Why is there a day difference between the south and the north?

The Qing Dynasty began in Yongzheng period, and on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, the gods were sacrificed in Kunning Palace. In order to save money, the kitchen god was also offered. Later, the royal family and officials followed suit and offered sacrifices to stoves on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month. Since then, officials and people have had different off-year lives.

There is a folk saying in China that "three officials, three people, four boats and five people", that is to say, the official off-year is the 23rd lunar month, the people's home is the 24th lunar month, and the houseboat is the 25th lunar month.

Before the Southern Song Dynasty, the north was the political center, which was greatly influenced by bureaucracy, so the off-year was mostly the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month. On the contrary, the south is far from the political center, and the off-year is the 24th of the twelfth lunar month. Residents along the lake and the sea retain the tradition of boating, and the next year is set on the 25th of the twelfth lunar month.

Nanjing is special because Judy practiced tyranny after she usurped the throne in the Ming Dynasty. At that time, the people celebrated the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month of Yongle, and they all missed the generosity of the Zhu Yunwen era. The scene was more lively than the Chinese New Year. Therefore, in Nanjing, Lantern Festival becomes a small year.

Yunnan-Guizhou-Sichuan area in the southwest and some northern Hui areas regard the first day of the first month as New Year's Eve, and New Year's Eve becomes New Year's Eve.

As the saying goes, "off-year" is not small. After this day, people began to enter the stage of preparing for the New Year: 23 honeydew melons were sticky; Twenty-four house sweeps; Twenty-five grinding bean curd; Twenty-six stews; Twenty-seven slaughtered cocks; Twenty-eight sides; Twenty-nine steamed buns; Stay up all night on the 30th, on the first day of New Year's Day.