New Year's Eve at the time of the Great Cold

The Big Cold is usually celebrated on January 20th or 21st. This piece of (1) season in many places are not as cold as the small cold, and to celebrate the New Year, a variety of traditional customs activities are also more, is the most lively time of the year.

? Before and after the big cold in Fujian, Taiwan have to do "teeth" custom, worship the landlord, let him "play teeth", blessed to attract customers, wide into the source of wealth. February 2 for the first tooth, every second and sixteenth to do "teeth", to the lunar month of the sixteenth is exactly the last tooth. On this day, businessmen worship the God of the land and at the same time, they have to organize a banquet to entertain their employees. White chopped chicken is one of the few dishes that can't be missed. If the chicken's brain is facing which way, it means that the boss is going to fire it the next year. Many bosses tend to put the chicken brain shell (2) toward their own (children) (3), so that employees, helpers to do some peace of mind. We don't do "teeth" in Chaihe(er)(4), but only the saying of "down yam", which means that on the sixteenth day of the Lunar New Year, the government stops the office and seals the seal, and waits until the sixteenth day of the first month of the coming year to open the government office. The people some of the busy to buy new year's goods, ready to celebrate the New Year.

? In our part of the tatami (6) there is also the saying of "chaotic year", after five days of the Dahan into the 20 days of "chaotic year". During this period, you don't need to ask a gentleman to choose an auspicious time and hour, you can move the soil in front of the house, dig a well and build a stove, and fix the inside and outside of the house without hurting the "tai tao" (7), which brings danger.

? The 23rd day of the Lunar New Year is a small year, and some couches have the custom of sacrificing to the king of the stove, which is called the Festival of the Stove. We don't seem to have any, but we only know that after the New Year, every household has to clean up the dust (9) and tidy up the sanitation, which is not a thing to take off (10). First look (child) (11) to a sunny day, early in the morning after dinner to the pots and pans some cleaned up, head wearing a top hat or wrapped around a piece of the waistband, with a long bamboo pole tied to the leaves of the Cizhu from the roof to the walls of the sweeping one by one, and then play the whole table, chairs, benches, stoves and the ground floor, and finally to the bedding, cover (12) some of the demolition of the cover and wash and clean again? The last thing to do was to take down the covers, wash them and put them back on. These are one day can not get finished - that time is no washing machine, there is no extra cover cover for washing, black night night (14) can only cover cotton wool.

? New Year's Eve sticker (15) sticker door god are after the package to the household. Until now, some people are still labeled (16) the pair of how to stick - the last piece of the word for the oblique birth is the top line, flat sound is the bottom line; the top line is posted on the right side of the face of the door, the bottom line is posted on the left side of the shape (17) simple things have to come to some loss of elegance. But not housekeeping (18) how, New Year's dinner is always to cook. New Year's Day 30 breakfast, a family of large and small on the pans and wash meat busy roar (19), pig brains, sit on the pier meat, red cockerel, red and white radish (20), green vegetables, which is less: pig brains and with the tail (children) sit on the pier refers to the year there is a head and a tail; large red cockerel belongs to the sacrifice of the small three animals (21); red and white radish is said to be the day of the red-hot; the whole nest (22) of the green vegetables will make the next year's financial fortune constantly. Except for the red and white radish, which should be cut into large pieces, all the other items should be put into a large pot and boiled with a large dustpan (23) until they are muddy (24). After cooking the pig's brain, sit on the pier and rooster fishing to the funnel sieve (25) head to dry up, vegetables and radish even soup with water scooped to the big tank, basin basin head - some people have to have been even to eat together (26) the first day of the month of the fifteenth.

? New Year's Eve to eat New Year's dinner to honor the gods and ancestors of this piece of traditional customs in the era of breaking the "Four Olds" (27) has not been broken. Kill the big red rooster is not like the usual wave block (28) to receive Wang Zi (29), but the chicken's "wealth" (30) showered to the money paper (31) and then pull some chicken feathers to dip up, three stacks of three were affixed to the shrines, stoves, gates, pigsties those couches, and some of them have to be affixed to point to Dingba Tou (32) of the fruit trees, and play a role in warding off evil spirits, protection and blessing. The role of. New Year's rice cooked, the first to pick up the pig's head and tail rooster, point on the incense and wax money and paper in turn to the head of the hall to honor the ancestors of heaven and earth, to the stove door first (33) to honor the God of the stove, to the gate, the pigsty to thank the gods of all parties, and finally to the ancestral graves to pay homage to the graves.

