What to eat in the Spring Festival? 20 12 when is the lunar new year?

20 12 when is the lunar new year? A: The 23rd (or 24th) of the twelfth lunar month, which is called off-year by the people, is a festival to worship the kitchen god. The 23rd (or 24th) of the twelfth lunar month, called off-year by the people, is a festival to worship the kitchen god. The custom of offering sacrifices to stoves has a long history. Kitchen God, in the Xia Dynasty, has become a respected god. In the Analects of Confucius, which describes Kong Qiu's words and deeds in the Spring and Autumn Period, there is a saying that "it is better to be charming than beautiful". In the pre-Qin period, the sacrifice furnace was one of the "five sacrifices" (the five sacrifices were the five gods of sacrifice furnace, gate, line, household and thunder). Ray is the land god. The other is doors, wells, households, stoves and lightning; Or lines, wells, households, stoves, thunder). When offering sacrifices to the stove, you should establish a spirit and make a sacrifice with rich wine and food. It is necessary to display tripods, arrange water beans, welcome corpses and so on. With obvious traces of primitive fetishism. On the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, people call it "off-year", which means the end of a year. In the past, there were "three officials, three people, four places and five monks", that is to say, anyone with a reputation of being a scholar or above had a lunar new year of 23, ordinary people had a lunar new year of 24, and Taoists and monks had a lunar new year of 25. Now most areas in the north spend their off-year holidays on the 23rd. The main folk activity in off-year is "giving stoves", that is, "king of people". The Kitchen God is also called "Kitchen King", and the folks call it "Kitchen King". 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 abandoned 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. Liu Qiang's drama "Zhang Lang Divorces His Wife" and Qiang Mao's drama "The Story of the Fire Dragon" both tell the story of Kitchen God. At first, the kitchen god only cared about fire, and later he was appointed as the patron saint in charge of the family by the Emperor of Heaven, and was named the head of the family. He has a lot of power, but he doesn't even have a temple as big as a land temple. There is only one portrait (a New Year picture printed on a wooden board) posted on the kitchen wall. On both sides, there are couplets of "Heaven says yes, returning to the palace will bring good luck" or "East chef is the master, South has the fire emperor", which are horizontally approved as "the head of the family". When offering sacrifices to the stove, fruits such as dates and honeydew melons should be placed. Honeydew melon is a kind of food which is fermented and saccharified by barley. Some people say that they are sweet-talking to the kitchen god, and some say that in order to deceive his mouth, he is told to speak well and not speak ill. After burning incense and worshipping, the old statue of the kitchen stove was removed and incinerated. Put on a new image, even if you send the kitchen god to heaven and report to the king. A bowl of noodle soup (noodles) should be served when offering sacrifices to the stove. As the saying goes, "Kitchen God's real name is Zhang, and there is a miscellaneous noodle market every year." Mixed noodle soup is made of white flour, bean flour and sweet potato flour, which shows the position of Kitchen God in people's minds. The kitchen god went to heaven on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month and came back on the 15th of the first month. Even if the report task is completed, it is also a blessing to the family for good luck and peace. Nowadays, there are fewer and fewer people who are kings, but the custom of eating honeydew melons in off-year is still popular among the people. After the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, people began to clean the courtyard and bedroom, remove dirt, buy new year's goods and make holiday food. They were busy until New Year's Eve. What to eat in the Spring Festival? A: People pay attention to eating jiaozi on the festival of offering sacrifices to stoves, which means "you can't see 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.