The quiet beauty of time flows through the years - the taste of the year will always follow

The days always pass in the busy, the blink of an eye has passed, the new year's fragrance is more and more intense, the pace of the Spring Festival is faster and faster, the time is quiet and beautiful, and the flow of the year is fragrant. Spring Festival is a day of reunion of ten thousand families, is the imprint that falls on the soul of every Chinese, "going home for the New Year" is the most affectionate confession of parents to their children, "every festive season to think of relatives" For every wanderer, going home for the New Year is the pause button of a year's work, pulling the heartstrings of every wanderer. This year's Spring Festival is different from previous years, due to the serious epidemic in my hometown, for me, a girl who is far away from marriage, it means that I can't go home to be with my parents, and it is a regret after all. Fortunately, in the Internet age, information is developed, and you can often use the Internet to connect videos with your family and chat about home to relieve homesickness and miss your parents. Today's video is just in time for my mother to steam rice cakes, and I have the privilege of seeing them. Steamed rice cake is a folk tradition in my hometown during the Chinese New Year. During the Spring Festival, many regions in China pay attention to eating rice cakes. Rice cake, also known as "rice cake", is in harmony with "annual high", which means that people's work and life are improving year by year. Eating rice cakes during the festival has an auspicious meaning, and in order to please a good color head mother, she will steam a large pot of soft and sweet rice cakes with rice noodles and dates every year. When the mother lifted the lid of the pot, the steaming rice cake jumped into the eyelids, the cake body was golden, the red jujube oil was shiny and shiny, think about the glutinous sweetness, and then stick to the white sugar, and the saliva was so hungry! I felt the full taste of the Year across the screen. When I was a child, my favorite thing to do was to help my mother deliver rice cakes to my grandmother and my neighbors, and in order to make my grandmother eat hot rice cakes, I rushed to my grandmother's house at a speed of 100 meters every time. Listening to my mother while cutting rice cakes, she chanted "Meat cooked yesterday, steamed rice cakes today, tofu made tomorrow, steamed flower buns the day after tomorrow..." My mother's broken thoughts evoked my memories of the New Year scene in my childhood, and a vivid picture came to mind. (The author's mother steamed rice cake) into the Wax Moon Gate, people began to kill the New Year pig, we children will run to the slaughter point early to help the masters, in order to get the pig bladder, in that era of lack of materials, this is our top toy, first inflated as a balloon, and so the skin is dry is a football, the small partners play in groups of three or five, and so on, chopped and very good chicken feed, it can be said that its function is played to the extreme. Most of China's traditional festivals are inseparable from food, and they still miss the pork soup buns at that time, while eating and flowing oil down their fingers, that fragrant! It is impossible to describe it in words, although the soup bun is often eaten now, but I always feel that something is missing, maybe it is just a rarity that is expensive. Hometown also has the custom of steaming flowers and steamed buns, my mother has to steam two large pots of various kinds of flower buns every year, there are lotus buns, carp buns, hedgehog buns, etc., all kinds of, vivid shapes, the annual steamed buns contracted me a year of manual work, practiced my super hands-on ability, which also laid a deep foundation for my later sculpture study, I had to sigh, art comes from life! Remember when I was a child, the tofu was made by my father himself, the beans planted by my own family were naturally pollution-free, from grinding beans, burning pulp, pointing brine, pressing and molding each step was done by my father himself, we often visited and helped on the side, in order to get some "welfare", eat a bowl of bean flowers, which was also at that time only the New Year can eat the food, a bowl of hot bean blossoms plus marinade and coriander, a breath of drink can instantly drive away the cold of winter. Of course, the most exciting thing for us is to rush the New Year's market, afraid of being left behind, do not need adults to wake up early and wait, crowded in the sea of people to accompany adults to buy lanterns, firecrackers and other New Year goods, every year parents will give our sisters a few new clothes, new school bags and stationery, as a reward for learning for a year, don't mention the beauty in your heart! (The author's dumplings) "Firecrackers in the sound of a year old, the