Shanxi New Year custom

Shanxi New Year custom, the twelfth lunar month is also called the twelfth lunar month, and the beginning of the twelfth lunar month means the countdown to the New Year! From the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, people have to clean houses, invite incense, offer sacrifices to stoves, write Spring Festival couplets and make new year's goods until New Year's Eve. So how much do you know about the New Year customs in Shanxi?

Shanxi New Year custom 1 "Shehuo", also known as "tiger hunting", refers to all kinds of juggling and acrobatic performances to meet the gods during festivals or festivals. Fire means bustling and lively. When you go to Shanxi for the New Year, you must not miss the "Shehuo Festival" of Shanxi merchants. Now, apart from major celebrations, the Lantern Festival is a fixed day to make a social fire every year.

Shanxi Merchants Folk Culture Tourist Area includes Yuci, Taigu, Qixian, Pingyao, Jiexiu, Lingshi and other key scenic spots in six counties and cities. During the Spring Festival, there are a series of folk art activities with strong characteristics, such as raising pavilions, carrying sticks, lighting fires, setting fires, twisting dragons, hanging auspicious lanterns, small flower plays and eight-tone concerts.

There are festivals in life and folk customs in programs; Customs make festivals handed down from generation to generation, and festivals make life colorful. In the past, there were festivals every month in Taiyuan, and the most grand, lively and amorous was the New Year.

On the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar, people called it the Lunar New Year, which was different from the Gregorian New Year's Day and later called the China New Year. In the old society, after Laba Festival, Taiyuan people were busy preparing for the Spring Festival, and the atmosphere became stronger every day. Wang Min's 23rd and 24th are the days of cleaning, commonly known as "Hu Cleaning Day". Since then, the preparations for the whole year have reached a climax. There used to be a proverb in Taiyuan: "Grinding bean curd is twenty-five, working is twenty-six, going to the market is twenty-seven, pasting is twenty-eight, drinking is twenty-nine, and jiaozi is thirty." (It refers to all kinds of couplets, New Year pictures, window grilles, door gods, etc. I have something to do and a plan every day. I have been busy until the afternoon of New Year's Eve, and then I will clean the outdoor, that is, I will start to get new clothes and hats on the hour, pack jiaozi, and prepare incense, lamps and other items to meet the gods.

On New Year's Eve, every household stays up all night, commonly known as "gnawing at the old". As soon as the rooster crows, they start burning incense, lighting lamps, offering offerings, setting off fireworks, offering sacrifices to their ancestors, and then the whole family pays New Year greetings to each other. Children kowtow to their elders to pay New Year greetings, and elders give them lucky money for good luck. According to the traditional custom, we should have breakfast before the sun comes out. After breakfast, when relatives go out to pay New Year greetings, they go to church. Unwilling people meet on the road, bow and exchange good wishes, which are nothing more than "Congratulations on the New Year", "Congratulations on your fortune" and "Happy New Year".

During the New Year in China, businessmen's families are the most pious to offer sacrifices to the God of Wealth. Before the end of the Qing Dynasty, March 15 and July 22nd were the days of offering sacrifices to the god of wealth. After the Republic of China, only during the Chinese New Year did sacrifices be offered in money piles, cash cabinets or special shrines to burn incense and guns for chickens, ducks, pigs and sheep. Sacrifice to the god of wealth first, and then go to the homes of businessmen who have business dealings to pay New Year greetings.

The old Spring Festival dragged on for a long time, until after the Tianzang Festival on the 25th. The fifth day of the fifth lunar month, commonly known as "breaking the fifth". As the saying goes, "don't go out after breaking five." On the sixth day of the sixth lunar month, it is convenient to travel, and residents will not visit relatives until the market opens on the sixth lunar month. The seventh day of the seventh lunar month is commonly known as "People's Day". As the saying goes, sunny days are good for population reproduction. After the evening of the eighth day of the eighth lunar month, they worship the stars, light seven lights symbolizing the Big Dipper in the yard, and worship in the north in order to get a good year. The tenth day, commonly known as "ten days without moving", is said to be the day when mice get married. From 13 to 16, people celebrate the Lantern Festival. Within a few days, the night was brightly lit, and the yangko was set off in the community, which was very lively, commonly known as the "Lantern Festival". Twenty is commonly known as "small jiacang" and twenty-five is "old jiacang". East and west rice markets set up the position of warehouse officials, and people went to sacrifice and sparked off sparks. After the Tianzang Festival, the excitement during the Spring Festival is over.

