What are the customs in Zhengzhou during the Spring Festival?

In our hometown, every household is busy buying new year's goods and cleaning the house to welcome the New Year, especially cigarettes, wine, fish, meat and gifts for relatives. I have been busy buying new year's goods until the twelfth lunar month. When everyone met, the content of greeting each other was changed to "Be a good wooden cow (in my dialect, it means no)?" The other party said with joy: "It's almost ready, easy!" There is a folk song in my hometown to celebrate the Spring Festival: "Twenty-three, offering sacrifices to the kitchen officials; Twenty-four, sweeping the house; Twenty-five, cut tofu; Twenty-six, cut meat; Twenty-seven, kill a chicken; 28, paste it; 29, pour a pot of wine; Thirty years old, including a flat food. "

Clean the house

According to folklore, the Kitchen God is the commander-in-chief of the Jade Emperor, who is responsible for observing the advantages and disadvantages of folk houses. Anyone who does this should make a mark on the wall, report it to the sky on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month at the end of the year, and punish the Hui people with heavenly soldiers according to the mark on the wall after the 15th of the first month. In order to eliminate hidden dangers, people immediately began to clean the house the day after they were sent away from Kitchen God, and the traces were removed as a punishment. This has formed the custom of "sweeping the house 24 times". In fact, this is just a legend. According to common sense, people have worked hard for a year, and the Chinese New Year is a festive day. In order to welcome the new year with a brand-new look, the house should be cleaned.

Besides cleaning the house, cleaning the house is also necessary. Of course, this kind of thing falls on children. When I was in my hometown in Yexian County, I cleaned up every year, cleaning tables, windows, doors and checking each other with my sisters. My mother washed the sheets and clothes. It was all hand-washed. A family member's hospital has only one water pipe, carrying a big basin and washing clothes in the cold. Fortunately, the water is groundwater, not cold, only the basin is steaming. By the water pipe, some wash clothes, some wash fish and some kill chickens. Let's do it together. The scene is very lively. The huge sheets hanging in the yard soon became a hard square, which was very spectacular. At this time, my mother repeatedly told me not to touch them, or the sheets would break.

Ershiwuge tofu

When I was a child, I once saw how to grind tofu brain. Chefs who make tofu grind the soaked soybeans, knead them into dog meat, skim the fat, boil them, make some paste (I didn't know tofu was made of brine until I went to school), fish them into a sieve and slowly pile them up from all sides to the middle. On this day, many people go shopping to buy tofu. You can also change tofu and use soybeans or corn. Mom usually buys 5 kg, washes it and cools it for half a day, then cuts it into cubes with a thickness of 8 cm square and 1 cm, and then fries it in the oil pan for Chinese New Year.

Cutting meat at the age of 26

On this day, there are many meat shelves in the market. In rural areas, villagers slaughter pigs and sheep in cauldrons, and meat cutters do it according to their wealth. Rich people buy more until the fifteenth day of the first month. The poor buy less before the fifth day of the first month.

Bought meat is generally treated like this: pork skin is cut into pieces and boiled to make jelly, suet (subcutaneous fat) is fried into oil, pork belly is chopped into minced meat to make dumplings, and large pieces of meat are cooked and eaten in the New Year. Now that I think about it, I seem to smell the fragrance of cook the meat in my childhood. Tired from work, gnawing at the bones that have just come out of the pot. That's called a term.