How much do you know about Z Jiaodong's Chinese New Year customs?

Qilu, the land of Confucius and Mencius, is perhaps more particular about the custom of Chinese New Year than other places. Today, I will ramble about the Chinese New Year customs in Jiaodong.

twenty-three, the day of resignation; Twenty-four, pull the big characters; Twenty-five, make tofu; Twenty-six, cutting annual meat; Twenty-seven, slaughter the rooster; Twenty-eight, send your face; Twenty-nine, all of them; Black children walk all over the street under thirty. This is a jingle left by our elders for the Chinese New Year, which outlines the preparatory work we need to do before that year and has been passed down from generation to generation. Of course, with the changes of the times, some customs have also become advancing with the times. Let's talk about it in chronological order.

twenty-three, the date of the speech is

the twenty-third day of the twelfth lunar month, which is called off-year. On this day, every family will send the kitchen god to the west, commonly known as the kitchen. On this day, every family will send the Kitchen God a bowl of noodles, a dish of candied melons, a dish of dates, incense, wax, paper, enclosed and other sacrifices on the kitchen mouth, and read the formula that Grandpa Kitchen King went to the West, saying good things in heaven, and keeping the lower bound safe. Remove the old portrait on the kitchen mouth, and then put the new portrait on the shelf (the new portrait)

Twenty-four Chinese characters

Chinese characters are the characters posted on the door pairs during the Spring Festival. On the thirtieth day of the twelfth lunar month, every family has the custom of posting Spring Festival couplets. Traditionally, on the 24th day of the lunar calendar, every family would pull up a few pieces of red paper and ask the old gentleman who can write calligraphy in the village to draw Chinese characters. But few people do this now. There are fewer and fewer people in the village who can write big characters. Two machine-printed couplets replace handwritten couplets, which are quick and convenient to buy.

Making tofu on 25th

Traditionally, on this day, every family would make tofu as a gift. Now, few people make tofu by themselves. In order to save trouble, they buy tofu instead of making tofu.

twenty-six, cutting annual meat; Twenty-seven, slaughter the rooster;

As the saying goes, a sad day is a good year. In the past, no matter how hard the farmer lived on weekdays, he would cut a catty of meat on the 26th of the twelfth lunar month and kill one or two cocks on the 27th of the twelfth lunar month. Here, I'd like to introduce the aspic we beat during the New Year. We blanched the chicken with trotters, pig heads and bones in hot water to remove the oily smell, cooked it in the pot, leaving only chicken thighs, etc. The rest of the chicken skin and bones, together with trotters, bonzi bones and pig skins, returned to the pot and boiled for a certain time. When they were put in a big pot, they became aspic when they were cold. That smell can not be used only.

Twenty-eight, make dough

Here are some special pasta dishes that we only have in the Chinese New Year.

1 Jujube cake, peach cake

We have the custom of steaming big cakes in the Chinese New Year. Those with dates are called jujube cakes, those without dates are called bald cakes, and the big cakes are made of dough. Jujube and morning are homophonic, which bears the farmers' good wishes for early hair.

to make a big cake, you have to make dough the night before. After the dough is cooked, add alkali and you can knead the dough. Kneeling dough is a technical job. Kneeling on the kang, people should coordinate their shoulders, arms and wrists in order to knead a soft and elastic dough blank. Pick out the nose on the top and four sides of the dough with your little finger and put the cut dates in. Make a big cake, put it on the kang, buckle it and grow it. Wood has been put on the bottom of the pot to burn the fire, just waiting for the water to open the pot.

as soon as the experienced hostess saw that the outer skin of the big cake was bright, she began to fill the pot. While filling the pot, she dipped a new cooking broom in water and sprinkled it on the outer skin of the big cake. Finally, she put a piece of fat on the grate with a bowl or corn husk, covered the halter and started steaming, so that the oil and gas fell on the big cake during steaming, and the steamed big cake shone.

When you make a big cake, you usually weigh each piece of dough to make it as heavy as two pounds. It is said that this will make the children at home weigh enough. When steaming big cakes, outsiders are forbidden to enter the house, and they are afraid of stepping on them. Some people close the door, and some put a broom behind the door to sweep away the bad luck that outsiders may bring in. The steamed big cake cracked into petals, and it must be said that the cake laughed. When making a big cake, roll up the kang mat to avoid burning. However, the burning of kang mats will still happen. At this time, it can't be said that the kang is burnt, but it is said that the kang is burned vigorously. When steaming the cake, it is very taboo to steam it or not, because everyone believes that this indicates that the family will not be smooth in the coming year.

Peach cake, as the name implies, is made like a peach cake. Peach cake also has a deep meaning. According to my mother, the older generation said that eating a peach cake means escaping another year. Of course, life is good now, but this tradition has been preserved.

2 noodle fish noodle fish is a kind of fried food specially prepared for Chinese New Year. After the oil is boiled, just fry the cooked raw fish in the pot. The reason why it is called noodle fish is probably because it looks like a fish. In addition, taking its hair and hair, there is a beautiful moral that fish and fish are more than enough every year. When frying, it turns in a frying pan, much like fish in water. It tastes soft and soft, so it has no flavor.

3 Shengchong Shengchong is the mascot for Chinese New Year sacrifice in Jiaodong. It is made of hair flour, with a round steamed bread head and two spherical doughs as eyes. In some places, mung beans are used. The mouth is cut in half with a knife, and the mouth contains coins and red dates. Two conical doughs are tied up as ears. The male ears are cut out with scissors, and the female ones are pressed out with a thimble. The top of the head is crowned, and the male ones are feather wings and the female ones are flowers. Legend has it that the sacred worm is the original embryonic form of the Chinese nation's totem dragon. Now, this sculpture of the sacred worm has been incorporated into the Asia-Pacific regional handicraft encyclopedia, and it has become a characteristic work of art of the Chinese nation forever in history.

Twenty-nine all have

Generally, on the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month, everything is ready for the New Year, just waiting for the arrival of the New Year. On this afternoon, all families will paste and begin to paste pairs. The gate, entrance door, wing door and courtyard door shall be pasted together. People with animals still put up six animals in the corral, a thousand miles a day in the carriage, a greeting in the room, a blessing on the stone mill and the water tank, a happy ever after on the till, a New Year picture and a window to dye flowers in the house. Lanterns should be hung on the walls of each house, which means that the grain is abundant. Door signs, door hangers and peach branches should be hung on the street doors.

At 3 o'clock, Heier walks all over the street. On the morning of the twelfth lunar month, every family will invite Zong.