2021 Spring Festival, due to the need of epidemic prevention, the government advocated non-local personnel in Tianjin to stay in Tianjin for the Spring Festival, and several friends of our book club did not go home. After learning of this situation, President Fan Jie proposed to organize a dumpling making activity during the Spring Festival, and everyone would spend a different year together. The

party is scheduled for the fourth day of the first month at the Yinzhu Hotel in the Development Zone. The hotel owner is a kind and easy-going person and provided us with the hotel kitchen. In order to reflect the atmosphere of family reunion, the president suggested that everyone bring a specialty or hometown dish.

The fourth day of the new year is coming soon in people's expectation. The dish I prepared is very simple: green cabbage shreds and blanched, coupled with Longkou vermicelli and red ham shreds, sprinkled with garlic powder and salt, white sugar to freshen, poured some raw soy sauce, poured the fried pepper oil while it is hot, and the oil "" "rang for a while, A beautiful salad of cabbage is ready. The Chinese New Year is going to be beautiful. I specially found my daughter to put on some light makeup and went out with cold dishes.

Arrived at the hotel and saw that the book club who had come first was busy. The chef of the hotel also came from the city specially to support us. The president has prepared a wealth of ingredients for everyone. We plan to make dumplings with four fillings: mutton gourd, pork cabbage, pork pickled cabbage and vegetarian fillings. We set up a battlefield inside and outside the hotel's dining table. Some of us washed and chopped vegetables, some mixed noodles, and some mixed meat fillings under the guidance of the chef. After everything was ready, everyone put the two tables together and began to make dumplings in a circle. Among them, Guan Jie and Liu Jie made the fastest. We also randomly wrapped two candy bars in each different dumpling filling to see who could be lucky enough to eat the sweetness of the New Year.

Everyone comes from different places and makes dumplings in different ways. There are Shandong, Northeast and Hebei dumplings. Xiao Liu also made a beautiful pattern box, which is placed in the center of the round dumplings. It is especially beautiful. Everyone praised his good craftsmanship. Two other children and I are responsible for cutting the agent and rolling the dumpling wrappers. We also have a unique skill in rolling the skin. We dig a hole in the dough, pull the dough apart in a circle along the hole, stretch it and shape it. After a while, it turns into a circle. When everything was open, a noodle stick that was thin enough and round enough was lying on the panel. The noodle stick is cut into tablets, and the incision is placed in two turns. The tablets thus produced do not need to be rounded. When rolling the skin, one press along the incision is a round piece, which is fast and convenient to work. At the end of the dumpling making of

, Han Xiaodi walked into the hotel kitchen for the first time in his life with the prepared chicken wings and yellow croaker and turned over the spoon under the guidance of the top chef. Seeing him and Li Wei shouting "serve, " in tandem, everyone praised in unison and scrambled to watch. The braised chicken wings are arranged in three rows from more to less, in one direction, and one end of the plate is decorated with carrots and green vegetables, which looks lively, just like a group of chickens scrambling for attractive food. After deep-frying, the yellow croaker is poured with a secret soup, which is good in color, flavor and taste under the green vegetables. It's not easy for everyone to praise Chef Han.

Between talking and laughing, the steaming dumplings were also cooked, and everyone put their private dishes on the table one after another. In addition to Han Xiaodi's signature dishes, there were also Guan Jie's sweet and sour prawns, Liu Jie's cashew shrimp, Xing Jie's preserved eggs, my cold dishes, and the hotel chef enthusiastically sponsored the specialty sesame oil chicken and vegetable salad. Everyone greeted each other to take their seats and invited the hotel's manager Kong and chef to have dinner together. The president thanked Manager Kong for his strong support for our activities. Manager Kong said with emotion that he was also unable to go home because of the epidemic, and he was very happy to be able to celebrate the New Year with everyone.

Everyone happily talked about the customs of the New Year in their hometown and the happy things they met during the New Year. The more they talked, the more relaxed they became and the more close they felt. While eating and chatting, Yang Xue, a young and beautiful new friend, was the first to eat dumplings with candy pieces. Everyone praised her for being lucky and wished her a sweet and happy new year. Who will eat the second dumpling with candy bars? Everyone was eager to try, but the table was almost finished with the candy bars and the chef went to cook a new plate of dumplings. For the sake of candy, we also fought hard. Obviously, we had eaten a lot, but we were still not willing to put down our chopsticks. The official sister also said that this was called winning by quantity. Sure enough, Liu Jie and Xing Jie ate the candy bar almost at the same time. Everyone laughed and congratulated them, hoping that they would have a happy event soon.

There have been years of wine without excitement, wine without poetry. We raised our glasses frequently, wishing each other well and telling each other our hearts. When the wine reached the end of the day, Han Xiaodi recited Tao Yuanming's "Biography of Mr. Wu Liu", ", which was known by his relatives, or he bought it by buying wine. When you make a drink, you will get drunk. Since he was drunk and retired, he had not been stingy to stay and leave ..." He recited with both voice and emotion, and everyone applauded him, believing that he was expressing the enjoyment of the book club "pro-old " "will be drunk " . He is our talent, not only read well, poetry attainments are also high. I read Su Shi's "Looking at the South of the Yangtze River", "Don't Think about the Old People and the Old Country, and Try New Tea with New Fire, Poetry and Wine Taking Advantage of Time " . I chose this poem to tell my friends that although I can't go home for the New Year, don't be sad. We will accompany you to celebrate the New Year. Let's drink and recite poems and gather together to make you miss home.

Finally, all of our book friends read Su Shi's "Dingfeng" together, "Don't listen to the sound of piercing the forest and beating the leaves, why not yell and walk slowly ..." I hope that in the days to come, we will not be afraid of wind and rain and walk slowly. The combination of poetry and wine is the expression of Chinese wine culture, making it more elegant and elegant. Let's raise our glasses again and wish each other well and our great motherland well. May the epidemic dissipate as soon as possible, may the warmth persist in the world, and may the close friendship of the book lovers last forever. (Liu Hairong)