The Taste of Modern Prose in Childhood

Time is in a hurry, so are people. It's New Year again!

On New Year's Eve, the noisy streets in the past night also quieted down. I stood by the window alone, looking at the red lanterns on the windows of every house upstairs, listening to the crackling sound of firecrackers in the distance, watching the colorful fireworks falling in the night, and my thoughts surged like volcanic magma, flowing back to the passionate years there.

In the courtyard of the earth cave, there is a cube paper lantern hanging high above the courtyard, and there are window grilles on all sides of the white paper. A group of children set off firecrackers under lanterns, danced happily and shouted "New Year, New Year."

In my childhood, although life was hard, it left me too many happy and unforgettable memories, especially the unforgettable taste of that year. At that time, Chinese New Year was an expectation and yearning for children. Only during the Spring Festival, no matter how poor the family is, will they try their best to cook something delicious for their children, sew one or two new clothes and make a pair of new shoes.

At that time, my family had a large population of ten. As soon as winter entered, my mother began to be busy preparing new clothes and shoes for us to wear for the New Year. In my family, sewing clothes and making shoes is a huge project. Every winter, a mother has to sew twenty or thirty pieces of clothes by hand, each with a pair of shoes. Old cotton-padded clothes that can be worn, mother should take them down and wash them, then sew them one by one, and then sew a new coat. The old cotton-padded clothes that can't be worn, mother should take them down and wash them, pick up the materials for shoes and sew a new one. Sewing clothes, of course, is for us children first. The oldest child often has new clothes to wear. The boss's old clothes are short, sew a new one for the boss, then the second one is replaced by the boss, and the third one is replaced by the second one, and then go down until the smallest one. Of course, the old clothes that have been replaced should be taken apart and washed before sewing. After the child finished sewing, he sewed it for grandpa, after grandpa finished sewing it for dad, and finally it was mom's own. Every year, because she can put on new clothes and shoes, her mother doesn't know how many nights she will stay under the kerosene lamp. For us, she has only one idea, anyway, to ensure that everyone in the family has new clothes and shoes to wear. It was not until the mid-1970s that my mother saved money and bought an old sewing machine, and the work of making clothes became much easier.

Every year on Laba Festival, my mother will make us a pot of laba rice. The small pot for cooking in my home is as big as the big pot in the countryside now. Because things were in short supply at that time, my mother cut a piece of mutton that she slaughtered herself, then cut it into diced meat and put it in the pot. When the mutton is almost cooked, add soft rice (glutinous rice) and simmer, and a pot of mutton-flavored laba rice will be ready soon.

Open the lid, the kiln smells of mutton and soft rice. It's time for dinner. Everyone has a bowl, and the bottom of the pot can be seen. The family carried their own food, some squatted on the ground, and some sat on the kang. This kind of laba rice is simple to make and delicious to eat. In addition, the sound of eating is snoring, one after another, which makes people feel that it is a kind of enjoyment and has a great appetite.

This place in northern Shaanxi, as soon as Laba is over, has the taste of the New Year, and people begin to prepare for the New Year. People who have been raising pigs for many years began to kill pigs. Because meat is rarely eaten, killing pigs is also something that everyone is very much looking forward to. Every time I kill a pig,

Men go to fetch water early in the morning, and they should fill all the tanks and barrels that can hold water for use when killing pigs. While cooking, the woman began to boil the water for boiling pig hair in a large pot. At that time, the people who killed pigs in the village were very good. When breakfast was almost ready, he came with a knife and a stick. As soon as he enters the door, the host will be busy putting him on the kang and preparing for dinner.

After supper, the water boils. The man is busy killing the bed and catching pigs with the help of everyone. After killing the bedstead, the pig killer went to sharpen the knife, and then went to the pig who was pressed on the bed, with a knife in his arm. The people who came to help set off together. Some people hold the pig's front legs, some people hold the pig's hind legs, some people hold the pig's tail, some people hold the pig's ears, and women and children stand around watching. At this time, the pig killer moved the pig's jaw with his left hand, pointed the knife at the knife edge with his right hand, stabbed it hard, and the long knife entered the pig's chest. After a short pause, the pig-killer pulled out his knife, and the red pig blood came out with a bang, and then slowly flowed into the pit surrounded by the earth crushed by clods under the pig's neck. When the pig's blood is used up, the hostess will quickly mix the pig's blood with the soil to make pig's blood mud and keep it in a paste pot. The pig finally struggled and kicked to death. At this point, people will loosen their hands and prepare for hair removal. Before unhairing, the pig killer cuts a small hole in the pig skin with a knife, inserts an iron bar into the pig skin, pokes at the pig everywhere, opens the airway, and then sticks his mouth to the knife edge to blow. Soon, the whole pig was blown round. The purpose of this is to facilitate hair removal.

