Lap Moon sweeping trivia.
Wen Jin Wanquan.
Children, don't be greedy, it's the New Year after Laba. Twenty-three hemp sugar dips his mouth, twenty-four sweeps the house, twenty-five sweeps the dust ......"A familiar phrase is exhausted before the Spring Festival, doing hygiene, in the traditional customs of the folk in our country. "Song Hongmai Dagger Yi Jianzhi" said; "There are a few clear windows, and there is a place to sit and lie down." Tidying up your room will make you feel good inside. It is also to sort out the inner soul and remove the burden and garbage in life, and the heart will naturally be clear.
For us rural people, sanitation is the year-end cleaning. The villagers have a saying, the most simple saying is "rich or not, dust off the New Year". sweep away the "poor luck" and "bad luck" from the house. Cleaning is a blessing for the farmer's family and their prayers for saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new. Naturally, people are happy to do hygiene.
Looking back on the past, our rural areas were still in the years of backward transportation, information blockage, and economic poverty. There was no electricity in the village, and several families were huddled together. Living in low, dim and poor quality earthen bungalows. There wasn't even a decent piece of furniture in the house.
Although the material is poor, once the Laba Festival is over, the air is filled with a festive atmosphere. Every household began to be busy dismantling and washing bedding, sewing clothes, hoarding New Year's goods, and grinding rice and flour.
In fact, the busiest housewives are the busies, in the era of material shortage, cloth with tickets, the average family has no extra bedding, so they have to choose the warm and sunny weather sent by the wind, and get up early in the morning to hurriedly remove the quilt and wash the quilt. After washing the bedding with soap, it is taken to a flat and smooth stone and beaten with a mallet.
Especially for heating in winter, I can't afford to buy an iron stove and a stove that runs away from smoke. It is to make a brazier out of mud and burn crop straw and tree firewood. Three meals a day, the charcoal fire after cooking is "warmed" in the brazier. Wisps of smoke filled the entire hut, choking people with sour noses, retching throats, and smoky eyes. In order to preserve the little residual heat after the smoke and fire, even if the eyes were smoky, they were reluctant to open the doors and windows to let the smoke go, and the earthen walls and ceilings were made of newspaper or book paper (the rich were willing to use hemp paper). Because there were no chimneys, after a winter of smoke and fire, the walls and roofs were all turned into black colors, like coal kilns.
On this day, the family members started cleaning together. Clean up the corners, cobwebs, dust, and dirt that have accumulated in the courtyard of the house for a year.
My mother first tied a thick rope in the yard, and then, packed up the bedding and clothes, and our younger siblings were responsible for hugging the yard, putting the futon on the rope and basking in the sun. Finally, the reeds on the kang head are swept into a barrel shape and placed in the yard vertically. The table, water urn, pot and table were covered with a cloth, and the house was cleaned first. My mother covered her head with a towel, brought a broom to sweep the roof first, and then used a feather duster to clean the walls. Dust off the dust from the horns, and then slap the feather duster on the wall of the yard a few times, and the dust on the duster is almost gone, then take the basin, sprinkle some water on the pit and the ground, sweep the dust from the kang head and the ground, and throw it at the street gate with an iron dustpan. We also have to clean the chicken coops, sheep pens, pigsties, big mules, and small donkey sheds.
Wait until late afternoon and clean up the room. Before packing up the things outside, my mother found a wicker and whipped the bedding on the thick rope. Suddenly, every time I pulled it, a deep mark appeared on the futon! The dust on the futon filled the air. Then, my mother took back the reed mat and laid it on the kang. We hugged the futon back in turn. After cleaning the house, you have to paint the walls and re-paste the ceiling to give the old look a new look. Every year it is like this, and every year it must be done. It has been said that; The rich countryside is pure land, and the rich countryside is pure land. There is a lot of truth in that.
Nowadays, our country has implemented the rural revitalization strategy, the roads in the countryside have been cleaned and hardened, and the streets are also equipped with fixed garbage cans, and the rural environment has been renewed. Each family has a spacious compound, lives in a house of good quality bricks, and uses iron stoves and radiators. The house is spotless inside and out, white and clean, full of neat and fresh air. It doesn't take more than an hour to clean up, and the inside and outside will be cleaned up.
Layue swept the dust, and Wufu welcomed the door". On the eve of the prosperous New Year, with the traditional custom of "24 House Cleaning Day", let us talk about hygiene, keep the environment clean, and live a better and healthier life.