years, the most interesting is when I was a child.
When I was a child, I was looking forward to the New Year, and the smell of the New Year in my impression was that the sound of firecrackers pierced the night sky, the lanterns flew up to the eaves, and a pair of couplets pasted on the walls, and a piece of new clothes were worn on the body.
At that time, the flavor of the New Year should start with the steaming pot of glutinous rice and eight porridge, and every household officially kicked off the New Year in the joy of busyness. First of all, I was preparing new clothes for the New Year, starting from my father taking a cloth ticket to the tall department store to tear back the cloth for the whole family to sew new clothes, my family's "standard" brand sewing machine "no longer peaceful", and my hard-working and enthusiastic mother sewed my four-checked tweed jacket and polyester pants, and would also sew their new New Year's clothes for the neighbors. The second is the cleaning, every time the cave is painted, the house that can be moved at home must be moved to the yard, the large pieces that can not be moved are covered with oilcloth, the white mud is brushed three times, each piece of utensils is scrubbed and returned to its place, the white cave is equipped with new hemp paper paste bright doors and windows, and then decorated with a few colorful window flowers, it is really new, the window is bright and clean.
The highlight of preparing for the New Year is, of course, to make a variety of New Year's food, according to the custom of childhood, the New Year's food should be prepared until the fifteenth day of the first month, and some of the Yin people will not be able to raise their heads until the second dragon in February. My family does New Year's food, my mother and grandma are the best partners, I am their most loyal fans, all the New Year's food to do in person, the white fat mung bean sprouts come from a large pot wrapped in a large flower quilt, the selected mung beans are soaked in warm water, and new water should be changed every night. I like to see tofu the most, soaked all night of watercress in the stone mill with water to grind into a white paste, with a large cloth bag filtered into a large pot to boil, through the sour pulp point into a brain, packed in the basket compacted, cut into pieces is done, from soybean milk, tofu brain, to the finished tofu, each process product is my favorite, just out of the pot of fresh tofu dipped in vinegar and garlic juice will make your taste buds leave endless bean fragrance.
Making vermicelli also makes me look forward to it, the starch noodles are filled with alum water and into elastic balls, pressed and poured into a pot of boiling water in a high erected dumpling bed, and after a while, they are fished into the cold water to cool down slightly, and the children can't wait to fish a few, and suck them into the mouth, which is so fine that the taste is overflowing. There are also Huang Lingling's soft rice cakes, white buns with red dots, braised pork with purple sauce, crispy chicken, meatballs, various dumpling fillings, sweet and sour rice wine, ......It will be ready one by one before the Chinese New Year's Eve.
On the evening of Chinese New Year's Eve, the distant mountains are full of lights, the red lanterns shine with soft and warm yellow lights, and the homes of every household have built a pointed fire tower, and the family sits around the table of the eight immortals in the middle of the kang, eating a sumptuous and delicious Chinese New Year's Eve dinner on the table, pushing the cup and changing the lamp, and talking about the wine auspicious. The boys couldn't hold back their excitement, lit the fire tower, crackled the few firecrackers, and the girls talked about the pink gauze flowers on the braids while trying on the new clothes. When the Spring Festival Gala begins, men, women and children gather at the TV house, snorting melon seeds and peanuts and watching the Spring Festival Gala, the "Universe Brand Cigarettes" that have been remembered by Ma Ji have been sold in every country on the map, and when the Spring Festival Gala is over, the black and white TV screen presents a snowflake shape, and the adults' vigil is good, and the children have already slept crookedly.
On the first day of the new year, the door cannon woke up the children in their dreams, and they hid the precious New Year's money under the pillow in joy, and took the steamed rice cake to roast in the residual fire of the fire tower, and it is said that the whole family will not get sick after eating it for a year. I am most looking forward to the second year of junior high school with my mother to my grandmother's house to visit the New Year, where the New Year has a unique taste, I will be warmly treated by my grandmother's family in a new dress, with the village friends take a long sorghum stick door to door to visit the New Year, in return to us is a long list of sweet and sour oil rings, in the first month, the children will do their best to play crazy, running the city, jumping bands, playing sandbags, playing poker to win fruit candy ......Chinese New Year is the most solemn traditional festival in our country.
The year is the blend of family and family affection, the reunion of the family, the year is the blessing word pasted upside down, the red dot on the steaming steamed bun under the mother, the year is the beautiful vision and expectation of the small family for the coming year, and the year is everyone's common blessing and wish for the motherland: no disaster and no epidemic, the country and the people are safe!