Folk customs and traditions

The 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, also called "off-year", is a day for traditional culture in China to offer sacrifices to stoves, sweep dust and eat sugar. The folk song "Twenty-three, cantaloupe stick" refers to the god who worships the stove on the 23rd or 24th of the twelfth lunar month every year. There is a saying of "three officials, four people, four boatmen and five people", that is, the official holds the sacrificial stove on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, the people hold it on the 24th, and the house boat holds it on the 25th.

The 24th of the twelfth lunar month is the day of dust removal.

Dust removal day, that is, from the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month to New Year's Eve, is called "Spring Festival" in China traditional customs. Among them, the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month is a traditional off-year holiday, also known as "the day of offering sacrifices to the stove", and the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month is "the day of clearing dust". Dust removal means year-end cleaning, which is called "house cleaning" in the north and "dusting" in the south to get rid of the old cloth and welcome the new year.

Because the kitchen god and other gods will return to the sky "ahead of time" on the day before the New Year, Hakka people regard the day when the kitchen god was sent to heaven as "entering the year boundary", while Fujian people think that this represents the end of the year, which is the so-called "sending the year".

Twenty-fifth day of the twelfth lunar month: The old custom holds that on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, the kitchen god went to the afterlife, and the Jade Emperor personally went down to the underworld on the 25th of the twelfth lunar month to investigate the good and evil on earth and decide the fortune for the coming year.

Sacrificing and praying for blessings is called "receiving the Jade Emperor". On this day, people should be cautious in daily life and speech, strive for good performance, win the favor of the Jade Emperor and bring good luck for the coming year.

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Jiangnan people also call the 25th day of the twelfth lunar month "burning field silkworms", "lighting field silkworms" and "burning field wealth". People stand in the fields with torches tied to long poles, and use flames to herald the new year, and the vigorous flames herald the bumper harvest in the coming year. But in some places, this activity will not be held until the age of 30.

Rush out of chaos

According to the folk custom, it was not until New Year's Eve that the Kitchen God was sent to welcome him back on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, during which there was no God's jurisdiction on the earth. In All Forgive, many people get married, which is called "getting rid of chaos". Luannian is a special period designed by people to adjust their social life.

Thousand Lantern Festival

The 25th day of the twelfth lunar month is a religious festival for Mongolians and Daur people. Mongolian is called "Ganming Zhuola", which means Thousand Lantern Festival. On the 25th of the twelfth lunar month, I made "Ganming Zhuola" and lit it in the temple, thinking that the more I ordered, the more auspicious it would be. This festival custom is the most popular among Mongolians in Vilat, Xinjiang. On this day, local people eat roast beef and mutton and hold traditional sports and entertainment activities.

Twenty-six: The folk proverb says, "On the 26th day of the twelfth lunar month, kill pigs and cut meat for the New Year", which means mainly preparing meat for the New Year. The so-called killing pigs, of course, is to kill your own pigs; The so-called meat cutting means that poor families who don't raise pigs go to the market to buy meat for the New Year. The reason why "cutting annual meat" is written into the annual festival ballad is because the farming society and economy are underdeveloped and people can only eat meat at the annual festival, so it is called "annual meat". The traditional folk custom of "stewing big meat" in the Spring Festival on the 26th of the twelfth lunar month.

Twenty-seven: the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth lunar month is 65438+ the twenty-seventh day of the second lunar month. On New Year's Eve in China, a folk proverb says, "On the 27th of the twelfth lunar month, kill the chicken to catch up with the big party." On this day, in addition to slaughtering their own poultry, every household has to go to the shops in the market for centralized procurement. Compared with the market on weekdays, the market on the 27th of the twelfth lunar month mainly deals in new year's goods, such as firecrackers, Spring Festival couplets, incense sticks, burning paper, beef and mutton, toys and gifts for children and headdresses for girls. On this day, markets all over the country are very busy.

