Customs and habits of Gaomi Spring Festival

Customs and habits of Gaomi Spring Festival: cooking Laba, offering sacrifices to stoves, preparing for the New Year, keeping vigil on New Year's Eve, paying New Year greetings and sending New Year greetings.

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Every year on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, commonly known as "Laba", every family drinks "Laba porridge" for breakfast (porridge boiled with eight kinds of crop fruits has now evolved into the famous eight-treasure porridge), leaving a story that "drinking Laba porridge counts as years".

Sacrifice to the kitchen god

On the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, we will eat jiaozi at noon, which is also called "off-year". The main activity is in the evening. After this day, I will take the kitchen god's holiday and go back to heaven for the New Year! At the dinner for Kitchen God, there was only one special dish, "Sugar Melon" (maltose made by folk hand), which means: Let Kitchen God eat it, and it will be sweeter to speak in heaven.

Prepare for a year

"Quit the stove, and the year will come!" Then people began to get busy. Every mother-in-law, sister-in-law and aunt began to make cakes, steamed buns and rice cakes. It was not until New Year's Eve that they finally got a clue and began to prepare for the New Year's Eve dinner.

Keep watch at night

Chopping stuffing, mixing dough, making jiaozi and frying bowls are all women's business. Men lead children together, putting up couplets, hanging Zhu (throwing gray New Year pictures and the names of families on the list), putting aside tables (offering tables) and placing offerings.

Pay new year's call

After visiting each other for New Year's greetings, the clans' old and young, mother-in-law and children came to the street in a bustling way, watching stilts, dancing yangko, dancing long queues and listening to Qiang Mao Opera.

Send year

On the second day of the lunar new year, it should be the day to send new year's goods. Every day, a man picks a handful of water and puts it in the yard to drink horses for his ancestors. Mother-in-law and daughter-in-law put a pot of jiaozi on the fire, and offered all the places that were offered in the May Watch again. Burn paper and kowtow everywhere.

The children picked up a big firecracker and set it off outside the door. Adults kowtow to the outside, meaning to send their ancestors and all the immortals home.