The next day is the twenty-third day of the lunar month, which is commonly known as the small year

"Children, children, don't be greedy, it's the New Year after Laba"

Laba porridge, drink it for a few days, and it will be twenty-three;

In Sijiu City, people attach great importance to this small year.

Because once this little year has passed,

The big year is coming.

After a small year,

We just have to "do it step by step" every day

Prepare for the Chinese New Year!

The twenty-third day of the lunar month is the day of the sacrifice to the stove, which is to commemorate the king of the stove. People believe that the Lord of the Stove is the god of good and evil sent by the Jade Emperor to the world, and he has to go to the court to see the Jade Emperor on the twenty-fourth day of the lunar month every year. In BJ, before dinner on this day, every parent has to roast it with sugar melon and rub it on the lips of the stove prince. Even if the king of the stove is not greedy, people insist on putting the roasted sugar syrup in his old man's mouth.

Every household will erect poles in the courtyard, hang lamps and candles, set off firecrackers, and the whole family will worship Luo, wish to suppress evil and promote goodness, send the king of the stove to heaven, and go to the Jade Emperor to start the good and evil of the world for a year, and women can not worship, only sweep the stove in the inner room, and light the lamp to worship silently. Therefore, there is always a couplet posted on the sacrificial stove: God says good things, and returns to the palace to bring auspiciousness.

At the time of sacrificing to the king of the stove, arrange the offerings, burn incense and worship, and then toast for the first time, at this time to pray sincerely to the king of the stove, and then carry out the second toast after the third toast, after the third toast, the old statue of the king of the stove is torn off, and burned together with the horse and the treasure, on behalf of sending the king of the stove to heaven, and the ceremony will be successfully completed. Wait until the fourth day of the first lunar month, and then invite the king of the stove to return to the world.

In the offerings to the king of the stove, there is no need to use chickens, ducks, fish, dried and fresh fruits, etc., and there is no need to use cattle and sheep and three livestock, just some "sugar melons".

If someone who is a little more sophisticated offers a bowl of lotus seed and eight-treasure rice steamed with glutinous rice, his old man will be more satisfied. The god horse ridden by the king of the stove also has to be offered fried beans and water with fragrant lees.

In addition to sacrificing the "Lord of the Stove", another important thing to spend the New Year in Beijing is to eat sugar melons. In the past, there was no candy to eat, and the sugar melon after the sacrifice stove became the children's favorite thing, and eating the sugar melon became a happy moment for the children. "Sugar melon sacrifice stove, the New Year is coming, the girl wants flowers, and the boy wants cannons!"

However, now the state is against superstition, but after all, it has not been a few years since the founding of the country, and the thinking of the older generation has not been corrected.

Twenty-four, sweep the house

Jiang Yan didn't participate in this activity at all, and even Jiang Yan didn't know that Jiang Yan's small courtyard was cleaned up by He Yuzhu and others very early, and the old lady also cut a lot of window flowers, which were pasted by the women at home.

Twenty-five, make tofu,

Twenty-six to cut the meat

Twenty-seven slaughtered chickens

The New Year is coming, today is the day when everyone receives the pass, but Jiang Yan's salary does not need him to receive it at all, the finance department specially gave Jiang Yan's salary to his secretary, and then the secretary gave Jiang Yan, other subsidies, and the salaries of consultants in other units were basically sent by special people, and all the money was counted together, which made Jiang Yan startled, which was more than 400 yuan.

Twenty-eight handfuls of facial hair

Today is the last day of work, everyone is no longer working, they are all cleaning and cleaning, originally today is to receive benefits and prepare to go home for the New Year, and the benefits of the institute have been issued very early, and there is no such one today.

However, this year, the fruit trees of the Red Star Farm began to bear fruit one after another, and when the apples were ripe, Xu Damao could ask the master to keep some, which was naturally taken out during the New Year, but not much, Jiang Yan and their technicians sent a few, these are exclusive benefits for technicians.

Twenty-nine steamed steamed buns

After the delivery of the last precision machine tool a year ago, the precision instrument came to an end here, and Jiang Yan's other projects have also begun to enter the experimental stage, especially the Zhan-7 project. The board model has been made, the wind tunnel experiment has begun, the ground linkage of the five masters has been completed, and it is still being tested, and the final test flight preparation is ready.

After arranging everything, Jiang Yan was completely rested, and seeing that everyone was busy here for the New Year, Jiang Yan could only volunteer to buy the things in the New Year's food book.

There are not many things, only half a catty of peanuts, half a catty of melon seeds, three taels of candy, two taels of vermicelli and rare small grinding sesame oil, daylily and the like, there are not many things, only about one or two on average.

This Chinese New Year is like a war, and I will go to line up in a big cotton jacket in the early morning, and the queue will be several hours. When I came back, I found that either the padded jacket was torn, or the hair was messy, and it was no different from fighting.

A relative of the secretary Xiao Gong works in the department store and is still a small leader, so that Xiao Gong said hello a long time ago, and he can just go and get the New Year's things directly.

On the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, Jiang Yan went to the department store to pick up things, and there were still many people, but it was only open until noon.

Naturally, not to mention things like melon seeds and peanuts, Jiang Yan also bought some pastries, candies, firecrackers and the like, but the sum of several is not a few catties, just this little thing is not enough, Jiang Yan thought about it, and took He Yushui and a few of their female generals to the friendship store together.

The things in the friendship store are still relatively complete, and Jiang Yan still has a lot of foreign exchange rolls in his hand, which naturally opens the mode of buying, buying, buying. What candy peanuts and the like bought a lot, Lou Xiao'e and Ran Qiuye also discussed with Jiang Yan to buy two bottles of red wine to drink in the Chinese New Year's Eve.

Jiang Yan went to the pharmacy on the way home to buy some medicinal materials, in fact, it is a seasoning, at this time, some of the seasoning is still a medicinal material, which can only be bought in the pharmacy, and the main reason for buying seasoning is to marinate pig's head and pig's trotters.

When Jiang Yan returned home, the couplet had already been pasted on the door, and the couplet was written by Yan Bugui and posted by his son.

Yan Bu is not expensive, it is peanuts, melon seeds, sugar and the like, a few cents for a good point, his family will not buy these every year, and when he reaches thirty, he can earn enough by writing Spring Festival couplets, red paper, and ink are all left over from the school's reporting activities. It's really not poor to eat, not to drink poorly, and to suffer from poverty if you can't calculate, this is really too big a third master, Jiang Yan just smiled when he heard it, and didn't say anything.

Entered the door and put down the things, and found that the old lady was left in the house where she was using the small charcoal stove to make tea and drink tea, so it was quite leisurely, seeing that there was no one, Jiang Yan could only ask the old lady, this question only knew that this would be a meeting in the middle courtyard, Jiang Yan thought about it, and now it was not interesting at home, so he simply went to the middle courtyard to see, He Yushui also clamored to see after he knew, Jiang Yan could only take her over.

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