"In addition to the sound of firecrackers, the spring breeze sends warmth into Tu Su. Thousands of households always exchange new peaches for old charms. ”
Chinese's emphasis on the year is unique, it is the most important day of the year, it is a day of blessing, and it is also a day of reunion and auspiciousness.
It begins in the twelfth month of the lunar calendar (Waxing Moon), and then the festive and happy atmosphere of "New Year" lasts until the fifteenth day of the first month, and it is barely over, which shows how much we attach importance to the Year Chinese.
Although there are slight differences between the north and the south in terms of customs, most of them recognize that the year begins with Lapa Ba, and then the busy year continues to the Chinese New Year's Eve, which can be seen from the popular slip of the tongue in most regions:
Children, children, don't be hungry, after the eighth year is the year.
Lapa Porridge, in a few days, Li Li La La twenty-three.
Twenty-three, sugar melon sticky, twenty-four, sweep the house;
Twenty-five, make tofu, twenty-six, go cut meat;
Twenty-seven, slaughtering chickens;
Twenty-eight, put the noodles hair, twenty-nine, steamed steamed buns;
Stay up for thirty nights, twist and turn at the beginning of the New Year.
Everywhere on the twenty-third day of the waxing moon says that this is a small year, so from this day on, every household enters the busy year mode, starting from the cleaning, although the saying says that 24 sweep the house, but in Jinan 23 began to sweep the house, and then all kinds of purchases, all kinds of preparations, until the Chinese New Year's Eve paste the Spring Festival, worship the ancestors, and start to wrap dumplings at night, eat reunion dinner.
This year's Spring Festival in the Year of the Tiger, we found that this waxing moon is only 29 days, not thirty. So the question is, without the twenty-ninth day of the thirty-fifth lunar month, what should this custom do?
Without the thirty-first lunar month, twenty-nine is Chinese New Year's Eve
Chinese New Year's Eve is a day of end-to-end connection, and in the traditional folklore of the mainland, Chinese New Year's Eve is the night of the last day of the Waxing Moon, that is, the day of the thirty-ninth is the night of Chinese New Year's Eve, that is, our traditional Chinese New Year's Eve.
Chinese New Year's Eve the customs of this day are mostly the same everywhere, so on the twenty-nine days of the last day, the inevitable activities of making dumplings, reunion dinner, and keeping the New Year cannot be less.
In the southwestern region of Lu, there is another most important activity in the Chinese New Year's Eve, which is not moving, that is, going to the grave to ask the ancestors to make a great offering. This grave, simply put, is generally Chinese New Year's Eve the afternoon of the same day, to their own family cemetery to invite the deceased people home, and then set up the ancestor tablet in the home, the reunion is also from the ancestors and the family reunion, which is the heaviest ceremony of the New Year.
"Twenty-nine, steamed steamed buns"
The folk song says "twenty-eight, put the noodles, twenty-nine, steamed steamed steamed buns", that is to say, in the past, most of our family's New Year's food was prepared by themselves, twenty-eight hairs of good noodles, twenty-nine will start steaming steamed steamed buns, in fact, this steamed steamed buns include a variety of pasta, such as Jiaodong's various flower color steamed buns, Luxi area's picture scrolls, shou peaches, large buns, etc., so this day is particularly busy.
If there is no thirty, twenty-nine this day is not busy, all kinds of Chinese New Year's Eve activities must be on this day, such as: sticking Spring League, dumplings, ancestors on the grave, etc., so "29 steamed steamed steamed buns" has become symbolic, all that needs to be prepared must be completed at 28, otherwise this year will be too hard.
Without thirty, the twenty-ninth day of the Waxing Moon is in accordance with the thirty, although the customs of various places are slightly different, but basically follow this, and the custom of the twenty-nine is steamed steamed steamed buns, "go to the wine" or good, all before the Chinese New Year's Eve this day to prepare ten thousand, the so-called busy year of the people, basically busy almost.
After half a day, do you know what to do without the twenty-ninth of the thirty-first lunar month?
In fact, now, a lot of customs have not adapted, such as steaming steamed steamed buns, slaughtering chicken, making tofu, no one has done it, supermarkets have bought a trip, people in the city have almost no "go to the grave to ask the ancestors to make a big offering", and folklore has changed or faded with the times year by year!
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