Invite famous writers to write articles about the Spring Festival.

Liu Shaotang's Remembering the Animal Year.

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Memories of Time Past is an article by Liu Shaotang, a famous writer, which describes his Spring Festival in his hometown of Canal in the suburbs of Beijing. The article mainly describes the fiery Spring Festival scene in his hometown and a group of colorful rural scenes. Its words are vivid and accurate, its language is simple, and it is full of strong local flavor.

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Spring rain shocks spring and clear valley days, summer is full of mountains and summer is connected with heat, autumn dew is cold and frost, and winter snow drifts. In the village customs, the four seasons and twenty-four solar terms are colorful, but the Spring Festival except the twenty-four solar terms has the most distinctive local characteristics and strong local flavor. Spring Festival is now the official name, but I call it Spring Festival or New Year, just like my fellow villagers in Canal.

Back then, when I was young, the Chinese New Year in my hometown began to heat up on the first day of the twelfth lunar month. It's getting warmer and hotter every day, and I have a fever until the end of the year.

On the first night of the twelfth lunar month, everyone fried peanuts, melon seeds and popcorn; After frying, pots after pots, bundles of firewood were stabbed into the stove chamber, and the heatable adobe sleeping platform was hot enough to make pancakes. Peeling corn kernels in an iron pot mixed with hot sand; Grandma was holding a spatula in her hand and murmured, "On the first day of the twelfth lunar month, the child won't get sick." Peanuts, melon seeds and popcorn are fried, put in a dustpan, dried in the yard, and then brought into the house, where the whole family sits around and munches. I eat too much, my mouth is sore, and I have to drink soup made of burnt rice crust. The soup has cleared its appetite, the fire of rotten mouth has subsided, and it's time to eat Laba porridge again. Laba porridge made of millet, corn grits, red beans, sweet potatoes, red dates and millet is delicious. It looks pleasing to the eye in a bowl and is reluctant to eat. But I don't have enough to eat and I don't want to put down my chopsticks. After drinking Laba porridge, the taste of the year is stronger. Vendors selling candied haws shuttled back and forth and drew lots with bamboo tubes. The candied haws in the lottery tasted the sweetest. The vendor selling hanging dates in Zhuozhou strung dried tiger-eye dates with core and selenium removed into a circle and hung them around his neck to eat. Vendors selling honeydew melons and kwantung sugar are constantly shouting, one after another, boasting. There are also vendors selling velvet flowers with grass handles on their shoulders. The stalks of grass are covered with colorful velvet flowers, which walk through the streets. The eldest girl and the kannika nimtragol called them to the door and stood on the threshold to choose flowers. The old lady will also buy a red velvet flower for China New Year. There are cries of killing pigs and sheep in the south, north and west of the village. If you stand in a chicken coop and feed a fat chicken for a month, you will be cut off. Every family is busy steaming steamed buns and rice cakes, and the poor family will steam bean dumplings for a few days. Tofu is frozen on the cylinder head and sieve of the patio, persimmon is frozen on the windowsill, and sauerkraut is also pickled. Women are busy, but men are squatting on the root of the fence to bask in the sun and gossip. On the 23 rd of the twelfth lunar month, send incense to the kitchen god and send paper horses. The most interesting thing is to take off the idol of Kitchen God. Before cremation, you can dig a few pieces of sugar paste from the honeydew melon, put it on the kitchen god's mouth, and tell him to speak well in heaven, so that the lower bound can be safe. After the kitchen god left, the door god changed his post, so he erected a heaven and earth pole behind the screen wall, hung a lantern and a straw stick rattling in the cold wind, and posted a red paper on the heaven and earth pole: "Jiang Taigong is coming". Evil spirits are sneaking around and dare not harass. New Year's Eve on the 30th of the twelfth lunar month is joyful and solemn. Family reunion package jiaozi, who eats package jiaozi to make money is the most blessed, good luck in a year. The yard is covered with sesame stalks, and the little girl is not allowed to go out. Although the little boy is allowed to walk, he can't pee outside to avoid colliding with the gods. Don't sleep no matter how sleepy you are. Adults tell jokes, riddles and stories to children. This is called bowling. When the night watchman knocks the bangzi, jiaozi can be put in the pot, firecrackers will be set off in the yard, couplets will be posted on the door frames, and children will kowtow to the old people one by one before jiaozi puts the pot. Old people will be rewarded with lucky money, and boys can go out and step on sesame stalks to give them to their families, and their pockets will be full of lucky money. Gastrodia elata lit up and the neighbors knocked at the door. Open the door and meet each other, screaming: "Congratulations, congratulations!" "Happy, happy!" I usually visit hundreds of families, and at the beginning of the first month-I want to pay a New Year call to hundreds of families. I left my neighbors, went to my hometown, and visited every family in the north and south of the village. At this time, I feel recognized, and I am one year older.

Meeting Bingzi at the age of 60 is my birth year. Recalling the past at the age of 60, I feel quite rejuvenated.

Source:

Su Jiaoban seventh grade Chinese first volume lesson 12.