The varieties of pasta to be cooked for one day on the 28th of the twelfth lunar month are: steamed bread, bean curd, twist ... People can eat it while it is hot in the first month. Convenient and delicious.
Steamed steamed bread on the 29th of the twelfth lunar month means a good start in the coming year. Steam out some dates
Tower, bergamot and other shapes, and then pinch a few bean stuffing bags and jujube paste bags of various shapes, and point red dots, which is auspicious.
How did people in Northeast China celebrate the New Year 30 years ago (2009-02-0 19: 53: 02)
Label: How did the Northeast celebrate the New Year 30 years ago? The Classification of Traditional Folk Culture in China: Knowledge Exploration
How did Northeasters celebrate the New Year 30 years ago?
Why do Northeasters always kill chickens during the New Year?
(Thanks to the grassroots blog home page grassroots headline recommendation) Wen Sunshine mood
Spring Festival is the most important festival of the Chinese nation in a year, which is the precipitation of 5,000 years' history and has special significance for every Chinese son and daughter. People who travel abroad for a year will go home for the Spring Festival on New Year's Eve, and the whole family will get together to enjoy the delicious New Year's Eve dinner and talk about their new life in the coming year. In the twelfth lunar month, people began to be busy with the New Year, and began to enter the New Year on the 23rd.
1. Eat stove candy on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month.
Northerners should offer food to the Kitchen God. On the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, ordinary people sealed the mouth of the Kitchen God with his candy, and asked him to put in a good word in front of the Jade Emperor, so as to be rich and safe in the coming year.
2. Tomb-Sweeping Day on December 24th of the lunar calendar.
Cleaning the house on the 24th is to thoroughly clean the house and drive away bad luck. After cleaning the house, the home is completely new. It indicates that the coming year will be prosperous.
Three. Window 25 of twelfth lunar month
One of the four monsters in Northeast China, "put enough paper on the outside". Sticking Spring Festival couplets, blessings, window grilles and paper-cuts engraved with auspicious patterns on enough paper adds festive colors to the Spring Festival.
4. stewed meat on the 26th of the twelfth lunar month
From the 26th of the twelfth lunar month, we began to prepare a sumptuous New Year's Eve dinner. A pot of delicious stew is the simplest New Year's Eve dinner in the minds of northerners, which is more enjoyable and more affordable than delicacies.
5. Kill the rooster on the 27th of the twelfth lunar month
Chicken sounds auspicious and urgent. "Kill the goose that lays the golden egg" is a saying, which means that the new year's goods will be finished from this day on, because it takes time to make new year's goods, and it will be too late if you don't start.
Six. La yue er ba noodles
The varieties of pasta to be cooked for one day on the 28th of the twelfth lunar month are: steamed bread, bean curd, twist ... People can eat it while it is hot in the first month. Convenient and delicious.
Seven. La yue er Shi JIU steamed bun
Steaming steamed bread means a prosperous and good start in the coming year. Steam out some jujube towers, bergamot and other shapes, then pinch a few bean stuffed buns and jujube paste buns with various shapes, and point red dots to indicate good luck.
Eight. Eat jiaozi on New Year's Eve, the first day and the fifth day.
The 30-year-old Jiao Zi not only pays attention to form, but also has regulations on placement. Both the curtains for jiaozi and the drawers for steamed dumplings are exquisite. First, put a few jiaozi ingots in the middle, and then put them in order layer by layer from the outside to the inside. There is a folk saying called "circle blessing". Eating steamed dumplings like New Year's Eve means prosperity. In some places, the method of horizontal arrangement is also adopted, which means that financial resources extend in all directions and treasure comes from all directions.
On the first day of the Lunar New Year, the older generation in jiaozi pay attention to saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new. Therefore, jiaozi must eat something new on the first day of the Lunar New Year, which indicates the beginning of a new life in a year.
On the fifth day of the first month, there is still a meal of jiaozi that must be eaten, but this meal of jiaozi must be eaten now, so this day is commonly known as "Breaking Five".
New Year Customs in Rural Areas of Heilongjiang Province (2010-02-113: 55: 05)
Label: Heilongjiang rural Spring Festival custom Spring Festival couplets dance yangko to eat jiaozi Classification: life writing.
