the flavor of the year in the hometown of handwritten newspaper content during the Spring Festival 1
My hometown, to be exact, is my hometown of Shandong, where the year is unique. It seems that the taste of the year in my hometown comes very early every year. As soon as the twelfth lunar month comes, people there begin to prepare noodles and oil for the New Year, and start to go to the market one after another to prepare yak meat for the New Year, to wrap jiaozi's seasoning, to stir fry, to steam vegetables and steamed beans, to use onions for flower cakes, coriander, vermicelli, red beans, dates, oily fish, etc., and to dare at every gathering.
After the middle of the twelfth lunar month, with the return of relatives who went out to work to earn money and the children's holiday, people there and women in every family began to steam vegetables, beans and cakes, one pot after another, from morning till night, until the prepared stuffing was used up, outsiders could smell the steamed buns when they walked in the hutong, and they would know who was steaming what steamed buns and the "Kangchi, Kangchi" issued by the kitchen. I know that the old ladies at home are busy steaming this and that, and they will enter the middle of the year early, so that their relatives who have worked hard outside the home for a year and the dolls who go to school can eat early and live in 28, and feel the warmth of home and the peace of the festival.
at this time, if anyone visits, the host family will take out all kinds of steamed buns for you to eat and taste, and those who have a good relationship will also send a lump of buns when they leave; Besides steaming this steamed bun and that steamed bun, people there will also take wheat to the steamed bun shop to exchange for dozens of kilograms of machine steamed buns, so as to treat guests when relatives visit. In my memory, this kind of machine steamed buns has always been the favorite of children.
When the steamed vegetables, beans, cakes, etc. are finished, families start to fry things. It has always been our custom to fry fish, crispy meat and steamed meatballs. Among these three categories, I only have a soft spot for fried sweet potato meatballs. I remember that sweet potato meatballs are fried at the front every year. Because of rarity or greed, as long as I know that my mother or grandmother is going to fry meatballs, I have to wait until I eat sweet potato meatballs that day before I will go out to play.
According to our custom, it's the Spring Festival, and only the first batch of meatballs just out of the pot can be eaten after worshipping the kitchen god and the god of wealth. As for me, I can't wait. At the same time as my mother worships God, I pinch one by one from time to time, and then I quickly put the squeezed sweet potato meatballs into my mouth, and the hot mouth makes a big noise, biting a hot air. At that time, the food was so hard. Of course, if I don't obey the rules, I will be stopped and "complained" by my mother from time to time, saying that I am so ignorant. I smirked and pretended to be fine, and continued to eat and eat.
After frying and oiling, you will arrive at yak meat. This is eating meat is not fragrant, eating bones and drinking soup, and the whole family will go into battle together! In my impression, yak meat is usually in the afternoon or evening. If it is in the afternoon, there is no need to cook dinner. It is enough for the family to eat some cooked meat and drink some broth.
Yak meat is different from steamed bread. Yak meat has to be burned all the time with a big fire. At this time, my father will chop the firewood in advance, and then he will just keep pulling the wind and chopping wood at the bottom of the pot. The pot that is directly burned will "glug, glug" and give off a fragrant smell of meat, but no one in my family can eat meat. In my mother's words, "no one in our family can enjoy it." Then my mother fished the meat into the jar and salted it. This cured meat can last for a long time without deterioration. After the New Year's steamed buns and meatballs are finished, it is still there. At that time, it has become a blessing for children to eat steamed buns.
Finally, we arrived at the New Year's Eve, including jiaozi, to prepare for the New Year's Eve dinner. Generally, my mother and sister-in-law do the wrapping in jiaozi, and my father prepares firewood and cooks pots, while my brother and I sometimes help roll dumpling wrappers when my mother and sister-in-law are too busy. But most of the time, my two brothers stick couplets, one holding a chair and one standing on it. In the early years, my family's couplets, including many people's couplets in our village, were written by my grandfather, and whoever came to the door with red paper, grandpa would do them one by one. It's a pity that the couplets at that time are still there, but now grandpa is gone. Grandpa danced a few brushes for half the rest of his life, and I don't know how many ink marks he left in the village's weddings and funerals. Grandpa, the Spring Festival is coming soon, and you can be safe in heaven!
Later, printed Spring Festival couplets sprang up. Grandpa only wrote them once in a while, and at the same time, few people came to see him to write couplets. Later, my family began to wholesale and sell couplets every Spring Festival, but Grandpa stopped writing, but his usual habit of practicing calligraphy was not lost. The books you took back from the commune in the home of old cadres were filled with your handwriting. After you left, Grandpa, you know, these were kept for my grandchildren's collection. Originally, I wanted to write about my feelings of selling couplets in the past six years, as well as some opinions that my opponents have gradually lost in writing Spring Festival couplets. It seems unnecessary.
To be honest, Grandpa, as your passing time gets longer and longer, I really don't think of you very often. Some of them only think of you on your memorial day and when I think of grandma's loneliness. Today, on this evening near the Spring Festival, in this strange place where I am about to go back, I think of you again, waiting for me, Grandpa, and I will go to see you with paper money and firecrackers on the afternoon of the 29th of the twelfth lunar month.
