23. Date of resignation; Twenty-four, enlarge the characters; Twenty-five, make tofu; Twenty-six, cut raw meat for one year; Twenty-seven, slaughter the rooster; Twenty-eight, send face; Twenty-nine, all; Black children under the age of 30 walk all over the street. This is a jingle left by the elders for the New Year, which summarizes the preparatory work we need to do before that year and is passed down from generation to generation. Of course, with the changes of the times, some customs have also changed with the times. Let's say it in chronological order.
23. Date of resignation
The 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month is called off-year. On this day, every household will send the kitchen god to the west, commonly known as the kitchen. On this day, every household will send a bowl of noodles, a dish of honeydew melon, a dish of dates, incense, wax, paper and other sacrifices to the kitchen god, and read the formula of the kitchen god's grandfather to learn from the Western Heaven, saying that the sky is good and the lower world is peaceful. Remove the old portrait from the kitchen mouth and put the new portrait on the shelf (new portrait)
24 Latin characters
Big letters are the words posted on the door during the Spring Festival. On the thirtieth day of the twelfth lunar month, every family has the custom of posting Spring Festival couplets. Traditionally, on the 24th day of the lunar calendar, every household would pull a few pieces of red paper and ask the old gentleman who knows calligraphy in the village to draw Chinese characters. But few people do it now. There are fewer and fewer people in the village who can write big characters. Two pairs of machine-printed couplets replace handwritten couplets, which is quick and convenient to buy.
Ershiwuzuo tofu
Traditionally, on this day, every family will make tofu for happiness. Nowadays, few people make their own tofu. In order to save trouble, they buy tofu instead of making tofu.
Twenty-six, cut raw meat for one year; Twenty-seven, slaughter the rooster;
As the saying goes, one day is sad and one year is good. In the past, no matter how hard farmers lived on weekdays, they would cut a catty of meat on the 26th of the twelfth lunar month and kill one or two cocks on the 27th of the twelfth lunar month. Here, I'd like to introduce the aspic we made in the New Year. We blanch the chicken with pig's trotters, pig's head and bones in hot water to remove the oily smell and cook it in a pot, leaving only chicken thighs. The remaining chicken skin and bones, together with pig's trotters, bonzi bones and pig's skin, are returned to the pot for a certain period of time. Put it in a big pot, and it will become aspic when it cools. You can't just use that smell.
Twenty-eight, send your face
Here are some special pasta that we only have in the New Year.
1 jujube cake, peach cake
We have the custom of steaming big cakes during the Lunar New Year. Those with dates are called jujube cakes, and those without dates are called bald cakes. The pie is made of dough, and the jujube is homophonic with the morning, bearing the farmers' good wishes for early hair.
To make a big cake, you must make dough the night before. After the dough is cooked, add alkali and you can knead the dough. Kneeling dough is a technical job. Kneeling on the kang, people's shoulders, arms and wrists should be coordinated to knead a soft and elastic dough blank. Pick out the tip of the top and four sides of the dough with your little finger and put the cut dates in. Make a big cake, put it on the kang, buckle it and grow it. The wood has been put on the bottom of the pot to make a fire, just waiting for the water to boil.
As soon as the experienced hostess saw that the skin of the big cake was bright, she began to fill the pot. When filling the pot, she dipped a new cooking broom in water and sprinkled it on the skin of the big cake. Finally, she put a piece of fat meat on the grate with a bowl or corn husk, covered the halter and started steaming. In this way, in the process of steaming, oil and gas landed on the pie, and the steamed pie shone.
When you make a big cake, you usually weigh each cake to make it weigh two pounds. It is said that this will make the children at home heavy enough. No outsiders are allowed to enter the house when steaming cakes, for fear of stepping on them. Some people close the door, and some people put a broom behind the door to sweep away the bad luck that outsiders may bring. The steamed cake split into petals, and I have to say, the cake smiled. When making big cakes, sweep the kang up to avoid burning. But burning kang mats will still happen. At this time, it can't be said that the kang burned, but it can only be said that the kang burned vigorously. When steaming cakes, it is very taboo to steam them, because everyone thinks that this indicates that the family will be unhappy in the coming year.
Peach crisp, as its name implies, is made like peach crisp, and peach crisp also has a deep meaning. According to my mother, eating peach cakes is equivalent to running away for another year. Of course, life is good now, but this tradition has survived.
2 noodle fish noodle fish is a fried food specially prepared for the Chinese New Year. After the oil is boiled, just fry the cooked raw fish in the pot. It is called noodle fish, probably because it looks like a fish. In addition, taking Mao Hefa as an example has a beautiful moral, that is, fish and fish are more than enough every year. When frying, it turns in a frying pan, much like fish in water. It tastes soft, so it has no taste.
Shengchong Shengchong is the mascot of our New Year sacrifice in Jiaodong area. It is made of dough, with a round head in the shape of steamed bread and two spherical dough as eyes. Mung beans are used in some places. Cut the mouth in half with a knife, with coins and red dates in it. Two conical doughs are tied together as ears, and the male ears are cut out with scissors. The female has a circular pattern with thimbles, and the male has a crown. The female is a flower group and the trunk is a snake. Legend has it that the Holy Worm is the initial embryonic form of totem dragon, the Chinese nation. Now, this sacred worm sculpture has been incorporated into the handicraft book in the Asia-Pacific region, and it has become a characteristic artwork of the Chinese nation that will go down in history forever.
There are all 29.
Generally, on the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month, everything is ready to welcome the New Year, just waiting for the arrival of the New Year. This afternoon, all families have to paste and begin to paste pairs. The gate, entrance door, wing door and courtyard door should be pasted together. People with animals still put six animals in the corral. The carriage travels thousands of miles a day, a greeting in the room, a blessing on the stone mill and the water tank, a happy life from now on on the till, a New Year picture and a stained window in the house. Lanterns should be hung on the walls of every house to show that the grain is abundant. Street doors should be hung with doorplates, door cranes and peach branches.
At 30 o'clock, Hale walked the streets. On the morning of the twelfth lunar month, every household will invite guests.