New Year Customs in Rural Areas of Heilongjiang Province
During the Chinese New Year, there is an influential saying in northern China: "Twenty-three honeydew melons are sticky, twenty-four houses are cleaned, twenty-five tofu is made, twenty-six meats are cut, twenty-seven chickens are slaughtered, twenty-eight noodles are made, twenty-nine steamed buns are steamed, thirty nights are spent, and the Chinese New Year is celebrated." It generally tells the arrangement of Chinese New Year in the northern rural areas.
The countryside is slightly different from this: 24 days of house cleaning, 25 days of cooking tofu, 26 days of cutting meat, 27 days of killing old chickens, 28 days of dried noodles, 29 days of putting up couplets, 30 days of cooking oil, and kowtowing on the first day. Among them, sticking friends is sticking couplets. In the traditional rural areas of Heilongjiang, the couplets posted on the well are generally Taoist friends, with the word written vertically and the word "four" at the end also as "horizontal". Thirty-year-old oil is fried dried fruits and the like, and now it is not done much.
The Spring Festival in rural areas of Heilongjiang usually begins on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month and ends on the 15th of the first month.
On the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, we should set off firecrackers and eat jiaozi. Kitchen God and Cai Fu will ascend to heaven.
On the 24 th of the twelfth lunar month, the house was cleaned.
Kill pigs and chickens on the 26th and 7th of the twelfth lunar month.
On the 28th of the twelfth lunar month, steamed buns, steamed buns, and bean bags were partially used as ancestral offerings.
The other part is food. After the Chinese New Year, women don't always cook. When they eat, they just take away the calories. Not many people do this now.
On the 29th of the twelfth lunar month, write couplets and paste Spring Festival couplets. Not only the rooms where people live, but also the cowshed in the henhouse is put up. In my impression, a couplet often posted in the cowshed is "Cattle in the south of Marseille are like tigers, dragons in the north sea", the hen house is full of golden cocks, and the pigsty is full of fat pigs or "There are big pigs coming in every year and pigs increasing every month".
On the thirtieth day of the twelfth lunar month, firecrackers will be set off in the morning, and jiaozi will be eaten in the afternoon to greet ancestors. There are usually pig's feet and chicken's feet on New Year's Eve, which means scraping the money target and making more money next year. Shrimp and sauerkraut, which are often eaten by northeast people, are not allowed on New Year's Eve. Shrimp is homophonic with blindness, and acid means bad luck. It is best to have chicken and fish for the New Year's Eve, which symbolizes good luck every year.
Stay up at night. You can't throw rubbish all night. It seems unlucky to throw rubbish on New Year's Eve. When the midnight bell rings, you should kowtow to your ancestors' genealogy and the elders at home to pay New Year's greetings, and the elders should give the younger generation lucky money.
Traditional Chinese New Year entertainment yangko, one is walking on stilts, the other is not walking, also called jumping on the ground. The dance of yangko is the same as that in Zhao Benshan's sketch. There are people knocking and advocating suona, which is very lively. Sometimes, the government also wants the yangko teams in each village to perform competitions.
In the New Year, we should eat jiaozi. China New Year's jiaozi usually uses leeks or celery as stuffing. They are all homophonic. The leek stuffing means nine kinds of wealth in the new year, and the celery stuffing means that the whole family will be diligent in the coming year. On the morning of the first day of junior high school, everyone gets up earlier than anyone else, and firecrackers are set off early. Whoever gets up early represents a good New Year. On the first day of junior high school, young students should pay New Year greetings to their relatives and neighbors who get along well.
On the second and third day of New Year's Day, it is the day to go back to my parents' home. On the third day of New Year's Eve, you should eat jiaozi, which is called to send God away and send away the ancestors who came back from the 30 th.
On the fifth day of the lunar new year's eve, it is water release day. On this day, you can wash clothes and sew clothes, which is called sewing.
On the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, if the weather is fine, it symbolizes the well-being and happiness of mankind in the new year. Therefore, the seventh day of the seventh lunar month is also called "People's Day", and jiaozi is eaten. According to the old people, the first day to the eighth day of the first month symbolizes eight kinds of "animals" including people, namely, one chicken and two ducks, three dogs and four cats, six pigs and five sheep, seven horses and eight people. When the weather is fine, what kind of animals will be fine this year.
On the fifteenth day of the first month, my hometown is also called Lantern Festival. To make ice lanterns or other lanterns, we should also put lanterns in the yard and on the road. After dinner, I will send a lamp to the ancestral grave. Have jiaozi or Yuanxiao for dinner. That night, all the lights in the room can't be turned off. The children are playing with lights. There is also a custom in our hometown-rolling ice. Children should roll on the ice in the river several times. It is said that this can get rid of the dirty air and usher in happiness.
