Memories of Chinese New Year steamed bread

after the Chinese new year, I went to work on the first day and returned home. Take out the key to open the door, look up and see the New Year pictures posted on the door, and several colorful fish appear in front of you.

during the spring festival, fish are everywhere in the supermarket. Live fish, frozen fish. Festive embroidered pendant fish, large, medium, small, all kinds. Fish in couplets and fish in New Year pictures. As long as you go out, you feel like you are drowning in the world of fish.

Fish has a beautiful meaning in China. It is more than enough every year, and it is more than enough to celebrate. People like to use fish to express their good wishes. Therefore, in the Spring Festival, no matter whether you have money or not, you should always buy a fish and eat it during the New Year, hoping that the new year will have a good day.

when I was a child, my family was poor and I had no money to buy fish, so I had to eat big meat. Big meat is not eaten every day during the Chinese New Year, but only at noon on the first day of the New Year's Day. Others can only be served when guests come.

There are no fish, but China people are very wise. They have thought of a particularly good way to make every family have fish during the New Year and eat fish every day.

On the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month, every family steamed steamed buns, and all kinds of fish steamed buns were steamed.

I remember when I was a child, my father steamed many kinds of steamed bread every year, including fish steamed bread. Every year, my father will steam a big fish steamed bread, which will be steamed in a big iron pot at home, and only one can be steamed in one pot.

This fish steamed bread is about 4 centimeters long and seven or eight centimeters wide. The steamed fish should be slightly bent, just like swimming freely in the water. The tail swings gently, and the two eyes are replaced by two jujubes, which looks very beautiful.

after steaming a big fish steamed bun, my father will also steam a lot of small fish steamed buns. Just put the big fish on the pot row, put one small fish around the big fish, close to the tail, and look from a distance, as if a big fish is swimming freely in the water with a group of small fish, and they are reluctant to eat.

Steaming steamed buns in the Spring Festival is an important event. The 28th of the twelfth lunar month is a fixed day for steaming steamed buns, so my father usually steams steamed buns all afternoon. In addition to fish steamed bread, there will be a lot of dates steamed in flower steamed bread. The jujube flower steamed bread in the Spring Festival not only symbolizes prosperity, but also the dates on steamed bread mean "early development".

On the 3th night, my father will build jujube flower steamed bread one by one, and finally make it look like a mountain. My father said it was called jujube hill, and then put jujube hill in the main room. Father also put the steamed fish in the shape of a mountain, with the biggest fish below and the small fish on top to form a mountain, which is also placed in the main room.

On the first day of New Year's Day, folks of the same clan will pay New Year's greetings to each family. Everyone who comes home will praise jujube hill and Yushan arranged by his father.

At that time, my biggest dream was to go to the New Year's Day as soon as possible, so that I could eat jujube flower steamed bread and fish steamed bread. Sometimes when no one is around, I secretly take the dates off the steamed bread and find a place where no one is around to eat. I think the dates are particularly delicious, sweet and fragrant.

As the days get better day by day, my father is getting older. During the Chinese New Year, I no longer steam jujube flower steamed bread or fish steamed buns. During the Chinese New Year, people will buy big fish and small fish at home, and take all kinds of fish pendants at home.

Although steamed buns are now used in the Spring Festival, there are many steamed fish buns, such as steamed jujube flower steamed bread, which look more lifelike and beautiful, just like a work of art..

However, I still miss those days when there were no fish, and I miss my father's steamed fish steamed bread and steamed jujube flower steamed bread. I no longer simply think about the steamed bread and dates, but miss the yearning for a better life and the expectation of a better life in those days.

In those days, adults get up early and get greedy for the dark, and work diligently, hoping to live a good life through their hard work. Children study hard and hope to change their lives through education.

at that time, people's ideas were simple, and they all wanted to live a good life through their own efforts. I believe that as long as you work hard, you will be able to live a rich life. I believe in education. As long as children study hard and go to college, they will certainly be able to change their destiny.

at that time, people didn't have messy ideas and didn't want to get rich overnight. Parents don't think their children are inferior because they don't buy brand-name clothes for their children, and children don't feel inferior because they can't buy Li Ning sneakers for themselves.

At that time, the living environment was very simple, and people around me were very kind. I don't worry about being stolen when I go out to buy things. I just leave my bike in the yard and I'm not afraid of losing it if I don't lock it. Children play everywhere in the village, wherever they want, and adults are not worried about being abducted and run away, let alone being hit by a car.

Now, life is good, and you don't need to steam steamed bread to expect a good life. What's more, you don't need to spend an afternoon steaming steamed bread. Anything you need is sold everywhere in supermarkets and streets. People's lives are good, convenient and simpler, all bought by buy buy.

however, my heart is more anxious. Far away from home, I can't always accompany my parents. I spend a few days with my parents in the New Year. Just after the New Year, I have to go my separate ways. There is less and less companionship for my parents and children, and family ties can only be contacted by phone.

Parents at home always miss their children far away. Children who stay at home always think of their parents far away from home. As far away as the metropolis, we travel back and forth in the company, subway, bus and home every day, and the days are busy and fast.

No matter our parents and children at home, or we are far away, we just live, but have no life. Occasionally, life, like stealing, is only a few days a year, always coming in a hurry and leaving in a hurry.

Just like Xu Zhimo's "I left gently, just as I came gently ...", every time I think about it, I feel uncomfortable.

Life is getting better, and I miss the steamed Chinese New Year steamed bread by my father in those years.

I miss my father's process of steaming steamed bread, and the warmth that overflowed.

I miss the time when my parents and family were together, and I always felt warm affection.

I miss the days when people who worked hard for their dreams worked hard and were happy.

I miss studying hard at that time, just for a dream, and education changed my life.

I miss the blue sky and the stars at night.

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