Today is the twenty-third day of the Waxing Moon, which is commonly known as the Little Year of our Beijingers. Xiaonian is the prelude to the big year, after the small year, we lazy cancer patients will no longer have a reason not to prepare for the New Year, today Xiaobian I will introduce you to what we Beijingers have to do on the day of the New Year.
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What do you eat in the new year?
In the New Year, what to eat is very important to us Beijingers, after all, the people take food as the sky. The following small editor I summarized for you what we Beijingers want to eat in the new year, you see, is this not the case?
Miscellaneous
When it comes to "miscellaneous mix", many young Beijing children do not understand what kind of food it is, and they have never seen it sold in the street market. In fact, in the old days, the so-called "mixed mix" in our old Beijing was actually made of a variety of dried and fresh fruits mixed together.
It is said that during the Qing Dynasty, some dried fruits were processed with honey juice and became a candied food with good color and taste, and it is said that Empress Dowager Cixi was very happy when she ate it, and casually gave a name of "mixed mix", which was passed from the palace to the folk, and became a unique flavor of food in Beijing, and also flowed to home and abroad, which was quite popular with people.
Sugar melon
As the saying goes, twenty-three, sugar melon sticks, so on the day of the little year, sugar melon is what we Beijingers must eat. Why do you want to eat sugar melon on this day of the New Year? This is like having to mention a character - the king of the stove.
We Beijingers used to pay attention to the 23rd day to sacrifice the king of the stove, so we would buy some sacrificial stove sugar made of maltose, such as sugar melon and Kanto sugar, to offer. It is said that every year on this day of the New Year, the King of the Stove will ascend to the Jade Emperor to repay everyone's merits and deeds of the year, so in order to ask the King of the Stove to say more, and in order not to stick to the mouth of the King of the Stove and not let him say more, so we Beijingers will use sugar melon Kanto sugar to offer him on this day. Therefore, we in Beijing also have such a sentence after the break: "The ascension of the king of the stove to heaven --- talk more about good words."
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What does Little Year do?
Worship the god Vesta
On the day of the New Year, the first thing we old Beijingers used to pay attention to doing was to worship the god of vesta.
We have a folk legend in Beijing that every year on the twenty-third day of the lunar month, the emperor of the stove will go to heaven to report the good and evil of the family to the Jade Emperor, and let the Jade Emperor reward and punish. Therefore, when sending the stove, we Beijingers will put candy, water, beans, and grass on the table in front of the statue of the king of the stove; 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 days, there are only six or seven days left before the Spring Festival, and the preparations for the New Year for our Beijingers are even more enthusiastic.
Therefore, on the day of the New Year, we Beijingers and our families should go out together to thoroughly clean the room, commonly known as sweeping dust, sweeping dust in order to remove the old and welcome the new, and remove the ominous. Every household must be carefully and thoroughly cleaned, so that the windows are clear and clean. You also have to paint the walls, scrub the glass, paste the windows, paste the New Year paintings, and so on.
Cut the window flowers
After cutting the window flowers, they are pasted in the cleaned house, which adds a lot of New Year's joy to every Beijinger's home. The window flower patterns cut by our Beijingers include various animals, plants, characters, etc., such as magpie Dengmei, peacock play peony, lion rolling hydrangea ball, three sheep (Yang) Kaitai, two dragon play beads, deer crane Tong Chun (six contract spring), five bats (Fu) Bo Shou, rhinoceros wangyue, lotus (lian) year there are fish (Yu), Mandarin duck playing water, bangs playing with golden cicadas, hehe er immortals and so on.
Paste Spring League
In the past, in the Hutongs, we Beijingers celebrated the New Year, and every household had to write the Spring Festival. 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. The couplet on the gate is the façade of a family, with special attention, or lyricism, or writing scenes, rich in content and witty words.
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King Stove is our Beijinger!
For more Beijingers, we know that the twenty-third day of the Waxing Moon is a small year, but how did the small year come about?
King Stove is a Shunyi man! In fact, the 23rd day of the waxing moon enshrined by every household is the People clan of Zhangzhen (also known as Zhang Gezhuang) in Shunyi, Beijing. "The original surname of the King of The Stove is Zhang, and his family lives in Zhang Gezhuang, Shunyi." This is a slip of the tongue that has been circulated in Shunyi, and after investigation by relevant parties, it has been learned that the relevant authorities in Shunyi District have successfully registered this well-known figure as the intangible cultural heritage of the region. Moreover, Shunyi also adapted the image of the king of the stove into a commentary and put it on the stage.
After the twenty-third day of the Waxing Moon, the Chinese New Year's Eve is really not far away. So between the twenty-third and Chinese New Year's Eve of the Waxing Moon, what should we Beijingers do? What should I do to prepare for the New Year?
There is a song that we Beijingers sing, you must remember.
Twenty-three, sugar melon sticky; twenty-four, sweeping the house;
Twenty-five, ground tofu; twenty-six, stewed lamb;
Twenty-seven, slaughtering roosters; twenty-eight, turning the noodles;
Twenty-nine, steamed steamed buns; thirty nights a night;
Twist and turn at the beginning of the year.
Source: Beijing Literature and Art Broadcasting