2024 Southern New Year
The specific time of the Southern Chinese New Year's Eve in 2024: Saturday, February 3 of the Gregorian calendar, the twenty-fourth day of the lunar month.
The reason why the North and South are not the same day is the year.
It turns out that in ancient times, there was a saying that "three officials and four people". That is to say, the new year of the official is the twenty-third day of the lunar month, and the common people have to wait until the twenty-fourth day of the lunar month.
Later, the term "official and civil" was diluted, but the north was closer to the emperor, so the tradition of "official three" was continued, and the small year was on the twenty-third day of the lunar month, while the south retained the "four people". So there is a difference of one day between the north and the south.
Whether it is twenty-three or twenty-four, everyone has to sacrifice the stove when they are young. Because folklore says that the king of the stove not only manages the stove fire, but also supervises what the family does for a year.
On the day of the new year, the heavens made a year-end general report to the Jade Emperor. In order to let the Stove King say a lot of good things for himself, everyone will "bribe" the Stove King, and place tributes in front of his statue, so that they can eat to their heart's content, and then eat sweet and sweet sugar melons.
What are the differences in the timing of the year in different regions?
1. Most of the northern region: the twenty-third day of the lunar month.
In ancient times, the northern region was also in the twenty-fourth day of the lunar month to celebrate the New Year, from the middle and late Qing Dynasty began to hold the emperor's family on the twenty-third day of the lunar month, in order to "save expenses", by the way the stove prince also worshipped, so the people in the northern region also went up and down one day in advance in the twenty-third month of the lunar month to celebrate the New Year.
2. Most of the south: the 24th of the lunar month.
As early as the Song Dynasty, there was a record of "the twenty-fourth day of the lunar month", and most of the southern regions still maintained the ancient tradition of celebrating the New Year on this day.
3. Sichuan and parts of Guizhou: Chinese New Year's Eve.
In some parts of southwest China, people celebrate the New Year on Chinese New Year's Eve, and their big year is mostly on the 14th or 15th of the first month.
4. Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai: the day before Chinese New Year's Eve.
Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai regions are accustomed to call Chinese New Year's Eve "Chinese New Year's Eve", and the night before Chinese New Year's Eve is called "Little Chinese New Year's Eve", and this day is also called Xiao Nian. Historically, the twenty-fourth night of the lunar month, known as the twenty-fourth night of the Wu people, is the day when the stove is delivered, so this night is called the Little Chinese New Year's Eve.
5. Nanjing area and other places: the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.