My small village in northern Henan , February 2nd Dragon looked up

As the saying goes, the second dragon looks up in February. Although February 2 is not a big festival, no one will forget it. On this day neither men nor women do work. The man's work in the field is afraid of touching the dragon head, and he cannot live in peace for a year - suffering from disaster. The woman's needlework is afraid of blinding the dragon's eye, and her own eyes are also blind. If you don't do work, you will spread pancakes at home and fry sticky cakes.

Hoarding

On the evening of the first day of February, the male owner of the family, who also had a woman, swept the yard clean, and then used an iron shovel or a wooden shovel to bring out a burned grass and wood ash from under the stove, starting from the front of the hall door, taking the position where he stood, holding the ash shovel in his hand, letting the shovel fall to the ground, slowly turning his body at the same time, letting the shovel move in an arc, and evenly shaking the ash shovel, so that the grass and wood ash evenly sprinkled on the ground surface, turned a circle, and left a complete circle on the ground, the same method, and then set a circle inside, and then set a circle inside, The three circles are set up, which is like a cocoon for loading grain, which is the grain hoard, and the process of drawing a circle with ash is called hoarding.

Before hoarding, there must be a preliminary plan. It is necessary to look at the size of the place, to be able to surround several, to surround the size, to ensure that the overall uniform and beautiful. After the hoard is fenced, a ladder must be drawn from the entrance of the gate, straight to the edge of the hoard, that is, from the outermost circle of the hoard, two straight lines of the upper width and lower narrowness are drawn, representing the ladder legs, and three or five horizontal lines are drawn in the middle, connecting the ladder legs, representing the ladder bridge, which symbolizes the harvest of grain, the hoarding is full of streams, and it is necessary to step on the ladder to hoard grain.

After the hoard is fenced, a small pit should be dug in the very center of the hoard, in which different varieties of grain are put in, the one who puts wheat is called "wheat hoard", and the one who puts beans is called "bean hoard"............ Cover it with tiles. The next morning, I got up early and let my chickens eat it.

Shoot the "DoorBanger"

On the first day of February, when the sun is about to set, the boys and girls of several years and teenagers will automatically form a group and do a face-to-face game of "doorbanger".

They took a tile in one hand, touched each other with both hands, making a crackling sound, and at the same time singing happily over and over again in their mouths, "On the second of February, the dragon looked up, the big hoard, the small hoard flow...". "Snap, snap, the scorpion comes out without claws", "Snap, snap, shoot the door", the scorpion comes out and stings Xiaoni". When the girl heard this, she immediately shouted at her: "Shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot, the scorpion came out and stung a little." ”

"Stinging", "Stinging Little", the two camps are opposed, clapping and shouting until it is dark, the adults call home for dinner, and the people are finished.

Pull the gourd

On the morning of the second of February, before the sun came out, the housewife or the big girl, took a gourd head, tied a rope, held it with her hands, put the gourd on the ground, people in the house, from this room to that room, the east head and the west did not go back and forth, fast or slow, or urgent or slow, people holding the rope, the rope tied to the gourd, people walking, the gourd followed the person back and forth on the ground rolling and jumping, making a "beep, beep, bell" sound.

This is the pulling of the gourd, the puller walking, or jumping, the mouth is still chanting, is it still like singing:

"Pull! pull! Pull the gourd, the gourd pull

Ten rats and nine blind,

One of the remaining points is better,

There are flowers in the eyes. ”

The gourd puller sang while pulling, and the gourd kept ringing until the sun came out before it stopped.

I don't know what the fuss is. Some people say that this blinds the mouse's eyes. The rat is blind or blind, and it is certain that the rat will be frightened and dare not come out.

Spread the pancakes

"Pancakes on the second of February, stall stalls". At this time, a local saying was very popular. As long as it is to make things up for money and share, this sentence will naturally come up, which is enough to show that the second pancake in February is deeply rooted in people's minds.

Pancake noodles are "miscellaneous noodles", also known as "gluten noodles", which are flour that is ground with various miscellaneous grains mixed together. Or this noodle jar to close a bottom, the noodle jar to pour a slag, a few tanks of flour, a little bit, pour out, mixed together, mixed with water, put some salt, green onions, stir and stir, and into a batter, spread pancakes.

When spreading, first burn the hot tweezers. The tweezers are cast in pig iron, three legs, an inch high iron plate, slightly bulging in the middle. After the tweezer is heated, it should be oiled, and then pour the batter, the batter will be poured up and spread around, because the iron plate is hot, the flow is cooked, the thick place does not move, with a special arch stick to push or pull to make the batter thick and thin evenly, symmetrical, a little, that is, cooked. Turn the cake over with a slightly pointed wooden board with a special two or three fingers wide and a long front end, pause, and pick it down, that is, soft and delicious pancakes, rolled onions, rolled chili sauce, and sauce are all delicious. There are also braised pancakes to drink as rice, which also has a special taste.

Fry the sticky cake

Sticky cakes are made of noodles.

First, the noodles are made into nests and steamed in a pot.

The noodles are steamed with dates and are called "jujube sticky nests", which can be eaten immediately.

The noodles are also mixed, steamed called "white sticky nest", it is specially used for sticky cakes, the "white sticky nest" plus flour on the board kneaded into a round strip of long dumplings, stored in a secluded place, let it ferment, stay for a day or two, with a knife to cut off the long dumplings piece by piece, and then put them in a hot oil pan one by one, fry until brown out of the pan, eat is soft and sticky and sweet and sweet, and strong.

The February 2 fried sticky cake is a steamed dough tendon made in advance and only fried on the second day of February.

Eat flower cake

In the past, the New Year's flower cake should be leftover no matter what, and it will be eaten on the second day of February. It is said that it is a flower cake that has eaten the New Year on February 2, and it is not harmful. Although it is a cold day, the cooked food is stored for more than a month, dry and cracked, and it is not willing to eat it when it grows up.

The new daughter-in-law must return to her in-laws' house on the second of February to "add hoards." And it is before february 2, by the mother's family to prepare a large flower cake (large decent, small is not good-looking), and two dumplings of sticky cake to the in-laws, these gifts are "hoarding". Go to the in-laws' house, they can't get it, they are sent by the brother or brother of the new daughter-in-law, the father often goes back to the village, the brother or brother wants to send it home, and the in-laws mostly treat them with egg water.