What are the Chinese New Year customs related to the kitchen?

When I was a child, the New Year was more New Year's Eve: from the 23rd day of the Lunar New Year is considered to enter the New Year, the song is as follows:

Twenty-three, sacrificial stove officer:

That is, sacrificial stove (Zao Wang Wang), he is the head of the family, he is the Lord of the family, he is on the 23rd of the Lunar New Year in heaven every year, the people hope that he will go up to the sky to say good things, and go down to protect the world, for fear that he will say something bad, usually will be provided with a sacrificial stove sugar to stick to his mouth, a kind of It is a very sticky candy. After the sacrifice, let us children have a good taste: the sweet ah.

Twenty-four, sweeping the house;?

It is also known as "cleaning". At the turn of the new year, to get rid of the old and welcome the new. Sweeping the dust before the Spring Festival is a traditional habit that our people have always had.?

The custom of "dusting and sweeping the house on the 24th day of the Lunar New Year"?

The custom of "dusting and sweeping the house on the 24th of Lunar New Year"? According to "Lv's Spring and Autumn Annals? Records, our country in the era of Yao and Shun have the custom of dusting in the Spring Festival. According to folklore: because the "dust" and "Chen" homophonic, dust sweeping in the New Year has "in addition to the meaning of Chen Bu Xin", the intention is to put all the "poor luck", "poor luck", "poor luck", "poor luck", "poor luck", "poor luck", "poor luck", "poor luck", "poor luck", "poor luck" and "poor luck". ", "bad luck"? All swept out the door. This custom is the desire of the people to break the old and new, and the old to welcome the new prayers.

Twenty-five, steamed buns;?

The steamed buns symbolize a good fortune for the coming year.

Over the first day of the year to the first ten before this time is not steamed steamed buns, because the family will have guests every day, the first have no time to steam, the second will give people think you poor. I remember when I was a child, my grandmother, my aunt, they put the flour hair good (cold days, flour and more, it is very bad hair) in the kitchen busy day or two days to steam steamed buns, do date flower.

Another: if there is a newly married daughter-in-law, to do oversized steamed buns, we call the big steamed buns, that is the second day of the New Year the new daughter-in-law to go to her mother's home must bring. So we there also called the daughter for "big bun" huh. Because it is too big, it is not good to do, usually steamed or cracked. If anyone's mother-in-law can steam a big bun that is cooked and not cracked, then the whole village will come to see it.

Twenty-six, cut big meat;? This one is not explained. (It has nothing to do with the kitchen)

Twenty-seven, killing pigs and chickens;? This one is also not explained. (Nothing to do with the kitchen)

Twenty-eight, steamed jujube flowers;?

Actually, steaming steamed buns and steaming jujube flowers are at the same time, both are pasta. The hair of the good noodles kneaded into a strip and then pulled into a variety of petal shapes, and then in the petals on the pressure out of the pattern, and finally in the center of each flower put a large red dates, like a flower with stamens blooming flowers, and then put into the steamer to steam. Steam out the jujube flower we call "jujube mountain", unfortunately, now rarely see do, I go back this year to see my grandmother to do not do, or I go to do ha, do I get the photo up. Baidu actually searched for a small jujube flower picture:/uploads/allimg/090216/1139446119-0.jpg

Another: married daughter to her mother's home to pay homage to the New Year with a big bun, and big jujube flower is the mother's home must be a return gift. And of course, the bigger the better.

Twenty-nine, to beat the wine;? This is also not explained. （

New Year's Eve, dumplings:

We have dumplings and Spring Festival couplets on New Year's Eve, and we have to make enough to eat on the first day of the New Year. To wrap enough to eat on the first day of the year, because the first day of the year can not move the knife. (On the first day of the New Year, people do not sweep the floor, do not throw water outside, do not go through the back door, do not scold the children, and congratulate each other on a prosperous New Year, all the best.)

To digress: I'm a girl in my family, and on New Year's Eve I started wrapping up with my mom from breakfast, one by one, very slowly, until the afternoon. The children have sister, people are early to run to my home to find me to play, will also come to help us package.

On the first day of the year, I was so upset that I was unable to make any headway. （

But still long-winded two sentences: the first day of the New Year, about who get up early, get up early people in the new year will be early, everywhere early, get up early will meet auspicious things. The family together to go to the New Year, generally brothers together, sisters-in-law together, first to their parents, and then go to the elders of the neighbors to go to the New Year.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, they also go to the cemetery to pay homage to their ancestors.