#Tianjin Headlines #Debt Collector's Lantern Lit Today is the second day of the Chinese New Year, it is the day to eat noodles, and don't forget a few words after the Break during the Spring Festival. Chinese New Year's Eve cutting board – you can't stop Chinese New Year's Eve

#Tianjin Headline#Debt Collector's Lantern lit up

Today is the second day of the Chinese New Year, it is the day to eat noodles, and don't forget a few words after the Break during the Spring Festival.

Chinese New Year's Eve cutting board – can't stop

Chinese New Year's Eve is Chinese New Year's Eve. Chinese New Year's Eve dumplings is the biggest thing for Tianjin people to do in the New Year. In order to Chinese New Year's Eve a vegetarian and quiet vegetarian stuffed dumpling, Tianjin people begin to prepare as soon as they enter the Wax Moon, such as marinating lapa garlic, stocking white noodles, cabbage, green onions, ginger, grinding a kitchen knife, and washing the cutting board. Near the Chinese New Year's Eve, we prepared noodles, powder skin, dried incense, sesame oil, shrimp skin, curd milk, fungus, shiitake mushrooms, gluten, eggs, coriander, fruits, soy sauce, salt and so on. At noon, the housewives began to wash vegetables, chop stuffing, and more than a dozen things, and did not finish until four or five o'clock in the afternoon. The sun begins to use the noodles when the sun is westward, and "wakes up" until about 10:00 p.m., during which the minced meat is minced on a cutting board. Then there are dumplings, boiled dumplings, and eating dumplings. In this way, the deep roots of the year are rooted on the cutting board, and the strong flavor of the year is soaked in the dumplings. Later, when faced with a situation where work, engineering, things, etc. must continue to work down, people will say: "Chinese New Year's Eve cutting board - can not stop." ”

The debt collector's lantern – lit up

In the old days, the new year was a ghost door for the poor, and the debts of the year had to be paid off at the end of the year. I really can't repay it, just like Yang Bailao in the opera "The White-Haired Girl", Chinese New Year's Eve to go out to hide debts. The rule in Tianjin is to hide until the morning of the first day of the new year, even if it is passed, and then discuss with the creditors to repay the debt. In order to collect debts, some creditors wear lanterns until the dawn of the first morning and do not blow out, people ask the reason, they say "the lights are still on", which means that it is still within the time limit for debt collection. For example, when the sun is eight rods high and the street lights are not yet extinguished, people will say, "Look, 'The lantern of the debt collector is on,' call the mayor's hotline 12345." ”

New Year's Eve – each other

Tianjin People's Congress went out to visit the New Year on the first day of the New Year, after meeting acquaintances, they hugged each other with both hands, and loved to say "Wishing you prosperity", "meet and get rich", etc., and the other party sometimes said "each other", which is the same meaning for everyone to get rich together. According to the newspaper, a certain mayor accompanied a rich overseas Chinese to visit a tourist attraction, and saw a group of beggars at the door, so he stepped forward and said: "How do you beg for food here every day and affect the appearance of the city." A beggar retorted: "Mayor, we are 'New Year's Day greetings to each other', but you want the big, we beg the small." "Every time someone speaks, they add, "Let's 'Pray to each other on the first day of the New Year—each other."" Someone asked him why. He said, "Because I know people are cursing me in their hearts." ”

The market opens and goes – the more you cross, the more you go

In the old days, Tianjin traders wanted to open the market on the second day of the Chinese New Year (if the imperial calendar said it was not appropriate, it was changed to the fourth day of the first year), that is, to open a business to accept customers. On this day, a "great master" (a middle-aged woman with her in-laws in the church, her husband alive, and her children wrapped around her knees) is invited to her home to recite a happy song. At nine o'clock in the morning, after entering the door, the "Daquan people" began to read in a loud voice: "The opening of the market is auspicious", "auspicious celebration is more than enough", and then go to each house in the house to walk again, especially in the old lady's house to sit down and read "open the market to sit on the kang, people are prosperous and prosperous", when leaving, they must say "open the market and go, the more there is", and finally walk out of the gate in the sound of "crossing the more there is". After the ceremony is completed, women with foreign surnames can enter. For example, when the two have a conversation, A asks, "Is life okay?" "No problem. I'm 'go at the beginning of the market - the more you cross it', saving money. ”

Cold sticky cake - heart disease

Sticky cake is a traditional snack of Tianjin people during the Spring Festival, taking its harmonic pronunciation as "Nian Gao", with the meaning of taking auspicious, just like marrying a daughter-in-law to put chestnuts and small dates to take their "early standing". Originally, the sticky cake was cold, and the sticky cake sold in the store was very hard and had to be fried to eat. Sticky cake is made of sticky glutinous rice noodles, which are not as digestible as coarse rice grains, and children can't eat more no matter how noisy they are. Tianjin Wei old rules, eat sticky cake at night can not sleep immediately, afraid of "dragging" in the heart. If you eat cold sticky cake and always think that it is not easy to digest, you will get heart disease. Usually Tianjin people say that whoever has a cold sticky cake in their hearts, don't think that this person just ate a piece of cold sticky cake, is saying that this person has a heart that cannot be resolved. To put it more harshly, it means that this person has done something sorry for people, guilt, and cold sticky cake. I also have cold sticky cakes in my heart, such as not being able to pay back debts. Sometimes I hear people in Tianjin say, "I'm not afraid of anything, I don't have cold sticky cakes in my heart." "Big talk with confidence.