January 13th, in the Baotu Spring Park in Ji'nan, the staff are assembling the ligation lanterns. The Spring Festival is approaching, and the annual Baotu Spring Lantern Festival is counting down. Recently, various lanterns have been assembled. Wang Yuan, a reporter of our newspaper,
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Spring Festival is one of the important contents of Chinese culture, and the annual custom handed down from it is also a long history. However, with the development of the economy and the quickening of the pace of life, the traditional customs, such as "add chopsticks and add bowls", write spring couplets, steamed steamed bun and other traditional customs have gradually become far away.
supermarket tableware special area rarely seen young customers
12 days, the reporter found in many big supermarkets in the provincial capital, soup dishes, deep discs, bowls and other tableware have been placed in a prominent position, to become a part of the hot sales year. At the Carrefour supermarket in Lishan Road, the tableware such as melamine and ceramics entered the "big collection of new year products", and were promoted to the public. Ms. Jing, who lived in the post green community, told reporters that his hometown was in Weifang, where the custom of adding dishes and chopsticks during the past year was meant to "add longevity to longevity" and "flourishing people". Especially for families with adult unmarried children or newlyweds, it is absolutely necessary to add bowls and chopsticks before the Spring Festival. Moreover, when new year's Eve worship ancestors, new dishes are also available. Mr. Wang, who works in the supermarket cutlery area, told reporters that he also used this year's custom as a publicity point for promotion recently. But he noticed that the majority of the customers who came to buy the bowl and chopsticks were middle-aged and old, and most of the young people added the dishes to the new year and said they were not cold or even heard of it. "Seldom entertain guests at home at ordinary times. It is useless to add so many tableware, and how much you need to buy." Many young customers say that.
handwritten spring festival couplet is difficult to buy
12 days, in the old East Gate small commodity wholesale market, selling foe, Spring Festival couplets and the spring festival ornaments before the booth, very busy. The bright and festive red card spring couplets are very conspicuous. In the past few years, the spring couplet of the finished product is becoming more and more delicate. For example, the spring couplet will be sprinkled with gold powder, but the gold powder is easy to fall. This year's spring festival couplet is improved. However, the contents of the Spring Festival couplets have almost no change, and all the years are the festive words. When the customers come to choose, they don't pay much attention to the "word". "In the old home, all the handwritten couplets are written by the elders in the Yellow calendar, and the words are both many." The owner of the wangsurname said, "no one is going to pay for this now. The spring festival couplet is just like a procedure, without the joy of the past." "It's not easy to paste individual personalized Spring Festival couplets." Zhang Yunfei, a citizen, told reporters that he had his son in November 2008. Last year's Spring Festival, he wanted to stick to the spring couplets related to the content and "the happiness of the Zhang Zhang". However, there was no good word, and the place to sell the Spring Festival couplets was too far from his own home. "I heard that there is only a handwritten spring couplet in the hero mountain cultural market." It's not clear.
will not steamed pastry also do not bother
in the old home is the Jiaodong Peninsula Wang Yuzhen's view, the Spring Festival steamed jujube cake is a tradition, which means "flourishing". Before, a small year, Wang Yuzhen was busy with face, knead face, even two or three days spent steamed bread on the steamed bread, in addition to big dates and pastry, there is a local point called "longevity worm". These pasta, in addition to stay during the Spring Festival to eat at home and guests, but also to worship ancestors, gods. After 2005, Wang Yuzhen came to live in Ji'nan and his son's family, and since then he did not steamed jujube pastry again, all the year to the steamed bread shop, or from the supermarket to buy. As for the reasons, one is because the production process of Chinese jujube cake is more complex, and the daughter-in-law's lack of experience will not do, and there is no big iron pot for steaming steamed bread at home. In addition, the custom made meat and cake can also taste and size, and it won't take much time and trouble. "I think it's good to steamed myself." Wang Yuzhen told reporters that he steamed jujube cakes and pastry, knead the face many times, rubbed his arm all acid, steaming a lot of firewood, hot steam in the pan filled the whole room, the air has a sweet smells of sweet silk, after the pot, while the hot bite, taste and soft and mouth feeling. "At that time a steamed cake, the taste of the year have come out. Now, it's not that exciting. " Wang Yuzhen has some feelings.