We came out to eat this time, we didn't meet the backyard, it seems that grandpa they didn't come so early, after we left, they came over, it seems that they don't want to meet us, Han Peng has been a lot more honest recently, at least not as rampant as before, I took a nap at noon, my mother came back, and there was a pot of stewed sauerkraut in my hand, which was sent by the owner's family, because of the pig killing vegetables, can not be enough to eat, so generally do a lot, rather left, not enough, although there is not much meat in it, but because the sauerkraut is added to the meat, so there is the taste of meat in it, and it is also very fragrant, my mother and I like to eat, and my father came back later, I drank a little too much wine at noon, because it was the New Year, and my mother did not restrain my father, after all, I have been busy for a year, and I am happy for the New Year.

Mom bought 4 catties of pork in Zhang's house in the village, and kept it for the New Year to eat, because the weather is cold now, put the pig directly in the kitchen to freeze, it can't be broken, Mom doesn't have to send duck eggs before the year, you can also take a break, duck eggs also have a little inventory, while now when the green and yellow are not connected, Mom still wants to do a period of time, this business.

Before going to bed at night, my mother added a lot of water to the cauldron, because tomorrow is the twenty-seventh day of the lunar month, and on this day we should concentrate on bathing and laundry, removing the bad luck of the year, and preparing for the new year of the coming year. On the twenty-seventh day of the lunar month, I took a bath for Fulu, I was changed into clean clothes as soon as I got up in the morning, and my mother also took out the big basin at home, and after adjusting the water temperature in it, she began to bathe me, and my father and mother waited for the evening to wash again.

Because there are still a lot of things to be busy today, "the twenty-eighth of the lunar month, beating cakes and steaming buns and applique flowers" and "twenty-eighth, putting the noodles and hair". The so-called applique flowers are posting New Year's pictures, Spring Festival couplets, window flowers and various Spring Festival posters. The dough is to start frying the noodles and steamed buns, because the fried noodles and dim sum are what Grandma Zhang is good at, so Grandma Zhang is responsible for frying, and her mother is responsible for steaming the steamed buns, in fact, she can't do too much, because the steamed buns want to steam the white noodles, keep them for the New Year, and the family is generally reluctant to do it, and now the white noodles are expensive, so there are a few more symbolic steaming, as for the fried noodles and dim sum, because of the waste oil, that is, to get two fresh for the children, although the family's income is good this year, but the mother has always saved, this year's New Year's goods are about the same as every year, so I just got a few tastes, Grandma Zhang's craftsmanship is really good, a gnocchi, just get a variety of tricks, and there are a lot of flavors, so I think I can consider it in the future and take it out and sell it.

Twenty-eight past, it will be twenty-nine, the twenty-ninth of the lunar month is to worship the ancestors, the ancestor worship is to offer to the ancestors "the twenty-ninth of the lunar month, the tomb to invite the ancestors to offer", the Spring Festival is a big festival, and the ceremony of inviting the ancestors to the grave is particularly solemn. The time to go to the grave to invite the ancestors should be very formal, and the ancestors should be invited on the morning of the 29th, because this year there is no need to be with the backyard, and my father called Wang He in the morning to invite the ancestors together, and it is a man's business to invite the ancestors, and women are not allowed.

Soon it was Chinese New Year's Eve, my mother and Grandma Zhang got up very early, Wang He also came early, in the morning we had to paste the door god to paste the Spring Festival, and paste the New Year painting, now there is no money in the countryside to buy such things as couplets, all ask the only sixth grandfather in the village who has read books to help write, although the sixth grandfather has not read too many books, but the previous private school, write well, the couplets are to be written today, the mother handed me and Wang He the cut red paper, let the two of us go to find the sixth grandfather, when we arrived, the sixth grandfather already had many people in the house, the sixth grandmother is also greeting everyone, the stone seems to have a good impression of me and Wang Hede, we just arrived, The momentum came to us to go out to play together, and the sixth grandmother also liked us very much, "Big girl, you go out with the stone, put the red paper here first, and when it's finished, I'll send it back to you, you go out and play" I saw that the sixth grandmother didn't mean to be polite, so I agreed.

When we went back after playing, the Spring Festival couplets at home had been pasted, and my mother and Grandma Zhang were cooking the dishes for lunch, and the dishes at noon were very important, they must be rich, so that people have a sense of fulfillment, indicating that the coming year will be full of food and clothing, and the career will be prosperous. The dishes generally include braised pork, stewed mutton, braised elbow strips, ingots pork, Sixi meatballs, skin jelly, tofu, mustard dun, spicy mustard greens, stir-fried pickled melon, etc.

Although recently because of the Chinese New Year, the food at home is good, but seeing so many dishes, smelling such a fragrant taste, saliva still unconsciously began to flood, soon the dishes are ready, everyone began to prepare for dinner, because Grandma Zhang is the elders, to sit on the head, we sit in a group, take the meaning of "reunion". Chinese New Year's Eve has the habit of keeping the year, commonly known as "staying up for the year". There is no TV at home now, so there is no such thing as the Spring Festival Gala, adults sit at home and chat, children go out to play, the New Year begins with eating Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, this Chinese New Year's Eve dinner must be eaten slowly, from the time of the palm lamp, some people have to eat until late at night, in order to be able to keep, do not let children sleep.

Wang He and I are very good, both kept, after eating Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, we sat at the table, and when everyone finished eating, first Grandma Zhang started, gave us the pressure of the year money, now the pressure of the year money is not much, but it is a good meaning, Grandma Zhang gave us the money, but also encouraged us to learn and grow in the new year, Grandma Zhang finished, that is, the father and mother, each of them a red envelope, hope we are healthy, many families in the village, it is the parents at night after the children are asleep, put under their pillows for the New Year to give the New Year money, because they are afraid of giving them the money directly, they will lose the money, and generally the money is pressed, the second child year is to be taken back by the parents, so it's just a moral that I was treated like this when I was a child in my previous life, just a god of wealth who passed away.

After the New Year, it will be the first day of the first month, the opening of the Spring Festival morning, the opening of the door, the first firecrackers, called "the opening of the firecrackers". After the sound of firecrackers, the broken red is all over the ground, bright as a cloud brocade, called "full of red". At this time, the streets of the village were full of vigor and joy.

An important activity in the Spring Festival is to go to the homes of relatives and friends and neighbors to congratulate the New Year, commonly known as New Year's greetings, the first day of the new year to the home, the second day of the first year to the father-in-law's house, and the third day to the relatives and friends of the courtesy visit. For some neighbors, during the New Year, they go to the courtyard, meet each other and say: "Wishing you prosperity", "one shun and one hundred shun", and sit in the house for a while, so on this day, when you meet in the village, you will say auspicious words, and adults will also have a lot of candy in their pockets, waiting to meet children to greet the New Year.