"Lushan, go, go, go out and play."
An Ziliang held a large handful of Didi Jin in his hand and shouted excitedly.He grabbed An Zishan's arm and kept pushing."
Let's go!
Let's go, hurry up!
”An Zishan smiled bitterly, turned his head to look at his grandfather, and said softly: "Grandpa, let's go out to play!"
You drink the water first!
”Zhang Longliang showed a kind smile on his face, and said gently: "Go, go, don't worry about me." ”The two of them broke a piece of yellow-brown incense from a small bundle of incense next to the incense burner in the adjacent hall to worship their ancestors, lit it and ran out in a hurry.At this time, it was already more than ten o'clock in the evening, and An Jiaye shouted from behind: "You two be quiet. ”An Zishan doesn't know why, every year during the Spring Festival, on Chinese New Year's Eve, his father will ask them to be cautious and quiet, as if they are too loud to speak, which will disturb the ancestors and gods.The brothers came to the yard, next to the pressurized well, licked the tail of Didi Jin'er with their tongues one by one, and dipped it around the cement platform of the pressurized well.Then use the lit incense, one by one, to light it all.I saw that above the pressurized water well, puffs of gray smoke rose up, and the gunpowder in the dripping gold was burning and the glittering golden light was beautiful.The two of them played in the courtyard for a long time, until their hands and faces were black, and they set off two small bundles of gold.Suddenly, as if in an instant, the sound of firecrackers rang out outside, and it was twelve o'clock in the morning.The kitchen door was pushed open, and Zhang Guiyun walked out with a boxy wooden jujube tray containing two bowls of freshly cooked dumplings and a pair of chopsticks.An Jiaye and Zhang Longliang also walked out, An Jiaye held a pile of burning paper and a whip in his hand, and followed Zhang Guiyun to distribute paper horses.The so-called paper horse is a very old Spring Festival custom in Lianshan County, a long time ago, it was to burn the mounts of various gods with paper into the shape of a horse.Later, it was slowly simplified, and the paper was burned directly, and there was no need to tie the paper into the shape of a horse.An Zishan stood in the middle of the courtyard and silently watched his parents respectfully send paper horses and sacrifice to the sky.After distributing the paper horse, An Jiaye picked up a hanging whip in the yard, An Ziliang ran back to the house, lying on the window and covering his ears with his hands to look at the yard, flickering sparks and deafening firecrackers from time to time.After setting off the firecrackers, An Jiaye lit a fire with sesame straw and bean straw in the middle of the yard, and then the family gathered around the fire, roasting the fire and stepping on the sesame straw.An Zishan looked at his father next to him and asked curiously, "Dad, why do you have to step on sesame straw when you bake the fire?"
Is there any way to say it?
”Before An Jiaye could speak, Zhang Longliang on the side said with a smile: "Chinese New Year's Eve stepping on sesame straw, also known as stepping on sesame straw, our croppers pay attention to this."
The more broken it is, the better it will be for the coming year. ”"Roasting fire, it means the same thing, there will be no disease and no disaster in the coming year, and there will be blessings."
An Zishan suddenly seemed to have a starting point for the origin of the Spring Festival customs of rural people, that is, to draw a good omen, a good color, and a good talk.Nodding, he carefully roasted his hands, arms and legs, and his whole body to one side.If you don't want anything, just a good sign.After roasting the fire, stepping on the sesame straw, around the fire, according to the instructions of their parents, the An brothers faced the four directions of the southeast, northwest and northwest, and kowtowed three heads each, and when kowtowing, An Zishan vaguely heard the eldest brother muttering in his mouth, "Blessing from all the fairy grandfathers, the next year will be the first in the class." ”The Chinese New Year's Eve dinner is indeed much grander than in previous years, and An Zishan pulled it, there was a braised pork, a stewed chicken, a cabbage meatball, a fried ribbon fish, and a braised mackerel.There is actually seafood, An Zishan was stunned for a moment, in fact, their family rarely eats seafood, fish, the first is too fishy, and the second is too expensive to eat.The family gathered around the dinner table, and after eating the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner lively, An Ziliang sat on the kang and began to drip.After Zhang Guiyun finished cleaning up the kitchen and the family sat on the kang, Zhang Longliang looked at An Zishan and An Ziliang with a smile, and said kindly: "Come on, kowtow to grandpa for the New Year, grandpa will kowtow to you for the New Year." ”An Ziliang suddenly became excited, looked at Zhang Longliang with round eyes, knelt directly in front of him, folded his hands, bowed his head, and shouted, "Grandpa has a good New Year, I wish grandpa a blessing like the East China Sea, and longevity is better than Nanshan."
