The fourth day of the first lunar month is the day when Chinese folk greet the gods. In the old imperial calendar, the sheep are occupied, so it is often said that "three sheep (yang) Kaitai" is a symbol of auspiciousness and a day to welcome the god of Vesta back to the folk.
On the fourth day of the Chinese New Year, the whole family eats and folds together, cleans the New Year goods, cleans the room, and collects garbage in one place, which is also said in Chinese folklore to "throw away the poor".
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According to traditional customs, this is the day when the gods descend to earth, and it is said that "sending the gods early, receiving the gods late". In terms of offerings, the three animals, fruits, wine and vegetables should be prepared, and incense should be burned, candles should be burned, gold clothes should be burned, and firecrackers should be set off, symbolizing the five ways of wealth and the opening of the market on the fifth day of the first month to make the city auspicious. This ritual is similar to the ancient ceremony of welcoming important messengers or oath masters, and the folk used this ceremony to receive gods and express respect for the gods of heaven. In the north, some rural customs are to tie the fire god, tie it to a stick with a corn stalk or wheat stalk, light it, and send it from your home to the river, which means that there is no fire in the family for a year.
Of the gods invited, the most important is the "land." The land god evolved from the ancient "society". The Eastern Han Dynasty should help the "Customs and Customs" to say: "The community, the lord of the land." The land is vast and cannot be respected, so the land is sealed as a society and worshiped, and the merits are also repaid. "In an agrarian society, land is the source of all economy, so people attach great importance to sacrificial land.
Not only does the royal family have to worship the national god of land - "Hou Tu", the prefecture, the prefecture, the county, the road and the countryside also have their own land gods "Shegong", "Shemu" or "Dangfang Land", and even the people's homes must worship the land god in the most prominent place in the entrance, and affectionately called "Land Lord", regarding the land god as the local guardian deity who is in charge of various auspicious crimes.
In addition, in some places such as Zhejiang, Shanxi, Hebei, Henan, and Shandong, there is a legend that the "King of Stove" checks the household registration on this day, so there is a custom in these places that they do not go out to visit relatives and friends on the fourth day of the first day.
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As for the "Sheep Day", in addition to taking good care of the sheep raised at home on this day, no special customs have been found in the historical books, perhaps the ancient customs have been drowned in the historical evolution. The "Receiving God" event is held on "Sheep Day". The so-called "sheep, xiangye", in ancient Chinese, "sheep" and "xiang" can be universal, so "sheep day" is "auspicious day", please god is naturally a great auspicious, so the ancient ancestors set such an important activity as inviting the gods in the heavens on the fourth day of the first month.
Sheep are benevolent and filial by nature, and the continent often uses lambs as a word of praise for the sages. Sheep have two kinds of sheep, goat, mutton can make up for the deficiency, goat milk can nourish the yin, wool is the best material for weaving fur and wool.
There are also many stories related to sheep in the history of the mainland, such as "Su Wu Shepherd" and "Zheng Bo Meat Ancestor Negative Sheep". In addition, there is also a saying that sheep are not slaughtered on the fourth day of the first lunar month.
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On the fourth day of the first lunar month, the whole family eats origami together, the so-called origami, which is a smorgasbord of meals left over from a few days.
On this day, the beef and mutton shop will go to the horse temple to burn incense, because the sheep king, the cow king, and the horse king are all enshrined in the horse temple.
Generally, shops should feast on the fourth night of the first year and distribute red envelopes. In the past, there was an old saying in Beijing: "The sky is not afraid, the earth is not afraid, it is afraid of the official words of the treasurer on the fourth night of the first year." "There is wine and dishes at the banquet, and the custom after drinking is to eat buns.
At this time, the treasurer raised a glass of congratulations and said "hard work" to everyone, which is called "official language". After the official speech, the bun is brought up, the treasurer personally clips the bun, the bun is placed in the bowl, who is implied to have been fired, and the dismissed person automatically packs up his luggage after the meal, so this feast is commonly called "eating egg buns".
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In the past, people did not have any tools such as network communication, and they used to say "Happy New Year" when they met. Now in addition to saying "Happy New Year" when meeting, when answering the phone, saying a good news word is a kind of courtesy and the custom of removing bad luck on the fourth day of the first year.
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This day is the day to entertain the new son-in-law and the married daughter, the newlyweds should dress up, enter through the gate, first salute the ancestral relics, and then both of them in turn to congratulate the relatives and family present. Father-in-law and mother-in-law served with lotus seed soup and olive tea. Lotus seed soup means networking; olive tea means bravery and talent.
This night the son-in-law had to go home, and the proverb said, "There is no empty house in the first month." The New Year is the beginning of the first year, and if a man is out of the country, he should stay at home more often in the first month. Yan'er's newlywed should be like glue, grace and love.
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Source: Shanxi Cloud Media
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