Stepping into the threshold of the Waxing Moon, it is not far from the New Year! There are many traditional customs in the WaxIng Moon, on the eighth day of the first lunar month, people should eat porridge, and on the twenty-third or twenty-fourth day of the Waxing Moon, people should sacrifice the King of the Stove and send the Stove God to heaven; when it comes to the twenty-fifth day of the Waxing Moon, many places will also sacrifice the Jade Emperor, especially on the last day of the Waxing Moon, that is, when the Chinese New Year's Eve, the happy atmosphere of the New Year has also reached its peak.
In the waxing moon, people will have a lot of exquisite and folk customs, and these exquisite and folk customs have only one purpose, that is, to resign the old and welcome the new, and it is expected that next year will be a year of wealth and health, and everything will go smoothly. It is precisely because of this that the old ancestors have the saying that "there are three elephants in the waxing moon, and if you are not rich, you will be prosperous".
So, what do the three elephants here refer to?
The first refers to the face of man.
Here is "elephant", not "phase", referring to a person's mental outlook. The waxing moon is the time to leave the old and welcome the new, but also the time when the years change. Therefore, everyone must have a new spiritual outlook, to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new, to welcome the new year. Even if there is something unsatisfactory this year, we must let it go and greet the new year with the fullest enthusiasm.
Folk have such a folk custom at the end of the waxing moon, especially on the day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, that is, on the day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, even after a small year, they do not say unlucky words and do not do unlucky things. The reason why the ancestors want to have such requirements for people is actually to let everyone have a new spiritual outlook, bid farewell to the past, and welcome the New Year!
The second refers to meteorology.
People often say "new year new weather", as the last stop of the new year, naturally there must be a new atmosphere.
No matter how unrefined and sloppy the outside of the home has been in the past year. However, when it comes to the Waxing Moon, be sure to clean up your home thoroughly. Ancestors usually clean up after a small year, but the pace of modern life is fast, and many people will not wait until the twenty-fourth day of the Waxing Moon to rest. So people will find time to clean up their homes.
The custom of the ancestors to clean up and sanitize in the waxing moon is to get rid of the filth and obscurity in the past year, and the whole family will be renewed, and lanterns and lanterns will be hung when the New Year is approaching. A new weather will be revealed in an instant!
Therefore, the new atmosphere in the waxing moon will also indicate the prosperity of the family!
The third is the image!
Every time the Spring Festival comes, people will wear new clothes and hats to welcome the new year. At the same time, the ancestors also have the custom of "having money and no money, shaving their heads for the New Year". The reason why there is such a delicacy is because the new year should be greeted with the latest image.
New clothes, new hats and new hairstyles indicate that they have a new beginning, and all the unhappiness, poverty and obscurity on the body in the past year will disappear with the arrival of the new year and with the change of their own concepts. Leave only a new self to welcome the blessings and fortunes of the new year.
Therefore, only with a new image, there will be a new wealth and blessing waiting for us in the coming year.
The old ancestor said that "there are three elephants in the waxing moon, and if you are not rich, you will be prosperous", which is actually the custom of the folk New Year festival. In recent years, people often say that the taste of the year is getting weaker and weaker, and in the final analysis, it is actually because of the richness of material life, resulting in the customs and habits created by the ancestors in the past based on the material scarcity living environment at that time, and are no longer inherited by people.
But as generations go on, traditional customs will continue, but new ones will emerge.