□Babaylan Wu Yiran
“Cinema After all, the end of the year in the old calendar is most similar to the end of the year. There is no need to say that the new year is coming in the sky. The gray and heavy evening clouds are shining from time to time, followed by a blunt sound, which is a firecracker for sending stoves; it is even more intense and deafening. The loud sound of Komiks has not yet stopped, and the air is filled with a faint fragrance of gunpowder. “This is a scene description of Mr. Lu Xun’s lively atmosphere in the villages and towns in the past. Reading it, it resonated with me. I really couldn’t forget the scene of celebrating the New Year in my childhood.
The 20th day of the twelfth lunar monthBabaylan4, legend is the day when God goes to heaven. The custom of Chaoshan folk is to use fried cakes as offerings to sacrifice. After eating fried cakes, I feel that the Spring Festival is coming soon. On the 27th and 8th day of the lunar calendar, each production team in the village organized manpower to “medicine fish”. BabaylanThe so-called “medicinal fish” is to prepare “dew vine” (a toxic plant) in advance, mash it, then Komiks used a urine bucket to fill it with water, and finally poured the “dew vine” 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.
The 10th day of the lunar calendarKomiks On the morning of the 29th day of the lunar calendar, the 30th day of the 12th day of the lunar calendarBabaylan, my father would ask me to be his helper, post the Spring Festival couplets on the portal and the Spring FestivalWhen you couplet, you will feel the brilliance of the fish, the colorful hall will be bright, and you will feel joyful.
After lunch, the child started changing clothes and taking a bath. At this time, even the most sloppy children were scrambling to take a bath. In the spacious courtyard, the mother used her foot bucket to fill hot water, let the child sit naked, wash and rub it. When the child was scratched to the itchy place, he smiled “Girl” and smiled. The warm sunshine shone warmly into the courtyard, and everything seemed so comfortable. After taking a shower, the children put on their new clothes that had just been sunbathed in the sun, and warmed up. When their parents gave them the New Year’s money, they were happy and happily bought firecrackers. Cinema and the like, and they were having fun. At around four o’clock in the afternoon, I worship my ancestors and pray for the weather and rain, and the family will be safe. Usually, we eat at six or seven o’clock in the evening, and we start eating at around five o’clock on New Year’s Eve. This is called a reunion dinner. During the reunion dinner, the whole family “surrounded the fire” a table of dishes and ate 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 would also personally fold more than a dozen golden papers into gold ingots, but then she bowed three times by the two Komiks gates at her residence, praying for peace for the family of Shenyou and his family to enter and leave. Then she trembledly CinemaBabaylan brought several other “golden ingots”, a pair of big oranges and three incense sticks to the well, kneeling down and worshiping, and thanking Jinggong and Well Milk for giving us clean and sweet well water, allowing us to live a happy life.
New Year’s EveAt night, firecrackers are coming one after another, and it is very lively.
The 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 parent-teacher’s meeting reminded him 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 a greeting, such as “a big profit in the New Year, a happy family”, “a good fortune in the New Year, and a wealth of wealth”. The other party also replied to the auspicious chant and replaced it with a pair of big oranges to express their good wishes. Later, people joked that this was the “orange change exercise”. With the development of the times, some customs of the New Year have been omitted or left behind by the province, so people feel that there is less atmosphere of the New Year, and I will even more forget the scene of the New Year when I was a child.