New Year’s Eve in 2022, the festival time in the north and south
The Northern New Year’s Eve in 2022 is on January 25, 2022, which is the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month; the Southern New Year’s Eve is on January 26, 2022, which is the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month day.In addition, there may be differences in some special regions.
Introduction to New Year’s Eve Festivals
Xiao New Year is a traditional Chinese festival, that is, the traditional stove day.During the small year, the main folk activities are dust-sweeping, offering sacrifices to the stove, etc.The sacrificial kitchen has a history of thousands of years in our country, and the belief in the kitchen god is a reflection of the Chinese people’s pursuit of the dream of "more than enough food and clothing".The small year is usually regarded as the beginning of a busy year, which means that people begin to prepare new year goods, sweeping dust, offering sacrifices to the stove, etc., and prepare for a clean and happy new year, which expresses people’s good wishes to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new.Due to the different customs and habits of different places, the dates of the sacrificial stoves are also different.
The origin of the festival on New Year’s Eve
The folk sacrificial stove originated from the ancient custom of worshipping fire.The duty of the kitchen god is to control the fire of the stove and manage the food.Zheng Xuan commented on the "Book of Rites Jifa", saying:"(The Kitchen God) lives in the human world, and the inspector is a little guilty, and he is also the one who reprimands." This shows that at least in the Han Dynasty, the custom of sacrificing the kitchen has been spread in the Central Plains of northern my country.Sacrifice to the kitchen is an important event on this day of the new year.While sweeping the dust off the old kitchen god portrait, one must also "please" come back with a new one.Among the Chinese folk gods, the Kitchen God is a very important house god, who is in charge of food and clothing, misfortune and fortune, and people naturally feel awe and dependence on him.
2022 New Year’s Eve festival time
From the official calendar, the southern New Year’s Eve is on the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month, and the Gregorian calendar is January 26, 2022, while the northern New Year’s Eve is on The 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month is January 25, 2022 in the Gregorian calendar.In ancient times, the northern region also celebrated the new year on the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month.Since the middle and late Qing Dynasty, the emperor’s family held a ceremony to worship the heaven on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month.The local people also celebrated their new year on the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month in advance.As early as the Song Dynasty, there was a record of "the twenty-fourth year of the twelfth lunar month", and most of the southern regions still maintain the ancient tradition of celebrating the new year on this day.In Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai, it is customary to call New Year’s Eve "New Year’s Eve".Correspondingly, the night before New Year’s Eve is called "Xiao New Year’s Eve", and this day is also called Xiao Nian.Historically, the twenty-fourth night of the twelfth lunar month was called the twenty-fourth night by the Wu people.In some areas of southwest my country, people will celebrate the New Year’s Eve on New Year’s Eve, and their New Year’s Day is usually on the 14th or 15th day of the first lunar month.
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