The Spring Festival is the biggest festival of the year, with a lot of tedious customs. Generally, after the 23rd Little New Year, the blessing period will enter, and from this day, it will become day and night. For example, the "Twenty-Five Day" is called "Twenty-Five Night", because the blessing ceremony requires the arrival of gods, and the gods are arrogant and come late. If the gods are invited to dinner, maybe not until dawn, who can bear it. In order to avoid the pain of staying up late, the people came up with such an idea. From this we can see that the history of Chinese people fooling gods has a long history.

During the blessing period, people will choose a suitable day for sacrifice, prepare blessings, and carry out two most important activities, one is to worship Bodhisattvas, and the other is to invite soup, which is to worship ancestors.

No matter whether you are poor or poor, you will not be careless at all. Ordinary families will prepare three blessing gifts, namely one meat, one fish, and one goose. If you are a little more particular, you will add cattle, sheep or chicken to become five blessing gifts. A more wealthy family will prepare seven blessing gifts, which will be more respectful.

When it comes to sacrifice, every household places a sacrificial table in front of the hall, and must be placed horizontally. Women clean up the hall and the sacrificial utensils, and then cook the blessings. They insert chopsticks in a mess and paste them with red paper to make them happy, which makes them happy, and it becomes a real blessing.

At this time, the hard-working women have to retreat temporarily because the gods and Bodhisattvas think that women are unclean and that with them, the gods and immortals cannot eat. However, if they want to invite Guanyin Bodhisattva, I don’t know what to do.

The remaining men waited for the auspicious time and invited the Bodhisattva to visit, first set up the bowls and chopsticks, wine cups, put the knife and chopstick on the right, and chicken blood on the left. Tang Yi thought that the gods also ate the feathers and drank blood on the left, but after asking, they found out that this was to indicate that they were specifically slaughtered by the gods, and there were chickens and gooses next to them, called the whole chicken and goose. Of course, in Tang Yi's opinion, everyone was "hungry" in such a struggle!

Big fish and meat alone are not enough. You also need to put dried tofu, salt, rice cake, four-color fruit, three tea and six wine. There are also some special things to put on. The chicken and goose must kneel down, the same one is not messy at all, and the primary and secondary are clearly distinguished.

When the good time comes, the master will light a candle and bow to the God of Fortune according to the age, and the gods will eat in the wind and clouds, which is much faster than the fake gods' blue Taoist movement. Therefore, they only pour a glass of wine, then burn paper, set off firecrackers, and send God of Fortune to heaven. No matter how you look, they are a little sweeping out of the house...

After offering sacrifices to the God of Fortune, the next step is to worship the ancestors. The gods can fool them, but the ancestors are not good. The table is upright, and the women are moving again. They bring the prepared dishes, usually in odd numbers, nine to eleven bowls, 12 wine cups, 12 pairs of chopsticks, 20,000 dumplings, 20,000 rice, plus a total bowl and a wine pot. First light candles and then light incense. The owner then brings to worship his ancestors, but his family still feels sorry for his own people. This time, he has to pour two glasses of wine, and wait until the ancestors are ready to eat, and then fire a cannon to send his ancestors away.

After a lot of trouble, Tang Yi got low blood sugar, but it was not over yet. Both teachers were at home. They lived in other places and had to arrange sacrifices.

Before Tang Yi could say that, Tang Shunzhi took the incense directly and took the Tang family's offerings and worshiped him three times. Even if he finished it, he still called the Xinxue scholars doing things. He only asked his original heart and did not care about external things. He didn't care, and Wei Liangfu didn't care. He had already prepared his hometown.

After these two people entered the table, the Fu Fu began. Aunt Zhu used the soup of boiling Fuli to put the noodles, steamed hot and served them up. She is worthy of being a noodle restaurant. The noodles made are as thin as shredded, smooth and vigorous, and the soup is rich in aroma. Sprinkled with scallions and coriander, it looks very beautiful, which makes people's index fingers excited.

Everyone started to suck and eat it. Wei Liangfu took a bite and smiled, "This noodles are golden in color and smooth to eat, which is indeed good."

Aunt Zhu quickly smiled and said, "My husband, I have put eggs in it and prepared the soup for cooking noodles in advance. There is no need to cook the blessing gifts, just because I am afraid of the smell of fishy smell. My husband's filial piety to the elder husband is really enviable!"

Aunt Zhu couldn't forget to apply cigarettes and powder to Tang Yi, but Tang Shunzhi squatted the noodles hard.

"Luxury, greedy for pleasure!"

After receiving the eight-word comment, Tang Yi simply lowered his head and muttered in a low voice: "Don't eat if you have the ability!"

"If I don't eat it, the noodles will be left, wouldn't it be even more wasteful!" Tang Shunzhi cursed with a smile, stretched out his hand, picked up the empty bowl, and said to Tang Yi: "Super noodles for me!" Tang Yi could only nod.

One thing is defeated by another, Tang Shunzhi ate Tang Yi so hard that he could only laugh secretly when facing this pair of live treasures.

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The Tang family moved back to the old house on the 29th. After the blessings were over, it was New Year's Eve. On this day, the water tank and rice tank were filled, and couplets were pasted. The Kitchen God was invited to go home, have the New Year's Eve dinner, light the lights and light the lights, and the whole family stayed up for the New Year.

