□ Wang Deting
When I was young, our house was a place where villagers gathered to chat. Entering the Waxing Moon Gate, people's topics about the New Year naturally increased. "Is this year a big year, or a small year?" "The end of the year." "After a long year, there will be more space." The so-called great end year means that there are thirty lap months; and in the small end years, the twenty-ninth lap month is Chinese New Year's Eve.
The so-called "free child" and "no time" are really not disease-free moans. In those years of "working until the twenty-ninth day of the Waxing Moon, eating the bun and starting to work", there was always an unfinished job in the team. The work of the members is not their own decision.
Years always have to pass.
New Year is a festival to usher in the delivery, who has no relatives to come and go? On the side of the year, there must be a preparation. Catch a new year set - Xiguan set, ancient city set, pork, with fish, mackerel, kelp, yam, potatoes, black mushrooms, leeks, should buy, no matter how embarrassing the day has to think of a way. At that time, whoever had a refrigerator freezer was certainly not an "ordinary person". There is no refrigerator, the bought meat and fish have their own storage place, nail a sleigh on the shady south wall, fish ah meat ah hanging on it, the colder the day, the more energetic. In those years, when it was cold, how many things could be stored in this natural refrigerator!
Every day in the waxing moon should be passed by one day, and every day in the waxing moon should be pinched for an hour. As soon as I entered the Moon Gate, my father would go to the supply and marketing agency to pick up the plaincloth or twill, and find the sister who was a neighbor who was doing sewing to make me clothes. Put it on the outside of the cotton coat and "see the new". On the twenty-third day of the lunar month, the King of The Stove reported for nine days. After the resignation, my father took us to sweep the house. This is an indispensable procedure. Has the "resignation" overture sounded?
After the twenty-third day of the Waxing Moon, every day can be crowned with the year: year 24, year 25... Twenty-nine years, Chinese New Year's Eve... It seems that after resigning from the stove year, it is justified. Why is it named "year", maybe after the resignation stove, the year is getting closer and closer every day.
The second day of the New Year is a big day, there is a new son-in-law to serve the new son-in-law, and there is no son-in-law to entertain the nephew - from this day on, people come and go, hot. You can't always spin on the car to prick your ears and eyes, so the preparation work is years ago. In the year 267, my father began to evaporate the dry flour. My father kneaded the dough, I pulled the bellows, and I always steamed a few pots of steamed bun rolls in the New Year. The first pot came out of the cage, and the aroma spread all over the room. Incense, this smell of relief! Big baskets, small boxes, lest which one is still dissatisfied. After the New Year, the weather warms up early, and the dry food is not enough to eat and mold spots are produced. Soaked in poor days, who is willing to throw it away! Distilled and peeled, I ate it as I did. I don't want to compare the past with today's eyes, and I understand my father's painstaking heart.
Father's busyness is sometimes to see the needle in the seam, but to write the Spring League but not to see the needle. Writing the Spring League depends on the work of others. My father would take out the finest red paper and tell me who would write it—he had already said hello to someone. If people can't get busy, I put down the red paper and come back in a day or two. If he happened to have time, he would cut the paper, let me press the edge of the paper, and he would dance. He didn't read the books, he splashed ink—the couplets were all in his stomach. Strangely, the original listless piece of red paper, once written into a couplet, came to the spirit. He looked at my eyes and said, you can also write, I read the red list on the street, you are in the top three in the class, high talent. Writing brush words and writing pairs has little to do with learning to be good and evil, which is my experience after a few years.
My father said that it was one day to fall off the stomach, and it was also a day to fall without the stomach. Obviously, it is after the winter solstice that the day is getting longer and longer, why is it not busy enough? Someone raised the bar: "You are looking for help." You reach out and see if the year can pass! "That's different."
Chinese New Year's Eve this day, my father still has a word, "busy"! It's time to fry meat and eggs with croquettes. Remove a dry food mat and uncover the bottom of two pancake mats. Stir in the batter, add the cut meat, fish or yam or potatoes, hang the batter on top, and you can get out of the pan. The first fence was fished out and dried in a dry food mat, so fragrant that I swallowed my saliva.
Go to the grave to worship the ancestors, and come back to paste the Spring Festival. Father took the next bowl of dumplings, fished out the pot, divided them into three bowls, and put them into the basket with wine, tobacco, tea, and burnt paper, and told us to go to the graves of our mothers, grandfathers, and grandmothers. The father said, "It is not easy for your mother to give birth to you." You became a child without a wife at the age of one and a half. When I went to the grave, I told my mother well, and I also ate and put on, and told her not to worry about anything. ”
Chinese New Year's Eve night, there is no Spring Festival Gala program to watch, not even a TV set. The family wrapped dumplings around the board. My father rolled the skin, and my brother wrapped dumplings. While my father was busy, he whispered about the ancients: There is a person who has lived his own life. People's New Year is "adding bowls and adding people's eyes", but he, a pair of chopsticks, the tip of the chopsticks grinded into a cone handle, the bottom of the bowl grinding bare and squatting. Chinese New Year's Eve, he couldn't survive alone, and he fought with chopsticks and bowls. Father said: "With talent there is wealth, and wealth is created by man." There is no poverty in the end, and there is no root in the rich. "It became my spiritual wealth and inspired me to stand on my own feet.
Quiet in the Chinese New Year's Eve.
The dumplings were wrapped up, and my father urged us to go to sleep. He sprinkled a layer of powder on the cover pad and rearranged the dumplings to prevent sticking.
The next day, He woke us up. After eating dumplings, the sky is bright, and it is time to go to the elders to pay respects to the Elders. My father also had several elders who needed to go to the New Year. I heard my father say, "I've got one less head to kowtow!" One year is less than a year. "Buried inside" and "Who's gone" and "I'm old too", I can hear it. Time is urging, and now I feel that way too.
Nian is also known as "Nian Guan". As the saying goes, "the poor pass the pass, the rich pass the New Year", which means that the debt is repaid, and when the New Year's Festival, you always have to pay back the debt. "Poor are afraid of relatives and rich thieves", no matter how poor, relatives and friends must come to the door to serve with their hearts. Therefore, I dare not forget my father's busy "poor years".
What is "year"? It seems invisible and untouchable. In terms of human "age", is there an age after the first year, or is there an age after the "year"? This is like "chicken first or egg first", which is an endless proposition. There are still many things in the world waiting for us to crack.
Teenagers look forward to the New Year, in addition to "wearing new clothes, wearing new hats, and going to the grandmother's house to set off firecrackers", there is also a desire for growth. People have to grow up, children grow up, adults grow old. Nian is not something to be driven, it does not rush a few steps because of your welcome, nor does it stop for a few days because of your rejection. "One night is two years old, five is divided into two years", from years ago to years later, none of us wanted to stop, nor could we stop. Let's go, go ahead.
