Since yesterday, my sister-in-law has reminded Zhang Yu several times that today is the Mid-Autumn Festival and the windows must be papered at noon.
This is an old custom in Beijing. Since the weather gets colder after the Mid-Autumn Festival, it is said that covering the windows at noon during the Mid-Autumn Festival can block all the sunlight in the house and keep it from being cold all winter.
Although his uncle found someone to buy him glass, and the windows are now all filled with glass. But when the moon cake exam was just finished and the sun was in the middle, Zhang Yu still found the window paper and papered it in a symbolic way.
custom.
There were a lot of people in the yard today. The reason was naturally that we had three days of holidays starting from the day before yesterday. From the 13th to the 15th, students were not going to class, and many factories were also on holiday.
When the neighbors in the yard saw him papering the windows, they all looked at the sky and found the window paper and papered it again.
Even though the supply is tight this year, before the Mid-Autumn Festival in 1958, all Beijing food markets were bustling with activity.
Various supply and marketing cooperatives, food stores, and butcher shops across the city have prepared a rich variety of festive foods for customers to purchase to celebrate the festival.
In order for people to enjoy the Mid-Autumn Festival, the supply is particularly abundant these days, so many people plan to take advantage of this opportunity to buy more things for their homes.
Well, after my sister-in-law had finished covering the windows for herself, she went out with a basket and walked around to see if she could buy some things that she couldn't usually buy.
Time flies very quickly, the sun goes down unknowingly, and the night of August 15th arrives.
On the night of August 15th, the sky rose, and tranquility spread on the ground with a silver mist-like light.
Today, the moon is particularly clear and transparent, with a silvery light as pure as water, and a few small stars, hovering in the night, adding a touch of bright color to people's reunion season.
However, many people don't care about admiring the moon, because for the festival, their homes have prepared many dishes that they usually don't want to eat. The children have been wandering around the stove for a long time, looking forward to the adults who are cooking from time to time.
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Today, in addition to various customs, there are also rich delicacies. My sister-in-law also prepared the meal early and set a table. The whole family, including Zhang Yu, gulped down the sweet-scented osmanthus duck.
My sister-in-law bought the sweet-scented osmanthus duck from a master chef. Every year around the Mid-Autumn Festival, the duck is at its best. The meat is tender and fat. The sweet-scented osmanthus has just fallen at this time, so every year the master cooks a batch of sweet-scented osmanthus duck at this time. This year
Zhang Guifang managed to grab one with great difficulty.
I have to say that the master's craftsmanship is really good. The sweet-scented osmanthus duck is amazing, charred on the outside and tender on the inside, and the meat is fat but not greasy.
In addition, he killed a chicken, cooked taro-roasted chicken, fried lotus root cakes, stir-fried the snails he brought back a few days ago, stewed the fish he caught and kept in the Taiping tank, and...
Looking at the pile of delicious food on the table, Zhao Wenzhuo couldn't help but take out the osmanthus wine he brewed last year from under the cupboard and said to the family: "Try the osmanthus wine I brewed last year. It has been brewing for a year. The taste of osmanthus."
It is completely integrated into the wine, and the taste is smooth and not irritating at all.”
I opened the osmanthus wine, poured it into a cup, and found that it was just as said.
Osmanthus wine has a light amber color, accompanied by the light fragrance of osmanthus. Zhang Guifang couldn't help but take a sip. The taste was mellow and soft, with a long aftertaste. She reluctantly praised: "Not bad, worthy of what I have today."
Good food on the table.”
"Of course, it doesn't matter who made it." Zhao Wenzhuo said proudly, but he also knew how to give up when he was pleased. He would feel the pain after really offending Zhang Guifang. Then he turned around to pick up the vegetables, put them into Zhang Guifang's bowl, and returned the favor.
Calling the children, "Eat quickly! The dishes your mother cooked today taste very good."
Hearing this, the children below secretly smiled, thinking that Zhao Wenzhuo was "interested".
"Why are you laughing? Eat quickly, there are so many good things, and I can't stop your mouths." Zhao Wenzhuo was a little angry and ashamed.
Seeing that he was really anxious, the child below quickly scooped up the rice and pretended that I didn't see anything.
But today’s food was indeed delicious, and Zhang Yu was satisfied with it. Needless to say, the Osmanthus Duck was charred on the outside and tender on the inside, and the Roasted Chicken with Taro, the taro was soft and absorbed the fragrance of the chicken. It was a treat to take one bite. The Double Lotus Root Pancake
The noodles were golden brown and very crispy when he took a bite. He ate two in a row before changing to the next dish.
After I was about 70 to 80% full, I set my sights on the stir-fried snails. I sucked hard and the plump snail meat and the rich aroma of the sauce entered my mouth. I couldn't help but eat one after another.
After dinner, we prepared things for worshiping the moon. In addition to moon cakes, we also prepared pomegranates and grapefruits.
The Mid-Autumn Festival is when pomegranates are ripe. There are six huge pomegranate trees planted in the courtyard. They have produced a lot this year, so each family has several. The varieties of pomegranates are particularly good, not to mention big and round, and inside
The pomegranate seeds are as red as agate. Take a bite and you will find they are sour and sweet.
Move the table into the courtyard and place the tributes. Because of the custom of "men do not worship the moon and women do not worship the stove", only the women in the family worship the moon. After worshiping the moon, they chat with the neighbors in the courtyard for a while and then start eating.
Enjoy the moon with mooncakes.
The yard is particularly lively during the Mid-Autumn Festival. Old children and younger children, as long as they can run, are playing in the yard. The adults in the family are particularly indulgent to the children during this time of reunion. They will not be as usual, because of trivial matters.
, and got angry at the children.
People who live in a courtyard house have many peace jars in the yard that were used to prevent fires. During the day, the elders in the yard ask the young people to clean the jars, dry them in the sun, and then fill them with water.
, look at the reflection of the moon in the vat.
A few naughty children took advantage of the adults not paying attention and threw a few stones into the peace jar, disrupting the shadow of the moon in the jar. In response, the adults just waved their hands: "Go, go, let's play."
Go, don't make trouble here."
The children were laughing and running around, from the backyard to the front yard, and then from the front into the alley, chasing the moon in the alley, shouting, and the adults next to them were not as idle as they used to be.
The children were so noisy that they called the children's behavior "chasing the moon."
The children were playing and the adults were watching, and the atmosphere was harmonious.
At this time, a neighbor started gossiping, "Do you know what happened to Jia's family in the courtyard next door?"
"I know, why don't I know? Isn't this spread all over the place?" another neighbor replied.
"What's going on? Why don't I know?" asked a neighbor who had been busy all morning.
Hearing this, the neighbor who brought up this topic became excited, "Let me tell you, this morning, a woman and some brothers were making trouble at Jia's house..."
