New Year's Customs of Xiaoshan People

Xiaoshan people celebrate New Year's Eve from the 20th day of the 12th month of the Lunar Calendar, and gradually enter the "New Year's Eve", which will continue until the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar:

Ramming New Year's Cake

The New Year's Cake is also known as the "Nian Nian Gao (New Year's Cake)" which is a homonym of "Nian Nian Gao". It is also known as "Nian Nian Gao", which is a homonym of "yearly high", symbolizing that people's work and life are getting better and better every year. Ramming rice cake mostly in the lunar calendar around December 20, a few families get together to twenty mortar is appropriate, is two mouths of rice steam alternately, two mouths of rice steam, a stone pounding mortar, a sandalwood hammer, three Baxian table, four pieces of rice cake printing plate, is pounding the whole family of rice cake. Folk ram rice cake traditional hand-beaten rice cake, 60 centimeters in diameter, 5 centimeters thick, the surface covered with a variety of rice cake seal, the flavor is particularly fragrant, glutinous.

Sending a gift to the God of Zao

The Bamboo Mountain lyrics go like this: "Fame, fortune and prosperity are few and far between, and it's all about God's blessing and silence. There is nothing else to offer this day, but to buy fresh fish and fat meat". On the night of the twenty-third, every household has to "send the stove" and "sacrifice the stove". On this night, every household makes offerings of wine, fruit, water chestnuts, water chestnuts, water mollusks, and good fish and meat on the kitchen stove with the statue of the God of the Stove (Zaoji Bodhisattva), and listens to the old people say that the God of the Stove goes up to the sky to report the good and bad things of human beings, the good and bad things of human life, and the good and bad things of human beings to the Jade Emperor during the year. The good and bad on earth, human faults, in order to avoid his words too much, so in the old days, "send stove" when people also offer the caramel made of sugar, etc., it is said that he ate sticky teeth, speak unclear, and even can be less, do not say bad things about the earth. Now the sugar is not for the treasure, but "send stove" when the family still have to point on the incense and candles, the night inside the house smoke, colorful offerings dazzling, the New Year's atmosphere all of a sudden came. Twenty-three to thank the stove, and thirty nights to receive the stove, is to welcome the stove God into the home, the sooner you receive the stove Division the better. The sooner you receive it, the better it is. "It is good to play in the sky, and it keeps you safe on the ground"! The most beloved Bodhisattva of Xiaoshan people.

Kill New Year's pig

Kill New Year's pig Twenty-three night, kill the New Year's pig began, kill the New Year's pig is to prepare for New Year's Eve, so most of the meat is according to the blood neck, spine, hard ribs, after the fall and so on the part of the decomposition of the block, and the enema blood sausage, sausage, etc., together, into the vat of freezing storage standby. When a family kills a pig, it is often watched by all the neighbors. Killing a New Year's pig is an affordable and practical thing. Pigs are homegrown, eat up can be absolutely safe; pig head and tail is the New Year's Eve to wish the New Year's blessings of the grand offerings; offal and is the first month of the guests of the good food; sent to friends and relatives, New Year's Eve after eating the leftover pork on the cured, cured ham, cured ribs, the first month of the family sun, full of the village meat incense. Chickens, ducks, geese and other domesticated animals are also slaughtered and prepared.

Dusting

Dusting folk proverb says: "24th day of the Lunar New Year, dusting and sweeping the house". Indoor and outdoor, room after room, thoroughly cleaned, clothes and utensils, scrubbed, clean to welcome the new year. According to folklore: because "dust" and "Chen" consonant, dust sweeping in the New Year has the meaning of "in addition to the new", the intention is to put all the "poor luck! ", "bad luck" are swept out. This custom is the desire of the people to break the old, and the prayer of the old and welcome the new.

Ancestor Worship

Ancestor Worship In the month of Lunar New Year, ancestors who have passed away are honored. On the auspicious day, in the main hall, prepare a square table with good food, light a pair of candles, put on three piles of incense, pour twelve cups of wine, burn a pile of paper ingots, kowtow a few heads, remembering the ancestors, and pay tribute to the ancestors.

