Wang Xiaonian, offering sacrifices to stoves, is the day when people offer sacrifices to stoves. Legend has it that every year on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, Kitchen God will report good and evil to the Jade Emperor, so that the Jade Emperor can reward and punish him. Therefore, when sending stoves, people put candy, water, boiled beans and sacrificial stoves on the console table in front of the statue of the kitchen king. When offering sacrifices to the stove, you should melt the Guandong sugar with fire and smear it on the mouth of the kitchen god, indicating that the kitchen god has a sweet mouth and can help him put in a good word.
Dust removal "dust removal" is usually carried out after the stove is delivered, which means cleaning and welcoming the New Year. Cleaning is the first major event in the Spring Festival. Every year, the whole family goes into battle to clean the house, clean windows, wash clothes, scrub pots and pans, and carry out a clean and thorough cleaning, which places people's desire to break the old and innovate.
After writing and pasting Spring Festival couplets, every household should write Spring Festival couplets to create an atmosphere for the New Year and indicate good luck in the New Year. People pay attention to it, and God will stick it, and doors will stick it, and things will stick it, so Spring Festival couplets have the largest number and the most complete content. The couplets in front of the statues are particularly particular, and they are mostly words of admiration and blessing.
It is natural to have a "reunion dinner" on New Year's Eve. The whole family got together and had a big dinner. After dinner, the family will sit in front of the TV and watch CCTV Spring Festival Gala until midnight. This viewing habit has become a new folk custom of "welcoming the new year".
Wearing new clothes On the first day of the Lunar New Year, men, women and children should wear new clothes, which means a new atmosphere for the New Year. New clothes will be prepared for good luck on the evening of the 30th, which is also a necessary process in the New Year. When we are young, we are eager for the Spring Festival, that is, we can put on beautiful new clothes.
On the morning of the first day of the first month of the New Year, tea fruits and glutinous rice balls are offered in front of the tablets of the gods and ancestors at home, and the whole family burns incense to worship. Eat dumplings, fruit tea, etc. Go out and pay a New Year call to your elders. During the Spring Festival, the younger generation should first pay New Year greetings to their elders, wishing them health and longevity, and the elders can distribute the lucky money prepared in advance to the younger generation. From the first day of junior high school, Taizhou people always say "Happy New Year" and "Congratulations on getting rich" when they see everyone. As long as it is in the first month, it can be regarded as Chinese New Year.
During the Spring Festival, Yuanbao tea is put on new clothes, and cigarettes and sweets are placed at home to entertain people who come to pay New Year greetings. The younger generation will get lucky money when they pay a New Year call to their elders. Guests should drink "Yuanbao tea" soaked in red dates or kumquat and some snacks during the New Year. Snacks are mainly sweets and cakes. Candy symbolizes the sweetness of the new year, and cake symbolizes the rise of the new year.
On the ninth day of the first month, residents of Taixing and Gaogang ushered in the custom of the ninth year. Known as contacts, people invite each other, and some people entertain for days, reaching dozens of days. Teachers who entertain their newly married husbands, daughters-in-law and children are often referred to as "waiting for the son-in-law", "waiting for the bride" and "waiting for the husband" respectively.
Back to Taizhou's family, the married daughter will visit her family on the second day of the first month. On this day, my daughter and son-in-law come to pay New Year greetings with big bags and small bags, and my husband will be busy and concentrate on receiving her daughter and son-in-law! In Jiangyan, on the second day of junior high school, there will be adults throwing money everywhere on the floor at home, so that the children at home can sweep the floor and sweep the money, which also means that the financial resources are rolling in.
Rob the God of Wealth is the "God of Wealth Day" on the fifth day of the first month, and Taizhou people rob the "Five Gods". People believe that the sooner you accept the God of Wealth, the better. The first one to accept is the true God. So on the fifth day, every household opens doors and windows, and people light incense, candles and set off firecrackers, vying to take the real God of Wealth home.