Dust blows on the seventeenth day of the twelfth lunar month.
"If you have money but no money, clean the New Year" and thoroughly clean the house. There is a folk proverb, "the more you sweep, the more you sweep." Dust off the furniture, clean the quilt and welcome the new year with a clean and tidy look. The moral is to get rid of the dust of the year, that is, to get rid of the unlucky, evil and unlucky things of the past year, and hope that the new year will be healthier and more prosperous.
Pinellia lunata
"Officials, three people and four people" is an old tradition of Yangzhou people. Legend has it that on the night of the 24th of the twelfth lunar month, the Kitchen God will go to the Heavenly Palace to report to the Jade Emperor about the world events. Therefore, every household should see off the kitchen god on this night, which is called "sending the kitchen stove". ?
There are also folk regulations that men do not sacrifice the moon and women do not send stoves. Because women often cook at home, it is inevitable that they will complain a little, so they will throw shovels into the pot. Such a sound will disturb the kitchen god and make the kitchen god unhappy. So stoves are all given by men.
There are several things that are necessary to send the stove.
First, the stove rice, cooked with glutinous rice, embedded with red dates, lotus seeds and candied fruit, is somewhat similar to the eight-treasure rice sold in the supermarket, and can only be processed separately after 30 nights of cooking; Second, put a horse made of paper or reeds on a plate, and sprinkle some grass and beans under it to represent the mount of Kitchen God. There is also a kind of malt cake, which the kitchen god ate and stuck to his teeth. In front of the jade emperor, he faltered and could not speak. ?
Twenty-five years of twelfth lunar month
There is a folk saying in Yangzhou: Twenty-three and twenty-four are sent to the kitchen god, and twenty-five and twenty-six are busy steaming. Steaming steamed buns for the New Year is a great event for the old Yangzhou people. The steamed buns for the New Year can't be called steamed buns, but snacks. The dough is fermented from flour, which is called dead noodles before fermentation and live noodles after fermentation.
In previous years, materials were scarce, and snacks were a family's New Year's ration, so the quantity was huge and things were much more important. Now that there are quick-frozen steamed buns, it is meaningful for every household to eat steamed buns during the New Year.
the 28th of the twelfth lunar month
There is a concept of saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new, which means making a satisfactory summary of the past year. Thank you for your blessing, we can spend this year safely and smoothly, and hope that next year will be smooth sailing. In the evening, it is natural for the whole family to have a reunion dinner, which is also grand, second only to the New Year's Eve.
New Year's Eve
On New Year's Eve, every household should put couplets on all the doors to welcome the new year. Sticking the word "Fu" in the Spring Festival is a long-standing folk custom. The word "Fu" symbolizes good luck and wishes for a happy life and a bright future.
Yangzhou people pay attention to the dishes of reunion dinner: water celery, which means the vermicelli of Passepartout, which means a long stream of water; Pea, pronounced Ando by Yangzhou people, means safe; There are vegetables and tofu, which means refreshing; Yangzhou braised chowder is called family portrait; Braised snapper is definitely indispensable, but it can't be eaten until the first day of the first month, which means "more than a year".
On New Year's Eve, after dinner, people should keep watch, adults and children put on new clothes, and elders began to give lucky money to the younger generation. On New Year's Eve, elders should put cloud cakes, apples and oranges on everyone's bedside for getting up in the morning on the first day of the new year. Eating cloud cakes means "Gao Shuang" and eating apples means "peace", but eating oranges has a unique meaning in Yangzhou.
Because in Yangzhou dialect, luck is called "local gas", luck is called "line bureau", and the word "orange" is homophonic with the word "bureau" of local gas, so people are given oranges.
At this time, adults will close the door and let the children at home grab the latch behind the door and climb up. Because the old-fashioned door is made of wood, there are several cross bars from top to bottom behind the door with a latch switch in the middle. This custom is to climb the door. Old people say that little people can grow up by climbing the door at night, climb fast and grow fast, and climb high and grow high.
Children from families with many children also compete with each other, which not only exercises the body, but also increases the festive atmosphere of the festival.
Chu Yi wears new clothes.
When the door is opened in the morning of the Spring Festival, firecrackers are set off first, which is called "opening the door to set off firecrackers". After the firecrackers, the ground was covered with broken red, which was called "full house". Yangzhou called sleeping on the first day of school "Yuanbaojue". The day before, he often stayed up late and should go to bed. On the first day of the first month, you should wear new clothes from head to toe and from the inside out.
On the morning of the first day, people usually eat glutinous rice balls, tremella soup and lotus seed soup. Women don't cook this meal, which is also a comfort to women's hard work in the past year. There are many ways to package jiaozi in Yangzhou. There is a kind of "Sixi Tangyuan", which is people's favorite on the morning of New Year's Day.
This jiaozi is made of four fillings: vegetables, bean paste, sesame candy and minced meat, which means "all the best" and "family reunion". You can't eat all the jiaozi in the bowl, so you must leave an even number for good luck. On New Year's Day, instead of cooking new rice at noon, we take out the leftovers from 30 nights and heat them before eating. This is called "New Year's Eve".
The first day, I fell down and said, "I found the gold ingot."
It is said that the first day of the first month is the birthday of a broom, so you can't use a broom on this day, otherwise it will ruin your fortune, attract a "broom star" and cause bad luck. If you must sweep the floor, you must sweep it from the outside to the inside. Don't throw water on the garbage on this day, for fear of breaking the money.