small
year
On the twenty-third day of the lunar month, people in the north call this day a "small year". Every year at this time, every household begins to get busy, cleaning the house, preparing new year goods... The atmosphere of the New Year is also getting stronger and stronger.
Twenty-three, sugar melon sticky (sacrificial stove officer); twenty-four, sweep the house; twenty-five, grind tofu; twenty-six, to cut meat (stewed meat); twenty-seven, slaughter rooster (kill stove chicken); twenty-eight, put the noodles hair; twenty-nine, steamed steamed steamed buns; thirty nights to stay overnight, twist and turn at the beginning of the New Year!
The Small Year is the rehearsal of the Spring Festival, and it also carries the good wishes of the Chinese to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, and to welcome the blessings of the good fortune.
How much do you know about the little year? Let's take a look.
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What day is the Little Year?
In fact, there are different concepts and dates everywhere. In the northern part of the mainland, the small year is the twenty-third day of the Waxing Moon, and in some southern regions, the small year is the twenty-fourth year of the Waxing Moon, and the Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Shanghai regions refer to the twenty-fourth and Chinese New Year's Eve night before the waxing moon as the small year.
What are the customs of the New Year?
Sacrifice to the King of Stoves
"On the twenty-third day, when the family is dedicated, the poles in the courtyard are erected, and the lanterns are hanging." This is the record of the "Jisheng in the Age of The Emperor". King Stove has been staying at home since the Chinese New Year's Eve of the previous year to protect and supervise this family; on the twenty-third day of the month of La, King Stove will ascend to heaven to report the good deeds or evil deeds of the family to the Jade Emperor in heaven, and the Jade Emperor will, according to the report of King Stove, and then hand over the fate of the family's auspicious misfortunes and blessings in the new year to the hands of King Stove.
The rituals are mostly performed at night. During the offering of the stove, the sacrificial stove person kneels in front of the statue of the king of the stove, burns the incense table, and prostrates the wine. After the ceremony, people began to eat stove foods such as stove sugar and fire, and in some places, they also ate sugar cakes, oil cakes, and tofu soup.
Cut the window flowers
Window cutting and window flowers are also popular folk activities in small years. The content includes a variety of animals and plants, such as magpie Dengmei, lion rolling hydrangea ball, three sheep (yang) Kaitai, two dragon play beads, lotus (lian) year fish (yu), Mandarin duck play water and heer immortals and so on.
Paste Spring League
In many places, the Spring Festival Began to be pasted in a small year, and some people used to invite people with calligraphy to write the Spring League, even the most common red paper and black ink, it was also full of flavor.
Sweep the dust
"Twenty-three, sugar melon sticky; twenty-four, sweeping the house." After twenty-three, there are only six or seven days left before the Spring Festival. Folk usually set the 24th day of the waxing moon as the "day of sweeping the house", and every household must thoroughly clean the room, commonly known as sweeping dust.
According to folklore experts, the north is called "sweeping dust" and the south is called "dust dust", which is intended to remove all dirt, clean up the unhappiness and unhappiness, sweep the floor out, and greet the arrival of the new year with a new atmosphere.
What to eat in the New Year?
1
Eat hemp sugar
Sugar melon, caramel, hemp candy and other foods were originally for the stove king, and later gradually evolved into a snack that children must eat in their young age. Sugar melon is very sticky, and the long strip sugar stick is called "Kanto sugar", and the flat round type is called "sugar melon". In the winter, the weather is harsh, the sugar melon will solidify more firmly, and there are some tiny bubbles inside, which are crispy and sweet and crispy to eat, and have a unique flavor.
2
dumplings
The northern Xiaonian used to eat dumplings at night, which means to send off the king of the stove, and takes the meaning of "sending off the dumplings to the wind". The family sat together, eating hot dumplings, happy and harmonious, very old-fashioned.
3
rice cake
Rice cake, also known as "rice cake", is in harmony with "annual high", which means that people's life and work are getting higher and higher year by year.
4
Sauté corn
In the southeast region, there is a custom of eating fried corn, and the folk proverb has the saying of "twenty-three, do not eat fried, and pour one pot on the first day of the New Year". People like to glue the sautéed corn with maltose, freeze it into large pieces, and eat crisp and sweet.
5
Dumplings
Guangxi people have the custom of eating "Nian Zong" in the Small Year, and the Nian Zong is a symbol of the auspiciousness of the New Year, as the saying goes: "Nian Zong Nian Zong, Nian Nian Gao (粽)". The New Year Dumpling is different from the Zongzi of the Dragon Boat Festival, it has filling, there are large and small, there are long and short, there are round and flat. After peeling off the leaves, the skin is glutinous rice, the filling is mung beans and pork, and some people put their favorite food as filling.
In fact, the folk small time and the law are very different, and the above are only relatively common examples. Although there are some differences in time in different regions, as soon as the New Year arrives, the Spring Festival will enter the countdown, and after this day, people will officially open the "New Year mode".