When the customs are passed down for a long time, the festival stove sweeps the dust to welcome the little year.
Since the beginning of the year, the footsteps of the New Year are really approaching, and every household must prepare for the New Year!
From the beginning of the small year to the fifteenth day of the first month, every day has customs, and when I see these, I feel that the taste of the new year is getting stronger and stronger!
Waxing Moon Twenty-Three
The twenty-third day of the Waxing Moon, also known as the "Little Year", is the day of the Han folk sacrifice stove.
This day is also a very important festival of fire for the Mongolian people, who regard fire as a symbol of sacredness, life, strength and prosperity, and fire is the protector of life, family and nation.
Therefore, the fire sacrifice has a very high status in the Mongolian spirit and traditional culture, and the masses pray for smooth wind and rain, national peace and prosperity, and good fortune through holding fire sacrifice activities, and wish for a happy life, happiness and health.
Waxing Moon 24
The custom of "sweeping the house with dust on the twenty-fourth day of the waxing moon" is a traditional habit known to the people of the mainland. On this day, every household should be cleaned up and the daily washing and brushing should be started.
Waxing Moon 25
The harmonic sound of tofu is "all rich", which means that there is surplus in the coming year, so tofu is an essential food for the New Year.
On the twenty-fifth day of the lunar month, people grind the soaked soybeans with stone.
"Knead the foam to remove the residue, boil the pulp into pieces", after the tofu is made, cut into small pieces and put into salted water for preservation, for consumption during the Spring Festival.
Waxing Moon 26
In the past, people's lives were hard, and they often could only eat meat during the New Year's Festival, so meat was called "New Year meat".
As the saying goes, "The twenty-sixth day of the waxing moon, kill the pig and cut the meat of the year". That is to say, on this day, every household will kill pigs and cut meat.
Pig killing refers to killing their own pigs, and cutting meat refers to the family of a person who does not have a pig going to the market to buy meat for the New Year.
Waxing Moon Twenty-Seventh
The twenty-seventh day of the lunar month, as the saying goes, "on the twenty-seventh day of the waxing moon, slaughter the chickens to catch the big market".
On this day, in addition to slaughtering their own poultry, people also go to the street to catch up with the market and collect and buy New Year's goods.
Waxing Moon Twenty-Eight
Steamed steamed steamed bun decals. The ancients used peach wood as a wood to ward off evil spirits, and it was later replaced by red paper. On this day, the couplet is posted.
Steamed steamed buns are also made to prepare staple foods from the first to fifteenth day of the first lunar month. Families have to make Noodles for the New Year on this day.
Chinese New Year's Eve
Chinese New Year's Eve is a time of alternating between old and new, and all walks of life stop trading. Everyone hopes to have better luck in the new year.
The sound of firecrackers on this night was incessant. Chinese New Year's Eve'er's activities are also diverse - pasting the Spring Festival, setting up heaven and earth to offer tables, resigning, keeping the year, greeting the year, etc., this kind of celebration activity is one after another.
As soon as midnight arrives, the waxing moon ends and the new year begins.
The first day of the first lunar month
The first day of the first lunar month is called the first day.
The Golden Rooster announces that it is the first of the new year and begins in the spring. On this day, people get up in the early morning to worship ancestors, worship gods, burn incense, and set off cannon battles, which means "rushing spring". Worship the gods of heaven and earth and pray for the blessings of the new year.
People began to visit the door with gifts, called "He New Year", and the younger generations paid homage to the elders to suppress the evil worship.
Moreover, there is a traditional belief in the first day of the first year of the family to eat vegetarian, the so-called "new year's day to eat fast, better than eat a year of fasting."
New Year's First Two
The second day of the first lunar month is also a New Year's greeting, but on this day, the daughter who marries out of the house is going to take her son-in-law with her mother-in-law. Among them, there are many rules for newlyweds to go to their mother's house.
For example, the gifts brought must be in pairs. The mother's family can't accept it all, and when she returns to her husband's house, she will have to take back some of it.
New Year's Day First 3
In traditional customs, the third day of the first lunar month is considered to be the day when rats marry their daughters, so they should rest early in the evening and should not disturb the rats to marry their daughters.
Rats have a great taste of "who does not let me live this day, I make who is uncomfortable for a whole year", if the rat is disturbed to marry his daughter, the rat will plague the family.
For the harvest in the field, go to bed early!
The fourth day of the first lunar month
The fourth day of the first lunar month is also known as "Sheep Day". In the old imperial calendar, the sheep are occupied, so it is often said that "three sheep kaitai" is a symbol of auspiciousness, and the king of the stove wants to check the household registration.
Folklore says that the fifth day of the first lunar month is also the birthday of the god of wealth, so the next most important activity is to receive the god of wealth, and on the day before the birthday of the god of wealth, each family will hold a banquet to celebrate the god of wealth.
