In the concept of ordinary people, Chinese New Year's Eve Chinese New Year's Eve meal must be eaten with the family. All year round with the family dinner, while watching the Spring Festival Gala chat, its fun and harmony, what a warm picture.
But in my hometown (southwest of Hebei), many people do not eat Chinese New Year's Eve with their families, but run to drink and eat with friends, is it not strange? Don't worry, and listen to me slowly.
In my hometown, Chinese New Year's Eve get up in the morning, I usually clean the courtyard, because this season is too dry, so I will sprinkle some water in the courtyard and in front of the gate to suppress the dust.
Then paste couplets, paste the idols of gods all over the house, hang the colored paper at the door (we call it flower paper there), hang the big red lantern, and suddenly have a festive atmosphere for the New Year.
When I was a child, I also wrote my own Spring League, when I practiced brush writing for a while, the writing was quite OK, and when the New Year was also to encourage the practice of words, I specially bought a large piece of red paper, cut a good size, and let me write by myself. After writing for a few years, it may be high school or when, learning is more intense, I did not continue to write, and the practice of words also fell.
We have the Spring Festival, not only the couplet at the gate, but also the gods posted at home will also be paired with the Spring League, for example, the gods of heaven and earth are matched with: "The sky is high since the ancient hanging sun and moon, the thickness of the earth has been carrying mountains and rivers, such as on it (or the position of heaven and earth, the height of heaven and earth is thick)", the South China Sea Guanyin god statue is: "Western green bamboo green, South China Sea Bilianduo (or South China Sea flower, West Lake March view), South China Sea Master (or the position of the South China Sea)", the land god statue is: "The earth can produce white jade, the land can produce gold, the land is the position", the others have the position of the well dragon, The position of the king of cang, the position of zhenwu, the god of wealth, the king of the stove, as well as the fat pig full circle pasted on the pig pen, the chicken and duck full circle attached to the chicken pen, and so on.
At that time, most people in the village still carried red paper and ink to find the old people in the village who had written well to write the Spring Festival, usually the village documents. However, with the change of the times, there is a kind of printed Spring League in advance, a large sheet, as long as you buy it back and cut it yourself. This kind of spring union, convenient is convenient, but always feel a little less of the feeling of childhood, in today's words, is a little less sense of ceremony.
In the afternoon, after wrapping dumplings, there is nothing to do, and the men in the village often bring their best firecrackers to the head of the village to put them together, called the test cannon. Because it is generally a two-kick kick, the main thing is to see whose house is high and explodes. If you meet anyone who also puts on a fireworks effect, it is probably a local tycoon in the village.
For a few years, the villagers also popularized the villagers to roll their own cannons, from the second kick to the thunder shell, etc., the power varies. Powerful thunder shells need to be fired with a special cannon barrel, a bit like the feeling of a mortar, that is, after the twist of the thunder shell is ignited, it is put into the gun barrel, wait a moment, a bang, just like the shell flew out, the sound of the explosion is also particularly loud. Now that I think about it, whether it is rolling the cannon myself or firing it with this kind of cannon barrel, it is quite dangerous.
After dinner and incense, the village from teenage boys to dozens of old men would find their own group of friends to party. The people who gather every year are relatively fixed, and they are all a group of people who usually have a good time. The places of the gathering are also different, some are fixed in one house every year, and some are rotated by everyone. Usually when I go to a party, I will bring some wine, food, or something, and then chat while drinking, talk about the harvest of the year, look forward to next year's situation, recall the interesting things when I was a child, and sigh the current hard life. As for the Spring Festival Gala, it is generally used as background music, and it is generally not watched.
This wine is usually drunk until about twelve o'clock in the morning, and then when the clock rings at midnight, or go back to each house to set off firecrackers, or everyone takes turns to go to each house to celebrate the arrival of the new year. Of course, there are also times when we get together later, and no one can say if they are happy.
How about this Chinese New Year's Eve way of eating Chinese New Year's Eve with the whole family, which is better?