What festival is on the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month? What customs are there on the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month?
Introduction: Do you know what festival is on the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month? The 24th day of the twelfth lunar month is what we commonly call "Dust Sweeping Day". It is the day when every household cleans their house before the Spring Festival. It is also called "Spring Welcoming Day". What else should we do on the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month besides cleaning the house? What are the folk customs on the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month? For specific details, please see below. New Year’s Eve is the time for families to reunite and the Chinese New Year is the most important festival for our Chinese nation. If you want to know more about the culture and content of New Year’s Eve, please read the special topic on New Year’s Eve carefully compiled for you by Mr. Shui Mo!What festival is on the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month?Dust Sweeping Day, which is the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month, is the year-end cleaning, where every household clears cobwebs and dust and does laundry. Although it is said that "the 24th is the day to clean the house", in fact, the time from before and after the Kitchen God Festival to the end of the year is all the time for cleaning the house. In some places in China, the period from Little New Year (the 23rd day of the 12th lunar month) to New Year's Eve is called "Dust Sweeping Day" or "Spring Welcoming Day". Sweeping the dust not only means to drive away diseases and pray for good health in the new year, but also reflects the emotional desire to get rid of the "old" (dust) and start the new. This custom sends people a signal of the busy atmosphere of the New Year. This custom reflects the Chinese people's tradition of loving cleanliness and hygiene, embodies people's good expectations, and still maintains tenacious vitality today.What are the customs on the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month?Custom 1: People believe that the Kitchen God has the responsibility to monitor the good and evil deeds of a family, so when people send off the Kitchen God, they not only prepare sacrificial offerings and burn gold and silver paper, but they also present him with candies, maltose, sugar melons, honeydew melons, and glutinous rice balls. In short, the offerings are made sticky and sweet in the hope that the Kitchen God's mouth will feel sticky and sweet. The motive is to seal the god's mouth and prevent him from reporting nonsense when he returns to heaven. In addition, some people also like to paint the stove door with the second round of wine when worshiping the stove or stick it with sticky candies. The purpose is the same, which is to turn the Kitchen God into a "drunk Siming" or a "sweet-mouthed Siming" so that he cannot say bad things when he arrives in heaven. Custom 2: Some people believe that the offerings to the Kitchen God should not be too rich. When worshiping the god on this day, one should tell the Kitchen God about the insufficiency of the offerings, hoping that he will report the good deeds of the family to the Jade Emperor so that there will be better offerings in the coming year, and ask the Jade Emperor to bless the family. Custom 3: In the twelfth lunar month, people send the gods to heaven. In addition to burning money and silk, people also burn "armor horses" for the gods. These are pieces of yellow paper with horses, official hats, bows and arrows, swords, guns, and armor printed on them. Burning "Jia Ma" represents packing luggage for the gods going to heaven to make them look more impressive. Custom 4: In the patriarchal society, there was originally a custom that "men do not worship the moon, and women do not worship the kitchen god", and every year the kitchen god worship was presided over by men. But after the war in this century, the customs changed more drastically. As men were busy with their careers, the responsibility of offering sacrifices to the kitchen god often fell on women who took care of the housework. Custom 5: In the feudal era, officials would choose to “seal” the gods for a holiday after sending them back to heaven. Some temples will also close their doors and take a break on this day, saying that the gods have returned to heaven and people have no gods to worship. From this day on, government offices and even temples are closed and no longer busy with worshipping gods or official business, but every household begins to get busy preparing for the end of the year. Many families are busy preparing New Year's goods and making festive foods such as rice cakes and steamed cakes. Custom 6: Starting from this day, relatives and friends will treat each other to meals and send each other gifts such as rice cakes and gift baskets, which is called "sending the year". Families who have experienced a funeral, or where the funeral has been less than a year ago, cannot make rice cakes, but they can be given as gifts by relatives and friends. Custom 7: People will do a general cleaning on the day or later. During general cleaning, people usually prepare green bamboo leaves, which are said to have the ability to ward off evil and cleanse filth, to clear away dust and cobwebs from high places.Summary: The above article content is what the editor wants to introduce to readers about the festival content and related customs of the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month. You can learn about it and feel the charm of our Chinese traditional culture! |
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