Get rid of the old cloth and welcome the new year.
In Hebei folk, once you enter the twelfth lunar month (December of the lunar calendar), especially after eating Laba porridge, you will have a taste of the year. The real preparation stage for the Chinese New Year is after the 23 rd sacrifice stove. As the saying goes, it is the beginning of a busy year, and its main purpose is to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new. Folk songs say: twenty-four, sweeping the house; Twenty-five, grinding bean curd; Twenty-six, steamed bread; Twenty-seven, catch up with the year; Twenty-eight, killing pigs; Twenty-nine, brewing yellow wine; Thirty, stew jiaozi. It means that there is work to be done every day for seven days in a busy year, and there are key points every day.
Cleaning the house is the most thorough sanitary activity before the Spring Festival, which fully embodies the virtues and customs of people's concern for the living environment and their own cleanliness.
Grinding bean curd, steaming steamed bread, killing pigs, making wine, stewing meat and wrapping jiaozi are the summary of all the material preparations before the festival. Steaming refers to steamed buns, flower cakes, jujube hill and hedgehogs supplied during the Spring Festival. "Gao" and "Gao" are homophonic, and steamed flower cakes are expected to increase step by step year by year. "Steaming" and "contending" are homophonic, so steaming also means thriving. Put a hedgehog on the door of the house and let it carry gold and silver at home.
Spring Festival collection is to buy firecrackers, fireworks, sugar tea, incense sticks, paper foil, New Year pictures, tags, clothes, shoes and hats, persimmons, walnuts, peanuts, fruits, tobacco and alcohol, dried fresh vegetables and so on. It was the most concentrated time for purchasing years ago.
Except, I will. New Year's Eve (the 29th day of abortion) is also called New Year's Eve, and the evening of 30th is also called New Year's Eve. New Year's Eve is very busy, mainly inviting immortals to post Spring Festival couplets, hang signs, window grilles and New Year pictures, and inviting family members, including jiaozi, to carry water, sweep the yard and make firewood for the New Year.
On the afternoon of New Year's Eve, there is a custom of inviting relatives in rural areas of Hebei. Men at home burn paper money and set off firecrackers on ancestral graves, inviting relatives to go home and spend the New Year with their children and grandchildren. After returning home, write a yellow card slot and offer. Before the fifth day, incense was burned every day.
Before the Spring Festival, travelers have to go home for the Spring Festival anyway, and their families' desire for the return of travelers is even more urgent. In some villages in Zaoqiang County, Hengshui City, there was a custom of spreading street lamps a few nights ago, that is, dipping paper-wrapped cottonseed hulls in cottonseed oil, and then lighting them at night, and placing them on the roadside outside the village to illuminate the road for people who go home at night.
On New Year's Eve, the whole family will watch the New Year's Eve dinner around the stove, or watch jiaozi. Watching CCTV Spring Festival Gala and commenting on programs has become a new custom in recent twenty years.
Happy new year.
New Year's Eve is a "node" to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new. Just after twelve o'clock on New Year's Eve, firecrackers sounded in both urban and rural areas. This is a sign that people who are eager to meet the Spring Festival are rushing to meet the Spring Festival early. More people's homes are at five or six the next morning. After getting up, housewives first burn incense and light candles for the gods, and then cook jiaozi for them. Men or boys set off firecrackers in the yard. Firecrackers are also longer for every household; Put two kicks at the same time, and your figure will rise step by step.
Before the Spring Festival in jiaozi, the younger generation pays New Year greetings to their elders to express their gratitude. The elders give lucky money to their young children and grandchildren as a symbol of affection, and the whole family is full of affection and happiness. After dawn, the New Year greeting activities began in an all-round way, first within the family, then among the villagers, teachers and students. In the first day of junior high school, you should worship your family, neighbors, friends, colleagues, teachers and classmates. Nowadays, telephone, mobile phone, SMS, email and QQ have become the new fashion.
In the rural area of Tangshan in the old days, on the morning of the first day, a man came to the direction of the Western God outside the village, holding a lighted incense, kowtowing to another man's portrait of the God of Wealth, inviting the God of Wealth to come to his house, offering sacrifices when he got home, and burning incense and praying every day until the fifth day.
At noon, the family eats the annual reunion dinner, enjoys the warmth of family reunion and the delicious food cooked by themselves, and fully feels the happiness of the New Year. Nowadays, it has gradually become a fashion to go to a restaurant for dinner at noon on the first day of junior high school, or to have a reunion dinner.
The Spring Festival of ethnic minorities in Hebei Province has its own characteristics. For Manchu families in Chengde, as soon as New Year's Eve is over, the whole family will get together to eat jiaozi. On the first day of the month, I didn't move my knife or pour the soil all day. It is said that using a knife will ruin money.
On the morning of the Mongolian New Year's Day in Zhangbei County, every family's children have to go out to pay New Year greetings to the elderly around them. The old man took Ma Touqin and invited them to dance and drink milk tea. Some places also organize horse races, and whoever runs fastest indicates good luck that year.
In Jidong Village, South Korea, girls don't go out on New Year's Day, and young men go out to salute their neighbors and pay New Year's greetings. Old people give gifts to express their thanks and blessings. Koreans in eastern Hebei also like to hold weddings during the Spring Festival.