Daddy's home is called Donggou
That one was to participate in and mountain horseback sword flies organizations, self-torture activities, climbed them all go down hill along the path when led a small team to lead the charge on these two guys suddenly stopped, and loosely followed behind a few Meimei saw they squat on the roadside, watching with interest what is in view, gesturing hands than designated, and his face shining with excitement light. Has been to pull in the back have told several people up, they are still watching. The few of us can not help but surrounded Qucourenao, wanted to see what is fun in the end confused Dongdong so enthusiastic that they approached a'll see that it is pig.
I also stared at the pig looked for a while, but can not see that pigs and normal pigs What's the difference and made a deep wonder child and asked: Is not pig? So what's worth it Xiqiao the ah? Would not be uncommon origin cloning pigs, right? ! Next to the A Xue say: They have not seen from small to large pigs, and of course they feel so special! This way, I came to understand it, ha ha, the original they are only eating pork, pig run never seen! This is a bunch of people apart from me and Exue, we are all grown up in the moisture of the city of Beijing, one by one the net in vain the net Jiaojiao Nennen typical Beijinger's temperament; several second half of the seventies child health, and if Our home has no relatives in rural areas, Zhu A sheep, ah it's also probably only seen the TV! They are only seen on TV where pigs, and I have only seen on TV, like penguins in Antarctica to see in-kind novelty inevitably excited! After all, a group of playful spirit of the older children ah.
At that time, I thought, someday want to write about his father's hometown, a village called Donggou, where I consume at least a small to large numerous winter and summer vacations, still some seven eight cousin, cousin of the relatives living there. In that village a big bubble, I, of course, pigs rare to see people who look so special. Let alone seen a pig run, or even kill a pig pig pig pigs pigs under Zaier sick, how could I have not seen enough of the呀.
Donggou is an early seventies a population of about 300 small villages. My grandfather used to be where the village chief, said was a refined kind of learned and respected man, but I have never seen him, because I have not yet born when he was in the early sixties the famous "difficult period of three years," Poverty and ill health due to leave the dead. Grandfather and grandmother both were in their teens come from the Korean peninsula had not yet defined as a Chinese territory west of Duman River, and grandfather in 1908, my grandmother was around in 1920. Later they married and other places to settle Donggou After Japan, Russia and the rule of the puppet Manchukuo and other historical and political changes in China's Jilin Province has become a new territory where the majority of residents in accordance with the Voluntary Principles as Chinese nationals, has become China The Korean people, minorities still retain the Korean nationality.
Grandparents has three men and two women, the fourth of his father, is the youngest son. Although a small village Donggou that, when the Korean War, went so far out of more than 30 martyrs, and almost every household has a son were killed, and some people on the front lines or even more than the son of one of the few survivors. When the Korean War, the Chinese People's Volunteers among the Korean people have about 10000 people, most of them had died. My uncle would sacrifice in the Korean War, but not based on the identity of volunteers, but on the identity of the Korean People's Army.
I have intention of commenting history and politics, but never curse one's own selfish greed and animal, and wantonly wage war, manufacturing, human tragedy of the cruel hypocrisy of dirty politicians and government. Ancient and modern history, how many innocent lives just to the expansion of individual rulers, became the human ambition and acquisitiveness of the game in the innocent people kill each other? "Zuiwo battlefield Jun Mo laugh, the ancient expedition a few people back." Do not tell me what to say patriotism is not patriotism it, except for a few Gaoguanhoulu of people with the war has added to his life outside the ring, who still remember those who have been active as a weapon or just part of the weapons have been Most of flesh buried alive under the middle of the officers and men? Wars, those who survived after the rest of your life, few have been properly placed? Particularly those disabled! The families of those who have lost parents and children who were there have to interfere before? !
