Is the Little New Year on the 23rd or 24th day of the twelfth lunar month? What ancient poems are there about Xiaonian?

Is the Little New Year on the 23rd or 24th day of the twelfth lunar month? What ancient poems are there about Xiaonian?
Xiaonian can be said to be the beginning of people's official entry into the new year. Every time after the Little New Year, the atmosphere of the New Year undergoes a major change, and people begin to get busy preparing for the New Year. So is the Little New Year on the 23rd or 24th of the twelfth lunar month? What ancient poems are there about Xiaonian?

Is the Little New Year on the 23rd or 24th day of the twelfth lunar month?

Xiaonian, also known as Kitchen God Worship, has always held an important position in rural areas. However, we can also find that in different regions, people have very different time for celebrating Xiaonian. In the south, people mostly celebrate Xiaonian on the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month, while in the north, people mostly celebrate Xiaonian on the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month. In Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai regions, both "the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month" and "the night before New Year's Eve" are called Xiaonian. In some areas of Yunnan, it is the 16th day of the first lunar month, and some areas even call the 15th day of the first lunar month Xiaonian, and so on.
It is the beginning and foreshadowing of the entire Spring Festival celebration, which has two main activities: sweeping the house and worshiping the kitchen god. In addition, there is the custom of eating stove sugar. In some places, people also eat fire-baked bread, sugar cakes, fried cakes, and drink tofu soup.
As early as the Song Dynasty, there were records of celebrating the Little New Year on the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month, so the custom of celebrating the Little New Year on the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month has the longest history. When did the change happen? This happened during the Qing Dynasty. Starting from the reign of Emperor Yongzheng, the emperors of the Qing Dynasty would worship gods in the Kunning Palace on the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month every year. In order to save money, the emperors also worshipped the Kitchen God at the same time. Later, the royal family and nobles followed suit and also worshipped the Kitchen God on the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month. From then on, officials and civilians began to celebrate the New Year on different days.
After the Qing Dynasty, there was a tradition of celebrating the Little New Year of "officials on the third day, common people on the fourth day, and people living on boats on the twenty-fifth day". That is to say, the Little New Year of officials is on the twenty-third day of the twelfth lunar month, the little new year of common people is on the twenty-fourth day of the twelfth lunar month, and the little new year of people living on boats is on the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth The north is more influenced by officialdom, so the Little New Year is usually on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month. On the contrary, the south is far away from the political center, so the Little New Year is on the 24th of the twelfth lunar month. Residents along the Poyang Lake and other lakes have retained the tradition of boatmen, so the Little New Year is on the 25th of the twelfth lunar month. However, some places in Shandong celebrate the Little New Year on the first day of June. Northern Anhui and Nanjing combine the Little New Year with the Lantern Festival, which is particularly lively. In some areas of Yunnan, it is celebrated on the sixteenth day of the first lunar month.

What ancient poems are there about Xiaonian?

The Little Year in Ancient Poetry
"Three Poems in Vertical Writing" by Su Shi
The rice is as precious as pearls as the northern ships cannot reach, and I have been drunk and full for half a month. Tomorrow the owner will offer sacrifice to the kitchen god, and he will prepare a chicken and a jug of wine for me.
"Birthday Offering" by Sun Wei
His face is as red as a red-crowned crane, and his beard is as long as a green-haired turtle. If you want to know the Prime Minister’s birthday, this is the time when people worship the Kitchen God.
"Year-End Writing" by Liu Kezhuang
It doesn't matter if the door is as cold as ice, wealth and honor belong to the universe. Who can learn from the foolish children and secretly burn incense to worship the kitchen god late at night?
"New Year Greeters" Su Cheng
When young, I wander with the crowd; when I grow up, I am sad and afraid of the world. After lighting the room with heavenly fragrance and heavenly shadow, I returned home without doing anything else.

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