The smell of the New Year in the fireworks of the world
Relatives and neighbors with the same surname in the countryside paid early before dinner on the Chinese New Year's Eve.
Six or seven tables, a few braziers, gathered in the ancestral hall to prepare for the New Year.
The adult men were snorting melon seeds, smoking paper cigarettes, chatting about household chores, and some were playing cards, and there were two or three layers of people watching.
The ladies of each family are washing vegetables and cooking early in the morning, and they all take out the best ingredients accumulated in a year, and take out the craftsmanship of pressing the bottom of the box, and strive to make delicious food that can be used by everyone.
Children dressed in different styles of new clothes are laughing in the ancestral hall and the kitchens of each house. Only when you reach the innermost and highest part of the ancestral hall, where the words "Heaven and Earth Kingdom are in the Teacher's Position", and where incense and candles are offered and the portraits of the gods are offered on the sacred table, the sound and movements will be more solemn.
As soon as the firecrackers to announce the start of the meal sounded, the kitchens of each house brought out several large bowls and bowls that had been carefully prepared and placed them on the table that had been set up in advance. As a rule, the elders of the older age should be invited to the upper hall one by one to take their seats. Those who are in the middle of the generation and age sit in the middle hall. Children who can take care of themselves sit in the hall.
During the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, everyone toasted each other and sent carefully prepared blessings. This is the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner that I miss and remember, simple and lively!