When is the Little New Year in the twelfth lunar month of 2019? What is the difference between the Little New Year and the Big New Year?
Introduction: There are many traditional festivals in the twelfth lunar month, and Little New Year is one of them. So when is the Little New Year in the twelfth lunar month of 2019? What is the difference between the Little New Year and the Big New Year? Shui Mo Xiansheng website provides you with more articles about the twelfth month of the lunar calendar in 2018. Let’s come to Shui Mo Xiansheng website to pay attention to the twelfth month of the lunar calendar in 2018.When is the Little New Year in the twelfth lunar month of 2019?Monday, January 28, 2019 (the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month of the Year of the Dog, 7 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 is the difference between Xiaonian and Danian?The dates and customs of the Little New Year and the Big New Year are differentLittle New Year falls on the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, when people worship the kitchen god. It is said that on this day, the Kitchen God would go to heaven to report the good and evil deeds of the family to the Jade Emperor, so that the Jade Emperor could reward or punish them. When offering sacrifices to the Kitchen God, you would melt Guandong sugar with fire and apply it on the Kitchen God's mouth so that he would not be able to say bad things in front of the Jade Emperor. There is a 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. Since Chinese people mainly eat rice, cooked food is generally not easy to preserve and must be cooked at all times. The New Year begins on the last day of the twelfth lunar month and is generally considered to end on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the Lantern Festival. There is also a saying that the New Year begins before the end of the first lunar month. The main traditional folk activities during the festival include ancestor worship, pasting door gods, setting off firecrackers, giving out New Year's money, eating New Year's Eve dinner, and sending off the God of Wealth. What does Xiaonianye mean?Xiaonian, literally, has three interpretations.One refers to the twelfth lunar month, which is a month of twenty-nine days. The second refers to the festival, which is on the twenty-third or twenty-fourth day of the twelfth lunar month. It is an old custom to worship the kitchen god on this day. The third explanation is that it refers to the year when fruit trees bear few fruits and bamboo and wood grow slowly. As a festival, due to differences in regional customs, the meaning and customs of Xiaonian are different across the country. For example, in most areas of the north, the Kitchen God Festival on the 23rd or 24th day of the twelfth lunar month is called Xiaonian. Many areas in the Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai areas call the fifth day of the first lunar month "Little New Year"; there are also many areas in China that call the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month "Little New Year", and some places call the Winter Solstice "Little New Year". Fortunes in life can be good or bad, and calculating the direction of your fortune in advance can help you nip problems in the bud, reverse unfavorable situations, and make your life smoother and brighter. To calculate your life fortune over the next ten years, please click on the [Premium Calculation] button below for accurate calculation. I wish you all the best in your life! |
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