The meaning of "Little Year" is to pray for blessings. Xiaonian is also known as the Stove Festival, Kitchen King Festival and Dust Sweeping Day. Traditionally, the Xiaonian is on the 23rd and 24th of the twelfth lunar month. The Little New Year is usually regarded as the beginning of the "Busy Year", which means that people begin to prepare New Year's goods, sweep dust, offer sacrifices to stoves, etc., in preparation for a clean and happy New Year, which expresses people's good wishes to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new, and to welcome good fortune and good fortune. .

What is the main meaning of Xiao Nian?

Xiao Nian does not specifically refer to one day. Due to customs in various places, the days called "Little Nian" are also different. Since the middle and late Qing Dynasty, the emperor's family has held a ceremony to worship the heaven on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month. In order to "save expenses", they also worshiped the Kitchen God. Therefore, the people in the northern region followed suit and celebrated the ceremony on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month one day in advance. Little year.

Sacrificing stoves is one of the main customs in Xiaonian. Folk sacrifices to stoves originated from the ancient custom of worshiping fire. "Release of Names": "Stove. Creates and creates food." The responsibility of the Kitchen God is to control the stove fire and manage the diet. Later, it was expanded to examine the good and evil in the world to reduce blessings and disasters. According to "Fengtu Ji", a chronicle of local customs written by Zhou Chu, a famous person in the Jin Dynasty of my country: "On the night of the 24th of the twelfth lunar month, the stove was worshiped. It was said that the stove god would go to heaven the next day and become a year old, so he was worshiped on the first day."

After the Little New Year, people believe that the gods ascend to heaven and there are no taboos. There is no need to choose a date to marry a daughter-in-law or a daughter-in-law, which is called "random marriage". Until the end of the year, many wedding ceremonies are held. There is a folk saying that "Suiyan is busy getting married in the countryside, and Yichun posts are amusing the spring scenery. Sisters whisper to each other in front of the lamp, staying up late this year is the bridal chamber."