Siheyuan starts from a good life

The next day is the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, which is what we commonly call the Little New Year.

"Child, kid, don't be greedy, it's the New Year after Laba"

Laba porridge, drink it for a few days, it will be twenty-three;

In Sijiucheng, people attach great importance to celebrating the Spring Festival.

Because once this little new year is over,

The New Year is coming.

After the New Year,

We have to "step by step" every day

Getting ready for the New Year!

The twenty-third day of the twelfth lunar month is the day of worshiping the Stove, which is to commemorate the Stove Lord. People believe that the Kitchen God is the god of good and evil sent to the world by the Jade Emperor. He must go to the Jade Emperor every year on the 24th of the twelfth lunar month. In BJ, before dinner on this day, every parent will roast the sugar melon and apply it on the lips of the Kitchen God. Even if the Stove Lord is not greedy, people still insist on putting the baked sweets on his lips.

Every household would set up poles in the courtyard, hang lights and candles, and set off firecrackers. The men in the family would bow to each other and pray with words of restraint of evil and promotion of good, and send the Stove Lord to heaven to tell the Jade Emperor about the good and evil of the year in the world. However, women were not allowed to worship. Just clean the stove in the inner room, light the lamp and worship silently. Therefore, there is always a couplet posted when offering sacrifices to the stove: God says good things, and returns to the palace to bring good luck.

When offering sacrifices to the Stove Lord, the offerings should be placed, incense should be burned, and then the first toast should be made. At this time, one should sincerely pray to the Stove Lord, and then the second toast should be made. After the third toast, the old Stove Lord should be toasted. The prince's statue was torn off and burned together with his armor, horse and money, which represented sending the Stove Prince to heaven, and the ceremony was successfully completed. Wait until the fourth day of the first lunar month to invite the Kitchen God to return to the human world.

Among the offerings to the Stove Lord, there is no need to use chicken, duck, fish, dried or fresh fruits, let alone cattle or sheep, just some "sugar melons" are enough.

For those who are a little more sophisticated, they will be even more satisfied if they are offered a bowl of lotus seed eight-treasure rice steamed with glutinous rice. The divine horse that the Kitchen God rides is also served with fried beans and water.

In addition to offering sacrifices to the "Kitchen Lord", another important thing to do during the Spring Festival in Beijing is eating candied melons. In the past, there were no sweets to eat, so the sugar melons after offering sacrifices to the stove have become children’s favorite thing. Eating sugar melons has become a happy moment for children. "Tanggua is offered as a sacrifice to the stove. When the New Year comes, girls want flowers and boys want cannons!"

But now the country is against superstition, but after all, it has only been a few years since the founding of the country, and the ideas of the older generation have not been corrected. Although there are regulations of this kind, many people are still secretly worshiping the stove on this day. Your Majesty, the staff of the neighborhood committee turned a blind eye even if they knew about this situation.

Twenty-four, clean the house

Jiang Yan was not involved in this work at all, and even Jiang Yan didn't know that Jiang Yan's small yard had been cleaned up by He Yuzhu and others very early. The old lady also cut a lot of window grilles, which were all used by the family. The women put them up, and as soon as they were put on the window grilles, the New Year atmosphere was immediately filled.

Twenty-five, make tofu,

Twenty-six to cut the meat

Twenty-seventh New Year chicken

The New Year is approaching, and today is the day for everyone to receive Guan Xiang, but Jiang Yan does not need to receive his salary at all. The finance department specially gives Jiang Yan’s salary to his secretary, and the secretary gives Jiang Yan, other subsidies, and other The wages of unit consultants are basically sent by specialized people, and all the money is calculated together. This shocked Jiang Yan. It was more than four hundred yuan.

Twenty-eight facial hair

Today is the last day to go to work. Everyone is not working anymore. They are all cleaning. Originally, today was to receive benefits and prepare to go home for the New Year. However, the benefits of the institute were paid very early, so there is no such thing today. .

However, this year, the fruit trees in Hongxing Farm began to bear fruit one after another. When the apples matured, Xu Damao could ask experts to keep some. After the Chinese New Year, they naturally took them out, but there were not many. Jiang Yan and the other technicians each sent out a few. , these are exclusive benefits for technical personnel.

Twenty-nine steamed buns

After the delivery of the last precision machine tool years ago, precision instruments came to an end. Jiang Yan's other projects also began to enter the experimental stage, especially the Zhan-7 project. The board model has been made, and the wind tunnel experiment has begun. The ground linkage of Zhongwuye has been completed, and it is still being tested and is preparing for the final test flight preparations.

After arranging everything, Jiang Yan finally took a rest. Seeing that everyone was busy with New Year's supplies, Jiang Yan could only volunteer to buy the items in the New Year's grocery list.

There are not many things, only half a catty of peanuts, half a catty of melon seeds, three taels of candy, two taels of vermicelli, and rarely seen small ground sesame oil, day lilies and the like. There are not many things, only about one tael on average.

This New Year celebration is like fighting a war. I wrap myself up in a big cotton-padded jacket and queue up in the early morning, waiting in line for several hours. When I came back, I found that either my cotton-padded jacket was torn or my hair was messy and messy. It was no different from a war.

A relative of the secretary, Xiao Gong, works in a department store and is still a small leader, so Xiao Gong had already said hello a long time ago and just go and get the New Year things.

On New Year's Eve, Jiang Yan went to the department store to pick up things. There were still many people there, but it was only open until noon.

Naturally, not to mention things like melon seeds and peanuts, Jiang Yan also bought some pastries, candies, firecrackers and the like. However, the sum of the items from several stores did not amount to a few kilograms. This little thing was not enough. Jiang Yan thought about it. , he took He Yuyu and the other female generals to the Friendship Store.

The items in the Friendship Store are quite complete, and Jiang Yan still has a lot of foreign exchange coupons in his hand, which naturally starts the buying and selling mode. They bought a lot of candies, peanuts and the like. Lou Xiaoe and Ran Qiuye also discussed with Jiang Yan and bought two bottles of red wine to drink on New Year's Eve.

On the way home, Jiang Yan went to the drugstore to buy some medicinal materials, which are actually seasonings. At this time, some of the seasonings were still medicinal materials and could only be bought in the pharmacy. The main purpose of buying seasonings was to marinate pig heads and pig trotters. This one came out today. Things that He Yuzhu specifically explained.

When Jiang Yan returned home, the couplets had been pasted on the door. The couplets were written by Yan Bugui and posted by his son. This was probably an early service to the family, mainly to earn writing fees.

The prices at Yanbu are not expensive, just peanuts, melon seeds, sugar, etc. The better ones cost a few cents. His family doesn’t buy these every year. When he is thirty, he can make enough by writing Spring Festival couplets, red paper, and ink. I heard that they are all leftover from the school’s reporting activities. He really managed to have enough to eat and drink, and was poor even if he didn't plan on it. This is really the third uncle. Jiang Yan just smiled when he heard it and didn't say anything.

After entering the door and putting down his things, he found that the old lady was the only one left at home, making tea and drinking tea with a small charcoal stove. It was quite leisurely like that. Seeing no one, Jiang Yan could only ask the old lady, Only after asking this question did he find out that there was a meeting in the Intermediate Court. Jiang Yan thought for a while, and there was no point in staying at home now, so he simply went to the Intermediate Court to have a look. After He Yuyu knew about it, he also clamored to go and have a look. Jiang Yan could only Take her with you.