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Memories of "dry food trays"
Zhang voters
The day after the cold of the ugly year, there are snowflakes that scatter and spread, this is also some snowflakes that are late this year, and they stop and stop, they can't continue, the day is not to the point where the black clouds press the city in the summer, it is still gray, and from time to time there are some snowflakes, as if it is this cloud, it is not thick, willful and do whatever you want, but this temperature, it seems to be much lower, the heating pipes at home are warm and melting hot, but I don't feel how warm it is, I always feel that it is cool.
Today is the twenty-second day of the Waxing Moon, but on the way to the office yesterday, I also asked the acquaintance in the courtyard who went out with me, "What day is the lunar calendar today?" Because I can't remember this lunar day, I still need to look at my mobile phone, or ask people, he told me, "Today is the twenty-third day of the Waxing Moon!" I said happily, "That's the Little Year!" He said, "Yes! It's a little year! "And I was excited. But he obviously confused the lunar calendar and the solar calendar, because yesterday was january 23rd in the solar calendar, not the twenty-third day of the lunar calendar, and it seems that I am also confused!
The twenty-third day of the lunar month, that is, the small year of the lunar calendar, according to traditional customs, it is also a "big day", not only the prelude to the New Year, but also the preview of the New Year, I have always thought so, in fact, it is the people who have been suffering for a winter, "eating and drinking" the previous "appetizers". On this day, according to the customs of our people there, it is a day to "sacrifice the stove", that is, every household sacrifices the stove fire master, and this stove fire master is going to heaven to report to the Jade Emperor the day of the family's work for a year, so the people in our hometown still attach great importance to this day of sacrifice stove, that is, every household must burn dry food trays and serve the stove fire master, that is, to give his old man's family the food on the way to heaven, and on the night of the twenty-third day of the waxing moon, it is still necessary to make a sacrifice Let this stove fire master go to heaven, say more good things, often to this stove fire master's shelf, burn incense, light wax, put a few dry food trays, but also prostrate a few heads. But the dry food tray after this sacrifice was finally put into the children's small mouth.
This dry food stock with oil, salt and spices also reveals the level of the family's living "level", and it is also dry for a winter, and people who have run out of oil and water in their stomachs have gone to eat this tasteful hard noodle bun for the first time, so they all feel that it is delicious and abnormal. After twenty-three every year, the babies still take their own dry food stocks, compare, discuss, and between good friends, they will also exchange you for a piece of me, and I pinch you for a piece of exchange. Often to see whose dry food stock is white, and there is more oil, more blending, and envy people's lives. Of course, in addition, it is still comparing whose dry food stock, there are more layers, the heat is good, and it also shows that his mother or sister is industrious and capable, because this layer of dry food trust, but it is not easy to get it, at least it is the skillful woman who is careful, careful, only by rolling this side thin, can it be rolled out of the layers more layers. And at that time, people were still afraid that the baby did not like to eat, salt, must be put more, just want to win the "first impression" of people first, is not there a saying that "a good cook a handful of salt", so this salt out, is still a habit of our people there.
When I was a child, I didn't have many opportunities to eat this dry food stock, first, because when I was a child, during the "Cultural Revolution", this sacrifice of the stove fire master was still regarded as a cleanup of the "four olds", and people did not dare to go to the publicity sacrifice. Second, this dry grain stock is for wheat noodles, and at that time, the days were tense, and the white noodles were not abundant. I also came to the first few years of reform and opening up, people's thinking is changing, slowly to find folk things, but also because the grain is slowly abundant, I can eat this dry food trust.
Many years ago, I slowly felt the "benefits" of this dry food trust, but I am already a person without a mother, and I can only rely on my eldest sister to miss my mother. I also identified my big sister, every year before the New Year, I also specially drove tens of kilometers to my sister's house, took some of her branded dry food trust, she also seemed to know my custom, every year on the twenty-third day of the Waxing Moon, there were also a lot of dry food stocks, just waiting for me to go back to take, eating my sister's dry food stock, I also have a sense of home warmth, there is also a sense of home security, as if I have eaten the taste of my mother, I am satisfied, enjoy, often put this dry food tray is "taste" to eat, The babies don't like to eat this salt heavy, seasoning heavy, and some oily dry food tray, even our family Du, also do not like to eat, so this dry food tray that is taken back every year, I can still eat for a long time, a long time, and also enjoy this kind of affection for a long time, a long time.
Tomorrow, it is the twenty-third day of the Waxing Moon of the Year of the Ugly Cow, it will be the traditional "Little Year" day, this year due to the impact of the new crown epidemic, I can no longer go to the big sister's house, there is no way to take this dry food trust, I am extremely sorry, but there is no way Ah, the situation in the country is the same, not allowed to flow, on the spot New Year, so as not to spread the epidemic, let the good taste, forever remain in my memory...!
About author:Zhang Xuanxuan, a native of Lantian, Shaanxi, is a teacher at Weinan Vocational and Technical College.
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