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This sentence is a dialect question, when I was a child, when the Chinese New Year was approaching, I would ask an adult a sentence at the end of three days. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

When I was a child, I waited until the New Year, and I was happy, and the taste of the New Year was still relatively strong at that time, and I especially liked the New Year.

Chinese New Year means that there are new clothes, all kinds of delicious food, red envelopes, and firecrackers.

Our family is in the countryside, and after the New Year, every family, all kinds of preparations for the New Year are in full swing.

First of all, the sacrificial stove sends away the god of the stove, and the god of the stove is sent away, and the soil of the stove can be moved. In the past, the firewood stove made of bricks used for cooking in the countryside will be worn out over time, and the firewood stove can be repaired after sending away the stove god. (There are very few wood-burning stoves now, they all use gas stoves and induction stoves, even children in rural areas, and there are many who have never seen them and don't know what wood-burning stoves look like.) ）

Cleaning inside and outside the house is essential. The tile roof and the corners of the wall must be cleaned. Adults use bamboo poles to tie bamboo leaves to sweep to make bamboo brooms, wrap their heads with clothes, put on masks, hold up long bamboo brooms, and sweep up and down the house to sweep off the dust and cobwebs. The gutters should be cleaned and repaired if they are broken. (Nowadays, there are most buildings in the village, and there are no tile roofs to sweep, so we just see if there are cobwebs in the corners of the walls, and some of them are swept and swept.) The drainage ditch outside the house should still be cleaned, otherwise the grass and soil that grow every year will block the drainage ditch. All the sheets you use are washed during this time, unless it rains all the time.

Cured pork is the first food to prepare, and it is a must-have item for visiting relatives during the Chinese New Year. Some people hang bacon very early and prepare it in winter, and some people only prepare it a few days before the Chinese New Year. There is also stuffed sausage, which is generally stuffed at the same time when hanging pork. However, stuffed sausages are more troublesome, and many people are too lazy to do it, so they don't eat sausages during the New Year, or simply order them from the market, or buy ready-made ones.

The cured pork on our side is to cut half of the pork into strips, generally one pound or more than three pounds. After the pork is cut, it is marinated with salt first, and some people like to add some soy sauce to make the pork taste salty so that the pork will not spoil. Then put the marinated pork in the water again, if it can't be cooked, just shake it again, skewer it on one end of the pork with bamboo slices or ropes, hang it on a bamboo pole, and put it in the sun to dry. When the pork is dried and hardened, it becomes bacon, which can be put away and stored for a long time.

Stuffed sausages are a bit more troublesome, and there are two steps that many people are reluctant to do: cutting meat and filling sausages. Pork is generally semi-fat and lean, with fat and lean meat, cut into small pieces smaller than fingers, marinated with salt and other condiments, whether the sausage is delicious or not, the key is in the marinated condiment. The pork intestines used are cleaned inside and out, and they are also pickled. When filling sausages, a funnel-shaped stopper cut from a bamboo tube and a plastic bottle is tied to the pig's intestines, and the pork is stuffed inside, and the fat and lean meat are alternated. The pork in the pig's intestines should be filled to the brim, and tied with a rope every other palm length to facilitate hanging and drying and later cutting in sections. When the sausage is ready, when you want to eat it, when cooking, put it directly on the rice and steam, the sausage is fragrant, and the rice is also fragrant.

