Rebirth in the 50s: The Couple with the Hidden Space novel Chapter 395

Chapter 395: Chapter 302: New Year’s Eve Dinner

New Year’s Eve, the last day of the lunar year, is the most important traditional festival for the Chinese people. On this day, not only does everything inside and outside the house have to be cleaned thoroughly, but spring couplets, New Year paintings, and lanterns must also be hung. Each household prepares a feast, and the whole family gathers to stay up all night. Particularly, it wouldn’t be complete without making dumplings at midnight.

After seeing off Aunt Chen, who was going home for the New Year, Zhou Xiaozheng and Lin Lishan from the Zhou Family spent the whole day at the military unit, getting busier. Considering that their family couldn’t stay up and make dumplings together that night, Zhou Jiao could only get the family together for dumplings at breakfast on New Year’s Eve for a reunion.

For this meal, Zhou Jiao prepared at least five kinds of dumplings: pork with pickled cabbage, pork with shiitake mushrooms and cabbage, shrimp and pork, leek and egg, and beef. Each type of dumpling was filled generously with coins and red dates for good luck.

From early morning, the sound of firecrackers began, and military families from all over the country inside the Big Courtyard observed their customs, but all stuck with pasting spring couplets, New Year paintings, and hanging lanterns. Each household diligently prepared a reunion dinner full of auspicious meanings.

The Zhou Family got up early, pasted on the spring couplets and New Year paintings, hung up the red lanterns, and after setting off firecrackers, the whole family gathered to eat dumplings ahead of time.

Zhou Xiaozheng went to the military unit to arrange duty personnel, while Lin Lishan hurried to the Art Troupe to plan the performance, leaving Zhang Guoqing and Zhou Jiao at home to take care of the children.

During the day, Old Mrs. Cheng secretly took Zhou Jiao to a room to prepare offerings for ancestral worship, then took her to the nearby large canteen to make dumplings with other military families. Barely an hour into dumpling making, the old lady took the opportunity to send her home to take care of the children.

Out of the canteen, there were children everywhere lighting small firecrackers and mischievously throwing them near passing women. With a "bang," the startled girls would scream, causing the playful children to laugh heartily. On this day, no one would harshly scold such pranks, and the women being teased, whether they knew the kids or not, would smile brightly.

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