Chinese New Year's Eve.

Yang Xinyue was dug out of the warm bed by her mother early in the morning.

While she was freshening up, her second uncle's family also returned from the city.

When she was freshened up and went downstairs, she saw her father, second uncle, third uncle, her brother, and cousin-in-law drinking tea and chatting.

The women of her family, her mother, her grandmother, her second aunt, her third aunt, and her brother and sister-in-law, all killed chickens in the yard.

The two little nieces got up earlier than Yang Xinyue, and as soon as the cousin's daughter came back, the three little girls played together.

And her cousin hadn't woken up yet.

Yang Xinyue went over to say hello to her second uncle and cousin-in-law first.

Her second uncle affectionately pulled her to the front and asked her.

Yang Xinyue used to study next to her second uncle when she was studying.

She spent more time with her second uncle than with her parents.

Her second uncle also treated her like a daughter.

In the past, when I went to Haishi on a business trip, I would stuff her with money.

Her second uncle asked Li Muqi a few words.

Yang Xinyue said that he would send a video to his home in the evening.

After chatting a few words, Yang Xinyue went to the kitchen to help.

She greeted her second aunt first, and saw her cousin standing by with her hands in her hands and watching.

I went over and talked to her cousin for a few words, and then I wanted to go up and help.

was pushed away by her second and third aunts, saying that she was not needed.

There are many people eating at Yang Xinyue's house, and there are also many people working.

Since she was a child, she didn't dare to kill chickens.

It's just going to help pluck chicken feathers.

Even if she helps grab the chicken's legs, pinching the chicken's neck, and waiting for her father to bleed, she can break free for the chicken.

Yang Xinyue's hometown has a saying that there is no chicken and no feast.

During the New Year's holidays, worshipping ancestors is indispensable for chickens.

On Chinese New Year's Eve this year, the family will worship ancestors and use chickens.

Moreover, different ancestors and different worship objects should use different chickens.

You can't use more than one chicken.

Yang Xinyue looked at the ground, there must be five or six chickens.

My family can eat at most two chickens today, and three chickens are barely enough.

If you don't kill on the first day of tomorrow, you won't be able to eat the rest.

Seeing that there were a lot of people killing chickens and plucking feathers, Yang Xinyue took her cousin to the kitchen to do other things.

Her cousin is more expensive than her.

She came all the way back, and her mother may have been reluctant to let her work at first, but the time didn't last long, and the work was all hers.

But her cousin is different.

Her second uncle and aunt gave birth to such a baby bump, which she held in the palm of her hand since she was a child, and she was raised like a princess, even if she is married now, her husband will cover it.

Her husband is not from this province, but there are two brothers at home, so most of the Chinese New Year is spent at the house of the second uncle and aunt.

Yang Xinyue's generation of three girls, the husbands she is looking for are all from other provinces.

At that time, her grandfather said that she should find someone in this province, which would be convenient to come and go, and the family could be reunited during the New Year.

Now she's looking for an out-of-town one.

Yang Xinyue's brother-in-law is from Fujian Province, and their clan concept is stronger than Yang Xinyue's. After her sister got married, except that the children did not go back for the New Year when they were young, they had to go back every year.

If she goes back early, Yang Xinyue won't be able to see her sister's family for a year.

Her brother-in-law has a long vacation, and he doesn't come back until after the 10th or 15th of the year every year.

Yang Xinyue misses the feeling of celebrating the New Year when she was a child.

At that time, although the conditions at home were not good and there were not so many supplies, the whole family was there.

When I was a child, the New Year was also more pure.

Waiting for Yang Xinyue to cook the two large pots of rice to be used to worship the ancestors, he went to prepare the bowls and chopsticks for the ancestors.

Looking at the killing of chickens again, they have all been killed and cooked.

Her mother and her grandmother went to cook chicken, and the second aunt, third aunt and younger sister-in-law were turning over the chicken guts.

asked Yang Xinyue to say, these internal organs have been thrown away, what is there to turn over the chicken intestines and chicken gold, and everyone doesn't like to eat them very much.

But her mother scolded her.

It is said that the ancestor worship should use a complete chicken, the chicken intestines should be turned over, rolled into a ball, and when the time comes to worship the ancestors, the chicken Zhen and the chicken should be put on the plate together, and even the chicken blood should be boiled into a round cake shape and put on the plate to sacrifice together.

Yang Xinyue only felt troublesome.

Fortunately, she didn't do it, so she went with them.

When the chicken is cooked, take it out and let it cool.

Yang Xinyue's father and uncle also prepared the things to worship the ancestors.

Drinks, paper clothes, paper money, candles, incense, firecrackers.

After the table was set, Yang Xinyue and her two aunts put the things that were going to be placed on the table.

Chicken, fish, meat, rice, fruits, alcohol.

After the family knelt down one by one, set off firecrackers, and waited for a while before accepting it.

Then the two sisters-in-law and her mother quickly exchanged another batch of offerings.

Her father, second and third uncles drove the car out of the garage, moved the offerings to the car, and the family got into the car and prepared to drive to the old village.

Yang Xinyue's current home was newly built by her father when she moved out of the village ten years ago.

She lived in the old village when she was a child.

The old village is surrounded by fields, and the homestead is limited.

In addition, when young people grow up, they no longer want to live in small old houses, so they move out of the old village one after another.

New houses were built on both sides of the road outside the village.

Most of them are two- or three-story rural villas, built city kitchens, and gas stoves.

Ten years ago, Yang Xinyue was the second family in the village to move out.

Later, the village moved out one after another, until three years ago, the last family in the village moved out, and the whole old village became a deserted village.

But the ancestral hall in the village is still there, and the ancestral houses of each family are still there, and they still have to go back to the old village to worship their ancestors during the New Year's holidays.

Of course, some people also choose not to go back, and the provision of a table in the new home is over, or they simply do not provide at all.

But Yang Xinyue's family still goes back to the old village every New Year's holiday.

In the past, these ancestral worship things were handled by Yang Xinyue's grandfather, and Yang Xinyue's father and younger brother followed behind, and they didn't learn much.

After her father left, her father more or less inherited the old tradition. Which ancestor is three teas and five wines, which one is a single tea and one wine, which ones don't put fish, which ones don't put meat, how much paper money is burned, and which ones don't burn paper clothes or paper money......

Yang Xinyue followed behind year after year, but she still couldn't remember.

Her brother didn't pay attention to it before, he only knelt down behind him, and he didn't know what to put on the offering table.

In the village, like Yang Xinyue's younger brother, those who have not learned, or who do not want to learn, will not worship their ancestors directly.

Now don't they all say that it is enough to make a platform on the Internet and sacrifice flowers?

With the departure of the older generation, fewer and fewer people inherit and implement these old traditions.

There are families in the village who only give birth to daughters, and they don't worship their ancestors anymore.

Yang Xinyue can't say whether the tradition of ancestor worship should be inherited forever.

Today's young people have different ideas than the older generation.

But Yang Xinyue feels that during the New Year's holidays, going home to worship their ancestors, and the family can take this opportunity to get together, which is also a kind of emotional bonding.

Like Yang Xinyue's second uncle, he only gave birth to a cousin, and the family only had Chinese New Year's Eve dinner at Yang Xinyue's house and returned to the city, returning in the morning and leaving in the evening, and the family went on a trip the next day.

In the future, Grandma Yang Xinyue is gone, and the second uncle's family may not even return for Chinese New Year's Eve.

Ties between relatives will become weaker and weaker.

until they no longer correspond.

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