Chapter 232: Ancestor worship on the Laba Festival
After receiving the notice and Yin Huiyan announced the official holiday, Yang Jibin immediately rushed to the podium and raised his arms and shouted: "Dear children's shoes, in order to celebrate today's Laba Festival and Winter Vacation Festival, I decided to invite everyone to be hi and hi pi." The county's Jimiao game hall is open to the children's shoes of the 61 class for free today, and if you want to play game consoles, follow me! ”
"Long live the squad leader! Let's go, let's go, don't play for nothing! ”
"Boss Wise!"
"Free, whoever doesn't go is a fool!"
"Let's go! Let's go! Not explained. ”
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"Yang Jibin, you are really foolish. Be aware of everyone's safety. Seeing a group of students running rampant, Yin Huiyan was angry and funny, I really wanted to give Yang Jibin a look, this child Wang was too naughty and mischievous.
"Teacher Yin, it's all on vacation, let's have a good time. Don't worry, we're all playing games in the city, and nothing will happen. I've brought some small gifts today, and I'm going to get them for you. Yang Jibin smiled at Yin Huiyan, then walked back to his seat quickly, took out a gift box that had been prepared, and handed it to Yin Huiyan.
"Okay, thank you." Yin Huiyan happily accepted the gift box, for these gifts of health magic, no one can refuse.
This time, under the leadership of Yang Jibin, all the students in the class came to the Jimiao Game Hall. Originally, after the holiday, the popular game hall exploded all of a sudden, and those boys' shoes naturally received a handful of game coins without Yang Jibin's greeting, and began to play arcade games.
Yang Jibin took care of the relatively quiet girls' shoes, instructed the staff in the store, and led them to play on the red and white machine on the second floor, on the third floor to play with the learning machine, and to eat pastries on the first floor, so that everyone can find fun. To each his own, he will have his place.
For Yang Jibin's consistent boldness and generosity, it is well known to his classmates, and he was not polite to him at the moment, and after giving praises one after another, he naturally played happily.
"Huang Yuelian, let's go to the second floor to play the game console together. I love to play mushroom picking, let's go! Jia Jiayu pulled Huang Yuelian and ran upstairs.
"Big brother, I'm going to eat the biggest piece of cake." Naturally, Huang Yuejie's little tail is indispensable for good things, and as soon as she entered the game hall, she ran towards the pastry room.
"Eat as much as you want, as long as your stomach fits. But you can only eat it in the game hall, but you can't take it home. Yang Jibin smiled at Huang Yuejie, and then said.
"Big brother, you're too stingy, this is not your usual style. You see. With so many delicious cakes in the store, can I eat them all in one meal? Even if it's not for myself, why do I have to let me bring a few things home and give them to my parents and my mom to try, right? As you know, my family is poor, and my parents have never eaten any of this. Looking at all kinds of bizarre and good-looking pastries, for Yang Jibin's harsh requirements, the snack merchants puffed up their cheeks and protested.
"You're too good at. Who taught you these crooked truths? Big eyes and small belly, in order to eat. I don't know if there's anything you can't do. You can take as much as you can, right? Yang Jibin really didn't have much to do with Huang Yuejie, so he had to relax the requirements again and again.
"Yes, brother is great, borrow the phone in your store, I'll make a pager and ask my dad to drive over." Get more delicious food to go back, this winter vacation snack has fallen. After Huang Yuejie finished speaking, she ran to the landline next to the cash register.
"Even Maiga, do you want to practice the three lights in this rhythm?" Even if Yang Jibin is a coarse nerve, he won't feel it.
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When Yang Jibin returned home at noon. The fragrant Laba porridge has been boiled at home, and everyone is worshipping their ancestors.
Laba Festival, commonly known as "Laba", that is, the eighth day of the twelfth month of the lunar calendar, the ancients had the tradition of sacrificing ancestors and gods, praying for a good harvest, and some areas have the custom of drinking Laba porridge. According to legend, this day is also the day of the enlightenment of the Buddha Shakyamuni, called the "Dharma Treasure Festival", which is one of the grand festivals of Buddhism.