spring breeze to send warmth into the Tusu" accompanied by the sound of firecrackers, the sky is no longer lonely, fireworks in the air competing for glory, every Chinese New Year's Eve night mother to open a table of good dishes, we sat around the table there is talk and laughter, after dinner is the highlight of the year, while watching the Spring Festival Gala while wrapping dumplings in the morning of the first day. When making dumplings, the mother always forgets to teach some Spring Festival taboos, such as: when the package is placed, it should be placed in a circle, which means "the circle is complete"; the leftover noodles will say "there will be surplus grain in the next year"; don't say "finish" and "broken" when speaking, etc. For the young people, we can't understand that it is actually a beautiful expectation for the new year, but we just feel that the mother is too nagging, and when she grows up, she slowly understands that this is not a cultural inheritance? "Half a lamp tu su is still not lifted, and the grass in front of the lamp writes peach symbols" Every time I read this poem, I will reflect the picture of grandpa writing the Spring Festival under the lamp. Spring Festival has the custom of pasting couplets, Grandpa wrote a good hand, the previous couplets basically rely on handwriting, as soon as the New Year Grandpa began to get busy, as long as the villagers brought paper to ask for words, Grandpa will not fail in his mission, every couplet is carefully written, often teach us "to be a person to treat each other with sincerity, all who come to the door must be trusted in me, never live up to it." Grandpa every year from the small year to write all the way to Chinese New Year's Eve, as grandpa is getting older, writing is getting harder and harder, so it is relayed by the uncle, under the guidance of the grandfather, the uncle can also be alone, small and famous, every year to ask for words in an endless stream. With the continuous progress of science and technology now, there have been a variety of exquisitely made Spring Leagues, handwritten Spring Leagues have gradually been replaced, and now there are fewer and fewer people who come to seek Spring Leagues, but my family has always been writing Spring Leagues by myself, and every New Year's Day, my uncle will set up a booth in the market to write Spring Leagues, not for the sake of wealth, but to provide a display opportunity for like-minded people to publicize and popularize calligraphy. In order to let children experience the cultural heritage of the Spring Festival, I will guide children to try to write their own Home Spring Festival, "treat people with sincerity, meet friends with ink" is the family training left to us by our grandfather, which deeply affects our parents and our generation, and I really hope that they can continue to carry forward this traditional culture. I always listen to my mother complain that the taste of the year is getting weaker and weaker, is it really the taste of the year? I think it's really us that we're changing, times are changing, ideas and lifestyles are changing. First of all, our role is changing from a bouncing, carefree child waiting for the New Year to an adult who is busy all day, with responsibilities and obligations to prepare for the New Year. Secondly, today's life has undergone earth-shaking changes, usually the food on the table is rich and diverse, usually dressed brightly, and the material life is constantly improving, which smooths the boundary between the usual and the Spring Festival, loses the particularity of eating and wearing during the Spring Festival, and lacks the urgent sense of expectation of "long drought and Ganlin". Therefore, people will feel as if the atmosphere of the New Year is less and the taste of the New Year is lighter. In fact, it is not, you see a family gathered around the stove, its joy and harmony; the self-driving tour that comes and goes is also very comfortable; visiting relatives and friends, ushering in the delivery, a joyous atmosphere; the Spring Festival Gala every year, the whole country celebrates, the street lights are colorful, eye-catching; the supermarket courtyard, hung with Spring League lanterns A red ocean. Children are still the protagonists of the festival, unloading the heavy task of learning, calling friends, showing off their new toys, or playing games online, taking pets, and experiencing the fun of stealing a dish at any time... Although the form is different, the content is richer. The New Year in childhood was a fresh and elegant sketch, and today's New Year is a painting of heavy paintings. Life is richer, the content of the New Year is richer and more diverse, but what remains unchanged is the happy mood and the strong taste of the New Year. Time is still quiet and beautiful, the flow of years is still fragrant, and the taste of the year will always be with it.