Uncle in the Donggou grew up to a 16-year-old working in Heilongjiang was arrested and forcibly recruited soldiers, sent to the front en route to risk their lives to escape narrow escape on foot back to the Donggou. After Japan's surrender, 17-year-old uncle was admitted to the University of the Northeast People's military and political, to the identity of the second phase students graduated. Jilin branch at the time the second phase of about 300 students in the vast majority of Koreans, more than half of them after graduation by the Government's invitation to Kim Il Sung of North Korea. The uncle is a way to go North Korea, in 1947 and entered North Korea Sinuiju University of officers after graduation, worked for a certain artillery units. In 1950, the 22-year-old great uncle is the rank of Captain, in command of an artillery unit into the Korean War broke out one month after the battle lost communication with the family until the end of the war Otonobu dark and quiet without. Grandfather, great uncle before his death asking about the whereabouts of unsuccessful; grandfather after the death of his father to continue to hard to find, and finally in 1975, received a letter directing uncle identified as a Memorial.
In addition to uncle, grandfather, an other people's lives are also more or less been subjected to the effects of war. 2 uncle also Donggou grow up, after graduating from college in Heilongjiang Mishan a munitions factory work; Zhenbao Island before and after the battle, Arsenal moved to within Liaoning Province, Lingyuan County, two from an uncle to settle in Liaoning. Father college, 226 military hospital into the rear of the battle Zhenbao Island hospital, his father answered the party's call for the sick and wounded unpaid blood donation, a time when three years of difficult times, because of blood after suffering from tuberculosis, severe malnutrition and nearly closed the school on the . Ranking the greatest big aunt was a victim of Japanese aggression army, as from primary school to accept the colonial education speaks fluent Japanese, the Japanese colonialists vicious spiteful still fresh in my memory.
Donggou whole village are the Koreans, many families of the life experience is quite identical with his grandfather at home. Perhaps it is because experienced the hardships of war, that the village folk customs was very simple, rural life in the seventies rather hard for the impression that there was filled with well-being of peacetime atmosphere, the villagers get along with each other harmony, and no storms of the Cultural Revolution penetrate into that corner. As early as his father's brothers and sisters have left the place, also with his father and our grandmother to live with relatives there, I was a kid is actually his father's cousins, who has been traveling with his father's brothers as brothers. Our children certainly do not know the meaning of the proximity of blood, anyway go there and they are very good for us, also happy to play every year, year after year to eat while rare in rice.
Remember that we most often go to the lobby uncle home. Although the lobby uncle is our uncle in the family hierarchy, age is the equivalent of our grandfather's generation, for our grandchildren, like grandfather, "every other generation pro"-like love for me. Uncle house is a typical thatched roof made of white plaster on the Korean-style farmhouse, there are always 32 under the eaves swallow nest base, because it is often the mouth Yanchao children Xiao Duzi half a large gourd-like, I was a kid and think that swallow is that a small nest for the channel and then drill into the roof, occupy a huge space for the entire triangular roof. There are several under the eaves door, direct access to the rooms, but also replace the windows with both light and functional, unlike the Han people's houses and housing estates to the corridor between the similarities. The winter time, always hung on both sides of the door 12 meters compiled string of children grew up in the dry red peppers, dried corn stick, dry large garlic, dried hard regardless of what a bird, it is hard regardless of bird special for those of us who came to visit relatives children remaining.
By Donggou, an entire winter can eat rice. At that time town Qionga, rice is based on per person per month Erjin supply, there are elderly and families with babies a little more, ordinary people have no place to have money to buy more rice, not to mention no money. Well probably, or vegetables like cabbage, radishes and potatoes town youngest samples, but occasionally you can eat mountain rabbit, roasted sparrows what Hunxing, you can always eat their own hair, bean sprout, there are still daily snacks - fried soybeans, Or popcorn. But even without those tricks, just to not eat coarse grains of white rice mixed already very happy so that we feel has boundless.
