Then he prepared various steamed cakes, fried cakes, oil cakes and other tributes, rice wine, firecrackers, and Wang Manyin took his wife and children to pay homage to their ancestors and visit their graves. This was already a much simplified practice.
After the Wang family of Guanjia Village was separated from Wangjia Village, they have lived in Guanjia Village for generations. The old grave on the other side of Wangjia Village, Wang Mancang, the de facto head of the Wang clan, can bring a few people to represent Guanjia Village.
If Wang Manyin didn't rank high in the Wang family, there was no need to go there. Wang Manyin started offering sacrifices to his ancestors from Bagong's generation.
Then came the first generation of second-rate sons, the generation of Grandpa Wang Manyin, and this lineage began to become a single generation. Although his grandfather smoked and ruined his family, he also left Wang Manyin with the identity of a poor peasant and three large stone kilns. He is still worthy of gratitude.
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Finally, there is the second-generation second-rate son. Wang Manyin has basically no memory of his father, and he has no sadness at all.
Wang Manyin has a deep memory of his own mother, who worked hard to raise him and then passed away. She did not enjoy happiness and did not see Wang Manyin get married and have children. It cannot be said that it is not a big regret.
After returning from the ancestor worship, it was almost noon. Noon in the thirties was not the focus. I cooked a portion of mutton and had a lunch with steamed cakes and oil cakes.
Mao Dan and Gou Dan couldn't wait to find friends to play with. Wang Manyin took the two children out and walked around the village. The sheep were the most worrying thing.
During the Spring Festival, most of the workers in the production team were scheduled to take a break. Since there was no need for grazing, there was a lot less work to do. Wang Manyin also liked to rest, so he arranged to take care of the sheep to people in need on the team, allowing them to earn a few more centimeters.
There are not many things to do, just feeding and cleaning the sheepfold, and other technical related tasks are all left to Li Laishun.
It was a good job, but Wang Manyin still preferred to take a break during the Spring Festival. After chatting with Li Laishun for a few words and making an appointment for a drink, Wang Manyin continued to wander around the village.
We chatted with friends we met, and half the afternoon passed quickly. Finally, we took Mao Dan and Gou Dan home, who wanted to follow the older children in the village and blow up the cesspit.
The children in the village are so naughty. They can't even set off firecrackers properly. They always have to explode something. It's rare for children to understand that art is explosion at a young age. It's all dried up. King Manyin doesn't stop it. It's Chinese New Year. I don't know how many children there are.
Crying, I always feel like there is something wrong with me.
Just like a reunion is not lively enough without children at home, what matters is the atmosphere.
"Maodan, Goudan, you two come here. I'll give you the new clothes you just changed into today. You've only been out playing for so long. Why have they become like this? The clothes are so dirty. Everyone else will wear new clothes tomorrow. What are you going to wear?"
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When Mao Dan and Gou Dan returned home, they learned a lesson from Lan Hua. Wherever the children were wearing clean clothes, they would play hide and seek and hide in remote areas. It was necessary to teach them a lesson. They emphasized the importance of dirty clothes and dirty clothes.
A very dirty difference.
"It's all dust. Let's wash the outer coat and put it next to the stove. I won't delay wearing it tomorrow."
Fortunately, Wang Manyin rescued the two of them. If they really went to the cesspit, the two of them might have to eat fried meat with bamboo shoots.
Orchid is good at educating children, after all, it has been practiced by the three Sun family members.
In rural areas, parents have a lot to do. Just spank their children if they disobey. The difference is the difference between gentle and severe spanking. How can a dog with such a big egg understand it? If he understands so many principles, he will definitely remember the feeling of physical pain.
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Wang Manyin couldn't bear to beat the child, and Lan Hua was not a person who could do it. No matter how angry she was, the most she could do was hit her a few times, neither light nor hard.
When Wang Manyin took the children out, Orchid was not idle. Smelling the smell of vinegar in the room, Wang Manyin knew that it was vinegar charcoal. It is a unique custom in northern Shaanxi, which is to put a red-hot charcoal on an iron spoon.
coal, and then pour vinegar on it. "Vinegar charcoal" should be done in every corner of the home, which is meant to drive away evil spirits, but in fact the real effect of vinegar is to disinfect.
There are many unique customs on New Year's Eve in northern Shaanxi. The mother-in-law puts charcoal and ice cubes by the door, and sets up a rolling stick and an ax behind the door. It is said that this is to ward off evil spirits, and it is called "keeping the year old" here.
People always sleep very late on New Year's Eve. Generally, lights are kept on at home all night, which indicates peace in the four seasons and long life.
Putting some food in the pot is called "taking care of the pot", which means there will be no shortage of food throughout the year.
Some old people couldn't sleep that night, so they climbed up to the top of the mountain quietly in the dark, facing the east and looking out. This is called "tasting the sky." According to the old people, the abundance of this year's crops can be seen from the color of the dawn sky.
The good and bad luck of the village.
Of course, this is the same as Mr. Yin Yang in Mijia Town. They all make inferences based on life experience. If there is a lot of rain and snow in winter and the crops are not short of water, there will naturally be a good harvest.
There are also some hopes for life in the coming year and blessings in it.
Feudal superstition is definitely not allowed, but these customs, regarded as habits here in northern Shaanxi, have been preserved normally.
After coming back, I was busy cooking New Year's Eve dinner. The chef was Lanhua. While Lanhua was cooking, Wang Manyin helped the children to light the fire.
Wang Manyin also made a dish of sweet and sour fish and braised pork. Although there are only four people, two adults and two children, Wang Manyin also made eight dishes for the New Year's Eve dinner at his family.
The family of four sat down around the Kang table. People in northern Shaanxi cannot live without rice wine during the New Year. After Wang Manyin poured it for himself, he took a bowl and poured a bowl for Orchid. Naturally, the two children still drank honey water.
Northern Shaanxi rice wine, also called sweet wine or thick wine, is actually a kind of rice wine. Because the wine is lake-shaped, turbid, yellow and thick, it is called yellow wine.
Rice wine brewed from soft yellow rice has a unique taste that combines sweet, sour, bitter, pungent, fresh and astringent flavors.
The alcohol content of rice wine is not high. It is not only a customary drink in northern Shaanxi in winter, but also the main drink for entertaining relatives, friends and neighbors.
Those who have the conditions will consciously brew rice wine, but the difference is more or less, and it is indispensable during the Chinese New Year.
Of course, making rice wine also requires distiller's yeast. In the summer, the new wheat grains are pulled on a stone mill into fragrant wheat kernels. The wheat kernel grits are kneaded into a soft cake shape with boiling water that is still warm, and the freshly harvested wheat kernels are wrapped in them.
The pumpkin leaves were wrapped in thick fresh wheat straw and placed on the hot bed.
After fermentation overnight, the wheat straw is removed from the fermented product that already has a strong aroma of wine, and it is stored in a cool and ventilated place with no sunshine to dry it into dry cakes. The dry cakes are the koji of rice wine.
Rice wine is mostly made in the twelfth lunar month. You can use yellow rice or millet to make rice wine. Soak the millet or yellow rice in boiling water overnight and steam it in a pot. Then scoop it into a wine jar of suitable size, add koji and set it aside.
After fermentation overnight on the hot kang, the wine jar is moved to a ventilated place near the door and stored. The brewed rice wine can be consumed as needed.