I want to ask everyone if they have been quarreling during the Chinese New Year and whether this year will be bad.

Tujia people celebrate the New Year: The year of Tujia people begins on the 24th of the twelfth lunar month. It is said that this day is the day when mice marry girls. Mice are too busy with their own happy events to care about others, and people take the opportunity to get busy. From this day on, people began to prepare for the Chinese New Year. Tujia people have lived in the mountains for generations, and the transportation is not very convenient. I seldom go to the town to go to the market. On this day, people will go out early and walk more than ten miles to "go to the market" to buy new year's goods. Men and women put on new clothes, women carry baskets on their backs, and men carry "full-term children" (similar to baskets, but thinner and stronger than them) or "abductors" (farm tools used to carry heavy objects) and take home firecrackers, fireworks, New Year pictures, couplets and fruit cakes. The happiest thing is that those children took the trouble to walk up more than ten miles of mountain roads, followed their parents to gather and pestered their favorite toys and clothes to get them. After the 24th of the twelfth lunar month, it is the busiest day for women. As long as men see firewood and cook pork to eat in the New Year, everything will be fine and they can have a rest. Ciba is a necessary food and gift for Tujia people during the Spring Festival. There are many ways to eat Ciba: the simplest way is to roast it with charcoal fire, wrap it with sugar, or fry it with seasoning; It is more formal to cut the rice cake into small squares and cook it with sweet wine (Tujia people call it "mud stove"). In the past, when there were no "steel mills", a "stone mortar" had to be rammed in. Wash the glutinous rice (and some ordinary rice), soak it overnight or half a day, then drain the water, steam it in a steamer and take out the "glutinous rice". Two people (usually mature men) use a "Baba stick" (a thick wrist stick made of hardwood about one and a half meters long). Then take out the dumplings and put them on the scrubbed square table. Older people or skilled daughter-in-law will divide the dumplings into small pieces of appropriate size, share them with the whole family, and knead them into cakes. The shape of Ciba is round, and the middle is slightly rough and thin. It is also useful to print auspicious patterns (such as "Double Happiness") on the woodblock. Tujia people regard it as a very important thing to fight Ciba, and think that any family that doesn't fight Ciba will have bad luck for a year. The molded Ciba can be dried for a few days, then soaked in cold water and changed every few days, which can be stored until March and April of the following year. Now most of them are machined, which is convenient and quick, and lacks a little celebration. Twenty-six to push the dumplings, wash the glutinous rice with a small amount of glutinous rice (all glutinous rice can't be ground), soak it in warm water for a long time, and then grind it into rice slurry with stones (if the rice is finer, the dumplings will be delicious). After grinding, put it in a bag, hang it and drain it, and you can wrap jiaozi. Sometimes it takes too long to drain, and you need to use (fried dumplings) when cooking, so you will put several layers of bags on the rice slurry and use wood ash to absorb the water, so that you can make different shapes of Baba. After draining the water, the dumplings are broken into small pieces and dried, which can be preserved until May and June of the following year. I'm going to grinding bean curd on the 27th. People grind soaked soybeans into soybean milk and then cook them in a pot. At this time, an appropriate amount of alkali should be added. The quality of tofu depends on the timing and weight of alkali. If the recipe is not good, this pot of tofu will be ruined. Therefore, after the tofu is ground, you must find a "master" to put alkali. Tofu can't be stored for a long time. Soak a few pieces of ground tofu in water, and then put the remaining baskets on the stove to dry to make dried tofu. By the twenty-eighth, the food was basically ready. Next, we have to carry out a more important task, "dust removal" (that is, cleaning). Cut a few small and light bamboos in the bamboo garden, tie them together, and start cleaning the dust and sundries in the room, so as to "bid farewell to the old and welcome the new". After the "dust removal", we have to clean the room, clean the floor and wipe the furniture. It's going to be "sloppy" at night. There is a saying in our country: "Wash sloppy on the 28th of the twelfth lunar month, and wax dogs on the 29th of the twelfth lunar month". Men, women and children should bathe on this day to wash away the filth of the year and welcome the arrival of the new year with a brand-new look. Men must have their hair cut on this day, and they are not allowed to have their hair cut after China New Year. Therefore, the business of the barber shop is particularly good on this day, and sometimes it takes half a day to queue up. It was basically ready on the 29th, and people began to prepare the reunion dinner. Tujia people live on pork, so it is essential to celebrate the New Year. As early as the beginning of the twelfth lunar month, people killed Nian pig, salted it and hung it on the stove. In this way, there will be bacon to eat during the Spring Festival. Burning meat is usually a man's business. After removing the bacon, put it on the stove to burn the pigskin, which can not only remove the fine hairs on the skin, but also make the pigskin more delicious. During the Spring Festival, a pig's head will be burned and a pig will sit on a stool (pig's ass), which symbolizes the beginning and end of the year. Of course, not only these two pieces of meat, but also trotters and "ribs" (ribs) and so on. Tujia people are generous and never haggle over every ounce when eating meat like restaurants. They like to stew "jiaozi" (cut pork into cubes). A pot is full of meat and there are no other side dishes. Many brothers in the family started a "reunion dinner" on this day. Most Tujia people live in the mountains, and the two brothers don't get together very far after separation. Basically, a family lives in the same place. At the end of the year, each family prepares a reunion dinner and takes turns to go to the reunion dinner. On the 29th, people began to celebrate the Year of the Communist Youth League. Sparse firecrackers sounded, and the