Couplets and Kitchen God are sold on the market, but only ordinary people will buy them. If you pay a little more attention, you will ask those with knowledge to write according to your own thoughts, and of course some people write them by themselves. In addition to the festive and auspicious words, there are also people who show their ambitions in couplets.

For example, someone once wrote this couplet: "The article is higher than that of the Hanlin Academy, and the laws are as strict as those of the Censorate!"

The Hanlin Academy is where Chen Menghe has been living, and they are all the top literati in the world. The Censorate is the Censorate, an institution responsible for the criminal name of a province.

This scholar was so angry that after being circulated, his career was not going smoothly since then, and he suffered an unsuccessful disaster.

The Tang family did not worry about the people who did not write couplets, but less than three years after my mother died, the Tang family just pasted it with blue lanterns and paper outside the door, "I have not fulfilled my filial piety for three years, and I will always keep my heart."

With this couplet, everyone outside retreated, and no one came to pay New Year's greetings was only Tang Yi and his son. With the Zhu family and the book boy Shen Lin and others, everyone felt comfortable and peaceful. Tang Yi also understood why Wei Liangfu and Tang Shunzhi ran to his home. These two noble identities and had a lot of disciples. Every time during the New Year, the visiting team could be sent to two miles, which was very annoying.

This time, I hid in the Tang family, ate top food, read books and teach students, so I can't be as leisurely as possible.

They are free, and some people are in trouble, such as our second son Wang...

It was not until the fifth day of the first lunar month that Wang Shimao ran to the Tang family. As soon as he came in, he was like a starving ghost entrusting his life. He grabbed the small bun and ate it, which made Tang Yi think that he was possessed by Lan Daoxing.

"Cousin, image, image, if it spreads, you won't want to get married in your life!"

Wang Shimao didn't care. After eating five buns, he finally became energetic. He pointed at his thin little face and poured his bitterness into the outside!

"Cousin, you don't know. I haven't slept well since the 27th day of the twelfth lunar month. I worship my ancestors and kowtow three times a generation. You can calculate how much I kowtowed just by worshiping ancestors!"

When Tang Yi heard this, he couldn't help laughing. The Wang family could go back to the Western Jin Dynasty. The thousand-year-old family was calculated based on the twenty-year-old generation. At least fifty generations, it was a great joy to be able to jump around all the way!

Wang Shimao said with a sad face, "It's not just that. On New Year's Eve, hundreds of naughty kids surrounded me for red envelopes, some called uncle, some called uncle, and some called Tai uncle. The fucking thing is that I don't know half of it! On the first day of the Lunar New Year, I have to pay New Year's greetings to dozens of elders. The old troubles have not been eliminated, and new creations have regained. My head is dozens of times bigger!"

Just like Xianglin Sao, Wang Erjun, chattering, eating and complaining. Every family has difficult sutras, and it seems that this is true.

...

"Okay, my cousin, I'm so kind-hearted, I'll take you in."

"It's great. If someone comes to me, I'll say I'll follow Mr. Jingchuan to study behind closed doors!"

Wang Shimao was full of wine and food, so he asked Chen Lin to take him to rest, but the words of Mr. Wang Second Master caused annoyance. The next morning, he and Tang Yi were both pulled out of the quilt by Tang Shunzhi and rushed to the front yard to squat on horseback. The cold wind blew, making Mr. Wang Second Master, who was sleepy, shuddered, and was even more miserable than yesterday.

"Cousin, whom I've messed with?"

"You send it to the gun yourself. Can someone let you go? You even took me as a cushion. It's so unfair!" Tang Yi spat.

Wang Shimao was still confused and said in confusion: "Mr. Jingchuan is a great scholar in the world. Do not do to others what he does not want others to do to you. How could he do this!"

"Wang Jingmei, I did this. What can you do? Go and run around the yard for a hundred laps!"

Push, Wang Shimao fell down!

From the fifth to the fourteenth day of the lunar month, Wang Shimao finally realized Tang Yi's treatment. He practiced martial arts in the morning, studied in the morning, listened to classes in the afternoon, and practiced calligraphy in the evening, and had no time to spare, which made Wang Erjun want to die and was flooded with bitterness.

"Cousin, do you usually study like this?"

"What do you think?" Tang Yi stared at him like an idiot. This is what it means that if you have a way in heaven, you won't go, and hell will be sent in without a way.

Wang Shimao shook his head and stretched out his thumb: "Brother, please accept me! By the way, my cousin will be the fifteenth day of the first lunar month tomorrow, and it will be the Lantern Festival!"

"Isn't it just watching the lanterns and guessing riddles, what's so great about it?"

"This year is different! I heard that Mr. Chen personally hosted the lantern festival and promised a heavy prize. Tanhua would get twenty taels of silver, and the role model is fifty taels."

"What about the top scorer?"

"I didn't say it, but it's definitely not bad. Cousin, you don't want to show off your skills, just like you are in Chunfang Tower, looking down on you!"

Tang Yi also became interested, but hesitated, it was always bad to show off!

He was still hesitating, and then he heard Tang Shunzhi say, "Take the top scorer back, otherwise you two won't want to sleep!"

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The customs of the New Year are different in different places, and the records are quite chaotic. Some blessings are on New Year's Eve, and some are separated and messy. Let's write them for the younger ones. Please read them for now, don't be too serious!
Chapter completed!