Shaanxi Qianxian this "century-old set", oil cake 5 cents, marijuana spent 1 yuan, to eat! Village and town gatherings are the most down-to-earth form of gathering, where people from all over the world exchange information and share resources. From ancient times to the present, this is the best way for farmers to satisfy their materials and enrich their hearts. These are all fast-paced supermarkets and convenience stores in modern cities that cannot be replaced.

It's time off, and you can finally go back to the village... As a Shaanxi woman who grows wild in the countryside, she grew up on the mountain to collect firewood, go down to the river to catch fish, climb up to big trees, climb over the wall, hold a sickle to cut wheat, carry a hoe to dig the ground... In short, I am a native country girl, who has inseparable feelings for her homeland, often likes to go home, sit in front of the house to bask in the sun and blow the wind, and feel very down-to-earth. I want to be able to go to a meeting and think that this day is perfect!

It's summer today

Today, on the way back to the village (first back to the village of Pojia, then back to the village of Niangjia), on the way, I encountered the "passing meeting" (catching up with the market) in a village in Qianxian County According to my in-laws and mother-in-law, almost every town and village in This town has an "old set" that has been continued for decades or even hundreds of years, like the gatherings of the town of my in-laws' family are the first, fourth, and seventh days of the lunar calendar, that is to say, the first, fourth, seventh, eleventh, fourteenth, seventeenth, twenty-first, twenty-fourth, and twenty-seventh days of the lunar calendar every month, with a total of nine days a month. How many years this town market has existed, no one knows, the father-in-law said that when he was a child, his grandfather was rushing to the market, 100 years should have it, the father-in-law 62.

Twists everywhere

The stalls are all in front of the farmer's house

Eat food stalls

A stall in front of the farmer's house

Seasons have changed, and single shoes are on the market

Moms buy shoes for babies

Today we met a rally in our town (today is the first day of the third lunar month), and we also went to the gathering in a neighboring village to see it. The town itself is now more commercially active, so the meeting is not very obvious. On the contrary, the gatherings in neighboring villages are even more desirable.

This is a small village called Blok Village, and the village is not large. The villagers' homes are door-to-door (the houses are opposites, watching each other), and the road is in the middle. My old village is row after row, looking at the back room of the neighbor in front, and the road is in front. These are the two most typical arrangements in the countryside now.

Glasses stand

I once bought a pair of shoes for $10 and wore them for two years

Children's clothing in summer

Young people from nearby also came to join in the fun

Clothing stalls

Cotton fabrics are laid out in a different place

Seedling stalls

Indispensable snare

The core point of the village meeting is concentrated on both sides of a street in the village, to put it bluntly, it is the doorway of the villagers on this street. Young mothers bring dolls to the market, buy a few pairs of breathable mesh shoes for the babies, it is time for the children to change seasons when it is hot; the elderly come to see if there are cheap cool clothes, and the old sisters have not seen each other for a few days, a curse; the uncles wear a straw hat and turn around in front of the seedling flower garden stall to see if there are suitable saplings and vegetable seeds; the older children are busy in front of the stalls such as playing with snares and scratching music...

Selling goods while gossiping

The big moms continue to talk

Grandpa's pendant stall

Child's simple carousel

Sandbags play dolls have drama

In the department store area, the owner is eating oil cakes

I don't know how to play this game on the ground, I am afraid of being deceived, so I leave

It is said that you can win the jackpot

Of course, eating must be the least important thing in a rally. The most familiar food for people in the market is fried twist flowers, oil cakes, mirror cakes, cold powder and so on. The mother-in-law said that the custom is which village has a meeting, the core relatives will go to that village to catch the market, and then go to the relatives' homes in the village to "walk relatives", generally the gifts brought to the relatives' homes are a bundle (10) twist flowers and oil cakes to eat. Lunch at a relative's house at noon. Presumably, this is also a fixed-point regular social festival created by farmers in the past because of inconvenient transportation, in order to facilitate trading, relatives can often walk around each other.

Leek box

Cool skin

Mash

Uncle and his mashed soup

Twist stalls

Baked gluten

Koshiki cake

Oil cake

Cool skin (turned over to see the mother-in-law said it was a relative)

In fact, when we were young, we would also follow our parents to follow the meeting, but the ten miles were different, and the meetings on our side were not so frequent, there were not many small fires, and the biggest meeting would be the Lapa Bahui. I thought about the reasons, it is estimated that we are relatively close to the county seat, the significance of frequent meetings is not great, the mother-in-law's family is forty or fifty kilometers away from the county seat, so it has been able to preserve such a historical way of life.

Relatives will follow "walk relatives."

Talk to relatives who will walk

The koshiki cake is slightly different from the mirror cake in Xi'an

Oil cake, black sesame seeds and white sugar fried in the noodles

Sometimes I think about how difficult it was for the ancients. In such a very closed state of traffic, information, etc., it is remarkable to be able to come up with a customized assembly time and pass it down from generation to generation.

Spring is flourishing and time is gorgeous

Listening to my mother-in-law, on March 11, this town will have a grand ancient meeting, once a year, on a larger scale and more abundant products, and I will come back when I think of it.