The year-old

The year-old (also known as the year-old, refers to the elderly), the first filial piety to the ancestors, known as "do the year-old soup and rice", roughly for the rice cakes, rice dumplings, and a variety of meat and vegetables. The festival takes a long time, with wine being poured three times and the whole family kneeling down. Finally, Yuanbao, silver ingots and sutra scrolls are burned in front of the table. Then the family reunites for the New Year's Eve dinner. For those who do not return for some reason, the family sets up a set of chopsticks and bowls on the table as a sign of reunion and remembrance. Commonly known as "New Year's Eve to eat a meal, the first day of the first month to wear a body", the most sumptuous dishes, generally no less than ten bowls, and be sure to be a pair. The seat must be soybean sprouts, asparagus, dried mushrooms, fungus, mushrooms, oil tofu, pickled cabbage, radish and other fried into the "eight treasures" bowl, in order to figure out the next year, "eight treasures into the door". Not allowed on the soup, otherwise the next year to eat food to worry about. Age, other dishes can be enjoyed, but "Yuanbao fish" must be reserved for the New Year to move the chopsticks, take the "yearly surplus" well. Children are not allowed to eat chicken claws, said to eat the chicken claws will scratch the books, that will not be able to read. After the New Year's Eve dinner, the elders have to give the younger generation to share the New Year's money. Earlier the New Year's money, are strung with red rope will be strung into a string of copper coins; changed to paper money, it is wrapped in red paper. Seniors to get the New Year's money, can not be opened immediately, but to be placed under the pillow pressure overnight, is called "pressure year". Many of the elders of the family, after the New Year's Eve dinner, do not go to bed, so it is called "keep the New Year's Eve". Also talking and laughing, while eating miscellaneous food. We will not feel this night night deeper Ancestor Worship Lunar New Year's Eve, the deceased ancestors are to be sacrificed. In the month of Lunar New Year, ancestors who have passed away have to be worshipped. On an auspicious day, in the main hall, a square table with good food is prepared, a pair of candles are lit, three piles of incense are burned, twelve cups of wine are poured, a pile of paper ingots is burned, and a few heads are kowtowed to commemorate and pay tribute to the ancestors. The first thing to do is to honor the ancestors, which is called "making a rice bowl for the year", and it is generally made up of rice cakes, rice dumplings, and various kinds of meat and vegetables. The festival takes a long time, with wine being poured three times and the whole family kneeling down. Finally, Yuanbao, silver ingots and sutra scrolls are burned in front of the table. Then the family reunites for the New Year's Eve dinner. For those who do not return for some reason, the family sets up a set of chopsticks and bowls on the table as a sign of reunion and remembrance. Commonly known as "New Year's Eve to eat a meal, the first day of the first month to wear a body", the most sumptuous dishes, generally no less than ten bowls, and be sure to be a pair. The seat must be soybean sprouts, asparagus, dried mushrooms, fungus, mushrooms, oil tofu, pickled cabbage, radish and other fried into the "eight treasures" bowl, in order to figure out the next year, "eight treasures into the door". Not allowed on the soup, otherwise the next year to eat food to worry about. Age, other dishes can be enjoyed, but "Yuanbao fish" must be reserved for the New Year to move the chopsticks, take the "yearly surplus" well. Children are not allowed to eat chicken claws, said to eat the chicken claws will scratch the books, that will not be able to read. After the New Year's Eve dinner, the elders have to give the younger generation to share the New Year's money. Earlier the New Year's money, are strung with red rope will be strung into a string of copper coins; changed to paper money, it is wrapped in red paper. Seniors to get the new year's money, can not immediately open, but to be placed under the pillow pressure overnight, is called "pressure year". Many of the elders of the family, after the New Year's Eve dinner, do not go to bed, so it is called "keep the New Year's Eve". They also talked and laughed and ate snacks. People will not feel that the night is deeper and longer. To the midnight, some people will also go up the mountain in the dark, to the nearby temple in the mountains to burn the "first incense". Nowadays, most of them are watching the Spring Festival Gala.

Open the door cannon

The first morning of the first day of the year, the first thing is to scramble to open the door cannon, the whole city a firecracker sound, symbolizing the old to welcome the new and receive the blessing, commonly known as the New Year. Open the door gun also has the practice, generally the first small firecrackers a string, called the hundred son of gun; and then put the double sound of big firecrackers, big firecrackers only three, meaning that can lift the year's plague disaster obscurity, and said to pick up the New Year. Requirements for three rounds are loud, loud and clear sound, the most auspicious. Common belief that the sooner you open the door the better, symbolizing that whatever you do this year will go smoothly, as you want to get rich, planting people will have a bumper crop. Some places open the door when the cannon, but also in the mouth read: "open the door, release the cannon; wealth is also to, hi also to.