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The small year of the north and the south is not the same.
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It is the prelude to the Spring Festival,
At this time, the streets and alleys have been
It began to be full of joy and new year's flavor.
People who are wandering away,
Successively through the sea of people,
Cross the mountains and rivers and go home for a reunion!
The folk "Song of the Waxing Moon" has clouds:
Twenty-three, sugar melon sticky (sacrificial stove official);
Twenty-four, sweeping the house;
Twenty-five, grinding tofu;
Twenty-six, to cut the meat (stewed meat);
Twenty-seven, slaughtering roosters (killing chickens);
Twenty-eight, put the noodles hair; twenty-nine, steamed steamed steamed buns;
Stay up for a night in thirty nights, twist and turn at the beginning of the New Year!
At this pace, get ready for the New Year!
Figure | Flying Army
Legend has it that the prince of The Stove was originally a commoner Zhang Sheng, and after marrying his wife, he spent all day drinking wine, and lost his family business and fell to begging on the street. One day, he begged to the house of his ex-wife Guo Dingxiang, ashamed and embarrassed, and went under the stove and burned to death.
After the Jade Emperor knew, he thought that Zhang Sheng could change his mind and not be bad to the end, since he died at the bottom of the pot, he was crowned as the king of the stove, and every year on the twenty-third and twenty-fourth days of the waxing moon, he reported to the heavens, and Chinese New Year's Eve returned to the bottom of the stove.
The common people felt that the king of The Stove must be respected, because he had to report to heaven. As a result, the Han people had the "little year" of the 23rd and 24th lunar months, praying for peace and fortune in the coming year.
Fan Chengda of the Song Dynasty said in his "Poems on sacrifice to the stove": "In ancient times, on the twenty-fourth day of the month of La, the king of the stove wanted to say things to the heavens. The cloud car wind horse small stay, the family has cups and plates of abundant ceremonies. Pork head rotten hot pisces fresh, bean sand and pine powder bait balls.
The boy offered his daughter to avoid, and the wine burned money stove Junxi. The son-in-law struggles Jun Mo Wen, the cat and dog horns are dirty Jun Mo Fu; send the Jun drunk and full to the Gate of Heaven, the long dipper short do not return to the clouds, and beg for the return of the city to share. ”
It can be said that this poem very vividly illustrates the customs and habits of the ancient Han people about sacrificing stoves. Of course, this is only a Han folk legend, and it is not credible.
Regarding the small time of year, it is not the same in different places, and there has always been a saying that the official three people have four boats and five boats, which means: the official family's small year is the twenty-third month of the Wax Moon, the people's family is the twenty-fourth month of the Wax Moon, and the water people's home is the twenty-fifth of the Wax Moon.
Before the Southern Song Dynasty, most of the political centers were in the north, and due to this influence, the northern small year was the twenty-third day of the Waxing Moon. In the south, far from the political center, the small year is mostly based on the twenty-fourth day of the waxing moon.
Although the specific time is different, after the small year, both the north and the south have begun to prepare to leave the old and welcome the new year, and many customs are roughly the same.
No matter which way to celebrate the new year, people's desire to leave the old and welcome the new is the same.
■ Matsuri stove
The ancients believed that the god of Vesta was the head of the family, and on this day of the small year, it was necessary to report to the Jade Emperor the merits and deeds of the people in the past year. So the common people laid out wine and food, coated with sugar water, and did everything they could to please him, only to ask him to "say good things in heaven and send down auspicious things."
■ Eat stove sugar
Stove sugar, also known as sugar melon and Kanto sugar, is made from malt and rice. The crispy sweetness not only stuck to the mouth of the god of Vesta, but also locked the childhood memories of many northerners. And for southerners, bacon is the real taste of the Year!
■ Catch up on the marriage
After twenty-three, the people believe that the gods have ascended to heaven and have no taboos. Marrying a daughter-in-law and hiring a daughter-in-law does not have to choose a date, which is called a chaotic marriage.
Folk songs have "Years Yan rural marriage busy, Yichun post to tease chunguang." The sisters in front of the lamp whispered that the shou nian this year is a cave house" said.
■Sweeping
The purpose of cleaning up the small year is to get rid of the old and welcome the new, and to remove the ominous. Every household will thoroughly clean the house, scrub the seats, flush the floor, and after cleaning, every house will be renewed.
At this time, it will also be replaced with new Spring Festival, banners or window flowers, and the bright and dazzling red means red and red.
Little year, little thought.
You miss home, and you're thinking about you.
Because where there is a home, it is a small year.
With your little year, it is reunion.
From his hometown,
You should go back to your hometown.
Man in this life,
From the moment you leave home,
He set out on his way home.
We
They are all people who are afraid of getting lost.
Fortunately, this year's wandering,
There are white clouds looking back for me;
Fortunately, by the day of convention,
Let me come back with peace of mind.
When you return,
The elderly in the family are likely
All forgot that this was the first few sunsets.
But "home" is still a beautiful word.
The table is full of chicken, duck and fish meat,
There is a sausage hanging on the stove,
In the smoke-filled kitchen,
There is a busy figure.
New Year's Hope,
It's clear in the same warm details.
What is life, there is such a situation,
Not to make a desolate gesture to the years.
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