Yongcheng Old Story of Yongzhou New Year

The New Year is the happiest thing for children. When it comes to the new year, I look forward to the New Year every day. Of course, all I want to do is eat and play.

Every morning when he opened his eyes, he said: Twenty-three, send the king of the stove; twenty-four, over the small year; twenty-five, grind tofu; twenty-six, buy pork; twenty-seven, kill the envy (castrated chicken) chicken; twenty-eight, scoop the soup; twenty-nine, make a vat of wine; thirty days, sit and eat.

On the twenty-third day of the waxing moon, it is the day when each family sends the stove king to heaven, and each family goes to the paper shop on the street to buy two yellow cards that send the stove king to heaven. In the middle of the yellow card, two lines were written: "Heaven performs good deeds, and the earth descends to be auspicious." "Draw some incomprehensible symbols on the side of the paper." In addition, my mother bought two hundred yuan of hemp yuan, pickled fruit and a small bag of black tea.

The delivery of the stove king is all at night. The mother put the hemp yuan and the pickled fruit on a plate and placed it on the stove. Then boil some black tea in a small jar, put it in three cups, and put it on the stove. Then make money paper, light incense, and light candles. The mother was screaming, and she was chanting something in her mouth, probably asking the king of the stove to go to heaven to say good things and bless the family with good luck and peace. After the mother finished reading, she sprinkled three cups of tea on the stove on the stove, and probably the king of the stove went to heaven. Well, our children will not talk about etiquette, and quickly grab the hemp yuan and pickled fruit in the plate with our hands and eat it.

Twenty-four years later, the family bought fish and meat, and there was a good meal at noon.

Twenty-five grinding tofu is mainly the business of the villagers, and there is no set of "handles" for making tofu in the city. The countrymen are going to be busy all day. There are grinding a few liters of beans, there are also grinding two buckets of beans, from dawn to dark, there is no breath, and at night there are still burning rosin candles in fried oil tofu. The child saw the oil pot and took the opportunity to eat what fried sweet potato chips and what radish shredded crab. It is to mix shredded radish with rice noodles, add some salt and chives, use a spatula in a frying pan and fry, fry yellow, look like crabs, and eat fragrant and crispy.

Twenty-six to buy pork. My family is in the rice business, and every year I feed the pigs without buying meat. Killing pigs in the New Year is to keep more meat, because there are many people. Pork liver, large and small intestines, are left. I also smoked some meat and large intestine and ate it slowly, so I can eat it until February or March.

Twenty-seven killing chickens. This kind of envy chicken is reserved for the New Year, and it is locked up a month or two before the New Year, not allowed to move, only fed rice bran bibimbap, and grows strong. By the time of the New Year's killing, the skin was yellow and tender, and the stomach was full of oil.

The tail hair of the envy chicken is also a good thing for the girls to tie the shuttlecock. In the first month, use a bright money, put chicken feathers in the hole of the bright money, and kick the shuttlecock for a long time.

Twenty-eight scoops. Yongzhou's glutinous rice dumplings are famous, fragrant and sticky, and are used to give gifts to each other during the New Year. During the first month, the women carried baskets, most of which were filled with rice dumplings and hemp sugar.

The sticks are all the best Chongyang glutinous rice, steamed with the dumplings, and then poured into the mortar, and scooped with the mallet. This requires a lot of strength, good glutinous rice is sticky, and the mallet without strength cannot be lifted out when it is stained. After scooping it up, the woman's family washed her hands, and then smeared some oil to grab a handful of them out of the mortar pit, making them into snow-white dustpans and putting them in a large dustpan. Then use chopsticks to dot a little red color in the middle of each stick, which looks beautiful and auspicious.

Twenty-nine vats of wine. It was just a slip of the tongue, and the children sang it. In fact, the wine has been brewed for a long time.

Thirty nights of The New Year, the dish was laid out in a large bowl and a large bowl. The aroma of chicken and balls has long been smelled, but it is not allowed to eat. We must first respect heaven and earth and respect our ancestors, and the adults do those ritual things, and our children are so hungry that they all scream. It was hard to finish before I came to eat the dishes that had been laid out for a long time. Grandma sat on the table, first gave the child a chicken leg, nibbled on the chicken leg and then ate the balls. The mother put the steamed betel nut taro button meat and a whole chicken liver into grandma's bowl (grandma's teeth are gone). There were so many dishes on the table, and my mother said, "Try to eat as long as you can!"

Father drank some wine and his face was red. He also ate the shiny envy chicken and the button meat in large chunks, and drank while eating, drunk and shiny. My mother drank a little wine too.

I was hungry, I ate too much, and now I'm full of hiccups and don't want to eat anymore. I just feel that my stomach is swollen and dizzy, and I want to be sleepy. I fell asleep on the table. My mother dragged me up and helped me wipe the oil from my face and hands. I took off my pants and pulled my grandmother to bed and fell asleep. My mother was still whispering in my ear: "Tomorrow is the first day of the Chinese New Year, get up and don't talk ugly, but good things." ”

In the morning, my father posted a "fairy tale" in the house. Probably ask god not to worry about the child to say unlucky things. On the wall of the door was a sticker "Make money for me." There is a "travel auspicious" posted at the door, the scale is pasted with "golden ten thousand two", and on the gate is "the source of wealth is lush up to the three rivers, and the business is prosperous all over the world".

I fell asleep in my grandmother's bed, and my grandmother, my mother, and my father kept watch. They burned charcoal pots and sat in the hall, not knowing how long they were staying.

