What are the traditional customs of off-year

Traditional customs of off-year: eat honeydew melon, eat jiaozi, eat rice cakes, sweep the dust and shave.

1, eat honeydew melon

They all say "twenty-three, melon stickers". Melon is a traditional food in the early years, also known as stove sugar, Guandong sugar, sesame sugar and so on. It is not only the children's favorite, but also the offering of Kitchen God.

It is said that in the early years, the kitchen god will report the life and work of this family to heaven. In order to get the kitchen god to put in a good word, every family prepares honeydew melons to worship. It is the expectation for Kitchen God to "speak well in heaven and be lucky in decline". It is also people's expectation that everything will go smoothly and good things will happen again and again in the coming year.

Step 2 Eat jiaozi

As the saying goes, "Who doesn't eat jiaozi during the Chinese New Year". Eating jiaozi is the most common traditional custom in northern China. Of course, there is also the custom of eating dumplings in the south, which means reunion.

After the off-year, every household is bound to pack jiaozi. After a busy year, the whole family will have a reunion dinner in jiaozi, which will make them happy and auspicious. Jiaozi, in particular, looks like an ingot, which means that the New Year is round and round, and the wealth is rolling, and good things happen again and again.

Step 3 eat rice cakes

During the Spring Festival, there is another custom, which is to eat rice cakes, especially in most parts of the north. Most rice cakes are white rice cakes and yellow rice cakes. Some dates and preserved fruits are added to the rice cake, which is both beautiful and delicious, and it is a rare traditional delicacy.

The name of the rice cake is very auspicious. Moreover, the north and the south share the same wind, and the rice cake is a "rice cake", which is homophonic with "year high", meaning that people's work and life are getting better and better year by year.

Step 4 clean the dust

Years ago, every household had to clean up, clean up the dust and garbage at home, commonly known as sweeping dust. There are also called "sweeping the floor" and "dust removal" and so on.

On the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, the flavor of the year is getting stronger and stronger. In order to celebrate the New Year neatly, every household is busy cleaning, dusting and updating to welcome the New Year.

Because "dust" and "Chen" are homophonic, meaning beauty, saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new. In other words, the old and the bad are all swept away. I hope everything will go well and life will be beautiful in the new year.

Step 5 shave your head

Shave your head, that is, get a haircut. When I was a child, I had to have my hair cut years ago, and sometimes I cut it myself. Children are sometimes afraid of getting a haircut. At this time, the family will say: "If you don't get a haircut in the New Year, your uncle will die."

Hearing this, I quickly cut my hair honestly. In fact, "I don't get a haircut in the New Year." There is a story that means "nostalgia". Slowly handed down, he became an uncle who died without a haircut in the New Year.

In fact, the Chinese New Year is also a clean Chinese New Year. Generally, people don't get a haircut during the Spring Festival. If you ignore it years ago, it will grow up easily. Especially in some places, on February 2 nd, a haircut is required and the dragon looks up.