Chapter 56 The customs of the New Year

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Before eating the New Year’s Eve dinner, we should pay attention to the ritual. First, we should light two large candles in front of the hall. In the place where we cook, we should also light two small candles in the kitchen. We also have to worship the Kitchen God on the Kitchen God. He is a very ancient god. He not only manages the food in the world, but also protects the safety of the people. Besides, food is the most important thing for the people, so the Kitchen God is very big. Every household should worship the Kitchen God. He will do good deeds to the heaven and protect safety in the ground!

This couplet can be seen on the stove in every household. Thank you for your hard work, the stove god!

After the worship, I closed the door, washed my face and hands, and then started to have the New Year’s Eve dinner. One of the biggest taboos in our place is that when eating the New Year’s Eve dinner, you must not knock on other people’s doors, because this is very unlucky. If this family has any bad luck next year, I will say that someone came to knock on my door on New Year’s Eve last year, so I won’t have good luck this year!

That bastard knocking on the door is really a careless person!

Therefore, adults will always tell us, the ignorant little kids, not to knock on the door when we see someone else's house closed and having the New Year's Eve dinner, otherwise I will hit you hard!

Some guys owe others money but have not paid it back. Generally, they will think of ways to pay back the money before the New Year, because they are afraid that others will knock on the door of their house when they eat New Year’s Eve dinner on New Year’s Eve dinner. This taboo may be a tradition passed down from generation to generation. It is very good and powerful. Tell these descendants not to do bad things, nor to do bad things. If you do too many bad things, others will knock on the door when they eat New Year’s Eve dinner on New Year’s Eve dinner on New Year’s Eve dinner, which will make you uneasy and make you have no good luck in the coming year!

The cycle of cause and effect, and the retribution is unhappy!

There was a table in front of the hall, with vegetables on the table. There were two large candles on the gangji (a kind of furniture, which we call gangji in the local dialect) and were burning lively. There were several calendars or birthday charts on the wall in front of the hall, the Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea Chart, the God of Wealth. The family sat around the Eight Immortals Table, wearing new clothes and eating the New Year’s Eve dinner seriously. It felt very grand. The little kid was not allowed to talk nonsense at this time, nor was he allowed to ask all kinds of strange questions, nor were he allowed to leave the table halfway through the meal. There was a question that had always bothered me at that time, which made me very confused, because after I was full, I would say such a sentence, and I couldn’t eat it anymore!

The meaning is that my parents should give New Year’s money next. At this time, my mother will say something strange that I can’t eat, so I can’t eat it. I will keep it for next year!

At that time, I was wondering why I had to keep this good meal until next year to eat Ah? Can't I eat it tomorrow?

How long does this year last?

At that time, I didn’t realize that New Year’s Eve was next year. In fact, it was only one day’s business, and next year and tomorrow were the same thing!

Of course, parents would give New Year’s money, ranging from two or five to ten yuan, and they would give more every year. At that time, there were no red envelopes. The New Year’s money was made with a pack of red paper and then sticking it with saliva!

After we finished our New Year's Eve dinner, we needed to set off firecrackers. Every household ate the New Year's Eve dinner, and after eating, they set off firecrackers. It sounded very lively. We kids also like to set off firecrackers, some small firecrackers, and electric cannons, throw them into water or mud. When they are fried, the water splashes and the mud flew around, which is very exciting. Sometimes they cover them with a broken bowl or stuff them into a bottle. When they are fried, the bottles are broken. What's more amazing is that Zhang Tiejun always likes to insert electric cannons into cow dung. When they are fried, the cow dung is flying all over the sky. Some unlucky guys who are slower reacting have splashed cow dung on their faces. Good guys, they are all wearing new clothes!

Something interesting!

Some old men and women like to watch the New Year's Eve Spring Festival Gala, singing and dancing lively, but some people still can't sit still and like to go to teahouses to play mahjong and cards. During the New Year's Eve to the Spring Festival, a kind of gambling called betting is popular in our countryside, returning home, tiger, and going out.Four things are: there are dealers and retail investors. The dealers have made them come out. There are many ways to bet, which is also considered to be a thing of the ancestors. Many people in the village like this. When betting, they are on a table. There are many people around the table, and there are many people in the outside and three layers. They are covered with blackness. Some women also like to bet, sandwiched in the crowd. Sometimes their butts and breasts are squeezed and deformed. If some young women with a little beauty are also sandwiched in the crowd, their butts and breasts will inevitably be kneaded several times. They are all black and they don’t know who pinched them!