Everything grows at this time, it is clean and clear. Therefore, it is called qingming. (From "Hundred Questions of the Year")
Among traditional festivals, Qingming is one of the few days when the festival overlaps with the festival. The meaning of Qingming is also overlapping: it is the solemn and quiet memorial ceremony, it is also the feast carnival of children running and young people stepping on the green, and the existentialism and ultimate meaning of life are extended.
Whether it is a solemn and tranquil memorial service sweep or an outing, there can be a seasonal food snack present - Ai Guo, Jiangsu and Zhejiang area called Qingtuan, Jiangxi Gannan called Amigo, I call it Ai Tuan.
Qingming every year at this time of the wormwood, under the spring breeze and drizzle, the field head willow river, these green elves rub open, tender green leaves on the back of the white small hair, is cute.
When I was a child, carrying a small bamboo basket and picking wormwood with my two sisters seemed to have happened yesterday. At that time, I was always bouncing and happily following the two sisters, pulling the dog's tail grass and picking small wildflowers... Wormwood, of course, is only a throw away at the end, poor and sloppy, lying in my little bamboo basket...
Ai Tuan every household will do it, but I have always stubbornly determined that my grandmother's mugwort is the most delicious, and there is no one.
Grandma's family was well-off, and she was married to her grandfather's family on the Xiaoya Bridge. My grandmother always washed her clothes cleanly, her hair was neatly combed, and she had a good hand inside and out.
Grandma's hands are very skillful, workers' red: weaving, embroidery, very good, even now enshrined as an art of disc buckle, Grandma also has to be handy, all kinds of fancy buckles, Grandma can be exquisitely completed. Unfortunately, these old objects are now lost, which cannot but be said to be a pity.
The aesthetic art of life is the same, which is excellently confirmed by my grandmother: the dim sum and the main dishes made by my grandmother are full of color and flavor, tiger skin button meat, cold mixed green clothes, hibiscus flower egg flower soup, etc., which are all the perfect marks of visual and taste integration that I cannot erase in my memory.
Ordinary and ordinary Ai Tuan, under the skillful hands of Grandma, has become an exquisite fancy dim sum with traditional Chinese aesthetic forms and cultural connotations - white sugar and sweet Ai Tuan, Grandma will use wooden carved molds, carefully marked with molds, and the sweet Ai Tuan after the impression is decorated with traditional ornaments such as Shuangxi Linmen, Hua Blossom Rich, fulu Shouxi, etc., full of joy and auspiciousness.
Pickle bacon stuffed with mugwort, Grandma will wrap it in the shape of a dumpling, and will meticulously pinch a circle of lace, and each one is evenly sized, full of filling, which makes people eat fingers.
After the cooking is done, Grandma will use the hemp rope to weave a circle of steamer pads, burn the wood stove vigorously, and in a short while, the aroma of the moxa will spread, and the joy and happiness of that moment are indescribable.
Grandpa and grandma have a very strong relationship, but unfortunately Grandpa left early, Grandma did not remarry, and alone raised her mother and uncle's two children into talents. In the countryside more than 70 years ago, a widow who was able to insist on raising her daughter to university had this insight and perseverance.
The grandmother in the impression is always optimistic and open-minded, and her eyes are loving and soft, and there is a sense of perseverance. I had dreamed of her for a long time in times of difficulty, and when I woke up, I could always gain a kind of strength, so that I could beat the horse with a bamboo stick and a man's shoe, and continue to groan and walk slowly all the way...
At the turn of mid-spring and late spring, the breeze and the bright moon, a new cup of tea, on the jasper ai tuan, feel the cleanliness and clarity of the growth of all things, and enjoy the silence and joy of life at this moment. Write down this text, the new year has been with the spring tea, I think, the meaning of Qingming's remembrance and remembrance also lies in this.