It's Xiaonian today, and it's also a day when every family is busy preparing new year's products. What's good for Xiaonian in the north? How do you spend your youth in the north? Xiaonian is also divided into the South and the north, because their customs are different. Xiaonian in the north is to eat dumplings, which is an indispensable delicacy.
What to eat in 2018 northern Chinese New Year
Fried corn
In the southeast of Shanxi Province, it is popular to eat fried corn. There is a saying in the folk proverb, "23, do not eat fried corn. At the beginning of the year - one pot pour". People like to stir fry corn with maltose, frozen into large pieces, eat crisp and sweet.
Bean curd
The 25th day of the 12th lunar month is "tofu day". The old saying is that tofu can be made, bought and fried. The fried tofu can be stored until the new year. To eat tofu in the new year is just to make a good start for the new year. I hope that the good fortune can be made into a fight. Good or bought fresh tofu is not easy to store, and do not want to be made into frozen tofu, so we take the method of fried preservation, also let the new year's table eat more.
Steamed buns
After the 23rd of the lunar month, every family needs to steam huamo. Generally, it can be divided into two types: worshiping God and walking relatives. The former is solemn, the latter is flower tip. In particular, we should make a jujube mountain for the worship of the kitchen god. 'a family of steamed buns, four neighbors to help'. This is often a great opportunity for folk women to show their dexterity. A huamo is a handicraft.
sesame candy
There is a saying in the northwest of Shanxi that "twenty-three people can't eat sesame sugar and nibble their fingers". It is said that Xiaonian is the day when the Kitchen God goes to heaven. He wants to report to the emperor about the consumption of food and clothing and other things that the emperor wants to know. That is, the report day of the kitchen god? Eating sesame sugar is to make the kitchen god's mouth stuck by sugar, and not to report the delicious and luxurious situation of the world to the heaven, so as to avoid punishment for people who love to eat and drink -- famine in the new year, and looking forward to a safe and fruitful year.
Destroy by fire
Many small New Year's Eve meals in northern provinces and cities are gradually dominated by dumplings, but there is another place, Henan. In Henan, every family has to cook their own fire, which is almost equal to Xiaonian.
Dumplings
Xiaonian in the north is used to eating dumplings in the evening, which means to see off the kitchen god. It means' send off dumplings to face the wind '. At the time of offering, the dumplings should be put on the altar. In addition, there is a folk saying that "delicious but dumplings". Every Spring Festival, dumplings become an indispensable food.
cake made of glutinous rice flour
There are folk songs of "23, sticky cake and sticky" in Luxi area of Shandong Province. Every year on the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, it is a day for every family to steam and eat sticky cakes, which means to stick the mouth of the kitchen king and let him say good things, not bad things. Sticky cake with yellow rice, red dates and other raw materials, sweet and strong way, soft entrance, take the 'high year by year' meaning of auspicious.
How to live a young year in the North
1. Sacrifice to the kitchen King
In ancient times, on the 23rd of the 12th lunar month, the imperial court offered a sacrifice to the kitchen with the Yellow sheep, which lasted until the end of the Qing Dynasty. In the folk sacrifice, we use the melon, Guandong sugar, sugar cake and other offerings to sacrifice the kitchen king; we use the clear water and grass materials to sacrifice the kitchen King's horse. It's said that on the 23rd of the twelfth month, the kitchen King rode on horseback to report the good and evil to the Jade Emperor. At the end of the shift on the 23rd, every family set up a pole in the courtyard, hung a lantern, and the male master knelt down. He wished to use the words of concealing evil and promoting good. It is strictly forbidden for women to sacrifice as a chief sacrifice. Women can only clean the stove in the inner room. After the sacrifice, remove the god statue of the kitchen god and burn it with the paper treasure.
2. Dust cleaning
Sweeping the dust means sweeping the year. In fact, it means cleaning up the family environment. Northerners call it "house sweeping"; southerners call it "dusting". Traditionally, every family starts at dawn, cleaning windows, washing clothes, washing pots and pans, and carrying out a clean and thorough cleaning. According to the records of the collection of relics, this custom can be traced back to more than 3000 years ago, when it was a religious ceremony to drive away the evil spirits and pray for well-being. Later 'Chen' and 'Chen' are homophonic, so sweeping the dust means sweeping away all the old things. This refers to not only the old scale in the courtyard, but also the unhappiness encountered in the old age.
3. Window cutting
Among all the preparations, window cutting is the most popular folk activity. The contents include all kinds of animals and plants, such as magpie climbing the plum, yanchuantao willow, peacock playing peony, lion rolling Hydrangea, Sanyang (Yang) Kaitai, Erlong playing pearl, luhetongchun (six contract spring), five bats (Fu) holding longevity, rhinoceros looking at the moon, lotus (even) year fish (surplus), mandarin duck playing water, Liuhai playing cicada, hehe Erxian and so on.
4. Paste Spring Festival couplets
After a small year, every family has to write Spring Festival couplets. People pay attention to God must paste, every door must paste, every thing must paste, so the spring festival couplet number is the most, the content is the most complete. The couplets in front of the gods are very particular, most of them are for worshiping and praying. The couplet on the gate is the facade of a family, which is attached great importance to, or lyrical, or landscape painting.
5. Marriage
After twenty-three, the folk thought that the gods had gone to heaven, and there was no taboo. To marry a daughter-in-law or hire a daughter-in-law without choosing a day is called a disorderly marriage. Until the end of the year, there were many wedding ceremonies. There are folk songs about the busy marriage in the village of nianyan, and the posts of Yichun amuse Chunguang. In front of the lamp, my sister said in private, "this year is the bridal chamber.".
What can't be done on Xiaonian's day? 1. Some places in Henan are taboo to mash garlic. They think that mashing garlic in Xiaonian will impoverish the family.
2. In Taiwan, it's forbidden to pound rice. It's said that there will be a risk of bringing down the spirit of the wind. I'm afraid it will bring about wind disaster in the next year.
3. It is said that in some parts of Hubei Province, killing is forbidden in Xiaonian.
4. According to the Yiji table of the Yellow calendar, there are still the following things that can't be done on the day of Xiaonian (the 23rd lunar month in 2017):
Fasting, praying, market opening, transportation, coffin moving, earth breaking, drilling, burial, acceptance, marriage, upper beam, vertical column, wealth seeking, building, sacrifice, entering a house, setting up a door, separation, moving earth, setting up a bed, accounting, crown Ji, encoffining, house building, property purchase, releasing water, animal husbandry, migration.