Many people don't know that from the beginning of the first month to the seventh day of the first month are the days of the six animals, and it is rumored that there is such a distinction between the days of the six animals because when Nuwa created all creatures, she first created six animals and then created people, so from the beginning of the first month, it is sorted as the day of the chicken, the day of the dog, the day of the pig, the day of the sheep, the day of the ox, the day of the horse, and the day of the seventh day of the first month.
On the second day of the Lunar New Year, the dog day needs to go out to pay New Year's greetings or worship ancestors, and the married daughter must also choose to return to her parents' house with gifts and red envelopes on the second day of the Lunar New Year, and she needs to stay at her parents' house for lunch on this day.
Northerners will come to worship the God of Wealth on the second day of the first lunar month, so when the second day comes, whether it is a family or a commercial shop, they will hold a sacrifice to the God of Wealth, and they will come to eat a "Yuanbao soup" at noon, what is the Yuanbao soup, in fact, it is wonton stew.
Since it is a sacrifice to the God of Wealth, of course, there needs to be a good offering to please the God of Wealth, in the past, those big businesses in old Beijing were particularly particular on the second day of the new year, and they needed to hold sacrificial activities on the same day, and the offerings used to sacrifice to the God of Wealth were the five offerings we are going to talk about today, in order to make a fortune in the new year, we should offer whole pigs, whole sheep, whole chickens, whole ducks, red live carp, etc.
In addition to the five major offerings to the God of Wealth, there are customary food customs on the second day of the Lunar New Year, and many places attach great importance to this day, and because the second day of the Lunar New Year is also called the beginning of the year, so Cantonese people eat New Year's dinner, and Beijing people eat wontons, and so on
faces: The first dumpling and the first two sides, the first three hezi go home, and the fourth day is scrambled eggs. On the fifth day of the first month, the villain's mouth is pinched, and the seventh day of the first day is eaten on the birthday noodles. On the second day of the Lunar New Year, you need to eat noodles. The noodles on this day are made with dumpling soup from the first day of the new year, and the noodles are cooked and soaked in cold soup.
2, the cake Enping people over the second year of the first year is very interesting, they want to eat the cake, in fact, this is a kind of rice cake, and then it comes to worship the ancestors, after worshiping the ancestors, the whole family shares the cake, and shouts when eating: "Eat the cake at the beginning of the year, and the fortune is here again!" ”
3. RavioliIn many places, you have to cook a little wonton on the second day of junior high school to eat, and you eat wonton because it looks like an ingot.
4. EatBait is the custom of Fengyu people, the first day of the new year is Yuanxiao, the second day of the new year eats bait, this iron rule thunder can not move, there are two different flavors of bait, one is sweet, one is salty.
Eating sweet bait is purely helpless, because there is no New Year's pig at home this year, and there is no good meat that can be used to cook bait, plus the first morning I ate Yuanxiao, and then I ate sweet. After the pigs are killed, the meat in the big earthen pot that begins to stew in the stove on the afternoon of the first day of the new year is prepared for the bait early the next morning.5. The second day of the Lunar New Year is called the beginning of the year, so what is indispensable on this day is a sumptuous New Year's dinner, which is used to imply a bumper harvest of grains and good weather in the coming year.
The country's most particular about the New Year's celebration is the Cantonese people, Guangdong business people believe that the beginning of the year affects the luck of the new year, so on this day, they have a New Year's dinner that does not lose to the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, in addition to the dishes with good meanings that must be eaten at the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, for the New Year's fortune to roll in, they will use lettuce to spread golden mushrooms, meaning "wealth" and "money full of land".