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Chapter 273

Chapter 270: Grab Yuanbao
Jiachuan eats glutinous rice balls on the morning of the first day of the new year, instead of eating dumplings on the morning of the first day of the new year like in the north.

It is said that those who eat dumplings during the Chinese New Year on the first day of the first lunar month are either urbanites following the custom in the north, or they have watched too many Spring Festival Gala, and they have been misled by the host who has been talking about making Chinese New Year dumplings.

Eating glutinous rice balls in the morning on the first day of junior high school is not called eating glutinous rice balls, it must be called grabbing Yuanbao.

Glutinous rice balls, also known as glutinous rice flour balls, are made by grandma two or three days ago using Jiulixiang to soak the beaten rice milk, put it into a bag of bean curd, and press it on a millstone to filter out the water.

Pushing Baba is also a must for the traditional New Year in Jiachuan, otherwise there will be no ingots to grab in the morning on the first day of the new year.

Two kinds of glutinous rice ball fillings are prepared, one is peanut white sugar, and the other is sesame white sugar.

They are all homemade by grandma. In addition to the above-mentioned raw materials, there is one more thing that is necessary when making stuffing, that is lard.

If there is no lard, the stuffing will stick to the glutinous rice balls, and the sticky parts will not be easy to ripen.

The family started making glutinous rice balls, when Black, White and Brown appeared beside the open dam.

While rubbing glutinous rice balls, Li Junge said happy new year to the three of them, and at the same time warned them: "Today you all speak English."

The three of them were very puzzled, and said in unison: "Why?"

Li Junge smiled and said: "People in the village have the most taboos on the first day of junior high school. Once you say something wrong, you will lose your luck for the year. At that time, everyone will blame you, so you must be cautious. Since you don't know what to say and what not to say, Then just speak English, and I will translate for you when the time comes."

All three of them said straight to very good, Jungle, you are smart, otherwise you will not know what happened if you make a mistake.

Seeing that Li Junge was still filling the glutinous rice balls with coins, the three of them were also curious and asked questions in a hurry.

Li Junge explained: "It depends on who is lucky later. Whoever eats the glutinous rice balls with coins first, or whoever eats the most coins will have the best fortune in the coming year."

Zongba and taro were eager to see them, and they also wrapped them up laughingly.

However, the two foreigners were clumsy, and the glutinous rice balls were made one by one.

Grandma looked at it and said with a smile: "Hey! These two foreign children still know the custom of wrapping glutinous rice balls on the first day of the new year! They know that they have to wrap bigger ones, so they are called Yuanbao!"

Zongba and Yutou listened to grandma's praise, their eyes narrowed from laughter, only Li Junge rolled his eyes and muttered, they are blind cats and dead mice, okay!

You can't say this, it's unlucky!
After wrapping two dustpans full of glutinous rice balls, the fourth grandpa's family also came over.

Grandma started to cook glutinous rice balls.

Cooking glutinous rice balls is also a technical job, and those who don't know how to cook them will really boil the glutinous rice balls.

Cooking glutinous rice balls is the opposite of cooking noodles. Cooking noodles pays attention to wide water and high heat, while cooking glutinous rice balls pays attention to wide water and low heat.

After boiling the water, turn it to a low heat, put the glutinous rice balls into the boiling water one by one, keep the boiling water boiling but not boiling, you can't see the water tumbling in the pot, and the water surface remains calm.

This cooking method is called "ramming" in Jiachuan dialect, so the glutinous rice balls are also called "ramba" in some rural areas.

I saw grandma sinking the white glutinous rice balls at the bottom of the pot. As the small fire continued, the glutinous rice balls slowly began to float to the surface of the water, and finally all floated on the water surface, forming a white piece one by one. At this time, the glutinous rice balls were completely cooked up.

The glutinous rice balls cooked in a low fire, the soup is clear and not muddy, and the shape is intact.

If the glutinous rice balls are boiled on high heat, under normal circumstances, part of the skin of the glutinous rice balls will melt in the soup, so the water will be muddy. That's not a good sign.

I heard grandma shout in surprise: "Oh, the ingot is red!"

Everyone come and see, really!Sure enough, some glutinous rice balls turned pink.

Now grandma is happy, which is a sign of great joy, and it indicates that the family will have many happy events and good luck in the new year.

Hurry up, pick out a few pink-skinned glutinous rice balls and put them into a bowl, and serve them first to worship the gods. It is also the same as yesterday's routine. A bowl of glutinous rice balls plus incense and money paper, respectively, to worship the heaven and earth, the gods of the house, the god of the kitchen, and the gods of the four senses. start moving.

Li Junge served bowls of glutinous rice balls to everyone, and smiled at Hei Hei Zong and the two sisters: "Be careful, take care of the bowl, don't drop your chopsticks, don't drop the glutinous rice balls on the ground, otherwise, um, you know... ..."

The five foreigners all nodded obediently, we understand what we understand, taboo!

When the glutinous rice balls are filled into the mouth, it will only nod, it is sweet and fragrant, it is so delicious!

After a while, Taro shouted excitedly: "Oh! I gotta a coin!"

I saw five foreigners laughing and dancing together with bowls in hand, as if they had won a 500 million lottery.

Li Junge smiled at A Yin: "Foreigners are really cute. Look at Alice and Shirly, it's as if they ate it themselves!"

After a meal of glutinous rice balls, it was okay and safe. Although the foreigners were clumsy, they didn't drop the glutinous rice balls, chopsticks, or bowls.

Many people ate the coins, and Taro and Zongba also said that they would make a hole in the coins and hang them around their necks. This would be their lucky charms from now on.

