Chinese New Year's Eve early in the morning, the family put on red paper early, including the Spring Festival. Red paper should find a well-written relative and neighbor in advance. It is said that my grandfather's (grandfather's) brush Kaifa village is one of the best in the village, so before the New Year, my grandfather often helped people write couplets, and my father and his two aunts hung couplets.
If one person in the family dies, it is not possible to put red paper for three years. If two people die, then you can't stick a red paper for six years, and so on.
There is something to be done with red paper. When posting horizontal batches, no matter how high the door is, it cannot be attached to the door. When posting the Spring Festival, you must think carefully about how many external doors you have in your house, because at this time, the door frame of the broken house must also be pasted on the Spring League. The word Fu can be pasted or poured, and the outer door should be pasted on the left and right doors. If the door is large enough, it is not too much to paste four sheets.
In addition to the couplets pasted on the door frame and the inverted blessing characters on the façade, other red paper should be written. If there is a building or tree in front of the gate, it can be pasted to the wall or tree, or it can be attached to the outer wall. The wall of the courtyard should be posted with "spring light in the courtyard", and the bedside should be pasted with "good health". The faucet in the courtyard is pasted with "endless flow", and the red paper of "people and cars are safe" or "driving thousands of miles" is generally posted obliquely on the car, and the vertical sticker is obviously too stunned and too stiff. However, "good health" must be attached vertically. These red papers, if not naturally dropped, generally will not be artificially removed.
Chinese New Year's Eve afternoon, the family prepared dumplings for the guy. At this time, all women, grandmothers, mothers, girls, and granddaughters, must stay at home to make dumplings. And men, grandfathers, fathers, sons, grandchildren, can go out to the grave - this is called asking for tablets.
When they arrived at the ancestral grave, several people lit the yellow paper and recited the words in their mouths: "Old grandfather, old grandmother, old ancestor." Go home for the New Year! "First correspond to several people one by one, and then burn the yellow paper uniformly." There is absolutely no head on the way home, or the ancestors will be equivalent to a white invitation - they will go back. In addition, if you ask for a tablet, you must go home first, and you can't go to the home of relatives and friends when you go home, otherwise you will invite the tablet to someone else's house.
When the tablets are invited to the house, they insert three sticks of incense into the incense burner. Then take the yellow paper folded into the shape of a token, and write vertically in the middle "Enshrine the spiritual position of the ancestors for three generations", which is called the tablet. Two large red candles should be placed next to the tablet. There are more professional, yellow paper also to write couplets. When it is written, insert the tablet behind the incense.
Now it is necessary to put up a photo of an old couple driving a crane to the west behind the incense burner. If someone in the family has passed away, add a picture of the deceased, and then add a note to the tablet that reads". If a couple dies, the photo is changed.
In fact, the way our family sets up the plaque is different. Others have kept genealogical scrolls (in the dialect it has the same name as "bamboo" in the dialect), on which are painted pavilions and pavilions, and the buildings are left with spaces for the names of the ancestors who have passed away. The eight immortals are painted on the left and right of the shaft. And our family did not have this kind of shaft, and the rich peasants and above at that time of the landlord did not allow the shaft to be left, and it was burned.
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Back to the point, the tablets are ready, and it is also necessary to prepare the tablets of various immortals. The most important thing is to take care of God's tablets. In the courtyard of each house in the village, there is a table-like "Heavenly Grandfather Terrace" - this is the special place of the Lord, whether simple or exquisite, it is to be built. On the table, there should also be an incense burner with three sticks of incense and two large red candles. Someone more professional took a sorghum pole and woven it into the shape of a mat and surrounded a small piece of the square heaven and earth of the TianyeTai. Now people just stick God on the bottom of the inside of the carton, and then set up the carton.
The tablets of the other gods are simpler than those of the Lord, and as long as their portraits are pasted in the unwritten places, they must still be placed with three incense burners and two large red candles.
