Chapter 60: The Busyness Before the Qingming Dynasty

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"Before and after the Qingming Festival, plant melons and beans", "afforestation, no more than Qingming", as soon as Qingming arrives, the temperature rises, and the spring flowers bloom, which is a good season for spring plowing and spring planting. Tomorrow is the Qingming Festival, and now every household is busy preparing things for the Qingming Festival.

Grandma and the third aunt are preparing Qingtuan and rock sugar glutinous rice lotus root, Qingtuan, also known as mugwort, is a kind of green cake dough made of grass juice, mixed with the juice of green mugwort, glutinous rice flour, bean paste filling, sesame filling and other fillings are wrapped in, making a green dumpling the size of a child's fist. This kind of Qingtuan is Li Jiahao and Jiahui's favorite food, Qingtuan is green and green, glutinous and soft, sweet and delicate, fragrant and refreshing, from the color to the taste has the smell of spring. This kind of Qingtuan grandmother made mugwort leaf juice, and also made it with maran head and spinach. The taste is really fragrant, and Jiahui's girl can eat several at a time. After making the Qingtuan, I then made rock sugar glutinous rice and sugar lotus.

Rock Sugar Glutinous Rice Lotus Root is made of lotus root, glutinous rice, wolfberry, red dates, rock sugar, and roses, and the taste is glutinous and soft but not sticky, sweet and fresh.

These foods are reserved for tomorrow, because the Qingming Festival is also called the Cold Food Festival, and it is not possible to open fire.

After doing this, the third aunt brought some paper, which is to fold ingots, and it is also reserved for tomorrow. Grandpa and third uncle also pasted the TV and the small house with paper, saying that it was burned to Li Jiahao's parents tomorrow, Li Jiahao's parents unfortunately passed away from the tractor when Li Jiahao was young, and Li Jiahao's father liked to watch TV the most, and Li Jiahao had a black and white TV at home. The grandfather and the third uncle were afraid that Li Jiahao's father would have no place to live in the underworld and his soul would have no fixed place, so the people in the world burned the house with paper paste to the deceased.

Grandma also prepared some incense candles, "labels", "baggage", firecrackers, and dark money. This kind of "mark" is a kind of paper flower, which is a copper coin-shaped paper cut from paper of various colors, and it is said that it is the flag of the underworld, and a flag corresponds to the identity of an ancestor. There is also the "burden", the so-called "burden", also known as "package", refers to the parcel sent by filial piety from the yang world to the "underworld". The so-called "furoshiki" is a large bag of white paper. This bag is full of money and wealth for the ancestors, and the names of the Yang and the Netherworld are written on it. The underworld banknote is imitated after the world has foreign money tickets, with the words "Heaven Bank", "Hades Bank", "Difu Yin Cao Bank" and so on, and there are patterns of the capital, most of which are huge faces, hoping that people in the underworld can also have money to live a good life.

Grandpa took out home-brewed peach blossom wine and fruit wine, and the third aunt prepared a whole chicken, a large piece of pork and other tributes.

Jiahui's girl folded a lot of willow branches, and waited to knit a hat ring with her third aunt and grandmother, and she would wear it on her head tomorrow. Willow trees are planted at the front door of the house, and it is said that Liu Yong lives a dissolute life and often goes back and forth in the willow alleys of the flower street. At that time, the singers all loved his talent and were proud to be favored by Yooyong. But because of his misdeeds, Liu Yong's life was not tolerated by his career, although he passed the Jinshi, but finally died in poverty in Xiangyang. The cost of his burial was raised by the singers who admired him. Every year during the Qingming Festival, the singers went to his grave to plant willow branches to commemorate, and over time it became the custom of planting willows in the Qingming Festival. Later, it was to get rid of poisonous insects. Qingming is also the Ghost Festival, and it is also the time when a hundred ghosts haunt, and the willow is also to drive away ghosts. "Willow" and "stay" are homophonic to express the meaning of retention.

Grandpa made a very beautiful butterfly kite for Jiahui's girl, and I will keep it for tomorrow. Kite flying is also a custom of the Qingming Festival in Litang Village. The villagers of Litang Village not only release it during the day, but also at night. At night, a string of small colorful lanterns is hung under the kite or on the wind-steady pull line, like a twinkling star, which is called "magic lantern". Some people cut the strings after flying their kites into the blue sky, and let the breeze send them to the ends of the earth, which is said to ward off diseases and bring good luck to themselves.