After the water was boiled, everyone was busy depilating. Removing pig hair is a technical job. If the water is too hot and the watering time is too long, the pig hair will not fall off, and even if it is barely depilated, the pig skin will turn black; If the water temperature is not high and the watering time is too short, the pig hair will not fall off. Only when the water temperature and watering time are just right can the pigskin after depilation appear white, tender and bright.

People will build a tripod after taking off the pig's hair and cleaning it. Young and strong people will carry the pig out and hang it on the tripod for chest opening. After the pig is hung, rinse the whole pig with clear water, scrape it with a knife and scrape off the remaining hair. Then, the pig killer cut off his head with a knife, cut off his sternum, cut open his stomach, and his intestines suddenly gushed out, followed by cleaning up his intestines and internal organs. At this time, the most anticipated person is a boy, looking forward to blowing pig urine bubbles. When the pig killer takes out the pig's urine bubble, the boy with great strength and quick response will suddenly take the urine bubble away from the pig killer when people are not looking. Then find a sorghum stalk, remove its inner core, make a thin tube, insert it into the urine tube of pig urine and start blowing pig urine bubbles. Blowing pig urine bubbles is very gas-consuming. People who blow tend to blush and have bulging cheeks, much like playing suona. Blowing pig urine bubbles must also be rubbed while blowing, so for convenience, the blower simply climbs on the ground with pig urine bubbles and rubs while blowing. Soon, pig urine bubbles were blown as thin as white paper, just like balloons now. After the pig urine bubble blows up, the children will tie it up with a thin long rope, and then drag the end of the rope to let it fly in the air with the wind. Other children want to play, so they run after the children with pig urine bubbles, chasing and scratching. Very lively. After the internal organs are cleaned, the pork is decomposed. Soon, a whole pig was dismembered into pieces of fresh meat.

In the days of killing pigs, what people expect most is not the process of killing pigs, but eating meat. After the pork is decomposed, the hostess will take the bloody knife-edge meat to the stove, clean it, slice it and fry it in the pot. When the pork fed with grain is fried on fire, the smell is tangy and you can smell the meat from a distance. When the meat is cooked, cook a pot of potatoes, stew sauerkraut with vermicelli, and add a little meat, which is neither oily nor greasy. That's a beauty! On this day, the host will gather his relatives and helpers to share the meat of his family. Of course, the host will not forget to send a bowl to his neighbor to relieve hunger. In those days, people usually eat less meat, and only on this day can they have a full meal. After dinner, the host will give the pig killer a leg as a thank-you gift. The pig slayer made a ceremony, then hung the pig leg on one end of the iron bar he brought when he came, carried it on his shoulder, and went home proudly.

In the process of eating, people came to buy meat one after another. After dinner, the meat buyer stood half a yard away. At this time, the host comes out to sell meat, and the hostess is responsible for collecting money or keeping accounts. It didn't take long for a pig to sell out of meat. People who bought meat strode home proudly with meat tied with hemp rope, humming a ditty, and those who couldn't buy meat had to leave with a sigh. In order to meet the needs of meat buyers and sell more money, the owner had to leave some bad meat, pig heads and trotters for himself for the New Year.

If you kill pigs and sheep, it's time to start grinding. During this period, women are generally responsible for grinding flour and rice, and preparing steamed bread and fried dough and rice. In the past, people in this place in northern Shaanxi usually ate less white flour, but every family steamed several pots of white flour steamed bread during the Spring Festival. On the one hand, it can satisfy people who have worked hard for a year, on the other hand, it can also be used as a tribute to their ancestors. Moreover, the shape of white flour steamed bread is like a mountain bag, which represents the Yinshan Mountain and also entrusts the local people's desire for a rich and happy life. In order to prepare steamed buns, men and boys will cut Artemisia annua in advance. Because Artemisia annua burns fire and grabs the pot in winter, the water boils quickly. After the steamed bread is put into the pot, the gas will soon round up, and the steamed bread will soon be blown up by hot air. Steamed steamed bread is round and full in shape, and will not become a flat chest close to the chest. It is soft and will bloom. Once cooked, it not only looks good, but also adds a festive feeling.

