On the afternoon of Chinese New Year's Eve, Yang Xinyue's mother led the women and children in the family to make New Year's snacks.

Rice cakes are made every year.

Adults and children, whether they will or not, they will come to watch and fight.

Rice cake can't be made, and basically no one at home will know it after grandpa leaves.

Yang Xinyue is very familiar with the process, but she can't do it every time she gets started.

She tried it last year and the year before, but it didn't work. A lot of rice flowers, sugar and peanut kernels were wasted.

was ordered by Yang Xinyue's mother not to do it. Say it's a waste of things.

In addition to rice cakes, the family also makes various kinds of kueh and deep-fried noodles.

Yang Xinyue's family has a lot of people, and there are many people to send out. Fortunately, there are many people who are busy with work, and her cousin who wants to slip away is also caught by her.

Otherwise, she and her mother would be tired and miserable to make a few big baskets, and they wouldn't be able to finish it tomorrow.

In front of the ancestral worship around the fireplace on the afternoon of Chinese New Year's Eve, I finally made all the snacks for the year.

The rice cake has not yet been steamed, and the brown sugar rice cake made of ten catties of glutinous rice flour takes at least six or seven hours to steam by firewood.

Yang Xinyue's family also built a gas stove.

But her mother sometimes thought that the gas stove was expensive, so she and her father built a wood stove in the corner of the yard.

Sometimes, it is really inconvenient to use a gas stove to steam something in the countryside.

For example, steamed rice cakes.

To set up an iron pot more than one meter wide, fill a large pot of water, and boil for six or seven hours, one is that the gas stove can't bear it, the second is that the big iron pot can't be put on, and the third is six or seven hours down, a can of more than 100 yuan of gas, and I don't know if I can last until it is steamed.

Yang Xinyue also likes to use the wood stove to make things to eat.

For example, burying simmering sweet potatoes, simmering eggs, and simmering sugar cane...... It is best to use the charcoal ash in the stove of the wood stove.

In the afternoon, the people around the fireplace to worship the ancestors or the people at the head of the two houses went to the ancestral house to worship the ancestors.

This time, in addition to chicken, fish, rice, tea and wine, snacks, sweets and fruits should be put on the table, oranges should be hung, sugarcane should be placed behind the door, and after worshipping the ancestors around the hearth, they can no longer be killed.

After the ancestral sacrifice around the hearth, the children of the family began to work on Chinese New Year's Eve.

Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, pay attention to more than every year, do not pay attention to discs, so the dishes have to be made a lot, chicken, duck and fish, hot and cold, a dozen dishes a table, the table is crowded.

They have a large family, and they set up three large tables in the courtyard before they can sit down one by one.

Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, family reunion, lively eating, happy.

When Yang Xinyue was a child, she looked forward to the New Year's Eve dinner the most, and she looked forward to eating the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner. Now that I'm older, I still like the atmosphere of eating Chinese New Year's Eve dinner at home.

Before the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner was finished, fireworks were already being set off in the village.

Yang Xinyue's younger brother and cousin also moved several large fireworks out of the warehouse and lit them in the yard.

The children immediately couldn't sit still, couldn't take care of eating, shouted and jumped to watch the fireworks with their heads held high, and screamed twice from time to time.

There are children at home, and the excitement is a little more lively.

After eating Chinese New Year's Eve, Yang Xinyue called Li's father and Li's mother to greet the New Year.

Dad Li was very happy and told Yang Xinyue to say hello to her family for him. Li's mother also said a few words to Yang Xinyue in the camera.

"What about Mom and Dad and Uncle They?"

Li Muqi asked.

"Drinking tea and chatting in the courtyard. ”

"It's still your bustle, I hear the sound of fireworks. All we heard was the sound of the TV show at home. ”

Yang Xinyue said with a smile: "Later, we can't hear the sound of the phone here, and the sound of firecrackers outside has not stopped, and the sound is getting louder and louder." ”

"It's hilarious. Wife, are you upstairs? I want to greet my parents, uncles, and aunts. ”

"Good. ”

Yang Xinyue said as she took her mobile phone downstairs.

Handing the phone to her father, two uncles, younger brothers, and cousins immediately surrounded her.

"Dad, Mom, Uncle, Aunt, Milk, Brother, Brother-in-law, Xiaohong, Cousin, Cousin, Children, Happy New Year!"

"Happy New Year. ”

"Have you eaten Chinese New Year's Eve?"

"Eaten, what about you?"

