What's the most memorable thing you took home after the Chinese New Year?

After the Chinese New Year, the most unforgettable thing to take away from home is bacon.

When I mention my hometown Guilin, many people often think of the famous saying "Guilin's landscape is the best in the world". However, if you ask Guilin people from other places what is the most unforgettable thing in their hometown, bacon should be one of the important memories, especially before the Spring Festival every year, bacon often evokes a lot of homesickness.

When I was a child, my hometown was poor and I didn't eat much meat at ordinary times. Only during the Spring Festival can I eat a meal with an open stomach. Because of this, killing pigs and roasting bacon has become a custom in my hometown. Whenever the atmosphere of Chinese New Year begins to fill, the villagers are busy with the annual grand festival.

The bacon in my hometown is baked with rice shells, and each piece is golden and transparent. Watching it makes people drool. Eat a piece and slip it in your mouth without getting tired.

It is worth mentioning that in the 1970s and 1980s, the number of bacon in a family often represented the economic prosperity of that family.

My hometown is very cold in winter, and the bacon is well preserved. I can eat it in the spring of May Day the following year.

Every time a guest comes, cutting a piece of bacon and cooking it is the most solemn way to entertain guests. In addition to delicious food, before the economic poverty, bacon was an essential gift for visiting relatives in rural Guilin.

I remember when I was 12 years old, my father told a true joke: "In the first month of one year, I brought a piece of bacon from our home, and after a trip to my relatives' home, it actually returned to our home. It's just that the bacon was miserable and it went well. When it came back, it was covered with scars after many different packages. In spite of this, the bacon made and opened by myself has several special marks, which I recognized at a glance, haha ... "

About 10 years ago, as people became richer and visited relatives and friends during the Spring Festival, less and less bacon was brought, replaced by red envelopes. The phenomenon of "mentioning a piece of bacon and leaving thousands of families" is gradually buried in the memory of Guilin people and becomes an unforgettable story, which is occasionally mentioned, recalled and cherished.

However, for me who seldom go back to my hometown for the New Year, it is essential to bring some bacon back to Xiamen.

A few days ago, I went to menstruation's house to pay a New Year call. I sent Xiamen pie and ginger duck in exchange for more than 20 pieces of bacon. If my wife hadn't reminded me that flying would be overweight, I would have changed more- Because those bacon are not only delicious, but also memories and homesickness. ...