Fried steamed buns during the Spring Festival

Steamed buns are one of the must-eat snacks for the Spring Festival in Meizhou, my hometown. Although the parents have left their hometown for many years, but every time the Spring Festival comes, the old woman will look after the day early, inform the children to go back to fry the steamed buns, and are not allowed to take leave, this day is the busiest day for parents, but also their happiest day. In this era of rapid development of the Internet and abundant materials, online shopping can solve all the needs of people, only the elderly throw so persistently ask children to make traditional craft snacks [smile], we are not happy, complaining or not, this day or honestly go back to listen to the parents' command. The old woman got up at five o'clock in the morning, made noodles, and waited for the children to come back and pinch the buns. Children and grandchildren came back one after another, everyone got together, there were kneading dough, there were dry skins, there were cut strips, there were kneading steamed buns, talking and laughing, you laughed at him pinching like a frog, he said you pinched like a yuanbao, only the old lady from time to time to make trouble to pinch a four-not-like, causing everyone to blame, she always said that there is speed can not guarantee the quality, watching everyone giggling and making steamed buns, I suddenly understood, the old lady once said a sentence, "every year to fry steamed buns is my happiest day" meaning. I used to be unable to understand that they were doing these troublesome and tiring things every year, but as I grew older, I realized the real purpose of their making fried steamed buns, one was to let the children gather and communicate on the grounds of fried buns. Usually, the children are busy with their own work, and there is no time to get together to talk about the world, only this opportunity can let them enjoy the joy brought by their children and grandchildren. The second is to pass on the customs of the Spring Festival in their hometown to their children and grandchildren, not to lose their traditions because they are far away from home, so that their children and grandchildren should not forget their hometown. Third, parents also recalled the Spring Festival scene when they were children, talking about the sophistication of their people in that era. Chinese Spring Festival, in fact, is the day when families get together, families temporarily put down the pressure of work, learning troubles, get together, talk with the elderly, play with children, the old people are busy and happy in it, they usually rarely hear their children and grandchildren teasing and having fun, and there is no opportunity to tell the children about their childhood customs and habits, this opportunity meets their desire for homesickness and pleasure, thinking, I understand them, I am relieved, and there is no resistance. Everyone divided labor and cooperation quickly finished pinching the steamed buns, into the frying process, the parents are old, this year by me to take charge, the kneaded steamed buns into the oil, immediately swelled up, some like flowers, some like crabs, some like yuanbao, a variety of things, it seems that some of the inheritance of some out of the way [smile], parents began to say that they were not satisfied with [smile], the children ignored it, ate and ate, and packed up. The hard day is finally over, and because I understand, I am tired and happy.