If it is said that the New Year is the smell of the New Year, then the smell of the New Year in the city must be much lighter.
The New Year must have a taste, and that New Year's flavor must also stay in the hometown, the hometown of the countryside.
The so-called New Year's flavor is more in the memory of childhood, and almost stays in the years before the post-80s.
Entering the wax moon, the taste of the year gradually comes out, it is a kind of busyness to prepare for the New Year, and that kind of busyness must be in the coldest day of the year, but the heart is the warmest.
Every household began to get busy, to be precise, first of all, in order to prepare for the food and some busy, rice washing was once the earliest busy in the north of the New Year, large yellow rice and small yellow rice were used to grind into noodles, and then made noodles, kidney beans and beans were used to make fillings, a pot of sticky bean buns came out of the pot one after another, and a pot of rice cakes were also steamed one after another, and after cooling, they were put into a vat after a pot, as the main staple food for the New Year and spring.
If the year is good, kill a pig then it is called the real New Year, captive a year of fat pigs, must add enough flavor to the New Year, after all, there is meat to eat, then it is called the New Year.
When I got up in the morning, I called my neighbors, tied up the pigs, and made an appointment to kill the pigs.
The whole body of the pig is a treasure, the pig blood is put into the basin to make a large piece of pig blood, the pig internal organs are cleaned and become another delicacy, the pork is cut into the tank piece by piece, there is almost no place on the pig that cannot be used, if the pork can not be eaten, it can also be ** to other families in the village, which will increase a lot of income for the family.
If there is no place that can not be used, it is the pig urine bubble, which is the pig's bladder, the pig will blow it full, bulging like a balloon, and then throw it to the children to play, it is such a meat balloon, it will also add a lot of New Year's atmosphere to the children!
Killing pigs must do pig killing dishes, killing pig dishes in the Northeast, that is definitely the hardest dish, in that poor era, the New Year's pig killing dishes contain a strong New Year's flavor, neighbors can get a bowl, that is really too fragrant, there are sauerkraut-based, there are also dried cabbage-based, there will be a lot of blood neck meat, large pieces of pig blood, and even pig blood sausage, in the past, the New Year can eat meat, but it is really rare.
The flavor of the New Year is progressive, and it is by no means reflected by a single content, and every preparation for the New Year is getting closer and closer to the New Year.
After preparing a large amount of food and drink, followed by all kinds of hygiene, inside and outside the courtyard, in the corners of the wall, must be cleaned the cleanest, and the house must be thoroughly cleaned, not only to remove the cobwebs in the corners, but also to paint with white soil.
Catching up with the big set is an important part of the purchase of the lunar month, all kinds of New Year's goods, how much can be prepared, brown sugar and white sugar, new clothes and new socks, oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, all kinds of candy, melon seeds and peanuts, sweet dates and frozen pears, fancy cakes, red and green New Year paintings, all kinds of firecrackers and so on.
Of course, the amount of preparation has a lot to do with the economic situation of each family, but in any case, each family is doing its best as much as possible.
After preparing all the New Year's goods, it is three or two days away from the New Year, during this period, rushing to write the Spring Festival couplets has become the final sprint, each village will have a few people will write the Spring Festival couplets, these days, these few people are the busiest, only to see three or three people with red paper under their armpits, one after another into the home of the person who will write the Spring Festival couplets, only to see that person think a little, in advance cut the red paper brush a little bit, the festive Spring Festival couplets will be all over the room, dry will be taken away by the same villagers, before leaving, thank you again and again.
At this time, I am the happiest, because my father is good at writing Spring Festival couplets, which is of course inseparable from my father's calligraphy skills, these days, among the people who come to write Spring Festival couplets, there will always be someone with a little gift, and among these people, I like to make firecrackers the most, he will always put some two kicks in his pocket, so that I look forward to it.
In those years, many people would engrave money (a simple pattern and text carved on various colored paper, and then glued to the lintel or under the eaves, long colors flying), and the colorful pieces of paper that fell all over the ground when the knife carved also wafted the atmosphere of the year.
The day before the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, every household was busy posting Spring Festival and Fu characters, and there would be people at the gate of every household.
The most delicious moment of the year finally came, it must be the evening of the Chinese New Year's Eve, of course, noon is also the most sumptuous meal, all kinds of delicious food accompanied by intoxicating wine, the family is slightly drunk talking and laughing. Dinner is relatively simple, after all, it is already eaten and drunk at noon.
After dinner, start to keep the New Year, as the name suggests, is to stay up all night and wait for midnight, during this period, but also to make dumplings, because at midnight there is a meal, a few dumplings to put coins, at midnight the person who eats the coin is lucky.
Wait until close to 24 o'clock, every household begins to "send paper" (that is, to burn paper to pay tribute to the gods, and then all kinds of firecrackers), at this time, the boiling of the countryside, an endless stream of firecrackers are lit together, the countryside is like a pot, the continuous firecrackers not only illuminate the entire night sky, but also make the quiet year of the countryside noisy incomparable, at this time, the family conditions are good to set off fireworks for a long time, will also provoke many people to watch from afar, this family will also win everyone's appreciation.
This kind of excitement must be until about two o'clock in the middle of the night, because there will always be a man who delays the time of "sending paper" because of the greed for winning or losing the game, and rushes home, continuing another wave of firecrackers, at this time, the people who eat dumplings and coins will be happy and difficult to sleep, even if the Spring Festival Gala on TV has ended, the joy is enough to make it impossible to sleep.
On the first day of the Lunar New Year, there is almost no lazy sleep, after getting up early, everyone will put on new clothes, go door to door to visit the New Year, the sound of "good New Year" New Year's greetings is endless, there are older old families to visit the New Year's will be more hula lala, and hula la, hula la, hula lala kneeling down on the ground full of melon seed shells and peanut shells, and the old man on the kang will be unable to close his mouth again.
The door of every house is open, and the kang is full of melon seeds and candy, good cigarettes and tea, and the neighbors and villagers who greet the New Year are entertained with the hottest scene.
The happiest moment for the child has arrived, arching his little hands to greet the New Year, and constantly kneeling and kowtowing, because the elders will always give out red envelopes, and red envelopes affect every child's heart after all.
The whole New Year, is the most disgusting moment in the countryside, people no longer go to work, it is rare to take advantage of the Spring Festival to do nothing for a few days, chatting about this year, chatting about the coming year, restless will always go to make a game, day and night to play a few money, there will always be people in the wife's discolored face bowed head home, which indicates that this person must have lost a lot of money, the first month, after all, is an idle month.
The New Year's flavor of the hometown is so simple, there is no decoration in the simplicity, people always celebrate this traditional Spring Festival in the most solemn way, and these ways are basically the same, but the theme is festive and peaceful, warm and simple.
The taste of the hometown is the most sincere, and this kind of feeling has precipitated thousands of years of Chinese culture, and also expresses the most sincere desire in people's hearts, longing for smooth wind and rain, longing for family safety, longing for a bumper harvest, and longing for national peace and security.
I love the New Year's flavor of the countryside more than the New Year's flavor in the city. Because it is a happy hometown, the hometown is deep in everyone's heart, it is an inseparable attachment, life is full of flavors, only the New Year's flavor of the hometown, the fragrance of the night and night!