After entering the small year, a series of folk activities have gradually arrived at the active period, basically there are rules every day, there are activities every day, the sense of ceremony is getting stronger and stronger every day, although there are differences in the south of Tiannan, but after all, the family in the north and south of China is relatives, and many customs are still the same.
Although today's younger generation, including the "old and not tender" post-80s like Jiangyang Gu drunkards, is half-aware of many elderly folk customs, they are still willing to learn more about them from the mouths of the older generation. First, there is a traditional sense of belonging, and second, I think this is also an important part of our humanities.
Why is it that although the folk advocate changing customs and customs, many traditional things have been handed down? I think the most important thing is that everyone needs some encouragement and dependence in their hearts, referring to the Lunar New Year customs handed down by the older generation, each of which has a good meaning, so I also look forward to abiding by the next year's self-will be lucky, naturally will be willing to be accepted, psychological effects are also needed.
In fact, there are many taboos in the New Year customs, which can be started as early as the 23rd and 24th of the year, until the 15th Lantern of the first month. This is incomparable to any domestic original festival, which is the charm of the Spring Festival.
As people said in the past, the busy year is the small year, when the imperial family would also hold a ceremony to sacrifice the heavens and worship the god of the stove on the 23rd day of the waxing moon, and the folk would cook bowls accordingly, and later developed into various end-of-year customs: the 23rd festival stove of the year, the 24th of the year, the 25th steamed cake of the year, the 26th of the year washed Fulu, the 27th of the year washed the guilt disease, the 28th of the year washed the sloppy, the 29th year of the spring festival, etc., but the time changed easily, some customs were still carried out, and some were simplified or omitted.
In Luzhou, when the wine sellers were young, they remembered their parents and grandparents, and they often said that 2728 washed sloppy, and twenty-nine washed pigs and dogs. A bunch of children teased us and said that today is the twenty-eighth day of the Waxing Moon, and we must take a bath, so it is better to wash the pigs and dogs tomorrow. Although it is a joke, I still have this habit, every year on these two days must be bathed, the next day will not be bathed. This is probably the most ritualistic bath.
As for why this is so, when I was a child, I was not curious to ask, and the adults did not explain, and today I ask my parents again, they say that the rules of old age are like this, who knows? Unfortunately, Grandma is gone, and asked her if she should be able to tell you.
However, people like wine sellers who grow up with increasing curiosity, especially traditional culture, how can they not understand it?
But fortunately, this is not difficult, this is not a habit of a certain region, it is a custom of most parts of our country.
Folk also have a smooth saying about this: "Twenty-eight years of washing sloppy, if you do not wash it will be hairy", probably means that this day bathing can remove the obscurity of the person for a year, the past year's bad, unsatisfactory wash away from their own body, some people will also use grapefruit leaves to soak in water to wash. Although it seems to be a superstition, I think it is a ritual, and those who are clear will not be confused, and those who are firm will firmly believe.
In fact, there is also a saying in some places: "Twenty-six years of washing blessings, twenty-seven years of washing guilt diseases, twenty-eight years of washing sloppy, twenty-nine years of washing grapefruit." In the Spring Festival folklore, twenty-six, twenty-seven, and twenty-eight are bathing days. In the traditional folklore, on the twenty-seventh and twenty-eight days, it is necessary to take a concentrated bath and wash, remove the obscurity of the year, and prepare for the new year of the coming year. The bath on the twenty-sixth day of the lunar month is "washing blessings".
Of course, perhaps in a fourth-tier city like Luzhou, there is often a sufficient water source next to the river to ensure the situation of people, and on the 29th of the waxing moon, it is to give pigs and dogs a bath.
The ancients pay attention to the spirit of the spirit, today's conditions are good, to bathe at least in Luzhou is very convenient, in the past even in the Yangtze River, far from the river bank of the people's homes, but also have to dig their own wells or carry water, it is said that Luzhou loquat ditch small north gate also has a special water temple, there are also special water collectors, you say like today's household natural gas water heater, but not so convenient, so these days can be a strong bath, and at the end of the year to resign the old and welcome the new, it is indeed a very painful thing.
Don't look at the winter is not like the summer can not take a few days without bathing does not matter, the past people are not as good as today, so this sense of ceremony is still very meaningful.
We pay attention to these today, not to be an old antique, but to tell ourselves and the next generation, the traditional festival, the origin and significance of these customs, remember our past, our ancestors left us those historical imprints, this is an important humanistic heritage, but also shows a sense of cultural belonging, with these can constitute the splendid civilization of the Chinese nation, in order to make the annual taste, the taste is still strong, do you think?