On the eighth day of the lunar month, the women of Donghe began to be busy buying New Year's goods, as the saying goes: "After eating Laba rice, you will do it for the new year." The legend of Laba Rice is that Zhu Yuanzhang, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, was herding cattle in Fengyang when he was a child, hungry and catching rats to satisfy his hunger, but he dug out the grains from the hole, so he opened the stove to boil porridge to satisfy his hunger.www.biquge.info There are ancestors who fled from Fengyang in Tujiao Village, Donghe, so eating laba rice is an important custom, no less than Xiao Nian. The New Year's goods are mainly pickled pork, sausages, salted duck and salted goose.

The twenty-third day of the lunar month passed the sacrificial stove, that is, the small year. The king sacrifice is three, the people sacrifice four, the king eight sacrifices are five, and the turtle sacrifice is six. Most of the people in Tujiao Village set off firecrackers on the 24th, and every family set up a case to burn incense and place tributes. The most pleasing tribute to children is the sacrificial stove sugar, before the sacrificial stove, the taro boiled sugar melon is put in a bowl and covered with boiling water, and then accompanied by fried noodles. After rolling thin, sprinkle some sesame seeds and crushed peanuts on top, and when it cools, cut into even strips to become "sacrificial sugar".

On the twenty-sixth day of the lunar month, steamed steamed buns, steamed steamed buns are not simple steamed steamed buns, there are red dates in the steamed buns, there are brown sugar fillings, there are vegetable stuffed buns, and meat stuffed buns, the steamed buns and buns are filled with a big sieve, and they can't be put down, so they are in the dustpan, and the whole family can eat the Lantern Festival. Eating the steamed buns of the previous year, as the saying goes, "The family has grain in stock, and the wheat is yellow." "Steamed steamed buns taboo children to count on the side, or use their fingers to press on the steamed buns one by one.

Some people will also fry dumplings. It takes time and effort to make steamed dumplings, first mix the dough, wake up the dough, and then hand the dough little by little, gradually make the dough thinner, like a snake layer by layer in the rhubarb porcelain basin, each plate layer to brush a layer of oil, and then plate into another rhubarb porcelain basin. Repeatedly, until the dough is as thick as chopsticks, and then covered with gauze and awakened for an hour, the strip head is taken out and wrapped around the woman's ten fingers, like weaving a flower basket, braiding, pulling, and when it happens to be thick, it is fried in the oil pan. The fried dumplings can be eaten until the wheat harvest season in May. The woman would carefully wrap the cooled dumplings in large plastic bags, put them in a large dry water tank, cover them with layers of linen, and finally cover them with wooden lids.

On the twenty-ninth of the year, the women fried peanuts, fried melon seeds, fried soybeans, and broad beans. Preparing for the New Year. Stir-fried peanuts should be put some fine sand, so that the fried peanuts are fragrant, but when eating, you will always chew the sand grains, and you have to spit out all the fragrant peanuts. Stir-fried melon seeds are generally fried sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, and hanging melon seeds, and watermelon seeds are rarely fried. Sunflower seeds are sunflower seeds, and the seeds have long particles and oblate.

Children generally like to eat long particles, full of puffs in the mouth to eat, flat pinched in the middle of the fingers can not show the head, sometimes, will bite the fingers, do not dare to scream pain. Watermelon seeds are a rare food for children, usually bought by mothers from the market, and there are two flavors: cream and salt and pepper. Children like to eat creamy ones, and most of them can't eat watermelon seeds, but because of the cream, they put them in their mouths one by one. The next morning, pooping, crying dad and calling mother, my mother opened her ass and saw that her asshole was red like a monkey's ass. The mother's hand was pulled back and forth by the child, and no matter how hard she pulled, she couldn't pull it out. The mother could only stuff a small piece of pancreas into the child's asshole, and the child cried for a while, and then pulled out the poop, which was full of black scum and crushed watermelon seed shells.

This is a painful lesson, but next year, they will forget the pain of last year and still chew on creamy melon seeds.

Twenty-nine years old, all the preparations for the New Year are ready, and when you are idle, the more delicate women will cut the window flowers. Tujiao Village's paper-cutting and New Year's paintings are the four daughters of the second uncle's family, Chunlan's mother is a tailor, and the village's usual clothes are sewn by her own mother, and her craftsmanship is needed for marriage and funeral.

Naturally, the old bark grandfather had put the shroud firmly in the closet. Chunlan is white and handsome. It's just that the leg is branded with polio, and because of the leg, there is less children's play, and the mind is drilled into the painting and paper cutting. But seeing her paintings and paper cuts, the spirituality that jumps on the paper, I have to admit that it is an innate skillful hand. Chunlan passed the Mid-Autumn Festival, and began to paint New Year's paintings, paper-cutting will be in late autumn, because in late autumn, the palms will not sweat, and the cut window flowers are pasted. Her paintings and paper-cuts never cost money, and everyone didn't want to go, so they sent some New Year's goods.

The children like to lie outside the wooden lattice window to watch Chunlan paint, and the several paints in Chunlan's hands can be changed as many colors as they want. Chunlan is the most beautiful in the eyes of children, especially when she smiles, she has always been the most beautiful, because she always smiles when she sees people, and her upturned lips seem to be natural.

No one said goodbye to Chunlan, the children liked this, they watched Chunlan paper-cutting, and they could eat candy, and they took the rest of the waste materials, painted red faces, painted red mouths, and then sang big dramas on the stage near the ancestral hall, mostly singing the part where Jia Zheng reprimanded Jia Baoyu, and then there was the part where the Monkey King ate peaches.