Making tofu is also a popular food to prepare for the New Year. The original method is to soak the soybeans in water first, and then grind them with a stone mill to grind them into soybean milk. (Now there is no stone grinding, just beat the soybeans into flour.) When I was a child, I saw a stone mill for grinding tofu, two large stones that were round and flat, embedded together up and down, and there were small uneven grooves on one side of the inlay. There is a hole in the middle of the top piece, and when grinding tofu, put soybeans through that hole. When a person pulls the lever that connects the stone mill and turns the stone mill, the soybeans can be smeared into soybean milk. I haven't done it, I guess so. Then strain through a cloth to strain out the bean dregs. The strained soybean dregs can also be used to make other food, or directly used to feed pigs, chickens and ducks. Soybean water is boiled in a pot, add gypsum powder, and the heat should be controlled. The boiled soybean water is soy milk, and you can drink a bowl of soy milk at this time. There is also a thin piece of yuba formed on the noodles of the pot, which adults like to pick up with chopsticks and give it to children. The soybean milk is dried for a while, when it is lumped, put it on the mold, and the mold is covered with a water-filtered cloth such as a mosquito net, and the tofu block is poured into the mold and then flattened, and the cloth is put away and covered, and pressed on it at noon to press it into a flat tofu block. After the tofu cube is formed, it is cut into small pieces and soaked in water, so that it will not spoil and can be eaten for several days during the New Year. After the tofu is made, you can also make stuffed tofu and fried tofu skin.

Zongzi glutinous rice dumplings are also an essential food. According to their own preferences, each family makes zongzi or makes glutinous rice dumplings, and there are many kinds of flavors. When we were young, our favorite was the big rice dumplings with various fillings. Prepare the raw materials first, such as glutinous rice, mung beans, snow peas, chestnuts and other side fillings, as well as pork ribs, pork, pig's trotters and other main fillings. Soak glutinous rice in water for a night, before wrapping it with salt, five-spice powder, star anise powder and other condiments to adjust the taste, whether the zongzi is delicious or not, a key is whether the material is good or not. Mung beans, snow beans and the like, should also be soaked, otherwise they will not be cooked. Some people like to mix beans and glutinous rice together, and some people like to wrap beans and meat in the center of the rice dumplings.

While preparing the ingredients, you should also prepare the zongzi leaves. The zongzi leaves we have here (we call them zongba leaves in our dialect, used to wrap zongzi, also used to wrap glutinous rice dumplings), the shape and proportions are a bit like bamboo leaves, the size of a palm with fingers together. The tree of Zongba leaves, stubble after stubble, the size of a little finger of a pole, is full of leaves. Pick the leaves and fold them into handfuls. The Chinese New Year is the last time of the year to pick the dumpling leaves, after the picking, the pole of the dumpling leaves should be cut off, and new ones will grow in the next year. The zongba leaves are first boiled in a pot (otherwise they will break), then a piece is washed, the head and tail are cut off, and it can be used. The Zongba leaves that cannot be used up during the New Year can be hung up and dried, and then continued to be used in the future.

When wrapping zongzi, spread out the palms of your hands, fold the zongzi leaves in the palm of your hand, link them layer by layer, put glutinous rice first, make a concave in the middle, put pork ribs, chestnut beans and the like, and then cover some glutinous rice, wrap it tightly with leaves, and tie it tightly with dried straw or rope soaked in water. Each family's zongzi has its own wrapping method, and the shape and size are different. Wrap the zongzi, enlarge the pot and boil, boil a big pot, cook for half the night, get up early the next morning, you can eat the zongzi.

When I was a child, I was preparing for the New Year, basically when everyone played, they took their own zongzi and exchanged them to eat, and then compared who's stuffing, whose family's light, whose family's salty, whose family's is not delicious, and whose family's is the best.

In addition to making zongzi, there are also rice cakes, rice cakes, oil piles, hair cakes, big cage cakes (a whole piece of rice cake in a large steamer), white rice cakes, peanut candy, sesame cakes and so on. Many things are becoming rarer, and there are many other delicious things that I can't remember now. Not every family makes it, but if a neighbor or a friend or family does it, they will have to eat.

