What is the traditional festival of the Lunar New Year and what is the origin of the festival?
Introduction: Xiaonian must be familiar to everyone, so Xiaonian is an important festival. So what is the traditional festival of Xiaonian in the lunar calendar and what is the origin of Xiaonian? 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.What is the traditional festival of the 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 is the origin of the Little New Year Festival?The 23rd and 24th day of the 12th lunar month are the traditional Chinese days for worshiping the Kitchen God, also known as the "Little New Year." Legend has it that the Kitchen God was originally a commoner named Zhang Sheng. After marrying a wife, he spent his days in debauchery and lost all his family fortune, and was reduced to begging on the streets. One day, he went to beg at his ex-wife Guo Dingxiang's house. He was so ashamed that he dived under the stove and burned to death.When the Jade Emperor found out, he thought that Zhang Sheng had changed his mind and was not completely bad. Since he died at the bottom of the pot, he was named Kitchen God. He was required to report to heaven on the 23rd and 24th of the twelfth lunar month every year and return to the bottom of the pot on New Year's Eve. Ordinary people feel that the Kitchen God must be respected because he has to report to Heaven. Therefore, people have the "Little New Year" of worshiping the kitchen god on the 23rd and 24th of the twelfth lunar month, praying for peace and prosperity in the coming year. Fan Chengda of the Song Dynasty said in his "Poem on Offering to the Kitchen God": "According to ancient legend, on the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month, the Kitchen God looks up to the sky and wants to speak. The cloud chariot and wind horses linger for a while, and every family prepares cups and plates for the rich offering. The pig's head is cooked hot, and the two fish are fresh, and the bait is made of bean paste, sweet pine and powder. Men offer wine and girls stay away, and the Kitchen God is pleased with the offerings and money. Don't listen to the quarrels of maids, and don't be angry at the filth of cats and dogs. I send you drunk and full to the Heaven's Gate, and don't say anything about the long or short ladle. I beg for the profits and share them when I return." It can be said that this poem vividly illustrates the customs and habits of the ancient Chinese people regarding offering to the Kitchen God. Of course, this is just a folk legend and is not credible. What traditional foods are eaten during the Little New Year across the country?1. 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. The new wave of annual fortune in 2019 has already changed. Calculate your own fortune in advance, correct your mistakes if there are any, and encourage yourself if there are none, so that the new year will be smooth and safe. To calculate your new fortune in 2019, please click on the [Premium Calculation] below to learn about your new fortune. I wish you peace and happiness in the new year! |
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