In a blink of an eye, it’s already the thirtieth day of the twelfth lunar month!
Zhou Yang has been busy in the studio most of the time these days. While doing theoretical work on pulse Doppler radar, he is cooperating with Qiao Weiguo and others in the survey and measurement of Babaoliang Village.
Although very busy, but very fulfilling!
But just when he was as busy as a spinning top, the flavor of the New Year was getting stronger and stronger!
According to the customs here in Saibei Province, there are a lot of things to pay attention to during the Chinese New Year.
For example, the food should be cooked in advance and just heated when needed. When the cannon goes off on New Year's Eve, there is generally no need to cook fresh food, especially from the first to the fifth day of the lunar month.
Also, you are not allowed to wash clothes or take a shower during the Chinese New Year, and you can only do so after the fifth day of the Lunar New Year.
There are many similar regulations!
Because of this, every household is very busy before the Chinese New Year!
The same goes for Zhou Yang's family. On the twenty-sixth day of the twelfth lunar month, the family started stewing meat. For this purpose, they specially invited his mother-in-law to come over from the old house.
With the help of his mother-in-law, the Zhou family not only boiled the pig's head, pig's trotters, and pig offal, but also marinated the chicken and duck they bought to prepare for the Chinese New Year.
On the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth lunar month, I started steaming steamed buns, and this time my sister-in-law Lin Aizhi and my third sister-in-law Wang Lixia came to help.
Since there are many people in the family and steamed buns are consumables, the eldest sister-in-law and the third sister-in-law are busy from morning to dusk.
Not only did they steam steamed buns and bean buns, but they also steamed a lot of flower steamed buns, which are often called noodle dumplings in other places.
This thing is children's favorite and also their snack. During the Chinese New Year, steam more and give it to Bao'er.
In addition, every family has to move around during the Chinese New Year. There are so many children in the old house, so you can't just stare at them when they come. You have to prepare what you need to prepare.
On the 28th of the twelfth lunar month, the whole village was busy writing couplets. At this time, people who could write calligraphy suddenly became popular.
These days, most villagers have never read any books. Although the village organizes night schools and literacy classes every year, the results are average.
Most people will be able to recognize their own names after attending literacy classes. Whether they can write them or not is unknown.
If you ask them to write couplets, wouldn't that make things difficult for them?
Ever since, the important task of writing couplets fell on the educated youth in the village.
I don’t know who told me that Zhou Zhiqing’s father was an intellectual, so many members came to Zhou Yang’s house on the 28th and asked Zhou’s father to help write couplets.
Zhou Yawen did not refuse the request of the members, and was immediately invited to the brigade headquarters to become a couplet writer.
Zhou Yawen thought that he would just write a few paintings at first, but he did not expect that he would spend a whole day writing.
After Zhou Yang learned about the situation, he immediately put down what he was doing and came to help.
He knew that writing couplets was more than just writing them. He also had to tell them where to post these couplets.
There are a lot of jokes in the village every year because of the couplets posted, and there are many people who post "Six Livestock are Prosperous" on their doors.
During this period, Zhou's father's identity as a cultural person was unanimously recognized by the whole village, men, women and children.
After all, his calligraphy skills were so good that every time he finished writing a couplet, he would be praised by the old farmers around him.
On the twenty-ninth day of the twelfth lunar month, most of the work in the village stopped, including the feed mill and bone meal factory. Even the sheep and cattle no longer herd.
Because the members of the village have to clean up their personal hygiene today. The Chinese New Year is coming soon, so they must clean themselves up.
On this day, men, women, old and young come together to wash their hair, cut their hair and shave their beards.
There is no teacher Tony these days, so haircuts are all done by family members, and the tools are large scissors and hand clippers.
New Year's Eve is definitely the most memorable time of the year.
Early in the morning, Zhou Yang first put up the couplets on his home and then put up the window grilles!
Then let Fan Debiao take the paste made of flour, take the brush and the couplets, go to the studio, and paste the couplets inside and outside.
It’s Chinese New Year, just celebrate it!
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After finishing his work, Zhou Yang went home to cook.
