It's New Year! It's New Year! "The girl wants flowers, the boy wants a cannon, the old lady wants a new padded jacket, and the old man wants a new felt hat. "This is our children's rhyme for the Chinese New Year at that time. This is the traditional Chinese New Year. But now that people's living standards have improved, the taste of the New Year is getting weaker and weaker, and many of the previous traditions are now unknown to young people, and the New Year is becoming more and more boring.
I am a post-60s generation, and I remember how interesting it was during the Chinese New Year in the seventies and eighties! Although the material living conditions are not as good as they are now, there are no big fish and meat, and there are no gorgeous clothes, we are also looking forward to the New Year. As soon as we enter the wax moon, there is a New Year's flavor, and every household has begun to prepare New Year's goods. First of all, I made a new dress for each of the children, made a pair of cotton shoes, and I remember that every time the Chinese New Year, my mother would pull some new cotton cloth, and the cotton cloth at that time was a few cents a foot. For twenty or thirty dollars, we can make a new set of clothes for each of the four of us. At that time, there was no sewing machine at home, and I had to go to a relative's house to do it, and it was a few days to do it, so that a few of our sisters could wear new clothes during the Chinese New Year, and they were never allowed to wear them before the year. My mother also stayed up late every day, made a pair of cotton shoes at night, and made them for several days in a row, all of which were high-top boots, which were warm and comfortable to wear. In this way, there are new clothes for the New Year.
I started to prepare food below, and at that time I made it at home and didn't sell it. After the fifteenth day of the lunar month, they all began to prepare to eat, and then began to steam steamed buns, beat rice cakes, steamed buns, and make tofu, all of which were made with a firewood cauldron, and several families made it together, and the lively and lively noodles were ready for the New Year. Then there is the cutting of meat, most of which is pork, and rarely beef and mutton. I remember one year, my family cut five catties of pork, at that time pork was 8 cents a catty, and mutton was 12 yuan a catty, my mother ruthlessly cut 2 catties of mutton that year, and the dumplings that year were particularly fragrant. There is a layer of oil floating in the pot where the dumplings have been boiled, and the soup is fragrant, so I feel so happy!
Twenty-three for the New Year, twenty-four to sweep the house, twenty-five to grind tofu, twenty-six to buy meat, twenty-seven to send a daughter, twenty-eight to paste New Year's paintings, twenty-nine to hang lanterns, thirty small bags of dumplings, the first day of the new year. "This custom has been maintained for many years. Now people don't celebrate the New Year according to this custom, and they still miss the scene of the New Year at that time, and the New Year's flavor is very strong.
The children are the happiest during the Chinese New Year, with melon seeds and sugar in their pockets after eating, running on the street with their friends, playing and playing, and some boys also set off small firecrackers, which is called a lively! Some can also receive a dime or two cents of New Year's money, so they hurry up to buy a glass ball to play, that's what the New Year looks like. Now that the living conditions are better, the taste of the New Year is getting weaker and weaker, and those interesting New Year's flavors can only remain in the memory.