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The north wind blows, Lin Tao growls and enough paper vibrates. With the stride of winter, the cold wind suddenly struck, and the fallen leaves outside the landing window danced a magnificent seasonal lyric poem between heaven and earth. I closed the glass window and stared at the scenery in the north outside the window. I couldn't help thinking of the cat winter when I was a child.

In my hometown Shajiatuo, Changli County, Hebei Province, my grandmother and I live in a dilapidated adobe west wing. Winter comes uninvited, the biting cold wind is everywhere, the hole with a big needle nose fights with strong wind, and the only warmth in the house is also held hostage by the cold wind. In order to save the heat in the room, we had to block the window with thick plastic sheets, and the room was suddenly dark. In winter, the days are short and the windows are darker. Fortunately, in exchange for the warmth in the room.

As the agricultural proverb goes: Look at willows along the river in May 1969, and hit six or nine heads in spring. This is different from what westerners think: "If winter comes, can spring be far behind?" Exactly the same. In northern China, it is wishful thinking to "look at willows along the river". The residual snow on Yangjiang melted and the trickle gurgled, so there was "watching the flow along the river".

Before and after beginning of spring, nature was in a turbulent period, and it was also a period of excitement, friendship and excitement. This is because the Spring Festival is coming. The Spring Festival is the first day of the New Year. The festival accompanying the Spring Festival is the beginning of spring. The Spring Festival is sometimes before beginning of spring, sometimes after beginning of spring, and sometimes on the same day as beginning of spring.

According to folk custom, the 24th day of the lunar calendar is house sweeping day; Twenty-five, "paste the window." At that time, for ordinary families, both urban and rural areas cooked and warmed indoors, and it was no exception. After a year, the roof shed was smoked black and dusty everywhere. Therefore, cleaning the house is an "internal strength", and the spider webs on the ceiling, the dust on the wall and the accumulated sundries are swept away. What was swept away was last year's disappointment. This kind of window sticking is a kind of "face-to-face" work, which shows the "fluency" of life. In modern words, it is called window project.

At that time, the house didn't have as bright glass doors and windows as we do now, and it was dusty and graffiti by naughty children. When you rub an old newspaper, you will see the light inside and outside after three or two times. At that time, every family was a lattice window, which was divided into small lattices. Just like a song sung by the northeast people: the moon is bright and calm, and the leaves cover the window lattice. Looking out of the window through the lattice paper, the scenery of trees swaying in the silver moonlight is really beautiful. However, a year later, no matter how good the quality of enough paper is, it can't stand the wind, rain, sun and rain. Paste the window, refers to buy some old enough paper before the Spring Festival, paste the lattice window lattice into a new one, and it looks white and clean inside and outside, so as to cope with and block the invasion of dust in the years.

Enough paper is actually a tough transparent paper between white newspaper and rice paper. This kind of enough paper is usually oily. Not only can it be waterproof, but its smooth surface can prevent dust from hanging, and it can also increase the transparency of windows to a certain extent, making the house brighter and visually look like modern ground glass. However, no matter how tough it is, its basic form has not changed, and paper is paper after all. If you encounter various extreme weather such as gale, rainstorm and blizzard, enough paper will still be damaged to some extent. In order to slow down the damage of paper and prolong its service life, in the era without glass, clever ancients invented window lattice. The large and small borders that make up the window are the window lattice. These square and diamond squares divide the window paper into square and diamond blocks with different sizes, which will make the window paper more evenly stressed and enhance the durability of the paper to some extent.

In the early morning of the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth lunar month, grandma used a small iron pot sitting on the ground stove to make up the broken ceiling paper with old newspapers. Tear off all the original enough paper, replace it with new white and flexible paper, and then paste auspicious patterns such as Fu Zi and window grilles cut out with red paper; I'm not idle either. I posted an old pictorial of my parents' home in the city on the dark wall. The west wing where my grandmother and I live is not only magnificent, but also very glamorous and warm. This kind of decoration, the festive atmosphere of the New Year, immediately set off.

After the 25 th day of the twelfth lunar month, look at the house and the windows, all of which are newly posted; Newly installed ceiling; All kinds of window grilles, newly pasted. This innovation indicates the good hope, good time and new atmosphere in the coming year! This is the spirit of Chinese New Year for our common people. Between sweeping, pasting, pasting and pasting, the "annual flavor" of the New Year is full. In these 365 days, the guidance of adults, the hope of children, the fragrance in the wind and the honey in the snow, the sweetest and most beautiful New Year's Eve is just around the corner.