2022 small year of traditional festival customs of the whole

1, sacrificing Zao Wang: the day of the small year, is also the day of the folk sacrifice stove. Folk legend has it that every year on the 23rd day of the Lunar New Year, King Zao has to go up to heaven to report to the Jade Emperor on the good and evil of this family, so that the Jade Emperor can reward and punish them. Therefore, when sending the stove, people in front of the Zaowang statue of the table for the candy, water, beans, fodder grass; which, the latter three is for the Zaowang ascension of the mount prepared materials. At the time of the Zaos offering, the Guandong candies are also melted with fire and applied to the mouth of the Zao Wang. In this way, he will not be able to speak ill of the Jade Emperor. There is a custom that "men don't worship the moon, women don't worship the stove", so the worship of the Zao Wang is limited to men only. In addition, on the night of the New Year's Eve, King Zaobao will come to the earth with all the gods to celebrate the New Year, and on that day, there must be a ceremony of "receiving the stove" and "receiving the gods". When every family burns the sedan chair, sprinkle wine three cups, send off the god of the stove, then it is the turn to worship the ancestors.

2, sweeping dust: after 23, only six or seven days left from the Spring Festival, the preparations for New Year's Eve seem more enthusiastic. To thoroughly clean the interior, commonly known as dust sweeping, dust sweeping in order to get rid of the old and welcome the new, pulling out the ominous. Every house should be carefully and thoroughly cleaned, so that the windows are clear. Paint the walls, scrub the glass, paste the window, paste the New Year's picture and so on.

3, cut window: all the preparatory work, cut and paste window is the most popular folk activities. The content of a variety of animals, plants and other palindromes, such as magpies, swallows through the peach and willow, peacocks play peonies, lions rolling embroidered balls, three sheep (Yang) Kaitai, two dragons playing pearls, deer and crane Tongchun (six contracts spring), five bats (Fukushima) cupped life, rhinoceros looking at the moon, Lotus (Lian) years of fish (Yu), mandarin ducks playing in the water, the Liu Hai play Golden Cicada, and the two Immortals, and so on.