The 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month: commonly known as "off-year". Twenty-three, sweet potatoes are sticky, and master Zao Jun wants to go to heaven.
December: Dust and sweep the house. There is a folk saying called "twenty-four, sweep the house", and every household should clean the environment.
Twenty-fifth day of the twelfth lunar month: grinding tofu. Legend has it that the Jade Emperor will visit the lower world, and every household will eat tofu dregs to show poverty and avoid the punishment of the Jade Emperor.
1Feb. 26th: Kill pigs and cut annual meat. The folk proverb says, "On the 26th of the twelfth lunar month, we stew big meat" and "On the 26th of the twelfth lunar month, we cut the annual meat". This day is mainly to prepare meat for the Chinese New Year.
Twenty-seventh day of the twelfth lunar month: slaughter old chickens. There is a saying in folk proverbs that "the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth lunar month kills chickens". Catch a big party today and buy new year's goods.
December 28th: Make cakes with decals and steam steamed buns. Folk songs have the saying "Twenty-eight of the twelfth lunar month, mixing noodles" and "Twenty-eight of the twelfth lunar month, making cakes, steaming steamed buns and applying decals".
Twenty-ninth of the twelfth lunar month: Go to the grave and ask for a big confession from the ancestors. On the day before New Year's Eve, commonly known as "New Year's Eve", there is also an extremely important activity "going to the grave to ask your ancestors".
New Year's Eve: Keep the New Year's Eve. One night is two years old, and five nights are divided into two days. At the end of the year, winter snow and winter snow melt, and it seems that a warm spring breeze blows in the warm palace. Keeping old age on New Year's Eve is the most important custom.
New year's day: the golden rooster announces the dawn. The younger generation pays New Year greetings to the elders, and the elders give lucky money to ward off evil spirits. Don't move the broom on the first day of the first month, otherwise it will sweep away luck and break the money. If you must sweep the floor, you must sweep it from the outside to the inside. Today, this custom still remains in many places. Clean up before New Year's Eve. On New Year's Day, the broom doesn't move and the garbage doesn't fall out. Prepare a big barrel of waste water, and don't sprinkle it that day.
New Year's Day: The golden barking of dogs indicates spring. The family goes to pay New Year's greetings, the host stays for dinner, and western families arrange feasts. On the second day of the first month, the married daughter goes back to her mother's house, accompanied by her husband, commonly known as "husband-welcoming day". On this day, the daughter who goes back to her mother's house will bring some gifts and red envelopes to her children and have lunch at her mother's house. In the past, a family would choose this day to take a family photo.
New Year's Day: Fat Pig Arch. The son-in-law visits her father-in-law and daughter-in-law to return to her mother's house and presents even numbers. On the third day of the first month, also known as "Red Dog Day", it is homophonic with "Red Mouth" and usually does not go out to pay New Year greetings. According to legend, it is easy to quarrel with people on this day. However, this custom has long been out of date, and now few people get together during the New Year, which has faded a lot.
On the fourth day of lunar new year's day: Three Yang Kai Tai. Kitchen God wants to check the household registration, and welcomes the kitchen God Hui people. The fourth day of the fourth lunar month is the time when immortals return from heaven to earth. The fourth day of the first month is the day of offering sacrifices to the god of wealth. In the past, the boss wanted to "fire" a person. On this day, he came to worship God uninvited. The other party knew it well and packed up and left. There is also a legend that Kitchen God will come to check the household registration this day and should not go far.
New Year's Eve: Spring for General Niu Geng. Five roads lead to the god of wealth, east and west, north and south, and wealth is led by five roads. On this day, every household will welcome the god of wealth into their homes. At the same time, this day is also commonly known as "breaking five." On the fifth day of the first month, commonly known as "breaking the Five", it is necessary to "drive out the Five Poor", that is, "poor in knowledge, poor in learning, poor in literature, poor in life and poor in friendship". People get up at dawn, set off firecrackers and clean up, which symbolizes that all unlucky things will be blown out. The folk diet custom is to eat jiaozi, commonly known as "pinching the mouth of a villain".
Lunar new year's day: immediate success. Drink and worship the street. Thousands of families are watching, and no one does not send the poor. On the sixth day of the first month, shops and restaurants officially opened. On this day, every household should throw out the garbage accumulated in the festival, which is called "sending the poor".
Lunar New Year's Day: People live long. Spread pancakes and eat seven treasures, and live in peace.
On the seventh day of the first month, people's birthday. According to legend, from the first day, God created everything in the order of "one chicken, three pigs, four sheep, five cows, six horses, seven people and eight valleys", and the seventh day was a person's birthday. "People's Day" should respect everyone, and parents can't discipline their children on this day. On this day, some places will drink porridge for the first time, in order to win the top spot in high school.
Lunar new year: release and pray. On the day of the lower bound of the stars, build a small lamp to burn it, one inch of time and one inch of gold. The eighth day of the first month is the Valley Day, also called "Shunxing Festival". According to legend, this day is the lower bound of the stars, and the stars in the sky are the most complete. If the weather is fine this day, it indicates a bumper rice harvest in one year.
Lunar New Year's Day: Jade Emperor's birthday. The ninth day of the first month is the birthday of the Jade Emperor, the highest god in the sky, commonly known as "born in heaven". Lunar new year's day: offering a stone to give thanks. One day, land, houses for people and animals, rice, wheat and rice were all born on land. The eleventh day of the first month: offering sacrifices to the son-in-law. Asking for a son-in-law is commonly known as "Zigu Day" (in some places, it is the fourteenth day of the first month), and the eleventh day of the first month is also "Son-in-law Day", which is the day when the father-in-law fetes his son-in-law.
The twelfth day of the first month: build a light shed. Folk commonly known as "the lantern shed on the twelfth day of the first month" Lantern Festival is coming. From this day on, people have made all kinds of preparations for the Lantern Festival. On the thirteenth day of the first month: light the stove lights and tie the colored lights. There is an important folk activity on this day, called "the birthday of the lampstand". On this day, people will light a lamp under the kitchen stove, which is called "lighting the stove".
The fourteenth day of the first month: worship the water god and try lanterns. This day is the "water goddess". On her birthday, she will do some rehearsal activities of entertainment programs, called "light inspection", to welcome the annual Lantern Festival.
The fifteenth day of the first month: Lantern Festival, watching lanterns. Also known as Yuanxiao, Yuanxiao, and Shangyuan Festival, this festival has the custom of enjoying lanterns throughout the ages, so it is called Lantern Festival, which has become the "Valentine's Day" in China.
Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month, the first full moon night of the year, is also called Shangyuan Festival. On this day, people enjoy lanterns and eat Yuanxiao.
In the first month of 16th night, children hit others with lanterns, which is called "touching lanterns". What is important is that this year's lanterns can't be kept until next year, and they must be destroyed by "touching the lanterns".