"Twenty-six, go buy meat", from the innocent nursery rhymes, to find the taste of the year.
Today is the twenty-sixth day of the Waxing Moon, and the New Year is getting closer and closer. "Twenty-six, go buy meat." The supermarket is closed for the New Year, buy some raw meat to fill the refrigerator, what does it mean? In the past, I also ordered a pot of Guan Boss's meat every year, but this year I didn't order it, I didn't eat it, and every year I put it on the fourth and fifth day of the New Year, and it was dumped.
New Year's Day, this is not eaten, then do not buy, where to find the Taste of the New Year?
When I was a child, at this time, my father had already bought a set of pigs to go into the water, first extracted them (gently boiled with water), put them in a clay pot outside, and waited until the Chinese New Year's Eve of the year to Chinese New Year's Eve rice, and the whole family boiled a pot of kelp stewed pig into the water. This tradition persisted until my father left us in 2005.
Buying pork is too expensive, and pigs are cheap. At that time, it was not known that animal organs were high in cholesterol. Pork belly, pork intestines, pork liver, pig lungs plus kelp, stew a large pot, and then pour a bottle of dried sweet potatoes in exchange for Yishui white dry wine, eat it also feels very fragrant, very Year's flavor.
What remains in my memory, which I will never forget for the rest of my life, is that our brothers 4 stole and only "sipped" a little, not even half-cooked pigs into the water. One Chinese New Year's Eve, my mother brought back frozen pigs from the patio to prepare Chinese New Year's Eve meal in the afternoon. The mother found a half-cooked pig intestine, and the pork liver was covered with nail marks, as if it had been eaten by someone with a fingernail. My mother asked the four of our brothers who had eaten the pig and was not yet cooked. Four of us brothers, you look at me, I look at you, no one dares to admit to stealing food. Mother may have understood something at once and stopped pressing us, with tears in her eyes.
