Chapter 6 Lively 1

This Mid-Autumn Festival cake map is a pleasure, so Yang Liulang saw that the fish deliberately teased him, and did not reveal it with a smile as usual. He let the fish do everything. Instead, he frowned and competed with the fish. Slowly, he chased the fish around in the dam, as if he didn't stop grabbing the champion cake in the fish's arms.

And the fish finally got the biggest top cake, and she still wanted to show off with Li Erniu, Ma Siniang and other little sisters later! After all, this champion cake can't be won casually. I heard that Ma Siniang's family will make cakes every year, but Ma Siniang has grown so big, but she hasn't won the champion cake...

So the more Yang Liulang wanted to grab it, the more the fish hid and dodged in the dam like a flexible and cunning little fox, which made Yang Liulang, who had been unable to catch the fish, gasp for breath. Yang Dazhu, Liu and others grinned when they saw the fish and their brothers and sisters playing, or laughed at Yang Liulang for being "stupid" and couldn't catch the fish, or cheering up the fish so that she must not let Yang Liulang catch it...

So for a moment, the small dam was full of laughter. The Yang family all showed a happy and satisfied smile under the bright full moon in the sky. They all wanted time to stay at this moment of reunion, harmony and beauty, especially the Yang Dazhu and his wife, who had become grandfather and grandmother. Full of comfort, satisfaction and pleasure...

After playing for a while, Yuer and Yang Liulang have been looking at Liushi, who have been playing with Yuer and Yang Liulang, with a smile and annoy Yang Liulang: "Xiaoliu, aren't you afraid of spreading jokes about your brother's sister-grabbing things in the yard?"

"That's it, that's it! Sixth brother is not ashamed to rob his sister's things!" The fish followed and took advantage of the gap to get to Liu's side. After holding Liu's arm tightly, he did not forget to make a grimace at Yang Liulang.

And Yang Liulang saw that Liu opened his mouth and knew that he was almost playing, so he no longer chased the fish and ran away as before. Instead, he looked at the fish with a doting face and said, "Mom, aren't I teasing my sister while making you happy? Look how happy you just laughed! You can't laugh enough now and scold me!"

"Well, my mother won't scold you. You are the best at playing tricks among the children in our family," Liu first smiled and said and Yang Liulang, and then said to everyone, "This cake is over. It's almost time for us to start offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors..."

As soon as the fish heard Liu's words, he immediately took the initiative to say, "Mom, I'll bring you the steamed taro and sweet potatoes."

After saying that, the fish put down the top cake in his arms and walked to the kitchen. As soon as he entered the kitchen, he lifted the lid of the wooden pot, put the steamed sweet potatoes and taro that had been put in the big pot on the stove one by one, and then brought them to the Eight Immortals table in the dam.

After the fish brought the steamed sweet potatoes and taro to the dam one by one, Lin Sanniang and Yang Qiniang also put other things for worship on the table one after another. Liu was busy preparing incense burners full of rice, long incense, red candles, wine mugs, ingot paper embedded with gold foil and other things for worship.

These things for worship are almost the same as those seen in the previous life of the fish. After all, this kind of superstitious thing has been passed down from generation to generation and is basically not affected by modern technology.

However, in modern times, fish are most commonly used to worship chicken, duck, goose, fish, pig elbow, pig head and other meat dishes. It is the first time to worship gods and ancestral fish with sweet potatoes and taro. Therefore, when the fish learned that sweet potatoes and taro were as essential things for Southern Fujian people to offer sacrifices to gods and ancestors during the Mid-Autumn Festival, they pestered Liu to inquire about them...

As soon as the fish inquired, they learned that there was a custom of steamed taro and sweet potatoes to worship their ancestors in southern Fujian and the adjacent Penghu (now Taiwan). It is said that every morning of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the first thing women in southern Fujian do on that day is to steam the prepared taro and sweet potatoes for sacrifices to their ancestors on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Because the taro is white and the sweet potato is golden yellow, southern Fujian people eat sweet potatoes and taro on the Mid-Autumn Festival, which has the beautiful meaning of "gold and silver, gold and silver in the tripod".

Of course, this rule is also somewhat dry with the rich production of sweet potatoes and taro in southern Fujian, especially around the Mid-Autumn Festival, which is the best time to harvest sweet potatoes and taro. In addition, the land in southern Fujian is barren, dry land is more and there are few paddy fields, which makes high-yielding and easy-grown sweet potatoes and taro become the staple food of southerners.

