Time flies so fast, in the blink of an eye today is already a traditional festival in our country - the little year. The arrival of the small year means that the pace of the New Year is getting closer and closer, and people are also beginning to prepare for the things needed for the New Year, so the small year is still regarded as the beginning of the busy year. Xiaonian is also called "Sacrifice Stove Festival", "Stove King Festival", is the day when people sacrifice the Stove King, although the customs of each region in the Small Year are different, but in many places in China there are "six days after the small year without taboos" saying? So why is there such a statement? Does it make sense?
I believe that many people have heard of the "New Year Nursery Rhymes": "Children and children, you are not hungry, after the eighth is the year, twenty-three, sugar melon sticky, twenty-four, sweeping the house day ...". Although from this nursery rhyme, it is the New Year that begins with the Lapa Festival, but from the actual situation of each year, the small year is the prelude to the New Year. In the past, every household would have a "stove prince" in the cooking stove, and it is said that every year when the little Chinese New Year's Eve, the stove prince would ascend to heaven to tell the good and evil of the family in front of the Jade Emperor, and only at Chinese New Year's Eve night would he return from heaven to the people, and be ordered to punish good and evil. In order to let the Stove King go to the Jade Emperor and only say his own good deeds, people have the custom of offering sugar melons when they sacrifice the God of Vesta in the New Year, hoping that the Stove King's mouth will be sweeter after eating the sugar melon, and the heavens will say good things.
In the countryside, there are many taboos about waxing moon, such as waxing moon can not be set, can not move, etc., but from the beginning of the small year to the Chinese New Year's Eve before the six days of time, the rural elderly said that these 6 days of time is no taboo, meaning from the small year to the Chinese New Year's Eve this period is a rare good day, no matter what can be done in these days.
Listening to the old people in the countryside, the reason why they say that the time from the beginning of the year to the Chinese New Year's Eve is that there is no taboo, because from the beginning of the child, not only will the King of the Stove go to the Heavenly Court to make a year-end summary of this year, but even the fierce gods and evil spirits of all walks of life will rest during this time. The reason why we pay attention to many things on weekdays is because there is a stove prince supervising at home, and the other is that there are various fierce gods outside that will affect our normal life, so when doing some more important things, people will try to avoid bad days. Because in the six days from childhood to Chinese New Year's Eve, nothing can stop us from doing things, so people think that these six days are a good day with no taboos, such as dating, marriage, returning to the mother's house, bathing, haircuts, etc., which can be done in these six days. In the countryside, there are also "years of Yan rural marriage busy, Yichun post to tease chunguang." The sisters in front of the lamp are like a phase, and the shou nian is a cave house this year", which means that after a small year, whether it is marrying a daughter-in-law or marrying a daughter, there is no need to choose a good day and an auspicious day as before, and any day of these six days is suitable for marriage, which is also known as "chaotic marriage".
However, with the development of the times, more and more people now pay less and less attention to the customs of the small year festival stove, and now only some elderly people who are old, or in remote rural areas, there is still a sense of sacrifice stove, and many people have now begun to ignore the traditional festival of the small year. Do you still have the tradition of the Small Year's Festival? Have you ever heard the saying that "there are no taboos in six days after a small year"? Welcome to the discussion.