Chapter 144: One Hundred and Forty-Four: A Sense of Life Ritual
When I walked into the house, a large family was sitting in the courtyard and chatting in the sun, and I saw Yuan Quan and Su Li walking in arm in arm, smiling like something.
Su Li has been taught by words and deeds since she was a child, although there are not many people who need Su Li to please them personally, but Yuan Quan's family still has this qualification, and a gift plus a few words can make every relative smile.
The two younger sisters can sell Meng in front of Yuan Quan, but they still can't let go of that face in front of others, and they won't say hello to each relative like other children and then take a red envelope, and the two of them took the gift and put it in the living room and ran to the yard and said to Yuan Quan that they wanted to go out to play, Yuan Quan thought about it, the time was still very early, and the meal had just started to be cooked, so he nodded and allowed.
In the past, the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner was made by my mother, aunt and grandmother together, but this year there is Aunt Su and Su Li. Although everyone advised her not to use it, just let her sit in the yard and chat and drink tea together. But she had to prove her cooking skills. Yuan Quan's mother was still worried that her clothes would get dirty, but Aunt Su persuaded her on the side, and finally let Su Li enter the kitchen smoothly.
Chinese people have a sense of ritual in their daily life, and there are 14 traditional holidays in 365 days a year:
Yuan Day, Renri, Shangyuan, Sheri, Cold Food, Qingming, Dragon Boat Festival, Qixi Festival, Zhongyuan, Mid-Autumn Festival, Chongyang, Winter Solstice, La Day, Chinese New Year's Eve. There are also 24 solar terms throughout the year, plus the current Labor Day and National Day and other large and small festivals. There are festivals all year round.
Yuan Ri is the first day of the Lunar New Year, Wang Anshi's "Yuan Ri" is to describe the lively scene of the Spring Festival; Ren Ri, also known as the Human Festival, Ren Qing Festival, Population Day, Ren Seven Days, etc., the seventh day of the first lunar month is the ancient Chinese traditional festival every year. Legend has it that after creating animals such as chickens, dogs, pigs, sheep, cows, and horses, Nuwa created humans on the seventh day, so this day is the birthday of human beings. The Han Dynasty began to have daily customs, and after the Wei and Jin dynasties, they began to pay attention to it. Ancient people have the custom of wearing "human victory", human victory is a kind of headdress, also called color victory, Huasheng, from the Jin Dynasty began to cut the ribbon for the flower, cut the ribbon for the person, or carved gold foil for the person to paste the screen, also wear it on the hair. In addition, there is also the custom of ascending to the top to write poems. After the Tang Dynasty, more attention was paid to this festival. Every solstice, the emperor gives the ministers a colorful victory, and ascends to the high banquet of the ministers. If the weather is clear on the seventh day of the first lunar month, the population of the Lord year will be safe and the entry and exit will be smooth.
Shangyuan Festival is the Lantern Festival, also known as the Lantern Festival, everyone will hang lanterns and guess lantern riddles. The development of the plot in many love stories needs to be promoted by the Lantern Festival
Sheri is a festival for ancient farmers to worship the god of the land. Before the Han Dynasty, there was only the Spring Society, and after the Han Dynasty, there began to be the Autumn Society. Since the Song Dynasty, the fifth day after the beginning of spring and the beginning of autumn is the day of the society. The Tang Dynasty poet Wang Jia has a poem "She Ri", which mainly depicts the joyful scene of She Day.
Qingming Festival is also called the Qingqing Festival, at the turn of mid-spring and late spring. It is a traditional Chinese festival and one of the most important sacrificial festivals, which is a day to worship ancestors and sweep tombs. The traditional Qingming Festival of the Chinese nation began in the Zhou Dynasty and has a history of more than 2,500 years.
The seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar is the Qixi Festival, also known as the Qiqiao Festival, the Qiqiao Festival or the Seventh Sister's Day. Qixi Festival began in the Han Dynasty and is a traditional Chinese cultural festival. Legend has it that on the night of the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar or the night of the sixth day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, women begged for wisdom from Vega in the courtyard, so it was called "begging skill". It originated from the worship of nature and women's needle-threading, and was later given the legend of the Cowherd and Weaver Girl, making it a festival that symbolizes love.