After steaming the steamed bread, it's time to fry it. Oil steamed bread is one of the indispensable annual tea meals for every household in northern Shaanxi during the New Year. It is made of soft rice (glutinous rice) noodles in millet, shaped like copper coins, with a round hole in the middle and fried. There is no exact explanation for the origin of the custom of frying and steaming steamed bread, but I think this custom may be due to the harsh natural conditions in northern Shaanxi in the past and the lack of flour and rice, so people will make coarse grains simpler because of their humble origins. On the one hand, I will taste delicious food by myself, and I can also serve as a tribute to my ancestors during the Chinese New Year. I also hope that the people of northern Shaanxi will have a good wish and hope that the financial resources will be rich in the coming year. In the long run, this custom will be formed. Just fried oil steamed stuffed bun, crispy skin and soft meat, sweet and sour, pure and natural taste; Eat sweet and sour dry crisp cold salad; It is hot and cold, sweet and sour, and has a unique flavor.

The most important thing in frying steamed buns is the heat. In order to make a fire, you have to have good firewood, so when it comes to frying steamed buns, men and boys have to go up the mountain to pick up some dry firewood for use at that time. Frying oil and steaming steamed bread is a complicated series of work. First, soak the rice, that is, soak the ground soft rice overnight before pressing the rice noodles. Get up the next morning, take the soaked rice out of the sieve and control it to dry, and then take it to the mill to press the rice noodles. After the rice flour is pressed, take it home and stir-fry until it is half cooked, then mix the flour, then put the basin on a hot kang for fermentation, and then stir-fry until the flour is initiated. When frying steamed bread, you are very particular. Generally, frying begins at four o'clock in the morning. Close the doors and windows to prevent oil consumption caused by wind. Usually, a fire is the responsibility of one person. The fire cannot be too big or too small. If the fire is too big, it will fry the steamed bread, but it is still raw inside. If the fire is too small, it will fry steamed bread and bring oil. Only when the heat is just right can you fry the black, red and brown oily steamed bread. The oil is burning red. The woman and the older children make oil buns together, and the man is responsible for frying them. The man stood on the ground with one foot, one foot on the edge of the pot, a pair of long chopsticks in his right hand, and a slender stick beside him. The long chopsticks in the right hand are stirred in the pot from time to time to prevent the oily steamed bread from burning. If the skin of oily steamed bread is fried to reddish brown and floats on the oil surface, take it out and string it on the thin stick in your left hand to control the oil, so as not to waste the oil. In the whole process of frying oil steamed stuffed bun, no loud noise is allowed. According to the old people, talking loudly will attract the wind, and the wind will eat oil.

Every spring festival, every household will fry a lot of fried buns. If you have a small family, you have to fry one or twenty kilograms of rice. If there are many people, you may fry thirty or forty kilograms of rice. Not a big pot, but a large part of the jar, at least enough to eat for the first month.

Fried buns, and some people want to steam some yellow buns. Yellow steamed bread is made of yellow rice (a kind of millet specially used for eating rice) and some soft rice, which are soaked in water, pressed into flour by a roller, fried in a pot to a certain extent, fermented and steamed in the pot. The reason why people in northern Shaanxi steam yellow steamed bread in the New Year is the same as steamed white steamed bread, which is not only an extra food, but also a sacrifice and a good wish of people. Like white steamed bread, yellow steamed bread is shaped like a mountain, representing Jinshan. During the Spring Festival, people pin their hopes on the coming year. I hope I can earn a golden mountain and a silver mountain in the coming year and live a rich life. This yellow steamed bread is the golden mountain in their hearts, and the white steamed bread is the silver mountain in their hearts.

Yellow steamed bread is delicious, but it is difficult to make. The yellow steamed bread steamed by people who can cook is sweet and slightly sour, and it tastes endless. Yellow steamed bread steamed by people who can't cook is sour and difficult to swallow. Some people simply add saccharin to ensure that the steamed yellow steamed bread is sweet. Although this kind of yellow steamed bread is sweet, it has lost its original flavor. To steam pure and delicious yellow steamed buns, the key process is the process of frying rice noodles. Stir-fry the rice flour until it is 70% cooked, then mix the flour with warm water and ferment. The steamed yellow steamed bread can be sweet and sour, otherwise it is either too sour or too sweet, or it tastes like swill.

