Check what customs and activities are there on the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month in 2019?

Check what customs and activities are there on the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month in 2019?
There are many customs and activities in the twelfth lunar month, and the festival customs are different on different days. Check what customs and activities are there on the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month in 2019? The twelfth month of the lunar calendar has many nicknames, such as Ladong, Candong, Qiongdong, Layue, and Bingyue. The most familiar name is "Layue". Let’s take a look at Shuimoxiansheng.com’s special topic for the twelfth month of the lunar calendar in 2019.

Check what customs and activities are there on the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month in 2019?

December 24, 2019: Little New Year in the South
《1》Custom 1: Women do not worship the Kitchen God <br /> In the patriarchal society, there was a custom that "men do not worship the moon, and women do not worship the Kitchen God", and men presided over the Kitchen God worship every year. But after the war in this century, the customs changed more drastically. As men were busy with their careers, the responsibility of offering sacrifices to the kitchen god often fell on women who took care of the housework.
《2》Custom 2: Sealing the Door <br /> In the feudal era, the government would choose to "seal" the door after sending the gods back to heaven. Some temples will also close their doors and take a break on this day, saying that the gods have returned to heaven and people have no gods to worship.
From this day on, government offices and even temples are closed and no longer busy with worshipping gods or official business, but every household begins to get busy preparing for the end of the year. Many families are busy preparing New Year's goods and making festive foods such as rice cakes and steamed cakes.
《3》Custom 3: Sending off the New Year <br /> From this day on, relatives and friends will treat each other to meals and send each other gifts such as rice cakes and gift baskets, which is called "sending off the New Year".
Families who have experienced a funeral, or where the funeral has been less than a year ago, cannot make rice cakes, but they can be given as gifts by relatives and friends.
《4》Custom 4: Sweeping the house to welcome the spring <br /> Every year from the lunar New Year's Eve (the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month) to the New Year's Eve, the Chinese people call this period of time "Welcoming the Spring Day" or "Sweeping the House Day". Sweeping the dust is the year-end cleaning, which is called "sweeping the house" in the north and "dusting" in the south.

Customary meaning

The custom of sweeping dust:
《1》Traditional custom - Sweeping the house before the Spring Festival is a traditional custom of the Chinese people. Every time the Spring Festival comes, every household has to clean the environment, wash various utensils, take apart and wash bedding and curtains, sweep the courtyard, dust off dust and cobwebs, and dredge open and underground ditches. From north to south, there is an atmosphere of joyfully cleaning up and welcoming the New Year in a clean manner.
《2》 Sweep away bad luck - According to the Chinese folk saying: because "dust" and "old" are homophones, sweeping the dust during the New Year has the meaning of "getting rid of the old and bringing in the new", and its purpose is to sweep away all the "bad luck" and "bad luck". This custom embodies people's desire to break the old and establish the new and their prayers to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new.
《3》 Preventing diseases - on the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month, people will clean the house thoroughly inside and outside the courtyard. It can be seen that this custom embodies people's desire to break the old and establish the new and their prayers to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new. It is also the traditional virtue of the Chinese nation accumulated in its long history of paying attention to hygiene and preventing diseases in winter.

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