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What do you mean by "officials, three people, four ships and five ships" in the new year? The origin

January 28, 2019 in the Gregorian calendar and December 23 in the lunar calendar are small years in northern China. In a few days, the new year will come. The arrival of the new year indicates that we are about to enter the Spring Festival. We have to prepare for the lunar new year since the lunar new year. Xiaonian is also known as the festival of offering sacrifices to cooks. Every Xiaonian, we have the custom of offering sacrifices to cooks. Offering sacrifices to cooks is one of the most important symbols of Xiaonian. In ancient times, there was a saying about "officials, three people, four ships and five" in Xiaonian. What does this mean? The small editor of this article will tell you.

The traditional "Xiaonian" is closely related to the "sacrificial stove"

Offering sacrifices to cookers in the new year is a common custom of the north and the south of the river. According to folklore, on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month every year, the kitchen god would go up to heaven to report the good and evil of the family to the Jade Emperor and let the Jade Emperor reward and punish them. Therefore, when delivering the stove, people put offerings on the table in front of the kitchen king. The most prominent offering is sugar melon. This kind of food is sweet and sticky. The kitchen King took care to eat it. He didn't care to say that his mouth was stuck after heaven to avoid right and wrong. After these ceremonies are completed, the statue of Zao Jun should be taken down and burned and 'sent to God'. Until the evening of new year's Eve, we will pick up Zaojun for the new year. On that day, there are all kinds of "kitchen connection" ceremonies.

Even if there is no kitchen King's niche, some people stick the statue directly on the wall. The kitchen god's image also has words such as' East kitchen commander ',' human monitoring God 'and' head of the family 'to indicate the status of the kitchen god. Couplets of' heaven says good things, and the lower boundary ensures peace 'are pasted on both sides to protect the peace of the whole family.

What do you mean by 'officials, three people, four ships and five' in the new year?

Since the reign of Yongzheng, the emperor of the Qing Dynasty worshipped gods in the Kunning Palace on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month every year. In order to save money, the emperor worshipped the kitchen god by the way. Later, the royal family and Baylor followed suit and offered sacrifices to the stove on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month. Since then, there have been differences between officials and people in different days.

In Chinese folk, the small year has the tradition of "officials, three people, four ships and five", that is, the official family's small year is the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, the people's family is the 24th of the twelfth lunar month, and the aquatic family is the 25th of the twelfth lunar month.

Before the Southern Song Dynasty, the North was the political center, which was heavily influenced by officialdom, so it was mostly the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month in the small year; On the contrary, the south is far away from the political center, and the Lunar New Year is the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month; The residents along the lake and sea have retained the tradition of boatman. The Lunar New Year is set on the 25th day of the twelfth lunar month.

Nanjing is a special area because of the tyranny after Zhu Di usurped the throne in the Ming Dynasty. At that time, the people held a lantern party on the 15th of the first month of the first year of Yongle. They all missed the leniency policy of Zhu Yunwen's era, and the scene was better than the new year. Therefore, in Nanjing, the Lantern Festival has become a small year. The Southwest Yunnan Guizhou Sichuan region and some northern Hui areas regard the first day of the first month as the big new year's Eve and the new year's Eve as the small New Year's Eve.