Get up, there are 20 days before the Spring Festival. Shanxi people, do you still remember the songs necessary for your hometown during the Spring Festival every year? Generally, we just have a family reunion dinner, watch fireworks, put up Spring Festival couplets, enjoy lanterns and solve riddles on lanterns, but these activities attract us deeply every year. The family reunion dinner, the prosperous and warm annual custom, is the warmth buried in the deepest part of my heart. At this time, it will remind us that it is time to go home.
According to the traditional custom in Shanxi, it is forbidden to cook with fire from the first day to the fifth day of the first month, so people should prepare pasta before the Spring Festival. But now the custom of "cooking without fire" has changed, but the custom of preparing pasta many years ago has remained.
The first day of the first lunar month is an ancient traditional festival in China, which has always been valued by people. On New Year's Eve, every household here has to stay up all night, which is called "staying up all year". People who got up early the next morning set off firecrackers, worshipped their elders and ate jiaozi. After dinner, I went out to visit my neighbors and elders, and everyone met and celebrated each other. During the four days from the first day to the fourth day, the sweeping soil was not poured out until the early morning of the fifth day. Known as "sending poor soil", Shanxi people call it "sending five poor people".
During the Chinese New Year, it is essential for people who are happy to smell the flowers to steam steamed buns, which means good luck and good luck all their lives.
The production of steamed bread is very particular. I see that they have a plan in mind. After some rubbing, twisting, rolling, cutting, pinching, pulling, pressing, picking and rolling, flowers, birds, insects and animals are vividly deformed from their hands. After stippling, painting, combination and collocation, the flour products just outlined have been painted with red leaves and green, Fengxiang fish swimming, snakes roaring and lions singing, which are lifelike.
Many places in Shanxi have the saying that "the first month is the year". Throughout the first month, there was laughter everywhere. Shanxi New Year is really full of flavor!