1, 23rd/4th of the twelfth lunar month: offering sacrifices to the kitchen.

The 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, commonly known as "off-year". Generally speaking, the twelfth lunar month in the north is twenty-three and the twelfth lunar month in the south is twenty-four. Fuyang in our province is a place of sacrifice. From this day on, Fuyang Spring Festival travel rush began to get busy ~

On this day, we should clean up and clean up a brand-new home for the New Year. In particular, shoveling pot ashes, sweeping walls, and cleaning pots and pans, some families will also paste portraits of kitchen gods on their kitchen walls for sesame candy, fruits, meat and so on. Pray for the kitchen god to keep the whole family safe.

2. Twenty-sixth day of the twelfth lunar month: Kill pigs and cut annual meat.

There is a folk proverb: "On the 26th of the twelfth lunar month, kill pigs and cut meat for the New Year". When I was a child, I was poor and couldn't eat meat several times all the year round. Killing pigs in the New Year is also a year's expectation.

Now there are fewer pigs at home, and pork is basically bought in the market. Besides pork, chicken, beef and fish are all essential. Prepare seasonings such as radish, celery, bean sprouts, dried fungus, red dates and octagonal longan in advance.

3. December 27th: Reunion

The reason why we want to kill chickens on the 27th of the twelfth lunar month is because it is homophonic. "Chicken" and "Ji" mean good luck. In fact, killing chickens on the 27 th of the twelfth lunar month is also exquisite.

Kill the chicken, don't eat it that day, you can eat it on New Year's Eve, but you can't finish it on New Year's Eve. You should always keep some.

Because chicken itself represents good luck, it is complete to see chicken on the table every day during the festival. In addition, because the old manager pays attention to not using knives on the first day, of course, these things should be prepared in advance.

On the 27th day of the twelfth lunar month, although "going to the store for market" has the same content as before, it is more about buying and selling new year's goods, such as firecrackers, Spring Festival couplets, gods and horses, incense sticks, burning paper, beef and mutton, various toys and gifts for children and various headdresses for girls.

In a word, all the items needed for the Spring Festival are being purchased, so the markets all over the country are very lively on this day. In the past, every household ate steamed bread with leavened flour, so this day was mainly steamed bread and steamed buns.

Fuyang people's favorite foods are jiaozi, fried meatballs, hemp leaves, fish, oil angle seeds and oil cakes. Basically, it was this day. The more fried, the richer the family. The children who have finished their winter vacation are just having fun. When frying, adults will shout for children to eat while it is hot.

There are square and semicircular steamed buns, especially those cooked in local pots. Steamed buns are fragrant at the bottom, big and sweet, and the beans dipped in their own sauce are still well arranged. Chinese New Year steamed stuffed bun is much more delicate than usual. Some families will put a candied date in the steamed bread, and some families will light a red flower on the steamed bread to symbolize good luck.

4. New Year's Eve: Post Spring Festival couplets and New Year's Eve.

There is no New Year's Eve this year, the 29th of the twelfth lunar month, which is the day before the Chinese New Year. On this day, everyone is busy. In my family, my father is usually busy posting Spring Festival couplets, and my mother will mend the batter in advance.

Gate, nave, kitchen, if there are chickens and pigs at home, the henhouse pigsty will also be posted, which is a festive picture ~

My mother prepared a big table for lunch. There must be braised fish, braised pork, fried chicken, cold beef, spinach fans, peanuts, shredded mustard, shredded pork, shredded garlic and chicken soup. ..

In the afternoon, the whole family sat around and wrapped jiaozi. Some of them were responsible for dough rolling, others were responsible for wrapping, and they were frozen in the refrigerator.

Drinking fermented tea, eating glutinous rice balls and watching the Spring Festival Gala in the evening are just like the Chinese New Year ceremony. Bian Xiao likes to eat glutinous rice balls stuffed with black sesame seeds, which are soft and waxy in appearance and have a strong fragrance of black sesame seeds. Eating them in his mouth is full of warmth.

Parents often stay up late, and they will quietly put the prepared lucky money under our pillows. It's really a very happy thing in childhood ~

5, the first day of the first month: go to relatives.

On New Year's Day, we will get up early and set off firecrackers.

If it is a man who is separated from his family, he will step on thick snow at dawn and tomorrow, and the family will take his wife and children neatly to pay New Year greetings to grandparents and parents. In the New Year, we should eat jiaozi and glutinous rice balls, which means everything goes well and the whole family is happy.

To this day, some Fuyang people of the older generation still have a custom: clean up before New Year's Eve, don't move the broom, don't splash water and don't take out the garbage on New Year's Day. The family wears new shoes and clothes, and the girls must wear beautiful headdresses.

6, the second day of the first month: back to her family.

The local custom in Fuyang is to go to grandma's house on the second day of the second year, and the new son-in-law goes to his father's in-laws. The married daughter should buy some gifts for her parents, bring some red envelopes, give them to their children, and have a reunion dinner at their parents' house.

After the third grade, they are all on the way to visit relatives, seven aunts and eight aunts, and even some relatives can only meet during the New Year. Many relatives are expected to give gifts around the Lantern Festival.

7. The 15th day of the first month: Lantern Festival.

Lantern Festival, watching lanterns, eating glutinous rice balls and visiting the market.

The fifteenth day of the first month is like a year. On this day, many market towns have traditional ancient festivals. They eat jiaozi in the morning and Yuanxiao in the evening. On this day, every household locked the door and hurried to the meeting, mainly to buy spring ploughing equipment, spring clothes and fireworks at night. Eating Yuanxiao on the fifteenth day of the first month means reunion.

8. The 16th day of the first month: Go back to your mother's house and send the old goose away.

"Old Goose Steamed Bun" is usually a gift for parents from the 15th day of the first lunar month to the 2nd day of the second lunar month. It is called "Old Goose Steamed Bun" because the old goose is the symbol of her daughter. Daughters who get married like migratory birds also remember to visit their parents regularly.