Memories of the Year

The taste of the year in childhood is beautiful new clothes to wear and endless candy. The taste of the year now is the babbling of parents and the greetings of relatives, more helpless and melancholy. The flavor of the year has been stored in the memories of childhood, more and more mellow, more and more yearning...

New Year is the most looking forward to when I was a child, because not only new clothes to wear, but also a variety of candy and novelty things that I can't eat at ordinary times. The first three days of the Chinese New Year must be the day when the whole family mobilizes to clean up together. On that day, my father would go to the mountain to cut a shed leaf-in fact, it is called Qinggang tree in dialect-and tie a red ribbon on the tree to clean every corner of the house, especially the corners of the beam and other places that are not cleaned on weekdays. When cleaning, my father still said something in his mouth, but I couldn't understand it all the time. I chased my father and asked him not to tell me. I perfunctorily said something about praying for the safety and success of my family.

After cleaning the house, my mother will soak the newly dried glutinous rice and give my brother and me the green pine branches that are also newly cut by my father. We pick the pine needles one by one and put them in a small basket until they are full. In the evening, it was lively. Grandma, aunt, cousin and cousin all came to my house to help make glutinous rice cakes. The mother is responsible for steaming the glutinous rice, the father and uncle are responsible for pounding, and the others are responsible for making the pounded glutinous rice balls into palm-sized circles and placing them on a sieve covered with green pines, layer by layer, until the soaked glutinous rice is finished. The glutinous rice cake is the best made by grandma. It is big and round. Our children make it in a strange shape, and we will leave a mark on what we make, so that we can claim it when we eat it. The best food for glutinous rice cakes is when they are just made, dipped in their own honey or crushed peanuts. They are sweet and delicious, and their mouths are full of fragrance. As soon as I get up the next morning, my mother will divide the finalized glutinous rice cakes into several portions and let my brother and I carry them to relatives and neighbors to eat. I have eaten Ciba in many places, and the eating method is similar, but the traditional practice of the Yi people is the most unique, full of ritual and happiness, and has a unique green pine flavor. On the morning of the 30th of the 8th year, the family went to the street to buy new year's goods. most of the candies were prepared in advance. in the morning, they mainly bought fresh meat, lucky characters, spring festival couplets and fengmen money. At two o'clock in the afternoon, the food for New Year's Eve began to be prepared. Generally, all the dishes were ready around five o'clock, and the picked green pine needles were spread in the hall into a circle. Point incense and prepare the paper for the sacrifice. My father took a sieve and carried the food and wine he had cooked. After respecting the kitchen stove, he took the whole family to the hall to kowtow with incense, praying for the ancestors to bless the whole family's health, everything goes well and the luck of the coming year. Then insert incense paper at the entrance of the main room and the gate in turn, and move all the food to the paved round green pine mat to be placed in turn.

We have to feed the dogs before eating the New Year's Eve dinner. There is also a legend about this: there used to be no rice. People ate grain the size of bricks. Later, the dogs howled towards the sky every day because of hunger. The gods in the sky were moved by the dog's shrill cry and scattered a handful of rice. From then on, people had rice. In order to thank the contribution of the dog, people will feed the dog before the New Year's Eve dinner. When I was a child, I listened to my grandmother's story, and I felt very surprised. I imagined the scene of the dog roaring up to the sky and the rice falling from the sky, and imagined what the brick-sized grain in my grandmother's mouth looked like.

With a deafening sound of firecrackers, you can have the New Year's Eve dinner. The family sat around the green pine table and laughed. Eating the green pine table implied "happy green pine". After eating well, you can't play yet. You have to post the blessing and the wind door money. A large string of even-numbered damper money should be pasted on the doorframes of the main room and the gate, and one on the circle doors of other rooms and poultry. The word "fu" is pasted upside down at the gate. as the saying goes, "fu goes in and out backwards. Then there is washing feet. On New Year's Eve, you must wash your feet after eating a good meal. You can't go out after washing your feet, because there is a popular saying in our country: if you don't wash your feet for 30 nights, you won't be able to catch up with your meal for a year. After washing my feet, I really didn't have much to pay attention to. I ran to play with my friends with candy and firecrackers.

New Year's Day after graduation and work, I always marvel at the passing of time. I always ask my childhood playmates whether to go home or to work for the New Year. I think about how to spend the days when I go home first. I feel that the Chinese New Year has become a form and there is no longer the surprise of my childhood. New Year still have new clothes to wear, still have all kinds of candy, but has lost childlike innocence. All the people of the same age are married and have children. The scene of laughing and playing has become a variety of topics of raising children. The flavor of the year in memory will always stay in memory. (qi jianmei)