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Finally, Chen Xinran left satisfied, Wang Pan, who should have been very happy, was very depressed, originally thinking of going out to have a good time before the New Year, but now that it is good, the day after tomorrow will be the New Year, even if he goes out now, there is not much time to play. So, he had to be depressed there alone.

But no matter how depressed you are, life has to go on, it's close to the end of the year, and several old people who live here in Wang Pan's house have also gone back, so there is no need to say that Chen Lao Zhao Lao. The Chinese New Year is coming soon, and they have to go home to reunite with their families. There are also a lot of old friends who also need to be walked, otherwise, they will be rusty in the future.

As for Lin Zhenxiang and Yang Zhongxian, they also went back early, although Wang Pan is their grandson-in-law (grandson-in-law), but for the New Year, the biggest traditional festival in the Dragon Kingdom, they still need to go home, so after they have passed the New Year, they will go back with the scriptures.

Soon, the time will be Chinese New Year's Eve. Chinese New Year's Eve is one of the heaviest festivals in China's traditional festivals. It refers to the night of the last day of the lunar year, that is, the night before the Spring Festival, because it is often on the 30th or 29th day of the summer calendar, so it is also called the 30th day of the Chinese New Year's Eve. The last day of the year is called "New Year's Eve", and that night is called "Chinese New Year's Eve". People often stay up all night on Chinese New Year's Eve, which is called the New Year's Celebration. Su Shi has "New Year's Poem": "Children don't sleep, and they keep vigil and cheer." "On Chinese New Year's Eve, the home and outside the home must not only be cleaned, but also the door gods, Spring Festival couplets, New Year paintings, and door cages should be hung, and people will change into new clothes with festive colors and patterns.

There is also a legend on Chinese New Year's Eve that according to legend, there was a monster called Xi in ancient China, with long tentacles on its head, fierce and abnormal, often devouring livestock and harming human life. People in villages and villages helped the old and the young to flee to the mountains. to dodge the damage of the Nightmon.

On Chinese New Year's Eve this year, the people of Peach Blossom Village are helping the old and the young to take refuge in the mountains. Some of the villagers sealed the windows and locked the doors, some packed up, some led the cattle and drove the sheep, and people everywhere shouted and neighed, a scene of panic in a hurry. At this time, a half-grown child came from outside the village, and I saw that this child had thick eyebrows and big eyes, and was beautiful and lovely. When the child came to the east end of the village, he saw an old woman and asked why everyone was alarmed. The old woman had no choice but to tell the child to make trouble again. And persuaded him to go up the mountain to avoid the 'Xi' beast, and the child smiled: "Mother-in-law ~ My name is Nian, let me stay at home for one night, I will definitely drive the 'Xi' beast away." The old woman looked at him in surprise and saw that he was extraordinary. But she continued to persuade. Nian smiled but did not speak. The mother-in-law had no choice but to leave her home and go up the mountain for refuge.

In the middle of the night, Xi broke into the village. It found that the atmosphere in the village was different from previous years: the old woman's house in the east of the village was pasted with big red paper, and the house was lit with candles. The 'Xi' beast shook and screamed. Glaring at her mother-in-law's house for a moment. Then he screamed and pounced. When he approached the door, there was a sudden explosion sound of 'bang bang' in the courtyard, and 'Xi' trembled all over, and he didn't dare to move forward anymore. Originally. "Xi" is most afraid of red, fire and explosions. At this time, the door of the mother-in-law's house was wide open, and I saw a young man in a red robe laughing in the courtyard. 'Xi' was shocked, and the wolf bèi fled.

The next day. The people who had returned from the evacuation were amazed to see that the village was safe and sound. At this time, the old woman suddenly realized. Hurriedly told the villagers about the promise of the year. The villagers flocked to the old woman's house, only to see red paper pasted on the door of the mother-in-law's house, a pile of unburned bamboo in the courtyard was still "popping" and exploding, and a few red candles in the house were still ......glowing; In order to celebrate the auspicious arrival, the ecstatic villagers changed into new clothes and hats, and went to the homes of relatives and friends to say hello. The news soon spread in the surrounding villages, and the people knew how to drive away the 'Xi' beast. For this reason, everyone went to visit the New Year, which is now the "New Year's Greeting" (the origin of the New Year's greeting), and posted the picture of the New Year at the door or in front of the window, called the New Year's painting (the big fat boy on the New Year's painting is the year) The day of the New Year's Eve is called Chinese New Year's Eve (the origin of Chinese New Year's Eve).

