Qilu Evening News
traditional crisp.
it's new year's Eve. Year after year, customs of Chinese New Year are becoming more and more different. Recently, the reporter interviewed two "old Ji'nan", listening to them talk about the past New Year's story.
70 years old
70 years old in Ji'nan hi tech Zone. "Every year, people begin to eat, such as fat meat, rice duck, peanuts, pimple and crisp, and steamed dry grain." The pot was served in Ji'nan before us, and nowhere else. We used to pave the pot every year, with a big pot of bones, meat, fish and kelp, underneath the cabbages, lotus root and so on, plus some seasonings, on the honeycomb coal stove and stewed with small fire, the things inside are crisp, and then it is really tasty. Ms. Liu told reporters.
50 year old lady Zhang's family lived near the black tiger spring. She told reporters, "after the young year of the twelfth lunar year, the house began to sweep the windows and buy the annual goods." Talking about this, Ms. Zhang has a smile on her face. "We were fried lotus root, radish balls and flowers, steamed a lot of steamed bun, flower rolls and jujube rolls, and the family slowly ate for the new year."
thirty vegetarian stuffing dumplings can not sweep the ground at the beginning of the year
Ms. Zhang said, before the new year, the family are strictly in accordance with the old generation of the new year rules, can not be messy. "Thirty in the afternoon of the whole family began to pack dumplings, meat stuffing of all the stuffing, but the average year thirty nights we only eat the stuffing, for a solemn silence." Zhang said, "dumplings are wrapped in the afternoon, stir fry at five or six o'clock, and more than seven points are put on a firecracker. At the time of the Spring Festival night, all the people in the family were drinking, chatting, eating melon seeds, waiting for 12 bells. After the Spring Festival Gala, everyone sat in front of the TV to watch the Spring Festival evening. But at that time, the family was not equal, the general female comrades can only see the spring and evening, they have to clean up the bed, because the first one can not sweep the ground, will be a year of money. Wait a quarter of an hour, 12 comrades, the women began to dumplings. When the bell struck at 12, the men in the family went out to put up a firecracker, and then they ate dumplings together. At that time, the dumplings were eaten for the first time, not as much as they want now. "
"fifteen before the first month of the first month, there were a lot of parades on the street, walking on stilts and dancing dragon lantern. There were twenty or thirty people in each team. Many people were dressed up as Sun Wukong, pig eight ring, Guan Gong, and fools and matchmakers. "This is still very exciting," Ms. Zhang said. "Fifteen after eating the Lantern Festival in the evening, the family went out to see the flower lantern.
kowtow, bowing, handshake year gradually changed
"when I was young, a young man in the early years went to give the elders a new year, the elders had to stay at home and waited, and the whole morning at home was rumbling. Some of the younger generation kowtow to the elderly, and the rich families give them a few cents, but they have no money to send melon seeds and sugar. Miss Liu recalls, "on the first day of the day, you can only pay New Year's call, eat some melon seeds and sugar in other people's homes, but can't stay at other people's houses for dinner."