"Tingting, Linlin, they want to keep the New Year with us at night. Liu Jingqing said.

"Oh. ”

Ye Rongrong can only get up with clothes, after all, today is Chinese New Year's Eve, you can't sleep, you have to keep vigil, that is, everyone calls "keeping the year".

In rural China, the habit of keeping the New Year on Chinese New Year's Eve is still retained. Some of the vigils are also called "vigils" and "sitting on the New Year". The New Year's Eve is a Chinese New Year's Eve meal that begins with a sleepless night in anticipation of the arrival of the New Year.

This Chinese New Year's Eve dinner should be eaten slowly, from the time of the palm lamp, and some people have to eat until late at night. The custom of keeping the New Year not only has the feeling of regret and nostalgia for the passing years, but also has the meaning of placing good hopes on the coming New Year.

On this night of "two years old in one night, five watches in two years", the family was reunited and gathered together. The whole family sat around, and the table was filled with refreshments and fruits.

In the New Year, a large plate of apples is indispensable, which is called "peace and security". In the north, some people still have to provide a pot of rice, which is burned before the year and is offered for the New Year, which is called "every other year's rice", which means that there is leftover rice every year, and they can't eat it all year round, and they still eat the grain of the previous year this year.

This pot of rice and millet is generally mixed and boiled with rice, and the northerners say that it is called "two rice rice", which is called "gold and silver rice" in order to have yellow and white, which is called "gold and silver rice" with "gold and silver, and a pot full of gold and silver".

In ancient times, there were two meanings to keep the New Year: the elderly kept the New Year as "saying goodbye to the old year", which meant cherishing time, and the young people kept the New Year to prolong the life of their parents.

The "vigil" has a long history, and it is said that in ancient times, there was a fierce beast called "Nian" that would sneak into the village to eat people every 30 years of the Chinese New Year's Eve. Because the "New Year" is afraid of lights, every household lights up the night vigil on Chinese New Year's Eve to prevent the "New Year" disaster.

On Chinese New Year's Eve, the family sat together for a vigil. In the evening, the family sat together and talked about the long and short and looked forward to the good year.

Farmers make a living from farming, and the family gets up early and works hard for a year, no matter whether they are rich or poor, they all hope for a good harvest in the coming year.

Families sit together, old and old tell stories to their children, or parents tell about their family's income and expenditure over the past year. Encourage everyone to work together to have a good harvest in the coming year, or chat together while making dumplings, or adults sit together and plan for the coming year while drinking until dawn.

However, now people's lifestyles are colorful, and the New Year's Eve is not there to chat, everyone is either watching the Spring Festival Gala in front of the TV series, or a few people playing cards or mahjong together.

"Brother Glory, Sister Qinqing, you won't ...... just now"

Ye Rongrong and Liu Jingqing had just come out of the house. met Ye Shuting and Ma Lin from her own family, Ye Shuting looked at the two of them suspiciously and asked.

"What do children know, don't ask too much. ”

Ye Rongrong was thick-skinned and directly blocked Ye Shuting's words.

"People are seventeen years old after the New Year, which is not small. ”

Ye Shuting pouted and said. Everyone is a big girl now, and many girls in the village who have not studied are now engaged to someone, and some have even held a wedding banquet. Why does his glory brother always look at himself as a child.

"None of them are eighteen years old. In my eyes, they are all children. Ye Rongrong said with a smile.

"Nasty. ”

Ye Shuting said happily. It seems that Brother Glory has been rejecting himself, and it turns out that he thinks he is still young. Ye Shuting, who thought she had found the reason. The feeling is particularly good.

"Brother Glory, many people in the village have set off fireworks, let's set off fireworks too. ”

Ma Lin said to Ye Rongrong. Ma Lin is a native of Beijing, and it is forbidden to set off fireworks privately in the capital, so Ma Lin has never set off fireworks in person except for seeing others setting off fireworks on TV.

It's rare to spend the New Year in the countryside this time. Ma Lin couldn't help but want to set off fireworks with her own hands for a long time, and she kept talking about going to Ye Rongrong's house to set off fireworks at Ye Shuting's house.

If it weren't for Ye Rongrong's words in the morning, they would have come over after their own family had eaten Chinese New Year's Eve, and they would have run over long ago.

For this matter, Ye Shuting complained a lot about Ye Rongrong. Said that he had no conscience and did not let the two of them eat Chinese New Year's Eve dinner together at him.

It's just that Ye Rongrong's attitude is very tough, and the two girls have no choice but to come to Ye Rongrong's house at the point in time.

"Brother Glory, you quickly move the fireworks out, we're going to set off the fireworks. Ye Shuting urged.

"Okay, I'll move it now. Ye Rongrong said with a smile.

This year, Ye Rongrong has some money on hand, and he has got the "lazy system", these are all happy events, so Ye Rongrong is very willing, and he bought eight big fireworks in the morning, all of which are 68 big fireworks, each of which costs 170 yuan, just to buy these fireworks, Ye Rongrong spent thousands of yuan.

Because this fireworks are powerful and can't be put in the yard, Ye Rongrong moved six big fireworks to the open space outside the yard, leaving two fireworks, Ye Rongrong is going to stay at twelve o'clock, which is also the beginning of the new year.

It is said that in ancient times, people passed through the mountains to sleep in the open and lit bonfires at night, one for cooking and heating, and the other to prevent wild beasts from attacking.

However, there is an animal in the mountains that is neither afraid of people nor fire, and often steals food when people are not prepared. In order to deal with this animal, people think of the method of lighting firecrackers in the fire and using the crackling sound of the bamboo to keep it away.

The animal mentioned here is called "Yamaji". The ancients said that it can make people cold and hot, and it is the ghost that makes people get cold and fever, scaring away the mountain, that is, expelling the plague, so as to obtain auspicious peace.

At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the plague broke out, and a person named Li Tian put saltpeter in a bamboo tube, and lit it to make it make a louder sound and more intense smoke, which dispelled the miasma of Shanlan and stopped the epidemic of epidemics, which was the earliest prototype of nitrate firecrackers.

Until the advent of gunpowder, people filled saltpeter, sulfur and charcoal into bamboo tubes and burned them, producing colorful "fireworks".

"Stand back, a few of you. ”

Ye Rongrong held a lighter in his hand, looked at the three girls standing beside him and said. After all, it is more dangerous to set off fireworks to explode.

Every year during the Chinese New Year, there are not a few people who are injured by fireworks, Ye Rongrong doesn't dare to let the three girls get so close to fireworks, in case they are injured, it is not a joke.

For the New Year, there can be no unlucky things.

"Brother Glory, don't order together, put one out, put another one. Ye Shuting said.

"I know that, you guys go back off, I'm going to set off fireworks. Ye Rongrong said to Ye Shuting's three daughters.

After the three girls arrived at a safe distance, Ye Rongrong lit the fireworks, and after a while, huge flowers bloomed in the air, first the colorful light agent burned, and then the parachutes opened and fell one by one, the fireworks overlapped, and the night sky was splendid, forming a variety of beautiful patterns.

"It's so beautiful, I'm going to shoot this video. ”

Ma Lin excitedly took out her mobile phone and recorded it. This is the first time that Marin has grown so big and watched fireworks at such a close distance. (To be continued.) )