The Ordinary Road of Siheyuan

The Spring Festival in the 60s is still very nostalgic in the eyes of the elders of later generations.

It can be said that I had a good time in the tight days.

On weekdays, coarse grains are finely cooked and meat is hard to see. On New Year’s Eve, the Fuqiang Fenrou dumplings will look extraordinarily delicious. On weekdays, there is no pocket money. During the Spring Festival, paper lanterns are pasted, windmills are bought, and nothing is bought even if you go to the Changdian Temple Fair. , can make adults and children happy for a long time.

On weekdays, parents work hard, and some women are not around. It is a blessing in life to have a reunion dinner, even if it is just radish and cabbage.

Collectivity is the characteristic of the Spring Festival in this era.Unit invoices for watching movies, organizing entertainment fairs, group worship, unified street invoices, purchase books, organizing cleaning, etc.

In every household, the dishes on every table are similar, the furnishings in every room are similar, people's clothes are similar, and their desire for life is also similar.

25, frozen tofu; 26, go to buy meat; 27, slaughter a rooster; 28, make noodles; 29, steam steamed buns;

The biggest advantage of the Spring Festival is to "satisfy gluttony".

Chinese cabbage is the main dish of the common people. In the Spring Festival recipes, the housewives use it to conjure up a cabbage table: mustard cabbage pier, cabbage mixed with cold dishes, spiced spicy cabbage, pickled cabbage, vinegar-simmered cabbage, stir-fried sauerkraut or stewed cabbage. Sauerkraut, dried plums and so on.

This year's Spring Festival, the street will give each person half a catty of oil and half a catty of meat, and each household will have two catties of Fuqiang powder, one catty of soybeans, two catties of mung beans, a few catties of Xiaozhan rice and five catties of fish in the shopping book. Housewives rely on ingenuity to arrange three meals a day for the whole family during the Chinese New Year.

On the 27th of the twelfth lunar month, people who sell new year's goods crowded the streets, and state-owned non-staple food stores all set up wooden boards at the store entrances to sell them on the street.

There are also two festive red lanterns printed on the ticket for the Chinese New Year, a large piece of meat for two or three catties, which is much more comfortable and enjoyable than buying it for two and a half catties.

Hairtail from Changtu Island, Mingtai fish from Tumen, freshwater fish from Wulateqian Banner in Inner Mongolia, and sea fish from Bohai Bay.

Tangguaer sacrifices to the stove, the girl wants flowers, the boy wants guns, and the old man wants a new felt hat.

Just two words, happy!
The head flowers and boutonnieres that girls like include chrysanthemums, peonies, roses, peonies, gladiolus, etc. In the flower shop, plum blossoms, peaches, camellias, winter jasmine, poinsettia, asparagus, cineraria, begonias, narcissus, and cyclamen Waiting for potted flowers often makes them can't help but dig out of their pockets.

Adding a new toy for the New Year is a little secret for parents who do New Year’s shopping. Buy a small piggy bank for children aged 8-12, buy a snare drum for children aged 2-4, and buy a diabolo for children aged six or seven. Kite.

Wooden knives and guns, waist drums, big pendulum balls, building block towers, iron cicadas, feather shuttlecocks, face makeup, and new toys such as "Mouse Get Out" and "Cockfighting", clutching their wallets tightly, parents are thinking about which one is the most cost-effective .

This Spring Festival is the happiest moment in life for He Yushui, buying whatever he wants.Today is 2 o'clock in the afternoon on New Year's Eve, and there is almost no room to pile up a room. Roughly estimated, it can cost four to fifty yuan!

Everyone in the compound was beaming, adults and children laughed when they saw each other, and the children were even more terrified. Some couldn't bear it, so they stole all the new clothes they prepared for tomorrow and put them on, and ran out to show off.

Liu Guangtian, Liu Guangfu, Yan Jiefang, and Yan Jiekuang are all ten years older, so the treatment is much worse. They go out and run wild every day, except for lack of money, there is nothing wrong with them.

The 9-year-old Bang Geng can be said to be the prettiest kid in the compound. He was only in his twenties in the twelfth lunar month, and he bought two sets of 100 small firecrackers at once.Put it at home, take out a dozen or so every day, and put it around, followed by a bunch of little kids.

