Babaylan“After all, the end of the year in the old calendar is most similar to the end of the year. It must be said that the weather of the New Year is coming in the sky. The gray and heavy evening clouds are flashing from time to time, followed by a dull sound, which is a firecracker for sending the stove; the fireworks are set off nearby. The sound of the deafening sound is not yet calm, and the air is filled with the fragrance of the medicinal fragrance.” This is a scene description of Mr. Lu Xun’s lively atmosphere in the villages and towns in the past. Reading it, Babaylan couldn’t help but resonate with me. I really couldn’t forget the scene of the New Year when I was a child. On the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month, Komiks was said to be the day when God went to heaven. The custom of Chaoshan folk is to use fried rice cakes as offerings to sacrifice. After eating fried rice cakes, I felt that the Spring Festival was coming soon. On the 27th and 8th day of the lunar calendar, each production team in the village organized manpower to “medicine fish”. The so-called “medicine fish” means to prepare “dew vines” (a href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Komiks in advance, mash it, then use a urine bucket to fill it with water, and finally pour the “dew vines” into the pond. After more than ten minutes, the fish turned over from the pond and was beaten all over by the fishing personnel. So the production team allocated the fish according to the population of each household. Adults and children happily carried the fish home with bamboo baskets, and celebrated the Spring Festival where there were fish every year.
On the morning of the 29th day of the 12th lunar month, and on the morning of the 30th day of the 12th lunar month, my father would ask me to be his helper, post the Spring Festival couplets on the door and paste them, and you would feel the Cinema‘s plumage, the colorful hall was filled with color, and suddenly felt joyful. After lunch, the child started to change his clothes and take a bath. At this time, even the most sloppy children in normal times were competing to take a bath. CinemaThe spacious Cinema courtyard, the mother puts hot water in the bucket with her feet, letting the child sit naked, wash and rub. When the child is scratched to the itchy place, she smiles straight, and the warm sunshine shines warmly into the courtyard, and everything seems so comfortable. After taking a shower, the children put on their new clothes that had just been sunbathed in the sun, warming up. The parents gave them the New Year’s money and they happily went to buy firecrackers and fireworks, and they were having fun. At around 4 pm, they worshiped their ancestors, praying for good weather, good harvests, and peace for the whole family. It’s usually evening href=”https://comicmov.com/”>KomiksDining at six or seven o’clock, and eating at around five o’clock on New Year’s Eve, this is called reunion dinner. During the reunion dinner, the whole family “surrounds the stove” a table of dishes and eat delicious goose, chicken, big fish, tremella, ginkgo and other rare delicacies. At that time, there was no concept of weight loss at all, so everyone let go and eat big fish and big meat. The devout grandma is alsoBabaylan will personally fold more than a dozen golden papers into gold ingots, and then pray three times by the two doors of the house, praying for peace between the door gods and the family. Then she trembled with several other “gold ingots”, a pair of big oranges, and three incense sticks to the well, kneeling down and worshiping, and thanking Jinggong and Jingmei for giving us clean and sweet well water, so that we can live a happy life.
New Year’s EveAt night, firecrackers are coming one after another, and it is very lively.
CinemaThe next day was the first day of the first lunar month. After the ancestor worship in the morning, relatives and friends began to pay New Year’s greetings to each other. When going out, the parents’ meeting reminded them to bring a pair of big oranges (that is, Chaozhou oranges) to make good luck. When you arrive at the other party’s house, you will send a big orange and say greetings, such as “Great profits in the New Year, happy family”, “Great wishes in the New Year, and abundant wealth”. The other party also replied to the auspicious chant and changed the pair of big oranges on Komiks to express their beautiful wishes. Later, people jokingly called this the “orange change exercise.”
With the development of the times, some customs of the New Year have been omitted or left behind, so people feel that there is less of the New Year atmosphere, and I will even more forget the scene of the year when I was a child.