Li Junge had black lines on his forehead again, thinking that there seemed to be quite a few Chinese doing this with foreign coins, so he didn't bother to pay attention to them.

The next thing is to give out red envelopes for New Year's greetings. The two sisters present are still juniors, so they will get rich now!
A red envelope is exchanged for a happy new year, grandma, old man, old aunt, old brother, old sister-in-law, father, mother, Li Junge, A Yin, a red envelope of six hundred, and in a blink of an eye, one person earns five thousand and four.

This is going to be given out, and there are so many relatives, the two sisters are so happy that they spread the red envelopes into folding fans with both hands and hold them in a circle, watching the rice dumplings and taro very hot.

Li Junge thought it was funny, so he called the two of them over, and he and A Yin each sent them a two-hundred-dollar bill.

The happy Bai and Brown even called uncle and auntie.

Just as they were about to set off, Bai Dadu and they ran back again.

dad dad!The babies are scared to death. Last night, the noise in the village was so scary!
There was no other way, Li Junge had to feed them, so the others had to go first.

On the first day of the new year, you have to hang up the grave early. In the old days, it was said to hang up early and make a fortune early. This can't wait.

Another thing to pay attention to is that on the first day of the new year, if the day of the twelve Jianxing breaks, it is called every break. There are taboos in the countryside, and it is not suitable to hang graves every break.

At this time, the hanging of the grave can be carried out on New Year's Eve in advance to avoid breaking the first day of the new year.

Of course, there are those who do not shy away from admitting to death. They still go out to hang their graves on the first day of the new year, and others will not say anything.

After Li Junge fed the pigs and dogs, he took them and Ayin to the mountain behind the uncle's house.

Heard conversations like this all the way.

"Old Cousin, Happy New Year, Happy New Year to you!"

"Oh, happy new year, the year is with you, how many ingots did you grab this morning?"

"Hey! This year it was made by my daughter-in-law. The one with rough hands and feet is just too big. After four seasons and getting rich, I can't fix it! What about you, old cousin?"

"Yuanbao! The bigger the better! I got a Liuliu Shun, and I told you that the next door to the third drift is fierce, and the turtle is ramming and eating, and I told me that he has a whole month of red today... "

"It's a blessing to be able to eat! He should get rich this year..."

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When they arrived at the back mountain of the uncle's house, the family members had already gathered, and the three masters and apprentices, black, white and brown, had already started collecting folk songs.

Hanging the grave, in addition to commemorating and remembering the ancestors and cultivating the family relationship of the children, in the old days, it is also an opportunity to show the power of a family, to show the unity and prosperity of the family to others.

For some big families, hundreds of people were dispatched to hang the graves. There are too many ancestral graves, and they are divided into several groups. They go to hang the graves everywhere, and stand on a mountain.

We have already begun to arrange on the ancestral grave.

Jiachuan called the visit to the grave "hanging the grave".

The reason why it is called "hanging" is because a slender paper flag made of a bunch of colored paper should be erected on the grave, hung on a high wooden pole on the grave head, and fluttering in the wind, which is called "grave floating". .

There is also a kind of paper thing called "Pushan", which is like paper money, but it comes in various colors, and is a special paper torn and spread on the cemetery.

The mountain might be blown away by the wind, so a small flag-like paper was created later, which was pasted on bamboo sticks and inserted directly on the cemetery.Now in the countryside, both things are mixed.

To spread the mountain is to cover all the graves, colorful and colorful, and it starts to dance when the wind blows, which is very beautiful.

The items needed for hanging the grave have been prepared by my uncle and dad years ago. There is no shortage of firecrackers, incense, candles, money paper, floating graves, and pavements.

There are many ancestors in this cemetery, Li Junge's two great-grandfathers, two ancestors, his own grandfather, fourth grandmother, and Ermao's two ancestors are all here.

Although the old man came here once yesterday, he still started to cry when he got here. He is already in his 70s, and he still insists on paving the mountain for his mother's tomb with his own hands.

Li Junge also joined the ranks of paving the mountain for his ancestors.

Every New Year, Qingming Festival, the old ancestors have to hang the graves. In addition to commemorating, this is also to tell the outside world that there are posters hanging paper on the graves. The graves cannot be dug casually. Anyone who engages in construction will occupy the land and move the graves. They have to notify the descendants of the owner of the grave, and they cannot be treated as an unowned grave.

There are many rules for hanging graves. Hanging papers on graves during the New Year is not limited to the first day of the new year. Graves can be hung during this period, starting from eating New Year’s dinner after childhood, and ending on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, but absolutely not on the fifteenth day of the new year.

The only exception is the new grave.

The so-called new tomb refers to the tomb where the New Year is celebrated for the first time after the death and burial.

The new grave must be hung before the year.

There is also a married daughter.If you want to go back to your natal home to hang the grave of your deceased parents, and your grandson to hang the grave of your grandparents, you still need to see if your natal family agrees. If your uncle’s family agrees, you can go back to hang the grave.

Why is this so, because of selfishness.Whoever hangs the grave will bless the one who gets rich. Therefore, if you meet an aunt and son who are more rigid and petty, you will definitely not agree with the married daughter to return to her natal family to hang her grave.

Although men and women are equal, such family rules are still difficult to completely shake in rural areas.

Even for new graves, according to the old rules, daughters can only go back to their natal home to hang their dead parents for three years, but in reality it is often only the first or second year.

Because there is a particularity, tell the daughter to hang up for only two years, and keep one year for the aunt and son. If the daughter hangs up all three years and does not leave one year for the aunt and son, the aunt and son will be unhappy, and they are called to rob the aunt and son. fiscal!
This is the bad habit of customs.

(End of this chapter)