The bells of the Spring Festival are about to ring!
Everyone will be very busy during the waxing moon, busy buying New Year goods, busy cleaning up the hygiene of the home, busy preparing for everything for the New Year! In the waxing moon, everyone will hear a waxing moon song, "Twenty-three, sugar melon sticky; twenty-four sweep the house; twenty-five grind tofu... Stay up for thirty nights, twist and turn at the beginning of the New Year. ”
So, why did the ancestors say "twenty-five, grind tofu"? The twenty-third and twenty-fourth of the waxing moon are actually related to the king of the stove, and the custom of eating sugar melon is the same. So, on the twenty-fifth day of the waxing moon, why grind tofu? What gods and immortals are the customs of this day associated with?
In fact, the twenty-fifth day of the waxing moon has a custom of grinding tofu, which is actually related to the Jade Emperor!
In our traditional culture, on the twenty-third day of the waxing moon or the twenty-fourth day of the waxing moon, after people have held the ritual of sacrificing the stove, the king of the stove will go to heaven to report to the Jade Emperor what he has seen and heard in the human world, and report the good and evil of the family to the Jade Emperor.
And the Jade Emperor, after listening to these reports, would personally investigate the good and evil of the people in the nether realm on the twenty-fifth day of the lunar month, and see if each family was really as played by the King of The Stove. Then, according to everyone's good and evil, the blessings and misfortunes of the coming year will be determined!
At this time, in order to welcome the Jade Emperor's nether inspection, people will sacrifice the Jade Emperor on the one hand, and on the other hand, they will eat tofu residue.
Why eat tofu residue?
In fact, the main reason is because everyone inevitably makes mistakes in a year. In order to avoid the punishment of the Jade Emperor, or to win the sympathy of the Jade Emperor, people expect the Jade Emperor to be able to send himself a good blessing and less misfortune in the coming year, so while sacrificing the Jade Emperor, he also has to eat tofu residue to show his hard life!
In ancient times, productivity was not abundant, and even if you eat tofu residue, you need to grind it at home. Tofu residue is leftover from making tofu, so every 25th day of the waxing moon, people will prepare some tofu for the New Year.
Preparing tofu on this day is also killing two birds with one stone! On the one hand, you can prepare tofu for the New Year, and on the other hand, you can also pray to the Jade Emperor for peace when greeting the Jade Emperor on this day!
Therefore, on the twenty-fifth day of the Waxing Moon, you must not forget to eat tofu residue!
In ancient times, the old ancestors would pay special attention to their words and deeds on the twenty-fifth day of the waxing moon!
The main reason for this is also related to the Jade Emperor's nether inspection. The old ancestor believed that when the Jade Emperor went to the nether realm and probed the good and evil behaviors of each family, in addition to eating tofu residue to show poverty, he also needed to pay special attention to his words and deeds, not to say some unlucky words, let alone do some bad things, and even not even the thought of moving bad eyes!
In this way of restraining his words and deeds, he came to win the favor of the Jade Emperor, hoping that when the Jade Emperor declined, he would give his family a little more blessings!
Therefore, on a day like the twenty-fifth day of the waxing moon, in addition to sacrificing the Jade Emperor, we should not forget to eat tofu residue to pray for blessings, as well as restrain our words and deeds, and try not to say unlucky words and do not do things that harm nature and reason!
On the twenty-fifth day of the lunar month, as long as we keep in mind "1 sacrifice, 1 eat, 2 do not do", the arrival of the Spring Festival in the Year of the Tiger will inevitably herald the arrival of our happy life!
Of course, these folk customs are exquisite, and they are only the lives of the ancestors and folks, even if they do not do so, the Year of the Tiger is bound to be a year of vitality and vitality!
On the twenty-fifth day of the lunar month, let's pick up the Jade Emperor together and welcome good luck!