Chapter 618

"Well said!"

The old man nodded his head and waved his hand with a smile: "fire, eat!"

As soon as the words fell, Chu Chen took the incense and lit the firecrackers hanging at the door. The sound of the firecrackers suddenly rang.

"Chinese New Year!"

Everyone looked at the firecrackers at the door, everyone's face was jubilant, little girl Chu Qianxue was jumping and jumping, when the firecrackers stopped, she wanted to put on, finally her mother finally got her back home.

"Mom and Dad, I wish you two happiness and longevity..."

When the banquet began, the brothers and sisters began to hold their glasses and toasted the two old people. Next, it was Chu Chen's younger generation, and finally it was Chu Qianxue, the youngest on the scene.

"Granddad, where's my lucky money?" Children's voices and Tongyu's new year's greetings, Chu Qianxue reaches out her hand to ask for new year's money.

"Yes, all of them..."

At this time, the old couple couldn't close their mouths with laughter. They took out the prepared red envelope and handed it out.

After getting the red envelope, the little girl began to kowtow to other elders, including Chu Chen.

"Third uncle, I heard second uncle say that you are a big capitalist!"

Kowtow to Chu Chen, the little girl stretched out her fat hand, and her big eyes flickered at Chu Chen.

Chu Chen stares at Chu Junfeng. Chu Junfeng laughs and does not speak.

Later, Chu Chen gave the red envelope to his niece, then picked up the girl and said with a smile, "Xiaoxue, are you satisfied with the red envelope I gave you?"

Little girl Chu Chen to the red envelope, compared with others, said with a smile: "satisfied!"

"I'll tell you!" Chu Chen leaned up to the little girl's ear and whispered, "your second uncle is also a big capitalist. He has more than a dozen stores as big as my family."

The little girl looked around and thought about it with her little head. Then she said in surprise: "ah! Really

Chu Chen said, "of course, will the third uncle cheat you?"

The little girl looked at the red envelope in her hand, then she jumped down from Chu Chen, went to Chu Junfeng and said angrily, "hum! Second uncle, you are a real iron cock

"Why am I the iron cock?" Chu Junfeng asked happily.

"You are also a big capitalist. Why did you give the lucky money to the third uncle..."

Ge Beirong once pulled a little girl, scolded: "you say girl, how lucky money is also too much or too little!"

The little girl tooted: "Mom, this is what you said. My lucky money will be used for my study in the future. If it's not enough, then I can't go to school?"

"Xiaoxue, you like reading so much!" Chu Yulan asked with a smile.

"Yes, I'm going to be a big scientist in the future." Little girl innocent said.

We all laughed happily when we heard the little girl say that. No matter whether she knows what kind of efforts it will take to become a scientist or not, as long as she can always remember this wish and put it into practice.

Chu Junfeng said with a smile: "good! Or our family Xiaoxue has ambition, when the time comes, I'll help you pay for your study... "

"Thank you, uncle. Now I think you are not iron cock, but Lei Feng..."

The little girl took a light bite on Chu Junfeng's face and said something, which immediately made everyone laugh

Old capital people pay special attention to "new year", so they have: "wife, don't be greedy. After Laba, it's the new year. Drink Laba porridge for a few days. Lililala 23, 23, tanggua sticky, 24, sweep the house, 25, fried tofu, 26, Stewed Mutton, 27, kill rooster, 28, noodle, 29, steamed bread, 30 night Stay up all night, and turn around on the new year's day.... " It's a popular ballad.

Laba porridge, fried tofu, stewed mutton and so on listed in the folk songs are all the delicacies of the old capital during the Spring Festival. Today, it's a common practice, but in the 1950s and 1960s, it was only during the spring festival that we could have a good time.

Of course, there are more living materials and more things on the table now. However, on New Year's Eve, traditional foods such as honey offering, SaQima, carp and braised pork are still indispensable.

After three rounds of wine and five flavors of food, Mrs. Ji brought out dumplings, which are indispensable for the Chinese New Year. In the customs of Beijing, plain dumplings are indispensable because they are used to worship gods. However, chuchen family is different from other families, so it is not convenient to worship gods. People eat meat and meat, vegetables mixed.

In addition to dumplings and rice cakes, which are well-known delicacies, Mrs. Ji also brought out a dish of "bean paste". It is a kind of cold dish made of meat skin, dried bean curd, soybeans, green beans, water mustard and so on. Its color is like amber, similar to "meat jelly", which is also a traditional dish of the older generation.

In addition, there is "Mustard duner", which is used to accompany wine and appetizer. In festivals, people eat more greasy food, which is easy to "make a fire" and "make phlegm". These cold dishes can make up for this defect.After eating and drinking enough, a large family sat together, eating snacks while knocking melon seeds, and chatting while watching TV. Looking at the scene of the four generations together, Chu Chen could not help but feel a warm feeling flowing through his heart

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Chinese New Year is happy, busy and short-lived. In the twinkling of an eye, it's the fourth day of the new year.

