Sending a lamp refers to sending a hard-working kitchen god, who will go back to heaven to reunite with his family. It seems that even immortals can't avoid customs this year. Picking a fishbone means making fish balls. As a province with thousands of lakes, there are many fish in my hometown, and people also like fish. At ordinary times, fish balls are an indispensable specialty in weddings, funerals and weddings, and their importance is even more obvious on the reunion dinner table on New Year's Eve. There are "fish" every year! Unfortunately, everything is mechanized now, and the original farm fish balls have become a rarity. Drumming means that all kinds of musical instruments can be taken out after the age of 25. In fact, this mainly refers to the fact that rural artists used to make use of people's desire for good luck in the New Year to play and sing from house to house for profit. Now there are many ways to make money, and fewer people pursue profits, but more people are entertaining themselves or others. Twenty-six and twenty-eight are the days for slaughtering animals, but we should avoid saying "slaughter" and say "blessing" in order to win a good heart. Except for dirty marks, it's just a general cleaning. The 27th is mainly to clean the kitchen, because the kitchen has to make a fire to cook every day. Cleaning too early, smoky, dirty before the Spring Festival. The last sentence is that by the 29th, every household's new year's goods are ready, and the family is round and round, waiting to bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new year.
On New Year's Eve, the excitement of this day need not be elaborated. Interestingly, according to the custom, the married daughter can go home for a reunion dinner but can't stay at home for her old age, so the reunion dinner in her hometown is always eaten at noon (the ancestors should be sacrificed before eating) so that the daughter can go back to her in-laws after dinner, but the son-in-law nephews can stay aboveboard! It's really the water spilled by the married daughter!
In the old customs, you can't cook raw rice and water on the third day of the Lunar New Year. On New Year's Eve afternoon, housewives are busy cooking, and men are responsible for boiling water. I don't agree with this custom the most. It's disappointing that people can only eat leftovers during the Chinese New Year.
The Spring Festival on New Year's Day is called "Going Out of Place". In the past, men would bring gifts to their elders' homes to respect their elders, or go to their neighbors' homes to catch up and make new friends. Nowadays, it is popular to go to village cadres or more powerful families to make fashionable remarks and public relations. I wonder if this is social progress or retrogression. Housewives mainly go to the temple to burn incense and draw lots to pray for family safety and rich financial resources in the new year, while young people sing and dance together in groups to show their vitality and passion. The principle of life on New Year's Day is that things can't be taken out, and even garbage can only be piled in the corner, so as not to sweep out the house, so as not to wash away all the wealth of the year.
The second day is for "old" people to pay New Year greetings. People who die in the first year will have a big banquet and disperse their relatives and friends, which is called "Xiang".
The third day is the day to pay New Year greetings. Generally, the order of New Year greetings is arranged according to the distance between relatives and friends. Basically, it is the mother-in-law's house first, then the grandmother's house, and then the cousin's house in menstruation, but it is usually completed before the sixth day. If you go too late, people will feel left out, which will often affect the relationship between the two families. If one of the relatives hasn't come to pay a New Year call, it means that he is going to break up with you!
The most exciting memory is from the eighth day of the first month to the fifteenth day of the first month. On the eighth day, amateur literary and art groups such as the Dragon Dance Team, the Lion Dance Team, the Lotus Team and the Mussel Team in each village began to put on makeup and put on black and pink. Men, women and children who are accustomed to their backs to the loess and their backs to the sky can use this rare leisure time to show their faces in front of their hometown people. Here, cultivators and big boys are holding dragon lanterns and leading lions around the village, as if they have endless energy. Everywhere I go, I prance and jump, jump up and down, roll forward and turn back, play 18 kinds of martial arts, and change 72 kinds. On the other hand, the big girls and little wives are not to be outdone, the lotus fleet is swaying from side to side, the beautiful women picking diamonds are fluttering, and the flowers are trembling; As soon as the mussel team opened and closed, the provocative boat mother rushed forward and then suddenly drove away the people around her; Besides, there are some folk activities that are interesting and don't need to cost too much. It's really dazzling Unfortunately, most young people have gone out to work now, and these pleasures have become more and more depressing.
"After the first day of the first month, everyone will find something to do." After the Lantern Festival, it will be over. So, "adults are looking forward to planting in the fields, and children are looking forward to the New Year" sounded in the fields of the streets!