Today is Monday, February 5, 2024, the 26th day of the lunar month of the Year of the Rabbit, one of the traditional festivals of the lunar month.
As sung in the old nursery rhyme "Layue Song": "Twenty-six, cut the flesh of the year". On this day, people want to kill pigs and cut New Year's meat, and start to buy New Year's goods. Therefore, in the folk there are also "".On the twenty-sixth day of the lunar month, the pig was killed and the meat was cut".
So the question is, why do people choose to kill pigs and cut New Year's meat on the 26th day of the lunar month? Is it just for the sake of rhyme? Actually, it's not entirely true, there is a deeper meaning! With these questions, I have specially collected and sorted out some information, please take a look at it......
It turns out that in the past, ordinary people lived a relatively poor life, and there were more people in the family, so they often ate the last meal but did not have the next meal, and the conditions were slightly better, but they could only eat some nest wild vegetables or something.
Finally, when the Chinese New Year was approaching, the laborers of the family began to kill pigs, and those who did not raise pigs went to the market to cut a piece of meat and go home. So, on the twenty-sixth day of the lunar month, the custom of killing pigs and cutting New Year's meat has been handed down.
On this day, whether in the city or in the countryside, whether poor or rich, every household will stew a pot of pork. Because this pot of pork is stewed during the Chinese New Year, it is also called "New Year meat".
This pot of stewed meat is the most simple food in people's hearts, and it is more enjoyable, more affordable, and more homely than those delicacies from the mountains and seas. While people are tasting the stew, on the other hand, they are feeling the stronger and stronger flavor of the New Year.
Of course, on the twenty-sixth day of the lunar month, in addition to the custom of killing pigs and cutting New Year's meat, there are also folk sayings such as "the twenty-sixth of the lunar month, wash inside and outside", and "wash the livestock house on the twenty-sixth day of the lunar month".
What does this mean exactly? Please follow along and read ...... below
On the twenty-sixth day of the lunar month, wash inside and out: It means that on the twenty-sixth day of the lunar month, everyone should take a bath and change clothes, take a bath, wash away bad luck, and there will be a lot of blessings in the coming year.
The more dirt you wash, the more bad luck you have washed away. The cleaner the washing, the more blessings, fortunes, and careers will be in the coming year, and the smoother it will be.
On the twenty-sixth day of the lunar month, the livestock house was cleanedIn addition to bathing, on the 26th day of the lunar month, each household should also wash the chicken coop, pigsty, cowshed and other livestock pens at home, hoping for the prosperity of livestock in the coming year.
Well, the above is for you to introduce the origin of the 26th month of the month to kill the pig and cut the New Year's meat, as well as some other customs, if there are any shortcomings, please give us more advice!
Nowadays, with the development of society and the improvement of living standards, eating meat is no longer a luxury, but people are still accustomed to buying some pork on the 26th day of the lunar month.
This kind of behavior and habit not only reflects that people have not forgotten the old traditions, but also expresses the ...... of generations of people for the inheritance and continuation of traditional customs
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