Do you remember the Days of the Spring Festival when you were a child?
When I was a child, it didn't matter what I ate for the New Year, what I played was the most important thing!
Every New Year, my family will become a transit station, to welcome the return of the uncle's family of seven or eight, the family can not live in the crowd, eat in turn to eat, lively people can not sleep, the next day, the fourth uncle will drive a donkey cart to pick us up together to go back to Grandma's house for the New Year, the car is covered with straw, covered with thick quilts, we play cards on the car, when we go down to the big slope of the Yellow River embankment, I love to pick some small wildflowers on the side of the road and play in my hands.
All the way to Grandma's house, cousins and cousins will take us around to play together, adults use wood to roast fire, roast peanuts, baked sweet potatoes make seven or eight years old I think fresh and strange, Grandma will also goat milk for us to drink, aunt looked at us to drink, while laughing and asking fishy no? When eating dumplings, I watched my cousin who came back from Sichuan pour half a bowl of vinegar and half a bowl of soy sauce, and then scooped up a few large spoonfuls of chili peppers, a dumpling dipped in red pepper oil, a bite to eat, the mouth also became red, I couldn't help asking her, isn't it spicy? When she was full, she went to the water tank at the door to get a piece of ice that crunched like a popsicle, which surprised me.
At night, the yard of Grandma's house was dark, and my cousin took a flashlight to lead us to set off fireworks, hide and seek, pretend to be ghosts, and scare us into running around, at that time, Grandma's house did not have a TV, the Internet, everything was back to nature.
In the morning, the sound of fried beans-like firecrackers rose and fell, covering the rooster's chirping, the children who came to visit the New Year were endless, the half-grown children brought a bowl of dumplings, the grandmother entertained people to the table for breakfast, the children grabbed the snow-white buns in one hand, and held the chopsticks in the other hand to clip the meat, and we looked at each other strangely. For breakfast, Grandma's large courtyard had been laid with a thick layer of firecracker crumbs from the early cousins. I was also taught by my cousin to take a cannon in one hand and a fire rope in the other, and the cannon was lit for a few seconds before throwing it out, which exploded in the air and left a piece of debris. Accidentally, the debris collapsed to the top of the eyebrow, and the tip of the eyebrow was burned off, leaving a small scar.
The rural New Year is very lively, each village has a performance place, my cousin and cousin led us to see stilt walking, lion dance, dragon dance, dry boat cruise, dad said that when he was a child, he was always selected to do important roles because he was handsome, I asked him how handsome he was? He replied, like a shelled egg rolling a few times in the rouge basin, making me laugh.
For a few days in a row, the cousins led us to the village to walk around, to everyone's house have to eat, some take, all day long is not idle, the lobby brother because he spent hundreds of dollars to buy fireworks was scolded by the third uncle to spend money, while aggrieved while laughing, the second sister does not eat the three aunts steamed white steamed steamed bread, but to eat cornmeal steamed steamed buns, by the neighbors next to them to cover their mouths and smile, this is to know that this is for the people who want to eat, people laugh at the people in the city are really stupid. I like to look around for old things, and I ask for a copper coin from the bamboo curtain of my grandmother's house to treasure as an antique.
Back in the city, now the New Year is not allowed to put firecrackers, live in high-rise, neighbors do not visit the door or worship the New Year, do not go to relatives during the epidemic period, quiet every day, reading books and chasing dramas pinch little frogs 🐸, in addition to no New Year's taste is not lively, it is also very good!
