It is often said that after the 8th day of the lunar month is the New Year, in fact, once the lunar month, people in the southwest township of Dianjie start planning for the New Year.
Often this Time, into the village of Yuxiang merchants incessantly, to bring a lot of folks to support the New Year’s goods.
New Year’s Food is the first, so the lion Zhuang to sell radish and cabbage, Dai Ying to sell onions and garlic, Dongxiang set a single driving regulator to sell vermicelli vermicelli will coincidentally appear in the store street twenty to thirty miles southwest of this black land.
The praise and blame is the sale, but most of the croppers at this time no longer say this and that, the cabbage gangs are not peeled layer after layer, and do not say that the onions and garlic seedlings on the amount of mud, as long as the price is about the deal.
The old man selling tofu in the neighboring village of He Miao is also in accordance with the prior verbal agreement to send white, porcelain ding ding tofu to the door of each Family. The average family needs half a dozen pounds of bean curd, and those with a larger population need one, about 30 pounds. Clever and virtuous housewives make most of the tofu that arrives at Home into dried bean curd using grass wood ashes from the bottom of their own pots and pans, and fry some of the remaining tofu in the oil, and then keep some fresh ones to serve guests.
Often at this time, the old man selling tofu to the owner’s house put the tofu, give the owner a number, turn his face and leave. Because there is still a lot of bean curd that hasn’t been delivered, he can’t be bothered to shoot people for half a day like he usually does. I also can’t care about the soybeans, because there is a centralized collection after the New Year.
The main road vegetables bought in front of the house, but also on the daily market store street to buy some of the main expensive things.
Thirty years ago, it snowed in the winter, especially near the annual root period. A day of snow, at least half a month to ballast mud. In order to reduce the mud, people are often up five nights, while the freeze did not mud to hurry a manic northeast to catch up with the market.
People in the southwest township are nervous about their hands again, and by this time they will also take out the Gzhengzheng RMB, and start planning what to buy from the time they enter the southwest gate ……
The shrewd merchants will know from the mud on their trouser legs that they are from the black land of the southwest township, and they will know that they can take out brand new money from the Baiheqiao cigarette box or from the hand towel rolls of the grey coyote.
Generally into the southwest gate to the east through the water tower, and then east to the back of the river, which is basically the problem of eating are about the same. All kinds of dried vegetables and fruits, lazy buns of fruit bundled with scrip for visiting relatives, and sugar cane for moistening the lungs are all available.
When the market was first liberalized, the honest people of the southwestern township did not know how much to pay when they went to the market in Dianjie. Later, I heard that some things in the shop street can cut the price by half, so the southwest villagers also learned to get the price. Five dollars a pound of bamboo, ask three in not, after some bargaining, and finally four to take. The shrewd vendors looked with amazement at the southwest villagers who turned away and the black mud on their pants legs.
This time, the ride of the 28 permanent car will be enough to load children, but also noon wrong. Although already hungry, looking at the street full of real cans are cars are people, dinner or first squeeze out the street to say!
The southwest door outside two miles south of the river street Liu palm shop choke pot noodles do very affordable, most of the southwest township to store street people have more or less feelings about the old Liu choke pot noodles. In the head of the street to do the New Year’s Eve busy half of the day people come here to half a catty choke pot noodles, and then a kangjiao hot fire. The people of the southwest of the countryside who came home from the market had familiar faces and flowers, and those who did not know each other, sat in a room eating choke-pot noodles, and then communicated with each other by the way. The first thing you need to do is to ask three questions, and you will know the general situation of each other, and then you will also be a little bit related to the family. The year’s harvest, the red and white events on the farm, the price of New Year’s goods and the children’s achievements all became the topic of communication.
The sun was in the west to the treetops, the pack riding along the road for ten miles to the west down the road to take the dirt road. People prepared in advance on the roadside poplar tree debatable branches, try to see if it is frozen. Early, there is no freezing, the road has mud, so the bicycle tile stuffed with mud and grass mixture, can only walk and scrape and then cast, a moment to take a pinch of sweat. The road a little closer will wait a little longer, until the dark completely frozen and then go.
Again on the store street is to solve the problem of wearing. The main thing is to buy gaga for the children, so the county department store south of the Shanshan Temple and the theater garden became the first choice of the people in the southwest township.
For the first time, the people of the southwest countryside saw the needlework from Shanghai, but also for the first time to wear a good-looking, sharp and warm duck down jacket. Although the harvest was not good and the pockets were not generous, but looking at the envious eyes of the children, the adults would not hesitate to buy a set of clothes for the children to wear from top to bottom on the morning of the New Year’s Day.
