After the beginning of spring, the Lunar New Year is about to be ushered in, and the Chinese's expectations for the New Year begin with the preparation of New Year's goods. In the past two days, the market in Longling County is quite lively, people buying and selling New Year's goods are bustling, and the flavor of the New Year is rising in the sound of selling and laughter.
In the lively market, fresh fruits, couplet window flowers, rock sugar gourds, pickles, barbecue, candies and other goods are dazzling. The reporter found that the snacks that were full of taste, good meaning and good taste in those years have "made their debut", attracting many citizens to buy them.
In front of Wang Shuyan's handmade sugar stall, homemade sugar snacks such as rice candy, honey candy, walnut candy, glutinous rice candy have been favored by many citizens, and the unique taste of handmade candy can not only satisfy the taste buds, but also imply abundant food and sweet life in the coming year. In order to meet the diverse needs of the public, Wang Shuyan also made a lot of new varieties, she told reporters: "In the past two days, glutinous rice baba, yellow flower baba, honey candy, walnut crisp, etc., usually these are not sold, the New Year's business is good, the demand is large, and the production is stepped up to sell, and the most time a day can have more than 1,000 yuan of income." ”
Foot Cake is also popular, in the local history there has always been the custom of New Year's Rice Cake, the foot is the use of the lever principle to install a long rod on the wooden frame, one end of the rod is equipped with the head, below the place of a stone mortar. People step on the tail, the head is cocked, the foot is removed from the tail, the head falls down and the threshing rice is beaten, and the head is taken out to make a round poop, and then wrapped it with banana leaves, it can be preserved and eaten. Baba means reunion, and it is also the first choice for New Year's goods.
Yang Mingxian, who came to buy baba, told reporters: "Eating baba during the New Year is the folk custom of our place, baba is soft and glutinous, fragrant and sweet, and the family sits together at night to roast baba on the fire, and the fireworks in the world are lively and lively." ”
Snacks such as sweet jelly, steamed cakes and rice tea are also very popular, and business is booming. Pu Xingliu, the boss of Sweet Jelly, introduced the production method of Sweet Jelly while busy selling: "Sweet Jelly is ground into rice milk with rice, constantly stirring after getting out of the pot, and then adding edible lime slurry to continue stirring. I don't usually do it every day, but many people will come to buy it in the past few days of the Chinese New Year, because the sweet jelly tastes sweet and has a good meaning. Zhao Qinli, the owner of the steamed cake on the other side, also agreed: "My steamed rice cake is also very good to sell, everyone wants to be auspicious, I hope that the next year will be high, the reunion will be reunited, and the business will still be okay." ”
Kuang Guiqin, a citizen who came to buy New Year's goods, bought some rice tea, she said happily: "It's the New Year, buy a little rice tea to drink, sweet, I hope the life of the family is sweeter than this rice tea, and I wish everyone a happy New Year and good luck." ”