The day before Chinese New Year's Eve, or on the night of that year, some families will make buttoned meat. Ingredients: Semi-fatty pork belly, large taro, water chestnut mushroom and red dates. Cut the pork belly into large cubes, marinate with condiments for a while, and then cut the large and pointed ends into pieces. The taro is also cut in the same way, not too big, not too small, the same size as pork. Chop various ingredients such as water chestnut mushrooms and red dates, and mix them with condiments. Whether the taste of the button meat is good or not, the ingredients are also very important. After the ingredients are ready, the meat and taro are placed upside down in a large bowl like flower petals, and the empty flower center in the middle is topped with the ingredients, and a small square piece of meat and taro is placed. After it is placed, it is steamed in a steamer, because the weather is cold during the New Year, the steamed button meat does not need to be put in the refrigerator, and it can also be kept for three or four days. Button pork is a big dish to entertain guests during the Chinese New Year. When eating, heat it up, use another big bowl, pour it on the steaming hot button meat bowl, go up and down with your hands, turn it upside down, and then open the bowl, a bowl of regular button meat comes out, and the aroma is overflowing.

(A joke from the past suddenly comes to mind.) My aunt married far away from the north, and brought my uncle back for the New Year for the first time, and my uncle saw the peeled taro, and I don't know who fooled him, saying that this thing can be eaten directly like fruit, and he took a big bite directly, and his mouth itched for two days. ）

Taro is also a good dish for the New Year, which can be used to make button meat, can be directly made into hot pot, can be fried into taro pieces, crunchy with a bite, can be used to make stuffed tofu, and so on.

Chinese New Year's Eve, we call it the night of the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve here. When I was a child, I was always very entangled, if the month of the New Year was a small month, only until the twenty-nineth, wouldn't it be that there was no thirty nights, and it would not be the New Year? But the custom is called this, whether it is the twenty-ninth or the thirtyth, it is called the night of the thirtieth night of the Chinese New Year's Eve.

The night of the Chinese New Year's Eve was a very lively day.

First things first: paste couplets. The main door, the kitchen, the front door and the back door, anyway, the outward door, all have to be labeled with couplets. According to different doors, paste different couplets. The door is pasted with the largest couplet, and the door god is pasted on the door. In the house, a red paper should be pasted on the door frame, and a red paper should be pasted on the stove in the kitchen. The large furniture in the room, the large cabinet, the bedside, the sofa, etc., are also pasted with a small piece of red paper. There are also New Year's paintings, blessing characters, etc., depending on the situation.

When adults post couplets, they like to ask us children to help with the ladder, and ask us to read the words on the couplet and ask which side is left and which side is right. If we want to say that we don't know, we will be said, you go to school and study, and the teacher didn't teach you how to look left and right? (When you were in elementary school, the teacher really didn't teach!) Even if you go to junior high school and high school, you have learned a little bit, but you can't see it accurately every time. If you want to say something wrong, you will be told to read it in vain, and you won't be able to read the couplet. If you stick it backwards, you will be laughed at, but it is not serious. There was a family in the village that one year pasted a couplet from a bullpen on the gate and was laughed at for several years.

The second thing: the whole family washes the grass and boils water, takes a bath, and changes into new clothes. Pick a few grapefruit leaves, and two other kinds of grass (I don't remember the name, the other only knows the name of the dialect, I don't know what it's called in Chinese), find all the grass leaves, put them in a big pot, boil a large pot of boiling water, and the children start in the afternoon, wash their hair and bathe early, put on new clothes and shoes. Adults usually wash later, and some wash after dinner.

The third thing: worship God. A whole chicken that has been killed, along with a hanger of fresh pork, is cooked in a pot and then taken out and put in a large bowl or basket. Take a few more fruits, money, paper, candles, incense, and you can sacrifice to the gods. The sacrifice to the gods must be after the couplet has been pasted. On Chinese New Year's Eve, if it is not raining, a table is usually set up outside the gate, and at the front of the table, three candles, seven incense sticks, three pairs of chopsticks, rice wine, whole chicken and pork, etc., and fruit dumplings are also placed.

