What is the date of the Little New Year in 2021? What day is it in the lunar calendar?
In folk tradition, the Little New Year is a day for worshiping the Kitchen God, sweeping the house, bathing, and getting a haircut. In rural areas, every household starts preparing for the Little New Year in the morning. So, when is the Little New Year in 2021? What day is it in the lunar calendar? Let’s take a look together!What is the date of the Little New Year in 2021?The Little New Year in 2021 is February 4, which is actually the Little New Year in the lunar calendar of 2020.What do people eat on the Little New Year's Day in different places? 1. On Kitchen God Festival, people pay attention to eating dumplings, which means "sending off dumplings with noodles facing the wind." People in mountainous areas mostly eat cakes and buckwheat noodles. The Little New Year in the north falls on the twenty-third day of the twelfth lunar month. Dumplings are usually eaten at night, but some are eaten in the morning. Customs vary slightly from place to place. The day of the Little New Year is also the day when the Kitchen God goes to heaven. Legend has it that after staying on earth for a year, the Kitchen God likes to tell tales on people when he returns to heaven, so on that day we have to offer sacrifices to the Kitchen God, and then the whole family eats festive dumplings together. 2. In the southeastern region of Shanxi Province, it is popular to eat fried corn. There is a folk saying that goes "On the 23rd, don't eat fried corn; on the New Year's Day - eat all of it in one pot." People like to stick the fried corn together with maltose and freeze it into large chunks, which taste crispy and sweet. 3. In addition to eating kitchen sugar on the day of worshiping the kitchen god, fire-baked bread is also a very special seasonal food. On the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, the sesame seed cake stalls in the city do a booming business. 4. In the south, rice cakes represent treasures coming from all directions. The tower-shaped rice cakes symbolize a prosperous new year and a flourishing life. 5. The main folk custom during the Little New Year is "saying goodbye to the Kitchen God", which is "worshiping the Kitchen God". There are also people who eat sugar melons. Homemade candied melon. 6. People in Ningbo eat rice cakes, which include sugar-coated rice cakes and fried rice cakes. Fried rice cakes can be fried to make them sour, sweet or salty according to personal taste. What day is it in the lunar calendar?In the northern region, the Little New Year falls on the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, while in the southern region, it falls on the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month, a difference of one day.Why is the Little New Year's Eve celebration in the north and south one day different? In Chinese folk, there is a tradition that "officials celebrate the Little New Year on the 23rd, common people on the 24th, and people living on water on the 25th". That is to say, the Little New Year for officials is on the 23rd, for common people it is on the 24th, and for people living on water it is on the 25th. According to a professor from the School of Literature and Journalism of Sichuan University, after the establishment of the Qing Dynasty, the royal family usually chose to worship the Kitchen God on the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month. The "Draft History of Qing Dynasty" records that "On the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, it is common for the palace to worship the Kitchen God." During the Jiaqing and Daoguang periods of the mid-Qing Dynasty, due to the proximity of the political center, the time for the folk New Year's Kitchen God worship in the north was gradually changed to the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month under official influence, while most of the south continued to use the old calendar. Southern New Year Customs 1. Dust: On the day of Little New Year, every household gets up at dawn to sweep the house, clean the windows, wash clothes, scrub the pots and pans, and carry out a thorough cleaning. A few days before the Little New Year, every family cleans their house to prevent the Kitchen God from taking the dirt away. According to "Shiyi Ji", this custom can be traced back to more than 3,000 years ago, when it was a religious ceremony for the Han ancestors to drive away plague ghosts and pray for health. The latter word "chen" is homophonic with "chen", so sweeping the dust means sweeping away all the old things, which refers to both the old dirt in the courtyard and the unpleasantness encountered in the old year. 2. Kitchen God Worship: It means to send the Kitchen God to heaven, so the Little New Year is also called Kitchen God Worship Festival. Candies, water, beans and hay are placed on the table in front of the Kitchen God statue. The last three are ingredients for the Kitchen God's mount for his ascension to heaven. When offering sacrifices to the Kitchen God, Guandong sugar is melted with fire to stick to the Kitchen God's mouth to prevent him from saying bad things to the Jade Emperor. This is also intended to sweeten the Kitchen God's mouth and make him say only good things. 3. Eating rice cakes: In the south, making rice cakes on the day of Little New Year is a tradition in many places. Rice cake is also called "nianniangao", which is homophonic with "nianniangao", meaning "higher every year", meaning that people's work and life will improve year by year. |
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