Hua Ni plays the role of the Seven Fairies, in addition to wiping her red face and red mouth, Hua Ni also needs to order Mei Mei Qiao, Mei Mei Qiao is to use chopsticks to dip in water, press on the red paper for a while, and then quickly point on the center of the eyebrows, and press for a while. Hua Ni has seven lines, and every time she says a line, she has to insert a color of paper flowers on her head, and the paper flowers are cut out of white paper by Chunlan one by one and painted with color. The boys rock-paper-scissors choose the Monkey King. The Monkey King only needs to have a long tail and chicken feathers on his ears. There were two people on the stage, going around, surrounded by a group of children, all of whom wiped their red faces and red mouths, and they all rolled back and forth with laughter. The biting cold wind could not be used against these little people, and they were all sweating profusely, and they unbuttoned their collars, and they made a fuss about it, and then another, and another, until all the buttons of the padded jackets were unbuttoned. But the sweat on his head was still dripping down.

At the end of the play, the children will vote for each other to choose the best male protagonist and the only female protagonist to marry, which is the most thrilling and proudest moment, and happiness never comes to mind. Sometimes, two or three people with the same vote will be elected, and the heroine will be covered with a red silk scarf three times and worship heaven and earth three times before she can step off the stage. Hua Ni is like a spinning top, being dragged around by the children, she is not bored, she is very happy, because her companions are all kind, unlike the stepmother, even if she laughs, she doesn't like it.

The year is approaching, pick a good day and go to the ancestral grave.

Children can go, they can't. But in order to pick up flowers, the children have to think about it. In addition to firecrackers, there are also snacks. The dim sum is bought from the city, and the creamy biscuits are a thousand times better than the creamy melon seeds. And the mother stuffs a lot of food into the child's hands, unlike at home to talk about more and less. Because my mother understands that if you eat the sacrificial food, you will get sick less and grow healthy in the coming year.

Firecrackers are a sensitive thing for mothers, and if they let the mother know that the child has a big thunderbolt on his body, he will be scared and sweaty. When a child picks up such a thing, he is always sent by the devil and careless.

They would also place the cannons in unknown stone cliffs, and after consulting with their companions, they would gather them and put them together. After the thunder is over, the Spring Festival will be ushered in for the children.

There was no snow this year, and the East River did not have a thick layer of ice as in previous years. There is no ice skate that grows from the eaves to the feet, and the ice skate breaks off, bites into the mouth and swishes, rattling, like a witch eating the toes of the door latch and the door nose, and it really doesn't feel bad to be a witch for a while.

The mothers still began to do needlework, and the children also came out of the hustle and bustle of buying New Year's goods, and they thought of the smell of fire-roasted taro, so they quietly gathered at the head of the village and came to the East River. The grass by the East River grew vigorously, and the withered grass on the bank was one man taller, and the wind blew and suppressed the withered grass, so that the people who were burrowing in it could be revealed.

As usual, the army held a small meeting, Niu Shao was responsible for collecting the food brought by his companions, and Erlong led the others to collect dry firewood, dry grass and dried lotus leaves. The army was responsible for digging mud pits.

Dry wood and withered grass were soon piled up, and Erlong gathered abundant food from the child's pocket. There are peanuts in the shell, a small section of sausage, a cured chicken thigh, taro, carrots, sweet potatoes. The dried lotus leaves are all in tatters, like torn fans. The lotus leaves in the middle of the river are large and round, but it is not easy to step on the thin layer of ice, and the lotus leaves on the bank are all searched, and this can only be done.

The pits of the army were dug up, and they prepared the food they had brought with them to be roasted and eaten by fire. The sausages and chicken thighs were carefully wrapped in lotus leaves, layer by layer, placed in the soil pit, and then filled with soil, and wooden sticks were propped up on top of the loose soil, and withered grass was stuffed in the gaps between the wooden sticks, and with a stroke, the matches slowly lit up under the protection of their little hands, and threw them in the dead grass, crackling and exploding, and the coaxing fire instantly skewered high, this was the moment of excitement, taro, carrots, and sweet potatoes jumped into the fire like rabbits, and they slowly added fuel in the right amount, and their little faces were roasted red. It's much more natural and beautiful than painting a red face.

They gathered around the fire and sang happily! Jump! Dance the dance at the beginning of the big movie "The Red Army is not afraid of expeditions". Look at the sweat in their palms, you can see how crazy the dancing spirit is! Jumping tired, jumping hungry, they suddenly remembered what was in the fire, at this time, the fire had long been extinguished, they gently pulled with sticks, the army began to eat, he was pulling, the cattle were less while calculating, one can not be less, one can not be more. After dividing the top, there are only meat guys in the pit left. They carefully planed the loose soil, which was so hot that it burned the back of their hands.

The exciting time came as they smelled the drumsticks and sausages. Such a smell is only common in dreams. Seeing the lotus leaf, everyone stopped moving, all eyes looked straight at the army to take out the lotus leaf bag, it was hot, the army is the boss, he naturally had to behave bravely, he quickly took out the lotus leaf bag, put it on the ground, all the children clapped their hands, a burst of cheers! The army quickly put its hands on its ears to cool down as it slammed it to the ground. The mouth keeps making a "ho-ho-ho" sound. His little hands were really red.

Niu Er drooled and licked back the saliva that had accidentally flowed out. All the children had chicken thighs and sausages in their eyes.

The army began to divide, he put the chicken leg on the lotus leaf, tore the meat one by one, first pinched the sausage with two big female fingers embedded in the mud, broke it, carefully placed it on the lotus leaf, and then broke the sausage that had been cut off from the center of its section and divided it in half. The food was evenly distributed and everyone was satisfied. The army put the oily ten fingers in his mouth and sucked them one by one, and then began to enjoy his delicious meal. Everyone ate and laughed, forgetting that it was dark, forgetting the mother's abuse, and forgetting the beating on the buttocks, because the mother did not beat the child when it was close to the end of the year.