Compared with cities, farmers in suburbs have different styles for the New Year. In Jinyang area, there will be a big fire on New Year's Eve, with a bunch of grass and cypress leaves on the door. Wanghuo built a tower with charcoal blocks, and the midnight bell rang, igniting Wanghuo and illuminating the whole village, symbolizing the "Wanghuo" life. On the first day of the Lunar New Year, there is a custom of eating boiled pumpkins. It is called "eating melons", which is cooked with millet at the end of the year and put in a bowl to worship ancestors, commonly known as "fishing rice every other year". Sweeping the yard and cleaning up the garbage on the fifth day, commonly known as "sweeping the poor".

In Gujiao mountain area, activities during the Spring Festival are the most abundant. On New Year's Eve, the gods of ancestors were hung up, and every family in the clan had to send offerings. At that time, there was a chicken for the boy and a pot of wine for the girl. On the third morning, the whole family got together to worship their ancestors, and the younger generation kowtowed to their elders, commonly known as "generations", and then got together to eat offerings. In the afternoon, send the gods to the village entrance, face the ancestors, burn incense and kowtow, and set off firecrackers, commonly known as "send the gods". The custom of fishing every other year is different from Jinyang. Cook half a bowl of millet for daily use at the end of the year, and put a walnut in the bowl to compete for the throne of Zaojun. It was not until the second day of February that it was poured out to dry and mixed with manure. As the saying goes, a worm is a worm. The fifth day of the first month is "send the poor day". On the afternoon of the fourth day, I cleaned the indoor courtyard. On the fifth day, I sent the dirty people outside the village at dawn, burning incense and setting off firecrackers to show off the poor. The food on this day is steamed oat flour or steamed bread, commonly known as "distilling the gas of the poor". In the early morning of the first day of the first month, in the yard, food made of naked oats flour is provided, incense and paper are burned, firecrackers are set off, and the world is prayed for a bumper harvest. Some places need to weigh a part of each pill, wrap it in paper and provide it to the hospital at the same time. After the supply, it is said that if the amount of a certain grain increases, it is said that the annual harvest is the best. This custom is commonly known as "harvesting seeds" or "grabbing seeds". On the fifteenth day of the first month, in addition to the Lantern Festival, there is also the custom of sending athel Loren. Wudao Temple or villages at crossroads set up memorial tablets for athel Loren, set fire to towers, and provide steamed bread with oil noodles. At the beginning of the activity, gongs and drums were beaten, baskets of grain were collected from house to house, a piece of cloth or cotton wool was torn off from clothes, cut into paper figures according to the number of households, and placed in front of the memorial tablet of athel loren. In the afternoon, the memorial tablets and collected items were sent to the outside of the village, and incense and firecrackers were set off and burned with fire, indicating that the plague was sent away, people and animals were safe, and all diseases were not born. On the 25th day of the first lunar month, according to the custom, rice flour or soft rice flour is kneaded into several lamps, which are in the shape of granaries, granaries and various livestock and poultry, with cooked red dates and beans wrapped inside, and the wick is made of fine rice stalks wrapped with cotton. Fill the lamp with oil at night, put the barn lamp in the grain storage place, put the cow lamp on the cowshed windowsill, put the chicken lamp on the kang, put the dog lamp on the door, put the cat lamp in the corner, etc. , and then light up one by one. Uncle Guan Cang's lamp is five inches high, wearing a hat with red tassels, a dustpan in his left hand, a bucket in his right hand, riding a horse and carrying several pockets. Put the lamp in the bowl and float in the water tank. When you release it, you should read: "Grandpa Guan Cang drinks horses and carries money and food (or pockmarked seeds and black beans). Pockmarked fry oil and black beans feed cattle. " In order to pray for good weather and good harvests.