The midyear festival is commonly known as the Ghost Festival, Shi Gu, and the Seventh Half Festival, and is called the Obon Festival in Buddhism. Together with Chinese New Year's Eve, Qingming Festival and Chongyang Festival, the three festivals are traditional Chinese ancestor worship festivals, and they are also traditional cultural festivals popular in countries with Chinese character cultural circles. In the midyear festival, there is a custom of putting river lanterns and burning paper ingots. The mid-year festival was originally a small autumn, and a number of crops were ripe, and the people routinely worshiped their ancestors, and made offerings with new rice and other offerings, and reported the autumn to their ancestors. Therefore, every mid-year festival, every family worships their ancestors, and when they make offerings, they perform rituals. Legend has it that on the day of the Yuan Festival, all the ghosts will be released, and the people generally carry out ghost worship activities. Whenever there is a new funeral, for example, they have to go to the new grave, and generally in the local area to sacrifice lonely souls and wild ghosts, which has become one of the largest Chinese folk festivals.
The above are the results of civilization precipitation, the ancient Chinese people yearn for the harmony of heaven, earth and man, for the elderly, for children, for ancestors, for love, for family......
Chinese New Year's Eve - one of the most important traditional festivals in China, wanderers scattered all over the country and even overseas will cross the sea before Chinese New Year's Eve and use all kinds of means to rush home, just for that warm reunion dinner and a few days of reunion.
The Chinese New Year's Eve dinner is the protagonist of Chinese New Year's Eve, and the content of the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner is different across the country. The contents of the Chinese New Year's Eve rice in Tianning City are made with the ingredients after the 28th festival of the Lunar New Year as the staple food, the whole chicken is cut white, the pork strip meat is stewed with fungus and dried bamboo shoots, and the large yellow croaker is made into pickled yellow croaker soup...... The staple food is usually rice cakes or rice balls. However, in recent years, there have been ..... of eating dumplings
These dishes are actually not complicated to make, mainly for a festive picture, and a lively sense of eating together. Su Li finished dividing five by two, and showed off a knife and cut some vegetables to put on the plate.
When she came out of the house with the last dish, the happy expression on her face was about to overflow, and if she had a tail, she would probably have to go to the sky.
There is a place next to Yuan Circle that is reserved for her, and she is also very happy to see everyone eating so happily, and she can hear that everyone praises her sincerely, and the harmonious atmosphere makes her feel very comfortable. The little blushing and said to Yuan Quan that she wanted to drink, but Yuan Quan didn't stop her, although her alcohol was very poor, but the rice wine brewed at home was not high, and it was hot, slightly sweet, and that face was delicate and gorgeous.
However, the protagonist on the wine table is always Xiao Yun, this wine fairy drinks white wine like boiled water, not to mention rice wine and red wine, which have a very low alcohol content.
When she first started drinking, the elders were worried that she would get drunk, but when they saw that the little girl had two brushes, a group of people who liked to drink began to drink. Just as the food is delicious, the sake is also delicious to drink together.
Because in recent years, my grandparents have become older, and there are fewer people drinking at home.
After the third round, the drinking was basically poured, and Xiao Yun was still sipping a sip, looking like her life was as lonely as snow. Su Li is also drunk, although she doesn't drink well, but the wine is very good, she is not like others who will be drunk and go crazy or vomit after getting drunk, she will be sleepy and find a place to sleep.
Seeing that everyone was having fun eating, he helped the drunk people to the upstairs guest room, and Su Li was taken to Yuan Quan's room. Although Yuan can't live at home anymore, his mother still cleans the room, but the red bedding looks a little weird. But Su Li was still lying soft in her arms. After putting her in the quilt and tucking the quilt, she curled up like a little shrimp and looked like she was sleeping comfortably.
The rest of the people had already moved out of the table to play family mahjong, while Yuan Quan had his own plans, and he took his sisters to play with a few boxes of gunfire, just like when he was a child.