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In the afternoon, when the sun peeks out of the clouds for a while, the snow stops, and the village holds a ceremony to "light up the eyes" of the three lions and the bamboo dragon.

All the new lion dancers of the lion dance team have to perform such rituals according to traditional customs, and the same is true for dragon dances.

The old patriarch and the three elders burned incense, sprinkled wine, killed chickens, first worshiped heaven and earth, and then wrote to the dragon and lion to give them the finishing touch, symbolizing giving them life and spirituality, and finally in the sound of drums and jubilation, the three new lions began the first official performance of the new year.

Today's most interesting thing is to climb high and pick green, the lion dance team has set up a high platform more than seven meters high, stacked by more than 30 long benches on the square in front of the ancestral hall, and there is a lettuce hanging on the top with a pillar.

This "bench" is just stacked on top of each other, without any connected objects, the slightest mistake, either falling from the top or the bench collapses, people who have no effort and courage do not dare to go up empty-handed, let alone dance the lion on the stage.

In the onlookers of the whole village, with the rhythm of gongs and drums, the lions on the field jumped jubilantly, tossing and turning, sometimes majestic, sometimes courteous, sometimes shaking their heads and tails, sometimes rolling on the ground, making people laugh, as if they had become a living lion, and so on until the lion climbed the stool mountain, the moment when the front body stood up and successfully picked green, the scene was extremely thrilling, and everyone applauded.

During the day, the three new lions are out of the limelight, and at night it is a festive time for dragon dances, when the dragon ball and the nine-section dragon body have turned on the internal light bulbs, the whole bamboo dragon seems to come to life, and the dragon head opens its teeth and eyes angrily. There is a kind of divine majesty and awe-inspiring momentum, once it dances. It seems to be soaring through the clouds and fog, moving people's hearts, no wonder the Chinese people believe that the dragon dance can ward off evil spirits and eliminate disasters.

More than a dozen young men formed a dragon dance team, beating gongs and drums, walking through the streets and alleys, and greeting the dragon dance to every household in the village. Leave all the way to laugh.

Interestingly, Ye Wenqi and a group of half-grown boys also held their grass dragons, followed behind the team, and gave the dragon dance to each family to greet the New Year.

The next day. Ye Quan asked Ye Wenqi about his income, Ye Wenqi's face first lit up, and then turned into a bitter gourd face, and said, "Last night, each of the ten of us divided more than 200 yuan!" When I got home, my mother took away two hundred, leaving me with only a little. ”

There was a pause. said a little excitedly: "Yaoyao, they envy us to death, but it's a pity that their girls can't dance dragons, and there are dozens of families going to dance tonight." ”

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From midnight onwards, snowflakes fell from the sky again, and they came fiercely.

When you wake up in the morning. The sky and the earth are white, and everywhere is covered in silver makeup. People can't help but think of Taizu's poem "Thousands of miles of ice, thousands of miles of snow drifting", of course, the previous sentence has to be changed to "Southern scenery".

Ye Quan looked at the weather forecast, and only knew that it was not only snowing heavily in the Yue'an City area, but also in six or seven provinces in the south, not to mention the north, and most of the entire Xinhua Kingdom was shrouded in ice and snow.

Although the weather forecast is quite accurate, the cause of this abnormal weather is varied, and in some places, crops are damaged, roads are blocked, and it has begun to turn from snow to snow.

Ye Quan was worried that the vegetable greenhouse would be affected by the heavy snow, so he rushed to take a look.

Ye Mingcheng and Ye Xinlong had already arrived at the base, commanding some villagers to check everywhere, fortunately, Ye Quan was not worried about the income of the base, and the materials used were the best quality and highest price, so he didn't have to worry about being crushed by the heavy snow, and the snow removal was timely, and the ten greenhouses were not greatly affected.

The goose feather snow has been falling non-stop, and the chill in the weather is heavier, even Ye Quan feels that the temperature this year is much colder than in previous years, and there is not much firewood at home, so Ye Mingchang has the idea to hit an old orange tree in the orchard next to him, Ye Quan found an axe and a chainsaw, and said, "I'll cut it." ”

This old orange tree is a native orange in Yuyang County, or planted by Ye Quan's grandfather decades ago, much older than Ye Quan's, the trunk is already full of wormholes, and it has lost its leaves, and it only bears a few dozen oranges a year.

The local orange has been gradually replaced by other varieties of citrus because of its thick skin and sour seeds, and even Ye Quan occasionally misses this old orange tree when he occasionally waters the fruit trees in his orchard, so its final fate can only be used as firewood to keep people warm.

The orange tree is almost as thick as a bucket, and the wood is also very tight, it is not easy to cut it down with an axe, but fortunately, Ye Quan has a foundation in national arts, and the Ye family knife technique has also practiced some.

The tree is first brought down, then the branches are cut off, and the trunk is sawn in sections.

The old orange tree, which had not been tended to for nearly ten years, was already full of wormholes, which had been almost half hollowed out after Ye Quan split the trunk, and in addition to some sawdust, there were white larvae the thickness of fingers.

"Good stuff!" Ye Quan secretly shouted in his heart.

This is the larva of the longhorn beetle, commonly known as the hornworm in the Nanyue Ridge area, which is white and fat, and only the palate is black.

The Book of Songs? Wei Feng? Shuoren" wrote the beautiful woman Zhuang Jiang, describing it as "collared like a grub".

The collar means the neck, the grub refers to the larvae of the longhorn beetle, and the "collar is like a grub" means that the neck is as white, smooth and plump as the grub.

These larvae wriggle through the wormholes, which may make some people feel hairy, but for the locals, it is a rare delicacy, and people are forbidden to certain foods, not because of poor nutrition and taste, but because of traditional cultural and psychological influences.

Ant eggs, bee pupae and larvae of beetles were treasures for the royal family in feudal dynasties.

The royal family of the Han Dynasty especially likes to eat locusts and beetles, when Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty, the royal family eats the beetle, first dips and then mixes honey and eats, this beetle is the larvae of the longhorn beetle.

The local people's eating method is the same as that of bee pupa, slightly fried in an oil pot, or simply grilled on the coals, roasted until the larvae are browned and the aroma is emitted, you can eat it, the taste is sweet and delicious, Ye Quan ate it two or three times when he was a child, and his memory is still fresh.

The larvae are rich in nutrients and proteins, and have the effects of invigorating blood, stasis and menstruation, which are recorded in the "Compendium of Materia Medica" and "Rihuazi Materia Medica".

Ye Quan found a big bowl, and while chopping wood, he picked up the exposed larvae of the longhorn beetle, and before he finished half of the chopping, the big bowl could not be filled.

Seeing that there were enough larvae, Ye Quan decided to put more effort into making zuò delicious, and when eating, he went into the kitchen, added cooking wine, refined salt, soy sauce, chopped green onions, minced ginger, sugar and vegetable oil, and stir-fried them with the larvae of the longhorn beetle.

Although the fried longhorn beetle larvae have lost a bit of their original flavor, the taste is also much stronger, Ye Mingchang likes it the most when it is used to drink, Cao Shuyun is also a person who has experienced the famine years, what can be eaten has not been eaten?

It's the sisters Ye Ting and Ye Ni, one entered the city with her parents at the age of eight, and the other grew up in the city since she was a child, and she is a little afraid to talk about this kind of thing.