The small year is also called the "New Year's Festival", "Stove God Festival", "Sacrificial Stove Festival", "Small Year Festival" and so on. Because it is related to the celestial god Vesta, it has a mysterious charm, and because it is connected to the end of Chinese New Year's Eve, there is a wonderful joy.
Xiao Nian The prelude to the Spring Festival.
Chinese value the year. Before the Spring Festival arrived, I started to prepare early: sacrificing to the king of the stove, eating stove sugar, cutting window flowers, writing Spring Festival couplets, bathing and sweeping dust, which is a custom at the end of each year. The new year represents the end of the old year and also kicks off the Spring Festival. The small year in the north is the twenty-third day of the lunar month, and the southern part is mostly the twenty-fourth day of the lunar month. Although there are differences in time, the customs are always similar.
Sacrifice to the King of the Stove. The ancients believed that the god of the stove was the head of the family, and on this day, he had to report to the Jade Emperor about people's achievements and deeds in the past year. So the common people put wine and food, smeared sugar water, and flattered him in every way, only asking him to say good things to heaven and good luck to descend to earth.
Eat stove sugar. Stove sugar, also called sugar melon and Kanto sugar, is made from malt and millet. The crispy and crispy sweetness not only stuck to the mouth of the stove prince, but also locked the childhood memories of many northerners.
Cut the window grille. Magpies climb plums, mandarin ducks play in the water, deer cranes and tongchun trees, rhinoceros look at the moon ......In a knife and a cut, all creatures come alive, and when the window is bright and clean, it is posted in the window, and it is prosperous, so the joy of the year comes.
Write couplets. The folk pay attention to every door must be pasted, every thing must be pasted, so the number of Spring Festival couplets is the largest, and the content is the most complete. The Spring Festival couplets on the door are the façade of a family, or the couples are neat, or simple and exquisite, and the heart prays for blessing and auspiciousness, and always replaces the new peach for the old charm.
Wash the bath and sweep the dust. Sweeping dust is to remove the old and welcome the new. Every household should be cleaned carefully and thoroughly, so that the windows are bright and clean. Folks believe that in the New Year, in addition to the family to be renewed, each family member should have a haircut and bath, remove the dust of the previous year, bring good luck to the new year, and open a good omen of auspicious and smooth New Year.
Go home and be thinking about you for 365 days.
If you come from your hometown, you should return to your hometown. In this life, from the moment you leave home, you set foot on the way home. We are all people who are afraid of getting lost. Fortunately, this year's wandering, there are white clouds looking back for me; Fortunately, I can return with peace of mind through the customary day.
When you return, the elderly in the family will probably forget that this is the first time the sun has set. But home is still a beautiful word. The table is full of chickens, ducks and fish, there are sausages hanging on the stove, and there are busy figures in the smoke-filled kitchen. The hope for the new year is clear in the same warm details.
For every wanderer who is far away.
The arrival of Xiao Nian is a gentle reminder.
It tells you. It's time to go home for the New Year.
this year. There are surprises and regrets.
It can be tough or bland.
It can be regarded as living up to the gift of life.
It's time to pack up and get ready to go home.
There are grass gift boxes in the field, which are practical and healthy and take into account quality.
The ingredient list is very clean.
Only fresh waxy corn, 0 added 0 preservatives.
Bring one with you to your parents.
Let's be in the new year.
Spend more time with each other.
Use love to resist the long years.
Protect the health of your family with love.