Today is the Lunar New Year, teach children to learn the knowledge of the New Year, and spend a New Year with a New Year's flavor!
"Little Year" has always been one of the traditional festivals in China, also known as the Stove King Festival.
The arrival of the New Year means that the New Year is not far away, so let's greet the New Year with a sense of ceremony!
Do you know the customs of the little year?
In different parts of the country, the date of the "small year" is not the same: the twenty-third lunar month is the "small year" in the northern part of the mainland, and the twenty-fourth waxing moon is the "small year" in the southern region of the mainland.
There are also different sayings: in ancient times, there was a tradition of "officials, three people, four boats and five" in the small year, the small year of the official family was the twenty-third month of the waxing moon, the people's family was the twenty-fourth month of the waxing moon, and the water people's home was the twenty-fifth of the waxing moon.
No matter what day the "little year" is, people who have toiled for almost a whole year will begin to plan for a comfortable new year. The small year is the beginning of the New Year.
The small year also means that people begin to prepare new year goods, ready to live a clean and clean new year, indicating that the new year should have a new atmosphere, expressing the chinese working people's good wish to resign the old and welcome the new, welcome the good fortune. There are many folk, small year customs. If you savor it, it makes sense.
Clean up
Every time the New Year comes, every household must clean the environment, clean all kinds of utensils, remove and wash the futon curtains, sprinkle the room courtyard, dust and cobwebs, and clean up the Spring Festival.
The north is called "sweeping the house", and the south is also called "dust dust".
Because of the harmonic sound of "dust" and "Chen", the new spring sweeping dust has the meaning of removing "Chen" (dust) and spreading new, and its intention is to sweep out all the "poor luck" and "obscurity" out of the door, pinning people's good wishes for breaking the old and building a new one.
Window flowers
The window flowers are mostly themed with auspicious motifs such as magpie Dengmei, Deer Crane Tong Tsubaki (Six Contract Spring), Five Bat (Fu) Bou Shou, Lotus (Lian) Nian Youyu (Yu), Mandarin Duck Splashing in the Water, and Hehe ErXian and so on.
Add joy to the red window flowers that are pasted on the cleaned house.
Eat stove sugar
Stove sugar, there is 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.
According to folklore, every year on the twenty-third day of the lunar month, the Emperor of the Stove would go to heaven to report the good and evil of the family to the Jade Emperor, and let the Jade Emperor reward and punish.
So the people sacrificed the stove, which means to paste the mouth of the stove king with sugar, and say some sweet words after the day.
Eat dumplings
In the New Year, folk eat dumplings. It means "sending off dumplings to the wind".
In many areas, dumplings are eaten in various ways as soon as the waxing moon arrives.
The winter solstice should be eaten, the small year should also be eaten, and the Chinese New Year's Eve, the first five and the first seven must also eat dumplings...
Shower haircut
When I was young, adults and children had to take a bath and get a haircut, and there was a saying that "there is no money, shave your head for the New Year".
Removing the dust and obscurity of the previous year and bringing good luck to the new year is the purpose of bathing.
Therefore, in addition to the new look in the home, every family member should take a bath, get a haircut, fade the obscurity of the past, and start a good omen for the auspicious and smooth New Year.
From the 23rd to the 15th day of the first month, tell the children about the knowledge points!
From this day on, every household began to get busy, buying New Year goods, cleaning houses, and preparing to switch the New Year mode.
People's Daily sorted out the knowledge points of the new year from the 23rd to the fifteenth day of the first month, let's take a look at it and feel the traditional New Year's taste!
Due to the long history of the mainland and the vastness of the land, there are also certain differences in the annual customs of each region. What are the differences in your new year customs? Welcome to exchange and share in the message area!
Today is the 23rd of the Waxing Moon, the Northern Small Year
The first day of the Chinese New Year is not far away,
Let's welcome the New Year with a sense of ceremony!
Source: People's Daily