Eight Year Festival In that year, the general people, especially the rural people, only passed the traditional festivals in China: the Spring Festival on the first day of the first lunar month, known as the New Year, the 15th Lantern Festival of the first month of the lunar calendar, the 5th Dragon Boat Festival at the beginning of the 5th month of the lunar calendar, called the May Festival, the 15th Mid-Autumn Festival of the 15th month of the lunar calendar, also known as the August Festival. Ordinary people call the lunar calendar the lunar calendar. Spring Festival is the most solemn festival, on this day even if the family is in the field, they must strive to return home to reunite, eat a reunion dinner together, celebrate the reunion, celebrate the harvest together, welcome the New Year together, respect the ancestors, worship the gods, and pray for happiness and health in the new year. This festival has the longest time, the best food, and the most activities, which is something that people, especially children, have been looking forward to since early on. To welcome the New Year, very early began to prepare, such as the rich family lunar month, that is, the first eight of December, that is, the eighth year of the eighth year, the eighth pig will kill the New Year pig, do not take out at all, all left at home to eat, until the New Year, the Lantern Festival. Because It is already a cold day in the depths of winter, the outdoor day and night are below minus twenty degrees, and the snow is covered everywhere, becoming a natural refrigerator. Put the meat frozen outdoors in the outdoor tank or buried in the snow, do not melt at all, can be very good preservation, can be eaten slowly, so that it is equivalent to the Early New Year, every day new year, people are very envious. Generally, people also have to kill pigs or buy pork around the twenty-second lunar calendar, but most people are reluctant to eat the whole pig in the New Year, and can only keep or buy half of the pork, or a quarter commonly known as one foot of pork. Lunar calendar twenty-three is a small year, you have to eat some good, generally eat japonica rice, pork stew sauerkraut. From this day on, the New Year project was fully launched. That night, the heavenly ceremony of the King of the Stove will be held. The Stove King is a statue of the Stove King enshrined in each house above the wall next to the stove. In the evening, the man of the house took down the statue of the god of the stove king, led the child to kneel in front of the stove, put on the dog, horse, car, and stove sugar bought with straw skin as an offering, while reciting the good deeds of heaven in his mouth, while burning the god statue of the stove king and the woven dog, horse, and car, and prostrated his head to bow down, and waited until the burn was exhausted before he could get up. Then, each member of the family eats some stove candy, a kind of sticky tooth candy, indicating that the mouth should be glued and not talking indiscriminately, in order to seek good fortune. After a small year, first of all, we must do New Year goods, run to the town to catch the market, go to the shop to purchase the items needed for the New Year, such as adding some bowls and chopsticks, pots and spoons and other tableware, buy candles, incense, New Year paintings, firecrackers, hanging money that is a kind of paper-cutting, writing couplet red paper, dark money paper, pear, frozen autumn pear, apple, red dates, peanuts, fathead fish, vermicelli, etc. There are marriages that year to the husband's family to pay homage to the New Year, but also to prepare four dowries: two boxes of Lao Shitai dim sum, a pair of pheasants, two bags of red tobacco leaves, two bottles of white wine, children like to make some candies and so on. If you don't produce japonica rice noodles, you must also buy some japonica rice noodles. According to the traditional customs, after the twenty-third year of the waxing moon, before the New Year, there are arrangements every day, just as Shunkou said, the twenty-fourth lunar calendar, sweeping the dust and writing big characters, that is, cleaning, using a brush to write couplets on red paper. To make tofu in the lunar calendar twenty-five years, that is, each family makes a lot of tofu pieces, freezes them, and serves as an important ingredient for the year after the year and the New Year. The lunar calendar twenty-six years of cutting pork, reminding not to kill pigs need to buy meat families should also buy. Lunar calendar twenty-seven kill the year chickens, each family has to hatch chicks every year, and the rooster only needs to keep one, and the excess roosters are used as meat, generally one for the New Year. At the latest, the twenty-seventh lunar calendar should also be killed and frozen, and left as the thirtyth lunar calendar, that is, Chinese New Year's Eve and a dish Chinese New Year's Eve rice in the evening. Twenty-eight white-faced hairs in the lunar calendar are prepared steamed steamed buns as offerings to the ancestor worship gods. Twenty-nine steamed steamed steamed steamed After steaming, light some red on the steamed bun noodles, and then, together with several small bowls of vegetarian vegetables, place them in front of the shrine and ancestral niches to pay their respects. In addition, on this day, the paper and the money will be divided into corresponding parts according to the number of people who have died in the nearest generation, wrapped in the skin of the ancestors, written in the format of the names and names of the ancestors of the deceased ancestors, and burned on the grave or at the intersection of the village head, indicating the