Chapter 29 It’s the New Year (please collect and recommend)
The last day of the twelfth lunar month is what everyone calls New Year’s Eve. It is a day that both adults and children look forward to, the New Year’s Eve festival.
The difference from the previous two days is that it started to drizzle this morning.
The sky is a little gloomy, and thick clouds cover the sun in the sky.
In Zhang An’s impression, there seemed to be few New Year’s Eve days when the sun was shining brightly in the sky. This was basically the weather. Maybe this was because we were in the mountains.
Wang Fang was already up and busy early in the morning.
No cooking is allowed at noon. This is a custom in Changqing Village.
Wang Fang took out the glutinous rice that had been soaked for many days and steamed a full steamer.
I originally wanted to make more, but Zhang An persuaded me and finally changed to a smaller steamer for steaming.
This is the glutinous rice used to make rice cakes.
There is no cooking at noon because the rice cakes are baked in the morning and the family eats the rice cakes, which can be dipped in sugar or filled with fillings. Usually there is some of each at home.
Zhang An is different. He likes to dip his food in chili pepper water.
After half an hour, the glutinous rice in the steamer was steamed.
Pour it into the cleaned stone mortar. Zhang An and his father took the wooden pestles to feel the glutinous rice flour inside.
Most people can't do this job. If you haven't done it before, you won't be able to do it after a few tries. The key is to use your strength skillfully, and of course you still need to be strong.
The father and son started fighting back and forth, while Wang Fang turned over and overturned the glutinous rice flour that had not been broken up at the bottom and hammered it.
Ten minutes later, Wang Fang turned it over with her hands and took a look. Basically, the glutinous rice had been smashed and stuck together, and it was ready.
Spread a layer of flour on the cleaned sieve, lift out the beaten rice cake and put it into the sieve, twist some of it into several bowls, and Wang Fang assembles the rest with her hands. group, and finally form a big disc.
Then we started to worship the gods. The contents of this bowl were used to enshrine the shrines, which are called god cakes. They were not eaten until after the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first lunar month.
After a while, the second uncle's family also came with steamers. Their family steamed twice as much as Zhang An's family.
But only Zhang An's family has a stone mortar, and his third uncle's family will bring it later.
So Zhang An has to release his strength today.
Just like that, Zhang An picked up the wooden pestle again and started to fight with his second uncle. After the fight, Zhang An still felt a little tired. The main reason was that Zhang An actually didn’t have that many skilled skills, so he could only rely on his strength. Relying on one's own strength.
The second uncle’s family just started cooking, and the third uncle’s family came again.
After washing the stone mortar, we started again. Zhang Jianguo just came out because someone seemed to have something to do.
So Zhang An picked up the wooden pestle and started fighting with his third uncle. It was like Lu Bu fighting three heroes.
Second uncle looked obediently with all his strength.
"Okay, Xiao An, I have a lot of strength now." Second uncle Zhang Jianjun touched his nephew's biceps, not to mention they were quite strong.
“Come on, Uncle Er, I can’t make another pot, I’m so tired.”
Of course there were other people who came to Zhang An’s house later, but it was just Er. The uncle and the third uncle took turns to help, and Zhang An had a good rest.
It took me a whole afternoon just to make rice cakes, because it wasn’t just for my own family.
After eating the rice cake, it was time to prepare for the New Year's Eve dinner. A pot of boiling water was boiled on the stove.
Zhang Jianguo started to kill chickens and fish. In order to save time last night, Wang Fang took out the bacon and sausages and washed them in advance. Today, he only needs to boil them on the fire before slicing them directly.
If there were aerial photography drones now, we could see that every household in Changqing Village is preparing various ingredients.
No matter what happens at home, how much savings there are.
Those families who are reluctant to eat meat several times throughout the year will definitely cook some delicious dishes for their family members during the New Year. This is why children like to celebrate the New Year.
Because during the New Year, we have meat to eat, new clothes to wear, and lucky money.
Although they are one year older now.
After many years, their generation may not like to celebrate the New Year.
Because celebrating the New Year at that time meant going home and being urged to get married, give birth, etc.
But now, at least they can live happily.
A series of preparations lasted for several hours, and only after worshiping the gods did we start cooking.
Of course Wang Fang is the chef at home. Zhang An helped prepare the various ingredients before Wang Fang took over and started cooking.
Although it is New Year's Eve dinner, it is basically ready at four o'clock in the afternoon.
Some people even prepare it even earlier, at two or three o'clock, you can tell by the sound of firecrackers being set off in the village.
After all the dishes were put on the table, the ancestors of the family had to be worshiped first. When it was over, Zhang An took a bunch of earthen cannons to the yard and set them up.
The sound of firecrackers marks the end of the year. This means that the year has passed and everyone will welcome the new year.
Then the family happily reunited for the New Year’s Eve dinner. Although there were only three people in Zhang An’s family, it was still very lively and not deserted at all. And at this time, Wang Fang began to talk about letting Zhang An Ann is looking for a partner.
There are no mobile phones in this era, so online New Year greetings and the like do not exist at all.
It is true that people pay New Year greetings to seek good luck, but they only start on the first day of the Lunar New Year. On the 30th of the New Year, everyone will stay at home and watch the New Year as a family after dinner.
There is no TV now, otherwise the whole family would just watch the Spring Festival Gala on TV. Not to mention, in fact, the Spring Festival Gala in those years was quite beautiful, unlike later when it gradually lost its flavor and more and more people watched it. The less.
But in fact, the planning of the program is one of the reasons. Later generations are not so old. Of course, with the development of technology, fewer and fewer people watch TV, not to mention that TV itself is eliminating itself.
Zhang An remembers that in later generations, when he watched the Spring Festival Gala at home during the Chinese New Year, he actually had to pay as a member to watch the Spring Festival Gala. Isn’t this pure nonsense?
Lying on the bed, there is no mobile phone or TV, but Zhang An is not sleepy now.
I checked the situation in the space in the room. Half a year after I came back, the conditions in my home have changed a lot. This is all brought to me by the space.
The two fish ponds have expanded a lot, and the fish in them are still very large, but because Zhang An deliberately restricted them, they are not as densely packed with fish heads as before.
A few rows of fruit trees are still hanging with fruits. In a few days, Zhang An will plant cherry trees on the remaining half acre of land next to his yard.
The hares that were let in a few days ago have also given birth to cubs. Now they have reproduced for one generation, and there are more than a dozen rabbits burrowing in the grass.
The fawn has also grown up, and it is not afraid when Zhang An gets close to it. Instead, it rubs its head against Zhang An.
Zhang An checked it out and saw that it was a stag with long antlers growing on its head. Although Zhang An didn't know much about deer antlers, it had grown so much that Zhang An didn't plan to cut off the antlers.
On the contrary, the Gastrodia elata planted earlier gave Zhang An a big surprise. Moss over an inch high had already grown in the dense patch.
After asking the elders in the village, Zhang An realized that the older the Gastrodia elata is, the better it is not, but the best time for Gastrodia elata when it has just bolted.
A few moss stalks that had grown relatively high were left behind to save seeds, and Zhang An dug up all the rest.
Sure enough, space is a paradise for these plants. Plants that often require very harsh conditions to grow in the outside world can grow directly in space.
Although these dug Gastrodia elata are ugly, they are still quite big.
You have to find time to cook it outside and dry it in the sun before it can be stored easily, but now it won’t rot if you leave it in space, so there’s no rush.
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