What day is the lunar new year?

Lead: Although the off-year is not as grand as the Spring Festival, it also means the beginning of the New Year. The following are the days of the Lunar New Year that I shared with you. Welcome to learn!

What day is the lunar new year?

2017 65438+1October 20th, Friday, the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month. Lunar calendar1February 23rd and 24th are the traditional days of offering sacrifices to stoves for the Han people, also known as "off-year".

Off-year, that is, the 23rd or 24th of the twelfth lunar month, is a festival to worship the kitchen god. The year of 20 15 is February 1 1(20 14 years1February 23rd). The lunar calendar is the beginning and foreshadowing of the whole Spring Festival celebration, and there are two main activities: sweeping graves to celebrate the New Year and offering sacrifices to stoves. In addition, there is the custom of eating stove candy. In some places, we also eat fire, sugar cakes, oil cakes and tofu soup. As early as the Song Dynasty, there was a record that the twelfth lunar month passed the off-year period, but at that time the off-year period was divided into two days. Therefore, the custom of the twenty-fourth year of the twelfth lunar month has a longer history. The Qing emperor began to offer sacrifices to the gods in Kunning Palace on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month. In order to save money, the emperor also offered sacrifices to the kitchen god. Later, the royal family and Baylor followed suit and sacrificed stoves on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month. Since then, there has been a division between the government and the people, and they live a small life on different days.

The 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, also known as off-year, is a day of offering sacrifices to stoves, sweeping dust and eating sugar in the traditional culture of Han nationality in China. The folk song "Twenty-three, cantaloupe stick" refers to the god who worships the stove on the 23rd or 24th of the twelfth lunar month. There is a saying of "three officials, four people, four boatmen and five people", that is, in the twelfth lunar month, the official holds the stove, the official holds it, and the five senses hold it. Later, it gradually evolved into "twenty-three, off-year."

Brief introduction of small festival

Off-year (off-year New Year's Eve, off-year) is a traditional festival for Han people in China to worship the kitchen god in off-year, also known as Xie Zao, Kitchen God Festival, Kitchen God Festival and Kitchen God Festival. In different places, the date is different, and it is the 23rd or 24th or 25th of the twelfth lunar month (folklore experts say that there is a tradition of "three officials, four people, four boats and five people" in ancient times, that is to say, the official off-year is the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, the people's home is the 24th of the twelfth lunar month, and the houseboat is the 25th of the twelfth lunar month. Like the north, before the Southern Song Dynasty, it was a political center and was greatly influenced by bureaucracy, so the off-year was mostly the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month. On the contrary, the south is far from the political center, and the off-year is the 24th of the twelfth lunar month. Residents along the lake, such as Poyang Lake, keep the tradition of boating, and the next year is set on the 25th of the twelfth lunar month. "No matter which day passes the off-year, people have the same desire to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new". In some areas such as Sichuan and Guizhou, the 30th of the twelfth lunar month is a small year, and the 15th of the first month is a big year. In some areas of Shandong, the off-year is the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month. Off-year is considered as the beginning of the New Year in China.

What do you want to eat in the New Year?

1, creature

Jiaozi is used to eating it in the northern New Year's Eve, which means to bid farewell to Kitchen God and "send away the windward side of jiaozi". When offering sacrifices, jiaozi should be placed on the platform. In addition, there is a folk saying "delicious but not as good as jiaozi". During the Spring Festival, jiaozi has become an indispensable food.

2. Sticky cake

There is a folk song "Twenty-three, Sticking Cakes" in Luxi, Shandong Province. Every year, on the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, it is the day for every household to steam and eat sticky cakes, which means to stick the mouth of the kitchen god and let him say the good things in the sky, not the bad things on earth. Sticky cakes are made of yellow rice and red dates, which are sweet and rich, and the entrance is soft, meaning "high every year". In addition, Hainan people use coconuts as ingredients to make coconut cakes for eating and praying, which means "high every year".

