New Year and new atmosphere.

On the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, Lu Ye was awakened by continuous firecrackers.

After getting up in a daze, Lu Ye walked to the gate of his house.

The sound of firecrackers still came from afar. This is the custom of setting off firecrackers in Hanx County.

Firecrackers should be set before the New Year’s Eve dinner, then firecrackers should be set off when closing the door on New Year’s Eve, and then in the new year, firecrackers should be set off when opening the door.

So during the Chinese New Year or two days, whether you go to bed at night or in the morning, you often fall asleep and wake up with the sound of firecrackers.

Lu Ye was wearing a new outfit that Ye Yuanqiu and Lu Huoxing had bought before, a small cotton jacket similar to a down jacket.

In Lu Ye's opinion, it is actually not good-looking, but compared to his current clothes, most of his clothes were made by Ye Yuanqiu with a sewing machine for a cloth, which is quite good in terms of flatness and color.

"It's a bit cold, is it snowing?"

Standing at the door, rubbed his hands gently, Lu Ye stuffed his hands into his pockets and let out a sip of white breath.

Today's sky is much more stunned than before. At some point, small snowflakes rose and fell, accompanied by some fine snow rice, rustling on the roof tiles.

The sound of firecrackers and smoke rising from far and near were rising, and snowflakes mixed with snow rice fell.

I don’t know whether it’s the mood or the atmosphere, but suddenly I give people a particularly different feeling.

"If the snow had fallen last night, I would probably see a vast white area today. It would be during the day and the temperature rose, which probably wouldn't work."

Lu Ye reached out to catch a small piece of snowflake, which was very small and fine, and had irregular shapes.

The latitude of Hanx County is around 28 degrees north latitude, but you can still see snow in winter.

However, heavy snow is not particularly common. Most of the time, such snowflakes are mixed with the snow rice. The most important thing is the situation where cold air moves south.

When Lu Ye watched TV when he was a child, he actually remembered some of the most proficient words: "Siberian cold air travels south", "large-scale cooling of south and south China" and so on.

It is necessary for a family to watch the news broadcast from 7:00 to 7:30, but there are still omissions occasionally. However, after 7:30 to 7:33 or 35, almost no one will miss the weather forecast.

Farmers’ farming and daily travel are inseparable from weather forecasts.

Otherwise, CCTV would not continue to produce a lot of "markers" in the past few years. It is because at this time, almost all farmers and many urban residents in the country were too dependent on weather forecasts.

But Hanx County is not the north after all. Compared with the heavy snow in the north and even the northeast, the snow does not melt for a long time after it falls. It can be shoveled to a corner at will, and the ice slag can be piled up for several months.

In Lu Ye's memory, there are only a few real heavy snow in winter. One should be next year, and the other is when he was in his second year of high school. Some memories later were that he worked until 2012.

In comparison, this means that it can be slightly covered on the ground and then melts quickly, making it muddy everywhere on the loess road.

But the snow on the black brick house and the vast white mountains in the distance are really beautiful.

Unfortunately, today's game did not-

"Why are you still standing? Go wash your face and have a meal soon."

After Lu Ye stood in front of the door for a while, Lu Huoxing's figure came out of the kitchen, rubbed his hands and shouted, "By the way, I'll wake up your mother."

"Hmm?" Lu Ye saw Lu Huoxing appear in the kitchen and saw Lu Huoxing asking him to call his mother Ye Yuanqiu to get up, but he was a little unresponsive.

But then I suddenly remembered that this year was the first day of the Lunar New Year, and it was indeed his who appeared in the kitchen in the morning.

There are many traditional customs or etiquettes. Lu Ye has been living in the city for a long time and has forgotten many of them.

Perhaps it was in this era or since a long time ago that it was very difficult for rural women to do farm work, raise children, and do laundry and cook.

Therefore, the custom of every year from the first to the third day of the Lunar New Year is that women do not have to get up early, do not cook, and do nothing.

The meaning is about three days old, and women should get a complete rest. These things under the kitchen are left to men who work outside all year round.

Let them know how difficult it is for women to be at home and be considerate of each other.

Of course, it is actually difficult to implement in three days, and most rural men do not really know how to cook.

However, it is usually found on the first day of the New Year. This is because it happens to be the first day of the New Year. There are basically leftovers at home after New Year's Eve. At most, only fried vegetables are just the same, which is not a hassle.

"I've gotten up, Lu Ye, go wash your face quickly."

Before Lu Ye could enter the door and call Ye Yuanqiu, her voice had already come from the room.

For those who are used to getting up early all year round, Ye Yuanqiu has actually woken up, but today is considered a "privileged", so he is naturally lazy to eat breakfast before moving.

When I walked to the kitchen, I happened to see Lu Fuyou coming out, holding some silk incense in his hand.

These incense were bought by Lu Fuyou himself, and he was in charge of these things when the old man was still there.

After the old man passed away, Lu Ye's family rarely did this again. When he occasionally remembered it, he would light a few. As for Lu Ye himself, he could not even think of it.

"Lu Ye, I'll take you to the temple later."

After breakfast, Lu Fuyou changed into the new coat that Lu Huoxing bought for him and said to Lu Ye with a smile.

"Is Qinglong Temple?" Lu Ye asked curiously.

Lu Fuyou nodded: "I will go to the temple to burn incense in the New Year to bless the family with peace and safety."

"Then go."

Lu Ye glanced at the sky outside the door, and it was still a little gray, with snowflakes falling, but there were also many pedestrians on the road, all coming out of Shangyun Village and heading towards Qinglong Temple.

He thought that today he would either be found by some friends later and continue to "cut cow dung", or he would be fine at home watching TV, or he would still be willing to go to the temple to watch it.

Well, maybe many of those friends should be in the temple as well.

The temple near his house is called Qinglong Temple. It is not far from the hill, and is about a mile away from the river bank.

I don’t know the specific name of Qinglong Temple, nor do I really have monks. Generally, there are almost Buddhist families in Shangyun Village who also serve as temple prayers.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Lu Ye knew that it was not only in Han x County, but Lu Ye didn’t know other places, but many places in Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian and Guangdong provinces are widely circulated.

What impressed Lu Ye most was that there was a custom of grabbing the first incense on this Lunar New Year’s Day.

It was to wait until 24 o'clock on New Year's Eve, which was midnight on the first day of the Lunar New Year, and then the first to burn incense in the temple, which meant to grab the first prize and everything went smoothly in the new year.

Lu Ye and his son Lu Huoxing don’t have many surnames about this kind of thing, and have never done such things. But he remembered that one year his grandfather Lu Fuyou had done it. After the New Year’s Eve dinner, he went directly to live in the temple.

Of course, he is not the only one, and it is unknown whether he has been grabbed or not.
Chapter completed!