New Year's time, if at Donggou, of course, eat better. Tend to kill the pig, a son, including all neighbors, have ate many days the United States and the United States to broth. The Donggou, someone's killing pigs will not light their own homes to eat, and always want to send some to the front yard, backyard, people around the neighborhood to share, send the number of course he goes on weekdays friendship, but also have to have a further 34 kilograms, But of course, scale, and the feel of cutting together a pot with the neighbor children carrying his Jiu Ji sent, while stocks come back that he could end that children under the pot of meat given to the other families together. End use of pig's intestines to kill pig intestinal irrigation system for rice to clean pig intestines, in the pig's blood inside and on the glutinous rice, accompanied by pulling spices like Artemisia in gel pig intestines, then gut white line is missing you, steamed Cut a small section of the short children children, dipped in garlic sauce. This is a Korean rice bowel called the flavor of food, because Han people to eat enema, intestinal irrigation inside the pig's blood was all, known as blood sausage, I've eaten very fishy not used to feel there is no from the snack to large bowel delicious rice.
New Year's time, or every happy event his sixtieth Shou Qing, homemade tofu is also a rare delicacy. At that time it seems everyone has a rural disc. Own the whole process of making tofu, I watched many times Donggou, so that now I am very familiar with the process to do tofu. Sometimes, adults make tofu, I would insist on request next to the help, can do nothing more than children with the spoon to scoop soaked soybeans Tim drain hole millstone, the millstone turn a circle on each plus a spoonful of children soybeans. Grinding beans, etc. Well, it will Xianzhu on a pot of soybean milk, a son of people get each of us to drink a bowl add the sugar savory thick sweet soy milk, it is absolutely pure and simple foods .
The happiest in the Donggou than to catch up with someone's wedding or have a birthday in. At that time relatives will be done, the impression that every year people seem to have a similar ceremony. Wedding or banquet prepared Shou is a very complex process that requires a lot of relatives get together busy as one-two months. Weddings and Yoshihisa are in accordance with Korean customs and traditions held, from the ceremony, date, clothing, bride price to eat with, and everything is also indispensable to carefully planning for this. Until now, rural areas still follow the traditional wedding customs, the city has gradually gone satisfactory end, turned into North Korea, the Han, a hodgepodge of combining Western children. Those of us kids, we were not so much paying attention only to the eyes staring at delicious becomes.
Korean people's wedding, the groom and the bride is to separately enjoy a dinner table. The groom's table delicacies Prepare all the necessary up to the bride's family, the bride groom's family will have to the table prepared. Forget one's ancestors to the rules I can not remember Name Xie customs red tape, and my own wedding is because I married a Han Chinese instead, as a mother-father at the mercy of these were, so now the wedding of their own ethnic traditions into a completely no knowledge of decency. The only thing I remember now and throughout the world who like the taste of food is not just a grand ceremony to be eating dinner when the characteristics of food. Impression that I am the aunt who Donggou Aunt Sister who are hardworking and virtuous again everyone in the traditional cuisine can be good at making home players.
Playing cakes, moon cakes, trifle and Fagao is a Korean traditional wedding birthday indispensable to staple on the four samples. Are selling now is filled with rice cake or rolling out of the machine, the taste and Flexibility is far less than a good hand to break out. Hand-made rice cake is steamed glutinous rice we first refined into a non-rough texture is not a moderate meal, then placed in a huge timber of rice to those made of both sides of the opening of the slot, then let's use the wood made into a great circle of hammering. A man with a hammer Da Fan, a woman sitting on edge groove turning, such as noodle-like, so that rice out from the slot openings of the two overflow. Man's wooden hammer lifted the moment, a woman's hand on the slot brief look at the fall; man's wooden hammer falling moment, a woman's hand has already retracted to a place in the side of the basin, dip your hands in the basin in the in order to avoid too sticky rice cake turned when the handle stick; such a man's wooden hammer to leave the tank, a woman's hand stretching from tanks in a timely manner. Hammer starting hands down, hammer down hand-out, very understanding, harmony and rhythm. Tend to do a lot of time playing cakes, there will be two men at the same time standing Mucao the two, with two wooden hammer you what I look to playing the cake, a woman's hand should grasp the two hammers are lifted gap, took the opportunity to churn it into a rice cake or rice during the mission, the three men into the water from the co-ordination has never given any room for error. I was a kid wait senselessly on the side to see adults making rice cake, inside the heart from the initial scary to worry about the total woman's hand would have been wooden hammer Zazhuo case, to the last child who has always wondered why a woman's hand so clever wit, uphold the end, I secretly wonder some.