? New Year's dinner, the better-off people also baked (34) one or two (35) fish, fried some pretty meat dishes (36). After worship, meat and vegetables on the table, put firecrackers or firecrackers (37), the family only sat around the table, happy to eat New Year's dinner. Only some are eaten at noon and some are eaten at night. That time there is no TV ah gala these, mom, grandma after the New Year's dinner, the new clothes and dolls some change up, send three or two dimes of New Year's money, fried some jade wheat seeds (38) (sometimes also wrapped in yellow sugar (39) gray flour (40)), beans (41), lest the first day of the year there is no snacks to eat. Dolls some of the one together (children) out and (42) put a few pieces of firecrackers, one together (children) and out and put a few pieces of firecrackers, it is considered to be the New Year's Eve. Nowadays, it is said that the stock market is the barometer of the economy, but in those days, I think the barometer was the sound of firecrackers on New Year's Eve. When the year is good, there are more firecrackers, but when it's bad, it's around 12 o'clock. I can not remember whether it is 81 years or 85 years that section (44), always also (45) two years that the cannon to come all night non-stop, and that is the beginning of the reform and opening up of the fastest economic recovery, people's hearts the most happy years.

? On the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, most are eating dumplings (children) have the meaning of reunion. Soup dumplings (children) powder as early as 30 years ago to get a good, some people also steamed in advance of the vegetable leaf bun, pillow bun (46) what, used to eat their own and go to the people household (47). The first day of the hottest is the mouth of the Drum Tower, East Gate Station, Taziba, West Bridge and Nanqiao these couches, in addition to selling peanuts and beans and radish dry (children), sugar cane sugar flowers with guns and play lion lamps and cattle lamps rare Huqi (48) and in addition to the burning of firecrackers (49), grounded firecrackers in the sky as if to be that together (children) of the poverty and dullness of the ousting of the light.

? The second day of the New Year began to go to the people's homes. That each time the contact between friends and relatives, reunion, in addition to the red and white wedding (50) on the New Year's Day on the head of the family, even if it is just a letter cake (children) two noodles (gifts), in two or three two wine (51) in the swing ha family talk, occasionally play ha no colorful wearing a hat (52) to tease fourteen whatsoever, and sometimes in the relatives to live in the house for a day or two days, there is a kind of life humane fun. When I was a child, I was the most barren (53) is the New Year's Day to go to the family, a good time and have to pay tribute to money (54), especially to the five Mianshan uncle (master) home and, you can see the qualifications (55) of the lion lamp.

? "Lion" from the Sanskrit, the earliest for the "division". Passed on in the western region of the lion dance at the latest in the late Tang out of the line in our Sichuan a turn (56), Sichuan University Museum in Qionglai Tang Dynasty Longxing Temple unearthed a three-dimensional stone lion dance statue. New Year's lion dance not only has the joy of the Spring Festival, but also the prayers to drive away evil spirits. Lion dance has focused on the expression of the literary lion and long in the juggling of the martial arts lion, and most of the folk lion lamp both. The day before the lanterns are played, someone bangs a gong and sends a post to each house, and when there is a burnt lantern or something like that, the venue and other matters should be discussed first. Get (er) day (57), the lion lamp with the "egg ugly, egg ugly, egg ugly egg ugly egg ugly ......" sound of gongs and drums from house to house play past, each flower garden (er) (58) can see. This is a "monkey to seize the bee package": the host family to the letter of gift (59) wrapped in red paper hung up to the eaves or Dingba head of the high branches, in the lion licked hair, rolled and lifted the head of the monk's funny, the lights team to build an adult ladder by the monkey to climb up and take down the letter of gift. Another family set up "swan holding eggs": the host family with a sun mat tube tube (60) erected in the middle of the dam, on top of the big dustbin with a happy seal (61), the lion in the Guantou monk, Sun Monkey's juggling help to climb to the head of the big dustbin to perform a show to take away the happy seal. The "over five mountains" is the most "martial" nature of the trick: five tables stacked on top of each other and, on top of an inverted over the feet (62) facing up. Lions and monks or monkeys with the fast and slow gongs and drums, the side show while climbing up to the top and even have to plant on each table foot foot (63) upside down juggling to catch up with the music, look at the atmosphere of the people below do not dare to come out, until the coiled and down to draw a cheer! That the most cultural flavor should be counted "report door", that is, the host family first closed the door, the lion and lantern team arrived to the first song, sung to win the master before opening the door to receive the lamp:

? The first thing you need to do is to get your hands dirty.

? A: You have to ask me what kind of people, we are all people who love lamps.

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? Q: Half a catty and four taels need not be weighed, how many plentiful are your days?

? A: I can't count the number of good days, so I'll open the door and play with the lights!

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? To talk about the lively still have to count the last burning lamp. The first thing you need to do is to get your hands on a new pair of shoes or boots, and then you'll be able to get your hands on a new pair of shoes or boots. Watching the lamp burning lamps are surrounded in the sun field or large farmhouse dam head, and constantly put the lit firecrackers, bamboos flowers (64) to the lion thrown. Guantou Monk, Sun Monkey or before or after to help the lion to avoid and sweep off the four sides of the floral artillery thrown some, in the thrill and excitement and the big tree silver flowers in the sweep of the past obscenity!