After putting up the couplets, the descendants of the same family, that is, the same grandfather or grandmother, began to gather in the street, and then went to the grave together. I didn't grow up before, and sometimes it was not my turn to go, but now it's different. As long as I am at home, I will definitely go because my grandfather is here. Going to the grave, compared with the whole festive festival, seems to be a very sad link, which is good for boys like me or even younger than me. Maybe it is just to play with them, or the person lying in the grave bag in the field has forgotten or doesn't know at all. Going to the grave is nothing more than joining in the fun and setting off firecrackers. For the parents, it is different. The one lying in the grave bag may be his own father and mother, the closest and favorite person in the world, no matter how strong a person is, at this festival, at the moment when he went to the grave, there is always a trace of emotional string affecting him, leaving him with tears and reminding him of his dead relatives.
When you come back from the grave, it's usually four or five o'clock in the afternoon, and it's still bright, and people start to set off firecrackers and go down to jiaozi. At this meeting, we also have a custom, that is, to send jiaozi to grandpa's house, to exchange jiaozi with uncle's and uncle's house, and to taste the delicious jiaozi cooked by someone in the door. However, this custom has gradually faded in recent years, and some people are still sending it to each other, and some people are no longer sending it to each other. After eating dinner on New Year's Eve early, adults and children will stroll around and play. Those friends or peers who have been working outside for a long time and have never got together will rarely get together, play cards, mahjong, etc., for entertainment, or stay up all night, for good luck. As for me, I usually go out to play, come back, watch the Spring Festival Gala, watch it and go to sleep.
The next morning, either my mother woke me up or the crackling firecrackers outside woke me up. It was still dark, so I got up, washed my face with hot water according to the custom, and then listened to my mother's call for chickens, dogs, etc. in front of the hall, which meant that six animals would flourish within a year. Then my mother began to burn incense and paper ingots one by one in the yard, at the head of the room and in front of the door. As for me, I set off firecrackers and double rings in the yard. When I was careless, I also put the double rings down, and a loud noise made the chicken on the tree rack scream, and the dog hid in the corner and didn't answer. The event of getting up early on New Year's Day is very subtle, and I can't tell the strange feeling in a few words. Maybe only those who have experienced it can appreciate the fun!
After burning incense and setting off firecrackers at this moment, everyone in our family got up one after another. My mother began to boil water to prepare for jiaozi, and my father swept the whole yard with a broom. Sometimes, before my family finished the morning meal, people who kowtowed to my parents came to my house in the dark, so my father and mother put down their bowls and hurried out to deal with them. When the kowtowers left, my mother began to urge my brother and I to eat quickly so that we could kowtow. In many cases, my brother and I stopped eating and went out to pay a New Year call to our elders. In the street, it's really a "Gooden" to knock on your knees, knock on your Lord, knock on your elders, and it's basically dawn. If you want to run, you can knock on the heads of other families with the group. If you don't want to knock, you can go home and sleep. At this time, my father is restless. On the first day of the New Year's Day, you have to visit old relatives.
The bustling New Year is over, and then we go to visit relatives and plan to go out, work and go to school, and everything seems to be back to normal. The difference is that we are all one year older. We got together and left the year before and after, and a joy and a sadness are all integrated into the flavor of the New Year, and everything is imprinted in your, me and his memory. On the eve of the Spring Festival last year, at the invitation of relatives and friends in our hometown, the old couple took their granddaughters and their family and drove back to their hometown after many years of absence, and spent a Spring Festival with a strong flavor. The local customs and happy scenes there are still vivid and memorable. It was the last day of the lunar year, and the car after leaving Tianjin galloped on the expressway, with the cold wind outside and the warmth inside.
Returning to my hometown for the New Year is a natural way for me to relive my old dreams when I grew up in the countryside, but for my teenage granddaughter Feifei, who has never been to the countryside, it can be described as a trip full of new ideas. The Spring Festival in my hometown is full of flavor. "Grandpa, how do you celebrate the New Year in the countryside? Do you have red lanterns? Set off firecrackers? " When I asked Fei Fei, I couldn't help thinking of the Spring Festival when I was a child: although I was poor at that time, the year in the countryside was still very grand. Killing pigs and stewing meat, cleaning the house, buying new year's goods and posting couplets were adults' business, but wearing new clothes, watching lanterns and setting off fireworks brought infinite happiness to children. Speaking of firecrackers, the village was full of guns and smoke around the New Year. There is a family with a high surname who makes a lot of firecrackers every year in the twelfth lunar month, but they can't finish them at home and take them to the market to sell. Every night, several children were asked to help with dispensing and rolling guns. One day, the gunpowder suddenly exploded and everyone present was burned. After the rescue, several children saved their lives, but all of them fell with scars on their faces.
Today's hometown has already taken on a new look. The shabby home in the past has long been replaced by the wide courtyard and bright building. More than a dozen relatives, old and young, welcomed us into a large living room, like receiving distinguished guests. Two big round tables had already been set up, and before a few words were said, the reunion banquet of the New Year's Eve began. It is rare for men to persuade wine to make food; Women have a good time eating and drinking.
