Now the only one in the Hori family is Naohide, Katsugoro and Hayato are sent back to Guishihara Village by him. Naohide thinks that no matter how good the care is, it is not as good as family affection. Children's psychology is a very complicated matter. Don't just turn others straight, but the two students go wrong. Isn't that a big joke?

In addition to the traditional New Year, the shogunate also stipulated five legal festivals, namely the Seventh Grass Festival (the seventh day of the first lunar month), the Hip Festival (the Daughter's Day), the Calamus Festival (boy's Day), the Chinese Valentine's Day, and the Chrysanthemum Festival. However, no matter how you count it, the New Year is the most important festival of the year.

Naohide gave Tonosuke and Seijiro a holiday and asked them to inform their nearby children to come to Horikayashiki to take the Ranshu class after the Qicha Festival.

When I celebrate the festival alone, my heart was empty, but Xuejilang's sister Yingzi brought a group of children to help every day. Zhixiu quickly felt better. She said she was helping, but in fact, only Yingzi was busy with her work, and the other children came to play. The heads of each family had to visit them in addition to their public service. The ladies brought older children to prepare for the festival, and the children did not allow the children to go there. Only Zhixiu is the most popular among the children, including delicious food and fun. In addition, Zhixiu's brother is so gentle and never said they were noisy.

The preparation for the New Year starts with cleaning and dust. Nowadays, the houses are made of wooden structures, without Chinese chimneys, and the stove or stove burning firewood and charcoal in the kitchen has caused a lot of ash to accumulate in the height of the house. Only by cleaning the entire house can you reap the benefits of the New Year.

Some people use floor stoves to cook, which are generally located in the middle of the living room. After canceling the floor, dig a four-corner space, lay sand or ash, and then use a rope to hang the free hook from the roof, and hang the pot or other cooking utensils and hook it up.

Whether using a stove, stove or surrounding the fire, in order to exhaust smoke, Fusang people usually open a smoke exhaust hole - a chimney on the roof, which is very different from the integrated smoke exhaust method of the China stove-flue-chimney.

"Remove the dust" - cleaning the dust starts on the 13th day of the Wax Month. This day is the ghost constellation of the twenty-eight stars, and it is a day of great luck, so everyone in Fusang starts cleaning the dust on this day.

Later generations called the New Year's cleaning "Disclaimer" and it was much more elegant than "removing dust and filth". Damage means not buying or collecting unnecessary things, Damage means dealing with useless things piled up at home, Damage means giving up your obsession with material things and allowing yourself to be in a spacious, comfortable and free space. Does the stakeer have something to do with cleaning dust? But later generations call it the New Year's cleaning, and there is no one else.

The dalcho of Horiyayashiki was taken to help clean the money by Hanako's mother and Eiko. They started before Naoxiu came back. This is why Naoxiu, Tonosuke, and Seijiro met them when they came back. Even after Naoxiu came back, he basically didn't help much. It was only after Eiko cleaned the house, left and right.

From the 20th day of the twelfth lunar month to the end of the year, it is a celebration of the end of the year. During this period, everyone gave each other gifts to congratulate each other on their peaceful and peaceful stay in the year. This is why Naohisattack came back and was busy making a visit. At the time point, it would be rude not to visit again.

After busy work, it was finally time to make rice cakes happily. In previous years, each company bought rice cakes, but this year, each company had a good income and became interested, so they agreed that everyone would make rice cakes together. Making rice cakes was a stamina. The job of Zaowu had stopped on the 20th. Young people from neighbors gathered in Zaowu to make rice cakes. Zhixiu was tall and was caught hiring casually. After a day, the wooden stick was raised for no reason, and both arms were swollen. But Yingzi took the initiative to join him and was responsible for turning rice cake balls. Zhixiu was not good at complaining in person, so she had to go home and rub her arms secretly.

Naohide of Zaoya has let go of business. Now it is mainly Hanako's mother and Eiko. The four masters - Takemae Taro, Nakamura Masaichi, Kojima Shigeruo, and Nakajima Kuroo are responsible for the township.

