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From the twenty-fourth day of the twelfth lunar month to New Year's Eve, people usually call this period "sweeping dust day".
Sweeping the dust [1], that is, the year-end general cleaning, every household has to clean the house and clean up all kinds of "household things". People who live in the country will also clean up the weeds in the yard, the broken tiles on the roof, and the ditches in front of the house and outside the house.
When sweeping the dust, almost the whole family has to do it. Everything that can be moved out of the house must be moved out of the house. Like the nave hanging in the hall, the paving and covering in the living room, what should be taken, what should be taken, not to mention the mats and wheat straw on the kang; Take the large ones to the patio to wipe them, and cover the large ones with fresh sheets first; for the kitchen, it is even more dirty, except for the large ones such as water tanks and wooden tables, which are covered with a large cloth, the rest of the pots and pans The pots have to be taken to the yard, in fact, that is to prevent the falling dust from staining the things in the kitchen.
After all these things are done, start sweeping.
[1] "Peach Blossoms in the Twelfth Moon at Yuyangpu, Nanjianzhou" by Cai Xiang. Poem
Sociology had a holiday yesterday, but for Mu Yu and Youcai, sweeping the dust can only pick up the vases, tables and chairs in the yard, and wipe them; Caiyu helps Ji Xu tidy up the yard For the dirty and tiring work like sweeping dust, it is most suitable for tall men to do it. Jackson and Wang are the best candidates. Qingwan has small feet, and she doesn't need to do any work like walking, so she took some red paper and a pair of small scissors, and seeing that everyone moved out the stool, she chose one, sat on it, and cut the stool she was good at. window grilles.
Jackson and the big man Wang started to act.
Each of them wore a long dust-proof coat and a straw hat, and tied a small broom to a long bamboo pole. The big man Wang divided the main room, and Jackson divided the east wingfor the west wing. , This is a warehouse, so there is no need to clean it.
Jackson was sweeping the roof back and forth in the East Wing. That long flat head was always raised upwards, and his two hands worked together to sweep vigorously. After doing this kind of work, after a while, his neck got cramped Then he put down the bamboo pole, went to the yard, took off his hat, and hung it on the branch. He put his hands around his neck, swayed from side to side, back and forth
Seeing Jackson's funny look, Qing Wan kept laughing.
Just listen to Ji Xu outside the south wall singing:
It's ridiculous that peaches are resistant to snow and wind,
See sparse red outside the mountain wall;
Hold wine for the king and face each other,
Although the business is different and lonely.
Listening to Ji Xu's tone of voice, Jackson asked, "Sir, what's the matter?"
Qing Wan said without raising her head, "I'm homesick!"
"Oh, me too, I miss my mother too." Jackson said loudly, "Sir, if you miss home very much, the student will accompany you back home!"
"The road to home is so far away, how can you just go back as soon as you say it!" Ji Xu picked a wild vegetable from under the peach tree, turned around the hanging flower gate, and held it up for everyone to see, "Look, here is a big shepherd's purse."
Qing Wan smiled and said: "It seems that Mr. Ji is really from the city. He is so surprised when he sees a shepherd's purse."
But Ji Xu said: "It's not surprising, it's just that seeing it reminds me of the shepherd's purse dumplings made by my mother."
Qing Wan said: "Then go pick some, and I'll make shepherd's purse dumplings for you to eat, so that you can experience the taste of your mother."
Ji Xu gave Qing Wan a white look, "My sister's words are becoming more and more unruly."
Qing Wan asked: "Why are there no rules?"
"Are you mother [referring to the bustard]?!" Ji Xu threw the shepherd's purse on the ground, turned and left.
Qing Wan conveniently took a small shovel, went to pick up the shepherd's purse, walked through the vertical flower gate, tilted her head and looked at Ji Xu and said, "Jackson told me that they all call their mother their mother."
Ji Xu asked again: "Are you my mother?"
"The elder sister is like a mother!" Qing Wan said, "The shepherd's purse in the twelfth lunar month has a strong fragrance and tastes even better. Go and scoop some out, and I'll make dumplings for you to eat."
Ji Xu said: "Just two, enough for anyone to eat!"
Qing Wan said: "There must be a lot of ditch edges outside the gate, you don't have to goug out too much, I'll just pack it for you." Saying that, she handed the small shovel in her hand to Ji Xu.
Ji Xu really wanted to eat shepherd's purse dumplings, so he smiled at Qingwan, apologized, found a bamboo basket and carried it in his hand, and went out the door.
[2] "Blue and White Porcelain" Fang Wenshan. Lyrics Jay Chou. Music/Song
? When the sanitation in the house is cleaned up, thenOn the day, it became a special word for calling one's own father.
People in ancient Shudi called their father "Bobo". These are actually words similar to papa (Papa), bobo (Bobo), baba (father), dada (Dada), and are related to the first syllable pronounced by human beings after birth. Ma is the easiest sound for human babies to pronounce. The first word that humans can blurt out is the first person they are naturally close to, and that is the mother.
Therefore, the birth of the word "mother" is the natural result of the baby opening his mouth and exhaling; the second simplest pronunciation is "dad".
According to the records in "Guang Ya. Shiqin": "Papa is the turn of father." There are already parents' names.
Back then, Guangxu was called "Dad". Because at that time, the foreign pronunciation had already spread to China. The pronunciation of calling Dad in German is "papa", which is pronounced as "Papa", and the Chinese called this name "Papa". Manchu people call their father "Ama" and their mother "Eniang". If they are members of the royal family, they add the word "Huang" in front.
Father and mother is a traditional Chinese name. Before the Qing Dynasty, China's scientific examination system was dominated by classical Chinese. After the Revolution of 1911, foreign studies became more and more popular. Those who returned from studying abroad brought the titles of father and mother back to China, and it gradually became popular.
The titles for parents are similar all over the world:
Mother
?Chinese: Mama, Niang, nia, Ah Mu, Ma Ma
English: mom, mum, mama, mommy
French: maman, m¨¨re
Russian: mama
Spanish: mam¨¢
Father
?Chinese: Dad, Bobo, Da Da, Dad
English: papa daddy dada dad da poppa taata
French: papa, p¨¨re
Russian: §áa§áa (pronounced exactly "Dad")
Spanish: papa
The two words "dad" and "mother" exist in about 70% of human languages ??and have similar meanings. This may be the first vocabulary that ancient humans would speak.
At present, there are many nouns with similar pronunciation and similar meaning in more than 6,000 spoken languages ??of human beings, especially words like "mother" and "dad" that refer to relatives. Some linguists speculate that these words have been spoken for at least 50,000 years since ancient human languages ??began to form. However, since these experts did not determine the frequency of occurrence of the above words in distantly related language families, they could not confirm the above assertion.
However, according to the latest issue of "New Scientist" magazine, scientists from the French Federation for the Study of Linguistics and Prehistoric Anthropology have recently investigated the word "papa". They found that the word basically exists in 14 major language families of humans, and in 71% of the languages ??studied, the word "dad" means father or a male relative on the father's side. The scientists responsible for the study believe that there may be only one explanation for the unity of "dad" in various languages: "dad" is a word that our ancestors spoke first. (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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