In the Ming and Qing dynasties, worshipping the gods and offering to the Buddha replaced the sacrifice of ancestral spirits, celebrating the harvest and driving away the plague, and became the main theme of the Laba Festival. Its festival customs are mainly boiling, giving, tasting Laba porridge, and holding a celebration of Feng Jiashi. At the same time, many families have since opened the prelude to the Spring Festival, busy killing New Year's pigs, beating tofu, glue wind fish bacon, purchasing New Year's goods, and the atmosphere of "New Year" has gradually become stronger.
People often start to get busy on the night of the seventh day of the lunar month, washing rice, soaking fruits, peeling, pitting, and sorting, and then start to cook in the middle of the night, and then stew with a slight fire, until the next morning, Laba porridge is considered to be boiled.
The ingredients of Laba congee vary depending on the product of each region. On the eighth day of the first month, eight things are mixed and cooked. Among them, rice, carrots, and vegetables are the indispensable three treasures. In addition, there are peanuts (or soybeans), lotus seeds, ginkgo seeds, tofu or fried tofu, taro and other ingredients.
Eating laba porridge has the meaning of warmth, completeness, harmony, auspiciousness, health, cooperation, nutrition, indifference, convenience, gratitude, joy (replacing tea with porridge), and marriage.
There are many adults in Tianfu Province, and there are various methods of Laba porridge, sweet, salty and spicy. Rural people eat more salty food, mainly made of soybeans, peanuts, diced meat, white radish, carrots, many times rural people also call Laba porridge "oil porridge".
Strangers come here to taste, although they follow the customs, but it is difficult to get used to it, and now there are many people in the city who eat sweet porridge, which can be called different flavors. Laba and porridge can be said to be closely related, and porridge is drunk in Laba, which can be regarded as drinking out of the pattern and level.
The Yang family held a very grand Laba porridge festival this year, which is very different from previous years, in addition to the carefully boiled Laba porridge, there are also offerings such as chickens, ducks, fish, and pigs' heads. A large family came to the Yang family ancestral hall, which was very lively.
After the Yang family ancestral hall has been vigorously renovated, there is no dilapidation and depression at this time, but a thriving and solemn scene.
Standing in the distance, you can see that the 3-meter-high blue brick wall will enclose the ancestral hall, encircling a group of buildings that are closed outside and open inside. Two vivid stone lions are placed on either side of the gate, and the freshly painted brick walls and freshly painted gate are refreshing.
Walk closer, look up at the plaque hanging high on the porch, what catches your eye is four magnificent characters: "Yang's ancestral hall", the walls on both sides of the gate are hung with a pair of domineering wooden couplets, the book: New Year's Na Hongxi Yang Wenguang Chong Dou, the next book: Anju Yingyan Xi Yao Rui Qi Haze Courtyard.
Before entering the door, just the ingenious sculptural patterns covered by the layers on the ridge of the main entrance make people have to be dumbfounded and dazzled. Every ridge of the ancestral hall, every door and window, every screen, and even the beams on the porch are all beautifully carved, giving people a real, delicate and gorgeous feeling.
can have such an effect, Yang Xiande, who presided over the renovation of the new ancestral hall, has spent a lot of effort this time. He not only used his skills, but also invited many skilled craftsmen to come to help, and in this way, it took nearly three months to achieve such results.
As soon as Yang Jibin followed everyone into the newly renovated ancestral hall, he felt that the surrounding walls were extremely tall, and the quiet courtyard had a unique and quiet atmosphere, which wrapped himself in it. It seems that in an instant, he has no contact with the outside world, and only the ancestral hall in front of him is left with a rich and mysterious color.
"Third child, you did a very good job this time, and everyone is very satisfied. Our old Yang family finally has a revival day, and the ancestral hall of our old Yang family should be like this. As the head of the clan, Yang Yiren deserved to be the leader of this ancestor worship. (To be continued.) )