In small villages in the countryside, there are always customs that have been passed down from generation to generation. This colorful custom continues in the flow of time, and it is endless. Although we are always changing customs, we are still trying to preserve the most essential and valuable things in life.
When I was a child, I lived in my grandmother's house, and my grandmother always spun thread at night, and she often warned me: you can't sweep the house at night, so you will sweep away your wealth. The clothes are torn, and it is taboo to wear the clothes on the body when sewing, otherwise, no one will hurt. If you don't undress, let others sew and mend, and you have to hold a broom or chopsticks in your mouth.
The elderly in their hometown are basically dressed like this.
There are taboos in all aspects of life rituals. Pregnant women avoid eating rabbit meat, for fear of giving birth to a child and becoming a lack of lips. A married girl is not allowed to have children in her mother's house, saying that this is not good for her family and will cause a disaster of blood and light. Usually, it is advisable to visit the patient in the morning, but it is considered impolite in the afternoon.
It multiplies from generation to generation, retaining the roots that live endlessly.
In terms of diet, noodles and stir-fry are the mainstays. The staple food is generally nest head, but there are also steamed buns, boiled noodles, fire, scones, pancakes, fried cakes, pot stickers, fried noodles and so on. In spring and summer, the food steamed with wild vegetables or leaves is called rotten seeds, mainly elm money, acacia flowers, noodle vegetables and so on. Before eating, adults always chant: "Drink soup first, and force you to prescribe medicine." "To eat dry food such as steamed buns, cakes, and nests, most of them have to boil some millet porridge and noodle soup. Drinking some noodle soup after eating noodles is the most prominent eating habit. During the busy farming season, it is customary to deliver food to the field or bring dry food to eat when resting in the field. Vegetables mainly include cabbage, white radish, carrots, potatoes, eggplant, zucchini, beans, tomatoes, peppers, spinach, celery, leeks, yams, pumpkins, etc., can be fried, stewed, pickled, mixed into fresh vegetables, but also pickled pickles. These pickled pickles are usually the main dish. Usually people can't eat meat, and they always have to buy pork during the seasons, commonly known as "cutting meat". Or, buy a pair of pigs, pig heads, and stew them in a large pot.
The old houses in the countryside retain the childhood memories and nostalgia of countless people.
Marriages are mostly carried out during the agricultural leisure season. A day or two before marriage, the girl to be married should be opened by the "quanfu person", that is, the two threads are repeatedly twisted, and the hair on the face and two sideburns is removed, and the bride looks more beautiful, indicating that the married life is about to begin. The cave house "three days without size", regardless of the age and age, can be said to laugh and amuse, but it is forbidden for widows and filial piety to participate, otherwise, it will make the newlyweds discordant in the future, or suffer disasters.
The wedding car came, and the mouth of the hutong was already crowded with villagers.
In the past wedding feasts in my hometown, the table used plates to treat guests, but bowls, which were generally "eight bowls". In poor villages, eating the "eight bowls" is a very enjoyable thing. When someone goes to a wedding feast, as long as he says that he will eat the "eight bowls", everyone will understand that he is "sitting".
Hebei Zhengding eight bowls.
Usually hospitality, the number of seats is very exquisite. Guests are to sit on the inside of the Eight Immortals table, and the host is seated opposite. After the host warms up the wine, the pot is filled with wine for the guests, and the guests should express their gratitude with the hand to protect the wine cup. After the opening of the table, first everyone drank three glasses of wine together, and then began to draw fists, which was a contest of intelligence and alcohol. The guests were almost drunk and wanted to take the initiative to resign and offer to end. If the young people temporarily get together to drink, the end of the cost should be shared by everyone, called "flat gang".
New Year, we never say spring festival, that is, new year, new year, this is the most grand festival of the year. Entering the Waxing Moon, every household begins to prepare for the New Year. Sew new clothes and buy New Year goods. 360 days of hard work and busyness, it seems that it is just to enjoy these days of the New Year. Fried chicken, fried fish, fried tofu, steamed rice cakes, steamed steamed buns, stewed meat, stewed mountain mushrooms. Write the Blessing Word Spring Festival, buy fireworks. In the evening of Chinese New Year's Eve, the elders took their children and grandchildren to the cemetery in the wild to worship their ancestors. There is also a way to worship ancestors, which is to invite the ancestors home, put food and fruits in front of the ancestral tablets, and provide some food for the ancestors before each meal, and light a few pillars of incense. The taboo in the waxing moon is that married women cannot live in their mother's house after the new year.
Trace back to the roots and be grateful for everything your ancestors brought.
Chinese New Year's Eve night, put a "door stick" behind the gate. It is said that the placement of door sticks is to ward off disasters and ward off evil things, and the second is to prevent the outflow of wealth from the family and play a role in gathering wealth. Remember to sprinkle a gray line with soot behind the door, not to cross, and stay until the first day of the New Year.
On the first day of the first lunar month, get up early to pay homage to the New Year. Every time you go to a house, you have to give candy, melon seeds, peanuts, and finally all your pockets are full. On the second day of the Chinese New Year, I began to visit relatives and friends, generally with my own steamed white buns, avoiding double numbers. The owner of the steamed bun brought by the guest cannot keep all of it, and when he leaves, he must return his own food or local products.
Decades have passed, and now no one has taken the steamed bun away with relatives.
Break the fifth, look forward to the fifteenth Lantern Festival of the first month. Fireworks, riddle guessing, stilt walking, dragon lanterns, lion dances, rowing dry boats, twisting rice songs, the Lantern Festival is really a carnival. When I was a child, I went to see lions, people crowded people, I was sandwiched between a bunch of adults, my feet were not on the ground, I was almost squeezed to death, and I never dared to look at it again.
Red lanterns set off the festive atmosphere of the Lantern Festival.