After that, each family received more than 30 small tribute awards, and each family was very satisfied with this. Because each family usually had a boy or a male servant to participate in the internal position, he is still used to working on the Zaowu group as the center.

It’s easy to do things when there are too many people. Zhixiu only participated in making rice cakes for one day and then ran away. The remaining rice cakes were made by boys from the neighbor’s house. The rice cakes made look quite good and there are a lot of them.

Zhixiu was guilty and bought a lot of small gifts for the young men who made rice cakes. Both sides thought it was cost-effective. Because the young men were crowded, they were not very tired after the distribution. The competition was fast, and the best was fun. He finished the task with laughter. In addition, the small gifts given by Zhixiu were very exquisite, so you can show off to other friends during the Chinese New Year. It was a surprise.

Before the New Year, Zhixiu swept the graves of his parents and elders, sorted out the miscellaneous items around him, and presented tributes. Speaking of which, Zhixiu has been here for three years. At the beginning, he only regarded himself as a passerby. As time went by, his life memories of the two lives were entangled, and the emotional bonds increased. It turned out that he couldn't tell which side was Zhuang Sheng's dream, but now his attitude is "working hard in the present is the right way."

Afterwards, Yingzi took a group of children to help Zhixiu hang the "First Month Decoration" and clean up the Buddhist altar.

The first month decoration is a blessing decoration before the New Year. The hanging time generally lasts from the 13th day of the wax month to before the New Year. The first month decoration will be burned when you go to a temple or shrine for the first three days of the New Year, or it will be burned on the small first month (the fifteenth day of the first month) to cure diseases and eliminate disasters.

Regardless of the rich and poor, the first month ornaments must have the "Three Treasures of the Year God" - Mensong, the bell-connected rope (しめ路) and the mirror cake. Other first month ornaments also include the Demon-breaking arrows, the Cake Flowers, etc.

The God of the Year in Fusang is the "God of Destiny" and usually lives in the mountains. Therefore, setting up a pine tree at the door of your house or hanging a pine branch on the door in the New Year is to invite the God of the Year inhabited.

"Zhu Lianlian" is a kind of sacrificial tool used by Shinto to make barriers. It is woven with dried rice stems and paper hangings are added on it. The New Year hanging rope symbolizes that the gods will protect this home. "Zhu Lianlian" is hung on the door pine, entrance to the entrance of the entrance to the mirror cake. The decoration details vary according to local customs.

The three artifacts of Fusang are the Tiancongyun Sword (Kusanagi Sword), the Eight-foot Qiong Gouyu and the Yata Mirror.

Fusang people believe that "rice cake" is a sacred food dedicated to gods. The round refers to the Yata Mirror, so the round rice cake is called "mimicry cake". Usually, the decoration of the mirror cake also refers to the oranges that refer to the eight-foot Qiong Geumu and the persimmons that refer to the Tiancongyun Sword, which forms the "three magical tools" to bless the family peace.

Mirror cakes usually place two mirror cakes, one large and one small, overlapping, expressing the meaning of "yin and yang" and "sun and moon", which is a symbol of auspiciousness. They are decorated with a rope in the middle, and then place dried persimmon cakes, oranges, etc. on the top. You can also continue to add auspicious foods such as chestnuts and 50,000 meters. Later generations, people's lives became rich, and some people put three overlapping mirror cakes, and some people shouted the more slogans, and from then on, the number of mirror cakes is no longer limited to two in a group.

Traditionally, it is believed that the 28th day of the wax month every year is the most suitable time to place mirror cakes. The location should be placed deep in the house far away from the entrance, which is equivalent to a "sitting" house. Craftsmen generally like to place them where they work, and merchants tend to place them in important positions in the store. Moreover, everyone usually places a small mirror cake in the kitchen, hoping to stay away from fires and diseases.

