage. , and then return to struggle in their respective research fields. Of course, not every Mid-Autumn Festival can be accompanied by good friends. On days like the Mid-Autumn Festival, there are also times when you are alone. At that time, you will inevitably have some strange thoughts, feelings of separation, and sadness.
I will also remember poems like Su Dongpo's "Dancing to clear the shadows, how can it be like being in the human world? Turning around the Zhu Pavilion, lowering the curtains, the light is sleepless". At this time, what I can do may be to read idle books and find some comfort from other people's stories; or write some mindless thoughts into small words for my own entertainment. In the eyes of the ancients, the Mid-Autumn Festival is a time when the full moon heralds people's reunion. On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, family members should gather together to enjoy the bright moon and talk about family life.
When I was a child, I heard many simple truths and thought they were just jokes. But when I finally understand them, I can no longer do anything about them. This year's Mid-Autumn Festival will be spent in the research team. "Take a good ride in the sky, thousands of miles in the sky, and look straight down at the mountains and rivers." (Xin Qiji) I have been in the research team for nearly three months. Like other team members, we spend most of our time every day in intense and busy scientific research work. From the initial literature review to the current calculation and analysis, our work is carried out in an orderly manner, and we are also accumulating day by day and growing bit by bit in the work. Memories are always good, and this year’s Mid-Autumn Festival, with the footprints of growing up in the research team, the company of the team members, and the careful care of the overall team, I think I will have a special emotion when I look back in the future. exist.