So every Mid-Autumn Festival, Minnan people will wash sweet potatoes and taro into a pot and cook them with water, or cut sweet potatoes into thin slices and fry them in oil, and finally use golden and fragrant sweet potatoes as sacrifices, which means good weather, good harvest and harvest.

And taro is a thing with the meaning of "auspicious" in traditional folk customs in southern Fujian. Because "taro" and "road" are homophonic in southern Fujian, there is also such a jingle in southern Fujian - "eating rice noodles taro, there is a good way to go". This "good head road" means that people have a good way out and can get ahead, which is also auspicious.

In addition, this taro is loose and fragrant after steaming. When planting, a small taro is put down. When harvested during the Mid-Autumn Festival, there are not only large taro (called taro mother in Minnan dialect), but also large and small taro in a nest. Therefore, southern Fujian people eat taro during the Mid-Autumn Festival reunion, which is called "holding children and grandchildren, the whole family is prosperous and reunion" in Minnan dialect...

In previous years, because the Yang family was not very rich, they only bought a few of the most ordinary and cheap mooncakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival every year. The whole family gathered around and ate tea, even after the Mid-Autumn Festival. Now that the Yang family's family has gradually improved, Liu plans to have a good Mid-Autumn Festival, so naturally everything that should be prepared, and every custom and habit will not be left behind.

So after the things to worship gods and ancestors were ready, Yang Dazhu took his family to worship the gods and ancestors with meat dishes such as moon cakes, sweet potatoes, taro, chickens, ducks and geese. After the worship, Yang Dazhu must come to divination. If the divination is opened and closed, it means that the gods and ancestors have accepted the wishes of the Yang family.

After such a hexagram, these sacrifices can be removed. On the contrary, they must wait for a moment to divination again until the hexagram can be taken away.

And Yang Dazhu took his family to hold incense and worshipped, and only divination with one coat, so Liu immediately greeted the fish and others to bring the sacrifices to the table of the Eight Immortals. After the sacrifices were removed, Liu was more generously told the big guys to eat whatever they wanted. ?

This thing that has been worshipped by gods and ancestors, and Minnan people generally call them things given by gods and ancestors. Therefore, Liu also told fish and others that they must eat more things that have worshipped gods and ancestors, so that they can eat the blessings given to them by gods and ancestors.

After Yang Dazhu sat down around the Eight Immortals Table with Yang Sanlang and others, Liu did not sit next to Yang Dazhu as usual, but hurried away with Lin Sanniang and Yang Qiniang. Yuer felt a little strange when she saw that Liu Shi only called Lin Sanniang and Yang Qiniang to help, and did not call herself, so Yuer accompanied Yang Dazhu to eat dishes for a while and touched Liu's side...

"Mom, what are you doing here with your third sister-in-law and sister-in-law? Why don't you call me too?" While talking, the fish pouted like a coquettish girl and complained dissatisfiedly, "Is it possible that my mother thought I was clumsy and couldn't help, so she didn't call me to do it?"

In fact, Liu likes to watch the fish act coquettishly, so when she saw the fish showing her little daughter-like delicate face full of smiles, she reached out and gently poked the fish's forehead and said dotingly, "Mother takes your third sister-in-law and sister to prepare for the moon worship! What's the fun of your little lady who hasn't come out of the cabinet? Hurry back to the dam to accompany your father and brothers..."

Hearing this, Yuer had a puzzled look on her face. While holding Liu's arm and refusing to walk, she asked, "Mother, you are biased! How can the third sister-in-law and sister follow you to worship the moon? I can't?

Lin Sanniang beside her listened to Yuer's words and replied with a smile for Liu: "Sister, this is the rules of our Xiaoqi Village - only women who have married women can worship the moon on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the men in the family and the little women who have not left the cabinet can participate. Sister, if you want to worship the moon with us, you have to find a happy man to marry first..."

Lin Sanniang finally covered her mouth and laughed. Liu's smile on her face was a little stronger when she heard it. Even Yang Qiniang, who was shy and introverted, saw Lin Sanniang making fun of Yuer's marriage, and there was a little more "bad" smile on her face, which made Yuer stamp her feet and said coquettishly: "Sister-in-law, you Bullying!"

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Khan, Xiaoyun has no face to see everyone. All he can say is that the end of the year is approaching and the wedding is approaching. There are many common things that make Xiaoyun unable to concentrate on typing~woowoo~

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