Jiang made a dozen rice cakes, you can not be bad days at room temperature. If the cold weather, you can freeze up and keep an entire winter. Rice cake should be dipped in thin dry red bean soup to eat, and that red bean paste and the Han people to do Dousha Bao's red bean paste is not exactly the same, the main difference between the amount of the water and sugar. Dousha Bao's red bean paste is a delicate and moisten, there are a lot of sugar; dip of red bean rice cake can not put too much water and sugar, bean paste condensate yelling children is not as easy to attach to playing on the cake; if put too much water small, red bean paste into the loose sand-like and easy to dry, so that's a lot of water and sugar should be limited just right, and one of the reasons people want to come and Han cooking stress the furnace is the same.
Moon cake is put on the river against the amount of water rice steamed into a sticky rice cake-like, then roll it like a sticky rice cake noodle skin into a big twist, like thin-skinned, and then cut into a circular glass mouth a round pudding skin, finally wrapped with good Dousha Xian children, gently together becomes a rounded half-moon, it must not like sticky rice cake dumplings leather-like energetically kneading. Moon cakes made of sugar and water Dousha Xian where children play than the dip of the red bean cake should be more, and the stuffing is very close to Dousha Bao, texture is also basically the same.
Trifle is rice Fenzheng out, is red bean paste and rice flour-and-white three-tiered, the top is sprinkled with a layer of red bean paste, steamed out and the pot is the same as the size of a block, with a knife cut into a vertical square pieces, and then Sheng come out. Trifle made of red bean paste too little sugar and water are particularly scarce. Trifle to do is to first get rice flour evenly spread out in the hood on the cord, about two centimeters thick, and then put a hold of beans Shasa are about a centimeter thick layer; then further capped with a layer of rice powder, and then is a layer of red bean paste, so that a total of three-tier, cutting out loose cake is 78 cm high red and white three-piece box. The process of steaming water vapor at the Tang, the bean paste and rice flour glue together, eat together photogenic powder fluffy texture.
Fagao also used rice flour to do, its principles and methods of making bread is similar to a number of smaller heads than bread, ingredients are rice flour instead of wheat flour. Should first fermented rice flour, and then steamed into a glass the size of the circular mouth, the last to do a good job of snow-white crystal Fagao on 11 locations of 35 children colored sesame seeds, it seems exquisitely carved, and taste slightly sweet and slightly acidic. I was a child the happiest is wrapped around the grandmother or aunt nearby, watching them to the point on Fagao sesame seeds, sesame seeds good point Fagao neatly put the code into a huge basin, I picked it from the point of that sesame was The best looking, with Shouyi Zhi said, "to that," my grandmother, or aunt took me to show me of that one to eat, eat and then I would no longer pick that, it is so endlessly eat until my mother did not know Where came from the wrist I am interfering with adults work, and I very reluctantly left, the stomach is already holding up the round.
The production of all of these cakes I actually only saw one probably next to an adult, I really let my hands do, I can only run away in envy. Today Donggou's uncle aunt Aunt who almost have passed away, we are children of this generation are mostly people who go to the four parties to fend for themselves, and ways of life different from each generation, Donggou is getting a rare one go. Remember to eat from the relatives of those snow-white hand-made cakes pleasant, really long, long time before doing this.
