What is the date of 2019 Southern New Year's Eve? What are the customs of the southern New Year's Eve
4hw.com.cn: the Lunar New Year's Eve in 2019 is coming. According to the geographical differences between the South and the north of China, the festivals and customs have changed. The Lunar New Year's Eve in the south is one year later than that in the north. What month and date is the Lunar New Year's Eve in the south? What are the customs of the southern New Year's Eve? Let's have a look.
What's the date of 2019 Southern New Year's Eve?
The south is January 29, 2019.
night before lunar New Year's Eve
New year's Eve is a traditional festival of offering sacrifices to the Han nationality in China. It is also known as Xie Zao, sacrifice to the kitchen, kitchen King's day and sacrifice to the kitchen. The dates are different in different places. After the establishment of the Qing Dynasty, the royal family usually chose to sacrifice stoves on the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month. The draft of the history of the Qing Dynasty has the record that "only on December 23rd, the sacrifice of stoves in the palace is considered constant". During the Jiaqing and Daoguang periods in the middle of the Qing Dynasty, due to the proximity to the political center, the time of offering sacrifices to cookers in the northern folk New Year gradually changed to the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month under the influence of the government, and the old calendar was used in most parts of the South.
Therefore, generally speaking, the Lunar New Year's Eve in the north is the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, and the Lunar New Year's Eve in the south is the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month. The Lunar New Year's Eve in the north in 2019 is January 28, 2019, December 23, 2018. The Lunar New Year's Eve in the south is January 29, 2019 and December 24, 2018.
What are the customs of the southern New Year
Sacrificial stove
That is, offering to send the kitchen god to heaven, so the small year is also called the kitchen offering Festival. On the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month, people offer sacrifices to the stove. The statue of the kitchen god is pasted on the wall next to the stove facing the wind box. Most of the couplets on both sides are "Heaven says good things, and the lower boundary ensures peace". The second couplet is also written as "returning to the palace and descending auspicious", and the banner is "the head of the family". In the middle is the statue of Zaojun and his wife. Next to the statue, two horses are often painted as mounts.
On the table in front of the statue of the kitchen king, there are candy, water, cooking beans and hay; Among them, the last three are to prepare materials for the mount of the kitchen King's ascension. When offering sacrifices to the kitchen, we also have to melt Guandong sugar with fire and stick to the kitchen Lord's mouth so that it will not speak ill of the Jade Emperor. We also intend to make the kitchen King's mouth sweet and just say good words.
Dusting
On this day of the lunar new year, every family starts at dawn, sweeps the house, cleans the windows, cleans the clothes, brushes the pots and pans, and implements a clean and thorough sanitary cleaning. A few days before the new year, every family cleaned the house, which meant that the kitchen Lord would not take the soil away. According to the records of the collection of relics, this custom can be traced back to more than 3000 years ago. At that time, it was a religious ceremony for Han ancestors to drive away epidemic ghosts and pray for health. Later 'dust' is homonymous with 'Chen', so sweeping dust means sweeping away old things, which refers to both the old scale in the courtyard and the unhappiness encountered in the old year.
Rice cake
New Year cake is homonymous with the meaning of "high every year". The Lunar New Year is also called Cizao, which is to eat cakes and send them to the kitchen. The LORD went to heaven to report his work. Steamed the cake, put dates on it, dip it in sugar, give him sweet shut up, and tell him to go to the Jade Emperor to talk about the good things of the people.
It is said that when Wu Zixu was building Gusu City, the city bricks were not made of soil, but 'bricks' made of glutinous rice ground into powder. The people used' glutinous rice city bricks' to solve the temporary crisis. Suzhou people commemorate Wu Zixu. Since then, New Year cakes have been prepared every winter and December. The shape of Suzhou New Year cake is similar to that of city bricks, and it is not greasy after cooking, not cracked after drying, and not bad after long storage.
Nian Zong
Nanning people once had the custom of eating 'Nian Zong' in the new year. Nian Zong is a symbol of good luck in the new year. As the saying goes: 'Nian Zong, Nian Zong, Nian high school (Zong)'. The new year's rice dumplings are different from the cool rice dumplings on the Dragon Boat Festival. They have fillings, big and small, long and short, round and flat. After peeling off the leaves, the skin is glutinous rice, and the stuffing is mung beans and pork. Some people also put their favorite food as stuffing.
Rice cake
On the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, commonly known as "Xiaonian", there is a custom of making rice cakes in Wuxuan, Guiping and other places in Guangxi. Rice cake is made of glutinous rice powder as the main material, peanut, sesame and sugar as ingredients, put into a mold to make it into a circle, and then steamed at high temperature. It tastes unique and has the meaning of "round and round".
Sugar cane
Sugarcane is especially good to sell on this day. Sugarcane is necessary for offering sacrifices to stoves because of the beautiful implication of 'rising day by day'. Sugarcane is the ladder for the kitchen god to ascend the sky, climbing up section by section, and the end of sugarcane belt has an endless meaning.
It is said that there was a poor scholar in Fuzhou in the Song Dynasty. He couldn't afford to buy offerings on the day of offering sacrifices to the kitchen god. He had to pick up the sugarcane heads lost by others to offer them to the kitchen god and the kitchen god. He also cut a paper horse and wrote: 'a black Zhui and a whip will send you to the sky; If the Jade Emperor asks about human affairs, he says, "articles are not worth money!" On that day, the kitchen god told the jade emperor about it. The Jade Emperor was very sympathetic and made the scholar the champion. Therefore, in the traditional kitchen day in Fuzhou, we still have the stress of eating sugarcane. We must fully retain the sugarcane head, so as to have the meaning of "rising day by day" and "golden list title".