There is a folk saying: there are 28 sides of the twelfth lunar month. On the 28th of the twelfth lunar month, cakes and buns are decorated with decals. In other words, we can prepare the staple food for the Spring Festival and steam steamed bread with flour. This is obviously in the north, and the south doesn't pay attention to steaming steamed bread, but steaming other things.
Winter in the northeast is very cold, and it is also a time when people are more at leisure. Therefore, when the twelfth lunar month arrives, there is a New Year's atmosphere in the northeast, and some people start to freeze ice lanterns or hang red lights. On the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, the chin was frozen off, and every household ate Laba porridge. In the northeast countryside, after the twelfth lunar month, people began to queue up to kill pigs. The purpose of numbering is to invite friends from my village to eat pork-killing dishes. You invite me to invite you, and some bring the whole family.
The 23rd of the twelfth lunar month is a small year. On this day, every household sweeps the Spring Festival, makes sacrifices to stoves, wraps jiaozi and sets off firecrackers. From then until New Year's Eve, people buy new year's goods, including all kinds of meat, rice cakes, clothes, paper, bamboo products, porcelain, door gods, kitchen gods, flowers, honey, firecrackers, dice, cards, narcissus heads and bergamot. ..............................................................................
On the 26th or 28th day of the twelfth lunar month (find a double day in the lunar calendar), you will start making steamed stuffed buns, sugar triangles and sticky bean buns-Nian Dou Bao. In this way, if you rush for several days, it is also called a busy year. The staple food should be enough for the whole family to eat for half a month or a month. During this period, peanuts, claws, candy, twists and so on. Will be prepared, so that in the first month, when relatives and friends come home to play. Before New Year's Eve, people who work or go to work in other places go home one after another.
New Year's Eve is the most important day for Chinese New Year in the north. After breakfast, some children will put on beautiful clothes and play with their good friends in the street, or give gifts to relatives-usually cigarettes, alcohol or local products. At home, adults will start posting Spring Festival couplets, making meatballs, mixing noodles and preparing dishes, including jiaozi. Some fastidious families also make jiaozi with two kinds of stuffing, one is meat and the other is vegetarian. This kind of vegetarian dumplings can't be eaten in restaurants at ordinary times, but the host has carefully selected the fillings of various materials. Some careful hostesses will wrap four kinds of jiaozi, sugar, dates, money and rice cakes, in plain jiaozi, each with a beautiful meaning. There's more. After lunch, they began to pack jiaozi, and the children generally stopped walking around other people's houses. Some older children will help the adults in the family spend the New Year together.
Until about six o'clock in the evening, every household began to burn paper money-please the god of wealth and set off firecrackers-to welcome the New Year. At this time, the family began to drink. At this time, the wine table will be very rich, and eight dishes are inevitable. There must be fish on the table for more than a year. Before everyone started eating, the elderly or elders began to move chopsticks. Everyone drinks and laughs, wishing each other good luck and the coming New Year. It is often said by friends around me, now. The Spring Festival is the most grand festival in China, with many ancient customs and exquisite manners. Today, people in Northeast China still retain many ancient traditional customs of Spring Festival. So many friends have sprouted the idea of going to the Northeast for the New Year, eating authentic Northeast Caicai, drinking a big bowl of Northeast wine, eating rare mushrooms, skiing and ice fishing. ......
Winter in the northeast is very cold, and it is also a time when people are more at leisure. Therefore, when the twelfth lunar month arrives, there is a New Year's atmosphere in the northeast, and some people start to freeze ice lanterns or hang red lights. On the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, the chin was frozen off, and every household ate Laba porridge. In the northeast countryside, after the twelfth lunar month, people began to queue up to kill pigs. The purpose of numbering is to invite friends from my village to eat pork-killing dishes. You invite me to invite you, and some bring the whole family.
The 23rd of the twelfth lunar month is a small year. On this day, every household sweeps the Spring Festival, makes sacrifices to stoves, wraps jiaozi and sets off firecrackers. From then until New Year's Eve, people buy new year's goods, including all kinds of meat, rice cakes, clothes, paper, bamboo products, porcelain, door gods, kitchen gods, flowers, honey, firecrackers, dice, cards, narcissus heads and bergamot. ..............................................................................