There are many immortals invited, and I have never heard the names of some of them. Among the other gods and immortals invited, there must be the resident god, the King of the Stove (we will invite him back when we get here to Chinese New Year's Eve, and there are also people who invite him on the first day of the New Year). In addition, there are the door gods in the doorway, Aunt Wen and Aunt Wu who are sticking to the door. There is the sacrificial white tiger (the machine used for grinding the noodles), the green dragon (the machine used to grind rice), the locust fairy of the locust tree, and the sacrificial building immortal of the two-story house. The ground can also be placed on the ground. At that time, Grandpa was the carpenter, so he also invited Lu Ban. There is also a deity who does not need to be specially invited- the god of mao in the hut (thirty nights to go to the toilet is quiet, that is, afraid of alarming the god of mao). In short, the gods and immortals are all kinds, and each family will not be too different.
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After preparing the tablets of the ancestors and immortals, they began to pay tribute to each flower cake. Tribute can not be cold, you must first tenggong. Tenggong is to use a large cauldron to steam the tribute, so that it is good to pay tribute This is the first important ceremony of the year and the early morning of the first morning of the New Year, and the mouth must recite words to the ancestors: "Grandpa, grandma, ancestor, eat." To the immortals: "Bless my children's good health and enter a good university..."
When the tribute was finished, every household lit firecrackers (there were still people who went to order 10,000 whips at that time) - this is the tribute, saying "Let's all eat!" Wait for the signal after the call. At this time, it is only about five o'clock.
It has to be mentioned that it is unique to the Chinese New Year's Eve. When paying tribute, the gate must be closed. There is an unwritten rule in the countryside: if it is convenient for guests to greet guests, leave the door open; if it is not convenient to welcome guests, close the door. The reason for the closure is that the tribute cannot enter the outsiders until the dumplings are eaten. Therefore, there is a saying after the break called "Chinese New Year's Eve eat dumplings - no outsiders".
If someone asks you if the dumplings are full, you have to say "full" instead of "finished.". "Finished" is a bad word, that is, it means that it is all over in a year. In reverse, "full" symbolizes that the year is very full, so it must be said that "pinched full". If you read it carefully, you will find that I have not mentioned it more than once in this article except for the few "finished" just now.
When cooking dumplings, the child watching the dumplings cooked next to you cannot speak. In fact, this is just the grandmother who does not let the father who cooks the dumplings speak, which is afraid that he will speak a big nest. What is the Big Nest? For example, a child sees a dumpling boiled and cracked, and says, "Why is it broken?" Such words are included in the new year's greetings to unlucky words. In order to prevent his father's childish words, the grandmother simply asked him not to speak.
Chinese New Year's Eve things are many, and I haven't finished talking for half a day. On the day of Chinese New Year's Eve, people will bring incense or pig heads to the temple to make a wish. Make a wish in the temple, such as "XXX, let the child go to college, I will give you a big tribute to the pig's head." etc. If it is really fulfilled, it must be repaid and fulfilled its promises. There is no monk temple in the village, there is also this grandmother temple, that aunt temple. There will also be several small temples of less than one square meter. If he is a devout believer (a believer or a person who believes slightly in such a deity), he will grab a large handful of incense and burn it to the deity, and he will also paste couplets on the temple door.
Paid tribute, returned the wish, and ate the meal. Children can call their friends to play, or they can light (burn) some small firecrackers they bought before. If you order it all, it's okay, the commissary doesn't take a holiday in the New Year, because they are personally operated, and the New Year does not delay them from making money. So order all the firecrackers and you can go to the commissary and buy some more.
Chinese New Year's Eve nights, small children can still hang out. Everyone is idle, and they can also go to relatives, friends, and neighbors to visit the door. When my father was a child, very few people had TV, so there was no need to watch the Spring Festival Gala.
In some places, there is a "rat marrying a daughter", but the date is not necessarily on this day, the twenty-third and thirtieth of the Waxing Moon, the first and second days of the first month of the first month, there are all. In short, when a mouse marries a woman, you can't annoy people's mice.
Grandpa, grandma (grandpa) and their emphasis on keeping the age, even if they are really sleepy, they must persist for a while. Younger people take it very lightly. Children go to bed early, and young people don't sleep late. When the elderly rest, the year will be completely over.