Jinding Ancient Books
Little year arrived! Is the New Year still far away!
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Today
The twenty-third day of the lunar month
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After a small year, it is only 6 days before the Spring Festival of the Year of the Tiger
As the saying goes, "little years" are not small
After this day, people began to enter the stage of preparing for the New Year
Twenty-three sugar melon sticky
Twenty-four sweep the house
Twenty-five grinds of tofu
Twenty-six stews of large meats
Twenty-seven slaughtered roosters
Twenty-eight handfuls of noodle hair
Twenty-nine steamed steamed buns
Stay up for one night in thirty nights
Twist and turn at the beginning of the year
Legends about the little year
Legend has it that The Prince of Stove was originally a commoner Zhang Sheng, and after marrying his wife, he spent all day drinking and drinking, lost all his family business, and fell into 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. The Jade Emperor believed that Zhang Sheng could change his mind and not be bad to the end, so he named him the King of the Stove, and reported to the heavens on the twenty-third and twenty-fourth days of the month of La every year, and Chinese New Year's Eve returned to the bottom of the stove. In order to pray for blessings and obedience, people often post couplets on both sides of the statue of the King of Stove, such as "Heaven says good things, the netherworld ensures peace" or "Heaven says good things, and returns to the palace to descend auspiciously".
The custom of the small year
Sacrifice to the King of Stoves
When sending the stove, people put candy, water, beans, and grass on the table in front of the statue of the king of the stove, hoping that the stove king would say more good words in front of the Jade Emperor and not mention faults. Among them, the last three are prepared for the mount of the ascension of the king of the stove. When offering the stove, the Kanto sugar is also melted with fire and applied to the mouth of the stove king. In this way, he could not speak ill of the Jade Emperor.
Sweep the dust
After twenty-three, the preparations for the New Year became even more intense. It is necessary to clean the room thoroughly, commonly known as sweeping dust, in order to remove the old and welcome the new, and to remove the ominous. Every household must be carefully and thoroughly cleaned, so that the windows are clear and clean.
Cut the window flowers
Of all the preparations, cutting and pasting window flowers is the most popular folk activity. The content has a variety of animals and plants, such as magpie Dengmei, lion rolling hydrangea ball, three sheep (Yang) Kaitai, erlong play beads, deer crane Tong Chun (six contract spring), rhinoceros wangyue, lotus (lian) year fish (yu), mandarin duck playing water and so on.
Write couplets and paste spring couplets
Han folk pay attention to the fact that there is a god must be posted, every door must be pasted, and every thing must be pasted, so the number of Spring Leagues is the largest and the content is the most complete. In particular, the couplet on the gate is the façade of a family, which is particularly valued, or lyrical, or written scenes, rich in content, and witty.
Bathing, haircuts
Adults and children are required to take a bath and get a haircut. Han folk have a saying that "there is no money, shave your head for the New Year".
Marriage
After twenty-three years, the Han 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. 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.
What do you eat in the new year?
Xiaonian is the prelude to the Spring Festival, and the excitement is second only to the New Year. How can such an important traditional festival be less delicious? On this day, some parts of Inner Mongolia have the custom of eating dumplings, and some areas have to eat hemp sugar. See what the rest of the country eats