The first cub of the first year, the second lang of the first year, the third and fourth days of the first year, worship the Quartet......

This proverb refers to the rules and order of visiting relatives in the countryside for the New Year, and it cannot be messed up.

The so-called first cub of the new year refers to the day of the first day of the new year, which is the day when the sons bring their wives and children to their parents to pay New Year's greetings.

As for Chu Erlang, it means that the son-in-law goes to meet his father-in-law and mother-in-law, and by extension, his grandchildren can go to meet his grandparents.

You can't mess around in these two days, and you can do it at will on the third and fourth days of junior high school.

Wu Xiaozheng is happy to be idle.

First, there are not many relatives of the Wu family, and secondly, according to age, Wu Xiaozheng is still a child, and he is not so particular.

On the night of the Chinese New Year's Eve, Wu Xiaozheng drank a little bit again, but he was in a good mood and did not make any trouble, and after eating, he took Wu Xiaoli to set off fireworks for a while before going to sleep.

Early in the morning of the first day of the new year, he got up, opened the door of the hall, and lit the 10,000-ringing earth red.

Wu Xiaozheng knows that setting off fireworks and firecrackers will pollute the environment, but for the sake of this year's flavor, he can't care so much.

After setting off the firecrackers, Wu Xiaozheng pulled Wu Xiaoli up from the bed.

This was the little girl's own request the night before, because she was still thinking about going to worship the "Year of Sugar Ba".

Worshipping the "Year of Sugar Ba" is also a custom handed down from the countryside.

In the early years, it was not easy for children to eat a piece of candy, so during the Chinese New Year, every household would buy a little paper candy or make some glutinous rice and baba and other snacks. Early in the morning of the first day of the new year, the children in the same village will go door to door to pay New Year's greetings, and the main family will distribute the paper-wrapped sugar and glutinous rice baba to the children at home, so it is called the "Year of Sugar Baba".

Wu Xiaozheng has done this before.

At the beginning, because of poverty, every family only sent one or two pieces of candy wrapped in paper to the children who greeted the New Year, and then when the conditions were better, each family would be more generous, and there could be three or four, four or five pieces each time.

Children are very happy about this, because the sugar they worship on the first day of the new year is enough for them to eat for many days.

Wu Xiaoli happily sent her new clothes and went out, but not long after, she ran back disappointed.

"Brother, the candy given by other families is not delicious, so I won't go. ”

I see!

Wu Xiaozheng couldn't help laughing.

It turned out that Wu Xiaoli found that other families sent hard fruit candy, although there are a lot of them, but they are not as delicious as their own, how can Wu Xiaoli, who is used to eating good sugar these days, be satisfied!

Wu Xiaozheng knows that this is one of the reasons why the taste of the New Year is slowly fading.

In a few years, the conditions of every household will be better, and the children will not lack sugar to eat, so they will no longer worship the "Year of Sugar Ba", and this beautiful scenery full of New Year's flavor will slowly disappear.

There are many children who come to Wu's house to worship the "Year of Sugar Ba".

This is because the children who worship the "Year of Sugar Ba" will also pass on messages to each other: the sugar given by the Wu family is delicious and abundant!

Now that Wu Xiaoli took Wu Xiaozheng's place and proudly assumed the responsibility of sending sugar officials.

The little girl is not stingy, as soon as a child comes to the door, she grabs a handful of mixed good candy and gives it to the other party. However, the little girl will also hide her secrets, and when she meets someone who is familiar and has a better relationship, her little hand that grabs candy will open a little wider.

Then Wu Xiaozheng saw a very interesting scene.

Before leaving the Wu family, the children who came with them would compare themselves with each other.

"I have seven. ”

"I have eight. ”

"I only have six ......," the child who said this sentence was a little unwilling in his tone.

Then the children ran away happily.

This is the flavor of the year.

When the sky is bright and every family has finished breakfast, the worship of the "Year of Sugar Ba" is gradually gone, and then the village begins to make noise with gongs and drums, which is the dragon dance team organized by the village spontaneously.

The lion and dragon dance to worship the New Year is also one of the activities during the Spring Festival.

Unfortunately, this very year-old event has gradually disappeared.

This is indeed a very lively thing in the countryside, in the noise of gongs and drums, the roar of firecrackers, the dragon dance team of more than 20 people will go door to door to pay New Year's greetings, will dance a few laps at the door of each house, and then the host will do their best to seal a big red envelope, and then use firecrackers to send the dragon dance team away.

In this year, the reason why the dragon dance team is willing to go out is because the income of this day can make each person share dozens of yuan, which is enough to cover the income of a week. Later, this activity was gradually replaced by mahjong playing cards.

The dragon dance team in his village came to the door, and Wu Xiaozheng sealed a big red envelope of 20 yuan, in this year, this red envelope should be regarded as very generous.

Seeing the satisfied smile on the face of the salute plate, Wu Xiaozheng was a little proud.

Well, Wu Xiaozheng admits that he has some face again.

This is also something that can't be helped, the Wu family is about to do something big, and the shot can't be too shabby, otherwise it will be embarrassing.

After the dragon dance team leaves, it is time for the relatives to walk around each other.

Walking around the clan is relatively simple, carrying a bottle of wine, or a bag of sugar, or a little canned fruit, etc., go to the door, sit down to drink a cup of tea, eat some peanuts, melon seeds, candy and the like, it is enough to express the meaning of closeness.

The Wu family doesn't have too many relatives, but Wu Changhe still has two cousins, but they don't usually get too close. Today is good, those juniors of his cousin's family have all come to Wu Changhe to pay their respects.

It seems that the old saying is still answered: no one asks about the poor in the downtown area, and the rich have distant relatives in the mountains.

Wu Changhe was very happy, he warmly entertained the juniors who came to visit, and then sent Wu Xiaozheng to take Wu Xiaozheng to give the two cousins a salute.

Wu Xiaozheng was a little reluctant, but he still carried his things and went for a walk.

No way, this is called a courtesy exchange.

Next is the second day of the Lunar New Year, if Wu Xiaozheng's mother is here, then he should follow his mother to his grandmother's house in a neighboring county.

Now it's good, before my mother comes back, my grandmother's house doesn't have to go for the time being, because after my mother was arrested, the two uncles brought people to the door to make trouble, asking the Wu family to compensate people, and the relationship between the two families was very stiff.

Wu Xiaozheng didn't care too much about this.

The intimate relationship is to come out, and if you are diligent, the relationship will naturally be close, and if you go sparsely, the family affection will fade. Because of the distance between grandma's house, the two families were not diligent, and Wu Xiaozheng's brother and sister did not have too deep feelings for grandma's family.

The next third day of the new year is over, it is the fourth day of the first month, the day of the scheduled class reunion.