The 23rd of the twelfth lunar month is the day when the Kitchen God was sent to heaven to report to the Jade Emperor. In order to make the Kitchen God speak well of his family in front of the Jade Emperor and avoid the punishment and disaster in the coming year, every household should worship the Kitchen God first, burn paper money and offer them with candy. God, like people, should be good at his skills, eat soft words, take paper money, eat tributes and put in a good word for others. When worshipping, worshippers should recite the formula of "God speaks well, and the lower bound is safe", which is also the greatest wish of worshippers.

The 24th of the twelfth lunar month is the day to clean the house, put up windows, remove and wash bedding and do general cleaning. The traditional saying is that the Chinese New Year should have a new atmosphere, usher in the new year cleanly, and don't bring the dirty things and bad luck of that year into the new year. Scientifically speaking, the dust and stolen goods accumulated in the past year contain a lot of bacteria, and it will enter spring immediately after the New Year. Warming weather is the most active period of bacterial activity and reproduction, so when spring comes, it is necessary to clean up thoroughly, so that bacteria will not harm people's health. So on this day, every household has to clean up.

Early in the morning, after dinner, the family began to clean up. Generally speaking, men and boys are responsible for sweeping the kiln, pasting windows with new linen paper and pasting paper around the kang, that is, pasting the earth wall in the cave with special decorative paper. Some people paste the wall with old newspapers to prevent the wall soil from sticking to people. Women and girls are busy unpacking and washing bedding and clothes, and then sewing the washed bedding. After a busy day, the kiln suddenly lit up and it felt much better to stay inside.

After cleaning, it's time to make tofu. Making tofu is also an essential thing for every household in northern Shaanxi for the New Year. Making tofu is also a troublesome thing. To make tofu, you must choose good soybeans or green beans, then grind the beans into watercress, soak them in water for one night, and rush to grind them early the next morning. Because there are few stone mills in grinding bean curd, in the late twelfth lunar month, people who make tofu are concentrated in those days. If you want to go to grinding bean curd early, you must get up early to rob the mill. Grinding bean curd is a very hard process. A person pushes the mill and adds water to the top of the mill. Soon, the bean paste flowed out of the mill and hung on the outer wall of the stone mill, white and shiny, like stalactites in a cave, forming beautiful ripples. As time goes by, more and more bean paste flows into the stone trough of the millstone, and finally slowly flows into the bucket under the millstone.

After the watercress is ground, go home and boil water. After the water boils, pour all the bean paste into the pot and skim off the foam. When removing foam, use the sallow old pig's suet left in the pig's rectum when killing pigs last year. Refine the oil into oil juice, pour it into the pot, gradually the bean foam disappears, and then pour out the diluted bean paste to prepare soybean milk. When making soybean milk, put the bean paste into a special white cloth bag and knead it repeatedly until all the bean juice is kneaded out, then pour out the bean dregs and boil the soybean milk. The soybean oil on the surface of the soybean milk cooked in the pot will form a thin oil skin. At this time, it is necessary to salvage this skin with chopsticks and continue to burn the fire, and another oil skin will be formed. Then salvage until the third layer of oil skin is formed, and then take out the oil skin. At this time, the soybean milk is cooked, so it can cease fire. After the soybean milk is cooked, take it out of the pot and put it in a basin or bucket to cool. After the temperature of soybean milk drops to a suitable temperature, you can start to order tofu. At that time, rural people used the brine that Yang Bailao drank in the movie "White-haired Girl" to order tofu. Before ordering tofu, melt the brine ice into water, then add a spoonful of brine to the soybean milk in each container and stir slowly, and a small tofu will appear in the soybean milk. After adding the brine for the first time, according to the size and tenderness of the tofu in each container, gradually add an appropriate amount of brine and slowly stir until the tofu in each container forms a whole block, and then stop after the soybean milk water is separated from the tofu. At this time, you can have a rest and wait for the temperature of soybean milk to drop. After the soybean milk water cools, put a sieve on the pot, spread a cage cloth inside, and then pour the tofu with soybean milk water into the sieve. After the sieve is full, wrap the four corners of the cage cloth tightly, cover the pot cover, and then press a heavy object on the cover to control the soybean milk water in the tofu, and the tofu is ready.

The process of making tofu is very hard, but the most exciting thing is to eat hot tofu just out of the pot. Break the tofu into small pieces, pound some garlic and pour the garlic juice on the tofu. The taste is very refreshing and pure.