remembrance of the ancestors, and sending the New Year's money to the ancestors in the underworld. On the evening of the 30th lunar calendar Chinese New Year's Eve the whole family sits around and eats the most sumptuous meal commonly known as Chinese New Year's Eve rice. After the meal, the family is lively and lively to make dumplings, and some teenagers without tasks gather at relatives and neighbors' homes to play cards or tell stories, and sleep all night, commonly known as staying up all night. The 30th lunar calendar, also known as the Chinese New Year's Eve, is the most important day to celebrate the New Year. The day is the busiest, the family is the most complete, the most lively. After breakfast, every family began to get busy, mom and aunts and sisters-in-law prepared to make the most sumptuous dinner, took the frozen meat cubes, frozen fathead fish into the house to melt, dried vegetables and noodles were soaked, and the grandmothers also participated in helping with various preparations. Young or older children paste couplets, lucky characters, Andia paintings. Yard gate, house door door, house door, house column, rocking pole that is, hanging leisurely child shaking car pole called rocking pole, carriage carriage, are pasted couplets. The cylinder is pasted with the word Fu, and the rocker pole is also attached to the hanging money, which is a kind of paper-cutting, which has different colors and patterns. The door door is pasted with a birthday star new year painting, the painting is an old man with a white beard on crutches, the door in the house is pasted with Qin Qiong Jingde door god painting, the wall of the house is pasted with a New Year painting, the general painting is a harvest scene, carp jumping dragon gate, fat boy holding a big carp and other allegories show that the grain is abundant every year. After noon, my mother and aunts and sisters-in-law began to cook meat, wash vegetables, cut vegetables and start making Chinese New Year's Eve rice. To cook a lot of meat, even the New Year to eat the meat are boiled out, you can cook a thick boiled broth, in order to skim out the oil slick and make a clear soup of sauerkraut. Chinese New Year's Eve on this day, there are often people who blow joy, that is, blow small trumpets from house to house, blow festive tunes, and send the statue of the god of wealth, at which time each family will express their gratitude and generally give a bowl of rice. At this time, children will also be invited to follow and watch the liveliness. In the New Year, families with good conditions will buy some small firecrackers for their children, and Chinese New Year's Eve will be distributed to children, allowing children to set off. After busy pasting couplets, the children will be fine, and when there is a light, they will put small firecrackers to play, and many children will watch around, laughing and laughing continuously, which is more joyful. At this time, the kitchens were steaming, and the mothers and aunts were busy making Chinese New Year's Eve meals. The children from other places have returned, and this meal is a family dinner, so it is also called Chinese New Year's Eve Chinese New Year's Eve rice as a reunion dinner. Chinese New Year's Eve rice is the most hearty dinner, the staple food is generally japonica rice dry rice, side dishes are generally: clear soup sauerkraut: thick boiled pork soup, after cooling, skimming off the surface of the oil into clear soup, and then used for stewed sauerkraut, called clear soup sauerkraut. There is a small sea crab in the hut, the taste is more delicious and not greasy, it is a famous dish. White sliced meat: Cooked rotten pork with three layers of flowers, sliced into thin slices of meat with a blade, dipped in soy sauce, vinegar, sesame oil, minced garlic juice to eat. This dish is commonly known as white sliced meat. Chicken stewed mushrooms: After the dried mushrooms are soaked, they are stewed with chicken pieces, and this dish is also considered a mountain treasure, a famous dish in the northeast. Some people use dried gourd strips to soak their hair and stew them with chicken pieces, which has a different flavor. Wide noodle stew fathead fish: Wide noodles are soaked and stewed with a little pork and fathead fish, which is delicious. There are not many varieties of vegetables, but they are particularly affordable, that is, delicious, and relieved, adult males drink some sixty degree sorghum old white dried, each wine is full of food, full of happiness. At night, candles are lit in the house, and kerosene lamps with glass lampshades are commonly known as safety lamps, which are particularly bright at once, and the festive atmosphere increases sharply, and the children feel novelty and are more happy. Mom's aunts and sisters-in-law were busy chopping meat, chopping sauerkraut, and noodles and fillings, preparing dumplings stuffed with sauerkraut, and the children gathered around to watch the liveliness. When you're ready, make dumplings under bright lights. This time to make dumplings, the male host also has to participate, the man's rolling skin, the woman's bun, the older child to put the dumplings. On the same day, that is, Chinese New Year's Eve xu to eat dumplings after receiving the gods in the middle of the night, and the next morning, that is, the official New Year's Day, to eat the dumplings, this time must be wrapped out, because there is a New Year's Day very early in the New Year's Day to worship each other's New Year customs, everyone has to rush to eat breakfast before the New Year's day guests come, so that the New Year's Day dumplings are too late, are wrapped in thirty nights. That night, some