On the 26th or 28th day of the twelfth lunar month (find a double day in the lunar calendar), you will start making steamed stuffed buns, sugar triangles and sticky bean buns-Nian Dou Bao. In this way, if you rush for several days, it is also called a busy year. The staple food should be enough for the whole family to eat for half a month or a month. During this period, peanuts, claws, candy, twists and so on. Will be prepared, so that in the first month, when relatives and friends come home to play. Before New Year's Eve, people who work or go to work in other places go home one after another.
New Year's Eve is the most important day for Chinese New Year in the north. After breakfast, some children will put on beautiful clothes and play with their good friends in the street, or give gifts to relatives-usually cigarettes, alcohol or local products. At home, adults will start posting Spring Festival couplets, making meatballs, mixing noodles and preparing dishes, including jiaozi. Some fastidious families also make jiaozi with two kinds of stuffing, one is meat and the other is vegetarian. This kind of vegetarian dumplings can't be eaten in restaurants at ordinary times, but the host has carefully selected the fillings of various materials. Some careful hostesses will wrap four kinds of jiaozi, sugar, dates, money and rice cakes, in plain jiaozi, each with a beautiful meaning. There's more. After lunch, they began to pack jiaozi, and the children generally stopped walking around other people's houses. Some older children will help the adults in the family spend the New Year together.
Until about six o'clock in the evening, every household began to burn paper money-please the god of wealth and set off firecrackers-to welcome the New Year. At this time, the family began to drink. At this time, the wine table will be very rich, and eight dishes are inevitable. There must be fish on the table, and it is important to pay attention to it for more than one year. Only when the elderly or elders start to move chopsticks can everyone start to eat, and everyone will drink heartily and bless each other. After that, I started playing mahjong, playing poker, watching TV, eating frozen pears, peanuts, melon seeds, sweets and so on. Some adult men can visit their close elders or elderly family members to show their respect.
Some children will put on new clothes prepared by adults at this time, especially washing their feet and changing socks, saying that they are stepping on villains, and have a pleasant journey all year round.
Everyone played until New Year's Eve 1 1, and the host at home began to cook jiaozi (many homes in jiaozi on New Year's Eve were cooked by the host). At this time, people are usually trapped in jiaozi, which means a year of peace and harmony. Some people eat meat and watch the pressure at home. When cooking jiaozi, burn paper in the kitchen. In short, under normal circumstances, when jiaozi is cooking, the pointer of the watch just points to 12, and the already hung firecrackers light up-bang bang bang, the child is holding a drip-zizz, attention, everyone, if jiaozi eats jiaozi with coins at night and eats the New Year's Eve dinner in jiaozi, the younger generation will start to pay New Year greetings to the elders, and in some places they will even kowtow and ask the elders to give lucky money. The children began to pay New Year greetings to their relatives and friends. Most families don't sleep-stay old (many families still sleep after the party now).
On the first morning, after breakfast in jiaozi, the family continued to pay New Year greetings to neighbors and friends, and yangko began to be played in the street in an organized way. On the second night of the second day (some people are early in the third day), firecrackers are set off as usual before eating-to send the New Year. On the third day, I went back to my parents' home-my married daughter and son-in-law led the children back to their parents' home. In the third grade, I still eat jiaozi's noodles in the fourth grade, and in the fifth grade, I still eat jiaozi. The seventh grade is a day for people. It is very important to eat noodles to keep healthy and live longer.
On the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first month, there are lanterns and colorful decorations everywhere, and the yangko team lasts from the first day to the 15th day of the first month. After February 2, the flavor of the year is still full. On February 2nd, the dragon looked up. Most families cook a pig's head, eat pig's head meat, and men, adults and children cut their hair.
It is best to stay in an authentic northeast family when you go to the northeast for the New Year. With luck, it just happened to snow. Looking at the heavy snow outside, the family sat on the kang in the house and felt the warmth. Everyone gathered together to wrap jiaozi and have a New Year's Eve dinner. There are side dishes, peanuts, duck necks, chicken feet, pig tails, sausages and salted beans on the table in the middle of the kang. Family members guess boxing, order northeast drinking knives or red stars, set off firecrackers outside after eating, and then go back to the house to watch the party. It feels so good! (
Layuege
Twenty-three, honeydew melon is sticky;
Twenty-four, sweeping the house;
Twenty-five, grinding bean curd;
Twenty-six, to cut meat (stew);
Twenty-seven, killing chickens (killing stove chickens);
Twenty-eight, send face;
Twenty-nine, steamed bread;
Stay awake for 30 nights in a row,
On the first day of the new year.
