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Yesterday was a small year in the north
Today is the Southern Year
The closer you get to the end of the year, the more you feel that time is rushing
I have only been drinking Laba porridge for a few days
In the blink of an eye, it's the little year again
There is a folk proverb that says:
Twenty-three sugar melon sticky twenty-four written blessing words
Twenty-five sweep the dust twenty-six cut big meat
Twenty-seven chickens killed twenty-eight dough hair
Twenty-nine couplets stick to the door
Stay up all night for thirty nights And twist and turn at the beginning of the New Year
After tonight
People officially open the "New Year mode"
Families are beginning to prepare for the New Year
" The Legend of the Little Year "
One year and one reunion
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 was burned to death.
After the Jade Emperor knew about it, he thought that Zhang Sheng could change his mind and not be bad to the end, and since he died at the bottom of the pot, he was named the king of the stove, and ordered him to report to the heavens on the twenty-third and twenty-fourth months of the waxing moon every year, and Chinese New Year's Eve returned to the bottom of the stove.
The common people felt that they must respect the king of the stove, 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.
"Little Years in Ancient Times"
"Sacrifice Words"
Song Fan Chengda
According to ancient legend, on the twenty-fourth day of the lunar month, the king of the stove wanted to say something to the heavens.
Cloud car wind horse small stay, home has cups and plates of abundant ceremony:
Pig's head is rotten and cooked double fish fresh, bean sand and pine powder bait ball.
The boy offered his daughter to avoid, and the wine burned money stove Junxi.
The son of a fights Against Jun Mo, and the cat and dog touch Jun Mo Mo.
Send the king drunk and full to the gate of heaven, and the long and short do not return to the clouds,
Beggars the City of Return! ”
[Appreciation]
Fan Chengda's poems write the dates, sacrifices and customs of the sacrificial stove, and also reflect that the Song people already had a set of norms for the sacrificial stove. The ancients said: "The people take food as the heaven", and the king of the stove respectfully worships him as the head of the family, which shows the importance attached to the sacrifice stove.
"North-South Customs of the Little Year"
Celebrate the god Vesta in the New Year
Rejoice and welcome the New Year
You guys know
Are there any different customs in the north and south?
Let's take a look
Date differences
Most of the North: 23rd day of the Lunar New Year – "Little Year of the North"
Most of the South: The 24th of the Waxing Moon - "Folk Tradition Little Year"
Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai: the day before the Chinese New Year's Eve - "small Chinese New Year's Eve"
Parts of Sichuan and Guizhou: Chinese New Year's Eve Night - "Little Year"
Nanjing area and other places: the fifteenth day of the first month (Lantern Festival) - "Little Year"
Call the difference
Every time the New Year comes, every household must clean the environment, clean all kinds of utensils, and clean up to welcome the Spring Festival.
North
The north is called "sweeping house". On the day of the New Year, the people of the north usually clean the room thoroughly, commonly known as sweeping the home, cleaning the dust under the boxes, cabinets, and kang mats, painting the walls, scrubbing the glass, pasting the windows, pasting the New Year paintings, and so on.
South
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.
Cultural differences
Cutting and pasting window flowers is the most popular folk activity in the north. 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.
In the South, there is no custom of sticking window flowers.
Dietary differences
Northern small years usually eat sugar melon, caramel, hemp sugar. In the northwest of Jin, there is a saying that "twenty-three eat hemp candy, but can't eat hemp candy and nibble on the finger".
In addition to eating stove sugar on this day, fire burning is also a very distinctive seasonal food. On the 23rd day of the waxing moon, the business of baking cake stalls in the city is very prosperous.
For example, Nanning has the custom of eating New Year dumplings in the new year, and the new year dumplings are the symbol of auspicious new year, as the saying goes: "Nian Zong Nian Zong, Nian Nian High School (粽)", and in Guangxi Wuxuan, Guiping folk have the custom of making rice cakes.
Old Fuzhou sacrificial stoves, sugar cane and water chestnut are essential. Sugar cane has the meaning of "sweet and sweet". Water chestnut, on the other hand, is to take the harmonic sound of its Fuzhou dialect, implying "good luck from the beginning of the year to the end of the year".
The small year has arrived, and the big year is not far away
"The smell of the year begins
Streamers are easy to throw people away
Red cherries Green plantains
Time is like an arrow, the sun and the moon are like shuttles
Instant
The old year is about to say goodbye to us
A year of hard work, a year of wind and rain
Let's stop the rush
Wait for the warmest day of the year
Thousands of rivers and mountains The road home is the most beautiful
Thousands of calls The people around me are the warmest
The New Year is just around the corner
May every year be as good as possible, and all years be peaceful
Let's go to friends and family together
Send out a blessing a greeting
Feel the new year's breath together and warm each other's hearts
Happy New Year to all!
Editor: Ji Mingyu
Typography: Ji Mingyu
Photo: Fang Leqi
Cover design: Li Linglong
Proofreader: Yang Jia, Chen Haowen, Chen Ruiyang