0005 Chinese New Year's Eve

In the blink of an eye, it was Chinese New Year's Eve, January 31, 2003, the twenty-ninth day of the lunar month. Wang Peng has lived a very fulfilling life these days, and a few days have passed in a flash, and it seems that the New Year is about to be.

In rural areas, the New Year generally has to hang a 'shadow', waiting for relatives or villagers to come to pay New Year's greetings, of course, to kneel on the ground and kowtow. In the morning, every household is busy making dumplings, preparing tributes, pasting Spring Festival couplets, pasting blessing words, setting off firecrackers and making trouble, and after lunch, they have to invite 'grandparents' home for the New Year. Grandparents here are collectively referred to as the older generation who have passed away. The customs are different from place to place, so don't take it seriously.

The symbol of the New Year is firecrackers, which are set off in every household, and crackle all night on Chinese New Year's Eve. There is a saying among Chinese folk that the door is opened. That is, when the new year comes, the first thing every household does when they open the door is to set off firecrackers, and the sound of beeping firecrackers will remove the old and welcome the new. Firecrackers are a Chinese specialty, and their origin is very early, with a history of more than 2,000 years. Now we generally think that setting off firecrackers can create a festive atmosphere, a kind of entertainment for the festival, and it can bring joy and auspiciousness to people.

New Year's greetings are a traditional Chinese folk custom, which is a way for people to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new year and express good wishes to each other. The original meaning of the term New Year's greetings was to congratulate the elderly on the New Year, including prostrating to the elderly, congratulating them on a prosperous New Year, and greeting them with a good life. When you meet relatives and friends of the same generation, you should also give gifts and congratulations. New Year's greetings generally start at home. On the morning of the first day of the new year, after the younger generation gets up, they should first greet the elders and wish them a long and healthy life. After the elders are worshipped, they should distribute the New Year's money prepared in advance to the younger generations. After greeting the elders in the family, people should also congratulate the New Year with a smile on their faces when they go out, and exchange auspicious words such as Wishing you prosperity, good luck in the four seasons, and happy new year, and neighbors or relatives and friends also visit each other to greet the New Year or invite each other to drink and entertain.

Dumplings are a kind of folk food with a long history, which is very popular among people, and there is a saying that dumplings are delicious but not delicious. Dumplings have become an indispensable program food for the Spring Festival, and the reasons are: First, dumplings are shaped like ingots. People eat dumplings in the Spring Festival to get the sound of fortune and treasure, the second is that the dumplings have filling, which is convenient for people to wrap all kinds of auspicious things into the filling, in order to place people's hopes for the new year. When making dumplings, people often wrap ruyi, money, sugar, peanuts, dates and chestnuts into the filling. Those who eat Ruyi and sugar will have a sweeter life in the coming year, those who eat peanuts will live a long and healthy life, those who eat dates and chestnuts will have precious sons early, and those who eat money will have good fortune in the coming year. Dumplings are generally wrapped before 12 o'clock in the evening of the Chinese New Year's Eve, and eaten until midnight, which is the beginning of the first day of the first lunar month.

Watching the Spring Festival Gala on Chinese New Year's Eve is a major entertainment activity for people in the village. The cold wind outside the house is grinning, firecrackers sound from time to time, and there is a kang head in the house, which can be served with melon seeds and fried peanuts, and the family happily watched the Spring Festival Gala. Chinese New Year's Eve has the custom of staying up late, that is, waiting until after twelve o'clock, you have to set off firecrackers, make dumplings, and welcome the New Year. At night, people generally don't close the door and don't turn off the lights.

Wang Peng watched the Spring Festival Gala for a while, told his mother that he was sleepy, and went back to his cabin to sleep.

Wang Peng, who was lying on the kang, closed his eyes, and the scene changed......

Wang Peng came to the farm hut, looked at the corn field more than one person high, and silently counted the time in his heart, Wang Peng harvested the wheat he planted at 2 o'clock at noon the day before yesterday, and took out the corn seeds in the warehouse and planted them, counting that they would be ripe tonight. Not to mention the seeds worth 20 copper coins, the wheat that harvested 3 silver coins can be said to be a high harvest, and it took more than 1 hour to complete the harvest, purely manual operation. In order to harvest the wheat, Wang Peng spent 40 copper coins to buy a sickle at the commissary. I wanted to find a sickle at home to bring in, but I didn't find it after looking around, and I asked my father to find out that the sickle retired honorably last year, and this year I borrowed someone else's home .......

The corn maturity period is 2 days and 8 o'clock, just over ten o'clock tonight, and it will be mature in ten minutes, and the experience after harvest can be level 2, haha...... The elf hints that the level farm can be upgraded.

Brush Brush Brush ...... The green corn slowly turned golden yellow.

Pixie Tip: Farm corn is ripe, please harvest it in time, it will wilt when it is outdated.

When Wang Peng heard this, he instantly jumped out of the hammock, opened the door and rushed into the cornfield......

"Smack... Syllable... The sound of popping kept coming, Wang Peng quickly broke the corn cob, and after a while, he broke it all, packed up the corn cob and sold it to the commissary, and then cut the corn stalks with a sickle, and gave them all out, yes, he threw them out, although Wang Peng couldn't get out of the enchantment light film, but it didn't prevent Wang Peng from throwing out what he didn't want.

