Chapter 271: Chinese New Year's Eve

Early the next morning, Li Junge's family was busy.

Today is Chinese New Year's Eve, and the big family's Chinese New Year's Eve dinner is usually eaten at Li Junge's house, but it is busy.

According to the local customs of Jiachuan, as long as the twenty-third year Chinese New Year's Eve Chinese New Year's Eve of the lunar month has passed, from the twenty-fourth day of the lunar month to the Chinese New Year's Eve night dinner, it belongs to the time period of eating the New Year's dinner.

There are too many relatives in the countryside, and when a family walks down, it really needs to be arranged carefully and compactly.

The New Year's dinner is full of people, and the second cousin comes back late every year, so the Li family's New Year's dinner is also late.

You can invite your aunt's family and other relatives to eat together, and your own family can also be invited back to your parents' house and other relatives to have a New Year's dinner.

Early in the morning, Aunt Bai came with taro and zongba, holding a camera to shoot east and west, and they had to track the whole process of the Li family's New Year.

The meals of the New Year's dinner can be said to be the most sumptuous in the family banquet, similar to the nine bucket bowls, the difference is that the four major types of chicken, duck and fish must be matched.

When he got up early in the morning, Li Junge caught a rooster and killed a hen. The hen's method is to simply stew the soup, add a lot of soup, and the chicken soup can also be bloody, the chicken soup is hot pea tips, or the chicken soup is vermicelli.

Hens can't be used to worship God, if you really want to worship, it can only be a bowl of loose meat.

Therefore, the rural family with spare power also has to kill the rooster, the rooster is much more exquisite, before cooking, the chicken head is held high to the sky, the chicken feet should be attached to the chicken leg kneeling, so that the whole chicken is placed in the basin after cooking, which is particularly bearish, in line with the requirements of godliness.

There are many ways to make duck, which can be sauerkraut and sour radish stewed duck soup, or fried duck with ginger and pickled pepper, or konjac roasted duck, and people who can do it can also make sweet duck and camphor tea duck.

Li Junge made konjac two months ago, and the uneaten ones were frozen into snow konjac, and now they are just made into sour cowpea snow konjac roasted duck.

Chinese New Year's Eve dinner is indispensable to eat fish all over the country, taking the meaning of more than one year in a row, Li Junge caught two five-pound grass carp in the fish pond, ready to make classic watercress fish.

Taking advantage of today's Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, my father also went to the vegetable field to cut a lot of vegetables and came back, in addition to today's use, I also had to eat until the fifteenth day of the new year.

There are many meat dishes, bacon, sausages, crispy meat, steamed meat, and other dishes such as fried and boiled, which can be described as a variety of formats.

There is also one thing that is indispensable, that is, the return to the pot meat, because the sacrificial meat must be eaten after the sacrifice is completed, so the return to the pot meat is an inevitable choice.

Therefore, when they get up early in the morning, the family has yellow flowers, fungus, dried bamboo shoots, selects vegetables, chops ginger, picks chili, steamed glutinous rice, cuts meat, boils bacon sausages, deep-fried crispy meat, and meatballs...... There are a lot of things to do, and as the old saying goes, it's too busy to keep your braids on your back.

The black, white and brown three masters and apprentices were really not polite, when Li Junge was in the kitchen croquettes and crispy meat, they were filming and fishing in their mouths, shouting delicious and hot.

Li Junge rolled his eyes: "You guys will get hot like this! I have to make herbal tea for you in the winter!"

The black, white and brown three masters and apprentices grinned: "You Chinese are too particular, we don't exist, we all grew up eating fried food! I just haven't eaten such delicious fried food! It's much better than KFC McDonald's!"

I didn't bother to pay attention to them, everything was ready, and Li Junge began to cook the knife head meat again.

Knife head meat refers to a square piece of meat cut by a knife against one end of the meat head after the meat is cut one by one when killing a pig.

The meat cut from the pig's body is the meat head on the side that is close to the back and the side that is close to the belly is the meat tail, and the meat tail is tied with a silk at one end to hang the meat, and the meat can only be cut from the meat head side first.

Under the mountain, it is generally used to worship the gods with the knife head of the ribs, with the word "bao", which is used to worship the gods and has the meaning of praying for blessings.

After the meat is long and cooked, the fattest part is cut into square pieces and reserved for sacrifice.

Cut the rest into square piers, heat the wok and start scalding the pork skin with the skin facing down.

After the pork skin is browned, start smearing brown sugar on it while it is hot.

Wait until the brown sugar is evenly smeared, start slicing, then take two bowls with the skin side down and stack them into a 'letter of book' style, spread some sprouts on the top, throw some ginger slices and peppercorns, and drizzle some soy sauce;

Roasted, steamed, and souped dishes should be cooked on fire in the morning.

For lunch, the family casually ate a little semi-finished product, chicken soup and rice, crispy meatballs with salt and pepper, bacon sausages, and cold salad and folded ear roots.

The black, white and brown trio drooled when they saw it, but they couldn't eat it anymore, and the crispy meat and meatballs were already full of burps.

After eating, I could relax for a while, and my father began to prepare snacks such as peanuts, melon seeds, rice and candy, and tea was brewed.

The first to come was the fourth grandfather and the old uncle's family, and there were seven sisters and cubs.

Then there is the uncle's family, even the lobby brother, the second cousin, and the third cousin, including Yu Ning Yu Duo Yu Song, eleven.

After a while, the eldest aunt's family also arrived, and even the eldest cousin's family, including Ma Cuiru's little sister, five.

The second aunt and second aunt are still working, so they came late, and the second cousin can't come when he has to be on duty in the field troops, only the second cousin Xie Zhilan and Jing Zilun come, but the cousin Jing Yuanxia and her cousin-in-law Wang Guojian also came back with Wang Meixian's little sister, this is seven.

plus the four members of his own family, as well as Ayin, who stuck to his post on the last day, changed the background color of the website to red and glamorous, and then walked around the village for a long time before rushing over, there are a total of 35 people.

