Homecoming (11) | Small Years

If you happen to come home on that day and walk from the beginning of the village to the end of the village, the most common sight is that people put up cauldrons at the door to kill pigs.

On this day when I was a child, there would be delicious pork blood buns, skin jelly, and of course, the most important thing, there would be meat. The pork is boiled in a pot with the bones. When the stew is fully cooked, it is fished out. The parents first remove the meat and throw the bones to the children to chew on. Like feeding the dog? No no. At that time, we often grabbed a pig's calf bone with both hands, and gnawed it with oil on the face.

There is a toy, which is played once a year, is pig urine bubble (bladder). We use him as a balloon to blow up and play a football.

It is rumored that the fatal wound on the pig's neck can cure frostbite. When I was a child, I saw many children stab their swollen hands in and bring out bloody fists. After all, the pig's mournful wailing still lingers, so it is said to be very warm and warm. However, because I was resistant to freezing since I was a child, I have never had frostbite, so I punched the wrapping edge that felt the warmth in the pig's body.

Of course, now I know that the so-called cure for frostbite is just like many folk remedies, which are effective because of blind obedience.

The new year is also the day of great cleaning. On this day, we will move the things in the house to the yard, cover the things that cannot be moved with plastic sheets, then step on a ladder, take a long-handled broom, and sweep the cobwebs and gray strips in the corners. clean. Scrub and scrub, of course, is the meaning of the title.

In the evening, please ask the stove king. The Kitchen Lord was bought from Ji Shang during the day and printed on yellow paper. Use chopsticks to smear the noodles and paste around the stove, and stick the stove on the stove. The couplet is usually attached to the kitchen master, which is usually "good things are said in the sky, good luck is brought down from the ground", etc. I don't remember any horizontal criticism.

The third step is to scoop up half a bowl of rice into the bowl and put it on the stove. The whole family, young and old, go into battle. The leader bows first, kneels down, lights the yellow paper, and throws it over his head. The most perfect expectation is that the yellow frame that was thrown up swayed down in the flames, and the landing just turned into ashes, that is the gods. (However, the gods never take it lightly. Most of the time, we have to constantly push the half-burning yellow frame from the ground with two fingers and then send it upwards.) Then kowtow, stand up, bow, and light three incense sticks. , inserted into the bowl, then bowed, kowtowed, and completed the ceremony.

Mom's anger often rises before this step, because other families are led by elders, and my elders never participate in such things. Our juniors are even more uninterested and dawdled. Since the old man did not participate, as the only second male in the family for a long time, the task of leading the role fell to me. Although I was a little reluctant, I was forced to go through the scene every time because of my mother's arrogance.

So far it's nothing, it's all a matter of hand. Every time the pressure is huge, it is the fourth and last step, shoot!

I'm afraid of firing guns, I don't know if it's because I was bombed when I was a kid, or I'm just born afraid, I'm afraid anyway. The other children fired their own cannons, holding a cannon in one hand and a fire in the other, igniting them calmly, and shooting gracefully, with a loud bang above their heads, but they only leaned back a little.

The concubines admire, the concubines can't do it!

The concubine's fire didn't touch the core of the cannon, the cannon had already shot, and the man had bounced back quickly, and he had to cover his ears in a hurry. So, later I set off firecrackers. Even if I set off firecrackers, I never light the core, but tore the wrapping paper, hang the gun on the tree, light the paper, and when the flames find the core, I retreat to a safe area.

This approach is very clever, and this approach can sometimes be misunderstood by cleverness. The fire goes out before the core of the cannon is found, and you have to cover the thumping little heart and do it again!

The kitchen master will be picked up on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, and will be sent away on the 23rd of the first lunar month. It was very perfunctory to send the stove, peeled off and threw it on the fire. Of course, after all, it is a fairy, so it is not decent enough, and there is a ceremony. The fire is burning vigorously, men and women, young and old, jump over the fire, laughing and making trouble, feeling the refreshing warmth of the crotch, which is called Liaogan. After the scorching was finished, the fire gradually went out. Then, he picked up the lump of soil he had found everywhere, and dipped it into the embers vigorously. Then he got up and raised his arms and threw it out. The sparks sticking to the soil lumps drew arcs in the air, causing cheers, which is called sending dry.

Invite the kitchen master to send the kitchen master for a whole month, marking the beginning and end of the "Chinese New Year". After sending the Kitchen God, the New Year is over, the hilarity and leisure have to come to an end, it is time to pack up your mood, and wait for the spring flowers to bloom!