The New Year is a very grand festival for the countryside, twenty-eight noodles, twenty-nine stickers to you, thirty nights to sit overnight, is the adults to the children often say, every household in order to welcome the arrival of the New Year, invariably will get up very early and work hard.
Twenty-eight noodles, now refers to the white noodles, at that time the white noodles are rarely generally ground into corn noodles fermented, after the noodles are ready, and then the prepared bean paste will be wrapped into a round shape, which is what the countryside calls bean buns, the real society in the iron pot stew will still faintly see its figure, but has long lost its original taste. At this time, there will be a lot of neighbors to help, there are kneading dough, there are wrapped, there are fires, so that the bean buns into a pot came into being.
Twenty-nine stickers, say twenty-nine stickers couplets, but our side are all thirty morning stickers. This day can also be said to be the day with the most people in my family, my brother took out his so-called ink treasure very early, and one after another someone will come to him to write couplets. Now it is all machine printing, when the red paper is cut and written with a brush. Hanging money are carved little by little with their own homemade carving knife and then pasted on the door, and the remaining red paper will also be written with many large and small blessing words positive and negative, and the reverse means 'blessing to come', absolutely will not be wasted. On this day, there is also an important task is to hang lanterns on the tree lamp pole, Dad will cut down a circular branch, trim the branch after pasting the red, green and green flags and then tied to a very long wooden pole, do a good pulley rope to put the pole straight, the light pole is ready to do this tradition in the countryside.
Thirty nights to sit overnight, the most important day is today, parents will call us up very early, the division of labor is very clear, dad, brother, I first clean up the hospital, sweep the garbage outside the door, the old tradition in the New Year's day can not throw garbage, mother will be made at noon dishes out of the elbow, stewed pork and so on.
First paste the couplet and then paste the large and small Fu characters everywhere, on the mirror, on the water tank, in the well, etc., in short, almost every place that can be pasted will have the figure of the Fu character. Melon seeds, frozen pears, frozen persimmon peanuts will be placed on their own kang, on the one hand, they will eat themselves, on the other hand, the uncles and uncles in the village will also come and prepare them. Now the city is very important for dinner at night, we were all earlier than the noon meal, who has more dishes on behalf of the second year, the typical feature is to set off firecrackers, from 10 o'clock can hear the crackling of firecrackers. The length of firecracker time is also very important today, everyone will buy a very long firecracker, the custom of the New Year will be talked about next time!