When it wasn't too bright, I was awakened by the sound of firecrackers. Crackle, crackle! Then "Boo!" It was such a loud noise, it was the kind of big thunder cannon. Then some people put up a thousand long cannons, and they all had that kind of "Boo!" The sound of the sound. I couldn't sleep anymore, lying in bed listening, wondering who had put it, who had put it there, and which one had put it the longest.

After hearing it, I couldn't tell the difference, and it was crackling in all directions! Crackle boom! The whole Xiaoxiang Gate and the whole Yongzhou City sounded into one piece, and the ears were going to be deafened. It sounds like the Northern Soldier Lady (troops) have come into the city and are fighting.

Get up in the morning, go to the door to see, the street is full of cannon scum. There are also some large purple-red radishes thrown on the street (this kind of radish is a specialty of Yongzhou and has not been seen anywhere else). The radishes are all covered with incense, and the incense has been burned out, leaving only incense sticks. The streets are thrown upside down. The first year of the scavenger rest, no one sweeps the street.

The blind and crippled man shouted in the street, "Grandmothers! It's been a busy year! Pity us blind and crippled! Eat the leftover leftovers and give us a bite, right? Bless you with great wealth, and add sons and grandchildren!" At that time, there were leftover rice in every house, give them a bowl.

Those called Hanako always walked together in two or three, carrying a long large bamboo tube, one for rice and one for vegetables. You can eat for a few days a day.

When I got up in the morning of the first year, my mother gave me a big snow date, which was a rare thing, and I didn't wash my face and ate it. My mother said that after the year, she was a year older. I still just eat.

Breakfast was noodles. There are many dishes left in the thirty nights of Chinese food, and only two bowls of green vegetables are cooked. The dish can not be cooked to death, fried green, said that this year is innocent, there is no need to instigate things.

Because the children could not tell ugly things because they had been taught thirty nights, I hid in the house and did not dare to go out. At this time, I just want an adult to take me out to visit the New Year, don't open my mouth, there must be someone who distributes candy, candy, rice and the like, and sometimes rewards hanging money.

At the end of the year, there will be dragon lanterns and lantern dances to watch. Dragon lanterns are danced on the wide streets of Main Street, Beizheng Street, and Fuzheng Street, because there are many rich and large shops there. The child runs after the dragon lamp.

The dragon head has a dragon ball in front of it to lead the dance, and the dragon head follows the dragon ball. There are also lions rolling hydrangeas, and the two lions roll up the best.

When the dragon lantern dances in front of the door of the big shop, firecrackers are set off, and the shop owner also distributes red envelopes. A long dragon, there are always dozens of people, and there are lion dancers, each of whom gives red envelopes.

The Lantern Dance has mussel shell essence and colored dragon boat. Inside is a "beautiful girl", dressed in an embroidered coat, pants, and shoes in aqua red satin. Like Hua Dan on the stage, the flower beads worn on the head. Two pieces of colorful mussel shells made of bamboo grates contain two gloves made of rope for opening and closing. The beautiful girl held two condoms in both hands inside, opening and closing the mussel shell with her hands as she walked. Open it, laugh it, and quickly close it again. People only want to see the appearance of the beautiful girl clearly, but they can't always see clearly. She walked in small steps as she opened and closed, and there were many children chasing after her.

The Dragon Boat is a large colored palanquin carried by four people, in which sits the characters on the stage with makeup on it. There are students in long shirts and young ladies in red and green. Some were Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai; some were Bai Niangzi and Xu Xian; and some were Cui Yingying and Zhang Sheng. Anyway, the appearance is similar, you can guess it. If you guessed, write the answer on a note and hand it to the student. The student thinks you guessed right, and will throw a beautiful large hydrangea ball made of satin to make you a prize. Generally only those who have read books and are cultured can guess correctly.

The people on the street watching the dragon dance and the lions crowded. This kind of scene did not end until the fifteenth day of the first month.

On the night of the fifteenth day of the first month, it is the marriage of the rat. There are many colorful paintings of children and daughters on the street, and they also carry palanquins, play gongs and drums, and blow trumpets. The bride sat in a palanquin, her mouth pointed, looking east and west, as if that were the case.

Every family is in the black corner bend, lighting some small candles, saying that they are for the rats and daughters to take pictures, so as not to be too dark.

In the first month, my mother bought me a very small lantern, only the size of a watermelon, with a plum blossom painted on it, and written "Long life and 100 years old". I lit a tiny candle inside the lantern. Carrying it with a piece of shreds, walking around the hall house is very flavorful.

Later, I carried the lantern to the street, and when I went out, I saw that the lanterns of other children were big and beautiful, and what carp lanterns and shrimp lanterns were picked up with a three-foot-long bamboo pole, held high, so that they were not imposing. I looked at the little lantern in my hand, and I could only lift it short. Others couldn't see it, and their hearts were suddenly unhappy, and they almost cried.

Mother said, "Buy you a carp next year too." ”

Grandma said, "Little kid, it's nice to have a lantern to play with, you see 'Chicken Lady (the kid next door) has nothing.'" His mother said that there was no money, and he obeyed. Just watching others play, he still laughs! Where do I have to buy what it looks like? Then buy a dragon, isn't it bigger? It is not the rich man's family, those who play with carp, shrimp, and night pearls, do not compare with others, and many children have nothing. ”

Hearing Grandma talk, I didn't cry, or I played in the hall with a lantern, which was pretty good.