Chapter 274: Snatching ingots

Jiachuan eats dumplings on the morning of the first day of the first lunar month, rather than dumplings on the morning of the first day of the new year like in the north.

said that eating dumplings for the New Year on the first day of the first lunar month, either the people in the city have followed the northern customs, or they have watched too much of the Spring Festival Gala, and they have been misled by the New Year's dumplings that the host has been talking about.

Eating tangyuan on the morning of the first day of the new year is not called eating tangyuan, it must be called grabbing ingots.

The glutinous rice dough is the rice milk that my grandmother soaked out with nine miles of incense two or three days ago, put it into the bean curd bag, and pressed it on the grinding disc to filter out the water.

Pushing the baba is also a necessity for the traditional New Year in Jiachuan, otherwise there will be no ingots to grab on the morning of the first day of the new year.

There are two kinds of glutinous rice ball filling, one is peanut white sugar, and the other is sesame white sugar.

It is all homemade by grandma, and in addition to the above raw materials, there is another thing that is also necessary when making the filling, that is, lard.

If there is no lard, the filling will stick to the rice balls, resulting in the sticky parts not being easy to ripen.

The family began to make rice balls, and at this time, black, white and brown also appeared on the edge of the open dam.

Li Junge said good New Year to the three of them while rubbing the rice balls, and at the same time warned them: "Today, you all speak English. ”

The three of them were puzzled and said in unison, "HY?"

Li Junge said with a smile: "People in the village, the first day of junior high school has the most taboos, once you say the wrong thing, the luck of the year is gone, and everyone will blame you at that time, so you must be cautious." Since you don't know what to say and what not to say, just speak in English, and I'll translate it for you when the time comes. ”

The three of them are very good straight, or Jungle, you are clever, otherwise you won't know what's going on if you make a mistake when the time comes.

Seeing that Li Junge was still filling coins into the rice balls, the three of them were also curious and asked nonsense.

Li Junge explained: "This is to see who is lucky, and if someone is the first to eat the glutinous rice balls with coins, or who eats more coins, the next year's wealth will be the best." ”

The dumplings and taro were hot to watch, and they were also wrapped up with a grin.

However, the two foreigners were clumsy, and the dumplings were wrapped up one by one.

Grandma looked at it and smiled: "Yo! These two foreign babies still know the custom of making dumplings at the beginning of the year! I know that if you want to make a bigger one, it is called ingots!"

Zongba and Taro listened to their grandmother's praise, and their eyes narrowed with laughter, only Li Junge rolled his eyes and muttered, they are blind cats who hit dead mice, okay!

Phew, this can't be said, it's unlucky!

After wrapping two dustpans full of rice balls, the fourth grandfather's family also came over.

Grandma began to cook rice balls.

Cooking glutinous rice balls is also a technical job, and those who can't cook them will really boil the glutinous rice balls.

Boiling glutinous rice balls is the opposite of boiling noodles, boiling noodles pays attention to wide water and strong fire, while boiling glutinous rice balls is about wide water and low heat.

After boiling the water, change it to a slight heat, put the glutinous rice balls into the boiling water one by one, keep the boiling water boiling but not boiling, you can't see the water rolling in the pot, and the water surface remains calm.

This cooking method is called "ramming" in the local dialect of Jiachuan, so it is also called "ramming" in some rural rice balls.

I saw that my grandmother sank the white rice balls at the bottom of the pot, and as the low fire continued, the rice balls slowly began to float to the water surface, and finally all floated on the water surface, forming a white expanse one by one, and then the rice balls were completely cooked.

The rice balls that are rammed over a low fire have a clear soup and an intact shape.

If the rice balls are boiled over high heat, under normal circumstances, part of the skin of the rice balls will melt away in the soup, so that the water is muddy and unclear, and if the rice balls are boiled into pieces of broken skin, and the filling inside flows out of the soup, it is not a good sign.

I heard my grandmother shout in surprise: "Ouch, the ingots are red!"

Everybody came to see, and sure enough, some of the dumplings turned pink.

Now grandma is happy, this is a great omen, indicating that the family will have happy events and good luck in the new year.

Hurry up, pick out a few pink skin glutinous rice balls and put them into a bowl, first serve them to worship the gods, the same is still yesterday's routine, a bowl of rice balls plus incense candles and money paper, respectively, worship the heaven and earth, the family god, the stove god, the four official gods of wealth, and then start to start.

Li Junge brought bowls of rice balls to everyone, and smiled at the black, white, brown and the two sisters: "But be careful, be careful with the bowl, don't drop the chopsticks, don't drop the rice balls on the ground, otherwise, well, you know......"

The five foreigners all nodded obediently, we know what we know, taboo!

When the glutinous rice balls are filled in your mouth, you will only nod your head, sweet and fragrant, so delicious!

After a while, I heard Taro shouting excitedly, "Oh!I gotta a coin!"

I saw five foreigners laughing and dancing together with a bowl, as if they had won a lottery of five million.

Li Junge smiled at Ah Yin and said, "Foreigners are really cute, you see Alice and Shirly, it's as if they ate it themselves!"

After eating a meal of rice balls, it was okay, it was safe and sound, although the foreigners were clumsy, but they didn't drop the rice balls, chopsticks, and bowls.

Many people have eaten coins, and Taro and Zongba also said that they want to hang the coins on their necks, which will be their lucky talisman from now on.

Li Junge is a black line in his head, and when he thinks about it, there seem to be many Chinese who do this with foreign coins, so he doesn't bother to pay attention to them.

