"Twenty-three, sugar melon sticky, twenty-four, sweep the house..." The cheerful rhythm of the busy New Year song tells the busy celebrations of people to welcome the arrival of the New Year. Today is the twenty-third day of the lunar month, the mainland's traditional "festival of sacrifice stoves", also called "small year", every year at this time, every household begins to get busy, cleaning the house, preparing new year goods... The atmosphere of the New Year is also getting stronger and stronger.
Early this morning, Bai Wen, who lives in the East Barracks Community in Chengbei Street, Linxia City, began to prepare for the New Year. After cleaning up the house, I quickly took to the street to buy the things to be used for the "sacrificial stove", bought the portrait of the king of the stove and the candy along the street, and bought peach crisp. She told reporters that these three things are indispensable to the sacrificial stove, and in the past, they would also fry steamed steam
When preparing the stove to be sacrificed, Bai Wenwen told reporters that according to legend, every year on the twenty-third day of the waxing moon, the king of the stove would ride on a horse in the heavenly court and report to the Jade Emperor what he had seen and heard in the human world this year, and the stove candy was prepared for the king of the stove. To give the stove king to eat stove sugar is to pray that the mouth of the stove king will be sweeter, and say some good things in front of the Jade Emperor, so that the family's life will be more prosperous, and good things will continue! There is a folk proverb that "the heavens say good things, and the netherworld descends auspiciously".
Bai Wenwen, a resident of dongyingfang community in Chengbei Street, Linxia City: Today is our twenty-three small year, this is a traditional festival, the New Year is coming, this festival custom is an expectation of our coming year, looking forward to the wind and rain, the home is smooth, just such a meaning.
In today's rapid development of science and technology, people still pass on the customs and habits of the New Year and the stove from generation to generation. Through the custom of celebrating the New Year and offering sacrifices, we see people's yearning for the sweetness of life in the new year, and what we see is people's expectations for the peaceful reunion of their families in the new year. Although the customs of different places are different, the little year carries the good wishes of the people when they leave the old and welcome the new.
Reporter: Zhu Zhenbin Zhao Qiaoling
Editor-in-charge: Sha Teng, Han Shuhua, Ma Yafei
Review: Zhu Lin Liao Weiyi
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