Chapter 8: Confrontation or Strife (6) (1)
The men want to lead the cubs to open the courtyard door, respectfully invite the fairy gods from all over the world to enter the courtyard, accept the gratitude of the head of the household, thank them for their protection and care of the family in the past year, and ask them to continue to protect and care in the new year, the man will light a bunch of bean straw in the yard: the burning sound of "crackling" indicates the prosperous day in the new year, and at the same time, to light this fire, the yellow table paper that was beaten and folded into ingots in the thirty nights was lit, and surrounded the corners of the courtyard, the root of the wall, the pigsty, The latrine, the stove in the pot house, the bedside table legs in the hall, the grain jar and grain hoard, and other objects, were all illuminated with the fire of burning paper, and then sent to the gate.
During this period of time, the opening of the mouth should say some auspicious words, such as this flame is really prosperous, this day is so good, the wind does not shake the tree, this year is a good year, etc., at this time, the babies are deprived of the right to speak, afraid that they will be unrestrained, casually say a few discouraged and unlucky words.
Some people also have to set up a table in the courtyard, put a few meals, pour a bowl of water and wine, and invite all the gods and goddesses to eat together.
After burning the paper and cooking the wine, the babies began to show their skills, and they set off firecrackers in a noisy manner, mixed with shouting.
At this time, the women are busy boiling water and boiling dumplings in the pot house, once the various rituals in the yard are completed, they will shout at the whole family to eat dumplings quickly, and after eating, they urge the babies and cubs to quickly put on colorful new clothes, led by men, to each family to pay New Year's greetings, and they continue to fry a few dishes in the pot house, warm a pot of hot wine, put it on the dining table, and wait for the villagers to come to pay New Year's greetings.
Every time the villagers go to a courtyard to pay New Year's greetings, they must drink a bowl of hot wine and eat a few chopstick dishes, this custom has a long history, but it is greatly unreasonable, just imagine, people stay up all night on Chinese New Year's Eve, get up early in the morning to work, and eat a full stomach of hot dumplings, should be more active, until the digestion is almost done, before eating, but just off the table, and have to go around around the wine table of each household, and have to drink a bowl of wine, people who do not have a certain amount of alcohol can not cope, so every year on the first day of the new year in the village streets, often staggering around a few drunken villagers。
Just put down the rice bowl, there is a large number of people on the street who pout, from a distance, in the crooked and narrow and high and low streets, the adults and cubs are either neatly dressed, or flowers and branches, go to the east, go to the west, hug before and after, you push me, the sound of New Year's greetings, one after another.
Sour Xing's family is very lively, today's New Year, Sour Xing's family is four happy coming, Feng'er added a white and fat grandson to him, the people's family and so on raised their stomachs again, labor went home to visit relatives for the New Year, and also joined the party, promoted, became an officer, these, let him feel infinitely happy and satisfied.
He ate early, waited in the pot house, set up the banquet, personally poured wine for everyone who came to pay New Year's greetings, and accompanied him to drink wine and eat food.
Xylophone only replaced herself after Maosheng went out to pay New Year's greetings and came home, she did not go door-to-door to visit the New Year, but went to the homes of several older elders to pay New Year's greetings, and then came to Sour Xing's house again.
When I entered the door, the pot house of the sour apricot house was crowded with people, and I couldn't insert my feet, so the xylophone entered the hall and played with the sour apricot woman, and the sour apricot heard the sound of the xylophone, so he went out of the pot house and invited the xylophone to sit in the pot house, which was also warmer, and the xylophone thought that the pot house was too noisy, and he couldn't drink the wine, so he didn't go, and the sour apricot left a room of people