The origin of the new year

The Xiaonian is a traditional Han festival in China, also known as Xie Zao, Festival Festival, Zaowang Festival, and Sacrifice. In different places, the date is different, in the lunar month of the twelfth or twenty-four or twenty-five (the folklorist said that in ancient times, there was a tradition of "three officials, four ships and five ships" in the small years, that is, the official The small year is twenty-three in the twelfth lunar month, the home of the people is twenty-fourth in the twelfth lunar month, and the people in the water are twenty-five in the twelfth lunar month.

In ancient times, if you were an official, a business, or a scholar, you must go home to reunion before the festival, and eat your own home-made candy, in order to pray for the gods and the peace of the whole family in the coming year. The poet Fan Chengda of the Song Dynasty wrote a detailed description of the Sacrifice Day: "The ancient twelfth lunar month is twenty-four, and the stove is in the air. The cloud car is small and small, and the family has cups and pans." Fresh, bean-sweet pine rice bait round. Men’s discretion to save their daughters, drink alcohol and burn the stove Junxi. The scorpion fights Jun Mowen, the cat and the dog touches the monarch. The monarch is drunk and full of Tianmen, the spoon long spoon is not Fuyun, taking advantage of the return of the city, the poetry is written in a real and meticulous manner, which shows the importance of the ancient folk customs to the sacrifices and the abundance of food.

Eat dumplings

On the festival of the festival, the folks pay attention to it, and they are interested in "sending the dumplings to the wind." Eat more cakes and noodles in the mountains. In the southeastern part of Shanxi Province, the custom of eating fried corn is popular. The folk songs have the saying that "the twenty-three, do not eat fried, the beginning of the new year - one pot down."

Eating stove sugar

The old saying goes, "Twenty-three, the sugar melon is sticky, the stove king is going to heaven." Eat stove sugar, stove sugar is a kind of maltose, very sticky, it is called a long-shaped sugar stick called "Kanto sugar", drawn into an oblate type is called "sugar".