The third uncle tied a rope to the tree in the yard and made a swing, and Jiahui's girl and a group of children picked a lot of wild flowers and tied them to the swing rope, and tied some ribbons, which was very beautiful. Swinging is also a custom in Qingming in Litang Village. Swing, that is, pulling the leather rope and moving. Its history is very ancient, the earliest called Qianqiu, and later changed to a swing in order to avoid taboos. Swinging not only promotes health, but also fosters bravery, and is a favorite of Jiahui and a group of children.

After all the approvals were made, Jiahui took the children and started swinging. No matter what the festival is, children are the happiest, because they can play crazy during the holidays, they don't have to do homework, and they can eat a lot of delicious food.

At this time, Xiao Diandian and Xiao Whirlwind ran over, circling and chasing around Li Jiahao's feet, Jiahui's girl sat on the swing with Xiaodian, and the big hair behind pushed Jiahui to swing, Xiaodian chirped in Jiahui's arms, Jiahui's girl seemed to be unresponsive, swinging higher and higher, Li Jiahao saw it and hurriedly said: "Jiahui, you don't look like a girl, crazy to death." ”

Jiahui glared at Li Jiahao and pouted, and said, "Brother, look at the little bit of fear swinging." ”

The children took turns swinging, and the laughter spread far away, and the noisy third aunt and grandmother talked to the children several times, but it was useless. The children still do their own thing, and there is really no way to take the adults.

Da Mao's child was the most naughty, and when he saw the monitor lizard running over, he hurriedly smiled and said, "Let's hold the big lizard to the swing and let the lizard swing, okay?" ”

After this decision was unanimously approved by the children, several children actually moved the monitor lizard to swing on the swing. The monitor lizard crawled over and saw a group of children chirping and playing, sticking out their big tongues. Seeing a group of children walking towards him, he hurriedly turned around and was about to run away, Da Mao took the child to block the front of the monitor lizard, Da Mao also smiled and said: "Big lizard, don't run, let's take you to the swing, it's very fun." ”

The monitor lizard didn't appreciate it at all, and stuck out its big tongue in protest, but Jiahui's girl said in the back: "Da Mao, let's go up together and hold it down and hug it together." ”

Listening to Jiahui's shout, a group of bear children swarmed up and prepared to forcibly carry the monitor lizard to the swing, and the monitor lizard stuck out its big tongue and flicked its tail. Perhaps the monitor lizard knew that the children were playing with it, so it did not attack the children, and quickly turned and ran away. The children were still chasing and screaming without interest. The children's cries seemed to make noise to the monitor lizard, and the monitor lizard was a little angry, and immediately puffed out its neck, making its body thick, and hissing while sticking out its big tongue, and its body was backwards, in a fighting stance, and its sharp claws kept clawing at the dirt on the ground. When the children saw the monitor lizard like this, the younger child was a little scared and retreated in fear, but the bold child smiled and said, "It's okay, this is a big lizard raised by Uncle Jiahao, and it won't bite us." ”

"Yes, this is my lizard, my brother's, it won't hurt you." Jiahui's girl said.

Seeing that the children had no intention of leaving, the monitor lizard hurriedly sprayed the fish meat they had just eaten, and the children saw the monitor lizard squirting out the food they had eaten, and hurriedly smiled and said, "You see the big lizard still vomiting us." ”

Da Mao took the children to catch the monitor lizard in an arrow step, Li Jiahao saw it at this time, and hurriedly shouted: "You bear children, what are you going to do?" What are you doing with monitor lizards? Be careful that it eats you. ”

The children were so intimidated by Li Jiahao, they quickly stopped, stood still in place, Li Jiahao stared at the big eyes and said: "You children really don't know that the sky is high and the earth is thick, this lizard is very powerful, it can bite horses to death, cattle bite to death, and it can't deal with you little hairy children, it's really bold." Li Jiahao was also taken aback, these children are really bold, they dare to fight monitor lizards, it's really a long life.

When the monitor lizard saw its master Li Jiahao coming, he hurriedly crawled to Li Jiahao's feet, stuck out his big tongue and looked at Li Jiahao, and then looked at the children, Li Jiahao comfortingly touched the monitor lizard's head and said, "Okay, it's okay, they are playing with you, and they won't hurt you." ”

As if he could understand, the monitor lizard rubbed Li Jiahao's leg with his head, stuck out his tongue, and looked at Li Jiahao affectionately. Li Jiahao glared at the children again, and said angrily: "Go play, don't mess with the monitor lizard easily in the future, be careful that it bites you." Monitor lizard, let's go, take you to eat fish. As he spoke, he led the monitor lizard to the pond.

The children saw Li Jiahao walking away with the monitor lizard, and the children ran to the swing again.

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