The black, white and brown three masters and apprentices were amazed: "Wow...... It's like the opening plot of "The Godfather"!"

The eldest aunt and the second aunt pulled the old man and laughed and wiped his tears, and when he was angry, he had to slap him twice, scolding him for having no conscience, and laughing again after filming.

The old man hid with a smile, and if he couldn't hide, he smiled and suffered, and the posture was clearly enjoying, as if it was a very happy thing to be slapped by his two younger sisters.

The foreign aunt Lan Bing looked at this warm scene, and she couldn't stop smiling on her face.

The elder brother and sister-in-law sat next to the aunt, explained to her the relationship between each and each other, and let her straighten out the family context.

Everyone sat in the open dam and chatted and talked.

As soon as the two sisters came, they took taro dumplings and children and scurried around in front of and behind the house.

Aunt Bai shook her head helplessly, this heavy task of filming can only come by herself.

Li Junge was mixing cold dishes, Wang Meixian and Jing Zilun ran over, each holding two short bamboo sticks in their hands, and a ball of boiled hemp candy was stuck to the bamboo sticks, while constantly stirring and playing the game of "twisting sugar", while asking: "Uncle Erpi, what about our family?"

Li Junge kept holding chopsticks in his hand, and said with a smile: "Firecrackers are going to be set off everywhere tonight, for fear that they will be scared, let them go to the mountain." ”

The two little ones immediately diverted their attention: "Then do we have more firecrackers prepared at home?"

Li Junge said with a smile: "There must be more! Uncle Erpi also prepared a lot of throwing guns and wiping guns for you, as well as ceremonial flowers or something, and you will have to play hard when the time comes!"

The two little ones were so happy that they turned around and ran, shouting as they ran: "Brother Yuning, Uncle Erpi said that he had prepared a lot ......of firecrackers!

Li Junge laughed, mixed the cold dishes, and went to cut the cured meat, and he had to make a platter.

Ayin also came to help in the kitchen, and she was a little embarrassed to face this situation, so she was at ease when she stayed with Li Junge.

It was almost dusk, and after a while, my father came in with the knife head meat and the rooster, and said, "We are ready to worship God, Ayin, do you want to come and see it?"

Li Junge put down the work in his hand and said to Ayin: "Let's go, I will also introduce you to the customs of our Han people for the New Year." ”

I saw that my father first took out the newly invited rune blessing paper this year and pasted it on last year's rune blessing paper in the hall, and then came out to find a place on the east side of the courtyard dam, put the chicken and knife head in place, and found a cement crack, and inserted three incense sticks and two candles.

Li Junge explained to Ayin: "This is to respect heaven and earth, heaven is God, and earth is the only one, thank them for their smooth weather this year, Lijiagou has a bumper harvest of fruits, and the products are abundant, praying for a safe and smooth next year like this year." ”

Ah Yin nodded, followed her parents to the incense, and reverently folded her little hands and bowed a few times.

Li Junge smiled evilly: "The next thing is to worship the family god in the hall, you can also worship this, but if you worship, it will be our family." ”

Ah Yin's face turned red and secretly gave Li Junge an elbow.

After the paper money was burned out, the father and mother waited a little longer, brought the rooster and the knife head to the hall, and under the tablet of the prince of heaven and earth, they also inserted three incense sticks, lit two candles, and made a congratulation meeting, and recited the words of prayer for blessing.

Then worship the god of the stove in the kitchen, and finally worship the god of wealth in the pigsty house.

In the old custom, if the ancestral grave is nearby, you can go out with a knife and a rooster to pay homage to the ancestral grave one by one. It is considered to invite ancestors to have a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner.

Next, it's time to "burn the paper".

Burning paper is an important ritual for eating New Year's dinner, and Li Junge watched his parents fiddle with it while explaining the customs to Ayin.

The paper is made of wool paper, which is made up of many sheets in a stack, and there are three rows of eight money eyes in each row, and each money eye is made up of a shape made up after being pierced with a semicircular iron tool.

Unlike paper money, if there are only six money eyes in a row, it is money paper.

Money paper belongs to loose money, which is used by gods to send ghosts.

The paper should be sealed into a bag of white paper, like the shape of a brick, and written on a special paper, also called "fire sheet", which is specially burned to their ancestors.

When the fire slip is bought, it is printed with a special seal, just like the bank's remittance slip, which is credited.

The content filled in above is which house foundation of whom, who, who burned how many amounts of paper to the deceased relatives, just like the remittance form, but also write the year, month and day remittance time.

Fill out the fire sheet, the old rule is to paste it on the bamboo frame in the shape of a cuboid, and burn it with the paper to the ancestors, and recite the invitation in the mouth when burning, so that the ancestors can come to eat the New Year's dinner and collect the paper money.

But now the rules are loose, just press the fire sheet on the paper and burn it, and the ancestor can find a box to fill it at the other end.

Black, white and brown listened to the confusion, Li Junge explained: "'Death is like life', 'the major affairs of the country, in the worship and Rong', sacrificing the ancestors, we have always been serious." ”

Since it is a sacrifice to the ancestors, the Li family has a share, and the relationship between the Li family and the family is harmonious, and the parents don't care, so when the father sets the table in the hall, the old uncle, the eldest aunt and the second aunt all come to help.

Some families with bad relations can only go to the master's house at this time, and if the aunt and cousin also go up to manage it, the uncle and son will be angry, thinking that they will rob their own blessings.

If Gu Biao has made a contribution, the ancestors will share some blessings to Gu Biao, and he will have less on his own, which is intolerable.