How did the small year in the north and the south live? Why is there a day difference?
Usually on the day of the small year, each family Every household will clean up the dust, paste window couplets, and make offerings to the Lord of the Kitchen, indicating the preparation for the new year and the arrival of it.In particular, everyone will eat stove sugar, which is what we call maltose.
Why the North and South Little Years One day away
According to historical records, before the Qing Dynasty, my country celebrated the new year on the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month.In the Northern Song Dynasty, Xiaonian was not called Xiaonian, but called "Jiaonianjie"; in the Southern Song Dynasty, it was called "Xiaojieye".Meng Yuanlao, a writer of the Northern Song Dynasty, recorded such a passage in "Tokyo Dream Hualu":"On the twenty-fourth day of the year, the kitchen horse was placed on the kitchen stove, and the kitchen door was smeared with wine lees, which was called ’drunk commander’." According to the "Wulin Old Story" written by Zhou Mi in the Southern Song Dynasty, "the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month is the small festival night, and the 30th day is the big festival." On the twenty-fourth, the king of the kitchen wants to talk to the sky; the clouds, the chariots, the wind and the horses are small, and there are cups and plates in the family.”
Since the folk tradition is to celebrate the new year on the twenty-fourth day of the twelfth lunar month, why did it come to the Qing Dynasty Has it changed? This is because the Manchu royal family and aristocrats hold a ceremony of worshiping the heavens on the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month every year.The sacrifice and the sacrifice to the kitchen are separated by one day.In order to save expenses and reduce trouble, the emperor simply worshipped the kitchen god together.The emperor has sacrificed to the stove, and of course the civil and military officials have to follow.But ordinary people can’t be on an equal footing with the official family.When the family sacrifices to the stove on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, we have to be one day later, so there is a saying "official three people four".
Later, there was no talk of officials and common people, but because the north used to be the political center and was heavily influenced by the official spirit, the custom of celebrating the New Year and offering sacrifices to the stove continued on the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month.In the south, far from the political center, it still retains the custom of celebrating the new year on the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month.
The custom of the small year in the north and the south
Eating dumplings in the north seems to be a customary custom, because the dumplings are shaped like ingots and have the meaning of auspiciousness and prosperity, so in the big and small festivals in the north, dumplings is essential.Especially in the festivals related to the Chinese New Year, dumplings play a very important role on the table of northerners.Basically, you must eat dumplings on major festivals.For southerners, the food to eat on the day of the new year is rice cakes.The sound of rice cakes is like a high year.In addition to rice cakes, glutinous rice balls are also indispensable, which means reunion.
Guangxi Nanning and some areas of Guangdong have the custom of eating rice dumplings on Xiaonian day.Nian zong, also known as zongzi, has a different filling than the zongzi of the Dragon Boat Festival.Some have mung beans, some have pork, and you can also use your favorite food as the filling.Eating rice dumplings on New Year’s Eve is a symbol of auspiciousness for the New Year, meaning "every year high school (zongzi)".
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