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Twenty-three, honeydew melon is sticky; Twenty-four, write big characters; Twenty-five, sweeping dust; 26. Come to cook the meat; Twenty-seven, kill the rooster; Twenty-eight, send face; Twenty-nine, steamed bread; Keep one night for thirty nights; On the first day of walking, the honeydew melon became sticky.

Today is the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, commonly known as off-year and the beginning of "Chinese New Year". When I was a child, the street was usually deserted, and it was from this day that it became lively. Fireworks sellers, balloons sellers, sugar blowers, and all kinds of foods are selling there. So children all go to adults for money, and so can their parents, grandparents, uncles and aunts. Adults are more generous than usual at this time. It's the Spring Festival! "Twenty-three years; Prostitutes want flowers and boys want guns. " Which one is free! But the authentic traditional food that must be eaten on this day is honeydew melon, because this day is the day of offering sacrifices to stoves. Kitchen God lived at home for a whole year. On this day, he will put sweet and sticky honeydew melon in his mouth, so that he can speak well in heaven and keep peace in the lower world. My family never worships evil spirits, but honeydew melons are edible.

Twenty-four, write big characters

During the Spring Festival, people who can write should cut some red paper and write some couplets, blessings and auspicious words. People who can't write will go to the market to buy it, but now most of them can write and sell it. The couplets on the gate are generally festive, easy to understand, and don't pay attention to hierarchy and level. For example, "go out for money, and prosper at home for money", and then criticize a sentence that everyone can understand "purple gas comes from the east." Indoor couplets should be more chic, such as "why should the room be elegant and there are not many flowers?" On the granary, there is a bumper harvest of five grains, on the pigsty, there is a prosperous six animals, on the zhaobi, there is an aboveboard, and on the stairs, there is a safe ride. I think this "peace up and down" is the most wonderful. It is safe to go up and down the stairs, and the whole family, old and young, should be safe.

Twenty-five, sweep the dust

There will be a general cleaning before 2008, and people who are pickled again can't be lazy. This may also be a bit fastidious, to renew everything, or to sweep away bad luck. In my family, my mother never needs our help. She always throws us out with some small change, puts on scarves and masks, and cleans the house carefully with bamboo poles and feather dusters. By the time we came back, the window was bright and clean. Now my mother is old, but she still adheres to the tradition of cleaning years ago. It often takes several days to get backache after cleaning once.

26. Come to cook the meat.

At that time, there was no refrigerator, and the meat cooked in the New Year had to be marinated for several months before eating, which was the so-called "bacon". My second aunt raises pigs, kills pigs every year and gives half to my family. When I was in cook the meat, I used a large pot and a small fire to simmer for more than half a day, and then stewed for one night, so that the cooked meat was delicious and delicious. But children often can't wait, and from time to time they urge adults to take out a piece and try it. As a result, this day often does not eat any staple food, only eating meat and bones is full. Of course, half a pig's meat can't be fully cooked. We should set aside some raw meat to cook, then chop some lean meat into stuffing, and keep jiaozi and croquettes. Chopped meat can be put in a jar and sealed with lard, which can last for a long time without spoilage.

Twenty-seven, kill the rooster

There may be some sayings about killing cocks to ward off evil spirits. My family doesn't believe in evil, so it's not necessarily the rooster who was killed. Sometimes it is an old hen, and sometimes it is a light chicken that was directly killed. Because we have to entertain relatives during the Spring Festival, chickens are essential for every family. The chicken stewed by my second aunt is delicious. Her family has a jar with a big belly and a small mouth, which is specially used for stewing chicken.

Twenty-eight, send your face

Northerners eat pasta, mainly steamed bread, so they make noodles and steam steamed bread every three to five days on weekdays. However, this is not the case during the China New Year. Steaming steamed bread takes more than ten days at a time, so dough is particularly critical at this time. The process of making dough is roughly as follows: first, yeast (also known as flour fertilizer) is boiled in water, mixed with flour, and then slowly fermented in a large basin. Because of the large quantity, it usually takes all night. After being delivered to a certain extent, you need to add a proper amount of baking soda powder, then add some flour, knead until the hardness is moderate, and then continue to ferment for a while. This is a technical job, and housewives pay special attention to it, because relatives come to dinner during the Spring Festival, and whoever steamed the steamed bread is sour and sorry will inevitably become a laughing stock.

Twenty-nine, steamed bread

If talking about noodles is a technical activity, steaming steamed bread is a manual activity. Repeated kneading of steamed bread will be strong and delicious. Therefore, when steaming steamed bread, there are often men from all walks of life on stage to help out. The prepared steamed bread agent should be put into a special mold, pressed out with various patterns, and then steamed on a drawer. This steamed bread mold is engraved with festive patterns, including the words of jubilation, happiness and longevity. Pay attention to the family, but also buy some food coloring, dip a little on the steamed bread with chopsticks. At this time, there will be many girls with red spots on their eyebrows in the street, just like Xiangling in a dream of red mansions, but Xiangling's is a natural rouge record, and theirs are all red spots left by steamed bread.

Keep it for one night and thirty nights.

Everyone knows that we will eat jiaozi on the first day of the first month, but our custom there is to eat jiaozi at noon on the 30th. But because this day is not a holiday, many people have neglected it. Be sure to have a reunion dinner on New Year's Eve, with at least 12 dishes, chicken, fish and some good wine. Go out to set off fireworks after dinner, and pack jiaozi to eat the next morning after the fireworks come back. You can't go to bed until after midnight. This is called guarding the old age. For children, bowling is actually very difficult, so my family doesn't go bowling every year, so I go to bed when I am sleepy. In recent years, it has become easier and easier to watch the Spring Festival Gala.

Let's go for a walk on the first day.

Before dawn on the first day of the Lunar New Year, some people scrambled to get up early and set off firecrackers. At that time, firecrackers came and went, which made people sleepy. After getting up, I will pay New Year greetings to my parents, get lucky money, and then eat jiaozi. At the beginning of this year, you can put a copper coin in the jiaozi. Whoever eats it means good luck this year. Going out for the festival after dinner means looking around for the New Year and kowtowing to the elders according to the old custom. However, my family has long changed its customs, changed kowtow to bow, and said "Happy New Year" and it was successful.