Since then, every year on Chinese New Year's Eve, families have posted red couplets and set off firecrackers; Candles are lit up in every household, and the watch is waiting for the year. Early in the morning of the first day of the new year, I have to go to my relatives and friends to say hello. This custom has spread more and more widely, and it has become the most solemn traditional festival of Chinese folk "New Year".

Expulsion in the pre-Qin period. According to "Lü's Spring and Autumn? Ji Dongji records that the ancients used drumming to expel the "ghost of the plague" on the day before the New Year, which is the origin of the "Chinese New Year's Eve" festival. It is said that the earliest mention of the name "Chinese New Year's Eve" was in historical books such as the "Fengtu Ji" written by the Zhou Department of the Western Jin Dynasty.

The thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve, that is, "Chinese New Year's Eve". Refers to the night before the first day of the first lunar month in China and other Han cultural regions. Generally, this day is a day for people to eat, drink, play and have fun. The customs of northerners are the same, making dumplings during the New Year; The southern parts of the country have different customs, or make rice cakes, or wrap zongzi, or cook rice balls, or eat rice, etc., and different regions in the south have many different New Year customs. The shape of the dumplings resembles "ingots", and the sound of rice cakes resembles "Nian Gao", which are good omens of good luck. The custom of Wang Pan's village is to cook rice balls, and a few days ago, Wang Pan's mother and they were busy for this.

Wang Pan and his family are now used to eating things in the space, so they don't have much appetite for the food they buy on the street, and sometimes they can't get used to it just by tasting it, so Wang Pan and his family rarely buy food outside except for buying a little snack. In order not to affect everyone's mood for the New Year, the dumplings are also made by themselves.

It's easy to make tangyuan noodles, as long as you use some rice and an appropriate amount of wine rice to put them together, wash them clean, and then soak them in water, and you can take them out after one night, and then use a machine or stone mill to grind them out of the pulp, and then wrap the pulp with a clean cloth, drop it outside the shade, and wait for the water to dry out, and you can take it out for credit. The ratio of rice to sake rice is very important, if you add less sake rice, the boiled rice balls will not stick, they will be very hard, if you add more sake rice, the rice balls will be too sticky, and the boiled rice balls will be too soft, and they will not taste good when eaten. Therefore, if it is not an experienced woman of advanced age, few people can master the proportion well.

Of course, the most traditional way to eat tangyuan noodles is to make tangyuan, which originated in the Song Dynasty. At that time, Mingzhou (now Ningbo City) arose to eat a novel food, that is, using black sesame seeds, lard, and white sugar as raw materials, first grinding black sesame seeds into powder, and then putting lard and white sugar into the mixture and kneading them into a ball to make filling, and rubbing them into a circle with glutinous rice flour on the outside. When cooked, it tastes sweet and delicious, and it is very funny. Because this glutinous rice ball is boiled in the pot and floats and sinks, it was first called "floating yuanzi", and later some areas changed the name of "floating yuanzi" to Lantern Festival. Both northerners and southerners have the traditional custom of sitting together as a family on the morning of the Spring Festival.

Wang Pan: The dumplings they eat here are usually made of fried peanuts, sesame seeds, walnuts, and brown sugar, and they are wrapped in rice balls and boiled. It tastes sweet and smooth, fat but not greasy, glutinous but not sticky, and is a rare delicacy. In the past, when the village was poor, it would only be eaten a few times during the Chinese New Year. However, now the economy of the village has improved a lot, and from time to time there will be people who make their own food.

There is also a better way to eat this glutinous rice ball noodles, Wang Pan likes to eat them very much, that is, to mix the dry glutinous rice ball noodles, knead them into small balls, and then put them in the oil pan to fry. Wait for the outer layer to fry golden brown, and the skin is bulging, and then float on the oil surface, and then sprinkle a layer of white sugar on top. It tastes really delicious and delicious, and Wang Pan calls such a delicacy oil dumplings here. When Wang Pan was a child, he would stand by the pot every time he was Chinese New Year, waiting for his mother to fry the dumplings for him to eat.

