Chapter 29 Chinese New Year (please collect and recommend)
Author: Han Ming
Chapter 29 Chinese New Year (please collect and recommend)
The last day of the twelfth lunar month is what everyone calls New Year's Eve. It is a day that both adults and children look forward to, New Year's Eve.
The difference from the previous two days is that it started to drizzle this morning.
The sky was a little gloomy, with thick clouds covering the sun.
In Zhang An's impression, there seem to be few New Year's Eve days when the sun shines brightly in the sky. This is basically the weather. Maybe this is because we are in the mountains.
Early in the morning, Wang Fang had already gotten up and started working.
There is no cooking at noon, which is a custom in Changqing Village.
Wang Fang took out the glutinous rice that had been soaked for many days and steamed a full steamer.
I originally wanted to make more, but Zhang An persuaded me and finally changed to a smaller steamer for steaming.
This is the glutinous rice used to make rice cakes.
There is no cooking at noon because the rice cakes are made in the morning and the family eats the rice cakes, which can be dipped in sugar or stuffed with fillings. Usually the family will make some of each.
Zhang An is different. He likes to dip in chili pepper water.
In half an hour, the glutinous rice in the steamer was cooked.
Pour it into a clean stone mortar, and Zhang An and his father use wooden pestles to feel the glutinous rice flour inside.
Most people really can't do this job. If you haven't done it before, you won't be able to do it after a few tries. The key is to use your strength skillfully, and of course you still need to be strong.
The father and son started fighting back and forth, while Wang Fang turned over and overturned the glutinous rice flour that had not been broken up at the bottom and hammered it.
After more than ten minutes, Wang Fang turned it over with her hands and took a look. Basically, the glutinous rice was broken up and stuck together, so it was ready.
Spread a layer of flour on the cleaned sieve, lift out the beaten rice cake and put it into the sieve, twist some of it into several bowls, and Wang Fang kneads the rest with his hands, and finally forms a ball.
Large disc.
Then we started to worship the gods. The contents of this bowl were used to enshrine the shrines and were called god cakes. They were not eaten until after the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first lunar month.
After a while, the second uncle's family also came with steamers. Their family steamed twice as much as Zhang An's family.
But only Zhang An's family has a stone mortar, and his third uncle's family will also bring it later.
So Zhang An had to release his strength today.
Just like that, Zhang An picked up the wooden pestle and started fighting with his second uncle. After the fight, Zhang An still felt a little tired. The main reason was that Zhang An didn't have that many skilled skills, so he could only rely on his own strength.
The second uncle's house just started cooking, and the third uncle's house came again.
After washing the stone mortar, we started again. Zhang Jianguo just came out because someone seemed to have something to do.
So Zhang An picked up the wooden pestle and started fighting with his third uncle. It was like Lu Bu fighting three heroes.
With all his strength, the second uncle looked obediently.
"Okay, Xiao An, I have a lot of strength now." Second uncle Zhang Jianjun touched his nephew's biceps, not to mention they were quite strong.
"Come on, uncle, I can't make another pot, I'm too tired."
Of course, other people later came to Zhang An's house to fight, but it was the second uncle and third uncle who took turns helping, so Zhang An could take a good rest.
It took me a whole afternoon just to make rice cakes, because it wasn’t just for my own family.
After eating the rice cake, it was time to prepare for the New Year's Eve dinner. A pot of boiling water was boiled on the stove.
Zhang Jianguo started killing chickens and fish. To save time, Wang Fang took out the bacon and sausages last night and washed them in advance. Today, he only needs to boil them on the fire before slicing them directly.
If we had aerial photography drones now, we could see that every household in Changqing Village is preparing various ingredients.
No matter what happens at home, how much money can be saved.
Those families who are reluctant to eat meat several times throughout the year will definitely cook some delicious dishes for their family members during the New Year.
This is why children like to celebrate the New Year.
Because during the Chinese New Year, we have meat to eat, new clothes to wear, and lucky money.
Although they are now one year older after every new year.
After many years, their generation may not like to celebrate the New Year.
Because celebrating the New Year at that time meant going home and being urged to get married, give birth, etc.
But now, at least they can live happily.
A series of preparations took several hours, and only after worshiping God did we start cooking.
Naturally, Wang Fang is the chef at home. Zhang An helped prepare the various ingredients before Wang Fang took over and started cooking.
Even though it's New Year's Eve dinner, it's basically ready at four o'clock in the afternoon.
Some people have it even earlier, at two or three o'clock, and you can tell by the sound of firecrackers being set off in the village.
After all the dishes were put on the table, the ancestors of the family had to be worshiped first. When it was over, Zhang An took a bunch of cannons to the yard and set them up.
The sound of firecrackers marks the end of the year. This means that the year has passed and everyone will welcome the new year.
Then the family happily reunited for the New Year's Eve dinner. Although there were only three people in Zhang An's family, it was still very lively and not deserted at all. Moreover, at this time, Wang Fang began to talk about asking Zhang An to find a partner.
There were no mobile phones in this era, so online New Year greetings and the like did not exist at all.
It is true that people pay New Year greetings to seek good luck, but they only start on the first day of the Lunar New Year. On the 30th of the New Year, everyone will stay at home by themselves, and the whole family will watch the New Year after dinner.
There is no TV now, otherwise the whole family would just watch the Spring Festival Gala on TV. Not to mention, the Spring Festival Gala in those years was actually quite good to watch, unlike later when it gradually lost its flavor and fewer and fewer people watched it.
But in fact, the planning of the program is one of the reasons. Later generations are not so old. Of course, with the development of technology, fewer and fewer people watch TV, not to mention that TV itself is eliminating itself.
Zhang An remembers that when his family watched the Spring Festival Gala during the Chinese New Year in later generations, they actually had to pay membership fees to watch the Spring Festival Gala. Isn’t this pure nonsense?
Lying on the bed, there is no mobile phone or TV, but Zhang An is not sleepy now.
I checked the situation in the space in my room. Half a year after I came back, the conditions in my home have changed a lot. This is all brought to me by the space.
The two fish ponds have been expanded a lot, and the fish in them are still very large, but because Zhang An deliberately restricted them, they are not as densely packed with fish heads as before.
Several rows of fruit trees are still hanging with fruit. In a few days, Zhang An will plant cherry trees on the remaining half acre of land next to his yard.
The hares that were let in a few days ago have also given birth to cubs. Now they have reproduced for one generation, and there are more than a dozen rabbits burrowing around in the grass.
The fawn has also grown up, and it is not afraid when Zhang An gets close to it. Instead, it rubs its head against Zhang An.
Zhang An checked it out and saw that it was a stag with long antlers growing on its head. Although Zhang An didn't know much about deer antlers, it had grown so much that Zhang An didn't plan to cut off the antlers.
On the contrary, the Gastrodia elata planted earlier gave Zhang An a big surprise. The dense patch had already grown an inch-high moss.
After asking the elders in the village, Zhang An learned that the older Gastrodia elata is not the better, but that the Gastrodia elata that has just bolted is at its best at this time.
A few moss stalks that had grown relatively high were left to save seeds, and Zhang An dug up all the rest.
Sure enough, space is a paradise for these plants. Plants that often require very harsh conditions to grow well in the outside world can grow directly in space.
Although these dug Gastrodia elata are ugly, they are still quite big.
I have to find time to cook it outside and dry it in the sun before it can be stored easily, but now it won't rot if I put it in space, so there's no rush.
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