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Chapter Eight Flowers Are Similar Every Year

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    On the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, when offering sacrifices to the Kitchen God, you must buy sesame candies. At night, you must burn the statue of the Kitchen God.  The Kitchen God was sent away.  It also means that the New Year is over, and the Spring Festival has begun.

    On the twenty-fourth day of the twelfth lunar month, the general cleaning began.  After the small year, start cleaning the house.  No place in the house is spared, and it is cleaned inside and out.

    Especially in the kitchen, not only cleaning, but also thorough cleaning.  This is the case in every family, and the dust-sweeping day is started, which is also called house-sweeping in the north.  Southern also known as Dust.

    The father went to the county seat to pick up his younger brother home.  Bring back a big bag of things.  There are not only futons, but also textbooks.  Fortunately, my father drove a tricycle to go. If I were riding a motorcycle, I would not be able to carry things, let alone people.

    On the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth lunar month, you have to grind the mill to make tofu.  Today, my parents got up very early to prepare tofu.

    In recent years, some people have specialized in making tofu.  With the addition of machines, it becomes easier to make tofu, and the time required is also greatly shortened.  It only takes half a day.  Only the father alone can handle it.  In the past, if you make tofu by yourself, the whole family will work together, and it will take a day to make it.

    That's the difference between machines and humans.  The machine not only saves time but also labor.  In terms of manual work, no matter how many people there are, it can be used.  When I was young, I often exchanged stones with my parents to grind soybean milk.  Now I want to do it together, but there is no chance.

    ? When it comes to making tofu, I remember that I used to grind tofu to make tofu.  Use the stone mill at the head of the village to grind the soaked soybeans yourself.  Filter with homemade things, separate the bean dregs, put the successfully separated slurry into a pot and heat it with fire, add gypsum or slurry when it boils, and then the slurry becomes the shape of bean curd.  Then use a special basket, spread fine cotton cloth with good water filtration, pour it in, wrap it into a square shape with fine cotton cloth, and then press it with a heavy object, wait for an hour or two, and you can eat fresh  Delicious, freshly baked tofu.

    What I remember most deeply is that I pushed the mill round and round, watching my mother sweep the beans into the small hole at the top of the mill. The beans were ground by the mill fan, pressed into turbid juice, and flowed into the bucket.  Drop by drop, eventually merged into bucket after bucket.

    When buckets of juice with bean dregs are sent to the kitchen, it is necessary to separate the bean dregs from the raw bean juice.  Using the most primitive method, through the cotton cloth with a very fine mesh, the cotton cloth is tied to the shelf, and the shelf is two cross arms that cross each other.  The cross-arm was dropped on the roof beam.  By rocking the cross arm round and round, the juice is squeezed, and flows into a container with a relatively large mouth through the fine mesh of the cotton cloth.

    The bean dregs and bean juice are separated by manual methods.  The separated soybean juice needs to be heated in a pot.  When the soybean juice is boiling in the pot, add a certain amount of gypsum, or physalis.  A magical moment happened.  Slowly from liquid to milky, then to lumpy.  When most of it forms lumps, it's ready to serve.

    At this time, the only thing to pay attention to is the heat. When it forms a block, you can turn off the fire.  If it is overheated, it will be burnt.  Pour the lumps, or bean curds, through the container into a round basket covered with muslin cloth. After filling them completely, wrap these lumps and wrap them into a square shape.  Then put a big rock on top of it.  As long as it's heavy.

    The last thing is to wait, and you can eat fresh tofu out of the basket after waiting for an hour or two.

    Freshly made tofu is the best.  Eat it directly, or cut into small cubes, topped with the seasoning sauce prepared earlier, the taste is even better.

    After waiting for a day, it is a happy thing to finally be able to eat hot tofu made by myself.

    If you do it yourself, a tofu usually takes a day.  From very early in the morning, the manual stone mill is used to grind the soybeans that have been soaked the day before.  This takes half a day.  After the soybeans are ground, all you have to do is separate the bean dregs from the slurry, which takes an hour or two.  Then heat it, put in less gypsum to make it into a tofu brain shape, and then press it into a square shape.  By the time the fresh tofu comes out of the oven, the sun has probably already set.

    ?Because making tofu by hand requires too many processes and lasts for a long time. It is not Chinese New Year, and generally they will not do it by themselves.  Therefore, when I was young, I always hoped that one day this year, I could eat tofu made by my parents.  Making tofu and eating tofu have become a luxury.

    On the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth lunar month, go to the market.  Buy New Year's goods.  Here's everything to buy on the last market day of the old year, so be sure to get yours today.  Vegetables, fruits, meat and more.

    Mother will prepare steamed buns at home.  Steamed buns are delicious.  This evening, we will cook red beans or peas, and use this to make bean-stuffed steamed buns.  It is also necessary to leaven the noodles to prepare for making steamed buns the next day.

    Whether it's bean stuffed buns or vegetable buns, ???Scallion steamed buns are very popular.  It takes a whole day to steam the steamed buns.

    The thing to do the night before is to cook the beans and knead the noodles.

    On the twenty-eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, steamed buns.  That is, on the second day, when the noodles are ready, that is, there are small honeycomb-shaped holes in the middle of the dough, indicating that the yeast has played a role, and then you can start steaming the buns.

    ? If you want the steamed buns to be firm, they must also be very soft.  Kneading dough is hard work.  Because of the cold weather, the noodles were alive the night before, and usually the fermentation is just right at noon the next day.  Just waiting for my father to come back and knead the noodles, we steamed the buns together.

