Twenty-eight, steamed steamed steamed appliqué flowers
Author: Li Fuchun
On the twenty-sixth and twenty-seventh days of the Lunar New Year, every household has prepared meat for the New Year, and on the twenty-eighth day, it is time to prepare pasta.
Rice cake is a staple food in the south of our country, there are many kinds of flowers, the main material of rice cake is rice or glutinous rice, which is a custom left by the ancestors. However, now that people's living conditions are better, the custom of playing rice cakes is basically disappearing. But there are still many people who think that the New Year must be beaten with rice cakes, only to feel that there is a Taste of the Year, there is a meaning of step by step.
In the north, we are mainly pasta, so it is "twenty-eight, send the noodles", what is it! It's steamed buns.
To say steamed buns, I have unspeakable bitterness. This is because the white noodle buns we eat now are made from eighty noodles or fine flour noodles. When I first remembered, the steamed bunSati was 200% or half flour to 100% full flour later.
Listening to my fathers, in the past era, I usually couldn't eat steamed buns, and most of them mainly ate corn nests, sorghum cakes and sweet potatoes, that is, the era of "melon vegetables and half a year's grain". New Year's Day, rich families eat a full steamed bun, like our family's poor days will be mixed with white corn flour made of steamed buns, more often half mixed, there will be 200% of the steamed buns. Anyway, from this day on, the dinner table is basically full of white-faced steamed buns.
Later, most of the steamed buns that our family ate for the New Year were signed buns, steamed with bamboo skewer grates in a large iron pot. Often from the age of twenty-six or seven, my mother, replaced by my daughter-in-law and the concubines in the courtyard of the clan and the aunts and wives of the neighbors before and after, three or five together with the noodles "kneaded" the steamed buns, and then inserted the steamed buns into the skewers, and after the steamed buns were cooked, they were pulled out one by one and then cooled, they often went to the next house after the "kneading" of this family, and each family made at least three or five pots of steamed buns, enough for a family, including guests after the end of the year, to eat until the fifteenth day of the first month.
In 2004, the steamed steamed buns in our house were unforgettable to me. On the twenty-third day of the lunar month, after a small year, my family began to steam steamed steamed buns.
Near noon, the neighbor's girl and daughter-in-law came to my house to help knead the steamed buns, and the sister-in-law in the front yard also came with half a pocket of flour, and her family did not have a large iron pot, and she had to cooperate with my family to steam the steamed buns. They kneaded a full of steamed buns and put them under the sheets to wake up, and then rushed to the sister-in-law's house in the West Courtyard to help, and the rest of the steamed steamed When steaming to the last pot, we thought that the ember under the pot was enough to steam the steamed buns, so we left the "dining house" of steamed steamed steamed buns and went to the north house to watch TV. Maybe the TV series was so wonderful that we just watched TV, and my mother kept reminding me to look at the hanging watch on the wall, and when the time came, we would lift the pot and pick up the buns.
Because it was cold, we entered the north house and closed the door to watch TV, and when the time came, I lay on the kang and continued to watch TV, and my parents pulled the steamed buns from the sign and came to the north house. I don't know how long it took, but I vaguely heard someone shouting "On fire"! When my father pushed open the door, he saw that there were already several neighbors in my yard, and there were already people on the roof of the "dining house", and they were watering the chimney on the roof, and my father quickly climbed on the roof to fight the fire.
It turned out that my family had steamed eight pots of steamed buns in a row, and the fire under the pot heated the walls inside the hearth, ignited the reed foil on the roof, and ignited the firewood stacked on the roof. The second uncle of the East Courtyard went to the afternoon market and just returned, saw an open fire coming out of the roof of my house, quickly shouted a few "fires" on the street, and then moved a ladder from his home, carrying a bucket of water directly from outside the wall to the roof.
After a while, the neighbors gathered a lot, they were worried that my family's water was not in time, directly carrying the bucket, the fire-fighting water "flew" from the portals to the roof of my "dining house". In about twenty minutes, the fire that had just been lit was extinguished with the help of the villagers and neighbors.
The signature bun is delicious, but now people are too lazy to do it, and there is a good reason that without a large iron pot, it is impossible to make a sign bun. People go to the steamed bun room to order ten pounds of steamed buns, eat until the eighth day of the first month, and the steamed bun room opens and there are new steamed buns.
Twenty-eight, the hair on the face, has become a permanent memory, and the decal has been passed down.
"Decals" are Pasting New Year Paintings, Pasting Spring Festivals and Pasting Window Flowers. Every household has affixed the word "Fu" large and small on the doors, walls, and lintels of houses. Pinning the yearning for a happy life and wishing for a better future. Window flowers can still be seen, but not very much.
In the New Year, the words "Fu" and "Spring" are pasted everywhere indoors and outdoors, and some people paste the word "Fu" upside down, indicating that spring is coming and blessings have arrived.
One of the most common items in "decals" is the sticker spring joint.
China's earliest spring union is made of peach wood boards, also known as peach symbols, as evidenced by poetry: "Thousands of households on the day of dawn, always replace the new peach with the old symbol." Peach wood has the theory of curing disasters and avoiding evil, known as the sacred wood, and now whoever's child is "evil" will cut a peach tree branch and put it under the child's pillow to drive away evil spirits.
The earliest is the Song Dynasty, people began to write couplets on the peach wood board, one does not lose the meaning of the peach wood town evil, the second expresses their good wishes, and the third decorates the portal for beauty, which is the most common for large households. Couplets are written on red paper symbolizing joy and auspiciousness, and the occasion of the New Year is pasted on both sides of doors and windows to express people's good wishes for good luck in the coming year.
Twenty or thirty years ago, during the New Year, they all wrote or asked the "sir" of the village to write the Spring Festival, and now there are fewer people who write or ask people to write the Spring Festival, people have to go to the market to spend ten yuan and twenty yuan, buy a few pictures, the gate has a small door, and even the words "Fu" and "Spring", "Auspicious Star High Light", "Car Movement Peace", "Five Grains and Fengdeng" also have it. It is only in recent years that there are fewer "six animals thriving" and "fat pigs full of pens", because the current free-range livestock in farms is basically extinct, and raising a dog is no longer a nursing home, but has become a pet that is more pampered than people.
In any case, "twenty-eight, put the face hair", the meaning of the next year's "hair hair", but also become a new year's memory.
However, in the rural areas of northwest Lu, every household did not start to post the Spring Festival League until Chinese New Year's Eve, not twenty-eight. Sticking to the Spring League is to indicate that everything is new for the New Year, nor is it to avoid the evil town house. In fact, nowadays, there is not so much attention. However, there are also taboos for sticking to the spring year: the old man who has just died in the family cannot be pasted, and when people pass in front of their house, they will understand what is going on.
Today is the twenty-eighth day of the Waxing Moon, whether it is the north and south of the river, whether it is playing rice cakes or steamed buns, we all hope that every year will be big and the years will be safe. Let this folklore become our yearning for a better life in the coming year, the year of the ox is auspicious, the next year "rat you cow", life and career are thriving!
【The first draft of this article was published at 22:00 on February 8, 2021】
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