people who did not have tasks at home, mainly teenagers, may be at relatives' homes or neighbors' houses, a few people get together to change the law, there are storytelling and listening to stories, playing mahjong, pushing card nine, watching small cards, having fun, and gambling. Many people play overnight, just as it is said that Chinese New Year's Eve stay up all night. Chinese New Year's Eve picked up the god of wealth at twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, and when it was approaching, adult women such as grandma, mother, sister-in-law, etc., all sat cross-legged in the direction of the god of wealth when they heard that the god of wealth was heard, and their hearts were sincere and kind to the god of wealth. The man led the adult men in the family and the older boys to carry candle lanterns and offerings, went to the village head temple to pick up the god of wealth, along the road encountered no matter who was not allowed to speak, their own group could not speak to each other, to the temple, set up the offerings, prostrate in turn, and then the group returned silently. Enter the gate of the house, go to the firewood stack to get a bundle of straw, and go to the house with a loud bang, when the female elder or hostess in the house calls the name of the man and asks, What are you holding? The man must answer: Gold bars! It shows that the next year will be rich in order to seek good luck. Then put the stalk in front of the stove and set aside for a while to cook the dumplings. Then go to the courtyard to set off firecrackers, set off into hanging whips, double sound two kicks, single sound hemp thunderbolts, etc., at that time there was no fireworks cannon commonly known as box fire. At this time, it may be twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, that is, at midnight in the new year, the firecrackers in the village will sound, the hearts will shake, and the celebration will reach a climax. Next, the host lighted the fire to cook the dumplings, and when the dumplings were being cooked, the hostess shouted and asked the host whether the dumplings were "earned"? The meaning is to ask if the dumplings are broken? Taboo to say bad words, deliberately create opportunities to say that you can earn money to earn words, allegorically can make money, in order to be auspicious, so the man answered loudly: Earned! Pray for prosperity next year and make a lot of money. When the dumplings are cooked, the man puts them in a bowl and brings them to the table, at which point the woman goes down to the ground and the whole family eats the dumplings. There are male adults who drink a little more sixty degrees of old white dry shochu. Wine dishes are generally elbow slices, pig's trotters. This time it was the most respected time for women, eating ready-made. After eating dumplings, they began to worship the New Year in their own families, sitting in order according to the level of generations, accepting the juniors to prostrate themselves in order according to the level of generations, first men and then women, girls who are not married cannot kowtow, they can only perform rituals. After the end of the year, the eldest elder divides the children into small foods, usually peanuts, dates, apples, pears, etc., and many people buy them for cheap frozen autumn pears. While teasing the children, there was a burst of laughter in the room. Then, they usually hurry up to go to bed, because the next day on the first day of the New Year, you must get up early and eat breakfast before others come to visit. According to custom, dumplings must be eaten on the morning of the first day of the Chinese New Year, usually the man gets up early to cook dumplings, usually pork sauerkraut stuffing. The hostess was busy in the house to wash the children's faces and comb their hair. After eating the dumplings, the hostess was busy dressing the children in new clothes that had been prepared for the New Year. Male adults lead older children to participate in mutual worship between relatives and relatives, adults pay homage to the elderly elders, children prostrate themselves to the New Year, and ordinary generations make each other say "meet and get rich". The first year of the female xu is at home, the second and third days of the first year of the first year do not go to relatives and close families to pay respects to the new year, the female xu to the elders to salute the new year, to the elders slightly nodded and said good new year. The newlywed couple in the second year of the first year should go to the old man,000,000,000,000 new year's home to pay homage to the New Year. This is the most grand New Year's Greeting, the small two mouths to bring four bride price, such as the old Shitai fruit that is, two boxes of dim sum, that is, two boxes, each box is two pounds, a pair of pheasants, two packs of red tobacco leaves, two bottles of white wine, plus some candy. The old man's family is also a high-standard reception, and the New Year goods are reluctant to eat, and they are kept for the new aunt. According to the custom, the brother-in-law and sister-in-law can joke with the brother-in-law, make fun, play and make trouble, and give the brother-in-law a dumpling without filling, which increases the joy of the family. When the new aunt's daughter leaves on new year's day, the old man's mother-in-law wants to give back money, and the amount of money is at least higher than the cost of the gifts she brought when she came. To the old man to pay respects to the New Year can be returned on the same day, you can also live for two days, but generally the fourth day of the first year to return, because the fifth day of