This article is written by: Spring Plum Fox
I feel that before the Spring Festival, I have saved a lot of content related to the festival, and I am all starting a head, hoping to work hard to finish the liver!
Today there should be many people who will tell you about the "little year" and about the "sacrificial stove", and I am sure that I am not as good as them, and I can only say something different -
For example, we do not have a "small year", only a "small Chinese New Year's Eve", and it is not today; for example, we rarely "sacrifice stove", but still eat "sacrifice stove fruit", but it is not "sugar melon"...
We, of course, refer to the places and times in which I grew up. It is not that "we" are unique, but that "folklore" is inherently diverse and has no uniform answer. It is not that those popular science numbers are wrong, but that local customs are slowly losing their voice in the context of the Internet word.
A little year with nowhere to put it
In the early years, the "little year" advertised on the Internet was the twenty-third day of the Waxing Moon, just like eating dumplings on every festival. Gradually, some different voices appeared, because everyone found that not only was the whole country eating dumplings together, but also the whole country was only a "small year" on the same day. Therefore, just like the division of "South Tangyuan, North Dumplings", there is a saying of "twenty-three northern small years, twenty-four southern small years". Even more so, because I don't know from which system it was written into almost all calendar programs.
△ Small Year customs in some areas: posted
When our colleagues from the northeast asked us if we were celebrating the twenty-fourth year, we could only answer helplessly: we also passed the twenty-third year, but our twenty-third was a "sacrificial stove", not a "small year".
When a unified statement appears to be questioned, the halving is cut into north and south, which seems to be solving the question, but in fact it is still swirling around in the original problem. Previously, "Human Sorrow and Joy Are Not The Same, and So Is Food." | Winter Solstice @ Ningbo has already said that this problem is a manifestation of food, and "Little Year" is just another manifestation.
In order to solve the doubt of which day the "little year" should be placed, we must first solve why there is a "small year"? Literally, it is a byproduct of another concept of "year". However, "year" itself is a very complex comprehensive concept, and different angles will derive different "small years".
For example, the concept of "year" includes sacrifice-related activities such as "wax sacrifices". Previously in "Today, là jì! It is mentioned that the date of the wax itself may be the third day after the winter solstice, but the dry branch day is really troublesome, so some scholars have examined the specific date on which the wax festival was fixed in different periods. "Lapa Ba" is one that is still used today, but there are also sayings such as December 25. "Festival Stove Day" has also overlapped with "Lapa Ba", both of which can be considered the beginning of the long activity of the Spring Festival, the meaning of this "small year" is self-evident, and the reason why this date swings everywhere is obvious.
△ One of the customs of the small year: the sacrificial stove
From a direct point of view, "Little Chinese New Year's Eve" can be "Little Year's Eve" or "Little Chinese New Year's Eve". The former is only related to the "small year", and there are records of the twenty-fourth of the Waxing Moon as "small Chinese New Year's Eve" in the Song Dynasty. And what we call here, that is, parts of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Shanghai (the specific scope has not been examined), is the latter, that is, the day before the "big Chinese New Year's Eve" called "small Chinese New Year's Eve", which is a concept derived from "Chinese New Year's Eve", that is, "Chinese New Year's Eve", which is more like a "small Chinese New Year's Eve". There doesn't seem to be a "little year" where there is a "little Chinese New Year's Eve" (I have verified it specifically), which may be a fear of confusion, but this does not mean that there is no related custom on the twenty-third day of the waxing moon or other dates, such as we will still be in the twenty-third festival.
In addition to the above two, "Xiaonian" is also used in some places to refer to different festivals such as "Winter Solstice Day" and "Lantern Festival". In the final analysis, it is not that the date of the "small year" is changeable, but that people in different regions have different understandings of the "year", and the date positioning of the "small" year, that is, second only to the "year", has also been different.
The sacrificial stove fruit of the pastry free
Now comes my favorite festival day!
When I was a child, the ritual customs for the stove day were already very weak, and there was no portrait of the stove king at home, but I still look forward to this day very much, because this is the beginning of the spring festival candy and pastry freedom.
Most local sacrificial stoves use maltose products such as sugar melons, and our "sacrificial stove fruit" is biased towards pastries. Of course, it can't be compared with the current snacks, but at that time, the variety in a pack full of "sacrificial stove fruits" still made children salivate.
△ A kind of sugar melon
△ A kind of sacrificial stove fruit
At that time, the sacrificial stove fruit that could be obtained was already directly purchased on the market, and it was printed with the stove king, which now seems to be relatively rough, and the convenience is that some families can directly take it to offer without the portrait of the stove king, and you can never think that the people in the city can be lazy.
There are many different types of pastries in a pack of sacrificial stove fruits, which is about the same as a platter bag, and the types are in pairs. There are some that I can usually eat, such as bean crisp candy, frozen rice candy, hemp balls, oil fruits, sesame candy, and some that I seem to only see in the sacrificial stove fruit, such as red balls and white balls. (These pastries may also be found in other regions, with different names, or they may be similar in appearance.) Because there will be a preference for taste, I often have to exchange my own package of sacrificial stove fruits with children, so that you can eat more than a few of your favorite varieties. And at that time, young children can also enjoy the right of priority.
In fact, most of the traditional pastries are high in sugar, high oil and high starch, and they are not very interested now, but when they were young, they could really be remembered. I had already thought about the kinds of pastries I wanted, for fear of being preempted by others. After eating the sacrificial stove fruit, although we are not called XiaoNian, it also means that the curtain of the "year" will be officially opened, but compared with the crowded in the adult pile in the first month to "open", the happiness of eating the sacrificial stove fruit is incomparable.
A festival that embraces differences
One side of the land can precipitate a party culture, and they must grow into a different appearance to be normal and vital. If their appearance is the same, it is like the test point memorized in the test essay, important but not cute. The "eternal youth" of the festival does not rely on the keyboard on the Internet, but on the land where it is spent carefully and strives to enjoy it in each cycle.
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