New Year’s must be in the hometown to have a taste. Traveling miserable, to the year under the only part of the long sigh, but also a half of the mood of joy? And the so-called Home, at least two generations of young and old, if there are no Parents, no children, the rest of the couple pair, wide-eyed, respectful, what can create the atmosphere of the New Year? Beiping is far away from the sky, in vain Dreams, childhood New Year scenery, can still recall a couple of.
After the Zao Festival, the New Year is approaching. Families are busy taking tin incense burners, tin wax sticks, tin fruit plates and tin tea trays out of their cobwebbed and dusty boxes to do their annual scrubbing. Palace lanterns, lanterns, lanterns of the cow horn, all together out of the cage. New Year’s goods are also prepared early, including dry goods for the kitchen, apples and dried fruits for worshipping the gods and ancestors, peonies and daffodils for the house, and coarse and fine mixes for the children to eat. The honey offering was ordered at Baiyunguan long ago, and it was delivered to the door in bowls and bowls in a large basket made of paper. The Family size, out and in, like a stroke of magic. The housewife, of course, has the additional burden of preparing new clothes, shoes, socks and shirts for everyone, even though they are cloth shoes, socks and shirts, and they always have to be new.
One of the highlights of the New Year is the ancestor worship. The images of the ancestors are hung in the hall, some of them are old, some of them are smiling, some of them are angry, and they are enjoying the steaming system amidst the smoke. At this Time of the year, filial sons and grandsons kowtow like garlic, but in fact, they do not know why. The incense, candles, kowtowing, followed by the withdrawal of the offering, around the table to eat the New Year’s Eve dinner, too late to Shen Zhen Yuan.
Eating is the main program of New Year’s Eve. The New Year’s dishes are standardized and uniform in every family. People with a large population have to enter the whole pig, even the water and the pig’s head, and handle it separately to swallow. A pot of stewed meat, plus mushrooms is a bowl, plus vermicelli is a bowl, plus yam is a bowl, a large pot of mustard pier, fish jelly, meat skin spicy sauce, into a jar of large pickled cabbage, mustard lumps, – enough. The first day of the year does not move the knife, before the fifth day of the year does not open the market, the year dishes must be hoarded, the result is the year dishes equal to leftovers, eat down the appetite and then have.
“Delicious but dumplings, comfortable but inverted. “This is the countryside people say. Beiping people call dumplings for “cooked biscuits”, city people also cooked biscuits as a good thing, in addition to the New Year’s Eve sabbatical indispensable meal, from at least the first day to the first three, every day cooked The people in the city also take boiled biscuits as a good thing, except for the indispensable meal on New Year’s Eve, from at least the first day to the third day, all the time boiled biscuits, which makes people dizzy. This method of fatigue filling is quite reasonable and can make you afraid to move your fingers to cooked meat and potatoes for a long time, until you forget about it next year. The New Year’s Eve snack, there is also a test, one of which is to put a silver coin, who ate that one main luck. The family has an old grandmother, every year is her old man lucky bite, who knows which did the trick, who all know.
The children have to follow the rules, otherwise they become wild children, but only at New Year’s Eve can be released from the ban and do as they please. On New Year’s Eve, the courtyard was filled with sesame stalks, and the children trampled on them with a creaking sound to “step on the year”. When they are exhausted, they give the adults a good night’s rest before going to bed, which is the “resignation”. Adults feel something as a reward for the present, is the “year of pressure”.
The new year is the beginning of the year again, do not say sad words, meet to say “New Year”. There are banners on the beams of the house saying “I am rich” and on the pillars on the pillars, “A New Year for all” on the straight stripes, “Purple Qi There is a square on the canopy and a couplet on the front door that reads, “The country’s grace and family celebrate the longevity of the people. The walls are not very clean, but there are also a few New Year’s paintings, such as “Fortune” “fat pig arch”, can be received to fill the wall effect. What you want to get in your mind, write it out and draw it and paste it on the wall, as if between the top and bottom, as if the will has been achieved!
There is no gambling in a good home. Playing mahjong should go to the eight hutongs, where there are good tiles, hardwood tables, and the beauty of the ring. But New Year’s Eve is almost every family gambling, pushing the pai gow, the first yuan red, call the young and drink six, the old and young salty. The opening of the gambling ban can be extended to the Lantern Festival, which is the only family entertainment. The children are not tired of playing with flower cannons. Jiulongzhai’s big flower box, seven layers, nine layers, fancy, straight to the children to see the eyes and staggering. “Punching the sky cannon” “two kicked feet “”Peaceful flowers”” “Flying Seven Rings”, “Cannon Hitting Xiangyang “, and the “flag fire” which we thought was comparable to the rocket we were proud of. “, which we thought was comparable to rockets, were performed all night long from New Year’s Eve to dawn.
In addition to the oil and salt stores on the street to leave a small hole in the door, the stores are on the board, which is often gongs and drums, wild beating and knocking, no board without eyes, it is said that the guys there to vent the accumulated grievances of the year. The girls and daughters-in-law are all out, and the old mothers in Sanhe County have a trembling red velvet flower on their heads. Where there are big girls and young daughters-in-law out, there are more hairy boys squeezing around. So the factory is crowded, the village of Neptune in addition to a few open-air cafe sitting a few snotty children in addition to nothing to see, but the entrance can be crowded to death! The fire temple in the antique, jade stalls, the land shrine in the book stalls, painting booths, watching the hustle and bustle of more, less to buy things. When the sky cleared and the snow cleared, the streets were full of mud, and the cool breeze blew, and the water dripped into ice, so people rolled around in the snow and ice, willingly. “Drink bean juice, on the pickles, glazed horn Dasha Yaner”, for everyone still has enough temptation. In addition, such as the Temple of the God of Wealth, Baiyunguan, Yonghegong, are crowded, people watching the situation, go to a trip to the nose, ears frozen red.
The New Year’s revelry drags on until the 15th. But I remember one year ended a few days earlier, that is, the first year of the Republic of China, the 12th day of the first month of the lunar calendar. In the midst of the universal celebration, the first President of the Republic of China, Mr. Yuan Shikai, instigated the mutiny of Cao Kun, the third town of the Northern Army, in Rumicang, and robbed the merchants of Pingjin for two days. I can’t forget this first amazing year after the founding of the country.
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