Menglianglu is a notebook written by Wu Zimu in the Song Dynasty, a total of 20 volumes, is a book that introduces the urban style of Lin'an, the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty, written in the last years of the Song Dynasty.
Dream Lianglu, Volume 6, December
December
In the winter month, it is a time of small cold and big cold. If the rain and snow continue in this month, it is not easy for the people, the imperial court will give the customs meeting, rent money for the scattered soldiers and civilians, and exempt the public and private people.
Since the winter solstice, the third day is the wax day, which is called the "king wax". Meat such as pigs and sheep can be salted in the wax month, or made as wax, French fish, etc., and there is no damage in summer. Huimin Bureau and Shishu make wax medicine, and there is no insect-eaten problem.
On the eighth day of this month, the temple is called "Laba". Dasha and other temples, all have five-flavor porridge, the name is "Laba porridge"; There is also a red dregs, with bran and fruits, bamboo shoots and taro for it, for monks, or to give to Tanshi, noble houses and other homes.
On the 24th, not rich or poor, all prepared vegetable food and bean worship stoves. On this day, the market and the neighborhood are full of calls to buy five-color rice food, flowers and fruits, gum tooth dumplings, and peas. At night, the house shines under the bed with a lamp, which is called "illumination".
On the 25th, the Shishu family cooked red bean porridge to worship the god of food, called "population porridge", and those with cats and dogs were also with Yan. I don't know why.
Examination of this month, although there is no festival order, and the noble home, such as the snow falling from the sky, then open a feast and feast, snow lions, pretending to snow mountains, to meet relatives and friends, shallow pouring and singing, leaning on jade incense, or riding out of the lake, to see the lake and mountain snow scene, Yaolin Qiongshu, green peaks like jade, painting is not as good. Poets are talents, and when they encounter this scene, they use laxue sencha, chant poems and songs, and sing harmony. Or in the sunny day, invite friends to visit the sky street at night, and watch the dance team to enjoy the night.
The New Year's Day is in the future, the seat shop department store, the painting door god peach charm, the spring card, the paper horse shop Zhong Kui, the wealth horse, the back horse, etc., feed to the customer. It is also left behind by atractylodes, jujubes, and plague pills. Such as the palace view plume, to the year of sparse, fairy soup and so on to send Tan Shi's family. The physician also gave Tu Su a bag, formed a four-goldfish concentric knot with five-colored threads, or a hundred things auspicious knot, and gave it to the patron's first house with various kinds of decoction, and hung it on the forehead to ward off evil spirits.
The market buys tin spring flags and Pepsi auspicious Huer to prepare for the New Year's Day hanging at the door, which is an auspicious omen for the New Year. Its alleys and alleys are endlessly selling atractylodes jujubes. There are also city explosion sticks, fireworks and the like. Since then, there are poor people in the market, three or five people as a team, pretending to be gods, ghosts, judges, Zhong Kui, little sisters, etc., beating gongs and drums, begging for money along the door, commonly known as "beating the night hu", and also driving away the meaning of the swagger.