What's the date of the off-year this year?

As of February 5th, 2065438+0965438, this year's off-year is 065438+ 10/7,2020? .

Off-year, not just a day, is called "off-year" because of local customs. During the off-year period, the main folk activities include sweeping dust and offering sacrifices to stoves. Traditionally, the day of offering sacrifices to stoves is the 24th of the twelfth lunar month. In most parts of the south, the ancient tradition of celebrating the 24th of the twelfth lunar month is still maintained.

Since the middle and late Qing Dynasty, the emperor's family held a ceremony to worship heaven on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month. In order to "save money", they also pay homage to the kitchen god, so most northern regions celebrate the off-year holiday on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month.

Off-year has different concepts and dates in different places, with the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month in the north and the 24th of the twelfth lunar month in most parts of the south. Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai call "the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month" and "the night before New Year's Eve" off-year, Nanjing calls it the Lantern Festival holiday on the 15th day of the first month, the 16th day of the first month in some parts of Yunnan, and New Year's Eve in some ethnic minority areas in the southwest and north.

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Legend:

In the past, there were "three officials, three people, four monks and five monks", that is to say, anyone with a reputation of being a scholar or above had a lunar calendar of 23, ordinary people of 24 and monks of 25. Now most areas in the north spend their off-year holidays on the 23rd. Some southern Renye Fang celebrate the 23rd.

The main folk activity in off-year is "building a shrine". It is the "king of the people". Kitchen King is also called "Kitchen King", and China folks call it "Kitchen God". Legend has it that the Kitchen King turned out to be a rich boy named Zhang Dan. He once married a virtuous woman, Guo Dingxiang, and later gave up his marriage with Li Haitang. Li was lazy by nature, and soon squandered the property of the Zhang family and remarried others.

Zhang Dan's family was ruined and blinded by fire. He became a beggar. One day, he went to a family to beg, and the host gave him hot soup and rice. Later, he found that the person who delivered the meal was his abandoned wife Guo Dingxiang, and he was ashamed. Before coming into contact with the kitchen, he was named the king of the kitchen by Jiang Taigong.

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