Today is the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, and every family in the village is busy killing chickens and ducks, frying all kinds of pastries, and the whole village is full of joy.

Chinese New Year's Eve, refers to the 30th day of December in the lunar calendar, is the last day of the year, the day when the month is exhausted, so it is also called Chinese New Year's Eve, and the folk content of the Chinese New Year's Eve is a family gathering, which is also one of the most important life ideals of the Chinese.

Fang Yun took his wife and children back to the old house early to help, in Huaxia, if they haven't separated yet, the New Year is spent together, and the family gets together happily to share the joy of family.

Wang Jiu took Wang Qun and Feng Xiu'er to fry fried fruit in the kitchen, fried fruit is a must-have pastry snack for the New Year in Fang Yun's area, use rice flour and brown sugar, add water to form a dough, and then pull down the good rice flour dough, knead it into a small oval, and fry it in the oil pan until it is golden brown.

But it's easy to say, it's not so simple to do, the heat of fried fried fruit should be very well handled, the heat is still raw before it arrives, and there will be a burnt bitter taste when it is fried too much, and the color will become very unsightly, and the rice noodles will not fit well will also affect the taste.

This kind of fried fruit tastes charred on the outside and tender on the inside, sweet and delicious, deeply loved by the villagers, each family has to fry a large half of the tank, if the guests come to the house can not take the fried fruit to entertain, it is to be teased by the guests, some people can eat the fried fried fruit in the Chinese New Year's Eve until the end of the Spring Festival.

Niuniu was drooling at the kitchen door waiting to eat when Wang Jiu and the others first started frying fried fruits, if it weren't for the fear of oil splashing on them, Wang Jiu wouldn't allow them to approach. A few little girls had already rushed to the stove, and as soon as the first pot of fried fruit was fried and the oil was out of the pot, several little girls couldn't wait to grab a fried fruit each.

Although the fried fruit just out of the pot is very hot, a few little girls are reluctant to put down the fried fruit, the fried fruit just fried tastes very fragrant, a few little girls can't stop eating at all, and finally Wang Jiu is afraid that eating too much fried things will not be good for the child's health, and persuaded several times before a few little girls reluctantly left the kitchen to play.

Killing chickens and ducks is done by men, and there are boys in the family who have grown up. This task will be given to them. Fang Yun and Fang Ping had already tied their feet to the chickens they were going to kill. put in a cage, Fang Yun's younger brother Fang Qiang would also go with everyone in previous years, but Fang Qiang enlisted in the army last year and went to the army, and he couldn't go home to reunite with his family this year.

There are many customs in the village. There is a lot of attention to killing chickens during the New Year. It's not just a cut at home. First of all, the first chicken has to be killed in the private ancestral hall, that is, the ancestral hall of the family within five suits, and the cigarette candles must be lit before killing. Sue your ancestors for the New Year.

The second chicken is killed in the ancestral hall, that is, the ancestral hall where the whole village records genealogy and worships ancestors, and cigarettes and candles must be lit before killing.

The third chicken was slaughtered at the Erlang Temple at the entrance of the village, praying that Erlang Zhenjun would bless the village with good weather and a good harvest in the coming year.

In the past, women were not allowed to enter the ancestral hall, which is to pray for incense, and the people who killed chickens for the New Year were all men, but with the reform and opening up of society, the status of women has been rapidly improved, and this rule has long been abolished.

The villagers love to compare, some little vanity, if the chicken is fat and big, it will attract everyone's congratulations and envy, the envied people put on a modest look, while smiling from ear to ear.

After returning home, Wang Jiu and the others had already boiled hot water and waited for the chicken feathers to be removed, this kind of thing did not allow men and children to interfere, after taking the chickens in the hands of Fang Yun and others, Wang Jiu and the others began to shed their hair, Feng Xiu'er was pregnant, Wang Jiu was afraid that she would be tired, and persuaded her to take a good rest, but Feng Xiu'er felt very interesting, and said that she didn't stop saying anything, and helped with hair removal with great interest.

Plucking chicken feathers is not casual, because these chickens have to be taken to worship their ancestors, and they should look good, so the requirements are quite high, and the skin can not be broken is the minimum, and when removing the internal organs, you can only cut a small hole in the chicken buttocks, and put your hand in to take out the internal organs.

Men and children are often extravagant, and if they are not careful, the skin of the chicken will break, and such chickens cannot be taken to worship the ancestors, and will be considered disrespectful to the ancestors, so they are not allowed to interfere in this kind of thing.

Seeing that there was nothing to do with himself, Fang Yun entered the house and took out a thick stack of Spring Festival couplets, and shouted with a smile to a few unhappy little girls with small mouths and unhappy faces: "Come on, come on, I'll take you to paste Spring Festival couplets." ”

"Oh! Paste the Spring Festival couplets! A few little girls immediately turned their anger into joy, cheering and running to Fang Yun's side, looking at Fang Yun with blank eyes.

Niuniu jumped her little feet, struggling to reach the Spring Festival couplets and small banners in Fang Yun's hand, and shouted excitedly: "Dad, let me come, let me come!" ”

Children are the most lively, and holidays are the happiest time for them, but today Wang Jiu didn't let them interfere with the work, which made several little girls very dissatisfied.