Of course. It's the New Year, and it's impossible to just prepare this kind of snack at home. As early as a few days ago, Wang Hualan didn't go anywhere, and he was dedicated to cooking at home, although Wang Da is a chef, but he still doesn't know a lot of snacks in Wang Pan's hometown, mainly because there is no such information on the Internet, and he can't learn it, so Wang Pan's mother needs to be the chef, and Wang Da can only be a starter on the side, and he can just learn from the experience, and he won't need Wang Hualan to do it next year, he can do it himself.

This time, Wang Hualan prepared snacks such as twist flowers, spicy beans (broad beans), popcorn, fried tofu, and crispy pork. The others are some common things, but even if Wang Pan has traveled to so many places, only they can make it, and it is rare to see it outside.

Crispy meat is also very simple, generally cut the meat into a finger-sized piece of meat, and then stir them with ginger, garlic, pepper, and other spices, and then add them to the sweet potato powder with suitable humidity, and then beat a few eggs into it, stir evenly, and put it in the oil pan to fry. After it is fried, it can be picked up and credited, and it can also be used to make soup, which is very delicious.

Wang Pan's custom here is to have a big meal at noon on Chinese New Year's Eve, and then they have to worship the ancestors, so Wang Pan and they have to start eating lunch early, after all, ancestor worship is a big event, and the village will go together at that time. If you're late. Wang Pan: They are also embarrassed.

Chinese New Year's Eve, in the Dragon Country is also the meaning of reunion, on this day, no matter how busy, generally dare to go home for the New Year, is not there a song to drink well, 'whether you have money or not, go home for the New Year' This is also the true portrayal of the people of the Dragon Country. Otherwise, it won't be hard to get a ticket every year during the Spring Festival. However, Wang Pan's family doesn't have to worry about this today, because no one in people's families has gone out to work today, and they are already at home, so when they have dinner at noon, everyone eats very happily.

Because they still have to go to worship their ancestors, Wang Pan didn't drink much when they ate, otherwise they would have to let others see their jokes in the afternoon. After Wang Pan finished eating, he first took out the straw paper, paper money, etc., kneaded it, and then scattered it one by one, otherwise it would not burn when he went to the cemetery.

Ancestor worship is a major event in the village, and in the past, it was generally only attended by men, but now the times have changed, and they don't pay so much attention to it, but women in the countryside still consciously don't go to the scene. Therefore, after Wang Pan and the others were ready, they took their things and went to the ancestral hall. They had to pay homage to their ancestors in the ancestral hall of the village before they could go and sweep the graves of their respective families. After all, they were also an ancestor a long time ago.

Wang Pan didn't have much opinion on worshipping his ancestors, he just followed his father and them, anyway, he couldn't understand what the patriarch was saying, after Wang Pan and Wang Yi entered the ancestral hall, they found a place with few people, just watch there, and they just need to follow what others do. Soon, Wang Pan saw that Baozi and they were the same as Wang Pan, after coming, they all leaned back, obviously, they didn't care much about this activity, but although they didn't care, but those old people took this matter very seriously, in order not to make those old men angry, so they simply hid behind here, so that they couldn't see it, just fine.

Anyway, the patriarch first led everyone to remember the ancestors, and then explained the origin of Wangjia Village, and heard that Wang Pan's ancestors moved here in the Ming Dynasty. I don't know if it's true, anyway, Wang Pan is not very interested in these, so he didn't listen to them seriously, but he and Baozi stood at the back of the crowd, chatting quietly, and finally all knelt down, and after the incense, this was considered to be completed, of course, Wang Pan They thought they were free.

It's not that they are disrespectful to their ancestors, if it is really as the patriarch said, their ancestors were people in the Ming Dynasty, hundreds of years have passed, and I am afraid they have long been turned into dry bones. What's the use of remembering here again?

After Wang Pan came out of the ancestral hall, he immediately went to the graveyard of his relatives to sweep the grave, this time, Wang Pan was more serious, especially in the cemetery of his grandfather and grandmother, it is a pity that Wang Pan died when he was very young, if they can live for more than ten years, maybe they will not die so easily. Wang Pan remembered that when he was a child, his grandfather was very good to him. But in the end, I don't know how, grandpa went all at once. It's just that Wang Pan was still young at that time and didn't understand anything, so he didn't feel anything.

It's just that now that he thinks about it, he feels it very much. If they hadn't died so early, Wang Pan would have made them twenty years younger, but it would be too late to say anything. Wang Pan and the others swept the graves one by one before they went home.

(To be continued)