Anji Spring Festival Folk Customs

Anji Spring Festival folklore: killing the New Year pig, small New Year's Eve, cleaning ash, do New Year's food, New Year's Eve.

1, kill the New Year pig

In Guizhou Province, Wanshan District Dong village still retains a hundred years of Dong village customs - kill the New Year pig.

It's time for the Lunar New Year, and every year in the Lunar New Year, the villagers of the Dong village are busy killing the New Year's pig to celebrate the New Year and entertain their friends and relatives, and also to cure it into bacon to improve the life of the year.

But this Dong villagers kill the New Year pig will not be randomly invited to a butcher to help them kill the New Year pig, but it is very careful: pick an auspicious day, into the month of Lunar New Year, the Dong villagers to ask a Mr. Calculation of a good day to kill the New Year pig; choose the butcher, in the walled village on the selection of a competent economic conditions, kill the New Year pig experienced butchers before being able to hands to kill the New Year pig, so that, in anticipation of the coming year to feed the pig smoothly; picking the helper.

2, the New Year

After the New Year on the 23rd day of the Lunar New Year, the preparations for the festival began, and from this day onwards, it means that the New Year has entered the stage of celebrating the New Year.

The main activity of the New Year is the resignation of the stove, also known as the sacrificial stove, sacrificial stove was one of the five ancient sacrifices, when in the summer, according to legend, the Han Dynasty Yin Zi Fang La day to see the God of the stove, sacrificed to the yellow goat, because of the great wealth.

Therefore, the sacrificial stove mouth in the month of wax, the Tang and Song Dynasty in the wax month 24, to the Ming Dynasty, the sacrificial stove day changed to "military three people four" or "official three people four". That is to say, the army and the government twenty-three days to sacrifice the stove, the civilian population twenty-four to sacrifice the stove.

3, cleaning ash

that is, a thorough cleaning, as the saying goes: "Resignation of the stove resignation of the stove, the New Year's Day came."

After the small year, the first important agenda is to clean the ash, time, you can be from the waxing moon twenty-four to twenty-six days in three days, choose a windy and sunny warm days.

Because of the time of the year, due to various taboos and habits of the constraints, rarely carry out a thorough cleaning, so sweeping ash on this day, the whole family together to do, all can move things, or due to taboos and did not move things, including tables, chairs, benches, cabinets and clothing, all shift, some moved to the yard, some moved in the middle of the house.

The whole family swept, wiped wipe, the house up and down, inside and outside, thoroughly clean, a few clear windows.

4, do New Year's food

Lunar New Year's Eve on the twenty-ninth day of the foot festival before the last day of preparation, before the offerings and people eat festive staple food has been prepared, what remains is to do New Year's food.

There are two kinds of vegetables: human food and divine offerings. Vegetables for human consumption include cabbage, radish, spinach, green onion and cilantro. The cabbage is stripped of its old leaves, the radish is cut into radish shreds, and the spinach and cilantro have their yellow leaves removed. God for vegetables, in addition to the above, the coastal people also have a red dyed longbeard, waxing 29 days, in addition to human food and God for the dishes made of semi-finished products, mainly deep-fried food.

5, the year 30

Lunar month 30, including the small end of the 29th, Rongcheng customarily known as the big year 30.

Posting pairs Rongcheng is commonly known as posting Spring Festival couplets for posting pairs, but from a strict sense, posting pairs and posting Spring Festival couplets is slightly different. Paste the pair is in the early morning, the mother of the new clothes and hats ready, placed on the children's pillows, the children wake up, dressed, carrying glue pots with their fathers and open the door, the first firecrackers, blast away the bad luck and poverty, and then paste the pair.

The content of the "pair" has a strong sense of the times. The Qing Dynasty used a lot of "the beginning of a new year, the spring of all the images", "the spring of the sunny doorway is always in the rich and noble family celebrations," and so on, and even Yuan Shikai when he was in power, "the national emblem of the turn over the five colors, the people's banners to set the eight sides".

These are the first time I've ever seen the world's most famous brand.

After the founding of the country, the content of the "pairs", mostly for the praise of the party's favor, such as "spring breeze green miles, the party's grace in nine states", "the scenery this side of the unique, the mountains and rivers and mountains are so beautiful".

Expanded Information

Anji County Establishment History

Toward the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, class conflicts intensified, so the place county jurisdiction was vast (roughly including the entire territory of present-day Anji County, a part of the southwestern part of Changxing County, and the entire territory of Guangde County and a part of Langxi County in Anhui Province), and in order to strengthen the control of the feudal rulers, the Yellow Turbans Uprising, the year after the Yellow Turbans Uprising. In the second year of Zhongping II (185) of Emperor Ling of Han Dynasty, the southern border of the old place county was cut to set up Anji County, and the county seat was set up in Tianmu Township (now Xiaofeng Township), which still belonged to Danyang County.

The establishment of Anji County began here.

The first year of the Tang Linder (664), the restoration of the establishment of Anji County, under the Huzhou.

In the 26th year of the reign of Emperor Kaiyuan (738), the county seat was moved northward near the present site of Anjincheng Town.

After the Yuan's destruction of the Southern Song Dynasty, the court relied heavily on the southeastern region to supply the food and goods it needed, resulting in heavy taxation.

At the end of the Yuan, peasant revolts, Anji first by Xu Shouhui department occupation, followed by Zhang Shicheng department based on the 16th year of the Zhizheng (1356 years) and for Zhu Yuanzhang Department of K have.

Since then, Zhang, Zhu and two parts of the fight for more than 10 years.

Qing Xuantong three years (1911) November 17, Anji, Xiaofeng two counties responded to the Wuchang Uprising, and then drove out the Qing governor.

In the first year of the Republic of China (1912), the two counties set up county offices.

In the third year of the Republic of China (1914), the abolition of the government set up a road, Anji, Xiaofeng two counties belong to the same Qiantang Road.

Republic of China five years (1916) renamed the county government.

On May 1, 1949, the Chinese People's Liberation Army liberated Anji and Xiaofeng counties.

Early in June, the county committees of An and Hsiao counties and the people's governments of the two counties were established by the C***.

Customs of Killing New Year's Pigs

Killing pigs is considered a major event in northeastern farming families, as it is usually done once or twice a year by the average family and is almost equivalent to a festival.

Each village has a person who is good at killing pigs, by their "knife", not only do a clean and neat, and do not "trample" (waste) useful things, the pig's meat and head, hooves, underwater (viscera), blood, bones and other parts of the packing up to Well-organized, divided into categories, each with its own use, to take the folk saying is "can kill out more five pounds of meat.

Of course, please kill these pigs "handle" also want to give a certain amount of pay, usually the head, hooves, underwater part of the gift for the payoffs, pig killers do not refuse, because this is the customary practice.

On the day of the killing of pigs, the host family to invite close friends and relatives to come to the feast, both for the contact, but also to celebrate, the Northeast still specializes in the "killing of pigs food" restaurant, in some ways, is to follow this folk custom.

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