When is the off-year in 2022?

The off-year is 65438+20221October 25th (the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month).

Off-year, a traditional festival in China, is also called "New Year's Eve", "Kitchen God Festival" and "Kitchen Sacrifice Festival". Because the main activity of the Lunar New Year-offering sacrifices to stoves is held at night, it is also called "Lunar New Year's Eve" and "Lunar New Year's Eve". Off-year is regarded as the beginning of "busy year". Due to different local customs, the days called "off-year" are different. In most areas, the 23rd or 24th of the twelfth lunar month is a "small year".

Off-year this day, or the day to sweep the dust. The custom of sweeping dust at the end of the year was formed in the Song Dynasty. At that time, on New Year's Eve, in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it was generally concentrated after the kitchen god was sent away. The villagers said that the kitchen god went to heaven and cleaned the house unscrupulously. Of course, some people will clean the kitchen before delivering it. They have another explanation, saying that the kitchen god painted dust to record good and evil, and prepared to report it to the Heaven Emperor on this basis. In order to erase the record of Kitchen God, people dust off cigarettes before sending them to the kitchen.

This custom has also spread to modern times. People call the period from childhood to New Year's Eve "Spring Festival", also called "Dust-cleaning Day". "Dust removal" means year-end cleaning. On this day, every household should clean the environment, clean all kinds of appliances, remove and clean bedding curtains, clean Liu Lu courtyard, dust off cobwebs and dredge open channels and culverts.

Everywhere is filled with the atmosphere of being fond of hygiene and welcoming the Spring Festival cleanly. Sweeping the dust is to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, and remove the ominous signs. After the New Year, there are only six or seven days left before the Spring Festival, and the preparations for the Spring Festival are even more enthusiastic.