In the past two days, the sun has come out again, and the weather has warmed up a bit.

The peanuts were all recovered, except for a few that were kept for boiled peanuts, and most of them, whether fried or squeezed for oil, had to be dried first.

Peanuts are dried in the yard, and the bottom is cushioned with a mat-like object, which is generally called a sunning mat by rural people.

The mat is made of bamboo, the middle mat part is woven from a thin sheet of one centimeter wide, the edge of the mat is clamped with a long bamboo board at both ends, and then fixed with a woven rope.

Tian Fei remembered that in the future, the countryside would directly use cement floors to dry grain, and this kind of drying mat was slowly eliminated.

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At this time, basically every household is drying peanuts. There is a drying field in the village for everyone to dry rice and peanuts. Only people who have a yard at home, or whose roof is made of cement, will not go to the drying field.

Every time the crops are harvested, many people gather in the drying field, adults, children, the elderly and women. At this time, the drying field is also the most popular place, and Tian Fei also came to join in the fun.

"Fei Yanzi, come over here and eat some of my peanuts, freshly cooked."

"Xiaofei, aren't you busy? Come to me, my peanuts taste good, eat a little. ”

"Dumbo ,......"

Everyone greeted Tian Fei warmly.

"Xiaofei, you are here. Hurry up and get home, your grandfather has something to do with you. Tian Fei's mother came over.

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Tian Fei came home, and his grandfather was waiting.

"Master, what's the matter?"

"Fei Yanzi, call you back, as long as you smash these yellow papers into paper money." As he spoke, Grandpa Tian Fei pointed to the dozen or so knives of papyrus he had brought and an iron utensil.

"Oh, I didn't expect it to be half of July, this is to burn paper money." Tian Fei looked at these things and immediately understood.

"Yes, so I asked you to come back and make some paper money, you are the grandson of our family's long house."

Tian Fei said that the seventh and a half months, that is, the traditional Chinese "Zhongyuan Festival", also known as the "Ghost Festival", is on the 15th day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, and in some places it is on the 14th day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar.

On this day, people burn paper ingots and paper money to their deceased relatives. If there is a new deceased relative, the paper house, paper clothes, and even the paper car will be burned together in the second year, otherwise, the relatives in the underworld will have no money, no house, no car, and will become a poor ghost.

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The iron-cast instrument that Grandpa Tian Fei brought over was a mold, a bit like a file. Stand it on the yellow paper, and then smash it down with a wooden stick, and it will form the appearance of a copper coin on the yellow paper, and dozens of pieces of paper will leave traces.

What Tian Fei had to do was to take this mold and print it on the yellow paper in the shape of copper coins. This is usually done by men, and pregnant women must not do it, because the paper money made by pregnant women cannot be received by the ghosts of the underworld.

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Moving a wooden stool from home to the yard, Tian Fei began to work.

It looks like you just need to leave a mark on the yellow paper, which is very simple, but in fact it is a physical job. First of all, there are a lot of them, and at least one hundred and fifty imprints should be printed on a piece of yellow paper the size of copper coins. Then there are dozens of yellow sheets of paper superimposed on a knife paper, and it takes a lot of effort to make each piece of paper leave a trace.

At the beginning, Tian Fei did it very quickly and easily. But after printing a few knives of yellow paper, the right hand holding the wooden stick began to ache, and the speed slowed down. Putting down the wooden stick, Tian Fei planned to rest.

After getting up and drinking a glass of water, Tian Fei saw that his grandfather was holding scissors and cutting something on the yellow paper.

Tian Fei leaned his head over to take a look, it turned out that his grandfather was cutting some paper clothes and paper pants.

"I'm tired of printing, so let's take a break and do it again."

Tian Fei sat like this, watching his grandfather cut the yellow paper into sets of small clothes, which was vivid.

After that, Tian Fei finally finished printing more than a dozen knives of yellow paper. Tian Fei's grandfather tied together the cut clothes, the printed paper money, and several piles of denominations of 10,000, 100,000, and 100 million yuan respectively.

"Xiaofei, you're looking for a brush, let's write the burden of burning paper. Write according to this template. Grandpa Tian Fei took a piece of yellow paper with some words written on it and showed it to Tian Fei, and asked Tian Fei to imitate it.

The so-called "baggage" is a bit like an envelope for private letters, which should indicate the recipient and sender.

I saw that the front of the template that my grandfather took out said,

"Zhongyuan sends money

Therefore, the examination / 妣_府動__ boss / widow

Soul use

Same-day chemicals

Child__

Grandchild__

Daughter-in-law_Clan__".

On the reverse side is a cursive character for "seal".

Tian Fei followed his grandfather's instructions and filled in the names one by one with a brush.

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If Shuanghe Village burns paper money for the ancestors, it is not necessary to go to the cemetery, and it is generally burned in the drying field behind the village.

By July 14, the people in the village were carrying yellow cardboard boxes, paper money and other paper and bamboo products to the back of the village, and Tian Fei was the same.

Everyone randomly found a random place, and then put the yellow paper on it. Then he burned the other paper coins in the same way, and called the name of the immortal while burning, telling him that he had burned a lot of money this year, and asked them to bless the children and grandchildren in the world with peace and security, and their wishes came true, until the goods were burned and the fire was extinguished.

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Tian Fei saw that in the corner of the drying field, there was a beautiful paper house, more than two meters high and boxy, with bamboo as the frame and paper as the wall. Carved fence jade masonry, depicting dragons and painting phoenixes.

This is supposed to be the death of an elderly person in the family last year. Burning new paper is always lively, and even if you are working abroad, your children are all back. Everyone first put a bamboo mat on the ground, then piled a large pile of yellow paper on the mat, and finally put the paper house on it.

The eldest son of the family lit the fire first, and the paper house was erected by several people with bamboo poles to prevent it from collapsing halfway through the fire. The wind on the empty drying field is not small, and the fire borrows the wind, and the paper house will be burned down in a while. The fire continued to burn the yellow paper coins and so on underneath.

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July is commonly known as the Ghost Month, and the night of July 14 is the most cloudy night in the whole month. These days, the ghost gate is open, and the ghosts of the underworld can freely go out and come to the world.

There are also many taboos these days: don't step on the ashes after burning the paper, because that's the ghost's bill; After dinner on July 14, try not to go out, and do not disturb the ghosts to collect money; Don't pat someone on the shoulder from behind, as this will allow the ghost to find the other; Avoid drying clothes in the middle of the night, wet clothes are easy to let free radio waves stick to it, and it is not easy to get out.

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After the Midyear Festival, Tian Fei is about to usher in a new expansion.