Write an essay a few days ago, I pointed out that, in flavor fades with material conditions, age, life and freedom of reasons. In fact, in addition to these aspects, there are many reasons, such as television, Internet and completely changed the way people live entertainment; accelerated pace of life, the promotion of the fast-food culture, making people's ideas, his attitude is related to delicate traditional leisurely custom opposite. Here by two things come to talk about the past and present festive thickness of topics.
Pounding rice cakes
Mr. Weng even rainbow in Beijing reminisce "the book says, the Spring Festival in Beijing is the twelfth lunar month. I agree with that statement. My hometown Zhedong Laba porridge customs did not drink, but more lively things: making rice cakes.
The rice cake is an important staple food in my home town, usually eat more than half a year. A small number of food off of people, can eat a whole year. The huge number of rice cakes, completed by each produce their own. Normal circumstances, the need to invite two or three production effort, handy neighbor or relative to help. Pound rice cake with a large stone mortar, 23 pounds heavy stone pestle, aloft, straining to invest to open (Ma Ci is very sticky), force Den capable than the average person; hand flip mortar steamed glutinous rice or rice powder, non-bold but cautious, the experience can not be played, just came out (in fact Zenziyan) glutinous rice or rice cake powder, the temperature is high, the action is slower will scald your hands, are not allowed in conjunction with the rhythm held pestle more hands were smashed in the rice cakes in danger. Recall that when watching the Chung cake case, I think the story of "Yun jin rife" looks somewhat like the "Zhuangzi" described "chalky best while the nose does not hurt, Yingren established without losing the capacity. Tie is called a tacit understanding.
Steamed rice and flour, with a mortar and pestle pound good get of a thirty-four square meters large panel (locally called "plane bed") on, move on to the next step, rub squeeze. Pure glutinous rice Ma Ci, first with a rolling pin pressed into thin slices, then cut into the plate long, finally folded into four so long Chiban, more than width of half a foot; glutinous rice flour mixed with late rice rice cake, usually rub into the arm thickness, foot long stick-like, a bit like a rolling pin, slightly emphasize some pressure in symmetrical on both sides of the groove, the weight is usually in the range of three or four pounds.
The entire process of making mochi, a busy and festive. Home steam, such as hair, fog, the houseful diffuse; when the new rice, fragrant. The just the cake Pizi Chung Shijiu years, intoxicating Cephalostachyum. Feat, with a cake Pizi, to the children Niechu Ichthyornis small animal shapes, naive. Embedded with red bean mung beans for the eyes. Plug in the bottom of a chopstick, kids holding them run all over the world. Ran tired, tired of watching the play hungry, can a few mouthfuls eaten, find adults do.
The people thirty-five to do twenty-three pounds of rice, rice cake, too busy as the day; seventy-eight people do forty-five pounds of rice, rice cakes, too busy as two days. Said that some people have busy three or four days.
There have always been "the joy of harvest," said one, in my opinion, the process of making mochi, joy is far greater than the harvest time division. Harvest time-division, how can there be such a big pot of steamed glutinous rice 'intoxicating scent!
Unfortunately, rice cake making, basically has specialized. Most people no longer produce their own, but the money to buy, or rice enchant. Buy with the food, with the change, eliminating the need for storage of tired touches. However, the family Story touching scenes, the pervasive water vapor, handmade unique rice fragrance, are gone forever.
Road headland
Today, rural residential engage unified planning, my hometown in rural housing, some for a long slide townhouses like each twenty-three, ranging; Some villas and like a small courtyard, a living people. Basically three to five-story buildings, it seems, with the city has not much difference.
On the spacious, on the rugged, On health, natural shrunk. However, On the simple folk, of neighborhood harmony, theory and lively, but had to adjust the word order, have to say is: Xifei this ratio. Today's farmers housing with the town, the emphasis on privacy, security, and foreign does not open, various days are behind closed doors. All of these, of course, can be said that progress is to improve. Poor law and order, the thieves everywhere now, progress, improve are very necessary. However, if these reality aside, just from the taste of life argument, then, the former residential pattern is also quite desirable at is very nostalgic of.
Houses of my childhood home, the tradition of thousands of years, Jiangnan common residential pattern we call "authentic", in fact, is the yard. The popular thing about the northern courtyard of the larger version and higher version. "Authentic" size of the points Avenue ground twenty or thirty families can live, trails the ground only live five or six families. The surrounding houses are wooden structure two-story building. This courtyard, the overall structure and function is somewhat similar to the Fujian Tulou - square Tulou, the smaller the outside of windows and doors, pay attention sturdy, used to resist thieves; the medial wall planks whom, wider doors and windows, pay attention beautiful, with wooden lattice patterned windows.
The yard of my house, and one of our village a few high-profile doorways. The yard high altitude is discharged before thirty-four meters above the ground. Therefore, the patio doors - "big gate" - a stone steps. Village only for drinking, irrigation, dual-use drains, gurgling stream from the stone steps. The east and west sides of the stone steps, each with a quay, Kap Shui, easy to wash.
Our yard, home to the twelve three people (brother of the separation, it is difficult to accurately count), the resident population of fifty or sixty. The open space of the courtyard, equivalent activity Square. Adults working here, chat, kids run, played out here. Sunny winter's day, mother and a group of women sewing a quilt in the yard side, while joking, singing songs (revolutionary songs mainly), sing local opera (Shaoxing opera); rainy day, the house dark, each man to move a chair and stool, sitting Lang Yanxia home to see the full House of stagnant water, countless blisters, raw side above the water off, surreal dream; childhood lisp, eccentric Linjiananhai pronunciation seems impatient rainy lonely often shouted: rain difficult bite days Yue Yue "(" old "fall" l initials are sent into ng-tone, the meaning is that God not to rain); three meals a day, meals do a better job, people like Lang Yanxia end to the front of their own to their jobs or even the yard to eat dry in the sun, with today's words, their own dishes; yard only a widower, "German" (whose real name is De Valley villagers deliberately falsely into a "German"), has a legend by the country of demobilized Communist army and later fled because of fear of the Japanese aircraft bombed home, lying in bed all day, tilted his foot to pull himself stripping snake Piemonte made Huqin never pull off a complete tune ... I have too much on the "authentic" period beautiful, poetic memory.
"Road Fighter" (specifically refers to the open space in the yard) happy, to the Spring Festival period, reached its peak. Watch the big people Chung made rice cakes, duck ready stocking of the slaughter, the smell of each only when the New Year will be the smell of cooked poultry meat, and playing a variety of childhood games ... there is simply our children's playground! Speaking of the Spring Festival, the Chinese New Year, my mind will emerge out of childhood "Road" many of the circumstances of the edge of a farm, picturesque.
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