What are the traditional customs on the 28th of the twelfth lunar month?

Traditional customs on the 28th of the twelfth lunar month include making rice cakes, appliques and steaming steamed buns.

1, making rice cakes

Eating rice cakes is one of the customs of China people. Because "cake" and "high" are homophonic, eating rice cakes contains the good wishes of "high every year"

2, decals

On the 28th of the twelfth lunar month, people also pay attention to "decals", that is, New Year pictures, Spring Festival couplets and window grilles. Among them, the custom of pasting Spring Festival couplets originated from the ancient "Fu Tao". The ancients used peach wood to ward off evil spirits and carved peach symbols on it, which became the origin of Spring Festival couplets. Later, the custom of pasting Spring Festival couplets with red paper instead of mahogany appeared.

Step 3: steamed bread

Many skilled women make all kinds of dough sculptures on cakes, including flowers, dragons, phoenixes and butterflies. After cooking, it is dyed in various colors with various pigments, which is particularly festive.

The origin of the custom on the 28th of the twelfth lunar month.

On the 26th and 27th of the twelfth lunar month, meat is prepared for the Chinese New Year. On the 28th, it's time to prepare pasta. In the past, the social development was low and there was no modern and convenient baking powder.

Ordinary dough is easy to go bad when it is made a few days in advance. Only dough doesn't like to go bad, so dough is made on the 28th to prepare the staple food from the first day of the first month to the fifth day of the first month. At the same time, it is also because of the old custom that you can't steam steamed buns with fire during the first to fifth day of the first year.