Entering the wax moon, it will begin to be busy. In the wax month, we must not only produce normally, but also do all the preparations for the New Year, it is indeed busy enough, the hard work paid for the New Year is called the busy year, the villagers work hard and happy busy year, it is part of the flavor of the year, it is a combination of happiness, it is the expectation of the heart, and it is also the warmth of the lights of ten thousand homes, because the family reunion during the New Year, eating well and dressing well, it is the best day of the year, busy for this day, every drop of sweat is soaked in joy.
Picking up rice cakes and steaming steamed buns is the highlight of the busy year, and the preparation work begins even in the winter months. Bald (verb, prune branches, make trees bald) tree, prepare firewood for steaming steamed buns, steamed steamed buns need to be burned quickly, there must be enough hard firewood, branches and roots are the easiest choice, after getting it, chop it into more than a foot long section with an axe, tie it up and dry it under the sun.
To make rice cakes and steamed steamed buns, prepare sticky noodles and flour. In the countryside, glutinous rice and wheat are produced by themselves, and the team has distributed them to each peasant household according to the head of the family early. Rice and wheat have to be sent to the brigade processing plant to machine (processing), the flour is processed, and it can be used directly, and the glutinous rice becomes sticky noodles (glutinous rice flour) and needs further processing. Beat it again and again, sift it over and over again, until there are only one or two bowls of broken glutinous rice left in a full tuft of glutinous rice. The remaining glutinous rice grains will be made into glutinous rice dumplings, which are also extremely delicious. The process is complex, multi-player cooperative, and takes at least a night or two to complete. The processed glutinous rice flour is moist and needs to be dried in the sun for later use.
New Year's cakes, steamed steamed buns, with a wooden square cage, a group is generally four layers, most of them are two groups, because the cage processing requirements are high, not every family has, people with cages will take out the cage drawer and put it in the river to soak when they enter the wax moon, and then carefully brush it clean, and then prepare a good septum cage cloth to dry and set aside. When they started to make cakes and steamed buns, they lined up to take turns to use them, and people didn't stop. This process is commonly known as "cage-playing". In the days of cage hunting, the non-stop sound of bellows, the rising fireworks and hot steam, and the laughter of adults and children are the most wonderful scenery in the village. After the cage is played, in order to express gratitude to the main family, the cage drawer is grateful, the user will take out the best cake and steamed buns in the cage drawer to give back to the owner of the cage drawer, and the villagers call this ceremonial process "back to the cage". The number of pastries returned to the cage is generally conventional, and there is no limit to the number of pastries, but they must be in pairs.
During the Chinese New Year, fish is indispensable. As soon as the wax moon enters, each production team will kill New Year's pigs, and a few more will be killed if the conditions are good. Our team belongs to the better, the annual pig generally has to kill five or six heads, and each person can get more than three catties of pork. What is even more rare is how much difference there will be in the distribution of food according to age, and the distribution of pork is purely according to the head, regardless of the elderly and children, everyone has an equal share. Pig offal, pig's feet and pig's head will be converted into pork, several bamboo curtains are spread on the ground, more than 100 portions of pork are all spread out, affixed with digital labels, a family sends a person to catch lots, five people will catch five lots, although with great chance, but it is indeed open, fair and just. When every lot is opened, it is like a sports lottery lottery, and those who get the fat of the pig's head are greatly praised, and they are called lucky.
The same is true for fish, most of which are produced in the fish ponds of their own production teams, and they are caught with nets or simply exhausted, and the fish caught are also matched into basically equal portions according to the size and species, labeled, and the harvest is determined by lots. At that time, there were no farm refrigerators, so the distribution of fish and meat could not be too early, usually after the twentieth day of the lunar month. The fish meat is distributed to the home, except for a part of the roasted room temperature frozen, the rest will be salted to make salty goods, because it is pickled in the wax moon, there is a unique fragrance, so it is called "cured meat".
There is also a big job in the busy year, which is to clean and decorate the environment. In line with the folk "dusting", after entering the wax moon, the home has to be thoroughly cleaned from the inside to the outside and from top to bottom many times. At that time, most of the family conditions were not good, the grass house mud floor, cleaning is not ambiguous, the dust duster made of bamboo branches can remove the dust from the heights, and the fine broom cleaning again and again, the mud floor will be swept out. The tables and benches are soaked in alkaline water, and all the dirt accumulated over the year is completely washed away.
In addition to placing the tables, chairs and benches in the best position, except for wiping the dust on the sitting statue of God and Buddha on the family cabinet and the ancestral tablet, the doors and windows are carefully cleaned, "thousands of households always replace the new peach with the old charm", and the cleaned position is reserved for the Spring Festival on Chinese New Year's Eve.
Chinese New Year's Eve, commonly known as Chinese New Year's Eve, is the climax of a busy year and the end of a busy year. Write Spring Festival couplets, paste Spring Festival couplets, paste Shun Sui Strip, paste wedding cards, paste door gods, paste New Year's paintings, paste calendars, full of flowers and flowers, full of joy and satisfaction. At the same time as the atmosphere of the environment is created, they will start to cook and be busy, and the housewives will use the best skills to present all the best dishes, worship the ancestors at noon, and treat the family at night. The busy year is the happiest and happiest busyness in the world, and no matter how hard it is, it is sweet.
Some people lament that compared with forty or fifty years ago, the taste of the New Year is lighter now, and people do not attach as much importance to the New Year as they used to. In fact, no, the most fundamental reason is because the ordinary days of ordinary people today are comparable to the Chinese New Year at that time. Now for the Chinese New Year, fish and meat are the freshest and can be bought at any time, and steamed rice cakes are also processed by professional shops. We have the same joy and happiness as the New Year every day today. Headline Creation Challenge Wonderful Writing Challenge It's the New Year