According to legend, every year on the fourth day of the first month, the kitchen god checks his household registration, so it is not suitable to leave home. Although it's nonsense, it's in line with the requirement that people need to adjust at home one day during the continuous festivals. Therefore, the custom of not going out on the fourth day of junior high school is a folk custom.

But now is the new century after all. It doesn't matter if you go out on the fourth day of junior high school, so Chu Yulan, who is bored at home, pulls Chu Chen to go to the temple fair. Anyway, he has nothing to do, so Chu Chen agrees.

Temple fair is commonly known as Temple market. In the old days, when the temple was open, vendors and folk artists set up stalls around the temple to sell and perform miscellaneous arts. Later, some temples lost their incense, but the fair was still held as usual. It evolved into a purely commercial and entertainment fair. People still call it a temple fair.

Before the Spring Festival, businesses were not open from the first day to the fifth day. The stalls of temple fairs are the most prosperous traders during the Chinese New Year. They have all kinds of food and clothing, especially all kinds of things for the Chinese New Year. They are crowded on the stalls and hung on the shelves. The temple fair is crowded with people, and no business is not prosperous.

Among them, the happiest is the children. They are waved by various kinds of toys. At this time, they are coquettish with their parents, and most of them can achieve their wish.

The temple fair chosen by brother and sister is the most famous Changdian temple fair, which lays the foundation for the unique history and culture of the old capital and brings the lively and traditional atmosphere to everyone.

Changdian Temple Fair has a history of more than 400 years. It began in Jiajing of Ming Dynasty, flourished in Kangxi of Qing Dynasty, and flourished in Qianlong of Qing Dynasty. Until the early 1960s, it was still prosperous and lively. Later, unfortunately, it died prematurely and stopped for 37 years. Perhaps catering to the nostalgia of the people in Beijing, Changdian temple fair was resumed in 2001.

As soon as Chu Chen and Chu Yulan walked into the temple fair, they felt a strong flavor of new year floating in the air. Looking at the continuous shouting around, their emotions suddenly rose.

There are a lot of folk goods at Changdian temple fair. Brother and sister look like old crafts in the capital, such as tugangpian, dough figurine, silk Figurine, kite, diabolo, paper cutting, micro carving, facial makeup, sedan chair and other traditional projects. They draw a picture of folk customs for the temple fair, which reminds Chu Chen of his childhood memories and makes him feel very good.

Chu Yulan is very interested in going to the temple fair. If he sees anything interesting, he has to look at it.

For example, tame birds, those trained birds, can take money from your hand, open the iron box, put the money into the box, all at once.

Chu Yulan felt very surprised when she saw this. She spent the coin in her hand and changed it. She was not satisfied until it was sour.

After watching the bird training, Chu Yulan stopped again after a few steps. It turned out to be a straw booth.

We can see that the straw weaving artists pick up a few thin grass and twirl it lightly. They turn it into a dragonfly, a mantis, a frog, a prawn, a dragon and a grasshopper.

Seeing this situation, Chu Yulan thought it was very easy, so he also wanted to do it: "brother, I also want to try, do you think it's ok?"

"Yes! I'll ask for you

Chu Chen nodded with a smile and went up to ask about it. He heard that there was money to compensate for it. In addition, Chu Yulan was a beautiful girl. The artist agreed with her without thinking much.

Things in the world are easy to see but difficult to do. Chu Yulan happily picked up the tools to make them by hand, but found that he could not make them. He clearly wanted to make a dragonfly, and finally made something, but he didn't know what it was. Chu Chen laughed.

Chu Yulan was a little annoyed and angry: "brother, if you have the ability to do one!"

"It's a piece of cake for me."

Chuchen laughs. Although he has never learned straw weaving before, he has a good memory. At that time, he has already remembered the secret of the artist's production. So, it didn't take him long to make up a vivid dog, which made Chu Yulan and the artist dumbfounded.

"Brother, have you learned it before?" Chu Yulan said with astonishment.

Chu Chen smiles and doesn't answer right away. Until he pays the money and takes a few steps, he replies with a smile:

"have you forgotten? I can never forget it. This kind of simple thing is remembered after seeing it several times. Nah, I'll give it to you!"

Chu Yulan took over the grass made dog, a face speechless way: "ah, forget you have this cheating ability!"

But immediately, she was attracted by the straw dog in her hand. She thought it was cute when she looked left and right, so she said with a smile: "thank you, brother Eh, there are "sugar blowers" there! Brother, since you have such a powerful ability, help me blow another dog later! ""OK, no problem..."

"Sugar blowing man" is to rub a thin sugar the size of a pigeon egg in your hand, take out one and hold it in your mouth. While blowing in your mouth, you can move on your hand. After a while, what you want to blow will jump in your hand.