Searching for 12 years of fire

Mondo Entertainment Updated on 2024-02-02

Today is the 23rd day of the lunar month, and China has begun the Chinese New Year season, according to Chinese tradition, this year starts today and ends on the 15th day of the first lunar month.

When my father was alive, he said that when he was a child, when he celebrated the New Year, he had a fire to eat. After hearing this, I have been thinking about eating a New Year's fire. I remember once during the Chinese New Year, the second uncle came to my house and brought the New Year's fire, wrapped in a wrapper, layer by layer, it looked hard, it may be a mistake in memory, and I felt that there was a layer of hoarfrost on the persimmon on the body of the New Year's fire.

New Year's fire burning in various places is not a practice, there are meat filling, there are bean paste filling, and our one may be sweet potato filling. Mom said that you can only eat it after steaming it in a pot, probably because there are ingredients of glutinous rice, and it is sticky because the homonym of the word "sticky" is the same as "year", so it is called Nian Huo. It's not very sweet in the mouth, and it's not as delicious as dumplings. When I was a child, it was the 60s, about 68 years, and the roads were full of carriages, donkey carts and buses, very few cars, and when I saw a car, it must be a big official of the municipal party committee. We kids often pull the back of the bus and take advantage of the ice on the road to slippery. Every time I go to the neighbors' houses to see the Chinese New Year, there is candy to eat, and the cuffs are shiny, because there is snot and the sleeves are wiped out, and others call us "snot children". In winter, I wear cotton hats on my feet and cotton hats, and often one ear of the hat hangs down. In those days, there were few delicious foods, and I ate dumplings, sugar cubes, and firecrackers during the New Year, so I didn't care too much about the New Year's fire. Now there are New Year's fires everywhere, and almost no one eats them. New Year's fire is the auspicious New Year, is to pray for the new year to burn up, Dad's family composition is the landlord, I fill in the family component column is "Gegan", people see "Gegan" know that it is the landlord, as far as my dad thinks it sounds. One year, during the Chinese New Year, I asked my father, what does the landlord's family eat for the New Year? Dad said how can it be delicious now, shrimp and everything? Nowadays, almost few people eat New Year's fire, there are too many delicious foods, and many families simply go to restaurants to customize Chinese New Year's Eve dinners. However, thinking about it carefully, the New Year's flavor pot gas burned by the New Year's fire is still there.

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