There is less spring work in the countryside here, and the wheat pine is waiting to be harvested after passing through the soil, so Hantun Village has applied ammonia once this year. The plough was done before the spring, and the top rake was twice in the spring, and basically male laborers did this work.

Therefore, in the countryside here, there is also the saying of spring leisure, and women take advantage of spring to weave cloth and do needlework. The cotton clothes worn in winter are dismantled and cleaned, and then the summer clothes are prepared, and the shoes worn by the family are all manual work, and it takes a lot of work to get a stitch and a thread.

After the second grandmother's house finished weaving the cloth, Sanni Guixiang was basically fine, and she did embroidery work with the girls in the village every day.

When I met someone who couldn't embroider, I took it to my grandmother, and the second grandmother did housework in her mother's house, and I didn't have time to learn embroidery. When I arrived at my mother-in-law's house, I followed a few children, and I didn't have a mother-in-law, and I didn't have the time to study. Therefore, it is not embroidered to this day.

When my grandmother was a maid, she learned embroidery in the needlework room in the palace, and her embroidery skills were superb. Youyou, the embroidery master of later generations, after seeing his grandmother's embroidery skills, was also willing to bow down.

Guixiang and the others made embroidered curtains, and several people held various borrowed curtains and came to grandma as a reference. Youyou followed them, but it was an eye-opener.

With a strong interest, he pestered his grandmother to understand the embroidered curtain, and became very interested in the embroidered curtain.

The embroidered curtain is an important dowry for the girls to marry, and through the curtain, you can see the girl's intelligence and craftsmanship.

The curtains are all bright red and hang from the interior doors of the new houses. The big red curtain is generally 2 meters long and 85 centimeters wide.

There are two curtain teeth on the top of the curtain, which are two colors, and the upper tooth is black and 21 cm long. The lower tooth block is bright yellow, 30 cm long, and the upper tooth covers the lower tooth 9 cm.

The door curtain teeth have 2 side spikes, 2 colors, and are 85 cm long. There is a pair of hydrangeas, 5 tassels, and plum blossom tassels are 5 inches each.

There is also a pair of lions, with a long hair needle embroidered with thick and thin threads, and a swastika embroidered on the body, representing the meaning of longevity and long luck.

4 embroidered streamers, 2 colors, 47 cm long, 5 cm wide at the top, 7 cm wide at the bottom, embroidered with spring and autumn patterns.

Under each streamer, a lotus flower with lotus leaves is attached, because the lotus is a clean flower that is not stained by sludge, and the whole body is full of medicinal materials, and the gods in the world regard it as a mascot.

There are 3 ears under the lotus leaves, a total of 12 plum blossom ears, and the upper end of the ears is tied with the long ears on the top of the sorghum, and the bell is bound to the bottom of the ears.

The bell is equivalent to the current doorbell, and when people come, the curtain is lifted, and the bell rings, and the bride inside knows that someone is coming.

The door curtain is the mother's family to marry, into the mother-in-law's door, the aunts and aunts first look at the door curtain. The bride's embroidery can be seen at a glance through the door curtain.

The curtain that leaves the door of the mother's house and enters the door of the mother-in-law's house is carried by a boy, also called the child who beats the curtain.

When you enter your mother-in-law's house, the curtain is at the front, and the dowry is at the back, and the mother-in-law takes the money to receive the curtain.

If the person who receives the curtain does not take the money to take the curtain, the boy will not give it, and he will carry it vigorously. The person who receives the curtain takes less money, and the person who carries the curtain does not pay.

The person who receives the curtain sets up the curtain next to the table where heaven and earth are worshipped, indicating that the things and people that accompany the bride and the groom are arranged, and the bride and groom begin to worship heaven and earth.

From the "configuration" on the big red curtain, it can also be inferred how the "living" (family background) of the new daughter-in-law's mother's family is.

In the old days, door curtains could basically be divided into four classes. The first-class door curtain is composed of a piece of fine red cotton, a piece of door curtain teeth, a pair of hydrangeas, a pair of embroidered lions and embroidered streamers.

This kind of curtain is beautifully decorated, complicated to make, and takes more time and money, so it also represents the good family of the new daughter-in-law's mother's family.

The second-class door curtain only has a large red cotton cloth, door curtain teeth and streamers, and hydrangea and embroidered lions are all available, which is relatively simple.

The third-class curtain is even worse, only the red cloth and the door curtain teeth are left, and the streamers are saved.

The fourth-class curtain is more shabby, only a big red cloth remains, and nothing else.

Of course, this is not the worst, the worst thing is that those women from extremely poor families get married, and the family doesn't even have the money to buy a few feet of red cloth, so they can only take a small red envelope, wrap a few clothes and marry into their in-laws' family.

With the development and change of society and the improvement of living conditions, although the life in the countryside is not rich, the first-class door curtain can be accompanied by the mother's family.

Therefore, the girls worked the embroidery, and began to embroider the curtain at the age of seventeen or eighteen. Generally, the curtain of the wedding must be prepared for two or three years.

In fact, the main thing is to embroider the streamers and pendants on the door curtain, as well as hydrangeas and lions.

Some of the same thing are embroidered several, and the good ones are selected before they are used on the door curtain. Anyway, these things are mainly time-consuming, and the materials don't cost a few dollars.

Even if the embroidery is good, it takes half a year to do a curtain.

What intrigued Yoyo was the hydrangea above the curtain. Twelve-petaled hydrangea, varied. It is made of red, orange, yellow, green and purple satin cloth, and the color is contrasting.

Each petal on the hydrangea is embroidered with flowers, which are available in 12 months of the year.

Each petal is embroidered with a variety of mascots, such as plum, orchid, chrysanthemum, bamboo and other floral patterns or spring swallows, dragons, phoenixes, etc.

The bright flowers on the ball have a close relationship with the flower woman who is in charge of the god of fertility. Flowers foreshadow a honey-like love life, and the children and grandchildren after marriage are full.

The hydrangea symbolizes the "old man under the moon", holding together young men and women who love each other with a "red thread", and it is a witness to marriage.

In later generations, hydrangea was included in the intangible cultural heritage and developed into an industry. Such hand-embroidered hydrangeas are worth more than 1,000 yuan each, and they are hard to find.

Youyou searched on the Internet through Zhi Brain, and really found this kind of hand-embroidered door curtain, although it is shabby and unlikely, the price is more than 10,000 yuan.

The girls not only prepare the curtains, but also make a lot of four-season cloth shoes and insoles, and those who have objects not only have to wear them themselves, but also have to prepare them for the men.

Listening to the girls' discussions, each bride who gets married must prepare at least forty or fifty pairs of cloth shoes, and some people even make hundreds of pairs of cloth shoes as a dowry.

And in each pair of shoes, there is a new pair of insoles, in addition, dozens of individual pairs of insoles have to be prepared.

Every girl who gets married has a "suitcase" for shoes, which is actually a small wooden box filled with made cloth shoes.

When I arrived at my mother-in-law's house, all the dowries had to be placed in the yard first, and opened for the villagers to watch.

It doesn't take much to make shoes, it's mainly labor-intensive. The number of dowry shoes indicates the girl's diligence and laziness. Therefore, many girls have been preparing wedding shoes since they were seventeen or eighteen years old.