New Year Customs in Shanxi February 24th

Clean the house.

The custom of "sweeping the house with dust on the 24th of the twelfth lunar month" has a long history. According to the folk saying:

Because of the homonym of "dust" and "Chen", sweeping dust in the Spring Festival means "getting rid of the old and not being new". Its original intention is to sweep away all "bad luck" and "bad luck", and to pin on people's desire to break the old and create new ones and their prayers to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new.

twelfth month of the lunar year

Push mill to make tofu

The pronunciation of "rot" and "blessing" is similar. Making tofu means "harvesting happiness and blessings in the new year". In ancient times, the folk activities of the Han nationality on this day mainly included picking up the jade emperor, raising silkworms in the fields, the Thousand Lantern Festival, and driving away chaos.

Nowadays, most people don't make tofu by themselves, but often stick the cut word "fu" upside down on the window or door to express the same meaning, hoping to "be happy and bless" home.

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Kill the pig and cut the meat.

On this day, we will kill pigs and cut their annual meat, and start buying new year's goods. In ancient times, killing pigs meant killing 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.

"Nianrou" pays attention to eating braised pork, which in itself represents wealth. Braised pork can better predict the prosperity of next year. A bowl of steaming meat-flavored braised pork is what many people expect on this day.

December 27th.

Slaughter New Year's Chicken Catch Episode.

On this day, every household has to slaughter their own poultry and go to the market to purchase. As all the items needed for the Spring Festival are being purchased, markets all over the country are very busy on this day.

the 28th of the twelfth lunar month

Dagao steamed buns applique flower

On the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month, every household should start preparing the staple food for the New Year, whether it is making dough or making steamed buns.

In the past, the social development was low and there was no modern convenient baking powder. Ordinary dough is easy to break a few days in advance, but only dough doesn't like to break.

Therefore, noodles are made on the 28th of the twelfth lunar month to prepare the staple food from the first day of the first month to the fifth day of the first month, which is also the reason why the old customs think that steamed bread cannot be steamed with fire from the first day to the fifth day.

the 29th of the twelfth lunar month

Go to the grave and ask for a big confession from your ancestors.

Since the next day is New Year's Eve, all kinds of preparations for the Chinese New Year will end on this day. In the whole festival, 29th is the busiest day.

In addition to preparing all kinds of food and clothing sacrifices, there is also an extremely important activity "going to the grave to ask the ancestors" on the 29 th of the twelfth lunar month. Paying homage to ancestors is not only comfort to ancestors, but also gratitude and yearning for ancestors.

New Year's Eve in China

New Year's Eve is the last day of the year. There are many folk activities on this day, such as making jiaozi, eating New Year's Eve, burning gold paper and setting off firecrackers. Keeping the Lunar New Year's Eve is one of the most important activities, and the custom of keeping the Lunar New Year's Eve has a long history.

On New Year's Eve, the whole family get together, eat New Year's Eve, light candles or oil lamps, sit around the fire and chat, waiting for the time to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new. This custom gradually became popular.

In the early Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin, Emperor Taizong, wrote the poem "Shousui": "It's cold to say goodbye to winter snow, but warm to bring spring breeze". To this day, people are used to celebrating the New Year's Eve.

On New Year's Day, the golden rooster announces the dawn.

The younger generation pays New Year greetings to their elders.

The elders give lucky money to ward off evil spirits.

On the second day of the Lunar New Year, the golden bark indicates the arrival of spring.

Family members go to pay New Year greetings,

The host stayed for dinner, and the western family arranged a banquet.

On the third day of the lunar new year, the fat pig arch.

The son-in-law saw her father-in-law and daughter-in-law go back to their parents' house.

The gifts are even.