The next thing is to send red envelopes for the New Year, and the two sisters and cubs present are still juniors, and they will make a fortune now!

A sentence for the New Year is good for a red envelope, grandma, uncle, aunt, brother, sister-in-law, father, mother, Li Junge, Ayin, a red envelope is six hundred, and one person receives five thousand four in a blink of an eye.

This is to be sent, and there are so many relatives, the two sisters are so happy that they spread the red envelopes into folding fans with both hands and hold them as a group, and they can see that the dumplings and taro are so hot.

Li Junge thought it was funny, called the two of them over, and Ayin and Ayin each sent them a two hundred.

The happy white and brown two even shouted uncle and auntie.

Just as they were about to leave, they ran back again.

Daddy Daddy!Scared the babies to death, the village crackled all night last night, so scary!

There was no way, Li Junge had to feed them, so the others had to set off first.

On the first day of the new year, you have to hang the grave early, and in the old days, it was said that you would hang early and get rich early, which could not wait.

There is also a special that the first day of the twelfth day of the building of the star of the breaking day, called every break, there are taboos in the countryside, every break is not suitable to hang the grave.

At this time, the grave hanging can be carried out in advance to Chinese New Year's Eve, avoiding the breaking day of the new year.

Of course, there are also those who are not taboo to admit death, and they still go out to hang the grave at the end of the day, and others will not say anything.

After Li Junge fed the pigs and dogs, he took them and Ayin together and started to rush to the mountain behind the uncle's house.

Conversations like this were heard along the way.

"Old watch, happy new year, New Year's greetings to you!"

"Ouch, Happy New Year, the New Year is in your place, how many ingots did you grab this morning?"

"Whew! This year, my daughter-in-law made it, and the rough ones are very big, and they can't move after making a fortune all four seasons!

"The bigger the better! I made a whole six six shun, I told you that the three drifts next door are fierce, the turtle rammed and ate Ha rose, and told me that he had a whole month and a red ......moon today."

"It's a blessing to be able to eat! It's time for his turtle to make a fortune this year......"

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When I arrived at the mountain behind the uncle's house, the family members had already gathered, and the three masters and apprentices of black, white and brown had already begun to collect wind.

Hanging the grave, in addition to the commemoration and remembrance of the ancestors and the cultivation of the children's family feelings, in the old time, is also an opportunity to show the power of a family, to show the unity of the family and the prosperity of the people.

Some big families, when hanging the grave, a total of hundreds of people dispatched, there are too many ancestral graves, and they are divided into several batches, respectively, go to hang the graves everywhere, stand on a mountain, outsiders know at a glance that this family can not be humiliated.

Everyone is already starting to decorate the ancestral tomb.

Jiachuan called the upper grave "hanging grave".

The reason why it is called "hanging" is because a slender paper flag made of colored paper should be erected on the grave, and it will be hung on a wooden pole raised high on the head of the grave, and it will flutter in the wind, which is called "tomb floating".

There is also a kind of paper made of things called "paving mountains", paving mountains like paper money, but there are various colors, it is a piece of special paper torn to spread on the grave mountain.

The mountain may be blown away by the wind, so a small flag-like paper was later created, which was glued to a bamboo skewer and inserted directly on the grave mountain. Now in the countryside, both things are being mixed.

Spread the mountain to cover a grave all over, the flowers are green, colorful, the wind blows and begins to dance, it is very beautiful.

The items needed to hang the grave have been purchased by the uncle and father a year ago, and there is no shortage of firecrackers, incense, candles, money paper, tomb floats, and paving mountains.

There are many old ancestors in this tomb mountain, Li Junge's two great-grandfathers, two ancestors, grandfathers, four grandmothers, and Ermao's two ancestors are all here.

Although the old man had already come once yesterday, he still began to cry again as soon as he arrived here, and he was already in his seventies, and he still insisted on laying a mountain for his mother's grave with his own hands.

Li Junge also joined the ranks of paving the mountain for his ancestors.

Every year in the New Year, Qingming, the ancestors have to hang the grave, in addition to commemorating, this is also to tell the outside world that the tomb has descendants and then hang paper to sweep the tomb, can not dig this tomb casually, anyone engaged in the construction of the land to move the grave, must notify the descendants of the grave owner, can not be treated as an ownerless grave.

There are many rules for hanging graves, the New Year's grave hanging paper is not limited to the first day, starting from eating New Year's dinner after the small year, to the end of the fifteenth year of the first month, you can hang the grave during this period, but you must not go out of the fifteenth day of the new year.

The only exception is the new grave.

The so-called new grave is the grave that celebrates the New Year for the first time after the death and burial of the year.

New graves must be hung before the year.

And then there's the daughter who got married. If you want to go back to your parents' house to hang the grave of your deceased parents, and your grandson to hang the grave of your grandparents, you still need to see whether your mother's family agrees or not.

Why is this so, because of selfishness. Whoever hangs the grave has to bless and who gets rich, so if you meet your uncle and son are more old-fashioned and stingy, you will resolutely disagree with the daughter who marries off and goes back to her parents' house to hang the grave.

Although men and women are equal, such family rules are still difficult to completely shake in rural areas.

Even in the new grave, the old rule is that daughters can only go back to their parents' homes to hang on to their deceased parents for the first three years, but in fact there are often only the first and second years.

Because there is a particularity, the daughter is only hung for two years, and the uncle and son are left for one year, if the daughter is full of three years and does not leave one year for the uncle and son, the uncle and the son will be unhappy, and it will be called robbing the wealth of the uncle and the mother and son!

This is the bad habit of customs.