Traditional Chinese New Year, this year's Spring Festival is here! This is the largest and most solemn festival in the tradition, although the times are different, the living habits have changed, and many traditional customs have also changed, but for Chinese, the Spring Festival, the New Year, is always a very important festival.
One of the most important symbols of the Spring Festival is actually Chinese New Year's Eve! It's a node, it's a demarcation! How many people in order to eat the reunion dinner of the New Year's Chinese New Year's Eve, and rush home, it seems that Chinese New Year's Eve this day with the dearest family, from getting up early to busy with various activities, to midnight celebration of the New Year bell ringing, is the most meaningful day of this Spring Festival, this is the New Year!
At the same time, today's Spring Festival holiday is seven days, in fact, the most talked about is also the day of Chinese New Year's Eve.
Chinese New Year's Eve, the last night of the year. Therefore, there are many traditional names, such as "dividing the day", "dividing the year", "twilight", "the end of the year", "twilight", etc., of course, the folk prefer to be commonly known as "Chinese New Year's Eve", "big Chinese New Year's Eve" and so on.
However, "Chinese New Year's Eve" is not rigorous, but it is the most habitual, conventional name. Because according to the traditional lunar calendar, there are big months and small months, so sometimes December is only twenty-nine, not thirty. This phenomenon has no regularity, sometimes every few years, sometimes for several years.
This year is only twenty-nine, not thirty, according to experts, the next year without Chinese New Year's Eve is 2025, and there will be no Chinese New Year's Eve for the next five years.
In terms of modern people's living habits, in fact, many of them are the same, or similar. They all try to rush home before the Chinese New Year's Eve day, and get up early in the morning to prepare the contents of the day's activities: all kinds of New Year goods should be prepared; no matter how many people in the family are today, the reunion meal of the Chinese New Year's Eve must begin to be busy; the clean sweeping house has also entered the last moment; the Spring Festival, New Year paintings, lanterns, and door gods representing the New Year must also be arranged and posted; the activities of offering the heavens, sacrificing the land, offering gods, and sacrificing ancestors must also be completed; the reunion dinner, resigning the old and welcoming the new, and so on.
In short, the schedule for the day is full, busier than work.
However, for thousands of years, the mountains and water barriers everywhere, the water and soil customs, the climate and property, and the historical development are not the same, so the human customs and customs of various places are also different, and the same is the New Year, Chinese New Year's Eve, it will derive a variety of rich and different annual customs everywhere. Taking Guangxi as an example, there are more than ten ethnic groups in Guangxi, and the landscapes and landforms in various places are different, and the characteristics of water and soil are different, not to mention different nationalities, that is, people living in different regions with the same ethnic groups, and the customs of this year will also be different.
Chinese New Year's Eve this day, what do you usually do, or what are the folk customs?
Different places in Guangxi have different habits, such as in the New Year, do not tidy dumplings, because that is the pasta region, the northern region only attaches importance to the food culture. In some parts of Guangxi, there is a habit of wrapping rice dumplings, and the rice dumplings at this time are called Nian Zongzi. There are also many sayings of New Year dumplings, simple, because there is a "core" in the rice dumplings, and most of them are mainly meat, so they are also called meat dumplings; in some places, they are divided by appearance, called pillow dumplings.
Now there are still people who have time to pack rice dumplings, the time is not fixed, anyway, sooner or later to pack, early and early to finish things, so the twenty-fifth day of the waxing moon has been wrapped in rice dumplings, that according to the past, then many people choose to pack in the evening of the Chinese New Year's Eve, especially after the reunion dinner, the adults began to be busy, wrapped the rice dumplings on the fire, boiled the rice dumplings, the whole for a few hours, one is the vigil by the way, and the second is to truly appreciate the joy of the New Year's opening of the rice dumplings.
Therefore, sometimes Guangxi people of certain ages do not watch the Spring Festival Gala, and there is a reason for that, they all watch the fire in front of the stove, who still has time to watch TV.
No matter what ethnic group it is in Guangxi, Chinese New Year's Eve one of the highlights of this day, that is, busy worshipping the heavens and ancestors. Whether it is a tradition or a custom, this kind of ritual has been handed down since ancient times.
The most important thing at the table is the chicken (of course, there are also animals slaughtered on the day)! This chicken slaughter is exquisite, not to open the stomach, but to "dig"! That is to say, to open a mouth in the area near the chicken PP, the internal organs are completely pulled out, the inner cavity is hollowed out, and what chicken intestines, chicken blood and the like should all be retained, to put it bluntly, that is, to maintain the integrity of the chicken, and then put on the altar table.
Different ethnic groups in different regions are also particular about such an important chicken.
In some places, when plucking chicken feathers, a pinch of hair on the chicken PP will be left specially, the longer it is left, the better, it is estimated that many people do not understand why this is, in fact, it is the hardship of drinking blood by the ancestors of zhi ancestors, through this ritual to sacrifice the ancestors.
In some places, when killing chickens, they do not leave blood, but go to the cow house and cut the blood in the stove room, which is the so-called "blood sacrifice". What is more legendary is that in the past, in some places in Guixi, on the day of Chinese New Year's Eve, there was also the custom of "using chicken bu to determine the abundance of the age", also known as chicken bu. The ritual of this chicken is very complicated to say, to put it simply, that is, on the last day of the year, use this chicken to determine the smoothness of people and things in the next year's life, of course, now this kind of activity is very few people, it is estimated that it is about to disappear.
In fact, the most important thing in the New Year is to talk about a "meaning"! When it comes to "Yitou", it is estimated that many people will think of guangdong's customs and culture, in fact, not to mention Guangxi, that is, the whole country has this kind of "Yitou" culture, to put it bluntly, it is harmonic to take pleasure, harmonic to take blessings.
Like a bowl dropped during the New Year, broken, that is called "the years of peace"; wine cans, rice jars pasted on an inverted "Fu" word, indicating "poured blessing", "blessed to", the door posted a "peace in and out", the corral poultry cage pasted "six animals prosperous", the New Year to say auspicious words, and so on.
This kind of "intention" can be seen at any time during the New Year. For example, Chinese New Year's Eve rice, many people will have a whole fish on the dinner table, which means "more than every year"; Chinese New Year's Eve rice, no matter how the meal is, it is "rejected" disc action, how to leave a little meal, a little wine left, pay attention to is a "year after year", "food with surplus grain";
Folk also have the saying "do not rush thirty workers a year", all Chinese New Year's Eve, many people are busy at home for the New Year, what work, what farm work, basically have to be put down, you still have to work, people will say "a year do not rush to catch up Chinese New Year's Eve late", extended, is also an attitude to life.
Different times, different regions, different water and soil cultures, so the Chinese New Year's Eve customs of various parts of Guangxi really need to be discussed, and each place can write an article, but the same is the Chinese family culture, the New Year is approaching, packing bags and going home for the New Year is the right way. However, the environment of each family is different, and there will always be people who cannot return home and reunite for various reasons.
However, various communication methods in modern society are still very convenient and instantaneous, and it is also a good way to share the happiness of the Spring Festival with your family in other ways.
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