December is a more festive month, but now many people don't know what month it is, only ask their elders. Then what is the lunar month? What are the customs of the lunar month? The tradition can't be forgotten. If you don't understand it, come to learn it quickly.
The last month is the lunar month:
1. December is the lunar calendar, December. Lunar December is also known as the December, also known as the wax month. There are many folk activities of Han nationality during the month of the twelfth lunar month. This kind of appellation has not much to do with the natural season, but mainly with the sacrifice at the age of. The so-called "La" was originally the sacrificial name at the end of the year. According to the general meaning of Customs written by Han yingshao, Xia Yue Jiaping, Yin Yue Qing Si, Zhou Yong Da wax, Han changed to wax. Waxers, hunters and Yantian hunted animals to sacrifice their ancestors. 'or:' the waxer, the new one, the new one, the new one, so the great sacrifice is also a reward. 'whether it's to worship ancestors with animals after hunting, or to worship gods because of the intersection of the old and the new, it's a sacrificial activity anyway, so it's a sacrificial month.
2. December: Tu month, wax month, La month, Jidong, dusk winter, candong, enddong, Jiaping month. "La" is a kind of sacrifice. In Shang Dynasty. People hold four big sacrifices in spring, summer, autumn and winter with the hunted animals. Die of ancestors and gods of heaven and earth. The scale of Winter Sacrifice is the largest. And most ceremoniously. Later, winter sacrifice was called wax sacrifice. It is called the twelfth month of the lunar calendar
What are the customs of the lunar month
La Yue Song: (applicable to northern areas)
1. Twenty three, sweet melon stick; twenty four, house cleaning; twenty five, tofu grinding; twenty six, meat cutting (stewing); twenty seven, rooster killing (killing kitchen chicken); twenty eight, noodle hair; twenty nine, steamed bread; thirty night boil for a night, a twist at the beginning of the new year.
The 23rd month of the twelfth lunar month, also known as the "small year", is a day for people to sacrifice to the kitchen. There is a folk custom of "men don't worship the moon, women don't sacrifice the kitchen", so the sacrifice to the kitchen Lord is limited to men. Among the folk gods in China, the qualification of Kitchen God is very old. Zaojun, in the Xia Dynasty, has become a great God respected by the people. Since the Zhou Dynasty, the Imperial Palace has also included the kitchen sacrifice in the ceremony, and established the kitchen sacrifice rules throughout the country, which has become a fixed ceremony.
2. On the 24th of the 12th lunar month, I will sweep the house. After holding the kitchen ceremony, they formally began to prepare for the new year.
3. On the 25th of the twelfth month, receive the Jade Emperor. The old custom believed that after the kitchen god went to heaven (the 23rd of the 12th lunar month), the Jade Emperor himself went down on the 25th of the 12th lunar month to investigate the good and evil of the world and determine the next year's misfortune. Therefore, family sacrifices to pray for blessings, which is called "receiving the Jade Emperor". On this day, we should be careful in our daily life and in our speech, and strive for good performance, so as to win the favor of the Jade Emperor and bring down blessings for the coming year.
4. Drive away the old. It was not until new year's Eve that the kitchen god was sent to the heaven to welcome back. There was no God in charge of the world and no taboo. Most of the people married, which was known as "driving out chaos". Chaotic age is a specific period designed by the people to regulate social life. At the end of the year, people have leisure and savings, which is a good time for people who seldom have the energy to do important things.
5. Twenty eight noodles in the twelfth month. Most places have to make new year's steamed pasta on this day. Taiyuan people want to steam 'Baoer, Baoer and liangluoluo'; Hebei people want to 'steam jujube flowers' to prepare new year's Eve sacrifice for ancestors as offerings; Henan people also want to' 28 ', steam Baoge and fry pagodas. "Only Beijingers slow down half a beat, in this day's' noodle hair ', until 29' steamed bread '.