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In the 1970s, the people in Yimeng Mountain area were still very poor, and the materials were very scarce. There is basically no cultural life in the countryside. Only during the Spring Festival can they eat jiaozi, enter the twelfth lunar month and spend the next year. The production team began to kill pigs, and each household was given a catty of meat, so that they could eat pork, cabbage, jiaozi or stewed pork vermicelli on New Year's Eve. So as soon as we enter the twelfth lunar month, we children look forward to the New Year every day. Another reason for looking forward to the New Year is that we can watch movies and have fun.
Jiaozi is mainly eaten on New Year's Eve 12 o'clock. We bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, cook jiaozi and set off firecrackers. Jiaozi has the intention of making friends in the new year, which is good luck. Jiaozi ate it on the morning of the first day of the lunar new year, and jiaozi ate it on the morning of the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. These jiaozi New Year's Eve dinners and jiaozi New Year's Eve dinners are ready-to-eat. At other times, jiaozi mostly cooks jiaozi and freezes jiaozi. On New Year's Eve, jiaozi will wrap a few coins, and whoever eats them will be blessed. Our brothers all scrambled to eat, and I ate too much.
When I was a child, it was difficult to see meat at ordinary times, and I could only eat it during the New Year. At that time, white flour was rarely eaten by eating coarse grains, but after a long time of adjustment, soybean oil was not enough to eat. How could it be willing to fry and fry? My mother tried to put as little oil as possible every month and saved it for the New Year. She changed some soybean oil in a nearby village years ago. In this way, a few Jin of soybean oil will be collected during the Chinese New Year, so that you can fry meatballs and fish. These dishes are expensive to cook. Usually, unless the guests go home, they can't eat these dishes that make our mouth water. When my father was young, he did odd jobs in a restaurant for a while and learned some cooking skills. Only during the Spring Festival can he have a chance to show his skill.
A big table will be filled with chickens and fish, especially fish. I usually buy a carp, which is frozen, of course. The main way is braising or stewing. You can't eat it all at once, then eat it on New Year's Eve, and serve it early in the morning. The practice of chicken is mainly to stew mushrooms with vermicelli.
Because the days are short in winter and there is no work to do in geography, everyone stays at home during the winter vacation and doesn't feel hungry without working. In my hometown, there is a custom of eating two meals in winter. Now that I think about it, it's mainly because I used to be poor and generally didn't have enough to eat, so I have no choice but to save some rations. Most people's New Year's Eve dinner starts after 3 pm, and adults are busy preparing and cooking from the morning.
Respect heaven and earth before eating, and then you can eat. Of course, the New Year's Eve is inseparable from wine. The wine is a local sweet potato dry wine. At that time, there was no TV, so naturally there was no Spring Festival Evening to watch. At six or seven o'clock, the children ran around with lanterns made by themselves and went to a good storyteller's house to listen to stories. Adults and children also play poker together. Soon, they will start chopping stuffing, mixing noodles and making jiaozi for New Year's Eve.
On New Year's Eve, jiaozi is the main food. Cook jiaozi before midnight and set off firecrackers before dinner. There are many taboos in speaking during the Chinese New Year. For example, jiaozi is cooked, not broken or broken, but earned (meaning making money), breaking plates and bowls, and breaking peace. But children don't understand and often say the wrong thing, so they are often scolded. After eating jiaozi and starting to celebrate birthdays, children can't stay up all night and get sleepy after midnight.
In the New Year, we still eat jiaozi. My mother cooked frozen jiaozi and woke us up. We often have to ask adults to shout several times to get up. Before we finished eating, people who got up early to pay New Year's greetings poured in. We also had a hasty meal and ran out to visit other people's homes. The street is very lively, and there are mobile troops everywhere to pay New Year's greetings. People who pay a New Year call first, then salute and say "Happy New Year!" " ".I don't know when it started, and fewer people paid New Year greetings. Later, the telephone became popular, and they called their elders and teachers to pay New Year greetings. After the popularity of mobile phones, they sent messages to celebrate the New Year.
Besides eating jiaozi on New Year's Eve, the New Year's Eve dinner makes it difficult for children to satisfy their desire. In addition, they eat persimmon cakes, melon seeds, fried peanuts and sweets that are rarely eaten at ordinary times. At that time, there was only sweet potato candy in the early days. These snacks bring endless fun to our childhood and adolescence.
In addition to eating and wearing, we have to wear new clothes for the New Year. Unlike now, you can buy new clothes at any time. In those years, most people would buy new clothes for their children during the Spring Festival. My mother is a skilled tailor. Every New Year, my mother will make a new suit for each of our four brothers. The clothes are fashionable and fit, which makes our neighbors and friends envious.
In fact, the most enjoyable thing for children in the New Year is playing. In rural areas, movies will be booked near the end of the year, and it is rare to see a movie at that time. Therefore, entering the twelfth lunar month is the busiest day for our children. Going to the movies in the village is our happiness, and all the neighboring villages have left our footprints. Occasionally, I will travel long distances to a gold mine more than ten miles away to see a movie. Because the gold mine has its own movie machine, movies are shown every day at the end of the year. But it was far away, and our parents wouldn't let us go by ourselves, so we pestered adults to take us there.
Not only can you watch movies, but yangko is usually arranged in the third, fifth and fifteenth days. In addition, by the end of the year, vendors will walk the streets to sell some small things. If they have no money, they can exchange things, such as sweet candy bars, beautiful and delicious rice balls, and our favorite cannons and fire whips. ……。