The pig in my hometown will be concentrated on the 22nd day of the lunar month, not too early, not too late, the villagers shouted, several families can finish a big fat pig, the old family's cooking of pork is limited to back to the pot meat, fried meat, braised pork these three kinds, so as usual pig head, pig trotters, internal organs can only be kept by the master himself.
One year, my family slaughtered three pigs, and I roasted pig hair and washed pig intestines at home during the Spring Festival.
If the pig is killed early, the pork bought back is placed in the house, and a group of gluttonous cats watch, and it is estimated that it will be eaten before the New Year.
The 22nd day of the lunar month is the most suitable, because tomorrow will be the New Year, and the first meat eating of the New Year will be placed on the evening of the New Year, which is called the sacrificial stove at that time, and now it is called the sense of ceremony.
The nursery rhyme sings "Two.
Ten. 3. Sugar melon sticky", which means that you have to eat sweets on this day, so that the king of the stove smeared honey in his mouth, so that "God will say good things and return to the palace to be auspicious", this is the god culture with Chinese characteristics.
My family does not have the custom of sugar melon sticking, the most exciting thing for the children to celebrate the New Year is that this day is the justifiable time to set off firecrackers, in order to distinguish it from the big firecrackers on the first day of the New Year, the folk song of the hometown is "twenty-three, put a small whip".
The small whip is small, almost all of them are more than 1,000 rings, unlike the first day of the Lunar New Year, at least 10,000 rings. The firecrackers on the twenty-third are a formality, more like blowing the horn of the New Year, announcing to the New Year: New Year, I'm coming.
The small whip also lies in the children's dismantling of the firecrackers into pieces, crackling and releasing them all at once, far from dismantling a hanging firecracker and putting it one by one. Lighting a piece of sandalwood, lit, evacuated, and covered your ears, in one go, the sound of bang, pop, snap, snap is endless, and a 1,000-ring firecracker is broken down into 1,000 times of happiness.
Another happy thing is to have a beautiful meal on New Year's Eve.
On the night of the 23rd of last year, I happened to go to my hometown to call a few **, and when I asked what I was eating, it turned out that without exception it was all the old traditions: stewed vegetables and baked cakes.
Yes, on the night of the 23rd, after setting off firecrackers and serving incense, the customary New Year's meal in my hometown is to eat stewed vegetables with baked cakes.
Braised is one of the eight traditional techniques of Chinese cooking, which is explained in the Xinhua dictionary as follows: put vegetables in a pot and fry them with thick juice to boil or mix a variety of foods together.
Moisten the pot with fatty meat, stir-fry lean meat, carrots, cabbage, and artificial meat (bean tendon made of soybeans) together, add water and cook with vermicelli, monosodium glutamate to enhance flavor, soy sauce to add color, and reduce juice over high heat.
The difference with the pork stewed vermicelli in the Northeast is that the soup in the stewed vegetables in the hometown is very small, and the juice is collected into the dish by the fire, so that you can make a pot of meat and vegetables You have me, I have you, meat dishes do not lose their fragrance, vegetarian dishes do not lose their freshness.
Sometimes my parents go to the street to comfort the children who stay at home, and they will say: Obedient, when I come back, I will bring you a fire to eat. This is because the old family is good at steaming steamed buns, and almost all of them cook steamed buns on the day of the New Year, so it is a rare thing to eat steamed buns.
When going to school, the official holidays almost all start from the 23rd day, it is conceivable that on the day of the new year, I finally don't have to go to school, firecrackers began to let me play, there is meat in the bowl that can be eaten openly, and the fire bun that is usually used as a gift is in the hand, so many good things are concentrated on the day of the small year, for us in childhood, the expectation of the New Year, it is the small year that gives us great hope.
Xiao Nian 23 is so beautiful, and he can't be happy in the New Year?