What are the customs and traditions of off-year

1, Renwang: Off-year is a day of folk sacrifice. According to folklore, "Heaven speaks well, and the next world is safe". Every year on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, the Kitchen God will tell the Jade Emperor about the good and evil of this family. Therefore, people will put some honeydew melons and kitchen candy in front of the statue of the kitchen god in the off-year so that the kitchen god can say more good things in front of the jade emperor.

2. Post Spring Festival couplets: Every household should write Spring Festival couplets. Folks pay attention to God stickers, which are posted by every household and everything, so Spring Festival couplets have the largest number and the most complete content. Most of them are words of praise and blessing.

3. stick grilles: Cutting and pasting window grilles is the most popular folk activity. There are also all kinds of animal and plant anecdotes, such as magpies climbing plums, peacocks beating peonies, lions rolling hydrangeas, three sheep (yang) opening Thailand, two dragons playing with pearls, Yuanyang playing with water and so on. Hanging window grilles means that the new year is getting better and better. Cut out the window grilles and stick them in a clean room, which naturally adds a lot of joy to the family.

4. Dust removal: During the off-year period, every household gets up at dawn, cleans houses and windows, washes clothes, scrubs pots and pans, and carries out clean and thorough sanitation cleaning. A few days ago, every household cleaned the house.

5, eat candied melon: candied melon, caramel, sesame sugar and other foods, originally for the kitchen god to eat, gradually evolved into a must-eat snack in the coming year. There is a saying in the northwest of Shanxi that "you can't chew your fingers with sesame candy."

6. Marriage: After the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, the Han people think that the immortals have gone to heaven, and all are exempt from punishment. There is no need to choose a wife and hire prostitutes. Therefore, there will be many weddings until the end of the year.

7. Eat jiaozi: There is a custom of eating jiaozi on New Year's Eve in the north, which means "look down on the windward side of jiaozi". The family sat together and ate hot jiaozi, which was very enjoyable and full of flavor.