[Bow and thank your friend for the support of the wheel holder.] The author would like to express his heartfelt thanks for picking up shells and pearls!! By the way, I would like to say hello to everyone: pick up new books, ask for the first order and various tickets! Thank you! 】

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Mrs. Yang: "Today is 'two years old in one night, and two years in five watches', and this meal should be eaten longer." If you treat me as a member of your family, I won't treat myself as an outsider. Let's talk and eat at the same time, today Grandma Yang is also out of the way, and I will tell you everything I know. ”

Tian Qingqing stood up, poured a glass of fresh peach juice, and put it in front of Mrs. Yang. Then everyone was given another cup. said to Mrs. Yang, "Grandma Yang, let's talk while eating and drinking." ”

Old Mrs. Yang said to Tian Qingqing with a smile: "Qingqing, don't you know everything about what the things on this table represent, you can tell everyone." ”

Tian Qingqing was also not polite, pointing to the things on the table and said: "Eating apples is called 'peace and security', eating dates is called 'spring comes early'; eating persimmons is called 'everything is as you wish'; eating almonds is called 'happy people'; peanuts are also called longevity fruits, and eating peanuts indicates 'immortality'; chicken cakes replace rice cakes, and they are called 'getting higher and higher every year'." The chestnut is called 'Lizi'. You're right, Grandma Yang. ”

Mrs. Yang smiled and said, "Yes, yes, all right." He also said to Hao Lanxin: "When the old man was alive, he often traveled from south to north. He told me that southerners steam rice cakes during the Chinese New Year, which indicates that they are getting higher and higher every year. He said that this meaning of the people is good, let me also steam rice cakes. Later, it didn't work, and there was nothing to steam, so I bought a few pieces of chicken cake instead, but fortunately there was a 'high' character in it. ”

Hao Lanxin: "You are more particular than my family. My mother-in-law has never steamed rice cakes and never told us about it. It's just that two jujube mountains are steamed every year, one is provided in the family hall, and one is offered under the heaven and earth, which means that the days of the picture are getting higher and higher year by year. ”

Mrs. Yang: "Most of us have the same situation there. I did this for the sake of lip paint. He said to Tian Qingqing again:

"Qingqing, you haven't said chicken and fish yet?"

Tian Qingqing: "There are chickens and fish in the evening of the thirtieth night, indicating that 'there is more than auspiciousness'." ”

Mrs. Yang said to Hao Lanxin again: "Look at this little mouth, 'horn'." The brain is also very useful, tell her what to say, remember it. This afternoon, when she was loading the plates, I went over to look at it and asked me what this meant and what was so particular about that. I told her, no, I remember it all, not a single one. You've raised such a good daughter, and you've really enjoyed it. ”

Hao Lanxin smiled and said, "It's not all you told her. I don't really know a lot. Why don't you say, 'An old man in the family is better than a treasure'! ”

Old Lady Yang's face immediately appeared with joy.

"Aunt Yang, tell the children what happened to the New Year. I remember a little bit of the film, and I can't say it. ”

Tian Dalin had already seen that Mrs. Yang, who was usually silent, turned out to be a well-informed old lady who could speak well, so he couldn't help but say.

Mrs. Yang: "When we talk about 'New Year', we have to talk about the origin of 'New Year'.

"There's a legend here. Legend has it that in ancient times, our ancestors were threatened by one of the most ferocious beasts. This beast is called 'Nian', and it hunts all kinds of beasts in the mountains for food.

"In winter, when there is a shortage of food in the mountains, Nian will break into the villages, hunt people and livestock, and the people will be terrified.

"People have been fighting for many years, and people have found that Nian is afraid of three things, red, fire, and sound.

So, in the winter, people hung red mahogany planks on their doors, burned fires at the doors, and stayed up all night, knocking and banging.

"That night, 'Nian' broke into the village, saw the red and fire in every house, heard the sound of the earth-shattering, and ran back to the mountains in fright, never daring to come out again.

"When the night passed, people congratulated each other, put up lights, drank and feasted, and celebrated the victory.

"In order to commemorate this victory, every winter time in the future, every household will paste red paper couplets on the door, light lanterns, beat gongs and drums, and set off firecrackers and fireworks; an all-night vigil at night; The next day, they congratulated each other early in the morning. In this way, it has been passed down from generation to generation, and it has become the current 'New Year'. ”

Hao Lanxin: "No wonder you set off firecrackers and light ever-bright lanterns during the New Year, it turns out that there is still this saying." ”

In the midst of everyone's laughter, more than an hour passed. Everyone also eats and drinks well. Tian Qingqing brought out another plate of cut watermelon for everyone to eat after eating.

When Tian Miaomiao yawned and Tian Youchun's upper and lower eyelids fought, the sound of dense firecrackers began to sound outside. Most of these children are like Tian Dalin's family, whose parents are alive but have started their own stoves. These people are young, the children are small, and they can't stay up until twelve o'clock at night, so they set off firecrackers in advance to rest.

"Dad, when are we going to set off firecrackers? You listen to how lively the people are outside. Tian Youqiu asked a little anxiously.

