The twenty-third day of the Waxing Moon - the little year has arrived!

Write spring couplets, cut window flowers

Eat sugar melon before Vesta

Sweep the dust and cut your hair

Wanderers can return home

Today is January 25, 2022

It is also the twenty-third day of the lunar month

The annual traditional festival , the Little New Year , has arrived

Xiaobian would also like to wish you a happy holiday here

Traditional customs of the Little Year

As a traditional Chinese folk festival day, the 23rd day of the waxing moon every year is called "Xiao Nian", also known as the Stove King Festival, and the small year also represents the beginning of people's preparation of New Year goods and the arrival of the New Year, expressing the good wishes of the Chinese working people to resign the old and welcome the new, and to welcome the good fortune. After today, the atmosphere of the Spring Festival will be more intense, the streets and alleys will be full of lights, the prelude to the grand Spring Festival will also be officially opened, there are many traditional customs on this day, let's take a look.

1

Clean up

Every time the Spring Festival comes, it is indispensable to clean up, every household cleaning utensils, dismantling and washing bedding curtains, sprinkling the courtyard, dusting, and greeting the arrival of the New Year in a clean and tidy state. Sweeping away the dust in the New Year also means sweeping all the obscure and poor luck out of the house, pinning on people's good wishes for breaking the old and building a new one

2

Worship the god Vesta

According to folklore, on the twenty-third day of the 23rd lunar month, the Emperor of The Stove would go to heaven to inform the Jade Emperor of the good and evil situation of every household, and let the Jade Emperor reward and punish him. When sending the god of vesta, people offer candy, water, etc. in front of the statue of the king of the stove, in order to show sincerity, in order to let the king of the stove "say a few words of goodwill" for his family when reporting.

3

Eat hemp sugar

The hemp sugar is wrapped in a layer of sesame seeds on the outside, and the inside is coagulated with maltose, which has the effect of strengthening the spleen and stomach, nourishing the yin and clearing the fire, moisturizing the lungs and suppressing cough. Of course, this is also to paste the mouth of the stove king with sugar, and say some "sweet words" after the day.

4

Window flowers

On the day of the New Year, people always have to paste the red window flowers in the cleaned house, adding a little joy, magpies climbing plums, fish every year, Mandarin ducks playing in the water, deer cranes and tongchun, these patterns with auspicious meanings, but also the most common theme of window flowers

5

Write spring league

The Spring League, which is pasted on the door, is the façade of a family, and people often attach great importance to it. In addition to the rich content of witty words, there is also a neat and flowing font, buy red paper, splash ink, and a stroke and a painting contain the charm of the New Year

6

Steamed buns

On the 23rd day of the Waxing Moon, every household must steam flower steamed buns, "a steamed flower bun, neighbors come to help", which is often a great opportunity for folk women to show their dexterous craftsmanship. A delicate flower bun is a handicraft, and it is indispensable to worship the gods and walk relatives

Small time difference

In modern times, the mainland has the saying "officials, three people, four boats and five ships", which means that the small year of the official family is the twenty-third month of the WaxIng Moon, the people's family is the twenty-fourth of the Waxing Moon, and the water family is the twenty-fifth of the Waxing Moon. In fact, it is only because the customs of different places are different, so the small year also has different concepts and dates. In the northern region, the 23rd lunar month is a small year, in the south is the 24th lunar month, in the Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai regions is the day before the Chinese New Year's Eve, in Sichuan Guizhou is on the night of Chinese New Year's Eve, and in Nanjing and other places is on the fifteenth day of the first month

The most beautiful thing about the new year is reunion

Time is still beautiful

The years are still fragrant

The little year has arrived

The Big Year is not far away

Let us carry the best expectations

Welcome to the arrival of the New Year