What is the custom and meaning of steaming buns on the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month on New Year’s Eve in 2019?

What is the custom and meaning of steaming buns on the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month on New Year’s Eve in 2019?
Different festivals have different customs and activities. On the day before New Year’s Eve every year: Little New Year’s Eve, people will steam buns. What is the custom and meaning of steaming buns on the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month on New Year’s Eve in 2019? Shuimoxiansheng.com has carefully compiled detailed information about the twelfth lunar month of 2019. If you want to know the auspicious and inauspicious days in the twelfth lunar month, just go to Shuimoxiansheng.com.

What is the custom of steaming buns on the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month on New Year’s Eve in 2019?

《1》Twenty-nine - Steamed buns <br /> On the twenty-eighth, the dough is leavened and on the twenty-nine, people start steaming buns. People use their imagination to make buns into various shapes such as longevity peaches and small animals.
In Tianjin, people will go to Qiaoxiang Pavilion to ask for Chinese knots on this day, which means "Qiaoxiang brings good luck".
《2》Characteristics of steamed buns in different places:
Old Beijing: “On the 28th, let the noodles ferment.” That is to say, on the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month, people in Taiyuan have to steam "two baskets of cakes and steamed buns";
Hebei people: "Steamed jujube flowers" are prepared as offerings to ancestors on New Year's Eve;
Henan people: "On the 28th, steamed buns and fried glutinous rice dumplings."
《3》The meaning of facial hair:
"Let the dough ferment" refers to preparing the staple food. According to the old custom of old Beijingers, from the first day to the fifth day of the New Year, it is taboo to cook such as steaming, frying, deep-frying and baking. "Steam" is homophonic with "fight", "fry" is homophonic with "quarrel", "fry" is homophonic with "fry" (four tones), and "baked" is homophonic with "fall", all of which are "unlucky" and "broken words" that must never be said during the Spring Festival.

What is the meaning?

——The meaning of different shapes of steamed buns:
《1》Fish shape represents auspiciousness, peach shape represents longevity, and apple shape represents peace and good fortune.
《2》Some families even make a pair of "leftover worms", which means there will be surplus food every year.
《3》Some families not only have "leftover worms", but also make a pair of "holy chickens", which symbolize that the children in the family study well and can be promoted every year.
《4》“doubao” means “full”.
《5》“Vegetable buns”: There are tofu vermicelli in the vegetable buns, which means there will be treasure every year, abundance every day, and good weather every season.
——Legend of Tujia people celebrating the New Year:
1. In the Ming Dynasty, Tujia soldiers were ordered to go to the southeast coast to fight against Japanese pirates. As the military order was urgent, they celebrated the New Year in advance and rushed to the front line. The soldiers fought bravely and achieved "the first military achievement in the southeast." To commemorate this expedition, later generations moved the New Year's Day forward and made it a custom.
2. The ancestors of the Tujia people were poor and had to work for the rich on New Year’s Eve, celebrating the New Year in advance so that they could reunite with their families.
3. In the old days, at the end of the year, government troops would come everywhere to drive out the people. The Tujia people would celebrate the New Year in advance and have reunion dinners in order to escape.
4. Tujia ancestors resisted foreign invasions and had New Year’s Eve dinner in advance to prepare for the battle.

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