The worshipper took a handful of lighted incense in his hand and said at the table: "The god of heaven, the god of the earth, the stove Ah Gong, Ah Bai, Ah Tai ......" (followed by the ancestors read in the dialect), and continued, "Today Chinese New Year's Eve evening, please drink and get drunk, please bless our family with a good harvest next year, make a great fortune, and bless (read the name of the family) safe...... " When he had finished praying, he bowed three times, put three sticks of incense into the seven incense sticks before, took some of them in his hand, and put them three at the gate and at the outer doors, and one at the door of the house. (There is a small device for inserting incense at the door), and the remaining incense in his hand is not finished, and the seven incense sticks on the sacrificial table are inserted together. Then add wine to the three bowls on the table three times every once in a while, and see that the candles are almost burned, then you can burn the money paper and set off firecrackers. After the firecrackers have been set off and the worship is over, the things on the table can be put away, and the candles and incense can continue to be placed in a random position outside the door.

After worshipping the gods at home, they also have to go to worship the uncle of the shrine. The village hall uncle is a neem tree, called the uncle tree, at the end of the village. Everyone went to the Bogong tree, similar to worshipping God at home, lighting incense candles and inserting them at the root of the tree, putting on the whole chicken, pork, fruit, zongzi, glutinous ba, worshipping the Bogong tree, and reciting the words are similar, but this time only worship the Shetang Bogong.

The most important thing: Chinese New Year's Eve dinner. After worshipping God, you can have a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner. Adults kill chickens and ducks early to prepare the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner. One of the sumptiest dinners of the year, many home-cooked dishes, can not be finished on a large table. The whole family gathered around a large table, the adults drank, the children drank, and the older children, on this meal, they could make an exception to drink a sip or two. In the past, in the village or neighboring villages, some people brewed rice wine, and every New Year, everyone booked one after another, and drank it at home to entertain guests. Cut the chicken butt into a large piece and eat it exclusively for the elderly. Children eat chicken and duck legs, and if they can't eat them, they will continue to eat them until the next day. The rice of the Chinese New Year's Eve rice is generally not eaten and cannot be eaten, and if you finish eating, you have to cook a pot, which should be left in the pot and saved for the next year.

After the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, the children can fill their purses with firecrackers, hold a stick of incense in their hands, set off firecrackers and small fireworks outside the house, and the children who play wild will run at the end of the village. Adults burn charcoal fires, watch TV around the charcoal fire, eat snacks such as fruits, candy, melon seeds, horseshoe, etc., or go from house to house to find someone to play. There are also people who are busy cooking and want to eat all kinds of food that they don't usually have time to make. Some people in the village eat vegetarian food on the first day of the new year, and wash the pots and bowls after the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner to remove the smell of oil and meat. We people who don't eat vegetarians often say that they eat vegetarian for a day on the first day of the new year, and all kinds of pots and pans are washed, which is troublesome, and from the beginning of the third day of the Chinese New Year's Eve and the second day of the new year, they still eat meat.

The carbon fire on the night of the Chinese New Year's Eve burns all night and continues to burn the next day. The night watchman waited until twelve o'clock, and then began to open the door and set off firecrackers, and many firecrackers were set off in the house, crackling all over the house. Fireworks are set off outside the house, and the little children who have been sleeping get up from their beds to watch the fireworks. When you wake up the next day, you will see a layer of firecracker scraps in the hall.

In the first year of junior high school, I didn't do anything except eat and play.

You can sweep the floor on the first day of the new year, but you can't take out the garbage, you have to wait until the second day of the new year, and you don't wash your clothes. Early in the morning, the children get up early, find adults to hand out red envelopes, and shout when they see whom: "Happy New Year, Wishing you prosperity!"

After breakfast, you can find acquaintances to play, you can go to the market, go to the town to watch the lion and dragon dance, or go to the temple to worship. If there is a lion team in the town or any village, it will pay New Year's greetings to the nearest village. Some people invite lions to their homes to pay New Year's greetings and seal a red envelope, and those who don't invite can watch the excitement. There are also those who sing operas, and the dialect is called singing tunes. If you want the troupe to come to the village to sing the tune, you have to invite the village committee. Please, set up a stage in the village, and the troupe can sing for a day or a night.

In the second year of junior high school, various activities begin.