Commemorate Sakyamuni on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month.
The origin of Laba porridge
On the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, people in China have the custom of eating Laba porridge. It is said that Laba porridge comes from India.
The founder of Buddhism, Sakyamuni, was originally the son of Sudoku king in northern India (now Nepal). He saw that all beings were suffering physically and mentally, dissatisfied with the theocratic rule of Brahmins at that time, and gave up the throne and became a monk. After six years of asceticism, he became a Buddha under the bodhi tree on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. In the past six years, I have only eaten one hemp and one meter a day. Later generations did not forget his sufferings and ate porridge as a souvenir on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month every year. "Laba" became "Buddha's Day". "Laba" is a grand festival of Buddhism. Before liberation, Buddhist temples all over the country held Buddhist baths and chanted scriptures, and imitated the legend that a herder offered chyle before Sakyamuni became a monk, and cooked fragrant cereal porridge to offer sacrifices to the Buddha, which was called "Laba porridge". Laba porridge was presented to disciples and kind men and women, and later became a folk custom. It is said that in some monasteries, before the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, monks would hold alms bowls along the street and cook the collected rice, chestnuts, dates, nuts and other materials into Laba porridge and distribute it to the poor. Legend has it that eating it can get the blessing of Buddha, so the poor call it "Buddha porridge". The poem of Lu You in the Southern Song Dynasty said: "Today, Buddha porridge is more mutually beneficial, and the opposite is Jiangcun Village." It is said that Tianning Temple, a famous temple in Hangzhou, has a "rice stack building" for storing leftovers. Usually, monks in the temple dry leftovers every day, accumulate a year's surplus grain, and cook laba porridge for believers on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. It is called "Fushou porridge" and "Fude porridge", which means that they can increase their happiness and longevity after eating them. It can be seen that the monks at that time cherished the virtue of food.
Laba porridge was cooked with adzuki beans and glutinous rice in ancient times, and then the materials were gradually increased. People in the Southern Song Dynasty carefully wrote "Old Wulin Stories" and said, "Cooking porridge with walnuts, pine nuts, milk mushrooms, persimmon mushrooms and persimmon chestnuts is called Laba porridge." Up to now, people in Jiangnan, Northeast and Northwest China still have the custom of eating Laba porridge, which is rare in Guangdong. With different materials, glutinous rice, red beans, jujube, chestnuts, peanuts, ginkgo, lotus seeds, lilies and so on are commonly used to cook sweet porridge. Longan, longan and candied fruit are all ripe. Eating a steaming bowl of Laba porridge in winter is delicious and nutritious, which can really increase happiness and prolong life.
December 23 rd
Continue to eat
The 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, also called "off-year", is the day when people worship the kitchen. There is a folk custom that "men don't Yue Bai, women don't offer sacrifices to stoves", so the owner of offering sacrifices to stoves is limited to men. Among the folk gods in China, the qualification of Kitchen God has a long history. Kitchen God, in the Xia Dynasty, has become a respected god. Starting from the Zhou Dynasty, the imperial palace also included sacrificial stoves in sacrificial ceremonies, and established rules for sacrificial stoves throughout the country, which became a fixed ceremony.
December 24th
Clean the house.
After the Stove Festival, preparations for the Chinese New Year officially began.
The word "broom" has been found in Oracle Bone Inscriptions. The Shang and Zhou bronzes unearthed in Shaanxi have the inscription "Sweep with a broom". It can be seen that people swept the floor with brooms thousands of years ago. There is a note in The Book of Rites that "everywhere inside and outside, chickens crow at first, ... sweeping the court". This shows that people have long known that pollution and dust bubbles are related to the spread of diseases. Zhou Shu's Secret Building Classics records that "the ditches are clear, the houses are clean, and there is no foul smell or plague".
