Haiyan Heqing Four O’clock Days

  Chapter 24 [Hua Shao Chunsheng] The Qing Dynasty is bright, the sky is clear, the sky is clear, and the sky is mourning the deceased Xian Fei Xian [Qingming·First]

  The universe is langlang and the people are clear,

  Unknown light before cold eclipse.

  Thunder ringing on the equinox,

  Guyuyufeng tea is fragrant.

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  The day before Qingming Festival, Hanshi and Qingming came to China Shenzhou.

   "Hey? It's Qingming sister and Hanshi brother!" Meng Jiuzhou was surprised to see the two of them.

   "Good for Kyushu!" Qingming rubbed Kyushu's little face, and handed it to a youth group in Kyushu, "Today you can only eat cold food, don't move the stove!"

   "Usually your Hanshi brother always has to cook for everyone, and today I don’t even want to see the stove!"

  After a burst of laughter, Qingming took Meng Jiuzhou and sat aside, carefully helping to wrap the bamboo leaves wrapped around the youth group, and then handed it back to Kyushu, "Hey, eat."

   "Thank Sister Qingming!" Kyushu took it with both hands, with a smile on his small face.

  Looking at Kyushu opened her small mouth and took a bite of Qingtuan, the bean paste inside the Qingtuan was exposed.

  The purple red bean paste filling and the turquoise skin made of wormwood juice and glutinous rice flour on the outside are contrasted in color, as if the grass in the spring is wrapped in flowers, the color is distinct, and it is full of the breath of spring.

  Qingming watched Kyushu chewing carefully, and then asked after a while: "How is it, is it delicious?"

  "The wormwood juice may have a little bitter taste..." Qingming was afraid that Kyushu would find the taste of this youth group weird, so he added another sentence quickly.

  The vernal equinox was chattering with Hanshi on the side. The immortals who had known each other for thousands of years did not receive such treatment, but it was in Kyushu, everyone loved it.

  Meng Jiuzhou smiled at Vernal Equinox and Han Shi, who pretended to be jealous, and looked towards Qingming: “Well, it’s delicious!”

   "Thank you Qingming sister, and thank you Hanshi brother!"

   "This Qingtuan mother bought it for me before, and it is not as good as Hanshi brother. The Qingtuan made by Hanshi brother has a grass-like fragrance, just like holding the whole spring in your mouth!"

  Hearing what Kyushu said, the vernal equinox, Qingming and cold food were all taken aback.

   rubbed Kyushu’s hair, and the equinox said, "No wonder our little Kyushu is so cute, so smart!"

  Kyushu smiled and continued to eat the youth group in his hand. Two little birds flew down from the green willows by the river, leaping back and forth in front of Kyushu, and yelling twice, looking like that, I also wanted to taste the Qingtuan in Kyushu's hands.

   Kyushu carefully took a bite of the Youth League and placed it in the palm of her hand, "Come here, little bird, you also want to taste the Youth League sent to me by Qingming sister, right?"

  The two little birds looked at each other, had a "tweeting" discussion, jumped to a place three inches away from the palm of Kyushu, and then stopped again.

   "Kyushu, wait for them to relax, and think you are not in danger before they approach you." Qingming reminded.

   "Well, I know, thank Sister Qingming!"

  Kyushu waited patiently for a while, flattened the hand holding the small piece of youth group, "Come here, don’t be afraid, I won’t catch you!"

  One of the little birds jumped to Kyushu's hand and observed it for a while, before violently snatching the small piece of the youth group in Kyushu's hand and returning to his companion.

  Then the two little birds shared the green group in place, and expressed their gratitude to Kyushu with two "tweeting", and then they flew far.

  Three gods at four o'clock accompanied Kyushu for a walk on the street. There were no clouds in the sky, and the sky was very sunny. There are not many people coming and going, and I want to come to prepare for the Qingming Festival that comes the next day.

  Unknowingly, the day has passed, and the night falls, the vernal equinox will say goodbye to Kyushu, Hanshi and Qingming, and return to the four o'clock days, while Kyushu will continue to stay in China Shenzhou with the two gods of Hanshi and Qingming.

  As the street lights on the street light up, the neon lights of many shops also light up, and the streets that were not too crowded are also full of car lights.

  For a time, the sound of horns, conversations, and shouts were intertwined, and the bustling night in the city was lit up.

  Some people like noisy nights, and naturally others like peaceful nights.

  No, I like quiet cold food and Qingming, so I brought Kyushu to the remote countryside. Most people in the country have long been connected to electricity, that is, some old houses still use kerosene lamps.

  In the countryside tonight, there are no lights in the past. Although you can still hear the lively conversations at home, no one lights up the lights.

   "Sister Qingming, why don't these people turn on the lights? There are obviously people at home..." Kyushu was a little confused.

"Today is the Cold Food Festival. There is a custom not to light up the lights in China China!" Qingming explained, "Nowadays, the city of China China is developing rapidly, and people have a lot of things to be busy every day. Therefore, the people who care about this custom have become more and more busy. There are fewer!"

   Kyushu nodded, "Although it is forgivable, but... won't these cultural customs slowly disappear?"

   The two immortals sighed, this is not what they can control.

  　Knowledge link: [related knowledge mentioned in this chapter (including some extensions)]

  　　 cold food time

  　　①One or two days before Ching Ming Festival, usually the day before. The 2021 Cold Food Festival will be April 3, 2021.

  　　 Ching Ming time

  　　②The first solar term in the Qingming solar term is the vernal equinox solar term, and the latter solar term is the Guyu solar term

  　　 cold food customs

  　　①Cold food without moving the stove.

  　　②No fire, no lights.

  　　 (According to legend, it was to commemorate Jie Zitui, and it was the ancient people’s wish for Qingming and clean government. In the Tang Dynasty, the Cold Food Festival and the Qingming Festival were combined together)

  　　 Youth League Related

  　　① Qingtuan is a special food for the Qingming Festival. It is made of glutinous rice flour and wormwood juice and wrapped with red bean paste, lotus paste and other fillings. (Mugwort is a very good Chinese medicinal material. The whole herb can be used as medicine. There is a saying that "the family has three years of wormwood, and there is no need to prescribe a prescription for the herbalist.")

  　　[Part of the information comes from the Internet, and is made by self-integration and interpretation]

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