Overture (4) Shopping on the street
Twenty-six stews of large meats
According to the old proverb, today is the day of the stew. When I was a child, my favorite food was Qiao Tongue (the piece of meat on the pig's upper jaw, I don't know the official name), and the chai bone meat that had just come out of the pot, and I thought it was full of mouths. On this day, there are several things that have not been bought for the New Year, and they have to hurry up on the street, and more and more people are buying New Year goods.
1. New Year paintings and wall calendars
In the past, whether in the city or in the countryside, every household had to put on several New Year paintings during the New Year, which was an important scenery for decorating the room. The New Year paintings are only sold in Xinhua Bookstore, and the rolls of New Year paintings are placed on the counter, emitting the unique fragrance of high-quality inks. The samples are hung high in the air, each kind of painting has its own number, which ones are matched, the number is given to the salesman, the salesman gives the ticket, after paying the payment, they are picked out of the large volume of oil paintings, carefully rolled together and handed over to you. After taking the painting of the Year to the home, the ink fragrance will follow it all the way to the house, and it will not disperse for a long time.
The New Year painting must be pasted until the morning of the Chinese New Year's Eve, along with the couplet Fu character. Therefore, this New Year painting should be put away for the time being. If children come to play at home, they can't help but take them out and spread them on the kang, show off how beautiful and different the paintings they bought look, and then go up to smell the ink.
At that time, a kind of New Year painting theme that families had to buy was to have the meaning of "more than one year in a row". Most of the styles are that kind of fat doll holding a huge carp, full of smiles and giggles, or two big fat dolls carrying fish or riding on the fish, the little dolls are only wearing a small red belly pocket, hands and feet chubby with small silver bracelets, tied with small bun horns, holding a lotus canopy in their hands, implying that there is a year to pray for a rich life in the new year. Then there are the stories of "Dream of the Red Chamber", "The Tale of the West Chamber", "The Legend of the White Snake", "Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea", "Chang'e Running moon", the four great beauties of ancient times, the three friends of the year, the birthday star, etc. are all important themes of the New Year painting; in addition, the ancient female figure is also very beautiful, the figure of the lady, the face of the pink ball, the person with the fine eyebrows is in a trance, as if it is going to enter the painting; the other part of the theme is to reflect the social situation at that time, such as the people's commune is good, this year is another harvest year, and so on.
After the 1980s, there began to be a wall calendar, which is also a must for families to see the date, but also to enjoy the pictures inside. The calendar of celebrities was the most popular in that era: Pan Hong, Cong Shan, Liu Xiaoqing, Jiang Lili, Zhang Yu, Chen Chong, Ren Yexiang, Zhao Jing, Li Ling, Tang Guoqiang, Da Shichang, Guo Kaimin and other celebrity color photos, printed on the wall calendar, the fire was a mess; in addition: landscape and water, Famous Paintings, Antique Art, Natural Scenery and other themes, are printed on the best coated paper, beautifully bound, very eye-catching. At the end of the year, some are really beautiful and reluctant to throw it away, so they hang up for another year and year, and some hold a bag of book covers for children.
Second, melon seeds peanuts frozen pear frozen persimmon sugar blocks
These few things are the small snacks that people in northeast China must have for the Spring Festival. Don't look at the usual things now, you can buy something if you want to eat, but at that time, you can only eat it in the New Year. In the era of the planned economy, melon seeds and peanuts were to be purchased at grain stores with grain and oil certificates, and like buying grain, they were distributed according to the head of the people in the New Year. After buying back are raw, to use a large pot themselves at home to fry, so that adults and children have a tooth sacrifice; frozen pears, frozen persimmons are, but also cheap, then because of the children, the conditions are limited, usually can not eat anything, winter is not fresh fruit, even apples are frozen, but for some reason, although frozen apples eat sweeter, but the main thing is to eat frozen pears, frozen persimmons. Each family is 10 pounds 20 pounds to buy, some children can not put the frozen pear frozen persimmons open, take the hard state of the frozen goods on the nibble, frozen fruit with white ice ballast, the mouth exhaled white ha qi, ice pain; at that time the sugar blocks are not packaged a called mixed sugar, a dollar can buy a pound, sugar wrapped with yellow straw paper, tied with paper rope. The original mixed sugar was made into a small orange petal, which was a syrupy earthy yellow. Later, it really had an orange flavor, and the color also changed to the yellow of oranges, and it was made into a small cucumber-like green sugar block. Later, there was a large and shiny sugar ball, transparent, with various small stripes on it, which was tempting to look at. These sugar cubes to buy home, adults generally do not dare to let the children know, if the children at home touch the place, you a piece of me from the gap in the paper bag to take out a little bit of stealing, wait until the New Year to see, if there are still a few pieces left, it is really polite enough. At that time, the sugar cubes were really pure, as crisp as ice cubes chewed in the mouth, and they were not sticky or salty.
3. Firecrackers
Firecrackers are a favorite of boys. At that time, winter vacation, there was no TV to watch, it was cold outside, you couldn't stay outdoors for a long time, most of the children were hiding at home, and setting off firecrackers was one of the rare ways for boys to entertain, so they were extra careful about buying firecrackers. My lover once told me: when he was a child, a year ago, the family asked him to use plastic buckets to buy soy sauce, he finished beating the soy sauce and put it on the counter, patronizing and watching others choose firecrackers, completely stunned, and when he came back to God, he found that the soy sauce barrel had long been taken away by others. Going home inevitably got a fat beating, I think the parents' mood at that time was also angry, funny and helpless!
The Chinese New Year's Eve meal that greets Chinese New Year's Eve, according to the custom, the average person will put a long whip and a few two kicks, and then pay attention to fireworks, so the stalls selling firecrackers a few years ago are particularly lively.
Fourth, glass lamp
Glass lamps are used by children on New Year's Eve, carrying out to play and taking pictures of the road. Transparent glass is cut into small strips, squares and other shapes of different sizes, and glued with glass glue, which can be easily and delicately made into lampshades. Place a wooden base under the glass cover, and nail a thin nail upwards, and insert the candle on top of the exposed nail. At that time, this small lamp used a special kind of candle, a bit like the current birthday candle, fine and colorful, we call it kowtowing, I don't know what it means? The upper part of the glass lamp is tied with a thin rope, leaving a rope noose, tied to a short stick can be carried around, the glass is painted with a variety of simple small paintings, but also good-looking; some people are reluctant to spend money to buy this kind of lamp for their children, they use empty can bottles to tie the rope, let the child carry, in fact, the effect is the same, but to drip wax oil on the bottom of the can, in order to glue the candle on.
I don't know what interesting things my friends have experienced in the matter of buying New Year goods? Can you share it together~ ~ ~ ~ ~
May each of us have a new little one every year
harvest!