Small-year sacrificial furnace
On the 23 rd of the twelfth lunar month, after the off-year, the stove was sacrificed. There is a folk song in the northeast: "Honey melons offer sacrifices to the stove and come in the New Year". Heilongjiang is going to offer sacrifices to the kitchen stove during the Spring Festival-I hope the Kitchen God will bless the whole family. When offering sacrifices to the stove, small foods such as honeydew melon and kwantung sugar are used, and they are made of colloidal maltose, which is slightly sour in sweetness.
sweep the dust
On the 24th of the twelfth lunar month, the dust blows, which is intended to sweep away all bad luck and bad luck. Clean the room inside and out before the new year. This is the biggest cleaning in a year. It is also called saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new, and thoroughly cleaning and painting to welcome the new year.
Preparations for the Spring Festival
Killing pigs: In rural areas, there were no refrigerators in the old society. The best season to kill pigs is before the Spring Festival. First of all, it is festive. Second, the weather is coldest at this time and can last for a long time. When killing pigs, I invited people from several tables around my neighbor's house to have a lively dinner. Now there are also 26 people buying pork.
Steamed steamed buns: In the old society, there were not enough pots to cook for guests during the New Year, so we had to steam a few pots of steamed buns in advance for later use. It was also a sacrifice to ancestors during the New Year, and it was also necessary to make sticky bean buns and the like. Twenty-eight handfuls of flour and twenty-nine steamed buns refer to this, and some people call twenty-nine handfuls of oil, which means using oil as food.
Buy new year's goods: buy spring festival supplies, such as how many bowls and chopsticks have been added at home, so for the prosperity of the population, you should buy a few every spring festival; Buy new clothes for children to celebrate; Gifts for visiting elders during the Spring Festival.
paste up Spring Festival couplets
Spring Festival couplets are also called door couplets, spring stickers, couplets, couplets and peach symbols. The "door core" is attached to the center of the upper end of the door panel; The "door frame pair" is attached to the left and right door frames; "Cross-dressing" is posted on the crossbar of the door; "Spring strips" are posted in corresponding places according to different contents; "Dou Jin", also known as "door leaf", is a square diamond, often attached to furniture and screen walls. The time for posting Spring Festival couplets is not fixed, usually on the morning of the 29th and 30th. Stick grilles, hang New Year pictures.
Window grilles not only set off the festive atmosphere, but also integrate decoration, appreciation and practicality. Paper-cutting is a very popular folk art in China, which has been loved by people for thousands of years. Because it is often pasted on the window, it is also called "window grilles".
Blessing (arrival)
During the Spring Festival, every household should put the word "Fu" on the door and wall. The word "Fu" stands for "happiness", "auspiciousness" and "good luck". In order to fully reflect this yearning and wish, everyone put the word "Fu" upside down, indicating that "Fu has fallen (arrived)".
Others elaborate the word "Fu" into various patterns, such as Shoutao, Carp yue longmen, Harvest of Grains, Dragon and Phoenix, and so on. In the past, there was a folk saying that "on the 24th of the twelfth lunar month, every family wrote big characters", and the word "Fu" was written. The word "fu" used to be handwritten. Now it is sold in markets and shops.
Please god of wealth
In order to make more money in the coming year, every family will invite the god of wealth during the Spring Festival, and some will send it home, saying that they will spend money to buy it, but they must never say that they will buy it.
Sacrifice to gods and ancestors
During the Spring Festival, the old northeast usually uses cakes to worship the gods and ancestors, such as honey and Saqima. These are not only the food of Manchu and Mongolian minorities in Northeast China, but also the necessary food for Northeast people. Northeasters also have the custom of eating fish on New Year's Eve. Fish must be carp, originally named as offering sacrifices to gods, and later associated with "auspicious celebration is more than enough" and "more than enough every year". Fish is both delicious and sacrificial. It is also important to worship ancestors. People who carry on the family line should offer rich sacrifices and incense to their ancestors. Men in the whole family should worship, and some burn paper to "money" to worship their ancestors on New Year's Eve. Sacrifice to ancestors usually ends on the third day. Before the end, the son-in-law is not allowed to look at the genealogy of the mother-in-law's family.
Shou Sui and "New Year's Eve"
People in Northeast China have the habit of keeping watch on New Year's Eve. Watching the new year begins with eating New Year's Eve dinner. This New Year's Eve dinner should be eaten slowly, starting with lighting lanterns, and some families have to eat it until late at night. The dishes must include fish (more than one year) and chicken (good luck), and the rest are whatever you like. On this night of "two years old in one night, two years old in class five", families get together and get together.
The staple food is jiaozi, and jiaozi talks a lot, and pork and celery are the best. Choose two jiaozi, one coin and one sugar, and see who can eat. Whoever eats it will wish the next year wealth and happiness. In fact, this blessing is very good, and whoever eats it will be convinced by his family. Jiaozi cooked it and threw it out of the first few pots soaked in water. It is said to commemorate the ghosts of the past.
The family sat together and the table was full of tea and fruit. During the Spring Festival, a large plate of apples is indispensable, called "Ping An". Many candies, dried fruits, melon seeds and "sage" will be prepared during the Spring Festival. The so-called "assorted fruit" is the present assorted preserved fruit. These snacks are delicious food for people to sit around the fire and enjoy their old age.
Setting off firecrackers
Fireworks and firecrackers should be set off before the New Year's Eve dinner is ready, which is a favorite program for children. In fact, there are usually two fireworks during the Spring Festival, New Year's Eve and midnight snack, and there are also many firecrackers, before dinner on New Year's Eve and New Year's Eve, before dinner on New Year's Eve, and on Fridays.
Don't sweep the floor the first day and the second day.
On the first and second days of the New Year's Day, we don't sweep the floor, carry water or make a fire, and the food is prepared in advance, which is called "lucky money". It was not until the third day that he began to carry water and burn paper money on the well platform, saying that he was "buying water". The breeder will take it off and burn it in the second day of junior high school.
Pay new year's call
After the New Year's Eve, children should pay New Year greetings to their elders, kowtow to their parents, grandparents and uncles, and then adults should prepare red envelopes. Adults should also pay New Year greetings to their parents and wish the elderly a long and healthy life. Then from the first day, I will bring gifts to my relatives and friends, and so on. It takes many days to go door to door to celebrate the New Year. Generally, married men and their families will spend the New Year at their parents' home on New Year's Eve and the first day of junior high school, and visit their father-in-law's home on the second day of junior high school. There is also a saying that "I don't go out on the first day, I worship my family on the second day and my husband on the third day."
"Breaking Five" Eat jiaozi
Eating jiaozi in the fifth month of the lunar calendar means that people expect good luck and happiness. Since the early hours of the morning, every household has set off firecrackers, especially "kicking two feet", which is called "collapse of poverty", "unlucky" and "poor gas" leaving home to collapse.