When you meet the five riches in a small year, you need to do three things and avoid three things to keep a safe and auspicious New Year
On the 23rd day of the twelfth month of the lunar calendar, which is commonly known as the "Little Year", people will clean up, worship the god of the stove, and pray for blessings and blessings. This year is the "Five Rich Day", remember "three things, three things", the five blessings come, and the wealth is rolling.
1 About the origin of the worship of the god of the stove.
There is a very wonderful legend recorded in the Book of the Later Han Dynasty: In the era of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, there was a man named Yin Zifang, who was loyal and kind. Every year on the morning of "Wax Day", Yin Zifang, who was cooking, suddenly saw the god of the stove and immediately got up and bowed.
The Yin family is really poor, and they don't have any good gifts to worship the gods, so they can only use this yellow sheep to "sacrifice". Later, he became extremely rich, with more than 700 acres of land, chariots and horses, and servants, comparable to a king, and his descendants benefited, three generations of children and grandchildren, and the people were prosperous.
When the neighbors heard it, they all worshiped the king of the stove in Lari, and this custom has been passed down from generation to generation. In the Song Dynasty, the custom of people sacrificing to the god of the stove became "Jiao Nian", that is, the twenty-fourth day of December.
There is such a sentence in the Song Dynasty's "Records of the Year of Qianchun": "Twenty-four is the year of handover;."During the festival, they eat flower soup and rice, and boiled sugar to pray for good luck. In Fan Chengda's "Poem on the Sacrifice of the Stove", there is also a sentence that the god of the stove said things to the sky at the age of twenty-four in December.
In many areas, there are two sacrifices, the first is the "Meat Sacrifice Stove", the second is the "Sacrifice Vegetarian Stove", the third is the "Sacrifice Stove", and the third is the "Sacrifice Stove".
In the middle to late Qing Dynasty, the royal family performed sacrifices on the twenty-third day of the twelfth lunar month, and in order to promote economy, Emperor Yongzheng made the sacrifice at the same time as the Temple of Heaven. ** And the people of the north imitated it, and since then, everyone has worshiped the Lord of the Stove on the night of December 23.
2: When a young man meets five rich people, don't forget three things.
One is cleaning: cleaning is also known as "dusting". "Qing Jialu" says: "Clean the room, clean the room, sweep the dust." At the age of 23, 24 and 27, it is called "dusting".
Twenty-three is the day of sacrifice and sacrifice, so keep the house clean. This kind of cleaning is also to drive away evil spirits, bid farewell to the New Year, and also to let yourself get more vitality in the new year.
The second is to worship the "God of Wealth": the twenty-third month of the twelfth lunar month is the Lunar New Year of the twelfth month of the lunar calendar, and it is also the "Shen Day" of the twelfth month of the lunar calendar, so it is called the "five rich". Legend has it that on this day, there is a lucky God of Wealth who descends from the sky and will bring wealth and auspiciousness to the world.
In the past, in such festivals, everyone would worship the "God of Wealth", hoping to be blessed by the "God of Wealth" and make the family happy and happy. The process is very simple, it is nothing more than incense, incense, temple and the like.
The "Five Blessings" are once a month, which are Yin Wuxu, Hai Mao Weiyue, Yin, Shen Zichen, Si, Si Youchou, and Shen, a total of December 23.
The third is "sending the furnace": "sending the furnace" is the meaning of saying goodbye to the king of the stove and returning to the "heavenly court". Legend has it that when the Lord of the Stove returned to Heaven, he wanted to report the affairs of the mortal world to the "Emperor of Heaven", and if someone did something wrong or said something, he would be punished accordingly.
So, the people tried every means to coax the king of the stove away, and used some means to make him "say more good things and less bad things". "Yanjing Years Chronicles" recorded: "The sacrifice is made of southern sugar, Kanto sugar, sugar cakes, clear water, and grass beans. Sugar is offered to the gods, clear water, mung beans, and sacred horses.
After the sacrifice, the god of the stove is taken down and burned along with "1,000 ingots of gold" so that the sacrifice can continue when the New Year comes.
3, Chinese New Year's Eve, don't have three things.
One is "women do not sacrifice to the stove": in ancient times, "men do not sacrifice to the moon, women do not sacrifice to the stove" customs, the Song Dynasty Fan Chengda "sacrifice stove words" has such a poem: "Men do not sacrifice, women do not sacrifice stoves." It can be seen that the custom of "women do not sacrifice to the stove" was very popular at that time.
The ancients believed that men represented yang and women represented yin. The young man is the young yang tree, and the old man is the yang fire tree, sacrificing to the king of the stove, which means that the family is prosperous. And the girl is the ** of the young yin person;The old lady belongs to yin water, fire melts gold, and water overcomes fire, so women cannot participate in the sacrifice of the god of the stove.
The second is not to use the flame in the stove, after the sacrifice, the god of the stove of last year should be dismantled and burned, and all of them should be burned, so that the god of the stove can be "sent" to the sky.
The fire in the stove is made by the fire in the stove, so it cannot be burned with the fire in the stove. Otherwise, the chef will be angry, and his year's hard work will be in vain.
The third is not to fight or kill: people in ancient times, during the New Year, should also pay attention not to chop garlic, because this will destroy their luck and wealth. Livestock should not be slaughtered on this day, but the immortals should feel a sense of peace, peace, peace, peace, no anger, no resentment.
Of course, the so-called etiquette taboo is nothing more than everyone's vision for a better future, and it is naturally an indispensable part of our Chinese civilization.