应该说,年是从“水”开始的。当腊月急匆匆地走到二十三这一天,她的步子开始变得缓慢下来。时间是慢下来了,但水桶、扫把、笤帚、一双双女人的手就开始忙个不停。衣服、床单、被褥、灶具、门窗、玻璃、屋子、院落,这些落满了污垢和尘埃的物什或被清水洗涤,或被新件代替。一个人、一间房子、一座院子、一个村庄在焕然一新中等待年的检阅。年尚未来临,年将要来临,所有生命的眼睛均已看出,终于又到了过年的那一天了。而此时的年,依旧那样缓慢,在孩子的手指间 It should be said that the year starts with “water”. As the twelfth lunar month hurried to twenty-three days, her steps began to slow down. The time is slow, but the buckets, brooms, brooms, and the hands of a pair of women start to get busy. Clothes, sheets, blankets, stoves, windows and doors, glass, houses, courtyards, these things covered with dirt and dust were washed with fresh water or replaced by new ones. A man, a house, a yard, a village in the new look of waiting for the review. Year has not yet come, the year is approaching, all the eyes of life have been seen, and finally reached the New Year day. And at this time of year, still as slow, in the child’s fingers