Zhang Mingyu pillowed his mother Chen Xiulian's pleasant singing, fell asleep for a while, Zhang Mingyu got up and smelled it, and the smell of wine on his body was almost dispersed.

When he arrived in the living room, Zhang Mingyu found that the relatives who had paid New Year's greetings before were almost gone.

Zhang Mingyu remembered that on the first day of the Lunar New Year, according to the original rules of Sichuan water hospitality, during the New Year's greetings, relatives and friends would pull you to "burn tea" to drink. When it is said to be roasted tea, it is not boiled water to make tea leaves, but you eat pork or chicken broth underneath, which includes pork legs, pork ribs, whole meat cakes, or two or three eggs. At this time, you can only eat noodles, drink some soup, eat a piece of meat cake or an egg, and don't eat it all; If you eat it all, it's a big joke that you don't know etiquette.

In fact, you can't eat so much during the Chinese New Year, and the host can use the main parts to entertain another group of guests.

It's a bit unhygienic, but it's been passed down like this for many years.

Nowadays, in the new era, Sichuan people began to pay attention to hygiene, and it is not so complicated, so that the guests of the New Year can eat one by one, and now as soon as the guests arrive, a table is a banquet, which is fast and convenient.

Zhang Mingyu thought that he went to his father-in-law's house for the New Year, and his father-in-law and mother-in-law had been a soldier in the north for many years.

Father-in-law and mother-in-law's dumplings are generally wrapped before 12 o'clock in the evening of the Chinese New Year's Eve, and stay until midnight or the morning of the first day of the new year to eat, of course, if you don't want to sleep, it is best to eat in the middle of the night, because this is the beginning of the first day of the first lunar month, eating dumplings takes the meaning of "more years and children", "son" is "son time", and "dumplings" are homophonic, with the meaning of "festive reunion" and "auspicious wishes".

Zhang Mingyu has seen the introduction of the information, 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 take 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.

According to the rules of the New Year's greeting of Chuanshui, there are also regulations on which day to go to the New Year's greetings, the first day of the new year to worship the father's family, the second day of the first year to worship the mother's family, and the third day to worship the wife. From the fourth day of the new year, I worship ordinary relatives and friends.

It's just that now, Zhang Jianghai is the only one left in Zhang Jianghai's generation, and as for Zhang Mingyu's aunt, there is only one still alive, Zhang Mingyu and his sisters are going to visit them when they go back to their hometown together tomorrow.

In the afternoon, Uncle Zhang Mingyu's children, four brothers and sisters living in Jiangcheng City, hurriedly arrived to pay New Year's greetings to the elders of their family, Zhang Jianghai and Chen Xiulian.

Zhang Jianghai asked Mingcan to contact his sisters and the Ming Han in his hometown, and if they could come, they would come over, and the brothers and sisters would be lively and lively in the evening.

After a while, all the brothers and sisters who should have come came, and those who should not have raised their hands.

In the evening, everyone accompanied Zhang Jianghai and Chen Xiulian to drink, chat, and listen to Zhang Jianghai talk about the rules of the New Year.

"We know that the Chinese New Year is a happy time, we all congratulate each other when we speak, we must use auspicious language, and if we wish you blessings, we all wish this year good luck.

In the past Chinese New Year, they never said unlucky words to each other, and they didn't want to encounter unlucky things, so there were many taboos. Every Chinese New Year, the adults tell the little ones not to talk nonsense, and the children are also worried and silent, for fear of saying the wrong thing and affecting the luck of other people's families for a year. ”

Zhang Jianghai took a sip of the soup, savored it, and beckoned a few juniors to say,

"A few of you, don't listen to my nagging, just forget to eat vegetables, Mingshun, you like to eat three fresh foods, hurry up and eat, don't stop chopsticks."

Zhang Mingshun is the eldest son of the uncle, and a few of them ate a few pieces of meat cakes, which is really intoxicating!

"Dad, tell me more, what can't you say during the Chinese New Year?" While eating vegetables, Zhang Mingyu urged Zhang Jianghai to talk about the taboo of the New Year.

Zhang Jianghai then began to talk eloquently,

"Verbally, it is not possible to speak of ghosts, dead people, back times, sickness, bad luck, credit, shipwrecks, fires, downfalls, etc. During the Chinese New Year, there are some special terms: sleeping is called digging a cellar, opening the door is called opening the door of wealth, bleeding is called seeing red, eggs are said to be ingots, cats are called Caixi, mice are called guests, snakes are called money strings or long worms, tongues are called earning heads, teeth are called timber strips, and little people are called dogs when they are sick. ”

After a meal of wine, listening to these secrets, Zhang Mingyu felt that the expression of China's local language is broad and profound, and it is estimated that those so-called language experts and scholars may also know the taboo rules in some places.

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Early the next morning, the five sisters drove to their hometown to pay New Year's greetings to several brothers and sisters of the second uncle's family.

said it was their hometown, but in fact, where Minghong and they lived, Tanshui Farm was their second hometown.

Zhang Mingyu's first hometown is located in Zhangjiawan, Mulan Town, Chuanshui District, which is a village by the Mulan Lake, in the seventies of the last century, just after the defeat of the "four-people-gang", because Mulan Lake is flooded all year round, often flooding farmland, Chuanshui County launched a resettlement plan.

So, Zhang Jianghai and his wife, together with their family and the children of their second brother, responded to the call and moved to the current Tanshui Farm.

Zhang Mingyu shuddered a little when he recalled the hardships of his family when they first immigrated to Tanshui Farm.

I think that at the beginning, Tanshui Farm was a desolate place where birds did not lay eggs. After more than 20 years of vicissitudes of life, the hard days have come to an end, and Tanshui Farm has also changed its old appearance.

Zhang Mingyu got out of the car and saw that the place where Minghong and they lived had changed a lot from before.

The buildings are lined up, and next to the house, there is a wide cement road, and Zhang Mingyu is busy greeting the crowd he once familiarized.

"Brother Ming Han, I haven't been here for two years, it's very different!" Zhang Mingyu said.

"Yes, you have the most credit for this change. Mingyu, the money you asked someone to approve came down later, and besides, didn't you donate 500,000? The village comes in handy, otherwise, how could the road be so wide. ”

As soon as Ming Han mentioned it, Zhang Mingyu suddenly remembered that there was such a thing, and the people from Tanshui Farm went to the Nanjiang Provincial Materials Corporation last year to ask Zhang Mingyu to help Mayor Jiang Guoqing approve some money, and by the way, he donated 500,000 yuan to contribute to the people of his hometown.

Finally, after receiving a call from Mayor Jiang Guoqing, the director of the Jiangcheng Poverty Alleviation Office gave 500,000 yuan to Tanshui Farm with a stroke of his pen.

Several sisters went to their aunt's house to pay New Year's greetings, and Wang Bingqian sent a red envelope of blessings.

The aunt is the wife of Zhang Jianghai's cousin, who is younger than Chen Xiulian, and her spirit is indeed not bad at all.

Several uncles and brothers live together, and of course the New Year's greetings must be completed.

Everyone went to the various houses in the village to visit the New Year, and they stopped and stopped in the morning, and it was just like that.

At noon, the Ming and Han families prepared three tables, cousins, cousins, and cousins all participated, everyone reminisced about the past together, reminisced about their childhood together, laughed and scolded together, sighed together like water, and recalled their unbearable things together.