"Twenty-three sugar melon sticky, twenty-four written blessing characters, twenty-five sweeping dust, twenty-six goulash..." The little year is the beginning and foreshadowing of the entire Spring Festival celebration, and the prelude to the grand Spring Festival. The customs of the little year are rich and interesting, and the small year written by the famous artist is full of strong New Year flavor. Chen Zhongzhong missed the five-spice round cake of the god of Vesta, and Feng Ji decorated the room with flower lanterns... Take a look at the correct way to open the little year!
What day is the little year?
Xiaonian is a traditional Chinese festival, "Xiao Chinese New Year's Eve", also known as "Xiaonian". It is worth noting that in different regions, the specific date of the small year is not the same, most of the northern region is the twenty-third lunar month of the lunar calendar, many places in the south is the twenty-fourth month of the waxing moon, in addition, the Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai regions call the "twenty-fourth of the waxing moon" and "the night before the Chinese New Year's Eve" as the small year, the Nanjing region calls the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month as the small year, parts of Yunnan are the sixteenth day of the first month, and some ethnic minority areas in the southwest and north are Chinese New Year's Eve.
The origin of the little year
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 people have a "small year" of the 23rd and 24th lunar months, praying for peace and fortune in the coming year.
A small year in literature
The atmosphere of the year is inseparable from the decoration. Take the hanging money Fuzi door flower lantern and the like to arrange the inside and outside of the room, and the annual posture will be opened. I remember that thirty years ago, when the spirit and material were the poorest, at the end of the year, when I came home from work, I would see a roll of flowers and green paper placed in front of the threshold, open it, there were paper-cut links and auspicious pictures, needless to say, this is an old friend Hua Fei self-written self-portrait self-carving and self-cut and then sent to me to the door. He knows my feelings for all these years.
——Feng Jicai, "Eight Events of the Spring Festival"
On the night of the twenty-third day of the Waxing Moon, it is the day of the sacrifice of the god of Vesta, and folklore says that on this night, the god of Vesta will return to heaven to report on the food and clothing of the world, and every family will make a kind of five-spiced small round cake, bring the god vesta a long road to heaven as dry food, and persuade him to "say good things in heaven, and descend into the earth to be auspicious." That night, the first pot of five-spiced round cakes was first offered to the statue of the god of Vesta, and I was already hungry enough to control it, so I grabbed the remaining round cakes and bit them up, and ate the BunGu noodle bun all winter, this kind of pure white noodles burnt five-spice round cakes are so fragrant.
——Chen Zhongzhong, "New Year's Day: The Cannon sound of hometown dreams"
Twenty-three days to celebrate the New Year, almost the New Year's "rehearsal".
After twenty-three, everyone will be busier, and the New Year will arrive in the blink of an eye. Before the Chinese New Year's Eve, every family must paste the Spring Festival, and must clean up once, which is called sweeping the house. Meat, chicken, fish, greens, rice cakes, and so on must be prepared sufficiently, at least enough to eat for a week - according to the old custom, the majority of shops, closed for five days, and not open until the sixth day of the first month. If you do not prepare for the next few days of food, it is not easy to replenish temporarily.
——Lao She, "Spring Festival in Beijing"
A little year in poetry
Magnolia slow
Zha Yuanding
Reward the king overseas to do the cooking, holding the habit of long fast and laughing.
Morning and evening meals are hard to get, and the pot and bottle ceremony is not ancient and modern.
Bowing to the heavens on this day, Qu pointed out that he would return to the imperial capital in the next year.
But I wish the southeast soldiers quiet, arrange tea stove Pan West Lake.
Sacrifice stove poems
Lu Mengzheng
A bowl of clear soup poems, the stove jun today on the blue sky;
If the Jade Emperor asks about human affairs, the articles in the chaotic world are not valuable.
Three Longitudinal Pens (Part 3)
Su shi
The north ship is less than a pearl of rice, drunk and depressed for half a month.
Tomorrow the owner will be the sacrificial stove, and only the chicken fighting wine will be fixed.
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Review: Du Xiaoye