The eating habits of people in northern Shaanxi are influenced by Mongolian habits, and they can't eat meat when they are young. When the tofu is finished, it's time for cook the meat. Meat is mainly pork and mutton. Generally, pork is used to make stew, barbecue, meatballs, crispy meat, ribs, and chicken is used to make crispy chicken pieces, kill sheep, and also make stewed mutton. Mutton stew in the coming year is called winter. The stew in northern Shaanxi is made of pork belly. Take pork belly, the fatter the better. Cut the pork belly into one-inch square cubes. The oil in the pot is hot, add onion, garlic, ginger, etc. Then stir-fry the meat in a pot, add hot water, add pepper, aniseed, onion and bean paste, and simmer over low heat until cooked. Then take it out with a hedge, cool it and store it for later use. Stewed meat is characterized by being fat, soft and mellow. Those who like to eat large pieces of meat, eat one piece at a time, which is very refreshing. In the process of chewing, oil juice flows out from two corners of the mouth, which looks bold.

Burning meat in northern Shaanxi is also a must in meat. To cook roast meat, you need to use pork belly. Cut pork into 3-or 4-inch squares, and add water, onion, ginger, fennel, pepper, etc. Put it in a pot and cook it over low heat. Cook until you can insert chopsticks. Cease fire. Take some honey, put it on the surface of the meat, then fork it and burn it in the oil pan. When the appearance of the meat turns reddish brown, fork it out, put it in a pork pot and continue to cook for a while with low fire to avoid dry skin. Then fish out the meat pieces, cool them and store them for later use. When eating, cut the meat into thin slices, put it on a plate, add a little seasoning and water, steam it in a cage, heat it thoroughly and take it out. Roasted buns or lotus leaf cakes are not greasy and very refreshing. The characteristic of barbecue is just the opposite of stew, that is, barbecue is fat but not greasy. Because the fat in meat is almost boiled or squeezed out during cooking and oiling, it tastes less greasy than stew.

In the past, stew, barbecue, meatballs, crispy meat, ribs and crispy chicken were the main dishes of guests in January. Now because fewer people like to eat fat meat, stewed meat gradually disappears from the table and is replaced by fish, shrimp and so on.

On the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth lunar month, all kinds of food are ready, and it's time to worship our ancestors. Sacrificing ancestors is an important thing to do before Chinese New Year. At that time, when you went to the grave to worship your ancestors, you had to fold the hemp paper in half and cut it into four pieces, then sprinkle some bran or chaff on the ground, put the paper on the bran and beat the paper with paper nails. The form of money will appear on perforated paper, which means giving money to ancestors. When you burn paper, you should also bring the first cooking of every kind of food left for your ancestors during the Chinese New Year tea meal, as well as a bottle of water with a little millet and wine. It means not only giving money to ancestors, but also giving them food and drink.

On the 29th of the twelfth lunar month, fresh and tidy people began to paste couplets, and stick grilles was trapped in the jiaozi. Some hardworking people will make some buckwheat jelly in the first month. As soon as the couplets and window grilles are put on, the children will consciously clean the yard, which will make the yard look more energetic. When everything is busy, everyone is happily waiting for the arrival of the New Year.

Getting together to set off firecrackers on New Year's Eve morning shows that people are happy to leave the old year. At noon, the family will eat noodles, which means a long and happy life. On New Year's Eve, families get together to have dinner and drink some wine, which means they are round and happy. After dinner, the children happily lit lanterns and set off firecrackers. The boys scrambled to set off firecrackers, but the girls were too timid to let go, so they had to hide aside, covering their ears, shouting and dancing, immersed in a happy atmosphere. On new year's eve, you can't sleep, you have to keep vigil. According to the old people, if you sleep on New Year's Eve, you will doze off next year. Therefore, the children are afraid of being sleepy in the coming year and have to stay up all night. You can't wander around on New Year's Eve. It is said that on this day, the ghost world also has a holiday, and Yan also has a holiday. All the ghosts are wandering around, so people can't go out to avoid encountering ghosts. To this end, children have to stay with their parents, listen to their parents and look forward to a beautiful new year. After midnight, my mother got up to make noodles and prepare jiaozi. In the process of wrapping jiaozi, my mother will wrap some coins in the jiaozi and stew some jiaozi. When eating jiaozi, whoever eats jiaozi will pay for it, which means that he will have money next year, and whoever eats jiaozi will pay for it, which means that he will have a good life next year. This is also the good wish of parents!

