When will we celebrate the Little New Year in 2019? What are the taboos to pay attention to on the Little New Year's Eve?
Introduction: Xiaonian is an important traditional festival, and there are many taboos that need to be paid attention to during Xiaonian. So when will we celebrate the Little New Year in 2019? What are the taboos to pay attention to on the Little New Year's Eve? Shuimoxiansheng.com has carefully compiled detailed information about the twelfth lunar month of 2018. If you want to know the auspicious and inauspicious days in the twelfth lunar month, just visit Shuimoxiansheng.com.When will we celebrate Little New Year in 2019?Monday, January 28, 2019 (the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month of the Year of the Dog, 6 days away from the 2018 Lunar New Year)Xiaonian does not refer to a specific festival. Due to local customs, the festivals called Xiaonian are also different. The main folk activities during the Little New Year include pasting Spring Festival couplets, sweeping the house, and offering sacrifices to the kitchen god. 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. The Little New Year also means that people begin to prepare New Year's goods and get ready to have a good new year in a clean manner. It means that the new year will have a new look and expresses the Chinese working people's good wishes to bid farewell to the old and usher in the new, and to welcome good luck and fortune. What are the taboos to pay attention to on New Year’s Eve?1. According to legend, in some areas of Hubei, people are forbidden to slaughter animals on the day of the Little New Year.2. In some places in Henan, people are taboo about pounding garlic, believing that pounding garlic during the Little New Year will make the family poor. 3. In some areas of Beijing, old Beijingers avoid cooking on the day of Little New Year. They only eat candy, so that the Kitchen God can "say more good things." 4. In Taiwan, people avoid pounding rice. It is said that this may bring down the god of wind, which may bring about wind disasters in the coming year. 5. Children in Jiujiang, Jiangxi Province must be obedient during the Little New Year, otherwise they will be beaten. 6. Only men can offer sacrifices to the Kitchen God. There is a folk custom that "men do not worship the moon, and women do not worship the Kitchen God", so worshiping the Kitchen God is limited to men. What to eat during the Xiaonian Festival in different places1. Little New Year is also known as Kitchen God Festival. On this 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, and dumplings are usually eaten at night. But we also eat it in the morning, and the customs vary 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 day of worshiping the Kitchen God, 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. 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