Xiaofei was invited upstairs to play by children of the same age ... Suddenly, there was crackling firecrackers outside. "Who is shooting in the yard?" Nothing? " My wife is worried about flying and wants to go out and have a look. "Nothing, nothing!" The nephew said, "Our village is grasping the change of customs, and people will no longer set off fireworks. Just now, it was electronic firecrackers, which didn't hurt children and pollute the environment. This is all done by children, I don't understand. " I didn't expect that the pace of science is faster in the countryside than in the city.
In the afternoon, several children took us out of the house, and in front of us were spacious and flat streets, the second floor with blue bricks and red tiles. Every family is decorated with lanterns and colored lanterns, and every household is reflecting the door. The sparse electronic firecrackers come from time to time. According to the children, the village committee compound has been expanded into a "villagers' paradise", where there is a small auditorium, a dance hall, a Peking Opera Club and a Fushou Courtyard, and a collective wedding is being held in the small auditorium.
"Come on, let's go and have a look!" In a short time, I came to a huge courtyard, with six big characters above the arch: "Lvzhuang Villagers Paradise", and a pair of newly posted couplets on the two doors: reform and innovation in Kyushu, and eliminating corruption. There were bursts of laughter from the small auditorium in the hospital. The lights on the stage were flashing and colorful. Ten couples with bright wedding dresses stood on the stage, and the emcee was talking with a live tube in his hand. The audience was packed and there were many people standing on both sides ...
On the way home, I asked the children if they wanted to watch CCTV's Spring Festival Gala in the evening, but they said that they would watch dragon lanterns in the street after eating jiaozi. When it comes to what's new in Grade One and Grade Two, they say a lot, such as big group worship in the neighborhood, singing and dancing, walking on stilts, listening to storytelling, etc. It seems that it's right to go back to my hometown for the Spring Festival this time, intoxicated by the little flying flying in my hometown, and when I return to the city two days later, I cry and don't want to get on the bus ... The annual taste of my hometown in the handwritten newspaper during the Spring Festival 3
Every year, the 3th night of the Spring Festival is the busiest day in our family. At home, I am busy cleaning, putting up blessings, putting up couplets and hanging China Festival. Every household prepares new year's goods. About ten days before the festival, people are busy shopping, including chicken, duck, fish, tea, wine, oil sauce, roasted seeds and nuts in the north and south, and fruit with sugar bait. They should also prepare some gifts when visiting relatives and friends during the Chinese New Year, and children should buy new clothes and hats to wear during the Chinese New Year.
China Festival is a traditional custom in China. The bright red Chinese knot represents the future prosperity, and it will be hung at home to add festive colors. However, what I like best is to paste blessings and couplets. Every 3 nights, my brother and I have to spoil this task. We always ask dad, "Why do you want to paste the word" Fu "upside down?" Dad said meaningfully: "If you are blessed, you will be blessed, and you will naturally get home!"
We see that the adults are also very busy, preparing a sumptuous dinner. After a while, my uncle and aunt came, and we began to eat New Year's Eve dinner. The New Year's Eve dinner is also called the reunion dinner. The family is very happy to eat the delicious jiaozi wrapped by themselves around the table! I just hope to celebrate the Spring Festival every day. How wonderful it would be!
Spring Festival is the first day of the first lunar month, also known as the lunar year, commonly known as "Chinese New Year". This is the most grand and lively traditional festival among Chinese people. The Spring Festival is coming, which means that spring is coming, Vientiane is reviving, vegetation is renewed, and a new round of sowing and harvesting season is about to begin. People have just passed the long winter when the plants and trees are dying in the ice and snow, and they have long been looking forward to the days when spring is blooming. The flavor of the year in the hometown of handwritten newspaper content during the Spring Festival 4
Watching the snow falling outside like catkins through the window. The grass, the trees, the car ... were covered with a white wedding dress. Looking at this poetic beauty, I can't help but recall the past but unforgettable taste of the year.
The flavor of Chinese New Year is endless snacks and beautiful fireworks. At that time, when I was young, I often looked at the calendar on the wall and turned it over day by day, looking forward to the early arrival of the Chinese New Year. Finally, the Chinese New Year is coming. My friends in the nearby pots and I are all gathering in the square in front of our house. My pockets that can hold things are full of candy, melon seeds and peanuts. Everyone's face is like a big cat, and his nose is up and down; The adults also took out the fireworks that had already been prepared, rushed out of the door and lit the fuse happily. With a bang, fireworks danced to a light butterfly in the sky. Finally, with a bang, it was divided into many sparks and slowly and gently fell to the ground in the sky. I took out another happy ever after and held it in my hand. "Bang", "Bang", ten shots rang through the night sky, and the streets and alleys had already become children's worlds.
Blessing and jiaozi
The flavor of Chinese New Year becomes an auspicious blessing and a bowl of hot jiaozi. Chinese New Year, I came to my grandparents' home early and sent an auspicious word: "