Twenty-eight:

The 28th day of the twelfth lunar month refers to the common name of the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month in China. One of the traditional customs of the Spring Festival. On the 28th of the twelfth lunar month, the folk song "On the 28th of the twelfth lunar month, make dough" and "On the 28th of the twelfth lunar month, make cakes and steam steamed bread decals". According to folk customs and traditions, on the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month, whether it's making dough or steaming steamed buns, in short, every household should start preparing the staple food for the New Year.

Customs vary from place to place. In some places, people celebrate the New Year on the 28th of the twelfth lunar month. For example, at the junction of Susong and Taihu Lake in Anhui Province, many people with surnames celebrate New Year's Day on the 28th of the twelfth lunar month.

The 29th of the twelfth lunar month is New Year's Eve.

The twenty-ninth day of the twelfth lunar month, that is, the day before New Year's Eve, is called "New Year's Eve", and people call it "another year" when greeting each other. Burning incense outdoors is called "Tianxiang", which usually takes three days.

Year 30:

The 30 th night of the twelfth lunar month is called "New Year's Eve", also called "New Year's Eve", and the climax of the Spring Festival is "New Year's Eve". The folk content of New Year's Eve was originally "family reunion", which is one of the most important physiological thoughts of China people.

spend one's remaining years in comfort

Keeping old age on New Year's Eve is the most important custom, which was recorded in Wei and Jin Dynasties. On New Year's Eve, it is a custom that people in China still attach great importance to getting together for drinking and enjoying family happiness without sleeping for a year. Even people who work outside all the year round must rush home for reunion at this time.

Shounian is also called "endure the year"

Before New Year's Eve, other door decorations can be dispensed with, but a pair of red and happy couplets must be posted.

There are all kinds of dinners in China tradition, but the most important one is the New Year's Eve dinner, which represents the supreme and ancient saints.

According to the custom in Beijing, it is inconvenient to stay at someone else's house for a long time on New Year's Eve.

In rural Shaanxi, the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month is the Lunar New Year, and the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month is called "off-year". In some places in the countryside, it is called "offering sacrifices to stoves", that is, offering sacrifices to the "kitchen god" who dominates good and bad luck in order to be warm and full. After the Spring Festival, people will prepare for it. Ordinary farmers kill pigs and sheep, grind rice and noodles, make tofu, buy vegetables, hang vermicelli and prepare all the food needed for the New Year. From the 27th to 29th of the twelfth lunar month, Guanzhong people pack steamed buns. Every household is short of several cages of steamed buns. It is a custom to eat them after the fifteenth day of the first month, and not to roll noodles before the fifteenth day of the first month. Women and children go to the streets to buy clothes, shoes and socks for the elderly and children, while the elderly buy red paper, New Year pictures, Mingbi, white linen paper and other New Year etiquette supplies.

Two days before New Year's Eve, Shaanxi, whether it is Guanzhong, southern Shaanxi, northern Shaanxi or urban and rural areas, must "sweep the house", and people in the city call it general cleaning. Before and after every house, outside the kiln, even the corners should be cleaned. Then paste white paper and red window grilles on the window room. In the early 1930s, every household posted couplets and door gods and hung New Year pictures in their houses. This year has finally arrived.

The 30 th night of the twelfth lunar month is called "New Year's Eve", also called "New Year's Eve", which is a day for family reunion. Relatives from other places came all the way home to reunite with their relatives and friends. At night, every household lights up (some even light the graves in the yard and fields) and sets off firecrackers, which is called vigil. Otherwise, it will change or be unlucky in a year. The main activity of observing the Year is to protect Jiaozi. The family sat together in the city. Rolling noodles, stuffing, laughing and beaming. The newly-married daughter-in-law "goes back to her mother's house", steams 20 big steamed buns, takes 4 packages of big gifts (sugar, cigarettes, wine and snacks) to visit her parents, and returns on the same day, not staying at her parents' house. This is the custom of "no room in the first month". During the Chinese New Year, all villages are organized, beating gongs and drums, performing songs and holding literary and sports competitions, which are very lively.

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