What festival is on the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month in 2021? What are the customs on the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month?

What festival is on the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month in 2021? What are the customs on the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month?
The twelfth lunar month enters the busy period and the Chinese New Year celebrations officially begin. What festival is on the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month in 2021? After the twelfth month of the lunar calendar, it is the new year, so we must make full preparations before the new year arrives. Click on Mr. Shui Mo's website to learn more about the twelfth month of the lunar calendar in 2021.

What festival is on the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month in 2021?

Lunar calendar: December 24, 2022; Gregorian calendar: January 26, 2022, Wednesday
The 24th day of the twelfth lunar month is the Little New Year in the south, the day for worshiping the kitchen god and sweeping the house. In fact, the traditional folk Kitchen God worship day is on the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month, but in northern China it is mostly celebrated on the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month.
The Little New Year is regarded as the beginning of the busy year, which means that people begin to prepare New Year's goods, sweep the house, worship the kitchen god, etc., preparing to have a good new year in a clean manner. It expresses people's good wishes to bid farewell to the old and usher in the new, and welcome good luck and fortune.

What are the customs of the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month?

1. Offering sacrifices to the Kitchen God
Offering sacrifices to the Kitchen God is an important activity on the day of the Little New Year. In addition to offering sugar melons and cakes, people also have to replace the portrait of the Kitchen God. While taking down the old image of the Kitchen God, every household also has to "invite" back a new one. 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. In addition, it is said that on the night of New Year’s Eve, the Kitchen God will come to the human world with other gods to celebrate the New Year, and there will be ceremonies of "welcoming the Kitchen God" and "welcoming the gods" on that day. After every household burns sedan chairs and horses, pours three cups of wine and sends off the Kitchen God, it is then their turn to worship their ancestors.
2. The day of house sweeping starts from the 24th day of the twentieth month and lasts until New Year's Eve. In China, people call this period of time "the day to welcome the spring" or "the day to sweep the house". "Sweeping the dust" means the year-end cleaning. Every household has to clean the environment, clear various utensils, take apart and wash bedding and curtains, sweep the courtyard, dust off dust and cobwebs, and dredge open and underground ditches on this day. Everywhere is filled with the atmosphere of happily cleaning up and welcoming the New Year in a clean manner. The purpose of sweeping the house is to get rid of the old and welcome the new, and to remove bad luck.
3. Marriage
After the Little New Year, people believe that the gods have gone to heaven and nothing is taboo. There is no need to choose a date to marry a wife or a daughter, which is called a hasty marriage. There are a lot of wedding ceremonies held until the end of the year. There is a saying in the folk song, "At the end of the year, villages are busy with weddings, and Yichun’s invitations are sent to celebrate the spring. Sisters whisper to each other in front of the lamp, and this year’s staying up late is the bridal chamber."
4. Eat stove candy
As the saying goes, "On the 23rd, sugar melons are sticky." During the Little New Year, people will buy sugar melons, Guandong sugar, sesame candy and other offerings, praying to the Kitchen God to have a sweeter mouth and to say good things to the gods.

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