"Rufalan" said: "It is difficult to beat drums to drive away epidemic ghosts at the end of the year." Later it gradually evolved into a year-end cleaning. In the Tang Dynasty, the "Sweeping Year Wind" prevailed. Song and Wu Meng recorded: "At the end of December, the old days are poor, that is, except at night, all the scholars, big and small, sweep the door, clean up the housework, change the door gods, hang up Zhong Kui, nail peaches and stick spring cards to pray for peace in the new year." Qing Lu Gu's Ting Anne Lu. December. "Dust of Ai": "The wax will be broken, so it is advisable to choose a constitutional book (referring to the almanac) to sweep the dust on the house, or hit the dust of Ai on the 23rd, 24th and 27th, which is vulgar." Qing * Cai Yun's poem "Wu Yuqian" said: "Everything in the thatched cottage is happy in spring, and the dust in the house is cleared away." "Trivia at the Age of Years" said: "December 24th, sweeping the house, whoever does something, does not choose constitutional documents, and marries more, is called silk throwing day."
In ancient times, the Spring Festival cleaning was called "Sweeping the Year Festival", which originated from a religious ceremony of the ancient people to drive away the epidemic. Later it gradually evolved into a year-end cleaning. This is the traditional habit of our people. The north is called "house cleaning" and the south is called "dust removal". Every household should clean the environment, clean all kinds of appliances, remove and wash bedding curtains, sweep six yards, dust cobwebs and dredge culverts in open channels. For the north, sweeping the house in the twelfth month of winter is only dust removal, while in the south, tables, chairs and even big shed beds are often carried to the river and wells for scrubbing. After cleaning the house, the whole family began to prepare new year's goods, please code incense wax paper, give gifts, write couplets, cut window grilles, buy hanging money, New Year pictures, firecrackers ... everywhere is happy to do cleaning and welcome the New Year.
The custom of "sweeping the house with dust on the 24th of the twelfth lunar month" has a long history. Also known as "dust sweeping, dust removal, slag removal and dust removal". According to "Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals", China had the custom of sweeping dust during the Spring Festival in the Yao and Shun era. According to the folk saying, because of the homonym of "dust" and "Chen", sweeping dust in the Spring Festival means "getting rid of the old and not being new", and its original intention is to sweep away all "unlucky" and "unlucky". This custom has placed people's desire to break the old and create new ones and their prayers to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new.
Interestingly, there is a strange story about the origin of ancient dust sweeping.
Legend has it that the ancients believed that everyone was attached to a three-corpse god. Like a shadow, he followed people's whereabouts and was inseparable. Three dead gods are a guy who likes flattery and gossip. He often tells stories in front of the Jade Emperor and describes the world as ugly. Over time, in the jade emperor's impression, this world is simply a dirty world full of evil. Once. The secret report of the three dead gods tells us that the world is cursing the Emperor of Heaven and wants to rebel against him. The jade emperor was furious and made an imperial edict to quickly find out what happened in the world. Anyone who hates gods and insults them writes their crimes under the eaves. Then let the spider cover it with a net and mark it. The Jade Emperor ordered Wang Lingguan to go down on New Year's Eve, and all the marked families were beheaded, not one left. Seeing that the plan was about to succeed, three resin gods took advantage of the gap and flew down to earth. They indiscriminately and viciously marked the eaves and corners of every household so that Wang Lingguan could kill them all.
Just as the Three Corpses God was doing evil, the Chef God discovered his whereabouts and was frightened to disgrace, so he quickly sought out various Chefs to discuss countermeasures. So, I came up with a good idea. From the day when the kitchen is delivered on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month to the time when the kitchen is closed on New Year's Eve, every household should clean up the house. If any household is not clean, Kitchen God will refuse to enter the house. According to the instructions of the kitchen god before he ascended to heaven, everyone cleaned the dust, dusted the cobwebs, cleaned the doors and windows, and thoroughly cleaned their houses. When Wang Lingguan visited the lower bound on New Year's Eve, he found that every household had bright windows and bright lights, people were reunited and happy, and the world was beautiful. Wang Lingguan was surprised that he could not find a sign indicating bad behavior. He rushed back to heaven, told the Jade Emperor that there was peace and happiness on earth, and prayed for a happy New Year. The Jade Emperor was greatly shocked after hearing this. He made a decree to detain the Three Corpses God, ordered him to be slapped for 300 mouths, and put him in prison forever. Thanks to the help of Kitchen God, this human disaster was spared. In order to thank the Kitchen God for helping people to solve disasters and bless Zhang Xiang, the folk dust-sweeping always starts from the kitchen and is busy until the New Year's Eve.
