"Children, don't be greedy, it's the year after Laba". Do you know the story about the great cold?

"Children, don't be greedy, it's the year after Laba". Do you know the story about the great cold? I think what people look forward to most when they are young is the Chinese New Year. As the saying goes, "Don't be greedy for children, it will be the New Year after Laba", but do you know why? At that time, we only knew that we could eat the sweet and delicious Laba porridge cooked by our mother on Laba day. We didn't understand why the New Year was over after Laba, but there were still many days before the New Year.

Everyone calls December in the solar calendar the twelfth month. In fact, this name has nothing to do with after the season, but with sacrifice. "La" was originally a sacrificial name for the last two days of the year. It is recorded in "Custom Righteousness" that whether it is to sacrifice ancestors after hunting or to sacrifice gods because of the alternation of old and new, in short, a sacrificial theme activity must be held, so the twelfth lunar month is also a sacrificial month. Legend has it that this day is also the day when Sakyamuni became immortal, and it is a grand traditional festival of Buddhism, called "Treasure Festival".

The twelfth lunar month is the last month of the year, and it is also the coldest time of the year. As the saying goes: "Bala's Lazi, your chin is frozen off", which shows that the temperature in1February is so cold. At this time of the year, the farm work at home is generally finished, and people who work outside the home to make money are also preparing to go home one after another, so there is also a saying of "winter leisure". Although farm work and work are very idle, almost every family will gradually prepare for the arrival of the Spring Festival.

Spring Festival is a traditional festival in China, which has been playing an important role in people's minds for thousands of years. We always say, "Go home for the New Year if you have money." This shows that this year is a crucial year for China people. So similarly, after Laba, everyone needs to gradually prepare for the New Year in advance. When I was a child, I did more to help my mother pack things. As the end of each year approaches, I need to clean my home thoroughly. Then I followed my father's ass to buy new year's goods, Spring Festival couplets and various fruits and vegetables snacks. My favorite thing is to buy fireworks. It is often my father who can't help pestering me and then buys a bunch of fireworks that I like very much.

The 23rd of the twelfth lunar month is a small year. I didn't understand why it was called off-year before. Is it because it didn't grow up like me? And this morning, my mother always asked me to eat a piece of sesame candy, saying that she would shut the kitchen god up and forbid him to complain in the celestial world. Later, with the growth of age, I realized that the off-year is actually not very big. Off-year is a key day before the Spring Festival, and it is also the "Kitchen God Festival". According to folklore, on this day, the Kitchen God needs to die, return to the celestial world and report to the Jade Emperor all kinds of things in the world during the year. In this off-year folk custom day, everyone generally needs to offer sacrifices to Kitchen God.

Rabasone wrote: "Children, children, please don't be greedy. After Laba, it will be New Year. After drinking Laba porridge for a few days, it will be twenty-three miles. Twenty-three, honeydew melon is sticky; Twenty-four, sweeping the house; Twenty-five, make tofu; Twenty-six, go to the warehouse; Twenty-seven, kill the rooster; 28, wake up; Twenty-nine, steamed bread; Thirty nights and one night, the first day and the second day are full of streets. " This song introduces in detail what to do every day from Laba to the next day.