What are the specific customs of off-year

Regarding the custom of off-year, let me talk about the custom of Inner Mongolia-Chifeng-Ningcheng.

Off-year, that is, seven days before New Year's Eve, falls on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month. Due to the different dates in the south and the north, the customs of off-year are also different. Let's take the north as an example today. I am from Chifeng, Inner Mongolia (Chifeng belonged to Liaoning before), so let's talk about the customs of Chifeng.

The strongest custom in our childhood is to clean the house. Basically, I start cleaning as soon as I get up in the morning and finish eating. Usually, my mother cleans the kitchen, cupboards, wardrobes, etc. While dad cleans the yard and summarizes things, the children clean the glass and sweep the floor. Anyway, everyone has their own arrangements, not for intentional arrangements. Compared with off-year customs, we still have to look alike, right?

What do you eat in off-year customs?

We eat jiaozi at noon, and every family is in jiaozi. There is no standard for stuffing in jiaozi. We can eat whatever we like. Generally, it's a "nest of meat", that is, pork and green onions, but the jiaozi made by myself is much more delicious than that made in restaurants. It really bit a bag of soup.

It's basically rice in the morning, and it's more casual at night.

In addition to eating and cleaning, some places say they also put up Spring Festival couplets. In our place, they were posted on the 28th of the twelfth lunar month. After all, it is easy to hang up too early. It is windy in winter in the northeast. Besides Spring Festival couplets, it is more interesting to hang them, usually under the eaves. Is very emotional!

As for offering sacrifices to stoves, we are very simple. In the countryside, the ashes are all in it.

In fact, I have a "special" job every day since I was a child. For example, there is a widely circulated "Chinese New Year Song": Twenty-three worships the chef, twenty-four sweeps the house, twenty-five grinds bean curd, twenty-six cuts the meat, twenty-seven kills pigs and chickens, twenty-eight steamed jujube flowers, twenty-nine dozen wines, thirty packs of jiaozi, and a handful of rice is put in the pot on New Year's Day.

For Chifeng people, it is basically the Spring Festival from the 23rd to the 30th of the New Year, during which the real taste of the year is realized. After all, after the first day, they basically go back to work in the city one after another, which is the custom of Chifeng for the New Year. If it is not enough, please ask Chifeng people to add it in the comment area.

Family members passing by Chifeng, Inner Mongolia, remember to support them a lot!