Before the Chinese New Year, we have to make a lot of preparations and buy a lot of things, such as food, use, clothing, clothing, play, supply, dry, fresh, raw and cooked, which are called "new year's goods" on the day of unified name. Purchasing before the Chinese New Year is called "handling new year's goods".
New year's goods generally include firecrackers, couplets (Spring Festival couplets), lanterns, frozen pears and frozen persimmons. It's a rule to buy a new dress for children at home. When buying new year's goods in rural areas, most people choose to go to the market. The annual gathering is the largest one with the largest number of participants in a year. In the large gathering, you should buy incense wax, paper yards, firecrackers, New Year pictures, red paper, sugar, yancha, candy and seasonings home.
2. Eat frozen pears
Due to the cold weather in the northeast, some fruits have a different taste after being frozen. The most common are iced pears and frozen persimmons. It is known that the purest is frozen autumn pear. In the north, there is a kind of pear called autumn pear, which is sour and astringent just after picking, so people pick this pear and put it directly under the tree, cover it with a layer of leaves. After freezing, the autumn pear tastes sweet and sour, and the juice is rich. Frozen pears should be thawed in water before eating. Eating this kind of pear after New Year's Eve can relieve alcohol and greasy.
3, point longevity lamp
Northeasters always light longevity lamps on New Year's Eve, which are bright tonight. On New Year's Eve until the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month, every household should hang red lanterns, and at night, they should be lit, and the lights should not be turned off, which means longevity and longevity, and incense will not stop.
4. Sweep the shed
After entering the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, every household should clean up. Housewives usually cover the furniture in the house with sheets, wrap their heads with headscarves or towels, and then sweep the walls up and down with brooms. After sweeping, scrub tables and chairs, wash the floor, and greet the New Year with cleanliness, neatness and brightness.
China folks call it "sweeping dust" and "dusting". Because there is a folk saying: "If you don't sweep the dust in the twelfth lunar month, you will attract the plague in the coming year." Folklore experts said that sweeping dust not only means to drive away the epidemic and pray for a healthy New Year, but also means to remove the "old" (dust) and spread the new.
5, killing pigs
"Children, children, don't cry, just kill pigs in the twelfth lunar month; Don't be greedy for children, it's the year after Laba. " This nursery rhyme used to be widely circulated in rural areas in Northeast China.
In the past, killing pigs was an important event in northeast farmers. In the twelfth lunar month, most people will kill pigs, prepare meat for jiaozi and cook for the New Year, which is called "Killing the Year Pig" by the people. At that time, most farmers built pig pens on the side of the courtyard gate to raise pigs, some of which were self-sufficient and others were sold for money. Therefore, keeping a few big fat pigs in the pen was regarded as one of the signs of being well-off, and "full of fat pigs" was also the good wish of ordinary farmers.