Usually, two trips to the store street is almost enough! But there are always some astute people poor, looking at this also expensive, that also expensive, thinking to the New Year’s root period will be cheaper. When they get into the house after catching the half set of New Year’s Eve, when other people’s flat food is in the pot, they get the taunts of their wives and the disappointed eyes of their children, so there is a new joke on the door on the first day of the New Year.
Heng Yuan Sango in the early years of the Qingtai commune canteen with the masters learned to cook, kill the pig skills, a year to the root, pig killers Sango busy!
The pig that his family has been feeding for half a year is about two hundred pounds, so when he discussed with San, the people who are ready to kill the pig for the New Year all gathered together, chose a ditch with a bent tree, hollowed a hole, sat on a cauldron, and brought a bale to prepare for boiling water.
This side of the nimble San has fallen a pig, four legs tied together, carried to the trailer on the door plate, a steel knife into the pig’s throat tied ……, then stabbed with a stab, blowing with the mouth, the blowing like a balloon pig into the boiling hot water pot pouring all over, with a special hair removal knife less than a quarter of an hour, a bright white, clean, fat pig Net, fat pig will be hung upside down with iron hooks in the bent tree.
At this time, San took another shiny steel knife and began to open the stomach of the pig. A large basin was placed on the ground under the pig’s head, ready to follow down the pig’s entrails. The children waited for the pig urine bubble, the wives waited for the pig bitter guts, and those who were in charge of the family who did not kill the pig looked intently at the two fans of pork unloaded, choosing whether they wanted the rump tip or the waist nest according to their personal preference. There are also very filial people who buy all the hearts, livers and lungs for the elderly to stew and drink to make up for the deficit.
Every time a pig is killed, the proprietor will ask San to slash a piece of the best part of the pork for his own hard work. But every time, San was embarrassed to pluck a small piece of meat from the waist, and in San’s words, “there is that meaning all won”.
Dong Yuan Chun Tian fourth brother since childhood by the influence of cousins to write a good brush, the liberation of the early in the store street a middle school and get the teacher’s guidance, and later became a great Writer on the village. After the 15th day of the lunar month, the main room of his house became the office for writing the couplets (Spring Festival couplets). The neighbors each brought red paper and piled it up in the hall, and Si wrote the village’s couplets with his own brushes and ink from Yidege.
When Si writes a couplet for each family, he thinks about how many large pairs this family has to have, how many small pairs, how many double doors, how many boxes of single doors ……, and will write different content with the actual situation of each family.
Four brothers took the trouble to write each family’s pair, miscellaneous double dry, and then carefully rolled up and tied with red rope head. Each family took away to the door a sticker, the have all – pairs and miscellaneous double a not more a not less. The villagers were admiring the pair of four neat, stiff brush characters while looking forward to a bright future.
Near the end of the year, there are two more bags of flour to be ground and a few more pots of buns to be steamed. The best crumbs, steamed two pots of white Xuan, and then steamed a pot of bean bread, a pot of jujube bun, New Year’s home to the gods, guests and graves this is something that can take out.
To the root period of the year, to oil, to boil meat. The pot opposite the door is full of firewood, the big pot put their own peanut oil, the back of the pot is put in water, pepper, spices and cut into large pieces of meat and lump chicken. As soon as the pot of oil is hot, the oil will start in the order prepared in advance. Southwest Township is rich in oil dishes, not only to fry those battered lotus vegetables, shredded radish, but also fried dried bean curd, dry tea beans, but also fried balls, fish and so on. These fried foods are generally not eaten before the 15th day of the first month. After the pot boiled meat do not care, just remember to put salt, and then pour soy sauce and cook it hard! 365 days a year, the day of oiling and boiling meat is the happiest day — eat what you want, eat how much you want!
There is something to be said for the flatbread stuffing with radish, scallions and meat plates. Radish cut into slices, with boiling water into seventy, pulled out with a cage cloth to wring out the water, and then mixed with chopped green onions and ginger, fully mixed well, add the chopped meat, put the appropriate seasoning, once again the uniform mixing, a pot of high-quality flatbread stuffing is ready.
The flour made from 9023 high gluten wheat grown on the black land in the southwest township is smooth and tough and resistant to cooking, and every family is wrapped in flatbread on New Year’s Eve. The simple people of the southwestern township wrap the flat food in large, filling, thin skin, in circles on the stile to make a row of concentric circles.
The westward sun warms the black land of the southwest township, and the green wheat fields rise up in a layer of mist under the sunlight. The sound of crackling firecrackers was from far to near, from less to more. In the house of the stove, people look at the boiling pot of water, thinking about the past year, what has been done, what is regrettable, what should be bought for the New Year did not buy …………
—The first thing you need to do is to get your hands on the food. Anyway, it’s not going to be this side of the New Year!
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