"Eh, Auntie, you're here!"
"Why did you grow so tall? Do you remember Aunt Zhang?"
"Come on, come on, you help me with the minced meat. ”
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When a person came in, Zhang Minhua greeted him warmly, if it weren't for the big eight characters "Neighborhood Community Cultural Home" outside the house, he might have been mistaken for who was holding a family banquet here.
The neighborhood community is different from other communities, and it is the first community in Hangzhou to be made up entirely of migrant workers. For Zhang Minhua, this community means a lot to her: once she was also a migrant worker, later became a community social worker, and then the neighborhood community was established, she became the secretary of the party branch, and cooked Chinese New Year's Eve meals for the residents. Yesterday was her 19th year at the helm.
In the Spring Festival of 2024, about 1,100 industrial workers in neighborhoods and communities will stay in Hangzhou for the New Year, and Zhang Minhua will prepare a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner for the 60 residents who have signed up, and also make box lunches and dumplings for about 100 people to send to the on-duty security guards of major enterprises, so that they can also eat a hot Chinese New Year's Eve meal on this Chinese New Year's Eve.
The uncle brought a cutting board
Aunt prepared a special snack
67-year-old Tang Heming pulled a small cart and walked into the community cultural home from the afternoon sun. He specially took out the coat given to him by his daughter-in-law last year, tied the buttons neatly, pulled the clothes straight, and put on a hat that he liked to buy in his hometown Pingdingshan before. "Today's New Year, coming to the community for Chinese New Year's Eve dinner is a little more formal. ”
Tang Heming dressed in new clothes and dressed in good spirits to attend the community Chinese New Year's Eve dinner
Zhang Minhua told him that on the day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, he wanted to make dumplings, and Tang Heming specially brought two cutting boards and a large basin from home to cut vegetables with noodles.
Two cutting boards were placed on the table, and several aunts began to chop green onions, ginger, garlic and cabbage, some of whom lived in the community and were picked up by the children of Hangzhou migrant workers, some of whom were still working, and some of whom were workers in the community property.
Soon, seven or eight aunts filled a small rectangular table, and Tang Heming was not idle, he would go to Zhang Minhua's place for a while, whether he needed help with the plum dried vegetables and stewed meat, and then ran back again, whether he needed to make dumplings.
Zhang Minhua likes this uncle very much, Tang and Ming have to find Secretary Zhang for big and small things in the community, even if a piece of wall skin falls off, he will immediately tell the community, "He, he is a grid member of our community, and he has reported to the stage as an advanced before!"
Tang Heming is from Pingdingshan, Henan Province, but in his words, he is not from Pingdingshan, "My parents are from Hegang, Heilongjiang, and both of them are coal miners, and they came to Pingdingshan because of job transfers. A few years ago, my son gave birth in Hangzhou, and I came to Hangzhou with my daughter-in-law. In a blink of an eye, his grandson also went to high school in Hangzhou, and he didn't know how many years he had spent in the community.
Aunt Chang, who is also from Henan, prepared their hometown's specialty dim sum this time - Zaoshan steamed buns. In the New Year's hymn of friends in the northern region, the "twenty-eight, steamed jujube flower" is actually talking about steamed jujube flower steamed buns, and the appearance of concave jujube flower steamed buns into a mountain is Zaoshan steamed buns.
Aunt Chang has prepared Henan's characteristic Zao Mountain for everyone, which means that the wind and rain will be smooth in the coming year
Hearing that the community is going to hold a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, Aunt Chang is busy at home with this snack from the Central Plains, "Zaoshan means abundant grains, rich flowers, and happy reunion, and I also hope that our new year will be smooth and prosperous." Aunt Chang held the Zaoshan steamed bun in her hand and smiled happily.
The community secretary is in charge
Several big dishes were prepared for the security masters
The aunts were busy making dumplings, and Zhang Minhua was turning over a whole pot of plum vegetables and stewed meat on the side. A basin and a large rice cooker, there are a full 100 pieces of pork belly in it, Secretary Zhang said, these are a resident from Qiandao Lake, are the best local pork on Qiandao Lake, before please the street canteen master to burn it and send it, in the afternoon to heat it again, and send it to the security guards in the evening.
Zhang Minhua is picking up prune vegetables and stewed pork
However, that's not all the pork belly. There is also a part of pork belly, which is blanching in the pot. "Have you ever eaten sauerkraut and pork stewed vermicelli? ”
Sauerkraut and pork stewed vermicelli is a well-known Northeast dish, but Zhang Minhua said that she added a little bit of Hainan's specialty yellow lantern chili sauce to it. This is my own creation. ”
In charge of this matter, Zhang Minhua is quite confident. She flipped through last year's photos and showed the reporter the chicken feet and prawn stewed potatoes she made, "Many of my dishes are self-conceived, on the one hand, they are delicious, and on the other hand, they are big enough to be considered a big dish." "For this year's Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, Zhang Minhua prepared sauerkraut pork stewed vermicelli, plum dried vegetables and stewed pork for the security masters, potato stewed chicken nuggets, fried cabbage and marinated eggs with fried tofu, the main food was pork cabbage dumplings and rice, and also prepared pork ribs and clear soup hot pot for the residents who came to the community, and fatty beef, enoki mushrooms, baby cabbage and other dishes to eat.