In the morning, I have to worship the gods, worship the grandfather of the stove, and put the god of the stove next. In the past, there were two super large rice trees next to each other in the village, one was called Uncle Shu and the other was called Uncle Shu. I remember when I was a child, I climbed these two trees to play, and I would be scolded by adults, and because the tree was very big, I liked to climb up and play. Many people in the village recognize Uncle Shu as a godfather, and they want to go to pay homage to Jiye on the second day of the Lunar New Year. (I don't know if anyone is still going to worship Uncle Shu.) ）

After all kinds of worship, you can have lunch. After lunch, I started visiting relatives.

In my impression, on the second and fourth days of the Lunar New Year, the married daughter usually returns to her parents' home. Take the bacon, look at the grandmother's uncles, uncles and cousins, how many families there are, how many bacons to take, how many sausages to cut, take all kinds of candy with zongzi glutinous cakes, catch a chicken, and carry the big bags back to your parents' house. Our grandmother's house, just a few mountains, is a different ethnic group, the dialect is not the same, and the people over there communicate in the third dialect, the Chinese New Year has some of their customs are not quite the same as ours, but also a lot of fun. When I was very young, when I went back to my grandmother's house, I quarreled with the children in the village, and everyone scolded in their own dialect, and no one could understand what the other was scolding, so I knew that the scolding was not a good thing.

There is a spring lake at the edge of my grandmother's village, it is said that the lake is connected with the underground river, when I was a child, I went to the lake with the children in the village to play in the lake, and when the adults found out, they were screwed back, and if they were scolded for disobedience and went to the lake to play in the water, they were not allowed to go back to their grandmother's house in the future. The lake was later sealed, and the village changed so much that the buildings became more and more scattered, and now I can't find where the lake is.

In addition to going back to my grandmother's house, we also have to go to Ji Po's (Dad's godmother) house to pay New Year's greetings. Generally, when I go to my grandmother's house in the second year of junior high school, the aunts and aunts come back with their cousins, and cousins, which is super lively, and my grandmother's house also has a lot of delicious things that they only have there. I stayed at my grandmother's house for one night and came back on the third day of junior high school. On the fourth day of the new year, I went to my mother-in-law's house to pay New Year's gree The aunt on the mother's side went back to her parents' house and brought back a lot of children to play with, plus the children of the uncle's family, which was also very lively.

I remember one year I went to my mother-in-law's house to pay New Year's greetings, and went to the reservoir behind the village with a large group of children to play, and I picked up my pants and fished in the water on a cold day, and was chased back by my aunt with a rattan whip, and scolded while chasing, you little ghosts, everywhere, everywhere, I don't want you to come back next year!

When someone's new aunt comes back, each family takes turns to invite a meal, and several families eat together, basically eating and drinking every day.

Until the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, those who had no work continued to play, and the hard-working people began to do farm work.

On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, he also killed chickens and worshiped God, only worshiped God at home, and had a hearty dinner.

After fifteen, the year is over.

When I was a child, I was looking forward to the New Year, but now I don't have much feeling for the New Year.

Day after day, it's the New Year again, it's time to go home for the New Year.

When I got home, I was left to eat and drink, and after a few days, I came out again, bringing something to eat from home.

No matter what, whether the New Year is fun or not, you have to go home, and the various questions from the three aunts and six mothers-in-law have to be faced hard.

Now when I go home for the Chinese New Year, many children in the village don't know who is who or which family, and when I ask, I know which brother or sister's child it is.

The generations who are called by the children are getting bigger and bigger, and it's not okay to be old!

Recalling the Chinese New Year when I was a child, I sighed that time flies, and my youth is old, as if in the blink of an eye.

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Flowers bloom on the other side

February 2016 (written before Chinese New Year's Eve)

Khan ~ I originally wanted to write a few words of Spring Festival blessings, but I couldn't hold it at the beginning, and I knocked on a long ......

Finally, I wish you all a happy Spring Festival, Wishing you prosperity, collect more red envelopes, grab more big red envelopes, and eat more without getting fat!

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