Tian Dalin: "I want to wait until twelve o'clock. ”

Tian Youqiu pouted and said unhappily, "How long do you have to wait?" ”

Tian Youchun also yawned and said, "I want to sleep." ”

Hao Lanxin saw that the children were thinking about releasing the whip, so she said to Tian Dalin: "Anyway, our family will not make offerings, so it is better to let it go, and let the children go to sleep steadily." You can also go over there to make offerings, and don't worry about this side anymore. ”

Offering at twelve o'clock is also a very important thing in the New Year, the children are small, and when they can't stay up, it is said that the four brothers should be present. Since the eldest and second are far away, they let the nearest third Tian Dalin go over, and together with the fourth Tian Damu, help the old lady Tian Lu serve dumplings and set off firecrackers.

Tian Dalin thought for a while and said, "It's okay." He took out the 5,000-rings firecrackers from the back room and said to Tian Youqiu's brothers, "Okay, let's set off firecrackers too." You should wear more shoes and clothes when you go out, so that you don't freeze. ”

Tian Youqiu and Tian Youchun both put on their cotton monkeys and ran out to see.

Tian Qingqing was afraid that Tian Miaomiao was afraid of the dense noise, so she hugged her on the windowsill and looked out.

Soon there was a "crackling" sound outside, and the red light of firecrackers lit up the entire courtyard.

The 5,000-ringing whip was finished in a short time, and Tian Youqiu's little brothers still had a feeling of unfinished.

Tian Youqiu: "Dad." Next year, we will buy more to put it, and the time is a bit short. ”

Tian Dalin: "This thing is to be auspicious and festive." There is also a time when there is an end of it. ”

Tian Youqiu's construction did not get the support of his father, so he didn't say anything more. led Tian Youchun around the courtyard with his waist bent, trying to pick up the dumb artillery battles that had not exploded on the ground. As a result, due to the lack of light, I didn't see a single one.

"Mom, don't sweep the courtyard today, we'll find a squib fight tomorrow morning." Tian Youqiu said to Hao Lanxin, who was standing at the door of the hall and watching.

Hao Lanxin smiled: "Don't sweep." This courtyard can not be swept until the New Year and after it is sent to the family hall. What you have is time. ”

Mrs. Yang also smiled and said: "Not only do you not sweep, but in the past New Year, you have to sprinkle a layer of sesame rods in the courtyard, called 'Sa Sui', and people step on it to call 'stepping on the year', and the more broken the step, the better, proving that there are many people who come to visit the New Year." ”

"How can you set off firecrackers when you sprinkle sesame stalks in the courtyard?" Tian Youqiu asked puzzled.

"Put it in a corner where the sesame stalks are not sprinkled." Mrs. Yang said: "Speaking of which, people are still more willing to spend money than in the past. In the past, even wealthy families would buy small whips during the Chinese New Year, hang them on bamboo poles and hold them in corners where there is no firewood and grass. Otherwise, how to talk about 'hanging' firecrackers, they can be hung and released. ”

Tian Qingqing also suddenly realized. In the past, I only knew that firecrackers were most said to be "hanging" rather than "bag", but I didn't know the origin of this "hanging". It seems that there is also a historical precipitation in the noun!

After setting off the firecrackers for a while, Tian Miaomiao dozed off. Tian Qingqing carried her to their hut and coaxed her to sleep.

Tian Youqiu and Tian Youchun ran crazy for a day, set off firecrackers and thought about it, and soon fell asleep in their own house.

Tian Qingqing couldn't sleep.

This year is the first Spring Festival she has ever had, and she is intoxicated by the strong family affection, and she is proud that her efforts have changed the family's financial situation. Especially Mrs. Yang's pot of "gold and silver rice" made her think about it even more.

"Gold and silver rice" is also called "overnight rice", which means that there is leftover food every year, and you can't eat it all year round, and you still eat the grain of the past year this year! It also means that "there is gold and silver, and the basin is full of gold and silver".

Crops grow superimposed in their own space, and food is undefeated; Anything you take out can be sold for money. Isn't it just as "gold and silver rice" foreshadows?!

I have an unknown space with abundant materials, but Mrs. Yang made "gold and silver rice" to bless her, is it a coincidence? Or does it portend something?

Tian Qingqing pondered for a while, feeling that he was not sleepy at all. Seeing that Tian Dalin, Hao Lanxin and Mrs. Yang were still talking in the hall, they looked like they were "keeping the New Year", so they came out again, figured out their chatter, and learned more about the customs and folklore of the New Year.

In her previous life, she was aggrieved and suffocated during the Li Tian Miao period, and Ling Yuanyuan was too unparticular about it, so she really knew very little about this aspect.

"Oh no. There's a fire on the southeast corner! Tian Dalin first discovered the fire.

Everyone walked out of the house and looked up to the southeast, and saw that there was already thick smoke and fire.

"I don't know whose firewood pile caught fire?" Tian Dalin said, poured a load of water from the water tank, and went out.

For a while, the sound of tapping iron barrels also sounded on the street. Some people even shouted: "It's on fire, let's go put out the fire." ”

They all lived in the same village, and as long as the men heard the sound, they all ran out with buckets, some carrying water from their own water tanks, and some carrying water from wells. The street was bustling with activity for a while.

"Mom, Grandma Yang, let's go out and have a look." Tian Qingqing said with some curiosity.

Hao Lanxin and Mrs. Yang hurriedly put on a big cotton jacket, Tian Qingqing also put on her own cotton monkey, Hao Lanxin and Mrs. Yang each took Tian Qingqing's little hand and walked out of the house. (To be continued) RS