Chun Yu was very tired from the long journey, so he went to bed very early after having some dinner.
I woke up early the next morning, thinking that I would get along with this family carefully for at least a month, so I put on women's clothes and tied my hair into a simple woman's bun.
This bun is simple and easy to pull up.
She saw Mrs.
Alan doing it like this yesterday, so she is learning and applying it now.
After she opened the door and went out, she was shocked when she first saw her little ring.
Then she smiled and said, "I didn't expect you to be so beautiful, sister."
Chunyu was stunned after hearing this.
In order to facilitate her travel, she went to a clothing store to make a few pieces of clothing for ordinary peasant women.
Most of them were made of gray, white and light blue linen.
Today, she was just wearing a gray short coat, with a solid light blue skirt underneath, and her hair style was still an old woman's bun, which looked good. "" Xiaoyuan next to Xiaohuan also smiled and nodded.
One of them was a girl who had just grown haircut, and the other was a girl who still had front hair.
Naturally, she didn't notice Chunyu's dress.
On the other hand, Mrs.
Alan, who came from behind with a washbasin, was stunned for a moment when she saw Chunyu like this, and then asked with a smile: "Sister, what are you doing?"
When Chun Yu saw her pointing at her bun and then at Chun Yu's head, he knew what she meant, so he replied: "To be honest with you, sister-in-law, I am already a married woman.
Unexpectedly, I just got married less than half a year ago."
"My husband passed away due to illness.
I was alone and widowed.
I felt depressed and sad for a while, so I left home to relax."
"Oh, I'm sorry, sister, I didn't know."
After hearing this, Mrs.
Alan felt a little embarrassed, but she didn't know what to say.
"It's okay.
I'm gradually forgetting this sad thing, but I just said it so that my sister-in-law doesn't know and won't ask again later."
Chunyu said when he saw that she was a little embarrassed because of this matter.
Xiaoyuan didn't quite understand the conversation between the two, but Xiaohuan was already a hairpin girl after all, so she understood the meaning of being a widow, so she quickly thought about it, changed the subject and said, "Sister Chunyu, you came at the right time.
We are here."
The Long Solstice Festival is coming soon, you can catch up with the fun. " "The Long Solstice Festival is the winter solstice."
Chunyu became interested when she heard it.
She knew that the north attached great importance to the winter solstice.
Not only officials would have a holiday, but even the poorest people would try their best to make dumplings and try their best to provide clothes for the children.
Wearing new clothes to welcome the winter solstice is much more important than the Spring Festival.
It's just that when the spring rain just left the capital, it was already the end of October.
It was already cold there, but unexpectedly it still felt warm here.
I didn't expect that the winter solstice was approaching.
"Yes, sister is from the north, right?
I heard that you have a nice temple fair during the festival?"
Xiaohuan asked hurriedly.
"Well, whenever there is a festival here, in addition to some festival activities, temple fairs are indispensable."
Chunyu said.
"It's quite enviable.
In addition to worshiping ancestors here, we also visit the lake."
Xiaohuan said, but she said with a smile in her eyes: "But sister, you probably haven't seen it before, but it is quite lively.
And on that day when we are here Different from the food you eat in the north, there are red beans, glutinous rice, glutinous rice balls, glutinous rice cakes, rice cakes, bacon, mutton soup, etc. that are not available there, so you can have a good appetite and enjoy the food. " Chunyu was really looking forward to it after hearing this.
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Maybe the women in the north didn't know much about it at this time, but they were familiar with it in her previous life.
But I’ve only seen it in books and TV food programs.
She also knew a thing or two about the Winter Solstice Festival in the South.
Every year during the winter solstice, people from the north and the south always have different opinions on the question of "what to eat."
In the north, dumplings are eaten for almost all New Years, but in the south, there are all kinds of winter solstice foods, just like what Xiaohuan mentioned: red bean porridge, glutinous rice balls, glutinous rice cakes, rice cakes, bacon, mutton soup, etc.
And in the south, the legends about the winter solstice are also different from those in the north.
In the north, the Winter Solstice is said to commemorate and thank Zhang Zhongjing, the genius doctor of the Eastern Han Dynasty, for saving his ear.
It is said that Zhang Zhongjing cooked mutton soup and made dumplings for everyone in order to prevent people from freezing their ears.
They looked like "Jiao Er" and ate the "ears" in the pot, so his ears would not freeze.
