Writing for Shoushou Primary School in the Disappearing Folk Culture

"Twenty-three, honeydew melons are sticky; Twenty-four, sweeping the house; 25, grinding bean curd ... "

Spring Festival is the most important festival in China. How to celebrate this festival, in thousands of years of historical development, has formed some relatively fixed customs, many of which are still handed down today. Students, do you know? One of the new year's habits and customs is about birthdays.

The custom of China people's birthdays began in Wei and Jin Dynasties, flourished in Tang and Song Dynasties, and spread for thousands of years. "mourn my parents and give birth to me." Birthdays are mainly to congratulate the elderly and elders. Generally, birthdays over 60 can be called "birthday celebrations". Different places have different ways to celebrate birthdays: noodles, cakes, cakes and boiled eggs ... Grandparents are northerners, and their' one habit and one custom' is that on the fifth day of the first month when their parents are 66 years old, their daughters should prepare six meats and six noodles, wrap 66 jiaozi for their fathers or mothers, and then their elders will take a bite and eat jiaozi, which means that all unlucky things in the past will be eliminated, which means to ward off evil spirits.

Grandpa is just sixty-six years old this year. A mother and a mother prepared noodles and meat early in the morning. On the first day of May, they began to cut meat noodles and prepare jiaozi. My father and I also helped a mother start working together. First, we put the flour in a basin, add water slowly and stir it clockwise with chopsticks. When the degree of dryness and wetness was almost the same, I began to rub it by hand, put it on the panel one by one, and put it upside down with a basin. A mother called it "waking up". Next, we put the cut meat in a big bowl, add chopped green onion, Jiang Mo, water, salt and cooking oil, and stir well, so that the dumpling stuffing is ready. Mom and mom woke up with dough the size of a rolling pin, and then pulled it into dough the size of a glass marble by hand. Dad held the dough in his left hand and pressed the rolling pin a few times in his right hand, which turned the dough into a thin cake. Mother and mother put a handful of dumpling stuffing on the bread, and gently squeezed their hands from the left and right sides to the middle, which made a beautiful jiaozi. That's it. Let's work together. Soon, the table was filled with sixty-six jiaozi. Grandma has boiled the water in the kitchen, and tickling jiaozi can't wait to get into the water and start splashing. I swallowed saliva while watching my grandfather happily eating jiaozi. ...

Habits carry culture, like a flowing river, which has lasted for thousands of years and nourished generations of Chinese children. We should also strive to inherit and carry forward these endangered cultures!