Chapter 67: It's New Year
"You know me?" Sheng Qingxi asked excitedly.
Cao Xue nodded: "I watched the promotional video of "Against the World", I thought it was very good, I searched for information on the Internet, and I knew that you are the director of "Against the World", and you are known as the youngest director by the outside world. ”
"What do you think of "Against the World"? Do you want to go to the premiere? I've got a ticket, I'll give you a few! ”
Seeing the two talk together quickly, Bai Tang and Zhang Feng glanced at each other, and returned to Bai Tang's room to identify and trade the next antique. After the third antique belonged to Zhang Feng, half an hour had passed, Bai Tang and Zhang Feng walked out of the room, and they heard Sheng Qingxi's words.
"Well, the ending is so well arranged, I'm looking forward to your script."
"No problem, at most a week, I'll email you the script." Cao Xue patted her chest and promised.
"Cao Xue, have you changed your career to become a screenwriter?" Bai Tang asked.
"No, I just have a story in my head, Sheng Qingxi thinks it's good, and encourages me to write it, he can shoot it."
"That's good, when the movie you collaborate on comes out, I will definitely go to the show."
"Okay!" Cao Xue smiled heartily, "To be honest, I do have the intention of becoming a screenwriter, and I can write the story in my head and make money, which is a very good job." ”
"Then turn around, your writing is good, and your imagination is rich, which is suitable for the screenwriter's career." Bai Tang encouraged.
"Forget it, everyone who is a screenwriter has been professionally trained, and my level is far worse than others. This time, this script is still guided by Sheng Qingxi, so take it when you see it! Cao Xue shrugged her shoulders.
"I think your level is good, much better than some screenwriters who like to plagiarize." Sheng Qingxi opened his mouth, and he was very unkind to some screenwriters in the screenwriting industry who like to plagiarize other people's works and learn from them in the name of beauty. You changed the name of the person, and if the era was changed, it became a new product, and the main plot was there, when the audience was a fool or a blind man?.
"If Miss Cao wants to go into the screenwriting profession, I can help a little. I have a friend who works as a teacher in the screenwriting department of Kyoto Film and Television Academy, and I can recommend you to him. Zhang Feng also interjected to help, of course, for the sake of Sheng Qingxi and Bai Tang's face.
"I really don't need to!" Cao Xue hurriedly refused, she wrote the script just to vent her dissatisfaction with the scumbag, and she didn't think about changing her major.
Cao Xue's firm refusal Except for Sheng Qingxi's some disappointment, Bai Tang and Zhang Feng smiled and didn't say anything more. The three of them stayed at Bai's house for dinner, and Chef Wu Xuemei, although it was not as delicious as Bai's mother's cooking, still made the three of them eat with a mouth full of oil and a round stomach.
"Bai Tang, your guy's food is too good, I will often come to eat in the future, don't you mind?" Cao Xue touched her bulging belly, swayed between food and body for a minute, and resolutely threw the idea of losing weight out of her head. She doesn't have a boyfriend anymore, what do you do with so much attention to her figure?
"Okay, but you can't just eat and not work, at least you have to do it." Bai Tang nodded with a cup of hawthorn tea. She didn't eat much, but hawthorn tea was one of her favorite drinks, and after Bai Ma brought out a pot, she immediately poured the first cup for herself.
White mother with hawthorn and cassia boiled hawthorn cassia tea, cassia can clear the liver and eyes, water and laxative, and hawthorn has the effect of lowering blood pressure and regulating fat, suitable for the elderly to take, of course, young people drink it also has considerable benefits.
"I can do the washing and chopping of vegetables, and I have no problem washing and cleaning." After Cao Xue finished guaranteeing, she ran to Bai Ma's side and proved her ability with practical actions, "Auntie, I'll help you serve the plates." ”
Sheng Qingxi was envious: "I really want to stay in D City and not leave!" ”
Zhang Feng smiled: "Didn't your last movie be shot in City D?" The next movie will also come to D City, so you can often come to Bai Tang's house to fight tooth sacrifices! ”
"Great idea!" Sheng Qingxi clapped his hands with fists and decided to pull the team to D City to shoot, I believe that Xiong Wenjun and Yuan Shaochuan will definitely have no objections. These people also miss the Bai family's food.
"Hey, hey, our house is not your crew's canteen!" Bai Tang jokingly protested.
"Oh, don't be so stingy!"
Not long after Sheng Qingxi and Zhang Feng left, the Spring Festival arrived.
Twenty-three sugar melons sticky, twenty-four sweeping the house, twenty-five making tofu, twenty-six cutting New Year's meat, twenty-seven slaughtering roosters, twenty-eight handfuls of dough hair, twenty-nine steamed steamed buns, thirty children staying up at night, visiting relatives and friends on the first day of the new year, worshipping ancestors on the second day of the new year, visiting temple fairs on the third and fourth days of the new year, and walking on the street on the fifteenth night.
The above is a long-standing New Year's folk song, but unfortunately, the atmosphere of the New Year in modern cities is not particularly strong, and many New Year's customs are ignored by everyone. Fortunately, there are elderly people in the family, and they are very attentive to traditional customs. Bai Tang and Wu Xuemei were commanded by Bai Ma. This year, her daughter is back, Wu Xuemei and Xing Xiaokang are celebrating the New Year in the Bai family, plus another small bun Ai Wanxi, compared with the old couple of the Bai family in previous years, it is lively and warm. Bai Tang likes this atmosphere very much, the first two times she couldn't go home to accompany her parents because of work, so she could only live alone in the field. That kind of day, thinking about it makes her sad.
