Siheyuan starts from the stationmaster

Chapter 120
Thinking of this, Bai Zirui said with a smile on his face: "Brother Da Mao, look at what you said, you and sister-in-law Jingru helped me when I first came to the courtyard, how could I be that kind of ungrateful person? Now just let me write a few Spring Festival couplets, it's a matter of raising my hand, come... come, I will write for you, and I will definitely not treat you and the second uncle favorably."

When Bai Zirui was talking, the second uncle put away the two Spring Festival couplets he wrote for himself with a wink. Bai Zirui took the red paper from Xu Damao's hand, put it on the table and pressed it with a paperweight. After thinking for a while, he wrote The dragon and snake wrote two Spring Festival couplets.

After seeing it, Xu Damao praised and said, "Zirui, what a wonderful pen."

Bai Zirui put down his brush and said modestly, "Brother Da Mao, I'm so honored."

He then leaned over and dried the ink, put away the two spring couplets and handed them to Xu Damao, and took the red paper from Qin Jingru's hands and wrote the other two spring couplets in one go and handed them to them.

The fact that Bai Zirui helped the second uncle and Xu Damao write Spring Festival couplets was known by the people in the courtyard, and people from all households came to him with cut red paper to help write the Spring Festival couplets, so the third uncle was busy in the front yard for nothing After a fight, he came to ask him for Spring Festival couplets after knowing the whole story.

The third master lined up in front of Bai Zirui, and he said mockingly: "Zirui, the Spring Festival couplets you wrote so brilliantly are completely different from mine, I have the audacity to come to your two Spring Festival couplets, and I ask you to make it happen."

Bai Zirui said humbly: "Third Master, you really beat me to death. How dare I use my axe in front of your old man with my incompetence!"

The third master smiled and said, "Zi Rui, don't be modest. If you don't write well, why would everyone come to you to write Spring Festival couplets? The eyes of the masses are discerning."

Bai Zirui delayed but thought about it for a while. Considering the status of the third master's primary school teacher, he wrote two Spring Festival couplets for the third master with a pen dipped in ink.

The first couplet: The garden is full of peaches and plums in spring; the second couplet: Dan Yuxin; the horizontal batch: The garden is full of peaches and plums.

The first couplet: Cultivate flowers all over China; the second couplet: Dedicate peaches and plums all over the world; Hengbiao: Unforgettable teacher's kindness.

Bai Zirui put down the brush and said, "Doodle randomly, I hope the third master won't laugh at you."

After seeing it, the third master said happily: "Zi Rui, I am so pleased that these two Spring Festival couplets are really written in my heart, thank you!"

After the ink dries, he said solemnly: "I'll go home and paste it on the door of my room. I will look at these two Spring Festival couplets throughout this year, and be a teacher of the people who is a model for others."

After the third master left, Bai Zirui wrote several Spring Festival couplets. As soon as Cai Quanwu finished writing them, he took his whole family to the courtyard. Started today's busy day.

The 29th day of the twelfth lunar month (Xiaojian’s 1978th) is New Year’s Eve, commonly known as New Year’s Eve. In [-], Xiaojian celebrated New Year’s Eve. People in Beijing have always regarded this day as the official “New Year’s Jubilee”. The main celebrations for welcoming the old and welcoming the new are all concentrated on this day, so New Year's Eve is the most solemn and lively day.

When Bai Zirui was helping the people in the courtyard to write Spring Festival couplets, He Yuzhu had been busy in the kitchen in the backyard. Now that Cai Quanwu's family came, they first pasted the clean window paper on the fourth sweep of the twelfth lunar month and pasted the words "Fu" on the windows. ", window grilles, paper-cuts, hang "auspicious knots" and other handicraft pendants that symbolize peace and happiness, and paste door gods and Spring Festival couplets on the door.

