When is the off-year in Northeast China? 20 19.

The year of 20 19 in northeast China is 65438+ 10/7 in 2020.

Off-year is a traditional festival of Han nationality in China, also known as Xie Zao, Zao Zao Festival, Zao Wang Festival and Zao Zao Festival.

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The date is different in different places, on the 23rd or 24th or 25th of the twelfth lunar month. Folklore experts say that there is a tradition of "three officials, three people, four boats and five people" in ancient times, that is to say, the official's off-year is the 23rd lunar month, the people's home is the 24th lunar month, and the houseboat is the 25th lunar month.

Off-year is the prelude to the Spring Festival, which is second only to the Spring Festival. In northern China, the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month is called "off-year", which means the end of a year. In the south, the twelfth lunar month is usually a small year. This time difference about off-year may be related to the "three officials, three people, four monks and five monks" in the past, that is to say, anyone with a reputation of being a scholar or above is off-year on the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, the common people are twenty-four, and the monks are twenty-five. What do you eat in the next year? There is an old saying: "Twenty-three, cantaloupes are sticky, and the master of the kitchen goes to heaven."

Off-year, that is, the 23rd or 24th of the twelfth lunar month, is a festival to worship the kitchen god. The lunar calendar is the beginning and foreshadowing of the whole Spring Festival celebration, and there are two main activities: sweeping graves to celebrate the New Year and offering sacrifices to stoves. In addition, there is the custom of eating stove candy. In some places, we also eat fire, sugar cakes, oil cakes and tofu soup.

As early as the Song Dynasty, there was a record that the twelfth lunar month passed the off-year period, but at that time the off-year period was divided into two days. Therefore, the custom of the twenty-fourth year of the twelfth lunar month has a longer history. In the Qing Dynasty, things changed. The Qing emperor began to offer sacrifices to the gods in Kunning Palace on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month. In order to save money, the emperor also offered sacrifices to the kitchen god. Later, the royal family and Baylor followed suit and sacrificed stoves on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month. Since then, officials and people have had different off-year lives.

On the festival of offering sacrifices to stoves, people pay attention to eating jiaozi, which means "look down on the windward side of jiaozi". Eat more cakes and buckwheat noodles in mountainous areas. In the southeast of Shanxi, the custom of eating fried corn is popular. A folk proverb says, "Twenty-three, don't eat fried, on New Year's Eve-pour it all at once." People like to bond fried corn with maltose and freeze it into pieces, which tastes crisp and sweet.

According to folklore, the chef once specifically accused human beings of evil. Once charged, the life span of a felony will be shortened by 300 days, and that of a misdemeanor will be shortened by 100 days. In "Induction of Thai Merchants", there is also a description that "the company's life is important and its discipline is taken away". Siming refers to the kitchen king, counting one hundred days, and Kyrgyzstan refers to twelve years. Here, the felony penalty is increased to 12 years of life loss. Therefore, when offering sacrifices to the stove, we should do something about it and ask it to be generous.

In the north of Shanxi, there is a folk song "On the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, Grandpa Zhao Jun, you went to heaven, ate a candy tray in your mouth, and didn't speak in front of the Jade Emperor. When you come back to our home for the New Year, you will have food, noodles and clothes, which shows your pursuit and yearning for a better life.