He Yuzhu, who was pushing the car back, was stopped by the third master in the front yard.

"Yo, silly Zhu, this year is fine! What's the matter with the big and small packages every day?"

"Third Master, from what you said, if I am full and the whole family is not hungry, I can't compare to you."

"Silly Zhu, I've saved your family's couplet for you. I'll write yours first. How about it? I'll send you home later." The third master was still so helpful.

"No, no, I'll put down my things and pick them up by myself. You're busy, so I'll come right away." After He Yuzhu finished speaking, he continued to push the car to the middle courtyard. Today, the rain didn't follow, and he ran to find his classmates to play. He just likes to play. Age, usually really boring and ruthless, and disappears whenever there is a chance.

Put away the last few New Year's goods I bought, lock the valuable ones in the cabinet, and took five or six candies. A few years ago, I went to the third grandpa's house to get couplets for a quarter and ten cents. Now life is better and I am more generous.

Close the door. It is not a good time to lock the door. There are no locked doors in the courtyard. Lock it inside when you sleep, and cover it when you go out. There are still many people in the courtyard who are not working. People from outside can’t come in. Visiting relatives and friends The ones don't walk around at will, besides, every household is similar, and there is nothing superfluous.

When I came to the front yard, I watched the third master return to the table and splash ink. Everyone was watching from the sidelines. The youngest daughter of the third master was next to him, and there was a big tea tray at the corner of the table.

There is an unwritten rule that when people write couplets, they always have meaning.

Some take three cents, one cent and two cents, some grab fried peanuts, some grab melon seeds, and some even put down a sweet potato and leave.

The three masters also happily thanked them. This is a legal "business". The big red paper bought for a few cents is cut, and the pen, ink and inkstone are also ready-made. Once you write it, you will have all the expenses for the New Year. .

Now the "business" of the third master has expanded to the nearby courtyard. There are not many intellectuals these days, and there are even fewer intellectuals who are embarrassed to do so.

When writing Spring Festival couplets, you should write "be careful of the lights" in the exquisite kitchen, write "healthy" or "reclining in a blessed place" on the bedside kang, write "spring is full of yards" or "full yards of spring light" in the front and back yards, Write "rice noodles are like mountains", write "conserve water" for water urns, write "golden ten thousand taels" and "abundance in the year of wealth" for large and small cabinets, and write "cattle and horses in groups" or "six livestock are prosperous" for livestock sheds and poultry houses. , on the big tree, "trees towering" should be written, and on the ladder, "step by step", should be written.

Of course, He Yuzhu’s courtyard is much simpler. There are only one or two rooms in the family. One or two couplets pasted on the door frame is enough. At the main gate of the front yard!
"Remember the [-] million people with one heart, and see nine fingers clearly with two eyes."

"Love the collective and bear hardships without complaint, and build a country with one heart and one mind."

Needless to say, it is very characteristic of the times. The characters written by the third master are better than many so-called experts in later generations, and naturally they have nothing to do with calligraphers.

After taking away his own couplets and stuffing the candy into Yan Jiedi's hands, He Yuzhu Shi Shiran returned to the middle courtyard, pasted up his own couplets and those of his sister's room, and started working again.

The New Year’s food that was prepared when I was young, was almost finished by the siblings this week. Finally, I don’t need to hide it. I don’t have a lot of fun. Anyway, every family is very happy, and they are buying new year’s goods!
He Yuzhu would not be able to do so much work if the old cow was not too old to do much work.

The whole city is filled with the smell of all kinds of food, just like He Yuzhu. This is something that is not worth mentioning in later generations, but it is very rare in this era.

Picking and picking, I prepared a few small dishes. The dumplings were wrapped in advance and put outside. They were frozen hard, better than the refrigerator.

"It's snowing, it's snowing, oh oh!"

When something happens, the kids are always the first to know.

The snow hadn’t melted last time, and it’s coming again. The winter in this era is really cold. The minus ten degrees is just an appetizer, and it’s always twenty or thirty degrees below zero.

The auspicious snow heralds a good year. Before I knew it, it was five or six o'clock in the afternoon, and it was getting dark. He Yushui came back bouncing around.

After the rainy year, she is also a 15-year-old girl, just in the first year of high school.