Old Ji'nan's new year's Eve and the age of watch
New Year's Eve dinner is called "reunion dinner", seven dishes of eight bowls, meat and vegetarian. All those who are away from home must go home and talk about family happiness. The whole family round the table and eat, laughing.
> Zhang Zhilu
the "new year" of the old Jin Dynasty, not the first, second and third days of the eve of the eve of the eve of the night, but from the Twelfth "small year" from the twelfth moon to the beginning of the next month, five, nearly half a month. In Chinese traditional festivals, the Spring Festival is the most solemn.
New Year's Eve is the climax of the Spring Festival. Every family attaches couplets, New Year pictures and lanterns. In the afternoon, the embroidered red satin "table top" was set up in front of the eight immortals table of the main room, putting on the memorial tablet of the ancestor or hanging the family's axle. Children come in and out with their flower masks, and housewives stir fry in the kitchen. A warm atmosphere near the banquet is haunting people's hearts.
at dusk, each family burned incense at the gate or at the crossroads, burning the paper to "ancestor", the street lights flickering and the cigarette curling. The ancestors returned to serve the fragrant tea, fruit, dim sum, and so on.
supper on New Year's Eve is called "reunion dinner", seven dishes and eight bowls. All those who are away from home must go home and talk about family happiness. The whole family round the table and eat, laughing. The custom of the south of the Yangtze River is to save two water chestnuts in the rice bowl. In particular, it is funny to leave a little food in the small plate, which is called "mouse rice", that the mice eat the food, can not rodent clothing, it seems that small rats, also understand the world.
"the time of Haizi", that is, before and after the 11 point of the night, the lower boundary of the gods, the garden "heaven and earth table" on the red candle high fever, one of the owners knelt after the worship, then the fire paper, Huang Biaozhi, paper treasure, Matsushiwa Reiko, when the air in the air to disperse a clear fragrance of pine and cypress. At that time, the sound of firecrackers was everywhere, and it seemed to synthesize a thick cloud of sound and to fill the deep night sky.
"a couple of years old, five to two years". On New Year's Eve, insomnia is called "Shou Sui", or playing mahjong, or tea in the fireplace, melon seeds and dumplings. At the time of the gathering of the little Kang's family, it was the time of "the light of the street and the roar of the accounts," the "thousands of laughter leaks", the sound of debt, the abuses of debt, the crying of the women, the cry of the women, the Wah of the children, and the intertwined world of "a few happy families". Phase.
the morning glory, the rooster crow, the first morning, the first morning, man dressed to go everywhere, "good new year! Give you a new year!" "good luck! Good new year!" the year so the number, also do not know where to come, the wealth from where to hair. They are full of auspicious words. They do not want to laugh and raise their mouths to make a face full of spring breeze. As for the family, it is common to see such a scene: the relatives and friends of the new year have entered two doors, and the great grandmother in the north house has seen the glass windows, and quickly raised the cotton doors and windows to come out. The new blue satin gown, the black velvet camel saddle shoes, a red silk flower in the oily sideburns, the figure flashes from the curtain, "light" has been full of courtyard, and then a smile...
in the south of the Yangtze River, to visit new friends and family, the owner will honor the "Yuanbao tea", that is, adding an olive to the cover tea. This tea must be drunk, otherwise it will not win the host's hospitality, often drink bladder bulge, internal urgency.
five at the beginning of the month, the year is over. The family of people in Ji'nan makes dumplings, called "pinch the five". Interestingly, the people of Tianjin called "pinch small mouth", "small man" many mouths but not conducive to the gentleman, the mouth should be pinched, then the dumplings as "small mouth" hard to hold, it is said that a year "do not commit the small man." Earlier, in Ji'nan, there was a "five poverty" custom: beggars held brooms and cleaned the door from house to house. Although everyone praying for happiness, in the old society, Wang Xiao 2 celebrated the new year.
the wind is easy. Once reminiscence of the old spring festival scene, like the world!