Early in the morning of the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, Bai Ma called everyone up and divided the labor and cooperated. Bai Dad went to the flower market to buy flowers, Bai Ma and Wu Xuemei prepared the New Year's dinner, and Bai Tang took two small door stickers to paste Spring Festival couplets and window flowers. The front door of the Bai family was pasted with portraits of Qin Qiong and Wei Chi Jingde, and the door of the Xing family was pasted with Zhong Kui's portraits as the back door.
"Auntie, the door god is so mighty!" The little bun helped hand the scissors and transparent glue on the side. Looking at Xing Xiaokang's New Year's painting of the door god held high, Xiao Baozi couldn't help but praise.
"Of course, this is a cotton and bamboo New Year painting. The door gods on other New Year's paintings are not as powerful as the door gods on cotton and bamboo New Year's paintings! Xing Xiaokang said to Xiao Baozi with an expression of "I know everything".
"What is a cotton bamboo New Year painting?" Xiao Baozi tilted his head and asked curiously.
Xing Xiaokang really knows what a cotton and bamboo New Year painting is, because he will help the door god every year, and Bai Dad has already told him about the knowledge of cotton and bamboo New Year paintings.
Mianzhu New Year Paintings, also known as Mianzhu woodblock New Year Pictures, are named after Mianzhu City, Sichuan Province, the hometown of bamboo paper, and are popular in southwest China. Most of them are printed with woodblock outlines and then filled in with color. Mianzhu New Year Paintings, Tianjin Yangliu Youth Paintings, Shandong Weifang Yangjiabu Woodblock New Year Paintings, Suzhou Taohuawu Woodblock New Year Paintings are known as one of the four major New Year paintings, known as the three treasures of Sichuan, Mianzhu Three Uniques, reflecting the optimistic thoughts and feelings of the Bashu people and the ancient Han national fashion. Xing Xiaokang backslidden according to the script.
"Brother Kang is so powerful, he knows so much!" The little bun was full of admiration, and Xing Xiaokang proudly held his little chest high.
Bai Tang pursed his lips and laughed, the children are so cute. D city is not far from Mianzhu, Mianzhu New Year's painting is Baitang since childhood. It is said that the history of Mianzhu New Year paintings can be traced back to the Northern Song Dynasty, and due to the invention of movable type printing, woodblock New Year pictures began to be widely popular and developed among the people; In the middle of the Qing Dynasty, when guild halls were built in urban and rural areas of Sichuan, many Mianzhu painters and sculptors were hired to sculpt statues of gods and paint beams and walls, so that the art of the New Year painters could be developed in practice. During the Jiaqing period of Qianlong, due to the economic prosperity, the Mianzhu New Year paintings entered the heyday, and the New Year Painting Guild was also established accordingly, named "Fuxi Society", there are more than 900 professional practitioners, more than 300 workshops, with an annual output of more than 12 million copies of New Year paintings, and the products are not only sold to the two lakes, Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai and Sichuan, but also exported to India, Japan, Vietnam, Myanmar, Hong Kong and Macao and other countries and regions
She quickly took Xing Xiaokang's door god and pasted it on the door, took two steps back, very good, there was no crooked paste. The god of sticking to the door is to pray for the blessing of the family's longevity and well-being. It is said that the gate is pasted with two door gods, and a qiē demon and monster will be daunted.
Next is the Spring Festival couplets and window flowers, just half of the window flowers pasted, Bai Dad hugged a large bouquet of flowers and a pot of kumquat home. The two boys dropped the half-pasted window flowers and ran to see the flowers that Bai Dad bought. Bai Tang had already taken a batch of antique vases out, and Bai Dad said that his daughter had thrown small stones into the vases and filled them with water, and filled them with flowers in several antique vases according to the type of flowers.
Lamei was packed in six bottles and placed in the living room, bedroom, and Xing's house. The fragrance of plum is fragrant, and the whole home is shrouded in a fragrant atmosphere, which makes people feel refreshed. Fugui bamboo packed two bottles and placed them in the living rooms of the two houses. Fugui bamboo is also called Wannian bamboo, longevity bamboo, good luck bamboo, rich tower, symbolizing good luck. The implication is good and easy to feed, and the New Year's home will be doubled. Dad Bai also bought twelve pairs of red, which means that the moon will be red for twelve months.
"Brother Kang, I want to eat oranges!" Ai Wanxi drooled as she looked at the golden kumquat tree.
"You can't eat it, and you have to wait until the end of the New Year to eat it." Xing Xiaokang took Ai Wanxi's hand away from the kumquat tree, "Eat apples, brother will help you peel them." ”
"Okay!" Ai Wanxi struggled and agreed, there must be an important reason why his brother didn't let him eat oranges, and he had to listen to him.
There were no two small messes, Bai Tang quickly pasted the window grilles and walked into the kitchen with the fragrance. Sausages and bacon were cooking on the stove, and the fragrance filled the entire kitchen, making Bai Tang drool. She lifted the lid of the pot and tore off a piece of bacon and threw it into her mouth. Hmm, it's delicious!
After being intoxicated, Bai Tang opened her eyes and saw two buns, one large and one small, standing in front of her, staring at her mouth with drooling from the corners of their mouths.
"You want to eat too?"
Nodding vigorously.
"Wait!"
Bai Tang opened the lid of the pot again, and took a sausage out and divided it into three sections, one with the two little guys.
Bai Ma looked angry and funny, and reprimanded: "You know how to eat secretly!" Done? ”
Bai Tang nodded while eating: "It's done!" ”
"Then don't hurry up and help!" Bai Ma instructed the two younger ones again, "You two eat less, lest you can't eat lunch!" ”
As soon as the words fell, Bai Dad walked to the kitchen door: "Give me a piece of pork ribs to taste!" ”
White Mom: "...... Old foodie! ”R1152