The lunar December 24, twenty three and is the han folk traditional people, also called the “off-year”.Legend of the kitchen god essentially civilian ying-ying went, marry after all the racket, lost all of his possessions to take to the streets to beg.One day, he beg to his ex-wife guo clove, shame, a drill to the stove burned under a pot.
After the jade emperor know that ying-ying went to come to their senses, not bad, since died in the bottom of the pot, dubbed him, king of oven give an account of every month, 23, 24 heaven, year back to the bottom of the oven.People think focal must have to respect, because he is going to give an account of to heaven.So, the han nationality folk have month, 23, 24 people “off-year”, praying for peace and wealth.
Fan Chengda of song dynasty in his “kitchen sacrifice poems”, said: “the ancient lunar 24, kitchen god to say things. Cloud car wind horse small linger, the home has plates FengDian si. Pig lousy hot double fish, bean paste powder spikenard bait. Boys action with daughter, obligation, burn kitchen god. Don’t smell, a male child struggle king cat dog Angle indecent jun mo Chen; send you drunk full tianmen, scoop scoop short not long after cloud, begging for fortune back points.”We can say that this poem is very vividly illustrates the ancient han Chinese people about the custom of the people.Of course, this is only the han nationality folk legends, was discredited.
Festival customs
eat sugar oven
Off-year, annual partner, once incarnate god turtle laid for yu shu, on its back and mysterious “shu” design is also referred to as the origin of China’s millions of yi jing.”Topography of the gentleman hold world with virtue” of divination of changes is the embodiment of the off-year.After the New Year’s eve, every year will return to its maximum live auspicious energy stored by the big dipper palace retreat, until New Year’s eve (December 29 or 30).Every year December 23, it would send off year to human first, and see what are the people need to be auspicious energy supplement, briefing for it.Off-year love to eat sugar, oven so people for off-year and the kitchen god to heaven “good thing”, has formed the Chinese folk off-year eat sugar oven.[3]
sweep the dust
1. After 23, only six or seven days left before the Spring Festival, Chinese New Year preparations appear more warmly.Thoroughly clean the room, commonly known as sweep the dust, sweep dust to used In the eastation, pulling up an ominous.Households are thoroughly cleaned seriously, do a window with a net.Painting the walls, scrub the glass, paste beautiful window, paste New Year pictures, and so on.
2. In the twelfth month, every family to prepare the New Year.In Beijing, the twelfth month 24, usually as a “spring cleaning day”.
Sweep dust mainly to house a thorough cleaning, housewives usually bed furniture in the room first mask, wrapped in scarves head, then up and down the walls with a broom sweeps clean.Swab sweep the house, tables and chairs, washing the ground.Sweep the room, the store, the residents home look brand-new.New stick Spring Festival couplets, bright is dazzing, according to the thriving of great luck or blessing.Lifelike goalkeeper, looked up and saw xi banners, exquisite paper-cut, colorful pictures, luxuriant lanterns, and rich offerings on shrine, all show the beaming, thriving festive scene.[1]
scissors grilles
All the preparation, cut and paste paper-cut is one of the most popular folk activities.Content such as all kinds of animals and plants and their stories, such as magpie on plum, peach osier, yan wear peacock show peony, the lion roll silk, three Yang kaitai, sheep neutrals, LuHeTong tsubaki (six contract spring), five bats (f) offering longevity, rhinoceros full moon, lotus (even) years have fish (rest), girlfriend, bang play golden cicada, and two cents, and so on.
stick couplets on the Spring Festival
Every family will write Spring Festival couplets.Exquisite folk gods will stick, and each post, each item will be posted, so most Spring Festival couplets and most complete content.Gods in front of the couplet particularly exquisite, more for words of respect and blessing.Common have the god of heaven and earth: “grace deep as the sea, land, heavy mountain”;In land god couplet: “soil born white jade, inside out gold”;Revenue main mammon couplet: “heaven and earth ferro god”;Could be accessed by all JingShen couplet: “well, home to three rivers”.Granary, the place such as pen Spring Festival couplets, are warm celebration and hope.Such as “the grain and make it plentiful and animals prosperity”;”Rice flour, however thick, necessities deep as the sea”.Nanshan tiger “cattle, horses, such as the north sea dragon”;”In the year, small lamb month increase” and so on.There are some single, such as every indoor “rise see xi”, doors across the “go out to see xi”, each with a “gas foaming at the mouth”, in the post “raw gold full courtyard,” tree “take root”, stone mill with “white tiger fine” and so on.Couplets on the doors, it is a facade, pay special attention to, or lyric, or the scenery, rich in content, witty bead.
showering
Adults and children to wash bath and a haircut.Folk have “shave hair money have no money, New Year’s day”.
