How does it get on in the north? Xiaonian is a traditional festival in China. Everyone attaches great importance to it every year. What's the date of Xiaonian in 2019? It's said that Xiaonian in the south is not the same day as Xiaonian in the north. What's the matter? What are the customs and habits of Xiaonian in the north?
What day is the year of 2019 in the South
Which day is the year of 2019 in the South: Friday, January 29, 2019 (December 24, Ding Younian)
Most people in the South spend their childhood on the 24th of the 12th lunar month. In Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai, the "24th day of the twelfth lunar month" and the "night before the new year's Eve" are called Xiaonian. In Nanjing, the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first month is a small year. In Yunnan, part of the festival is on the 16th day of the first month, and in southwest and northern minority areas, it is new year's Eve.
What month is the year of 2019
What day is the year of 2019: Thursday, January 28, 2019 (December 23, Ding Younian)
Xiaonian is a traditional festival in China, also known as the festival of offering sacrifices to the kitchen stove and the kitchen king. However, Xiaonian does not refer to a festival. Because of local customs, the festivals called Xiaonian are not the same. Small new year means that people begin to prepare new year's goods, and are ready to have a clean new year. It means that there will be a new atmosphere in the new year, and it expresses the Chinese working people's good wish to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new, and to welcome the good fortune.
The origin of Xiaonian
Generally speaking, the small year is relative to the big year. Xiaonian is a traditional festival of Han nationality in China, also known as xiezhao, Jizao Festival, Zaowang Festival and Jizao. Xiaonian is a day for people to sacrifice to the kitchen. There is a legend about it. Because every family has a kitchen stove, the jade emperor has a kitchen god in every family to supervise and inspect the behavior of this year. On Xiaonian's day, the kitchen god has to report the good and evil of this year to the Jade Emperor and let him reward and punish them. Therefore, when each family sacrifices to the kitchen, it is necessary to put Guandong The sugar was melted by fire and spread on the kitchen god's mouth, so that he could not speak ill in front of the Jade Emperor. In fact, this day is a day for all families to send the kitchen god to heaven. If there is a ceremony to send the kitchen god to heaven, there will be a ceremony to receive the kitchen king to heaven. On the evening of the new year's Eve, the kitchen king will come to celebrate the new year with the gods. On that day, there must be a ceremony of "picking up the kitchen stove" and "picking up the gods".
December 23 and 24 of the lunar calendar are the traditional Chinese cooking day, also known as "small year". It's said that the kitchen Lord was originally a common man, Zhang Sheng. After he got married, he spent a lot of money and lost his family business and went to the streets to beg. One day, he begged his ex-wife Guo Dingxiang's house. He was so ashamed that he went under the stove and burned himself.
When the Jade Emperor knew about it, he thought that Zhang Sheng could change his mind, but it was not so bad. Since he died at the bottom of the pot, he became the king of the kitchen. He reported to heaven on the 23rd and 24th of the twelfth lunar month every year, and then returned to the bottom of the kitchen on the 30th of the new year. The common people feel that the kitchen king must be respected because he will report to heaven. Therefore, the people have the "small year" of sacrificial stoves on the 23rd and 24th of the twelfth lunar month, praying for peace and wealth in the coming year.