The Spring Festival in my hometown is no longer the Spring Festival of the past. Now the Spring Festival in my hometown is a large family gathering. Many people who go out to work far from home have to go home for the Spring Festival for the New Year, probably, busy work makes us wanderers, the number of times we go home in a year is countless, and the last two years have caught up with the epidemic, and the number of times we have returned home has been even less.
I remember when I was a child, there were many people in the village, each family had five or six people, and every time there were some traditional festivals, it was very lively. People live each festival according to the rules handed down by the elders. During the Dragon Boat Festival, wicker is tied to a broom, and eggs and dumplings are eaten in the morning. Make mooncakes and eat mooncakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival. The Spring Festival is even more grand.
In the year, the Spring Festival is the most solemn. Around the Spring Festival is also the most idle time in the countryside, people kill pigs, make new clothes, and prepare all kinds of delicious food before the Spring Festival.
Before the Spring Festival, the family should wrap a lot of sticky bean buns, grow sticky rice and beans at home, grind the rice into noodles, cook the beans and mash them, add a little saccharin, and make bean paste. After the sticky rice noodles in the large basin are ready, they begin to steam the bean buns, and the whole family works together, sitting on the hot kang head, chatting while wrapping the bean buns. A large iron pot has already been boiled in the kitchen, and a pot can steam more than a hundred bean buns. Each house steamed hundreds of them, let them cool and freeze them. In addition to eating themselves, relatives and friends come to give them some bean buns. This habit seems to have been forgotten now, and no one loves bean buns so much, probably because life is good, and no one loves bean buns anymore.
In addition to bean buns, many families also have to fry some small twist flowers, small fruits or whatever, but also the whole family to do, twist flowers, fried fried, just out of the pot of small twist flowers crisp and delicious, sometimes while fried while eating, a moment will be full.
In these few days of the year ago, I also had to cook pig's elbows and ribs, in addition to eating on the day of the Spring Festival. A lot of it should be left for relatives and friends to eat in the New Year.
Now in the rural New Year, these projects are gone, transportation and logistics are developed, people do not have to store too much food, eat at any time to buy at any time. But it has a little less of a Taste of the New Year! The standard of living has improved, but it is not as interesting as the original New Year.