In the south, it is said that there was a man named Gonggong.
His son was not successful and committed many evil deeds.
He died on the winter solstice.
After his death, he turned into a plague ghost and continued to harm the people.
However, this plague ghost is most afraid of red beans, so people cook and eat red bean rice on the winter solstice to ward off plague ghosts and prevent disasters and diseases.
The Winter Solstice is the longest night of the year.
Many people use this night to make "Winter Solstice Circles" with glutinous rice flour.
In order to distinguish it from the later "Farewell" on the eve of the Spring Festival, so on the day before the Winter Festival, people also make "Winter Solstice Circles".
It is called "Tian Sui" or "Yasui", which means that the "Year" is not over yet, but everyone is already one year older.
Although the customs and customs in the north and south are different during the winter solstice, they are generally the same.
During the winter solstice in the south, when adults make glutinous rice balls, they often respond to children's requests and make small animals, such as kittens, puppies, rabbits, tigers, etc.
The children are always happy at this time.
Before eating the Winter Solstice round, one should stick a Winter Solstice round on the door, window, table, cabinet, bed and lamp behind each one, which is called "Consumption Shan".
You have to wait until it is "sent to the stove" before you can bake it.
If there is a pregnant woman in the family at this time, her hair will be rounded during the winter solstice, and she will give birth to a boy, otherwise she will give birth to a girl.
When eating the winter solstice round, you must eat it in pairs for good luck.
If there are only two pills left in the meal, married people will have everything going well; if there is only one pill left, single people will have everything go smoothly.
Some families use seasonal fruits and animals to worship gods and ancestors in the evening.
There are also people who "dry winter rice" on this day, that is, wash the white rice with water, expose it to the sun on this day and then store it, leaving it for people who are sick to cook porridge in the future.
Therefore, eating glutinous rice balls is also a traditional custom during the Winter Solstice, which is especially popular in Jiangnan.
"Tangyuan" is a must-have food during the Winter Solstice.
It is a round dessert made of glutinous rice flour.
"Yuan" means "reunion" and "completeness".
Eating glutinous rice balls during the Winter Solstice is also called "Winter Solstice Tuan".
There is a folk saying that "eating glutinous rice balls makes you one year older".
The Winter Solstice group can be used to worship ancestors, and can also be used to exchange gifts with relatives and friends.
There is a poem from the ancients that goes: "Every family is pounding rice to make glutinous rice balls, knowing that it is the winter solstice in the Ming Dynasty."
"Yuan" means "reunion" and "completeness".
Eating glutinous rice balls during the Winter Solstice symbolizes family harmony and good luck.
Winter Festival sweet pills are usually cooked before dawn.
After the family gets up, they all eat a bowl of "Dong Festival pills", so there is also a folk proverb "Winter Festival pills, one meal will celebrate the New Year", commonly known as "Tian Sui", which means New Year.
Although we haven’t passed it yet, everyone has already turned one year older.
The children most look forward to eating this bowl of sweet pills.
They often wake up at night and ask if it's dawn yet.
However, the sky seems to be joking with the children and it never gets bright.
Therefore, there is a saying "Winter Festival night, long and long, the sweet pills are not yet bright."
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The nursery rhyme of "The sky is boiling and the light is not shining".
However, there are also children in the north who sing songs about ninety-nine calls: "One ninety-two nine, I can't call you; three nine twenty-seven, the fence is blowing; four nine thirty-six, my eyes are like sleeping in the open at night; five ninety-four Fifteen, the sun opens the door; Sixty-nine, fifty-four, the poor strive for spirit; Seventy-nine, sixty-three, Buna has two shoulders; Eighty-nine, seventy-two, cats and dogs seek the shade; Nine-nine, eighty-one, the plows and rakes work together out."
All these rumors are enough to illustrate the importance of the Winter Solstice Festival, so the spring rain is even more anticipated.
So when Xiaohuan and Alan's family were making glutinous rice balls, she helped out.
Her hands were quite dexterous, so when Xiaoyuan and Xiaoluo asked to make fancy children, she made several Mickey Mouse, Garfield Cat, Rascal Rabbit, etc., unlike the ordinary small animals that Xiaohuan and the others made.
His cute and naive appearance was very popular with the two children.
Even Xiaohuan and the others said he was very cute.
To be continued.
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