Cover news reporter Xun Chao
"Lachi Lapa Eight, kill chickens and slaughter ducks." There are not enough chickens and ducks, so rush to the market to cut the meat. Fat fat, thin skinny, tell you to eat enough for the New Year. For Zhou Yin, a native of Tangshan, Hebei, this is the true portrayal of Nian Gen'er.
Zhou Yin, a member of the All-China Public Security Federation of Literature and Literature and a member of the China Folk Writers Association, has won the "Top Ten Book Collector Families" in Tangshan City, the first "Top Ten Bookshopper Families in Hebei Province", the first national "Book-Fragrant Home", the "Five Ones" Award for Outstanding Internet Cultural Works in Hebei Province, and published monographs such as "Population, Fertility, Health Care", "For Tomorrow", "Live to Tomorrow" and so on.
Zhou Yin
"When I was a child, I only remembered august 15 and the New Year, but august 15, because it was the autumn harvest, could only be spent in labor for farmers. But the New Year is different, it is the time of the cat winter, the time is relatively idle, so the deep memory of the festival, there is only the New Year. And my memory of Nian Gen'er was tired and happy. In Zhou Yin's hometown, the period from the first day of the first lunar month to the first day of the first lunar month is called "Nian Gen'er" or "Gong Nian Zi".
In Zhou Yin's memory, whenever Nian Gen was a child, the family began to use mills to grind rice, grind white noodles, bean noodles and sticky noodles. "White noodles, as we all know, are what we call flour today. Sticky noodles are generally used to steam sticky rice cakes (some fried rice cakes), and then freeze them for eating. Bean noodles are used to spread the dumplings and wrap the dumplings. There is also a queue to grind tofu at home where there is a big mill, which is used to make frozen tofu and tofu skin. As for the leaky powder and powder lumps, they are busy and prepared. Killing pigs and slaughtering sheep is a matter for the production team, families can wait for meat to be distributed, and killing chickens and ducks is the task of each family. ”
The busiest thing in Nian Gen'er is to sweep the house. "It's tiring work, and after breakfast, the whole family has to go out and move everything in the room little by little into the yard." Then it's sweeping the room, sweeping the floor, shaking the cabinet table, and waiting until the afternoon is over, and then pounding everything back indoors. Then paste the newly purchased New Year paintings and self-sufficient paper cuts and Spring Festival, and finally wait to put on the newly made clothes and shoes to welcome the arrival of the Chinese New Year's Eve. ”
In addition to these, Zhou Yin's deepest memory is "throwing torches". "What we call 'torches' is actually the remaining broomsticks used by every household. Being able to save two or three broom bumps all year round was a 'rich man' in the eyes of children at that time. We set such torches on fire, throwing them one by one, sometimes until they were several kilometers away. "Although the wind is high and dark, the ditches are bumpy, stumbling, stumbling, and dirty, I still enjoy it." In the icy and snowy new year, such torches are the paradise of our young minds. Zhou Yin wrote this good memory of himself in the essay "Throwing Torches and Throwing The Year is Strong".
"On the topic of the new year, it is impossible to talk about how to talk about it, such as pasting windows and pasting lanterns; Chinese New Year's Eve night dumplings can not be wrapped rat dumplings, dumplings put coins, boiling dumplings must be made with sesame straw, boiling dumplings broken can not be said to be broken, to say that earned; the first month of the family big guests, twisting the straw song, singing shadow puppets; receiving girlfriends, calling son-in-law, carrying sticky cakes, worshiping high church, pressing money for the red envelopes, and so on. As for eating white potato candy, watching the Spring Festival Gala, and blowing their own mud flutes, that's not to mention. Regarding the Spring Festival, Zhou Yin also wrote articles such as "The New Year Painting Complex Reflects the Heart", "The Lantern's Love and Hate", "Unforgettable When the Year was Guarded", and the Spring Festival customs of those years left him with a lot of laughter and laughter...