The origin, significance, activities (customs) and poems of traditional Chinese festivals?

Small New Year, or the 23rd or 24th day of the Lunar New Year, is a festival dedicated to the worship of Lord Zao. It is the beginning of the entire Spring Festival celebrations, and there are two main activities: sweeping the New Year's Eve and sacrificing to Zao. In addition to this, there is also the custom of eating Zao candies, and in some places, fire roasts, sugar cakes, oil cakes, and tofu soup. As early as the Song Dynasty, there is a record of the Lunar New Year on the 24th day of the Lunar New Year, but at that time the New Year was not divided into two days. So the history of the Lunar New Year custom on the 24th day of the Lunar New Year is much longer. So when did it change? It goes back to the Qing Dynasty. Qing dynasty emperor from the Yongzheng years, every year on the twenty-third of Lunar New Year in the Kunning Palace to worship God, in order to save money, the emperor by the way, the king of the stove also worshiped. After the royal family, Baylor followed suit, in the waxing moon twenty-third sacrificial stove, since then began to have the people and the government in different days over the small New Year's division. The 23rd day of the lunar month is the resignation of the stove, the sky said good things, home drop auspicious

Resignation of the stove, sacrificial stove

Hu Bingyin

Welcome to the spring delight in celebrating the New Year, sacrificial stove praying for blessings between the Division.

Wine, vegetables, cakes, sugar and dumplings will bring you wealth and prosperity.

Chinese New Year

Hu Bingyan

The sound of firecrackers is the sound of the old year.

The family reunion is a great blessing for the whole family, and it is a blessing for all the families.

In folklore, the festival bai zao to do du good the following things: zhi

1, first of all, zao wang dao niche location is very important version, mostly located in the stove room of the north right side or the east side, the center of the zao wang master of the god statue.

2, secondly, twenty-three sacrificial food stove stove sugar, lotus seed eight treasures rice, "sending dumplings to meet the wind surface" to send the stove god to eat dumplings, to the stove king mount god horse should be prepared to incense groove fried beans and water, can not be bitter to the stove king mount.

3, in the sacrifice of Zaojun, set up offerings, incense and worship, followed by the first into the wine, this time to Zaojun sincere prayers, after the completion of the second into the wine, into the third into the wine, after the old Zaojun image torn off, together with the divine horse and the wealth and silk together with the burning, on behalf of the Zaojun sent to heaven, the ceremony will be successfully completed.

4, while burning a gabion paper mache horse, as the god of the zaos to heaven, but also to prepare a little soybean and hay, as the god of the zaos and the horse long-distance journey required for the dry food, grass.

5, send stove finished, of course, to pick up the stove god home ah! Receive stove more in the New Year's Eve, there are also in the New Year's Day or as late as the first month of the fifteenth. To set up a new statue of the god, posted a new Zao Wang statue.