"We ate too, it's so lively over there. ”

Yang Xinyue smiled, the Chinese people greeted each other and asked each other if they had eaten, it seemed to have become a routine.

After hearing a few words, she turned around and went back to the house to get gifts for everyone.

It was all chosen by Li Muqi, and it was a part of his heart.

There are large and small things in the family, and everyone does not miss them.

Children are happiest when they get gifts.

The three little girls quietly hid to look at their own and each other's gifts.

"I have to accompany Xin Yue back for the New Year next year, the family is lively. ”

"Okay, uncle, don't worry, I will definitely go back tomorrow to celebrate the New Year with you. You guys are more lively than us, and you have a youthful atmosphere, I watched the video posted by Xin Yue today, and the video of everyone making New Year's snacks together, and I can't wait for me to be there. It's so lively. ”

Everyone laughed.

The neighbors who lived near Yang Xinyue's house also set off firecrackers and fireworks one after another, but the sound was too loud to hear the sound of the video, so everyone hung up.

After Li Muqi hung up the phone, he sent red envelopes in the family group.

There was a rush of looting.

The courtyard was full of people. How much did you rob, how much did I rob, crying how can I grab so little...... Fun and fun.

After Li Muqi posted it, everyone also took turns to send red envelopes in the group.

caused the three children to complain to their parents again and again, and they also wanted mobile phones.

Yang Xinyue's mother didn't have WeChat, and when she saw everyone grabbing it, she couldn't wait to go in and catch one, and was laughed at by the two aunts, saying that she could teach her to use WeChat.

Giving out red envelopes and grabbing red envelopes during the Chinese New Year has gradually become a tradition at home.

The family is more happy than anything else, and it doesn't care how much money is sent.

In addition to this, the traditional program of the New Year is, of course, a family watching CCTV's Spring Festival Gala together.

Although I complain every year that it doesn't look good, I still stare at the screen as a family in front of the TV.

While eating all kinds of things, I complained while watching, and then went back to WeChat while grabbing red envelopes in other groups......

The TV at home was loud and loud.

If it's not big, you can't hear what the show is saying.

Since the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, the sound of firecrackers outside has not stopped.

On Chinese New Year's Eve, in addition to worshipping ancestors to make rice cakes and eat Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, Yang Xinyue's hometown also has a tradition, that is, to go to the ancestral house at night to set off firecrackers.

As for the reason, she didn't know.

From childhood to adulthood, she didn't sleep, kept vigil every year, and went to the ancestral house with his father and family to set off firecrackers.

This cannon is to calculate the time.

How to calculate, Yang Xinyue doesn't know.

Sometimes it's eleven o'clock at night, sometimes it's twelve o'clock, sometimes it's one or two o'clock, and one year it's four or five o'clock in the morning.

Yang Xinyue felt that this hour might be calculated according to the time when the Lunar New Year was coming.

Welcoming the spring and receiving blessings, it may be waiting for the arrival of this new year, and everyone goes to the ancestral house to set off firecrackers, indicating the arrival of the new year.

Unlike the new calendar, after zero o'clock is considered a new year.

It has been handed down from ancient times, and few people can say the specific reason.

In the past, everyone still came according to the hour.

After the older generation left one after another, the young people did not want to come according to the hour, and few people could understand the yellow calendar.

The vigil was until 0:00 o'clock on the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, and they collectively went to the ancestral house in the old village to set off firecrackers, and came back to sleep after the vigil.

Usually after the CCTV party is over, the firecrackers are over, and the night is over, and I go back to the house to sleep.

In the old village, everyone would prick up their ears to listen to which family had been firing artillery for a long time.

It has been put for a long time, which means that this family must have good family conditions this year, and they have some money to live well.

Because it costs a lot to buy firecrackers in a year.

Yang Xinyue doesn't remember the price of firecrackers in the past, but now a firework costs hundreds of yuan. If you put three or four in a night, it will cost you a lot of money in a year.

It's all money-burning stuff.

If the conditions are not good, I really can't afford to let go.

Now everyone is reluctant to compare the time of firing guns, one is to burn money, and the other is not environmentally friendly.

Some people will also think that if they burn tens of thousands of dollars in a year, they will set off a cannon, and it is not fragrant to use this money to do something.

In the past, everyone's conditions were not good, and they were afraid that their families would be looked down upon, so they moved to their homes with trucks of artillery battles, but now that everyone's conditions are good, they will not waste money to talk about this row.