Spring couplets are commonly known as door pairs, spring stickers, couplets, pairs, and elegant couplets. The festive red Spring Festival couplets are a kind of couplets on the door, because they are posted during the Spring Festival, so one of the sources of the name Spring Festival couplets is the peach charm.

At first, people carved human figures in peach wood and hung them next to the door to ward off evil spirits, and later painted the image of the door god on the peach wood, and then simplified it to inscribe the name of the door god on the peach wood board. Another source of Spring Festival couplets is spring stickers. The ancients pasted the word "Yichun" on the beginning of spring, and then gradually developed into Spring Festival couplets.

"Niu Niu, to the left, a little higher, yes, a little higher." Fang Yun stood behind Niuniu, directing Niuniu to paste Spring Festival couplets.

"Dad, okay, no, Niuniu's hands are so tired." Niuniu's little arms and legs are commanded by Fang Yun, this will already have sore hands, and Niuniu, who has a bitter little face, no longer wants to help her father paste Spring Festival couplets.

Looking at the girl's bitter little face, Fang Yun was happy, and smiled: "Niuniu, you come down first, help Dad paste these small words, whatever you want." ”

The Spring Festival couplets must be pasted neatly and symmetrically, otherwise others will make jokes, and the small banners are not so particular, as long as they are not pasted in the wrong place, whatever you want.

"Daddy is so nice." Niu Niu was so happy, she slipped down the ladder quickly, patted Fang Yun's ass sweetly, and excitedly grabbed the small banner on the table and a few little girls and ran outside to post it.

These little banners are quite interesting, they are all cartoon animal shapes, as long as you stick them according to the animals, you don't have to worry about Niu Niu they will paste them wrong.

Nowadays, businessmen are more and more able to do business, in the past, a red paper of livestock prosperity was pasted, and now the small banners are made into the shape of various animals, plus pigs and pigs are thriving, cattle and cattle are thriving, chickens are crying thousands of miles or something, each small animal plus an auspicious word, and all the domestic animals are separated one by one.

But everyone has a few dollars now, and they don't care about the behavior of the businessman, the New Year, it's just to have fun, plus the cartoon shape of these animals is really cute, whoever sees it will pay for some to go home.

"Dad, do you look good-looking?" A few little girls moved quickly, and it didn't take long for them to finish pasting, and they ran back to the yard frolicking, and Niuniu proudly ran to Fang Yun to show off.

Fang Yun was almost dumbfounded when he saw it, how could this little girl paste the word Fu on her clothes, not only Niuniu, but also Doudou and Big Girl, they also each pasted a word of blessing on their bodies, and looked at Fang Yun with a smug face.

But this little blessing word is really good-looking on a few little girls, these little girls are very cute and white, chubby, and then paste the little blessing word on the body, it's really a bit like a fat doll in the New Year's painting.

This is not when Wang Jiu saw a few little girls proudly showing off with the word Xiaofu, the smile on his face was how happy and happy, the old man just hoped that his children would be white and fat, and it was best to be like the fat doll in the New Year's painting.

But soon Niuniu was a few proud, and I don't know if I should praise these merchants who produce small blessing words for being the conscience of the industry, these small blessing words are very sticky, a few little girls stick it firmly, and the small blessing words on the clothes can't be torn off, and finally Fang Yun smiled and came out to clean up the small blessing words.

Wang Jiu took a pot of vegetables and put it on the table and beckoned, "Niuniu, a few of you come over to eat longevity." ”

Long-life vegetables are actually mustard greens, every year in the Chinese New Year's Eve when the killed chicken is put into the pot to cook, the villagers will pick some mustard greens more than one meter long, and do not cut off, so the whole root is put in and cooked with the chicken, and after cooking, it is fished out for the family to share and eat, it is said that the mustard greens cooked in this way will not get sick next year after eating, can live a long life, and the mustard greens themselves are also very long, so they are called long-lived vegetables.

Because no seasoning was added when cooking, the long-lived vegetables only had an umami taste, and the long thick petioles would have some bitter taste, so Fang Yun didn't like to eat them very much when he was a child, but Niuniu and they loved to eat very much, and they were still screaming to eat after eating two mustard greens.

After nightfall, with the first firecrackers in the village, the whole village suddenly sounded firecrackers, in previous years, everyone set off some hundreds of firecrackers, this year everyone made some money, so it was generous, each family set off firecrackers did not fall below 10,000 sounds.

After the family finished the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, Wang Jiu and his two daughters-in-law plus Fang Ping began to build the Great Wall, while Fang Yun took a few little girls to watch the Spring Festival Gala.

The Chinese New Year's Eve is the most important custom, which is recorded in the Wei and Jin dynasties. On the night of Chinese New Year's Eve, the old and young families stay up to celebrate the New Year, gather for drinks and share the joy of family, which is a custom that the descendants of Yan and Huang still attach great importance to today. Even people who work outside the home all year round must rush home to reunite at this time.

At first, a few little girls were still shouting with great interest that they wanted to accompany everyone to celebrate the New Year, but they didn't expect that before ten o'clock, a few little girls rubbed their eyes and shouted sleepy. (To be continued......)