smell of the year floated in the rising kitchen smoke. The Year of the Communist Youth League also means the beginning of the New Year in China. Adults (usually women) gather in the kitchen early to cook a sumptuous meal. Potatoes can't be served on the table They belong to the category of cheap food. People eat it all year round. If you want to eat well in the new year, there is naturally no place for them. Fish is a must, and it is more than enough every year! Everyone likes this kind of luck. You can't open the table immediately after the food is served. When I was a child, I couldn't resist the temptation to get it on the table in advance, and I was scolded a lot. After the dishes are put away, a "begging ceremony" should be held, that is, the deceased should be invited home for the New Year, indicating that Tujia people do not forget their ancestors. The ceremony is usually presided over by the oldest person in the family, and grandpa usually treats him to dinner. Ask a few people to set several pairs of cups, bowls and chopsticks. Fill the glass with wine first, and then put the chopsticks horizontally on the edge of the bowl (chopsticks are absolutely not allowed to be placed on the bowl when eating). The head of the family will call XXX to go home for the New Year, then symbolically pick a few dishes and add some rice to the bowl. After a while, pour the wine on the ground, pour the rice back into the pot, and then sift out the tea in the bowl or cup and pour it on the ground. After the "begging" ceremony, firecrackers were set off to send the deceased out. After the firecrackers are off, the whole family can go to the table for the New Year. Eating food is also particular. Children are not allowed to eat chicken feet. It is said that writing hands tremble when eaten. Unmarried men and women can't eat pig's trotters, and they will find no object after eating them. When I was a child, I was always reluctant to give my pig's trotters to adults, thinking that they must be lying to me, fearing that I really couldn't find a wife after eating them. Eating New Year's Eve can't be ruined. If you cook soup, it means that your career will be ruined in the coming year. Tujia people have a custom of "grabbing" the Year of the Communist Youth League, that is, to see who set off firecrackers earlier, more, louder and longer. On New Year's Eve, many families began a year of group worship at two or three o'clock in the afternoon, and firecrackers were heard endlessly, full of flavor. In the afternoon, after eating the New Year's Eve dinner, it is necessary to "send light", which is also a sacrifice to the deceased ancestors and relatives. Bring candles (formerly kerosene lamps). When I was a child, I often went to the back of middle school to pick up ink bottles, incense and paper money for students to make kerosene lamps to pay homage to the graves of the deceased. After lighting candles and incense, knock three heads and set off firecrackers to let the deceased pay a New Year call. Generally speaking, only the immediate family members within four generations have been sent off, and all relatives should pay a "New Year call" (pay homage to the dead), usually after the New Year, so it is forbidden to say "New Year call" between the living. In the evening, we should burn paper money for the dead so that they can have a rich year there. It is said that people with fire eyes can see. My second aunt is an eye-catching person and often sees some strange things. Children's eyes are very low, and they are not allowed to run outside at night in case they see something unclean. Tujia people don't sleep on New Year's Eve, so they should "keep watch". The family sat in a dragon gate array around the fire, which was called "show". The main characters are usually elderly people. They are happy and excited about their brilliant and strange experiences and stories when they were young. The temperature of the stove is also very particular. Need to put a main firewood, which is the largest and coarsest firewood. You can often burn it for a few days, and then put small firewood around it. The fire should be as bright as possible in the 30 th year, and it will be prosperous in the coming year. In the evening, to eat snacks, people take out the prepared "fermented grains" (rice wine, but thicker than rice wine), cook them in a "furnace pot", and then throw them into glutinous rice balls or Bazin, which means "sweetness and reunion". At zero o'clock, the family went to the yard to "set off stars" and set off fireworks and firecrackers in the yard to welcome the arrival of the New Year. At this time, everyone must be at home. This is the busiest time to fly the stars. Everyone will set off their own fireworks and firecrackers at this moment, and compete whose fireworks are high and whose firecrackers ring. Some people also set off firecrackers specially for this purpose, which sounded like thunder and shocked the valley. No matter how sleepy a child is, he will endure until the stars are shining. They will set off fireworks twice and enjoy fireworks once. Boys love whipping more and want to set off firecrackers for a few lucky money. On the first day of New Year's Day, we should pay a New Year call. "On the first day, I worship my family god. On the second day, I go to my parents' home to celebrate the New Year. After the New Year, I go to my parents' home." Tujia people pay homage to their husbands. At dawn, the family began to dress up. They use bamboo baskets to pack New Year's gifts, including at least one "long hoof" (that is, the hind leg of a pig), which is necessary. There are also things like Ciba, tobacco and alcohol, and then I went to the children's "Gaga" (grandma's house) to pay a New Year call. I usually go to Gaga's house for two or three days, and then go to other relatives' houses to pay New Year greetings when I come back. New year greetings last until the fifteenth day of the first month. After the Tenth Five-Year Plan, people began to get busy and prepare for the farm work in the new year. There are many taboos about the moon. You can't hit children or quarrel on the first day of the New Year, otherwise the New Year will not be smooth. Don't say unlucky things, especially avoid saying death. From the first day to the third day of the first month, people generally don't sweep the floor for fear of sweeping away the god of wealth. From the first day of the first month to the sixth day of the first month, I didn't touch a knife and fork for fear of a bloodbath. All the meals were prepared several years ago.