? Regardless of whether the lion lamp ox (child) lamp, or the youngest sister lamp horse horse lamp, generally have to play through the Lantern Festival on the 15th of the first month before closing the lamp brake (65). I guess this may be the origin of the word "collect lights" in the dialect.

? Today is January 20th, the big cold, see the New Year, it is inevitable to think of the childhood of those good fun things (however, this year's Spring Festival is in the spring season). Nowadays, Chinese New Year tours and carnivals are much more advanced than the ones in the past, and they are much more popular than the ones in the past. But the traditional flavor of the New Year also seems to be more and more faded, even if there are spring officials to send Spring Festival tours to go play lights and whatnot, that line of style is not right, lazy gongs and drums, hunched over a few dances to be rewarded. Such as the hand money to give less, but also in front of the store family households toot two sentences where there is still a little traditional folklore, introverted and culture when it?

? This may be the inevitable economic and social progress? In fact, in the situation of the network and the growing development of artificial intelligence, many people are difficult to answer this piece of question clearly!

Notes: (1) this piece: this. (2) brain: head. (3) self (儿) : oneself. (4) Chaihe (children): here, here. (5) Hing: Hing. (6) Couch: place. (7) Tai Sui (太岁): This is not a reference to the meat Ganoderma lucidum, but a shortened form of Tai Sui (太岁神) in Taoist beliefs, one of the Taoist deities of the year of the year. Tai Sui Shen is the most influential of all the gods, known as the son of heaven in the year, and is in charge of the year's auspicious areas of the human world. (8) Zai (儿): here. (9) Dust: refers to the dust that used to hang from the walls and roofs of rural stoves and other places. (10) skimming off: simple. (11) Shout (儿): the meaning of looking at. (12) spread, cover: quilt, mosquito net. (13) ? Good: sewed. (14) Black evening eve: night. (15) Pair: couplet. (16) Marked: I don't know. (17) shape: so, this way. (18) family situation: refers to the family's situation (of wealth and poverty). (19) Busy roar: refers to very busy, busy can not win. (20) red and white carrots: carrots and white radishes. (21) Small Three Sacrifices: refers to pigs, fish and chickens. The big three animals are ox, sheep and boar (pig). (22) Whole nest: the whole tree. (23) Garden: cover, cover to mean. (24) Hun: whole, whole. (25) Leakage sieve: a kind of living utensil made of gabion, with rolled edges and large gaps. (26) close: to. (27) four old: the Cultural Revolution put forward to break the "four old", refers to the old ideas, old culture, old customs, old habits. (28) Wave block: that. (29) Wangzi: refers to pig's blood, chicken and duck's blood after condensation. (30) Fortune: refers to the blood when killing chickens, ducks and pigs. (31) Qianpian: paper money. (32) Dingba Tou: the courtyard dam in the countryside. (33) Zaomenxian: rural cookhouse. (34) Baked: roasted. (35) Roots: strips. (36) Meat dishes: stir-fried dishes with a small amount of meat. (37) Flower Cannon: Also known as Flower Band Cannon, it is a kind of earthenware cannon with a section of salute pattern before exploding. (38) Jade Wheat: Corn. (39) Yellow Sugar: brown sugar. (40) Gray Noodles: wheat noodles. (41) Houdou: broad beans. (42) Yiho (儿)出及: to go out for a while. (43) Niancheng: the harvest of grain. (44) That section: that period of time, that time. (45) always still: anyway. (46) vegetable leaf buns, pillow buns: vegetable leaf buns are made of glutinous rice ground into powder and stuffed with cleaned pomelo leaves wrapped and steamed; pillow buns are made of rice ground into powder and slightly fermented, usually wrapped in corn husk and steamed, shaped a bit like a pillow. (47) Going to People's Households: Going to relatives. (48) Rare Huchi: a street game, a small box containing many pictures, shaking the handle one by one to see. (49) Burning Firecrackers: Split into two factions on New Year's Eve and burn the firecrackers against each other. (50) Red and White Happiness: refers to weddings and funerals. (51) Shochu: bulk white wine. (52) Wearing Hats, Teasing Fourteen: a way of playing poker and Sichuan cards. (53) Ba Lien Bu: means to be just right. (54) Baibai money: the money given to relatives for worship. (55) Qualification: Very good, very good. (56) A turn: a band, around. (57) Tak(er) day: the next day. (58) Huayuan (儿): fancy. (59) Gift letter: money for reward. (60) sun mat tube tube: wrapped sun mat, like a roll. (61) Hi-seal: refers to the seal of the reward money. (62) Foot: the four legs of the table. (63) Plant: the meaning of vertical. (64) Bamboo flower: made of wood carbon, soil nitrate only burns not explode a gift flower, generally made in a bamboo tube. (65) brake aside: finish, end. (66) where with (children): where.