New Year's First Five
This day is commonly known as the breaking of the five, and the folklore says that many taboos before the breaking of the five can be broken on this day, from the prince's mansion to the small households in the streets and alleys, even the hospitality is also the same.
In ancient times, women were no longer afraid to go out, and began to visit each other to pay homage to each other and congratulate each other. It is not advisable to work on this day, otherwise things will be ruined during the year.
The sixth day of the first lunar month
The sixth day of the first lunar month is horse day, and the horse arrives successfully. People can start going out and doing business here. In the liquor worship street, thousands of households look at thousands of doors, and no one does not send the poor.
Opening the door to welcome guests naturally to sweep away the garbage, and then "sending the poor", "sending the poor" is a very characteristic custom of the ancient folk of the mainland, that is, to sacrifice poor ghosts or poor gods.
According to legend, the poor ghost is the son of a poor man, who is weak and short, and likes to wear rags and drink porridge. Even if he gave him new clothes, he would tear them off or burn them out of the hole before wearing them.
New Year's First Seven
The seventh day of the first lunar month is the "Human Day", which is an ancient Han traditional festival, nuwa creation of human day, that is, the birthday of human beings.
On this day, everyone can start to celebrate their birthdays, and the life expectancy is rich and lively. Spread pancakes and eat shippo soup, settle the body and mind, and recuperate.
Early in the morning, there are sumptuous family feasts, eating and drinking, and fireworks to celebrate birthdays.
The eighth day of the first lunar month
"Seven people and eight valleys", the first eight is also the valley day, also known as the Shunxing Festival.
Legend has it that this day is the day of the netherworld of the stars, the sky has the most stars, if the weather is clear on this day, it means that this year's rice harvest is very good.
If it is cloudy, then it is lost. So look forward to a good day!
The ninth day of the first lunar month
The ninth day of the first year is the birthday of the Jade Emperor, the altar of heaven is placed, everyone is incense, sincere prayer, people will worship the Jade Emperor, and hold a ceremony to celebrate. Pray for good weather and peace in the new year.
New Year's Day 10
Stone Festival, there is even such a festival, "the tenth day of the new year, the birthday of the land." Sacrifice stones to be thankful, there is heaven and earth. It is not much different from the grandmother, and the houses of people and livestock are all dependent on the ground; the rice and wheat and hundreds of grains are born on the ground. The flavor of vegetables and vegetables was sacrificed to him, and he rejoiced on his birthday. In life, filial piety and righteousness are based on which to stand; to do things must be down-to-earth. ”
Simply put, you can't sharpen your knife, you can't grind it, you can't make stone supplies, and even many places worship stones. On this day, the stone is a treasure!
New Year's Day 11
There is a saying in the folk song that "eleven please sons-in-law", that is, the eleventh day of the first month is "'Son-in-law Day", and fathers-in-law feast on this day.
According to legend, this is because the food celebrating the "heavenly birth" of the ninth day of the first month cannot be eaten until the tenth day of the first month, so on the eleventh day, it is used to invite the son-in-law to eat, and the mother's family does not have to spend money on it.
New Year's Day 12
In fact, it is to prepare for the fifteenth day of the first month. The streets and alleys, every household must be lit with new lights, think it is really bright! The Lantern Festival is approaching, and it's time to build a light shed!
New Year's Day Juzo
This day is still inseparable from the topic of lights. Lights are lit under the stove, lanterns are pre-placed, and from this day on, the lanes and bridges are all woven with bamboo lanterns. The Lantern Festival became a lantern festival and became a custom in the middle of the Tang Dynasty.
New Year 14
In most parts of China, everything on the fourteenth day is for the Lantern Festival on the second day. On this day, the lantern festival is officially opened for the public to buy lanterns.
For the Lantern Festival, performances like dragon and lion dances began to be practiced on the streets. There are also people who write riddles to guess the riddles to increase the festive atmosphere.
In China, Lantern Puzzle is a very traditional anagram game.
New Year's Day 15
Eat the Lantern on the fifteenth day of the first month, and the "Lantern" as a food has a long history in China. In the Song Dynasty, folk were popular for a novelty food eaten during the Lantern Festival.
This kind of food, the earliest called "floating yuanzi" after the "Lantern", businessmen also called it "yuanbao". Lantern is also known as "tangyuan", which can be meat and vegetarian, and has different flavors. It can be boiled, fried and steamed, which has the meaning of reunion and happiness.
The strong taste of the New Year rises, and there is a small reunion in the world. The old customs that have been passed down to this day have added to the taste of the year and a strong sense of family affection.
Let us follow the customs to celebrate the New Year together, and in the new year there will be peace and joy, and all the best will go well!
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