The small year time in 2019 is: Monday, January 20, 2019. Generally speaking, the small year in China refers to December 3 or 24 of the lunar calendar, because the small year time in different places is different.
According to the folk traditional culture, Xiaonian belongs to the traditional festival of the Han nationality in China, also known as Xiejiao, Jizao Festival, Zaowang Festival and Jizao. Xiaonian is the day of folk sacrifice to Zao God. South and North Xiaonian are not on the same day. North is December 23, while South is December 24.
The folk saying about the custom activity of small year's sacrifice to the kitchen King: "23. Tanggua stick, the kitchen Lord wants to go to heaven". In small year's time, people will melt the Guandong sugar with fire and put it on the kitchen Lord's mouth, so that the kitchen Lord can "say good things and return to the palace for good luck" and bless the next year's happiness and peace.
Sweeping the new year means sweeping the dust. After a small year, there are only six or seven days left for the Spring Festival. At this time, every household should carefully and thoroughly clean up the sanitation, commonly known as sweeping the dust. Sweeping the dust is to remove the old and welcome the new, and remove the ominous.
There are many kinds of folk activities in the small year of window cutting, most of which are for preparing for the new year. Among them, window cutting is the most popular folk activity. "Window flower" is commonly known as paper-cut. In the past, no matter in the north or in the south, children had to prepare the window flower pasted during the Spring Festival, which not only set off the festive atmosphere, but also a symbol of good luck.
According to Xiaonian's traditional eating custom, we must eat it in Xiaonian. It is a kind of maltose with sticky mouth and teeth. It is used to wipe the kitchen god's mouth and eat. It has gradually evolved into a snack for children. There is a saying in the northwest of Shanxi that "twenty-three people can't eat sesame sugar and nibble their fingers".