What is the New Year in Suzhou?
When I was a child, New Year was the expectation of wearing new clothes, setting off firecrackers with my ears covered, the handwritten Spring Festival couplets pasted by my grandfather, the big white steamed bread steamed on my grandmother’s stove, the festive new year goods in the streets, and the new year’s greetings and red envelopes
After growing up, I don’t know when “no new year flavor” has become the label of the Spring Festival. For young people, the Spring Festival is just a long holiday, especially after the epidemic, all parts of the country are advocating to stay for the new year this year.
Suzhou is no exception. Therefore, Suzhou in 2021 will have a strong annual flavor in the streets and alleys. Let’s have a look——
Keep the smoke and fire in the vegetable market
The vegetable market is the most smoky place in the city. It has the mystery of the four seasons of daily necessities, rice, oil and salt, and the flavor of the new year of Suzhou people. In the noise of bargaining, the new year began.
The careful selection of Grandpa and grandma brings a happy celebration.
Big bags and small bags can be seen everywhere in the 640 meter long cross street. At a glance, it is clear that the family’s new year plan is like this.
“Mom, I want to eat your spring rolls.”. Spring rolls greet spring, meaning beauty. Celery, carrots, leeks… One skin can cover all things. Every chef has his own secret recipe.
In the old street vegetable market in the cold winter, the warm memories of food and the new year are awakened instantly, and you can feel the strong new year flavor across the screen.
Suzhou people’s new year’s hot sugar rice cakes are indispensable. After one bite, the world of dopamine came.
Shouting, Hawking, bargaining and dropping are accompanied by the most real fireworks in the world. The philosophy of life begins here.
Grandma’s smile is sweet and warm, which makes people miss therir own grandparents at home.
A peddler who goes home after selling out is a person who loves life.
The most visually striking scene of the vegetable market is that in my memory, my mother always laughs and scolds, “don’t touch, don’t make trouble”.
For the traditional Suzhou people, the procurement work years ago has long been able to make a long list: what the son likes to eat, what the daughter-in-law likes to eat, and what the little grandson likes to eat.
The vegetable market that could have been visited in more than ten minutes is like a lengthening winter night in the northern hemisphere under the call of all kinds of vegetables and fruits.
Food color is also. Every vegetable and fruit are like the necessary booty for the countdown of reunion. It implies in the corner that when the new year’s goods are ready, the children will be home.
In addition to the food market, the streets and alleys of Suzhou are also full of a prosperous New Year’s flavor
Dry, hard and salty goods are the “taste of life” of the older generation of Suzhou people.
The fire in the earth stove carries the childhood memory of the post-60s, 70s and 80s.
The blessing is here, the home is here.
The red of the alley is a small reunion in Jiangnan.
Immediately, the flowers crackled all over the sky on New Year’s Eve.
