stayed in Yi's house for a day, and when he left, he finally got Yi Huifen's "Geng Post", that is, the eight characters of birth written on a piece of yellow paper, which was carefully put away by the matchmaker. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info This is actually the ancient "asking for a name", because at that time, the girl's name was not passed on, and only when the marriage contract was made, it would be handed over to the husband's family. This means that the daughter is handed over to the husband's family, and when it is a good day and an auspicious day, it is enough to come to the door to marry.

The engagement ceremony ended with a bang. From now on, the two are officially moving. During the New Year's holidays, my father has to go to my mother-in-law's house to give a gift, which is called "four rites and eight festivals". The "Four Rites", including "meat, fish, noodles, and eggs", are mainly taken as symbolic rather than valuable. Among them, it is necessary to add rice dumplings, moon cakes and other foods that are suitable for the occasion. The eight festivals refer to the Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Qingming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Lixia, Zhongyuan (half moon), Mid-Autumn Festival, Chongyang Festival and other eight festivals. But now it's not so particular, not every festival must come, but several important festivals such as the Mid-Autumn Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, New Year, etc., the daughter and son-in-law are no matter how poor they are, they also have to send festivals.

The wedding date is not set today, and there is still another procedure to go through, called "please period", and the man's parents will send gifts to the matchmaker, and discuss the auspicious time with the woman's family, so as to complete the last process before marriage. But compared to the past, the wedding customs that have been passed down for thousands of years represent a long cultural inheritance, and they are still worth continuing.

This major event is completed, and the countdown to the New Year is coming. This year's year is good, everyone is busy with the year, and all kinds of food that we were reluctant to do in previous years are ready to make a little, so we are very busy. The weather has not been very good these days, and the temperature is cold and biting, but the family is busy.

The traditional food in my hometown will only be made during the Chinese New Year, there are various sweets such as rice sugar, yellow halva, sesame sugar, etc., as well as flour made into various embryos fried into different shapes of twist flowers, "skewers" and so on. These are very laborious, flour is secondary, and the main raw materials are maltose, eggs, glutinous rice, etc., all of which are good things. By the way, it also costs gas.

No matter what dessert you make, you can't do without maltose. In this era when resources are scarce and even brown sugar is imported "Cuban sugar", it is also a supreme delicacy to eat maltose during the Chinese New Year. It also takes a long time to prepare, first the wheat is sprouted, then chopped and fermented. After fermentation, add water, grind it out with a stone grinder, and then pour the ground juice into a large pot to boil. It is only successful to boil it until it is syrupy.

The finished maltose is slightly yellow and translucent in color, full of stickiness, and exudes a strong sweet fragrance. When I was a child, my favorite way to eat was to hold a pair of chopsticks, stir them and rotate them constantly, so that the maltose would attach to the chopsticks in a circle, and finally turn into a round ball, and then you can hold it in your hand and eat it slowly.

It's been a long time since I've eaten the maltose that has just come out of the pot, and Yang Xiaobei is not afraid of being hot, so he pries off the charred sugar cubes on the pot when the sugar is boiled and eats.

Everyone was completely speechless about her childish behavior. They are all so old, and they are still grabbing candy with children of a few years old......

In fact, you don't understand, in the eyes of Yang Xiaobei, who has eaten all kinds of candies for so many years, the taste of maltose is the purest original sweet fragrance, which is not possible with expensive brands. So for foodies, it's normal to rub some food before making candy.

After a few days of busy eating, it was the twenty-third day of the lunar month. Twenty-three, sugar melon sticky, twenty-four, sweeping the house, twenty-five, making tofu, twenty-six, cutting meat, twenty-seven, slaughtering roosters, twenty-eight, making noodles, twenty-nine, steaming steamed buns. Thirty nights to stay up for one night. The children's songs sung since childhood are right, everyone follows this progress.

No, the candy has already been prepared, and it has been carefully sealed and placed in a ceramic jar, and it will not be taken out again before the Chinese New Year. Now I don't want to do more in the future, so I only do a little bit of everything. You can't let your child eat openly. Except for Chinese New Year's Eve, you can eat more, and the rest will be willing to take out when you are entertaining.

Next, the cleaning begins. Everything in the house has to be moved out to be washed and scrubbed, and then there is dust on the ceiling, cobwebs on the walls, etc., all cleaned. The women are responsible for washing all the sheets and quilt covers, so that they are all clean during the Chinese New Year. In the days when there were no washing machines and all cheesecloth was used, this was a big project. Fortunately, the weather is beautiful, and it is rare to clear the day when it is so gloomy as if it is going to snow, so Yang Xiaobei quickly pulled out all the things that should be washed and washed for a day, and he was about to be tired!

As soon as the sheets were almost dried, God couldn't wait for the snow to fall. This time, I didn't have time to go up the mountain to catch rabbits, and there were more important things to do.

With the Chinese New Year just a few days away, the village decided to start going down to the river to catch fish. New Year's fish is indispensable, not only because of "more than every year", but also because this is the biggest harvest of the New Year, the Han family rushes to the river, there are many lakes and ponds, and there are many fish, and each family has to share dozens of catties every year.

Now divide the fish, just let everyone clean up the New Year's food, and the rest of the whole pickled up to make dried preserved fish, which is also a bowl of good dishes after the New Year. This is a big event in the village, and the whole village has to come over.

The snow was blowing one after another, but everyone's enthusiasm could melt the ice and snow, and the scene was full of people. The water level has been lowered to the lowest point as early as winter, and now the water wheel is set up and a lot of manpower is used to step on the water wheel to drain the remaining water. The strength of the large number of people is large, and it is generally possible to drain a pond quickly, and then transfer the site to the next one, and the front one will start to catch fish, and the flow operation is particularly efficient.

The fry are stocked in the spring, and they will only be caught once a year during the New Year, and the real wild free-range river fish taste is not at all the same level as the batch of intensive fish ponds in later generations. The fish in the pond are not very large, and the largest grass carp is only about ten catties, but everyone likes to be smaller and have a lot of them. In the cold winter, the men went down into the icy river mud barefoot with their trousers and feet, and began to catch fish with their bare hands.

After treading the water after all the hard work, this is the time to harvest. Suddenly, the people on the shore began to shout, "Over there, there's a big one!" and "Here! two people here!" and sometimes the people below were slapped in the mud by the dying fish, which caused everyone on the shore to laugh loudly. There are also those who are too attentive and sit in the mud, in short, all kinds of joy, extremely lively.

Large bales of straw had already been prepared on the shore, and when the men came out of the muddy water, they lit a raging fire on the shore to warm them up. When the fire has subsided, then move on to the next pond to catch fish. I was busy until the evening, and the village house was already full of piles of fish. That's right, it's the fish that is described as "heap", they won't be raised, and all of them will be poured directly on the ground, anyway, they will be distributed to each household after a while, and they will all be disposed of immediately.