Lunch is relatively simple, only pork stew with potatoes, tofu, vermicelli, and the staple food is rice.
It’s not that we don’t have delicious food at home, it’s mainly because the New Year’s Eve dinner is in the evening and it’s particularly rich, so I just have a simple bite at noon.
This is Zhou Yang's family. In most ordinary people's homes, they usually cook a mouthful of porridge and eat two steamed buns at noon, waiting for a good meal in the evening!
This may be the charm of the Chinese New Year. In this era of material shortages, you can eat meat during the Chinese New Year and feel the beauty of life.
After lunch, Li Youwei and her mother started making dumplings, while the men in the family were left in the house to help.
According to Li Youwei's plan, the whole family will make dumplings this afternoon.
Not only do you have to wrap enough for tonight, but you also have to wrap all the dumplings from the first to the fifth day of the lunar new year.
However, the plan could not keep up with the change. While Zhou Yang was helping to chop dumpling fillings at home, someone from the engineering team came to see him and told him to come over if something happened.
Zhou Yang knew that Qiao Weiguo and others must have important matters, otherwise they would not call him over at this time.
At that moment, he immediately took Fan Debiao out and asked Liu Yunlong to stay and help.
As soon as they went out, they saw many villagers carrying baskets and walking hurriedly into the woods outside the village.
Fan Debiao had never seen this situation before, and immediately asked: "Hey, what are they doing? What is there in the woods?"
Zhou Yang smiled and said: "Old ancestor!"
"What?"
"Where are their ancestors!"
Fan Debiao was stunned at first, and then suddenly realized: "They are going to visit the grave together. Why did I think they were going there!"
"Don't you visit graves during the Chinese New Year?" Zhou Yang asked with a smile.
"Yes, but I've been out for so many years, I've long forgotten about this."
Then Fan Debiao continued: "Besides, in our place people usually visit the graves in the morning, and there are almost no people who visit the graves in the afternoon!"
"How long has it been since you went home for the New Year?" Zhou Yang asked again.
"More than five years!"
"Why don't you go back? Is it because of work?"
Fan Debiao sighed and said: "At first it was because I was busy at work and my superiors didn't give me leave, and later it was because my family was too poor!"
"poverty?"
"Well, it's not that the family lacks food like mine, it's mainly that I don't have a place to live when I go back!"
Then Fan Debiao said again: "Our family has three houses in total, which are about the same size as yours, but we have four sons. A few years ago, it was okay that my eldest brother and my second brother were not married. When we go back, the brothers can just squeeze in. ”
"But now my two brothers are married, and each of their two families occupies a room. My parents and brother set up a bed in the kitchen. I don't know where to squeeze in when I get back!"
Zhou Yang immediately frowned and said, "Then why don't you build a few more houses? Logically speaking, your salary and allowances are quite high, so you won't be unable to build even a few houses, right?"
"It's quite a lot. I send two to three hundred yuan to my family every year, and I asked my parents to build a house a long time ago. But they all used the money to marry my two brothers!" Fan Debiao said helplessly. said.
"Your parents used your money to buy your brother a wife, then you are really miserable!"
"I can't help it. It's much more expensive to marry a wife over there than here. It costs at least two hundred yuan to marry one, not to mention that my family has to marry three!" Fan Debiao said helplessly.
"Then does Uzhina know about your situation?"
"I mentioned it before, but she didn't seem to take it to heart!"
"Then when do you plan to take Uzhina back to see your parents?" Zhou Yang asked again.
"That's up to you!"
"What do you mean?"
"If you complete the task earlier, I can go back earlier, otherwise I will stay with you!"
"It sounds like I can't live without you!" Zhou Yang said.
"It's not that you can't leave me, but the big guys above don't want me to leave you, so for the happiness of me and Uzhina, you should do it quickly!" Fan Derbiao said.
"knew..."
While chatting, the two came to the gate of the pig farm!
(face person)
(Mianren - Snake, Rabbit)
(Old style fader)
(Old style fader)
(old-fashioned scissors)
(Scissors)
(window grilles, my mother is very good at cutting window grilles)
