In less than a week, we will usher in the Spring Festival of 2022, and in order to welcome the arrival of the Spring Festival, we will experience many festivals in the Small Year and the Waxing Moon, which are all days prepared for the New Year. Every Waxing Moon Festival has customs, let the Huashang Bao -Ersanli Information take everyone with you, first start from the beginning of the small year to understand it!
The origin of the small year differs from the time difference between the north and the south
The 23rd and 24th days of the 12th lunar month are the traditional Han folk festival days, also known as the "Little Year" [12]. Folk sacrifice stoves originate from the ancient custom of worshiping fire. As it is said in the "Interpretation": "Stove. Create also, create food also. "Vesta's duty was to take charge of the stove and manage the diet, which was later expanded to examine the good and evil of the world in order to bring blessings and misfortunes. The belief in Vesta is a reflection of the people's pursuit of the dream of "more than enough food and clothing". According to the "Record of Customs and Lands" made by the famous Zhou Of the Jin Dynasty in the mainland, "On the night of the twenty-fourth day of the waxing moon, the stove is said to be the god of the stove the next day, and the white one year is one year old, so the first day is worshiped." The Song Dynasty Fan Chengda's "Poem on sacrifice to the stove": "In ancient times, on the twenty-fourth day of the lunar month, the king of the stove wanted to say things to the heavens... Send the jun drunk to the gate of heaven, the long and short do not return to the clouds, and beg for the return of the city. ”
The small year, which usually refers to the day of sweeping dust and offering sacrifices, is regarded as the beginning of a "busy year". Due to the different customs in the north and south, the days called "Little Year" are also different. Traditionally, the small year (dust sweeping, offering stove day) is the twenty-fourth day of the Waxing Moon, and most of the southern region still maintains the tradition of the twenty-fourth lunar month. Before the middle of the Qing Dynasty, the northern region was also the twenty-fourth small year of the Waxing Moon, and from the middle and late period of the Qing Dynasty, the imperial family held a ceremony to sacrifice the heavens on the twenty-third day of the Waxing Moon, in order to "save money", by the way, the King of the Stove was also worshipped, so the people in the northern region also celebrated the small year on the twenty-third day of the Waxing Moon one day in advance.
Folk customs of the Little Year
Eat dumplings
The north is accustomed to eating dumplings on the evening of the New Year, which means to send off the king of the stove, and takes the meaning of "sending off the dumplings to receive the wind noodles". There is a custom of eating fried corn in the southeastern region of Jin, and the folk proverb has the saying "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.
Eat stove sugar
Eating stove sugar is popular in the northern region, as the saying goes, "twenty-three, sugar melon sticky", in the New Year, people will buy sugar melon, Kanto sugar, hemp sugar and other offerings, praying for the stove king's mouth to be sweeter, and the heavens say good things.
Sweep the dust
On the twenty-fourth day of the 24th month, sweeping the house: from the twenty-fourth to the Chinese New Year's Eve, the mainland folk call this time "Spring Day", also known as "Sweeping Dust Day". "Sweeping dust" is the year-end cleaning, every household must clean the environment on this day, clean up various utensils, dismantle and wash the bedding curtains, sprinkle the liulu courtyard, dust and dirt cobwebs, and dredge the open channels and ditches. Everywhere is filled with joy and joy, hygiene, clean and clean to welcome the new year. The purpose of sweeping the dust is to remove the old and welcome the new, and to remove the ominous. After a small year, there are only six or seven days left before the Spring Festival, and the preparations for the New Year are even more enthusiastic.
Write spring league
"Twenty-four, write big characters" is also a custom of the New Year. "Writing big characters" means to write the Spring Festival, for example, pasted on the door, it will be a sentence similar to "loyal to the family for a long time, poetry and books for a long time" and so on, showing good wishes.
bathe
Adults and children are required to take a bath and get a haircut. There is a saying in the folk that "there is no money, shave your head for the New Year".
Marriage
After a small year, the folk 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. At the end of the year, there are many wedding ceremonies. 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.
(Editing by Wang Ying)
Reference source: Xinhua Net
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