Say goodbye to the old and welcome the new year busy
The window sweeps the floor to clean the stove
Send the King of Stove to heaven
Many kind words greet auspiciousness
Xiaonian is a folk festival of the god Vesta, also known as the Xie Stove, the Festival of Sacrifice Stove.
In different places, the dates are different, the northerners mostly celebrate the small year on the twenty-third day of the Waxing Moon, while the southerners celebrate the twenty-fourth day of the Waxing Moon, we say that the Spring Festival is a traditional festival of the Chinese nation, but why is the small year as the threshold of the Spring Festival not the same day in the north and south?
The reason for the small annual difference between the South and the North by one day
Beginning from the Yongzheng Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty worshipped the gods in Kunning Palace on the 23rd of the 23rd lunar month every year, and in order to save money, they also worshipped the King of The Stove by the way. After that, the royal family and officials and eunuchs followed suit, and sacrificed on the twenty-third day of the waxing moon, and since then there has been a difference between the officials and the people who live small years on different days.
In Chinese folklore, there is a saying that "officials, three people, four boats, and five boats", that is to say, the small year of the official family is the twenty-third month of the WaxIng Moon, the people's family is the twenty-fourth month of the Waxing Moon, and the water people's home is the twenty-fifth of the Waxing Moon.
Before the Southern Song Dynasty, the north was a political center, and it was heavily influenced by officialdom, so the small year was the twenty-third day of the WaxIng Moon; on the contrary, the Southern Part was far from the political center, and the small year was the twenty-fourth of the Waxing Moon; and the residents along the lake and the sea retained the tradition of the boat family, and the small year was set at the twenty-fifth day of the Waxing Moon.
The Nanjing area is more special because after Zhu Di usurped the throne in the Ming Dynasty, he implemented tyranny. At that time, the people held a lantern festival on the fifteenth day of the first month of the first year of Yongle, and they all remembered the leniency of Zhu Yunjiao's era, and the scene was new year's eve. Therefore, in the Nanjing area, the Lantern Festival became a small year.
The Southwest Yunguichuan region and some northern Muslim areas regard the first day of the first lunar month as a big Chinese New Year's Eve, and Chinese New Year's Eve become a small Chinese New Year's Eve.
The small year between the north and the south is not only different in time
In fact, there are differences in customs
Let Xiaobian take you to understand the differences between the customs of the northern and southern small years
Different customs of the north and south for small years
Dumplings vs rice cakes
Dietary aspects
Most of the north eats dumplings, fire-roasted, sticky cakes, and stove sugar
Most people in the south will eat rice cakes, tangyuan, 24 dumplings, and New Year dumplings
Sugar melon vs sacrificial stove fruit
The northern New Year festival stove eats sugar melon
Attach a portrait of vesta
This is the most important event on this day of the New Year
In addition to offering sugar melons and pastries
I also want to change the picture of Vesta
The sacrificial stove fruit unique to the south
Different southern regions
There will be different forms of sacrificial stove fruit
Sesame foot bone sugar, inch golden candy, sweet potato chips, etc
Dust sweeping vs dust dusting
The north is cleaned up on this day of the little year
It's called "sweeping the house."
It is all for the removal of the old and the new, and the removal of the ominous
People in the north also go to barbershops
Practice the saying that "there is no money to shave your head for the New Year"
The "Dust dust" of the South
Every household "dusts" at dawn
Sweep the room to wipe the windows, wash the clothes, brush the pots and pans
And "dust" takes the harmonic sound of "Chen"
The meaning of obsolescence is swept away
There are also some special customs in the northern year
I don't know if the friends in the north have noticed
Window flowers
Little year on this day
Every house in the north will be on the window
Paste beautifully cut window flowers
On the one hand, it is a new year
Better and better vision
Red window flowers on the other hand
It also adds a lot of joy to the home
Although there is a difference in the time of the north and the south
But our expectations for the holidays are the same
Festivals carry people's good expectations for the future
And The traditional festivals of China
It also carries the traditional spirit of the Chinese nation
It is full of rich and thick cultural essence
Say goodbye to the old year, the new year is coming
Let's rejoice and reap the rewards
Welcome the Arrival of the New Year together!
All employees of Zeyu Group
I wish you all a happy new year
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