"For the Chinese New Year, of course, you have to get more meat to eat, so I prepared a vegetarian dish. As soon as Sun Lu, a social worker, plugged in the rice cooker stewed with potatoes and chicken nuggets, she turned around and ran to cut the cabbage. Less than two years after coming to the neighborhood, she also experienced the atmosphere of the community's Chinese New Year's Eve dinner for the first time, "When I was preparing dishes with other social workers in the morning, I was looking forward to tonight; now when I am busy, I still forget that I am preparing the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner." ”
Sun Lu, a social worker, cooks a pot of chicken nuggets stewed with potatoes
Sun Lu, a native of Bengbu, Anhui Province, has settled in Hangzhou, like residents from all over the country. "My husband and I are both in Hangzhou, so we are also celebrating the Chinese New Year in Hangzhou this year. If I wasn't a social worker, I really didn't expect that the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner in the community would be so festive. ”
is also busy, as well as Zhang Minhua's son Zhong Chen, and his two classmates Zheng Yuyang and Xu Ruiyu in Wenhai Experimental School. The three children who are still in the second year of junior high school have to cut all the braised eggs in half in a basin, cut them neatly and neatly, and then put the two slices of braised eggs into transparent lunch boxes.
"My mom told me to eat here today, and they (dad and mom) are supposed to be living in a world of two. Xu Ruiyu said that her father is from the northeast and her mother is from Fujian, and after eating Chinese New Year's Eve dinner today, she will return to Fujian for the New Year.
Three students from Wenhai Experimental School are cutting braised eggs
"These children are very good, and the teachers praise them for cooking in school, so I discussed with their homeroom teachers, and their homeroom teachers also supported them and asked them to participate in public welfare activities. Zhang Minhua said that last year, his son Zhong Chen brought several other male classmates to help, and they all completed the task very well and beautifully.
Some of the children have just come to Hangzhou to work
Some masters stay alone at their posts in the New Year
At five o'clock in the evening, the four dining tables on the first floor of the cultural home were full of people. Some of the people who participated in the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner were three generations of the same family, and some were good brothers who came out to work hard together; some could not be present in person and could only stay at their posts, and some had to return to their posts after eating this bite.
The Chinese New Year's Eve dinner begins, and everyone toasts to the New Year
At the dinner table, there were three young people who were unexpectedly shy, they ate slowly and methodically, and they were also busy taking the initiative to put ingredients into the hot pot for the elderly and children at the table. One of the guys, Lu Lei, told reporters that their brothers and sisters all came to Hangzhou from Henan to work, and they were only seventeen or eighteen years old this year, because the three of them couldn't buy tickets, so they chose to stay in Hangzhou for the New Year.
The three guys are named Lu Lei, Chen Ruilin, and Guo Baoquan, and this is their first year in Hangzhou, and it is also the first time they have left their parents to celebrate the New Year in a foreign land. Lu Lei said that he had also looked for a job in his hometown before, but from all aspects, he still wanted to come to Hangzhou to work hard. "After coming to Hangzhou, our income has increased a lot, and it is very good to live here, and Secretary Zhang also takes care of us young people. Guo Baoquan said that although the taste of this Hangzhou New Year is not light, his parents still miss them very much, "After eating, I will give them a video call." ”
Guo Baoquan (first from left), Lu Lei (second from right), Chen Ruilin (first from right) from Henan, took a group photo with Zhang Minhua, and three seventeen or eighteen-year-old young men said that they liked Secretary Zhang very much
Hong Qingren, a security guard who works in the monitoring room of the industrial park, ate two bites on the table, then hurriedly got up and walked out of the back door. "My colleague is doing it for me, Secretary Zhang can sign up, I'll report, I have to go back to watch the monitoring after eating. Lao Hong said that he came to Hangzhou for more than ten years, and also took his wife and children over, this year's Spring Festival, his wife and children first returned to their hometown of Hubei, "Someone in my hometown has to see, but I can't go here, I have to watch the monitoring, to ensure the safety of the industrial park." Lao Hong said with a smile that even in the New Year, work cannot be left behind.
Married for so long
I just had a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner on the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve
Zhang Minhua is not idle for a moment.
After the residents sat down, some came to toast Zhang Minhua (in fact, everyone drank drinks), and some took photos with Secretary Zhang like Lu Lei, Chen Ruilin, and Guo Baoquan, and most importantly, there were 100 boxed lunches that Zhang Minhua had to pack and send out.
After a brief greeting with the residents, Zhang Minhua came to the conference room again. A large table in the conference room was full of lunch boxes, and Zhang Minhua's husband, son, and two of his classmates had already begun to cook. After packing the food, they had to stuff it into their car, and Zhang Minhua and her husband drove to deliver the boxed lunches to the security guard who was still on duty.
Once a few years ago, due to epidemic prevention and control, Zhang Minhua delivered ingredients to residents' homes and went home for Chinese New Year's Eve dinner. "My mother said that after being married for so many years, she really had a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner in the thirtieth Chinese New Year's Eve. ”
For Zhang Minhua's family, it is normal to pass three times a year. Zhang Minhua is a native of Haining, her husband is from Old Yuhang, every year in the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve, Zhang Minhua wants to cook Chinese New Year's Eve dinner for the residents, her husband has to stand on the post for each shift, two small families for everyone's perseverance, son Zhong Chen also saw in his eyes, "We ate Chinese New Year's Eve dinner yesterday (New Year's 29), in fact, where to celebrate the New Year, the taste of the New Year is very full." ”