In my hometown, Weibei Fuping, the local festivals before and after the wheat harvest are very concentrated. There are three you come and go. Let's turn to wheat ripe, send Dragon Boat Festival and turn busy. There is no specific time for turning wheat to ripeness. Probably when the winter wheat puffs up, the daughter takes the child's gift and goes back to her mother's house for three or five days to be reunited with her relatives. As the saying goes, Mike is a little yellow, hungry and heartbroken. In the past, the level of agricultural production was low, and the days before wheat ripening was the hardest. Let daughters and nephews come to their mother's house to have enough to eat, in order to cope with the hard summer harvest work. Therefore, I have been thinking that turning to wheat must include the family's affection for the married daughter. After being busy, there is no specific time. Generally speaking, after the wheat is put into storage and the autumn crops are sown, the daughter goes back to her mother's house to live for three or five days with gifts from her children. However, this time the gifts are much thicker than those of wheat transfer. The most obvious thing is that almost every daughter has to carry a bag of steamed buns of all kinds of new wheat noodles, which is not only to report the harvest of wheat season, but also to return the physical properties of wheat transfer. There is no doubt that the daughter's return to her mother's house must also include the elements of physical repair and recovery from the tiredness of the summer harvest.
It is different to send the Dragon Boat Festival. It is the mother's family who come to her daughter's house. It is usually given by my uncle, under the banner of visiting nieces and nephews. The time is very specific. It is the Dragon Boat Festival on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar. Gifts are usually flowers wrapped belly (belly pocket), zongzi.
When I was about four or five years old, every few days before the Dragon Boat Festival, I would sneak under the big soap horn tree on the top of the slope, facing the direction of my uncle's house in the south. I saw a figure on the road. I guessed that my uncle must be coming. When I saw clearly that it was not my uncle, I waited for the next figure to appear again and again, and only when I heard my mother calling me did I stumble back home frustrated step by step.
The Dragon Boat Festival is finally here. After getting up, I found that on the top of each door frame in the house, there was a bunch of wormwood grass, about a foot and a half long, gray palm-shaped leaves, green branches, and the whole yard was filled with a special fragrance of medicine. We are sleepy, and we don't know when our father picked it back. We just know that we got up early and plugged it in and hung it up.
Jin Jin, get up! get up quickly! The sun is basking in my ass! The sentence after my uncle sent the Dragon Boat Festival was the most effective. My mother pulled me out of bed, picked me up and let me stand naked in the underground copper washbasin. At that time, I was most afraid of taking a bath. Every time my mother gave me a bath, I would keep crying. My mother was in a hurry and slapped me in the ass. I would settle down and wash away with my mother with my tears. But this time there is no trouble, the water is warm, there are some moxa leaves, my mother brushed my body up and down with moxa leaves, while chanting words in her mouth, washing well, brushing well, I have a strong baby in my house. After washing and brushing, my mother's formula seems to have a calming function. I wiped my bleary eyes and gradually got out of sleepiness. After washing, my mother took me back to the Kang, picked up a set of clean clothes, helped me put it on, and brought me a small bowl, in which there was half a bowl of thick orange realgar wine, lit the center of my eyebrow, wiped it across my people, smiled, smiled beautifully, and said, go play! My uncle will bring the Dragon Boat Festival later. Mother went to the kitchen by herself. I jumped off the Kang and ran away. Needless to say, I must have gone to the Dazaojiao tree at the top of the slope.
Here comes my uncle. In my memory, the person who sent the Dragon Boat Festival was usually the younger uncle, and the eldest uncle also sent it, but not many times.
At that time, life was difficult for every family. Dragon Boat Festival, although simple, still have to prepare four dishes, a meal of minced noodles.
Father talked with his uncle and smoked and drank tea. Mother is famous for her neatness in the village. After three or two strokes, the food is served. Father and uncle drank cheap soju. Use a tin wine pot, the kind that is warm in boiling water. The wine cup is very small, white earthen porcelain, small, similar to the thumb eggs of adults.
Mother dressed us in the red belly brought by our little uncle, on which was the scorpion, one of the five poisons embroidered by grandma with green silk thread. Peel the zongzi and shove it into my hand. Go and play.
I ran out impatiently, and Gaiwa, brother and sister, and a group of friends, compared with their respective zongzi and belly, ran to the second uncle's house to see the five poisonous bun nailed on the wall, and went to my aunt's house to see the flowers in the yard. I went to pick up persimmon flowers under the persimmon tree on the top of the south kiln.
When I got home, it must have been afternoon. Everyone's uncle must have left. It must have been some mother who called her children first, and everyone stopped playing.
We're home
The uncle who sent the Dragon Boat Festival also went home.
Warm, beautiful flowers wrapped belly, but has been wearing on me, will wear until the coming year
In the years since I left my hometown, I can't help thinking of my parents, the sweet leaves, the sweet zongzi, the beautiful flowers, the family on the country road, and the poor but happy time like an emotional carriage, taking me home from time to time.
Author: Sha Yue
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