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三十年前的聖誕節

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三十年前的聖誕節

有一次和一位年輕的老鄉說起,我和先生是在三十年前的聖誕節平安夜party上認識的。她驚呼,那個時候你們就過聖誕節了,還開party?太超前了吧!

其實還要更早。


九十年代初在西安讀書的時候,西安的聖誕節氛圍就很濃。平安夜和一大幫同學跑出去到鍾樓,忘了是西大街還是東大街的一個很大的教堂裏。
教堂有大大的聖誕樹,漂亮的燈飾,連同周邊的商場,帶聖誕帽的店員,商家的促銷,節日氛圍拉滿。
平安夜的教堂,有成群結隊的老外,有留學生坐在門外的台階上,大約是喝了酒,每逢佳節倍思親了。大聲地向進出的人和行人說著:聖誕快樂。


教堂裏,信徒們在唱著聖歌,還有孩子們背上插著翅膀,像潔白的天使,在表演節目。
我聽不懂他們在唱什麽,隻記得信徒們臉上有著平和喜悅的光,動情地唱著讚美詩歌。
當時就被這樣的氛圍打動了,覺得有點不一樣。


如今看來,聖誕節是讚美神的日子,是全世界基督徒的過年,和愛,信仰有關,和地域無關。

或許從那個時候開始,就喜歡上過聖誕節了,每年都會到街上,教堂裏湊湊熱鬧。


正好離家不遠有一個叫活泉堂的教堂,平安夜的時候,教堂周圍的幾個街區便人山人海。很多人手中拿著熒光棒,三五成群地逛街;有人在路兩邊擺攤,賣各種聖誕飾品,包裝好的蘋果,說平安夜買個蘋果吃了就會平平安安。
期許別人平安,生意很好。


教堂裏也會發放小禮品。收到過一張賀卡,寫著祝福的話語。

孩子們是最喜歡聖誕節的,因為相信童話,期待著神秘的禮物。

那個時候,隻是單純的喜歡這樣純粹的,沒有負擔的熱鬧,好玩。

回頭看,八,九十年代,也是少有的寬鬆吧。就像古時的華夏,格局打開,兼容並包,“愛育黎首,臣伏戎羌。遐邇一體,率賓歸王。”

 

印象最深的是1993年的平安夜。
我們十幾個年輕人,跑到山裏麵,在一個同學工作的營業大廳開聖誕party。


幾位男同學還跑出去砍了一顆鬆樹做聖誕樹布置起來。


流行歌曲,燭光,美酒,簡餐,遊戲,聊天,歡笑——一場有關青春的盛筵。
現場還有男生彈著吉他,唱陳百強的《偏偏喜歡你》,羞澀地向女生表白,很浪漫很幸福。


那個聖誕節party,後來無意中成就了四對夫妻。
聖誕老人客串月老,給僅有的四個女孩子每人拴了根紅繩繩。

其中一位閨蜜,和當時的未來先生在吃飯時喝酒對詩,兩個人你一句我一句展開詩詞大賽。女孩子說出一句詩,男孩子馬上接下一句,還能報出出自哪裏,在哪一本書哪一頁。。。
倆人越聊越投機,到後來,居然拋下大家,在後半夜私自跑到外麵上坡上繼續溝通了。
據她說,那晚月光很好。
又據她說,結婚後他倆再也沒對過詩,因為她老公恰好知道並且隻知道這首詩。

王先生當時被主辦的同學請來當調音師。話沒有現在這麽多,獨自坐在角落,默默為大家服務並暗中觀察。
頭發是時下最流行的爆炸式,顯得本來就瘦的臉極小,幾乎看不清;大衣不穿而是披著,身著最時髦的喇叭褲,集齊了當時時髦青年兩大元素:爆炸式和喇叭褲。
手中夾著煙,煙霧嫋嫋不斷,頗有憂鬱王子王傑風範。


許許多多的趣事和美好的瞬間。


就這樣,管它什麽洋節中節,隻要讓過,有了愛的內核,收獲的都是人生中的開心時刻!

祝大家聖誕節快樂!

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US慧心慧語 回複 悄悄話 Thank you for sharing.
elfie 回複 悄悄話 I think I started going to church in Nanjing in 1994 when I was just 20 years old. But I did it because I am a rebel and hate anything mainstream. Churches weren't popular back then for young people, except for a seminar next to us. I wanted to be different. That's all. I don't think anyone else from NJU did the same. I made a good friend from the seminar, a girl from Fujian. And our friendship lasted for about two years before I left the city. I've never seen her again.
It turned out my christian faith is just some kind of youth frenzy. I joined the catholic church in Atlanta, then left it for good at NC. Now I'm drawn to Judaism, even though conversion is too hard a decision. The temple is located a few blocks away from my street and I secretly admire their electric minorah outside every Hanukkah. Yes, I always want to be on the other side of the wall, to be with "the chosen ones", to be with the truly distinctive, wise people or just be the lonely "fiddler on the roof". I was attracted to Christianity.
But when the myth is revealed, I want to leave the scene for good. I don't want to be among the majority of people, while living in the Bible belt.
It's not what I want, religion, conformity, none of that fits me well.
I admire the Jews, though. Because I will always be the outsider and ponder over their feast table on Passover, Rosh Hashanah. I can taste the sadness of their past, of their collective memory of Holocaust. The desire and tenacity for the Jews to survive as an ethnicity is, above all, admirable. "Don't worry, we have nowhere to go", Golda Meir told Joe Biden in 1973, "which is the secret weapon for the Jews in Israel." May the people today keep her words at heart, friends or foes.
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