"Three-body God" is called "God" in human body by Taoism. According to the "Taishang Three Corpses", "The name of the corpse is Peng Shu, in the head; The name of China's body is Peng, which is in the abdomen; The name of this body is Jiao Peng, which is in the human foot. " He also said that on that day, they went to heaven to tell the emperor Chen about human sins; But as long as people stay up late, it can be avoided. This is the so-called "keeping Geng Shen"
Dust removal is also of great benefit to people's living environment. According to scientific research, there are millions of bacteria per cubic meter of air in places with high dust content. In this environment, the incidence of pneumonia, pharyngitis, lung cancer, emphysema, bronchitis and bronchial asthma is high. Dust can absorb and refract ultraviolet rays in sunlight. When the dust is air per cubic meter 1 mg, the ultraviolet ray will be reduced by about 2/3. Living in this environment for a long time will obviously increase the chances of children suffering from rickets.
In addition, pay attention to wearing masks, hats and glasses when cleaning. Change clothes in time after sweeping the dust. Chinese medicine believes that after the spring, the climate warms, everything recovers, and pests begin to die. Therefore, cleaning before the Spring Festival is helpful to prevent infectious diseases and epidemics. It is not only beneficial to health, but also adds a festive atmosphere of saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new.
December 25
Jieyu yellow
According to the ancient custom, after the kitchen god goes to heaven (the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month), the jade emperor in the sky will personally descend to the lower bound on the 25th day of the twelfth lunar month to investigate the good and evil on earth and decide the fortunes of the coming year, so every household should offer a blessing to him, which is called "receiving the jade emperor". On this day, we should be careful in our daily life and words, strive for good performance, win the favor of the Jade Emperor and bring good luck for the coming year.
Rush out of chaos
It was not until New Year's Eve that Kitchen God was sent to welcome him back. During this period, there is no God's jurisdiction on the earth, and at all times, many people get married, which is called "expelling chaos". Luannian is a special period designed by people to adjust their social life. At the end of the year, people have leisure and savings, which is a good opportunity for those who have little energy to do great things. Therefore, people invented this special time folk custom according to the needs of real life. It can be seen that in traditional society, people's life order is regulated by folk customs.
Zhao Tiancan
Also known as "burning field silkworms", "burning field silkworms" and "burning field wealth", it is a popular folk custom of praying for the New Year in Jiangnan area. On the 25th day of the twelfth lunar month, a long pole tied with a torch will stand in the field, indicating the new year with the flame, and the thriving flame indicates the bumper harvest in the coming year. This activity is held in some places on New Year's Eve.
Thousand Lantern Festival
This is a religious festival of Mongolian and Daur. Mongolian is called "Ganming Zhuola", which means Thousand Lantern Festival. On the 25th of the twelfth lunar month, I made "Ganming Zhuola" and lit it in the temple, thinking that the more I ordered, the more auspicious it would be. This festival custom is the most popular among Mongolians in Vilat, Xinjiang. On this day, local people eat roast beef and mutton and hold traditional sports and entertainment activities.
28 December
La yue Shi ba noodles
In most places, steamed noodles are made on this day to celebrate the New Year. Taiyuan people want to steam "two cakes and two steamed buns"; Hebei people are preparing to offer sacrifices to their ancestors on New Year's Eve by steaming jujube flowers. Henan people are also "28 th, steaming buns and frying pagodas." Only Beijingers are slow to make moves. Only on this day can they "hit their faces" and wait until the 29th to "steam steamed buns". (Excerpted from Customs Daily)
A nursery rhyme about the Spring Festival in old Beijing;
On the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, honeydew melons are sticky;
On the 24th of the twelfth lunar month, sweep the house;
Twenty-five of the twelfth lunar month, fried tofu;
On the 26th of the twelfth lunar month, boiled white meat;
On the 27 th of the twelfth lunar month, kill chickens;
On the 28 th of the twelfth lunar month, send face;
Twenty-nine of the twelfth lunar month, steamed stuffed bun;
Stay up for 30 nights;
New year's day, twist it.
When I teach my children to read, I can't help wondering, why is it from the 23rd to the first day of the twelfth lunar month instead of the 1st to 15th? Perhaps the expectation of the festival is more interesting than the festival itself. ! After the first day of junior high school, the free festival is missing one day. From the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month to the first day of junior high school, the festive atmosphere is getting warmer every day. So the days before New Year's Eve can't be ignored.
December 29th
The day before New Year's Eve is called "New Year's Eve", and people call it "Don't be old" when greeting each other. Burning incense outdoors is called "Tianxiang", which usually takes three days.