3. Sesame candy

There is a saying in the northwest of Shanxi that "you can't chew your fingers with sesame candy." It is said that off-year is the day when the kitchen god goes to heaven. He will report to the Heaven Emperor the food and clothing consumption of the world in the past year and other things that the Heaven Emperor wants to know. That's the chef's report day? Eating sesame candy is to make the mouth of the kitchen god stick with sugar, and you can't report the delicious and luxurious scenes on earth to the sky, so as not to punish those who love to eat and drink-the new year will bring famine, and I hope to have a safe and rich year.

4. Rice cake

On the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, people commonly call it "off-year", and people in Wuxuan and Guiping in Guangxi have the custom of making rice cakes. The rice cake is made of glutinous rice flour as the main material, peanuts, sesame seeds and sugar as the ingredients, put into a mold to make it round, and then steamed at high temperature, with a unique flavor and the meaning of "round and round".

5. Kill pigs

In Gongcheng Yao Autonomous County, there is a custom of killing pigs for the New Year in Landong of Lotus, Xinhe of Xiling and Shuian Village of Guanyin. After the Lunar New Year's Eve (the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month), there will be a lively drama to kill the pig. Pick out the best meat, stir-fry or stew it, cook it carefully, then serve a glass of wine and invite friends and relatives to eat the first fresh meat after the pig is slaughtered.

6. Fire

In addition to eating stove candy, fire is also a very distinctive seasonal food on the day of sacrifice. On the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, the business of biscuit stalls in the city is booming.

7. Nianzong

Nanning people had the custom of eating "Nianzong" in their early years. Nianzong is a symbol of good luck in the New Year. As the saying goes, "every year, every year, every year, high school (zong)." The New Year's Zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival is different from Liang Zongzi. It has stuffing, big and small, long and short, round and flat. After peeling off the leaves, the skin is glutinous rice, and the stuffing is mung bean and pork. Some people use their favorite food as stuffing.

8.popcorn candy

The folks in Jing' an county are known as "small years and small years, and the rice is sweet." On the "off-year" day, people make popcorn candy with maltose and popcorn, which means that the new year will be rich and sweet.

9. spaghetti

Most people in Shandong Peninsula have been busy making jujube cakes (also called big steamed buns), reunion cakes, longevity peaches and other noodles since the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, indicating that the whole family is reunited and the days are more than enough. It is more troublesome to do. Make dough and then wake it up, knead it and then wake it up, then make various pasta shapes and then wake it up. After waking up, steam. Pasta, also called "flour flower", is very delicious, but it takes a lot of time.

10, kwantung sugar

Guandong Sugar is also called Chef King Sugar and Big Sugar. After one year, it will only be sold around the next year. Guandong sugar is a sugar product made of malt and millet, which is used to worship the kitchen god. A large piece of milky white sugar, placed on a square plate, is usually three inches long and one inch wide, flat and silky. A large piece of newly-made candy tastes crisp, fragrant and sticky and has a special taste. It is a kind of candy that is very popular among men, women and children in Kanto. It has been handed down from the kitchen god's sacrificial table and is widely loved by the people.

1 1, stir-fried corn

In the southeast of Shanxi, there is a custom of eating fried corn. There is a saying in the folk proverb that "23. If you don't eat fried food, pour a pot for the New Year". People like to bond fried corn with maltose and freeze it into pieces, which tastes crisp and sweet.

12, sugar melon

Kitchen sugar is a kind of maltose, which is very sticky. The candy that is drawn into a long strip is called "Guandong Sugar", and the candy that is drawn into a flat circle is called "honeydew melon". When it is put outside in winter, because of the cold weather, the honeydew melon is solidified firmly, and there are some tiny bubbles in it, which tastes crisp and sweet and has a special flavor. Sugar, sesame sugar and non-sesame sugar. Sugar is made into melon shape or north melon shape. The center is empty and the skin thickness is less than five points. Although the size is different, the transaction is still calculated by weight. The big honeydew melon weighs one or two Jin, but few people buy it as a cover.

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