the first year is an important day in the New Year, it is also considered a festival, and the married girl cannot celebrate the festival in her mother's house. From the first to the fifth day of the first lunar calendar, congratulations are on the new year's day, every day every meal to eat a good meal, rich people dung japonica rice white noodles, chicken, duck and fish meat. Generally people because of the low yield of wheat, rarely grow wheat, their own no white noodles, and reluctant to buy more white noodles, can only eat white noodle dumplings in the first, third, fifth, second and fourth grades to eat noodles or soba dumplings. Most people grow some japonica rice, japonica rice, japonica rice and a small amount of meat can still be eaten. Some people invite relatives or elders of the clan to come to dinner in the third year of the first year, and their recipes are generally japonica rice or sorghum rice, the dish is four plates of simmering, elbow meat slices, pork liver, make their own meat sausage or egg intestine, use starch minced meat to make boiled seeds, six or eight plates of hot boils, such as meat fried mung bean sprouts, meat fried dried tofu is also called mille-feuille tofu, meat fried garlic, meat fried cabbage slices, meat stewed sauerkraut, meat stewed frozen tofu, slip waist flower, slippery loin, etc. The fourth day of the first lunar calendar is the festival of carriage and horse travel, the New Year's day is not out of action, the first four days of the car and horse will run around the village, quite warm-up, I wish the new year, the car and horse are safe. On the fifth day of the first year, you must also eat a good meal, called "breaking the fifth". After the fifth day of the first year, even if it is the end of the year, the sixth day of the first year begins to turn into normal, and the shops in the market town set off firecrackers to celebrate the opening of the market. Most people start to eat sorghum rice, and at first the children can't swallow it, and it takes a few days to adapt. Lunar calendar The fifteenth day of the first month is the Yuanxiao Festival, which is a big festival, which is very valued, and the main feature is that every household eats Yuanxiao, and there are also firecrackers, most of which are leftovers from the Spring Festival, and there are also deliberately leftovers. In addition, the weather has warmed significantly, the snow has begun to melt, and the frozen pork cannot be put away, so it is eaten after this festival. There are often leftover pork head meat, pig lungs, pig hearts, etc., after cooking together, pork soup stewed sauerkraut. The fifth day of the first month of the lunar calendar, that is, the Dragon Boat Festival, is also a big festival, which is very important, and the celebration is relatively solemn. Each family has made preparations in advance, saving eggs, pickled salted eggs, salted duck eggs, and during the festival, each person can get several, some salty and some light. Buy rice, buy rice dumpling leaves, and prepare rice dumplings for the May Festival. Buy red paper and yellow paper to make the surface of the waves, the bottom has the yellow spike festival small red lantern, leave the May Festival hanging. Buy colorful threads, keep small brooms and colorful ropes before the May Festival, and wear them for your children during the May Festival. On the day before the festival, I began to be busy, going to the wild to collect mugwort, weaving colorful brooms, colorful ropes, making lanterns, and wrapping rice dumplings. Many people do not buy rice, and use their own small yellow rice to wrap rice dumplings. The rice dumplings are wrapped in the fourth day of the first year, and they need to be cooked for two or three hours at night. In the morning of the fifth day of the first month, people get up early, and there are many places in the house to hang festive little red lanterns, the eaves are full of mugwort, and children are given colorful ropes on their necks, wrists, and colorful brooms on their chests, which are said to drive away evil spirits and avoid disasters. Then boil the eggs duck eggs and boil the rice dumplings to eat. Some people's homes, cucumbers and early kidney beans came down, there were people who ate japonica rice for dinner, pork stewed kidney beans, sauce mixed with cold powder cucumbers, and some people ate white-faced leek stuffed dumplings. This festival is already the beginning of the busy farming, people do not rest, men still go to the ground to work, the festival is mainly run by the female, this festival has played a role in cheering up the busy and tired people. The fifteenth day of August in the lunar calendar is the Mid-Autumn Festival commonly known as the August Festival, which is another big festival. The custom of this festival is to eat mooncakes, eat a meal of white-noodle pork celery stuffed dumplings or japonica rice, and fry a few good dishes, because it is the season when vegetable varieties are abundant. This festival is like the autumn harvest of the general mobilization, after the festival to eat some good, encourage people to go down to the ground to harvest, into the autumn harvest busy. The Lantern Festival is to come out of the cat winter and start to work and mobilize; the May Festival is to start the mobilization of agricultural busyness; the August Festival is to start the mobilization of autumn harvest; the Spring Festival is to celebrate the harvest of the year. These festivals can relieve fatigue, regulate life, make it relaxed and orderly, and add a joyful atmosphere. This is the most ingenious arrangement that our ancestors have left for future generations. To be continued 5