摘要
1. HAVING eaten labazhou, a kind of rice porridge with nuts and dried fruit eaten on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, the Spring Festival was fast approaching. After I finished my college education and became a public servant, it was not easy for me to ask for leave. So, when I walked along the road to my native village, it was already the 24th day of layue(the twelfth lunar month).