Two days ago, when harvesting wheat, Wang Peng was also stumped, the wheat was cut and sold to the store, where to put the wheat stalks, the first thought of selling to the commissary, but the commissary prompted that there was no harm in recycling, and again thought that it could be put on fire, and the elf prompted that it was easy to cause a fire, and the consequences were very strict. Facts have proved that nothing can stump the working people, Wang Peng pulled out a wheat stalk, and threw it casually, but he didn't expect to throw it out of the farm...... The truth is cruel, Wang Peng's heart to go out for an adventure has not yet risen, and it has been extinguished in his heart.

There is no consequence of touching the light film, but the consequence of brute force breakthrough is that Wang Peng fell on all fours and his ass blossomed. Wang Peng, who had received a profound lesson, honestly cut the wheat stalk after rubbing his buttocks, and after cutting it, he still left the farm.

"Elf Tips: Player Wang Peng harvests corn to gain 6 points of experience, and 50 points of experience can be upgraded, may I ask if you want to upgrade?" The beautiful voice sounded when Wang Peng cut the last corn stalk.

"Haha...... Be! Wang Peng replied with a happy laugh, thinking that of course he would be upgraded, and where would he get the reward if he didn't upgrade.

"Elf Tips: Congratulations to the player for upgrading to level 2, with a special reward of 1 point of Constitution, 0.5 points of Intelligence, and 4 silver coins, I hope that players will make persistent efforts and continue to work hard." Wang Peng got the reward he wanted, so that his physique reached 3 points and his intelligence reached 1.2.

"Elf Tips: Players can expand the farm when they reach level 2, whether to expand or not" I didn't expect that the good thing is not over yet, and the farm can be expanded.

"Yes," Wang Peng quickly replied.

"Drop... Drip... Protective enchantment regenerated, and now the farm has been successfully expanded, and the farmer needs to develop it himself"

Eh, develop it yourself, Wang Peng carefully reached out and touched the 1-meter-high weeds next to the land, and there was no light film to catch the weeds. After a while, Wang Peng finally confirmed his farm, expanding the size of about 16 plots of land. That is, the farm now has a total of 19 plots of land, and in addition to the construction area, there are 22 acres of land that can be cultivated.

Hurry up, Wang Peng cleared the weeds in the newly expanded farm, and then bought a bag of corn seeds in the commissary, and planted all the corn, the reason is that the harvest time is relatively short, which is conducive to brushing experience. Now it takes 300 experience to reach level 3, and you can get 5 experience points from turning to harvesting a piece of land, and 22 pieces, and you can get 110 experience points for one harvest. Upgrade level 2 to gain 0 points of experience, weeding to get 16 points of experience, that is to say, to upgrade level 3 also requires 284 points of experience, you need to harvest corn 3 times, corn matures for 2 days and 8 days, a total of 7 days......

"Peng Peng, don't sleep, get up and set off firecrackers" At 4 o'clock in the morning, Wang Peng was shouted by his father in the quilt and set off firecrackers.

"Oh, I'll get up right away when I know it," Wang Peng, who woke up after exiting the farm, replied quickly.

A 1,000-ring firecracker was spread out in the small courtyard, Wang Peng lit an incense stick, and stepped forward to "snort... Turning around quickly, a burst of firecrackers rang out when he had just run two steps, heralding the beginning of a new year.

After the firecrackers, my mother also made dumplings, and my father brought out a few bowls of dumplings, first offered them to the God of Wealth, burned some yellow paper, kowtowed, and prayed for a smooth and prosperous year in the coming year. The God of Wealth is divided into civil and military, inside the civil master, and outside the martial master.

Then it was a New Year's greeting to his grandparents, Wang Peng gave his parents a New Year's greeting, and took a bowl of dumplings to eat.

After eating the dumplings, it was 5 o'clock, and I heard that there were gradually more people in the alley, and people began to visit the New Year. On the first day of the Lunar New Year, people get up early to finish eating dumplings, and groups of people begin to visit the New Year door to door. The sewing said, Happy New Year! Happy New Year! Wishing you prosperity. Basically, you have to go around most of the village, and it usually doesn't take until seven or eight o'clock to get around.

First of all, the relatives of the same clan (generally Wufu) first greet each other, and then everyone forms a team together to visit the elders to pay New Year's greetings, and men and women should be separated. The boy is more sad at this time, and he wants to visit the New Year with his father and brothers. (Alas, not to mention how tired it is) girls (girls who have not left the cabinet can't go out to pay New Year's greetings) are much better, and there is no need to go out to pay New Year's greetings.

Wang Peng's family has only been settled here for two generations, except for his grandfather Wang Huaye, this generation knows Wang Jinshan and Wang Jinwu brothers. It is said that it should be very easy, Wang Peng will be fine after paying New Year's greetings to his grandfather and uncle, but his friends are good, and the elders in the village who are highly respected in the village need to go to pay New Year's greetings, so Wang Peng followed his father and uncle and the two brothers of the uncle's family, and walked around until more than seven o'clock before returning home.

Fortunately, this year, my physique has been transformed by the pseudo-world system to become a lot stronger, otherwise I would have to be sad again, and I would go home tired and lie in bed and don't want to move. After the New Year's worship, everyone generally sleeps back, because Chinese New Year's Eve generally sleeps late, or simply does not sleep, so most people still choose to rest after the New Year.

At noon on the first day of the new year, and at noon on the next day, the family usually has a reunion dinner at home. There are many family members, and it is a very lively thing to play together for the New Year, and the children are frolicking together, and the atmosphere is very happy.

The second day of junior high school is the day of going to the grave, and I have to get up early in the morning to send my grandparents home.