    ? When steaming steamed buns, the key is to ferment the noodles well, the noodles must be evenly alkaline, and the noodles must be kneaded well. This is a key to success.  There is also bean stuffing and vegetable stuffing.  Be sure to let them have their own forming phase, and after they are wrapped, be sure to let them sit for a while.  Then put them in cage by cage.  There must be some space between each bun.  When the four cages are all full, put them into a hot water pot, use high heat first, then turn to low heat after steaming, usually 40 minutes, just enough for a pot of steamed buns to come out of the pot.

    After the steamed buns are out of the pan, you need to find a place to dry the hot steamed buns.  After these steamed buns cool down, they need to be sorted and placed.  Bean stuffing, vegetable stuffing, and chives should be placed separately.  Make room to dry the next pot of steamed buns again.

    Everyone has a clear division of labor. Those who light the fire light the fire in front of the stove, those who knead the dough knead the dough, and the task of making steamed buns falls on the three children of Ye Zi.  The mother is responsible for putting the steamed buns one by one on the hot water pot. After the steamed buns are cooked, they take the steamed buns out of the hot water pot.  Take out the hot steamed buns in a cage to dry.

    Division of labor and cooperation, so that the work of steamed buns is carried out in an orderly manner.

    If you start steaming steamed buns in the afternoon, it will be very late at night, at least after 9 o'clock to finish steaming steamed buns.  When steaming steamed buns, steamed sweet potatoes are usually brought along for use the next day.

    On the twenty-ninth day of the twelfth lunar month, it is time to cook.  That is to fry some things, such as fried dough sticks, rapeseed, meat, tofu, meatballs, etc.  You also have to kill a chicken, or make fried chicken, or boil chicken soup, it doesn't matter.  Get ready for the new year.

    ? When the house is cleaned, the tofu is ready, the steamed buns are steamed, and the pot is ready, there is only New Year's Eve left.

    New Year's Eve, that is, New Year's Eve, making dumplings, posting couplets, and keeping the year old.

    On the 30th day, the whole day's task was to clean up the inside and outside of the courtyard again, and after lunch, I started to post couplets.  Not only should they be posted in their own houses, but also in livestock pens, and the same is true for chicken coops.  Busy inside and out, running up and down, posting couplets.

    Then watch the couplets of each family.  See if the concept of the couplet is good, and see if the upper and lower lines of the couplet are pasted upside down.

    ? Lingering and forgetting to return to couplets with various families.  Waiting for my parents to call me home to eat dumplings.

    After eating dumplings, you can go door to door, pick up the missing firecrackers, and then play with your friends.  Even if I play very late, I don't want to go home. My parents look for me from door to door, or outside my yard, yelling myself to go home.

    The main task of returning home is to keep the old age.

    On New Year's Eve, the whole family gathered together happily to watch the Spring Festival Gala, and by the way, helped my mother make dumplings for the morning of the first day of the new year.  Always stay up very late.

    While watching TV, while making dumplings, before I knew it, it was already midnight.  When the clock struck midnight, the dumplings were also made.  Start the competition to set off firecrackers to see whose firecrackers are loud and take a long time.  Then go to sleep.

    There is a saying that goes well,

    ? Thirteen sugar flowers are sticky;

    Twenty-four, sweep the house;

    Twenty-five, grind tofu;

    Twenty-six, stewed meat;

    Twenty-seven, kill a chicken;

    Twenty-eight, hair the face;

    Twenty-nine, steamed buns;

    Thirty nights stay up one night;

    ? Walking all over the street on the first and second day

    exactly.  One year spent similar, each year is different.  A child is one year older, an adult is another year old, and an old man is one year older.

    Most adults don't like Chinese New Year, it's too tiring.  The elderly don't like Chinese New Year either, because Chinese New Year is another year old.  It is the children who like to celebrate the New Year. The New Year is not over, and they always look forward to the next New Year.  It was the same when I was young.  Because there are new clothes to wear, lucky money to spend, and good food to eat during the New Year.

    ?For the whole day of the first day of the new year, you can play with your friends, compare new clothes and lucky money together.  There are always endless things to say and do when we are together.

    Whether it is a child, an adult or the elderly, it must be repeated every year.  Every family is like this.  The happiest thing for children is the Chinese New Year.  On New Year's Eve, parents will not urge their children to go to bed early, they can stay up late.  You can play all day in the first day of junior high school, and you can also eat a lot of things that you can't usually eat, such as peanuts, melon seeds, and candies.  On the second day of junior high school, I can go to relatives¡¯ houses to play, and at the same time, I can get lucky money.

    From the first day of junior high school to the fifteenth Lantern Festival, it is the happiest time for children.  You don't have to do farm work, but you can still eat good food and get money.

    All children like to celebrate the New Year, looking forward to growing taller quickly, so that they can wear beautiful skirts and beautiful high-heeled shoes.

    The same is true for leaves when they were young.  (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com)?Things that are not available, such as peanuts, melon seeds, and candies.  On the second day of junior high school, I can go to relatives¡¯ houses to play, and at the same time, I can get lucky money.

    From the first day of junior high school to the fifteenth Lantern Festival, it is the happiest time for children.  You don't have to do farm work, but you can still eat good food and get money.

    All children like to celebrate the New Year, looking forward to growing taller quickly, so that they can wear beautiful skirts and beautiful high-heeled shoes.

    The same is true for leaves when they were young.  (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com
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