Purring and saying a lot, An Zishan was dumbfounded, where did you learn this?
If you say that, I don't have any words!
Zhang Longliang couldn't close his mouth happily, the wrinkles on his face were about to float, and he said continuously: "Good, good, good, really good boy, come, this is your kowtow money." ”An Ziliang took it with both hands with a smile, and An Zishan glanced at it, it seemed to be three, two twenty, and one ten.It seems that the parents have paid a lot of filial piety to his grandfather during the Chinese New Year, An Zishan thought to himself."
Lushan, come over and kowtow to grandpa, why are you stunned?"
Zhang Longliang looked at his little grandson strangely, feeling that something was not quite right with this child, why was he so honest and sensible this year?
An Zishan came back to his senses, moved to his grandfather with a smile, knelt on the kang with double paint, and said softly: "Grandpa has a good New Year!"
”"Eh, good, good, good boy, kowtow money."
Zhang Longliang said with a smile, An Zishan took it, "Thank you, grandpa!"
”An Jiaye and Zhang Guiyun looked at each other, looked at the two children with a smile on their faces, and then said: "Come and kowtow to me and my father, we also have kowtow money to give!"
”Then the brothers happily kowtowed to their parents, and each gave two hundred yuan, An Zishan secretly said that this was the largest amount of New Year's money he had ever received.When kowtowing to his parents, An Zishan's eyes were moist, looking at his upright and middle-aged parents in front of him, he suddenly remembered them in his previous life, with gray hair, vicissitudes of life and cloudy and gloomy eyes.After kowtowing, Zhang Longliang got up and went home to rest because of his advanced age and fatigue.After An Jiaye sent him home, he came back from the gate, and a barricade was placed at the door of each gate.Moreover, the door lamp was turned on, and there was a bright room inside and outside the house, he said that it was to take care of it, and then the family of four sat on the kang and played playing cards, which used to be the most anticipated activity of An Zishan for the Spring Festival.After eating Chinese New Year's Eve dinner on Chinese New Year's Eve, the family will play until more than three o'clock, and the rules of running fast are similar to fighting landlords.When An Zishan was just in the first year of junior high school, there was an incident during the Spring Festival that his parents laughed at for many years, that is, because he played poker and had too much fun, when he went out to the toilet halfway, his parents came back and asked if it was snowing.He said it wasn't snowing, but he lied so he lied so he could continue playing poker.As a result, on the first day of junior high school, An Jiaye and Zhang Guiyun didn't have time to go out to pay New Year's greetings, so they went to the vegetable garden to clear the snow.Not only does it lose its warmth, but the straw curtain is also prone to decay after being soaked in water.Later, An Zishan grew up slowly, and when he played poker during the Chinese New Year, his parents often joked about him, saying how much he liked to play poker when he was young.When the family played until more than two o'clock in the morning, An Zishan noticed that her mother began to yawn, thinking that she was tired for a day, so she should rest early, so she said that she was sleepy and shouted to sleep.The An Jiaye and Zhang Guiyun looked at each other, and there was a hint of darkness in their eyes, the child has really grown up.The lights in the three bedrooms were turned off, and the family slept, only the lights outside were still on, continuing the task of illuminating.This night, An Zishan slept soundly, until the morning of the first day of the new year, he was woken up by the noise outside.