Unforgettable flavor of the year
If I talk about my hometown, I will have endless words and stories. Because I grew up in the countryside, I naturally have deep feelings for the countryside and have a special liking for this hot land that raised me. My home is located on a high mountain, surrounded by mountains and pines and cypresses, just like a child snuggling in his mother's arms. The mountains here are undulating and the vegetation is rich; The air here is fresh and cool all year round, just like a natural oxygen bar; The water here is pure mountain spring, sweet; The people here are born and bred, hospitable and simple. This mountain, this water, this person and this air will always be my concern and nostalgia, and I can't forget it for a long time.
In my childhood, I was most looking forward to the Spring Festival. In that era of lack of clothes and food, every household did not have enough to eat and was not warm. I can't eat and wear well until the Spring Festival, so I look forward to wearing new clothes, eating jiaozi, setting off firecrackers and lucky money. "Children, children, don't be greedy, after Laba is years. After drinking Laba porridge for a few days, it will be twenty-three miles. ..... "This widely circulated nursery rhyme vividly depicts people welcoming the Spring Festival. In rural areas, Laba porridge is drunk every year on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. After the Laba Festival, every household began to get busy, killing pigs, making tofu, pushing yellow noodles, steaming rice cakes ... until the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month, all the "new year's goods" (referring to what we eat and use for the New Year) were ready. The most noteworthy thing here is to push yellow noodles and make tofu. Don't say it's nothing Everyone in my hometown knows that at this time, every household has to push yellow noodles and make tofu. After Laba, I waited in line every day and was busy for several days. Everybody Qi Xin works together, you help me and I help you, talking and laughing. A lively scene immediately dressed up the whole village and made the whole mountain village boil. In my family, my father is the busiest at this time of the year. He runs around every house every day to kill pigs for free. It can be said that he slaughtered 90% of the pigs in the village, but he never asked Dong Jia for wages.
On the 23 rd of the twelfth lunar month, it will be a small year. People mainly worship honeydew melons and cakes, and invite Kitchen God to offer sacrifices to Kitchen God. Every house is a slate house made of stone, and every family has a heatable kang (for sleeping), which is heated by a stove. On this day, people will stick the statue of the kitchen god on the kang box at the mouth of the kitchen stove and give offerings to the kitchen god on the plate next to the mouth of the kitchen stove, which means that the new year is getting more and more prosperous and getting a lot of good luck. After the ceremony, the statue of Kitchen God was burned.
New Year's Eve, that is, New Year's Eve. On this day, it is the day when every household posts couplets, usually before noon. This day is a day of family reunion. No matter where you are, you should go home for a reunion dinner. After dinner, I began to get busy, chopping stuffing, making noodles, making jiaozi, and preparing breakfast for the New Year's Day. On this day, rural people pay attention to keeping the year, which is also called staying up late for the New Year. People are used to staying up late to welcome the New Year. In fact, the most important and lively thing is to set off firecrackers. Generally, there are two shows, one before 8: 00 p.m. and the other at 24: 00 p.m. after watching the Spring Festival party. In the middle of the night, the mountain was dark and quiet, and sometimes it was a little scary, but firecrackers did break the tranquility of the mountain, especially in the colorful fireworks such as "lightning", "drilling the sky" and "lifting the horn", which formed a spectacular scene of lightning and thunder, and it was very lively for a while. Sitting on the heatable adobe sleeping platform, you can enjoy the beautiful scenery in the air through the window.
On the morning of the first day of the first month, people seldom sleep late. On this day, there is an important etiquette, that is, New Year greetings. Every household will get up at five or six o'clock to set off firecrackers. After setting off firecrackers, they will eat jiaozi. After eating jiaozi, they will go door to door to pay New Year greetings. This is called visiting each other. What I want most is children. At that time, elders will give lucky money to make children old.
Since the second day of the first month, everyone has been busy planning to invite guests to dinner. Family members take turns to treat guests at your house in the morning and at his house in the evening, which can last until after the fifteenth day of the first month. This is also called "eating home-cooked meals". In fact, eating is secondary, and the most important thing is to enhance feelings, add a festive atmosphere to the Spring Festival, and make the taste of the year more "strong". This kind of scene and feeling, the city people can't understand, but now it has become a luxury for me.
It has been more than twenty years since I left my hometown. I recall my childhood memories, and I am a little nostalgic for the past Chinese New Year. After all, time waits for no one now. With the growth of age, I feel that the taste of the year is getting weaker and weaker, and I can no longer find the taste of the year when I was a child. But I have always dreamed that if I could go back in time one day, I would choose to go back to the past. I like the flavor of my hometown.