Naoxiu bought a lot of materials from Commercial Town, and took the children to make pine, skeleton, magic arrows, etc., and encouraged them to send the first month of the lunar calendar everywhere. The neighbors all accepted it with a smile and gave the children a happy money. Everyone had a lot of fun.

Fusang believes that deceased relatives live in the divine realm of the world—the "Shen Fence". On the "other shore" of the Spring and Autumn Period (the vernal equinox, the autumnal equinox and its three days before and after), you can meet the deceased relatives through tomb sweeping. On the Ullamban Festival, ancestors will return home to join their families.

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Usually, you can communicate with your deceased relatives through tablets (plates) dedicated to the Buddha altar (titles) at home. Through offerings and tributes to them, you can get protection and blessings.

Fusang believes that people become Buddhas after death, so they worship the tablets on the Buddha altar. In ordinary families, there are only the tablets on the Buddha altars and there are no traditional Buddha statues.

With the help of Yingzi, Naoxiu sorted out the Buddhist altar at home, offered flowers, incense, tributes and clear water, and murmured to pray, hoping that all the deceased relatives would be well and to bless themselves and their relatives and friends to be safe.

Next is to prepare the "Yuan Festival" (New Year's Eve). You cannot make fires and cook in the first three days of the New Year. One is that the God of Destiny has arrived in the world and cannot make fireworks disturb Him. The other is that in order to let the Kitchen God rest, every household must prepare the New Year's Eve dinner in advance.

The Imperial Festival is worshipped on the last day of the year, "Da Yue Day", so that the whole family can enjoy "remnants from God" after the New Year.

The traditional imperial festival is placed in a large food box on the fifth floor. Of course, the imperial diet box at the poor's home is only two or three.

From top to bottom, the first layer is "花典", which are all side dishes with auspicious meanings, such as fish roe with many children and many blessings, dried fish that symbolizes the harvest of grains, black beans that represent diligence and health, and essential red and white fish cakes. Red symbolizes joy and white symbolizes sacredness; there is also Ida Roll that means accumulated knowledge, chestnut Roll with the names "Shengli" and "Golden Tuan", nectar with the nectar with "Elder Xi" or "Qian Shi Lu Mu", and Jin Yuzi with gold and silver symbol.

The second layer is "现中" (barbecue), mainly seafood, including long shrimps that can live to the point of bent waist like shrimps, bream pronounced "happy" and elixirs that represent the success.

The third layer is filled with "光" (vinegar mixed vegetables) and "光" (cold mixed vegetables), including vinegar-stained shredded radish (red white なます) with festive colors, chrysanthemum turnips representing good luck, small muscles and chestnut stains that mean success and a bumper harvest, etc.

Because the fifth layer on the bottom layer is used to hold happiness obtained from the year god "Sui De God", it is vacant, so the last layer containing food is the first layer - because the fourth and "death" are homophones, it is changed to the second layer.

The layer is mainly "boiled food", because the food in the boiled food is closely together, symbolizing family harmony and unity, including porous lotus roots representing "foreseeing the future and having foresight", symbolizing the prosperity of descendants, calla lily, burdock, etc., the pronunciation is similar to "happiness", water chestnuts that represent achievements, etc.

It was too troublesome to cook the Yujie cuisine. Naoxiu became impatient after a while, and Yingzi immediately took over. In fact, Yingzi also found it strange: Fusang machismo has a long history, and most men do not enter the kitchen. It is very rare for Naoxiu to enter the kitchen like Naoxiu. But a capable man is gentle when entering the kitchen, while an incompetent man is not masculinity when entering the kitchen. Yingzi thinks in his heart that Naoxiu and his neighbors are both wealthy by Naoxiu, so he is very grateful to Naoxiu. No matter how he looks at Naoxiu, she thinks Naoxiu's cooking looks really handsome!

Zhixiu felt embarrassed, so she prepared some more ingredients for the New Year, and prepared to show off her skills after the New Year to reward Yingzi.
Chapter completed!