□ Wan Chengyi Wansheng Daily
When I was a child, I looked forward to the New Year the most. I look forward to eating the white sugar that the adults wrap up, as well as the fruit candy, crisp candy, and fudge that I bought later. And these sweet candies are paired with a bottle of wine or two bottles of wine, collectively known as "miscellaneous bags".
Our Yunan area new year households began on the second day of the Chinese New Year, and there is a local custom of "not staying overnight in the 30th and not going out on the first day of the first year". In fact, as soon as the year is closed, adults begin to prepare miscellaneous bags. In the 1980s, the bag was basically a letter of sugar and a bottle of wine. Sugar is the most common white sugar, each seal of one pound, wrapped in yellow shell paper, so called "a piece of sugar". Yellow shell paper is easier to shape, first leave a suitable size flat surface at the bottom, then fold up a back, two side surfaces, form a bucket-shaped container, and then load a pound of white sugar, and then fold the two sides into a triangle, cover the top bevel. Finally, a piece of red paper of about the same size is covered on the slope, and the isosceles triangle shape of sugar is tied tightly with cotton or twine thread, and it is done. The appearance of a piece of sugar is like the hat worn by Zhuge Liang, with the blessing of red paper, very festive and good-looking. The wine is a bottle of mung bean roast or a bottle of mung bean big song, which is said to be mellow and sweet, very delicious, and can be taken. According to the number of their relatives, the adults prepare the corresponding number of miscellaneous bags, and then wait for the arrival of the first month.
From the second to the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, it is a good day to leave the household. Our children follow the parents' butts, today to go to the grandmother's house, tomorrow to the uncle's house, the day after tomorrow to the aunt's house... Every day is the New Year, every day is happy. Every time they went to a relative's house, their parents took out a letter of sugar and a bottle of wine from their backpacks or backs and handed them over, saying, "We've given you a new year!" "There was a burst of laughter on both sides, and we also saw our cousins and cousins very happily, chattering, and the room was very lively. When it's time to eat the rice balls, there will be white sugar added to the soup, a bowl of hot rice balls into the stomach, sweet and ironed, full of joy to blossom. At that time, all year round, I could eat some sugar for a few days of the New Year, which was really rare for children.
In the early 1990s, the miscellaneous bags that were sent out every year changed. Adults no longer wrap white sugar by themselves, but directly buy back packs of fruit candy, crisp candy or fudge on the street, and the wine is replaced by a more upscale Tuopai Daqu or ShehongChun wine. Fruit candy and crisp candy are cheap, and adults generally open a few packets and let their families eat them at will. And the gummy is sweet and delicious, the best to eat, but the price is also higher, frugal parents generally only buy back one or two packs, and when there are guests in the first month, take it apart and put it on the candy plate to entertain everyone. Therefore, fruit candy and crispy candy are tired of eating, and we children look forward to visiting the home of the new month or going to someone else's house every day, and we can eat fudge!
At the end of the 1990s, gift boxes began to flourish, and miscellaneous bags naturally became tall. Both sugar and wine have been upgraded. Each piece of sugar has a fine sugar paper, and the taste is more abundant, with one pound and one packet, and two pounds and one pack. The flowery bags have separate handles. The wine is generally two small bottles of wine, which are packed into a 50 cm square carton, which looks exquisite, high-grade and foreign. People began to carry such sugar and wine as miscellaneous bags, visiting each other's doors to pay homage to each other.
Around the turn of the millennium, miscellaneous bags are no longer limited to sugar and wine, and the exquisitely packaged brain platinum, sesame paste, walnut powder, oatmeal, etc., have become the best of the New Year's miscellaneous bags.
More than ten years later, the miscellaneous bags are somehow not fashionable. The younger generation feels that these things you send over and he sends them over, "and it costs motor and electricity", it is better to send red envelopes directly. As a result, relatives and friends visited the New Year, and most of them began to send red and tongtong big red envelopes. According to their own financial resources and estranged relationships, the red envelopes are thick and thin, so that the other party wants to buy what to buy, and no longer need to carry heavy miscellaneous bags.
Now, at present, there are fewer people who send red envelopes for the New Year. Some enlightened families feel that this red envelope is equal to zero, and it is very tacky, and everyone is very happy to watch TV in the New Year. Some families simply "send red packets" in the family group on the mobile phone, a red packet smashed into the group, diving, introverted, low-key all appeared, although there is no few dollars, but they are all happy, everyone hip-hop, happy. As a result, the term "miscellaneous bags" almost withdrew from the stage of history. Because, if you want to eat sugar, drink alcohol, buy new clothes or something, it is not a difficult thing.
