In the old days, ningbo's New Year's Seventh Festival festival stove fruit and small Chinese New Year's Eve

In a few days, February 1st is the day when the Ala Ningbo people "send the stove Jun" on the 23rd night of December, and also unveil the prelude to the "New Year", which is also called "little Chinese New Year's Eve" by the old Ningbo people. Today, let's talk about the old Ningbo people who sent the grandfather of the stove to the heavens to report out of the house ceremony.

When I was a child, my grandmother's stove also had a large stove made of bricks, that big stove has two large iron pots, and there is a small barrel of copper water on the corner of the indirect joint of the two iron pots, which is used to heat the water temperature with the residual temperature when cooking rice, this water can be used to wash the face and soak the feet after eating a good meal, and it is very energy-saving and environmentally friendly to use the current method.

Above the big stove there is also a closet with salt oil and other spices on it, of course, there is a hollow attached to the stove king wearing Mongolian clothes, the stove king milk statue, but this stove king statue can no longer be seen in the city after I was four years old, it is four old, to be swept away, so the memory of the stove is like a later in the countryside A Tai family to see, the country stove is also the same as my grandmother's house, and the difference in the stove is that there are more tile jars, which contains the straw ash burned in the stove. On the side of the catalyst paper rolled with raw edge paper, when the uncle made a fire, first take the end of the catalyst paper to remove the cold ash on the surface, ignite on the hot ash below, and then use the mouth to blow the paper roll and then go to the stove to ignite the straw, and then use a hollow bamboo tube to blow air into the stove, so that the straw burns more and more vigorously, these are my favorite to play when I was a child, but every time I have to be caught by my grandmother, hey hey, the child plays with the fire at night to wet the bed.

That play with the power of fire is not written, or continue today's topic: sacrifice stove, once upon a time we in Ningbo to use the sacrifice stove fruit, sweet glutinous rice balls to provide the stove king stove king grandmother, but also with straw to tie a grass horse, with fried soybeans, water to feed the grass horse, this is the stove king to ride the heavens to ride the mount. After the sacrifice is completed, the statue of the king of the stove and this grass horse will be burned and sent to the heavenly court to report. In order to enable the king of the stove to be able to say more sweet words to the host's family after seeing the queen mother in the heavenly court, so the sacrifice of the stove fruit should all use sweets, frozen rice candy made of frozen rice fat, as well as red fruit white fruit black sesame sugar flakes, and the sweet oil fruit, these red fruits and white fruits and oil fruits, etc. are all made of glutinous rice, there is a way to speak, because you can't let the stove king talk about the master's bad words so as not to blame the heavenly court, so you have to use glutinous rice to stick to the teeth of the king of the stove, so that he can taste the sweetness and can't say bad words. In this way, the Queen Mother will not give the order to the master's family, but also to add a few new chopsticks to the chopstick cage between the stoves, which is actually to deceive the eyes of the king of the stove is blinded by smoke, he can't see how many people the master's family has, he has to touch the chopstick cage with his hands to count the chopsticks, he feels that the family has more chopsticks this year, so this family may "add Ding", so in the Tianting report that the next year should let this family "add wealth", we Ningbo people until now still have to add a few pairs of chopsticks every year, the next year can increase income, ah, Seeing that everyone here who wants to raise their salary next year, go to bed on the night of February 1 and go to the chopstick cage to add a few new pairs of chopsticks.

With the era of sweeping the four old those small Chinese New Year's Eve sacrifice stove customs have also been revolutionized by the times, now only the supermarket in the sacrifice stove fruit is still left in the folk, this is the grandmother to buy to give to the juniors, Ningbo old saying that eating the sacrifice stove fruit, people should be obedient, is to let the grandchildren in the next year to obey, read to work hard, so the sacrifice stove fruit is now evolved function, is the grandmother to bless the grandchildren of the food, this is also the progress of the times, but the authentic sacrifice stove fruit is also very delicious, I will go to the supermarket before the New Year will go to the supermarket to buy a bag to taste the taste of that hour, Maybe you have to laugh at me, an old man who wants to be obedient? In fact, the elderly and juniors can also feed the elders to sacrifice the stove fruit, because the sacrifice stove fruit has that root of the oil fruit, that symbolizes the foot bone, so there is a sentence in the old saying in Ningbo to eat the sacrifice stove fruit, the foot bone is straight through, which means the meaning of good health, so you go to the supermarket to buy a bag of sacrifice stove fruit to give to your grandparents and grandparents, wish them good health in the coming year.

Postscript: After I contacted the Internet, I realized that our Han ethnic sacrifice culture is actually a disgrace to our nation, why do I say so? Because when I was young, I was very curious why that stove king's grandmother was dressed as a Mongolian, asked my grandfather and grandmother to only talk about the image that has been handed down, this problem has been so troubled for me for nearly fifty years, until the year before I saw an article on the Internet to solve this mystery, it turned out that this stove king stove king grandmother is really a Mongolian, in the Yuan Dynasty we Han nationality is dead country, then the society is divided into four levels, the Mongols are the first class, the Tibetan, Khitan and other ethnic minorities are second class, and the Han people are third class, The southern barbarians in the Erguang area are the fourth class, and we Han Rulers of the Yuan Dynasty stipulate that only five families can have a kitchen knife for fear of the rebellion of the Han people, and a hundred families will form a guarantee, send a Mongolian family as the chief of the security, and every year this Mongolian family will go to the Yuan Dynasty ruler to report the movements of this hundred Han families, if this Han family tells the Yuan Dynasty ruler bad things about a certain family, then this family will have the disaster of killing, so this hundred Han families must supply the Mongolian Baochang family with the peace of the next year's family at the end of the month. Slowly it has become a custom of sacrificial stoves, so now the cancellation and reform of this sacrificial stove custom is also a great shame for our Han people!