What day of the week is Little New Year 2021? What traditional food should we eat during the Little New Year?
Although the Little New Year is not the Chinese New Year, it indicates that the New Year is coming. It is also a very important traditional festival. So what day of the week is the Little New Year in 2021? What traditional food should we eat during the Little New Year? Let’s learn about the traditions of the Chinese nation!What day of the week is Little New Year 2021?The 2021 Little New Year’s Day in the lunar calendar is actually the 23rd day of the 12th lunar month in 2020, which is February 4, 2021 in the Gregorian calendar, a Thursday.The concept and date of Xiaonian vary from place to place. It is the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month in the north and the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month in the south. In Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai, both "the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month" and "the night before New Year's Eve" are called Xiaonian. In Nanjing, the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first lunar month is called Xiaonian. In parts of Yunnan, it is the 16th day of the first lunar month, and in some ethnic minority areas in the southwest and north it is New Year's Eve. New Year's greetings 1. Put happiness in your mind, engrave happiness in your heart, hold sweetness in your arms, print warmth in your smile, blend auspiciousness into the reunion, bask in the comfort in your laughter, and gather good luck in the wine bowl; I wish you a happy and sweet New Year, and everything goes well! 2. The New Year is coming, blessings and happiness are coming, and the New Year is sounding the assembly call; invite the God of Wealth, invite the God of Kitchen, and the dream of wealth is burning; prepare New Year's goods, steam rice cakes, and the outlook for the New Year will be better and better; I wish you happiness and prosperity in the New Year! 3. When the Little New Year comes, every household is busy sweeping the house, cleaning windows and removing dust to welcome the New Year, putting up New Year pictures to worship the Kitchen God, praying for good luck in the coming year, buying New Year goods in large and small bags, and everyone has a smile on their face. 4. Say goodbye to the old and welcome the new, send off the Kitchen God, bring in wealth and blessings, welcome health, sweep away old dreams of the past, decorate the New Year with more laughter, the new year, the new spring, I wish you all good fortune and blessings in the New Year, and lots of laughter in the New Year! What traditional food should we eat during the Little New Year?1. DumplingsEating dumplings means seeing off the Kitchen God, which is derived from the saying “Seeing off dumplings facing the wind”. When offering sacrifices, the dumplings should be placed upright on the altar. In addition, there is a folk saying that "nothing tastes better than dumplings." During every Chinese New Year, dumplings become an indispensable delicacy. 2. Sticky cake Every year on the 23rd day of the 12th lunar month, every household steams and eats sticky rice cakes, which is meant to stick the Kitchen God's mouth shut so that he will speak good things to the heaven instead of bad things on earth. Sticky cake is made from yellow rice, red dates and other ingredients. It is sweet, chewy and soft in the mouth, and it carries the auspicious meaning of "getting higher year by year". 3. Hemp candy There is a saying in Northwest Shanxi that goes "On the 23rd, eat sesame candy; if you can't have any, bite your fingers." The purpose of eating sesame candy is to make the Kitchen God's mouth sticky with candy so that he cannot open it, and cannot report the delicious and luxurious scenes of the world to the heaven, lest people who love to eat and drink be punished. 4. Pasta People in Shandong Peninsula mostly start making noodles after the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month. It is more complicated to make the noodles. The dough is fermented and then let it rest, then kneaded and let it rest again. Then, it is made into various shapes of noodles and let it rest again. The noodles are put into the steamer only after they have rested. The steamed noodles are also called "noodle flowers" and are very delicious. 5. Sugar Melon Stove sugar is a kind of malt sugar with great viscosity. When it is drawn into a long stick, it is called "Kanto sugar", and when it is drawn into a flat round shape, it is called "sugar melon". In winter, it is placed outside. Because of the cold weather, the sugar melon solidifies and there are tiny bubbles inside. It tastes crispy, sweet and crunchy, with a unique flavor. |
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