It is another year of spring to come, the waxing moon has passed the halfway point, the vigorous Spring Festival drama has also opened the curtain, "there is no money, go home for the New Year" is the slogan that everyone will never forget, home is the place that everyone will always look forward to, in the middle of the year, only by returning to the home that is looking forward to it, there is a feeling of the New Year, and only the atmosphere of family reunion, there is an atmosphere of resignation and new welcome, the customs of the New Year in various places are slightly different, and the small year will be different, but "sugar melon sticky" is a small new year traditional project that everyone will do.
The date difference for the "minor year"
On the day of the "Little Year", what are the differences between different places? As the saying goes, "officials, three people, four boats, five ships" seems to explain some problems, the waxing moon is the month of ancient sacrifices, and the "small year" is the beginning of the real preparation for the New Year in the waxing moon, but the ancient small year did not start with the unified waxing moon twenty-third, with slight differences.
The "Sacrifice Stove Poem" says that "the ancient legend of the twenty-fourth month of the Wax Moon, the Stove King wants to say things to the heavens", the Qing Jia Lu says that "the twenty-fourth night of the month of la is the twenty-fourth night, it is the night to send the stove", and so on, all of which show that at the beginning of the folk small year was the twenty-fourth day of the wax month, but in the Qing Dynasty, the emperor's sacrifice ceremony was on the twenty-third day of the wax month, and the royal family worshiped together on this day, and the people of the northern people also went up and down, slowly following the emperor, and also changed the day of the small year sacrifice to the twenty-third day of the wax month.
"Records of Customs and Soils" said that "the twenty-fourth night of the Waxing Moon, the stove, said that the stove god went to heaven the next day, white one year old, so the first day of worship", Wuzhong called the twenty-four nights, many places in the south still maintain the tradition of the twenty-fourth small year of the waxing moon, and many fishermen in the south live on boats, their small year is on the twenty-fifth day of the waxing moon, which shows the vastness of China's territory, the same is the small year, everyone's small customs are still different.
What does "Little Year" do
When I was young, everyone had several uniform things to do, one was to sacrifice the king of the stove, one was to clean the house, and the other was to clean themselves. Finish these before the New Year and greet the arrival of the new year with a new attitude.
"Interpretation" in the "interpretation" said "stove, make also, create food also", this stove king is the god who manages everyone's food, the ancients since the beginning of drilling wood for fire, will make cooked food on the day, the worship of fire will also begin, before the New Year will be sacrificed to the stove king. "The people take food as the sky", as the god who rules people's diet, everyone will definitely have different feelings for the god of Vesta.
In the "Baopuzi", it is said that "on the night of the obscure moon, the god vesta also went to heaven for the crime of the white man." The big one wins the discipline. Ji, three hundred days also. The smaller one counts. So on the day when the god of Vesta returned to heaven to report to the Jade Emperor, they would give the King of Vesta more good words, not to bring disaster to his family, and hoped that when his family came to the next year, he would be able to eat and drink without worry.
On this day of the New Year, everyone will also clean their own yard, wipe the glass, change the window paper, clean the curtains, and clean the cobwebs and dirt on the roof, so as to welcome the arrival of the New Year, many places also call the Small Year "Spring Day", sweep a house and welcome the future.
In addition to everyone's house, you also have to clean yourself, do a day's work, your body must be very dirty, wash yourself, wash away the dust, clean and sharp sacrifice to the king of the stove, so that he can go to heaven to say more good words, and bless his family with happy days in the coming year.
Although there are different small customs in different places, the worship of the god of the stove is what everyone will do, and it is the common wish of everyone to yearn for a better tomorrow, and it is also a beautiful day for everyone to look forward to the happiness of the family.
epilogue
When the new year is over, there are differences in the days in some areas of the north and the south, but there is no difference in mood, everyone's heart is yearning for a better tomorrow, yearning for the reunion of the new spring, yearning for a good day every year, for this annual Spring Festival, everyone gathers together in the south and the north of the sea, enjoy a rare happy time of the year, "little year" is a day full of everyone's happy smile,