Likes the bride and groom table In addition to these traditional cakes, but also missed a big cooked rooster, neck supports with chopsticks, head lifted high ground. There are a variety of fruits, dishes, to 56 category, put a long table full of put together a big long table, but also to dozens of centimeters up a base, the higher the better yards. Those foods are actually do something for show, the bride and groom are really enjoying the buried eggs of rice. One couple to be together to eat Nawan rice, the groom will have to be responsible with the fastest speed chopsticks and rice and buried the eggs to find out about the moral of the early Early Takako, or digging Choi Jin-Bao-like bar. Removed from the Xi to the food table is said to be contaminated with joyful blessing, and should be categorized into a variety of containers loaded, and then labeled for each sample point of numerous and small, sent to people attending a wedding away, similar to Han people sent to participate in warming party guests happy sweet hi tobacco wrapped in red envelopes. We are children of the most happy people are busy in large tables withdrawal hi, when around one side may discuss a number of fruit or biscuits, sugar, snacks and the like.
A birthday on the elderly should also enjoy similar to the tables of joy from the sons and daughters of the door worship; its size and color and wedding food likes and tables similar to the table of food is to be sent to the relatives and friends came to congratulate. The usual festive foods will not have stained all points while stocks last, more or less always has a surplus, those delicious will be kept in storage somewhere in between until long after the big people will be happy to when the reward to the kids out.
I remember one of the most proud of is that the debate on a neighbor's son will win the day my big cousin, a large offering of rewards do not remember who likes biscuits and glass table, wrap removed the sugar. Donggou are Koreans, Chinese would say very few, those of us living in urban child speaks fluent Mandarin, where the villagers find it very strange. Neighbor's son to work in the field, but also in the New Year to come Taketo stopping by children at home. One day they gathered in the lobby Bo neighborhood home when that son-in Chinese funny on me, specifically picking up some frightening or irritating words to provoke me, and then five or six, I bar, which he had anger and shock emergency, war of words with his debate Souchangguadu to find the words to refute a full choke choke him for half an hour, and finally a small Biede fair face flushed, tears in the eyes while playing several turn, Stiffness passed, that is not being intimidated! Finally adhere to actually go there told me he was joking with me. Listening to an uncle and neighbors, who also did not understand, I just feel funny, after reading a half-day lively, and finally reached boast, I admit defeat in school is strong against the enemy.
Donggou memories of just this kind of fragmented pieces. When not in school, to one will be able to stay a month or two; on the school, it almost is not a winter vacation is to go at least once a summer vacation, winter vacation to go much, because when you go to a busy summer, no one take care of me. Thinking about this, in the Donggou stayed for most of the time, which is made out of cow with the uncle, because the uncle was then the production team of cattle herdsman; or just looked at aunt boil hogwash pigs, the few times that followed when the vet to see him the second cousin to the pig an acupuncture treatment. Sometimes followed by a rare Lianjiao Erbo home with a small downtown to go ice-skating pry cousins, those cousins cousin who is also the smallest of the 67-year-old than I have suspected I was a little reluctant to take me to play. Occasionally sitting in the room to see the distant mountain on a rare passing vehicle, it turned out to think that car is a monster, afford a half-day trance. The details of these with different weekdays for me was once a happy enjoyment, so far are hard to forget.
Because they spent the day in the Donggou, although I grew up in town, but think of life in rural areas are familiar to the home. Pairs of pork, beef and chicken呀living habits, but also a 12 than enlightenment. Limited their own ethnic customs and traditional knowledge, especially those of traditional methods of food preparation knowledge, they are mostly from that stage of the monasteries. And now the children talk about these, they'll keep me as antiques.
Is true that in childhood, like me, right now, or kids in the big cities like Beijing and Shanghai have grown up in terms of young people is becoming increasingly familiar to. After all, those are things the last century. Because these Donggou memories, my life and thinking seemed to have doomed belonging to the last century. Because of these I Donggou origins, my people are destined either to live in where, or what people married men, are downright out bones from birth to death was a true "Gaolibangzai." Haha, I would be happy! I was mixed in a large Gaolibangzi Donggou!
February 2003 6-8 Day (lunar calendar the first month to the eighth day sixth days)
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Author: ykkshijiazhuang
