Chapter 275

"Tingting and Linlin are going to stay with us at night." Liu Qingqing said.

"Oh."

Ye Rongrong can only get dressed. After all, it's new year's Eve. He can't sleep. He has to watch the night, which is also known as "Shou Sui".

In rural China, we still keep the habit of keeping watch on New Year's Eve. Some of them are also called "vigil" and "sitting year". New year's Eve dinner is the beginning of ShouSui, a night without sleep, in order to welcome the arrival of the new year.

This new year's Eve dinner should be eaten slowly. Some people have to eat it late into the night from the time when the lights are on. The custom of keeping the new year's Day is not only to cherish the passing years like water, but also to send a good hope for the coming new year.

On the night of "one night for two years, five minutes for two years", family members get together. The whole family sat around the table with tea, melons and fruits.

In the new year, apple is indispensable in a large market, which is called "Ping'an". In the north, some people still have to provide a pot of rice, which is cooked before the new year to celebrate the Chinese New Year. It is called "the next year's rice". It means that there are leftovers every year, and they can't finish eating them all the year round. This year, they still eat the grain of the past year.

This pot of rice is usually cooked with rice and millet mixed together. As the northern saying goes, "Er Mi Zi rice" is for the sake of yellow and white, which is called "gold and silver rice" with "gold and silver, full of gold and silver".

In ancient times, there were two meanings of keeping the new year: for the elderly, it meant "farewell to the old year", which meant cherishing time; for the young, it meant prolonging the life span of their parents.

"Vigil" has a long history. It is said that in ancient times, there was a kind of beast called "Nian" who would rush to the village to eat people every new year's Eve. Because "Nian" is afraid of the lights, every household lights up to watch the night on New Year's Eve in case of "Nian" disaster.

Thus, on New Year's Eve, the whole family sat together to watch the night, and at night they sat together to talk long and short about the harvest.

Farmers live by farming. Their families have worked hard for a year. They hope to have a good harvest in the coming year, whether they are rich or poor.

A family of young and old people sit around and the old people tell stories to the children; or parents tell about the family's income and expenditure in the past year and encourage everyone to work together to strive for a good harvest in the coming year; or they make dumplings and chat together; or adults sit together and drink and plan their next year's life plan until dawn.

However, nowadays people's life style is colorful, and the ShouSui people are no longer chatting. People either watch the Spring Festival Gala around the TV series, or play cards or play mahjong together.

"Brother glory, sister Qingqing, just now you couldn't..."

As soon as ye Guangrong and Liu Qingqing come out of the house, they meet Ye Shuting and Ma Lin, who are from their own family. Ye Shuting looks at them suspiciously and asks.

"What do children know? Don't ask too much."

Ye Rongrong is thick skinned and blocks Ye Shuting's words directly.

"They are all seventeen years old after the Spring Festival. They are not young."

Ye Shuting said with a small mouth. They are all big girls now. Many of the girls in the village who didn't study are engaged now. Some of them have even held wedding parties. How can my brother always treat himself as a child.

"They're not even 18 years old. In my eyes, they're all children." Ye Guangrong said with a smile.

"I hate it."

Ye Shuting said happily. It seems that my brother glory has been rejecting me. I think I'm still young. Ye Shuting, who thought she had found the reason, was in a particularly good mood.

"Brother glory, many people in the village have set off fireworks. Let's set off fireworks, too."

Ma Lin said to Ye Rongrong. Ma Lin is a native of Beijing, where private fireworks and firecrackers are forbidden. Therefore, Ma Lin has never set off fireworks in person except seeing others set off fireworks on TV.

It's rare to spend the Spring Festival in rural areas this time. Ma Lin can't help but want to set off fireworks. At Ye Shuting's house, she always talks about going to Ye Guangrong's house to set off fireworks.

If it wasn't for ye Rongrong's agreement in the morning, they would have come here long ago after their new year's Eve dinner.

For this matter, ye Shuting complained about ye Guangrong, saying that he had no conscience and would not let them eat new year's Eve dinner with him.

It's just that ye Rongrong's attitude is very tough, and the two girls have no choice but to come to Ye Rongrong's home at a certain time.

"Brother glory, you move out the fireworks quickly. We're going to set off the fireworks." Ye Shuting urged.

"Well, I'm going to move." Ye Guangrong said with a smile.

This year, ye Guangrong has some money on hand, and he has got the "lazy system". These are all happy events. Therefore, ye Guangrong is very willing to buy eight fireworks in the morning, all of which are 68 ring fireworks. Each one costs 170 yuan. Just buying these fireworks, ye Guangrong spends thousands of yuan.

Because the fireworks are so powerful that they can't be put in the yard, ye Rongrong moves six big fireworks to the open space outside the yard, leaving two. Ye Rongrong plans to stay at 12 o'clock, which is also the beginning of the new year.

Fireworks have a long history in China. It is said that in ancient times, people used campfires to cook food and keep warm, and to prevent the invasion of wild animals.However, there is an animal in the mountain who is not afraid of people and fire, and often steals food when people are not prepared. In order to deal with this kind of animal, people think of burning firecrackers in the fire and using the crackling sound of bamboo to make it escape.

The animal here is called Shan Sao. The ancients said that it can make people cold and hot. It is the ghost that makes people cold and hot. It scares off the mountain. That is to say, it can drive out the pestilence to get lucky and safe.

In the early Tang Dynasty, pestilence appeared everywhere. A man named Li Tian put nitrates in a bamboo tube and ignited them to make them make more noise and smoke. As a result, the mountain haze and miasma were dispersed and the epidemic was stopped. This was the earliest prototype of nitrates loaded firecrackers.

Until gunpowder appeared, people filled the bamboo tube with saltpeter, sulfur and charcoal to burn, producing colorful "fireworks".

"All of you step back."

Ye Rongrong holds a lighter in his hand and looks at the three women standing beside him. After all, fireworks explosion is more dangerous.

During the Spring Festival every year, many people are injured by fireworks. Ye Rongrong dare not let the three girls get so close to the fireworks. If they are injured, they are not joking.

In the Spring Festival, there should be no bad luck.

"Brother glory, don't start at the same time. Let's finish one at a time, and then another one." Ye Shuting said.

"I know that. Step back. I'm going to set off fireworks." Ye Rongrong said to Ye Shuting's three daughters.

When the three girls got to a safe distance, ye Guangrong lit the fireworks, and soon the huge flowers bloomed in the air. First, the colorful light agent burned, and then the parachutes opened and fell one by one. The fireworks overlapped, and the night sky was beautiful, forming a variety of beautiful patterns.

"It's so beautiful. I want to take this video."

Ma Lin excitedly took out her mobile phone and videotaped it. This is the first time that Malin has seen fireworks from such a close distance.

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