On the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, the kitchen god reported to heaven, commonly known as "giving a kitchen". So every household will steam rice cakes, put a lot of dates and go to the market to buy "honeydew melons" to show filial piety to the kitchen god. May he have dessert when he reports to heaven. In my hometown, you can't stuff the scraps into the bottom of the pot (stove pit) to burn them, because you can generally see the sky, trivial things, for God's sake.
When the cake cools, cut it into pieces and put it away for 30 nights, the first month.
On the 24th of the twelfth lunar month, we began to prepare food for the first month, because the knife didn't move in the first month.
Every household is busy, and the taste of Chinese New Year is getting stronger and stronger. From time to time, the crisp sound of children lighting small firecrackers sounded in the street, and the faint smell of gunpowder filled the smell of burning wheat straw in steamed buns of every household. Fried fish, fried meat, fried meatballs and fried "noodle fish" (a kind of pasta similar to fried dough sticks) are always a big pot, and relatives in the city should bring them when they come to pay a New Year call.
On the afternoon of New Year's Eve, people began to paste Spring Festival couplets.
New Year's Eve is the busiest. The whole family got together to wrap jiaozi's "Shousui" and put the money in jiaozi. Whoever eats it means good luck this year. Put it in candy. Whoever eats it means living a sweet life a year later and putting it in a small cake. Children will grow taller after eating, and newly married families will wrap jiaozi with dates and chestnuts, indicating early birth.
On that day, adults always warned children not to talk nonsense. Adults should say "earned" instead of "broken" when cooking jiaozi.
Jiaozi is ready. He wants to worship his ancestors first. In the main room (living room), there is usually a "shadow" (the names of ancestors are all on it). There is a memorial tablet of an old man who just died in the middle. When burning incense, he set off firecrackers outside to inform his ancestors to go home for dinner. Put two jiaozi bowls in the bowl and a pair of chopsticks in front of the ancestral tablet, and the family can have dinner.
When visiting our seaside farmers, remember that eating chopsticks can't be put in bowls, because they are for the dead. Generally, chopsticks are placed on the right side of the bowl, because every family has a boat, which means "smooth sailing" I am left-handed, and I am used to putting them on the left, so I often let my father and I stare at them, hee hee:)
When I was a child, I always wanted to ask, with so many ancestors, are two jiaozi enough to eat? Can you fight without food? I asked again, and after being slapped by my father, I dared not ask again. ...
When watching the Spring Festival Gala, firecrackers didn't stop all night, and then the head of the family or the eldest son of the family went to open the door to meet the god of wealth, saying, "On the first day of the New Year's Day, treasures rolled in."
When dawn comes, men put on new clothes and take their children out to pay New Year greetings to their elders. There are many people in the street. When men meet, they bow "Happy New Year!" "Get rich!" Women usually stay at home to receive their neighbors who come home to pay New Year's greetings. You can't sweep the floor this day. The more melon seeds and peanut coats on the ground, the better the fortune and popularity this year.
On the first day of New Year's greetings, only the elders of their own families will give lucky money. If they don't, the children will lie on the ground. Therefore, in the shouts of adults and the laughter of the elderly, it is full of joy.
I visited my aunt the next day and my mother-in-law the third day. The rest of the time is to visit my neighbors, teachers and friends.
14 In the first month, a dough sculpture called "Shengchong" will be steamed. It has a big head, ears like two small cattail fans, big eyes, money in its mouth, and gold ingots all over it like snakes. Colour it after steaming. 15 give up on the same day and put your hopes below.
15 in the first month, we watch lanterns, set off fireworks, and make lanterns with radishes at home. Cut the radish into pieces, wrap cotton around the mat to make a wick, then pour the boiled vegetable oil, light it at all the doorways and windowsills at home at night, and send lanterns to the graves of ancestors. Children will make a mouse lamp, cut its mouth into the shape of a radish and put eyes on it with matchsticks.
Some peasant families are used to lighting "four lanterns", that is, taking a big radish as a long core point in front of the ancestral memorial tablet to see what crops are cooked in the center of the lantern, which is sure to have a bumper harvest.
After 15, there is nothing to worry about. Put the worms in a jar, steam them for the whole family when the dragon looks up on February 2, and then the man will have a haircut, which means that he will look up and be a man in the new year and have a stronger career.
In 2008, even after that, spring ploughing began. Every household is busy again.