On the morning of the first day of junior high school, the first person to go out will set off firecrackers and call to open the door. This shot is to welcome auspiciousness and the beginning of the new year. There is such a stress in northern Shaanxi, that is, I don't go out on the first day, I worship my relatives on the second day, and I worship my husband on the third day. So, at that time, on the first day of junior high school, people stayed at home to catch up on sleep. I have little energy, so I have to play poker at home.

On the second day of the second day, grandparents don't live in their own homes, and people will bring their Chinese New Year tea and rice to their grandparents to pay a New Year call. When visiting the New Year, grandchildren should kowtow to their grandparents and say, "Grandparents are healthy!" " "At this time, grandparents will give their grandchildren lucky money. At that time, the lucky money was generally twenty cents or fifty cents, and the most was one or two pieces. After the New Year, the family will have dinner with their grandparents. Grandparents are so happy to see the whole family coming. While eating, they pulled home-cooked dishes, and the kiln was full of warm and harmonious atmosphere.

On the third day, dad will take his wife and children to visit his father-in-law. When you go, you must bring a bottle of wine and some tea and rice of your own. Knowing that the son-in-law, daughter and grandson were coming, the parents-in-law prepared meals and waited early. As soon as she hears the voices of her daughter, son-in-law and children, her mother-in-law will rush to the yard to meet her. Entering the room, the son-in-law folded his hands and bowed: "Mom and Dad are healthy!" " In this place in northern Shaanxi, people are used to calling their father-in-law "Daddy" and their mother-in-law "Grandma", and the real "Grandma" is called "Niya". The old father-in-law sitting on the kang will greet his son-in-law to go to the kang, instead of sitting cross-legged on the kang, the daughter will sit symbolically on the edge of the kang for a while, and then she will rush to help her mother with housework. The mother-in-law will quickly take out the wine and let the son-in-law chat and drink with his wife at home. The children kowtowed to their grandparents and ran out to play with the lucky money. I will play until I invite them to dinner, and then I will reluctantly come back for dinner. When eating, her mother-in-law enthusiastically helped her son-in-law and grandchildren from time to time, with a sweet smile on her face.

After dinner, my daughter helped my mother clean up the mess. The son-in-law accompanied the old father-in-law to drink water and talk. When the dishes were ready, the son-in-law got up and left. At this time, my parents-in-law will ask them to stay for two more days. But the son-in-law will find various excuses to leave, which is really helpless. He will let his wife and children stay with the elderly for two days.

After the third grade, parents arrange their children to pay New Year greetings to uncles, aunts and uncles. Be sure to bring home Chinese New Year tea and rice when you pay a New Year call. In fact, the process of visiting the New Year is that relatives exchange opportunities to taste tea and rice in different years. Finally, relatives and neighbors will know whose rice and tea are cooked well and whose are not.

In northern Shaanxi, people think that the sixth day is a small year, the sixth day is a year of people, and New Year's Eve is considered a year of ghosts. People treat the sixth day as grand as New Year's Eve. The family will get together again, drink and eat meat, and get together. On the seventh day, like the first day, I wanted to eat jiaozi.

The fifteenth day of the first month is the most important festival in the first month. Yangko and programs prepared by each production team will go to the commune to participate in performances, and there will be a lantern festival and solve riddles on the lanterns activities at the lantern festival in the evening. After dinner in the evening, we will make Yuanxiao and reunite on behalf of our families. After the 11th Five-Year Plan, the New Year basically ended, and people began to get busy one after another.

On the 16th night of the first month, people jump into the fire after eating, causing various diseases. After dinner, people made a fire in the yard, and everyone jumped over the fire in line and jumped several times. Parents attach great importance to this, even if someone is not at home on this day, parents will take a dress they often wear and burn it back and forth on the fire. After jumping out of the fire, you should shovel up the remaining fire and dump it, that is, throw away all the diseases. To jump into a fire is to burn all kinds of diseases on your body, to prevent yourself from getting sick in the new year and to ensure the health of your family.

On the 23rd night of the first month, people will set off firecrackers for the last time to welcome Kitchen God back to work. The return of Kitchen God means the end of the year. Since then, everyone has entered a normal life. In the new year, people began to work and started to run around.

Just then, the big bell on the telegraph building in the distance rang. Suddenly, firecrackers exploded all over the city, and the fireworks in the sky were more colorful. I was brought back to reality by the fierce firecrackers. The original year has passed and a new year has begun. At the beginning of the new year, Vientiane is renewed. We must face the reality and welcome a new life.