Today is the twenty-third day of the lunar month. It is a Gangnam custom---- the night of the festival stove. Maybe there is this custom all over the country, right? There are many legends about the sacrificial stove, but the twenty-three nights of the stove king to go to the heavenly court to report, according to modern sayings is the year-end summary report.
The king of the stove is not only a shunfeng ear, like to listen to the words of the shun'er, but also a special gluttony, the people of Li people in order to please the stove jun, before he went to heaven, he got the best fruit in the world--- sacrifice the stove fruit.
There is no distinction between noble and inferior fruit, poor and rich families are: sesame candy, peanut candy, frozen rice candy, three north bean crisp sugar means that the four generations are in the same house. There are also red balls, white balls, hemp balls, and oil fruits, all of which are oil burst foods, which means that the expansion is developed. There are also rhubarb cakes, small yellow cakes, which mean size golden bars.
Here also means the four seasons of wealth, eight immortals celebrating birthday, perfect and perfect! Times have changed, and so have the sacrificial stoves. The large and small cakes were replaced by small packages of biscuits and jellies, probably because there are few manufacturers of low-grade foods such as fragrant cakes.
The sacrificial stove --- in the era of food poverty is the most desirable day for children, and the simplest words for adults to teach children are: "Obediently live, twenty-three nights head to Banon to eat sacrificial stove fruit".
The stove festival has passed, and the New Year has begun. Next up is thanksgiving. Listen, the explosions outside, fireworks sound one after another, and there are already people saluting God and thanking the New Year!
Matsuri soup
Henan people have always sacrificed stoves by Han folklore, the moon belongs to yin, and the stove belongs to yang, so "men do not sacrifice the moon, women do not sacrifice stoves". But in Anyang and other places, there are also housewives and priests. On the night of the festival stove, the family uses tofu, vermicelli, cabbage, kelp, etc. to make "sacrifice stove soup"), and in front of the old stove tablet, sesame crisp made of sugar paste or wheat sugar is offered, "sacrifice stove sugar", "Stove god obscure day returns to heaven for white sin, and at the time of worship, sugar cake is used to stick to the mouth of the god to make it silent.". Eighteen fires were also burned, and a rooster was used, and its two wings were sandwiched, and placed in front of the god vesta, and some grass and beans were set aside to "moso god horse". The chief priest first sprinkled wine on the crown of the chicken, burned incense and candles in front of the shrine, and set off firecrackers and recited prayers, with various contents, and prayed for help. The statue of Vesta was removed from the wall, lightly smeared on its mouth with stove candy, burned on paper, and chanted "Send Stove Master to ascend to heaven on horseback", and the sacrifice ended.
Fill a position
The whole family and children enjoyed the candy, bread and dinner together. For dinner, use noodles and other vegetarian foods, do not eat meat and fishy, pay attention to eating as much as possible, called "filling the warehouse".
Sacrifice stove diet
During the Festival of Sacrifice Stove, Han folk pay attention to eating dumplings, which means "sending off dumplings to the wind". In the mountains, you will eat cakes and soba noodles. In the southeastern region of Jin, the custom of eating fried corn is popular, and the folk proverb has the saying of "twenty-three, do not eat fried, the beginning of the New Year - a pot poured". People like to glue the sautéed corn with maltose, freeze it into large pieces, and eat crisp and sweet. After twenty-three years, the Han people believe that the gods have ascended to heaven and have no taboos. Marrying a daughter-in-law and hiring a daughter-in-law does not have to choose a date, which is called a chaotic marriage. At the end of the year, there are many wedding ceremonies.
Folk songs have "Years Yan rural marriage busy, Yichun post to tease chunguang." The sisters in front of the lamp whispered that the shou nian this year is a cave house" said. After twenty-three days, there are only six or seven days left before the Spring Festival, and the preparations for the New Year are even more enthusiastic. It is necessary to thoroughly clean the interior, commonly known as sweeping the home, cleaning the dust under the boxes, cabinets, and kang mats, painting the walls, scrubbing the glass, pasting the windows, pasting the New Year paintings, and so on.