What are the customs from the ninth day of the twelfth lunar month to the 22nd of the twelfth lunar month?

There are no customs and habits from the ninth day of the twelfth lunar month to the 22nd of the twelfth lunar month.

The twelfth lunar month is the end of the year, especially in the cold winter. In ancient times, people who had nothing to do went to farm bacon or go out hunting. One is to get more new year's goods, and the other is to sacrifice wild animals to ancestors and gods to pray for longevity and avoid disasters.

The custom of the twelfth lunar month has different Spring Festival customs since the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month.

Details are as follows:

1,1February 23rd:

Now, the twelfth lunar month is usually called the twelfth lunar month. The 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, also known as "off-year" in northern China, is a traditional folk day for offering sacrifices to stoves. There is a traditional folk custom that "men don't Yue Bai, women don't offer sacrifices to stoves", so the owner of offering sacrifices to stoves is limited to men. Among the traditional folk gods in China, the qualification of Kitchen God has a long history. The custom of offering sacrifices to stoves has a long history. In the Ming Dynasty, the sacrificial stove was on the 24th of the twelfth lunar month, and on the 23rd after the Qing Dynasty. There is a saying in Beijing called "the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, the kitchen god goes to heaven".

2. twelfth lunar month:

After cleaning the house and holding the stove festival, we officially began to prepare for the New Year. There is a note in The Book of Rites that "everywhere inside and outside, chickens crow at first, ... sweeping the court". This shows that people have long known that pollution and dust bubbles are related to the spread of diseases. Zhou Shu's Secret Building Classics records that "the ditches are clear, the houses are clean, and there is no foul smell or plague".

3. December 25th:

There is a folk proverb that says, "On the 25th of the twelfth lunar month, grinding bean curd". People have spent a long winter and are about to enter a new year. According to the traditional folk custom in China, the Spring Festival is the beginning of a new year. People are very kind to the New Year, and at the same time, many different local customs have been formed. There is also a saying that "twenty-five windows should be pasted", that is, on the 24th of the twelfth lunar month, the windows should be pasted.

With the development of society, most people have lost the tradition of pasting windows, but stick grilles, pasting blessings and hanging couplets are essential procedures. In short, people all have the same desire and pray for prosperity in the coming year.

4. December 26th:

The traditional folk proverb says, "On the 26th of the twelfth lunar month, pigs are killed and meat is cut for the New Year", which means that this day is mainly to prepare 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 the 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". Traditional folk custom "Braised pork" on the 26th Spring Festival of the twelfth lunar month.

5. December 27th:

Lunar calendar1February 27th, on the eve of the Lunar New Year, there is a folk proverb that says, "On the 27th of the twelfth lunar month, kill the chickens to catch the big gathering". 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 lively.

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Twenty-eight sides of the twelfth lunar month. In most places, steamed noodles are made on this day to celebrate the New Year. Taiyuan people want to steam "two cakes and two steamed buns"; Hebei people are preparing to offer sacrifices to their ancestors on New Year's Eve by steaming jujube flowers. Henan people are also "28 th, steaming buns and frying pagodas." Only Beijingers are slow to make moves. Only on this day can they "hit their faces" and wait until the 29th to "steam steamed buns". (Excerpted from Customs Daily)

7. December 29th:

(1) Little New Year's Eve

The day before New Year's Eve is called "New Year's Eve", and people call it "Don't be old" when greeting each other. Burning incense outdoors is called "Tianxiang", which usually takes three days.

(2) Collect good and evil

The 25th day of folklore is the day when immortals descend to earth. Beijingers call this day "gathering good and evil". People in Beijing are very careful on this day. They are cautious in their daily lives and don't talk nonsense for fear of being "inspected" by the old gods.

(3) Luannian Festival

From 25th to New Year's Eve, it's called "New Year's Day". Because the kitchen god has gone to heaven, the immortals have finished checking, and people's hearts are no longer burdened, so they call these days "all-free days". Most traditional folks deal with the New Year's Day in these days.

In the past, people who didn't pay attention to hygiene should also take a bath before the 30th of the twelfth lunar month, and there will be a sea of people taking a bath on the 27th and 28th, in order to get rid of the bad luck of one year and welcome the Spring Festival next year. There is a saying in Beijing that "twenty-seven washes away the root of the disease, and twenty-eight washes away the mess."

8. New Year's Eve:

New Year's Eve is a time when the old and the new turn, and all trades and professions stop trading. Everyone is playing wishful thinking at home, hoping to meet better luck in the new year.

Firecrackers continued all night. Previously, the court would set off fireworks before this, from the 24th of the twelfth lunar month to the 17th of the first month. Fireworks are set off every day, especially on the night of the twelfth lunar month. Shops such as the "Eight Alleys" in Dashilan will hire people to set off all kinds of fireworks outside the front door. The more fireworks there are, the more it symbolizes a prosperous business.

On New Year's Eve, there are various activities, such as posting thousands of posters, setting up a desk for heaven and earth, saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new, and keeping the old and welcoming the new. As soon as midnight arrives, the twelfth lunar month ends and a new year begins.