家乡苏州的冬日大约开始于冬至前后,那时会有冬酿酒上市,那是一种淡而白的米酒,甜甜的有些像酒酿里的汤汁,一般就着长生果斟酌。这种冬酿酒也会让我们小孩子喝一些,因而印象很深。喝过冬酿酒,天气更冷了,大人们也渐渐忙碌起来,要为过年做准备了。有一年我的母亲与邻居谢家合养了一头猪,谢家就在我家斜对门,那里原是一座庙,解放后里面住进了好几户 Winter in Suzhou, hometown, begins around the winter solstice, when winter wine comes on the market. It is a pale white rice wine, somewhat sweet, like the soup in a jerky, usually weighted with long fruit. This winter wine will make us drink a little children, so impressed. Drinking winter wine, the weather is colder, adults are gradually busy, to prepare for the Chinese New Year. One year my mother and her neighbors Xie family raised a pig, Xie family is in my house diagonally opposite the door, where was originally a temple, after liberation, which lived in several households