1, cleaning and pasting window grilles
The ancients will "dust the window" today, which means cleaning, stick grilles. Every household cleans up the dust in the house, cleans up the sundries in the house, sticks new paper on the window, cuts out various auspicious patterns from the red paper and sticks them on the window. There is a folk proverb: "If you don't dust in the twelfth lunar month, you will attract a plague in the coming year." Be silent when cleaning, that is, get rich in silence.
Step 2 drink chicken soup
In the cold winter, Nanjing people's daily diet is more stew and soup. The severe cold has reached the ninth month of the lunar calendar, and the traditional eating custom of "one chicken" is still respected by many families. Nanjing chooses old hens, or stews them alone, or adds ginseng, medlar and black fungus chicken soup.
Step 3 prepare bacon flavor
The ancients said, "Great cold welcomes the new year". The best way to welcome the new year is to prepare bacon and paste it with New Year's red. There are many kinds of bacon, including cured duck, bacon, sausage, preserved fish and so on. Different flavors, full of local characteristics. Every household's balcony kitchen is filled with bacon, which also adds festive color to the Chinese New Year table.
4, paste the year red
Sticking the New Year's Red includes: sticking the door gods, sticking the Spring Festival couplets, sticking the blessing characters, sticking the rice jar and adding traditional Chinese red paper, pinning the good expectations for the new life.
5. Delicious food
The rich food at the end was originally a ceremony to worship the land father-in-law, commonly known as "toothache sacrifice" The so-called second day of February is the first tooth. From now on, every second and sixteenth day is the "tooth", which happens to be the tail tooth on the 16th day of the twelfth lunar month. Weiya has the same spring cakes as "February 2". On this day, buyers and sellers will hold a banquet, and boiled chicken is an essential dish at the banquet.