Is the Little New Year on the 23rd or 24th day of the twelfth lunar month? What's the saying?
Is the Little New Year on the 23rd or 24th day of the twelfth lunar month? What's the saying? The 2018 Lunar New Year’s Eve falls in January 2019. The arrival of the twelfth month of the lunar calendar means that we are entering the coldest season of the year. Let’s learn more about it in Shuimoxiansheng.com’s special topic on the twelfth month of the lunar calendar in 2018.Is the Little New Year on the 23rd or 24th day of the twelfth lunar month? What's the saying?Both days are Little New Year’s Day, but the time of Little New Year’s Day is different in different regions. 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 would also worship the Kitchen God at the same time. Later, the royal family and nobles followed suit and 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's Eve on different days. In Chinese folk, there is a tradition of "Officials celebrate the Little New Year on the 23rd day, Commoners on the 4th day, and Boatmen on the 5th day" for the Little New Year. That is to say, the officials' Little New Year is on the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month. The north was the political center before the Southern Song Dynasty and was heavily influenced by the official atmosphere, so the Little New Year was usually on the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month; the common people's Little New Year is on the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month. The south is far away from the political center, so the Little New Year is on the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month.What seasonal delicacies are there during the Little New Year’s Day?Eat sugar melons: Offer sugar melons to the Kitchen God during the Kitchen God worship, so that his mouth can be sweeter and he will say more good things when reporting to the Jade Emperor.Eating dumplings: On Kitchen God Festival, people pay attention to eating dumplings, which means "send dumplings away in the wind". 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 report 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. Eating huoshao: In Henan, every family makes huoshao to eat during the Little New Year. Huoshao is almost synonymous with the Little New Year. On the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, the day of worshiping the Kitchen God, the sesame seed cake stalls in the city do a booming business. Eating fried corn: In the southeastern part of Shanxi Province, eating fried corn is a popular custom. There is a folk saying that goes "If you don't eat fried corn on the 23rd, you will eat a lot on the first day of the New Year." People like to stick the fried corn together with maltose and freeze it into large chunks, which taste crispy and sweet. Eating rice cakes: In the south, rice cakes represent treasures coming from all directions. The tower-shaped rice cakes symbolize a prosperous new year and a life that will get better and better. |
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