When they are busy until twelve noon, they start to light candles, light sea lanterns, and burn meridian incense, which is called "incense".The burning of incense sticks must not be interrupted until the fifth day of the fifth day (broken fifth).From this moment on, some families "avoid the door" and do not accept female guests, although close relatives are also like this, and now there is basically no such rule.

Bai Zirui carried the Eight Immortals table and table that he received some time ago to his ancestral house and temporarily set up the "Tiandi table".Put five sacrificial utensils, also display offerings, hang money and food, burn incense and hold candles, and at the same time put two pairs of incense sticks in the middle of the courtyard and set up an incense burner to burn Tibetan incense.

After all this work, He Yuzhu has prepared a table full of delicacies, four cold, four hot, four meat, four soup dishes, a total of 12 dishes, Sixi meatballs, twice-cooked pork, red braised pork, rice noodles meat, braised carp Wait, different dishes have different backgrounds and meanings.

Because there was still dumplings to be made in the afternoon, during lunch, the three of Bai Zirui each drank two taels of Moutai wine.After lunch and rest for a while, everyone made preparations for the New Year's Eve dinner together by chopping stuffing and making dumplings.

On New Year's Eve, eat dumplings to keep the year old. People in Beijing mainly eat dumplings for New Year's Eve dinner.There must be meat and vegetables in making dumplings, which is a homonym of "you Cai".The whole family should take turns chopping the stuffing, saying "chop the villain" while chopping.

On New Year's Eve, there is also the custom of keeping the year old.Shousui starts with the New Year’s Eve dinner, and everyone eats slowly, chatting and tasting fine wine until late at night.And when the clock strikes 12 o'clock at midnight, everyone will cheer together, eat dumplings, and welcome the first day of the new year.

When the time came to the beginning of the Chinese lanterns, after everyone worked together to prepare a sumptuous New Year’s Eve dinner, Cai Quanwuwu led everyone to worship their ancestors, and Bai Zirui lit firecrackers. The children happily picked up the Squibs on the ground without firing them.

Looking at these, Bai Zirui was deeply moved. The Spring Festival 40 years ago still had a sense of the New Year. It is not like the ban on setting off firecrackers in later generations. The New Year is deserted and has no sense of the New Year.

Just when he was full of thoughts, Xu Jingli's clear voice like a silver bell came from behind him: "Zirui, come and have the New Year's Eve dinner soon, everyone will be waiting for you."

Bai Zirui turned around, smiled and said, "Sister Jingli, I'll be right there."

He came to the main hall of the main house, everyone sat down at the table one by one, Cai Quanwu sat on the main seat facing the door, He Daqing's seat was specially reserved next to him for tableware and chopsticks, Xu Jingli kept his seat next to him , he walked to Xu Jingli and sat down.

There are all kinds of delicacies full of meanings on a table of Eight Immortals, stewed in a pot - full of pots; braised fish - more than every year; saliva chicken - golden chicken to send blessings; braised pig's trotters - money from hand; Braised money belly—money is everywhere; meatballs—reunion round; stir-fried green beans—four seasons are safe; vegetable salad—making money in a good way; vegetable.

This is the bottom of four and four, that is, four cold dishes, four hot-fried dishes, four meat dishes, and four soup dishes, that is, sixteen dishes.Except for soup, the dishes are four cold and eight hot, which means four flat and eight stable; and sixteen means six, and six represents smoothness (six and six are smooth), and sixty means smoothness. I hope everything will go well in the coming year.

Cai Quanwu saw Bai Zirui sitting next to Xu Jingli naturally, with a gratified smile on his face, he picked up his wine glass and laughed loudly: "This year is New Year's Eve, let's toast together and have a happy reunion Happy new year, welcome the new year with joy, and let us all have good luck, peace and happiness in the new year!"

Everyone clinked glasses together and drank all the wine in the glass. Xu Jingtian was allowed to drink today as an exception. After drinking a glass of wine, a hot feeling suddenly flooded his stomach.

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