Introduction to customs on the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month Introduction to festivals on the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month

1. On the twenty-eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, make cakes and steamed buns with decals: the so-called decals are to put up New Year pictures, Spring Festival couplets, window grilles and various magic codes. Among them, the custom of posting Spring Festival couplets originated from the ancient "Peach Talisman". The ancients used peach wood as a tree to ward off evil spirits. "Dian Shu" said: "Peach is the essence of the five trees, so it suppresses evil spirits." By the Five Dynasties, Meng Chang, the monarch of Later Shu, was elegant and good at literature. He ordered people to inscribe peach charms every year. It became the origin of the Spring Festival couplets of later generations, and the inscription on the peach charm "New Year's Day, Happy Festival, Changchun" became the first "Spring Festival Couplet" recorded in Chinese history. Later, with the advent of papermaking, the custom of posting Spring Festival couplets using red paper instead of peach wood appeared.

2. On the twenty-eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, make the noodles: Because it is traditional not to use fire from the first to the fifth day of the first lunar month, so you must prepare New Year’s food before the end of the year. The dough will not go bad easily. People here can eat as soon as it is hot. In Guangdong, "On the twenty-eighth day of the year, wash off the filth", and "washing off the filth" means not only cleaning the inside and outside of the house and decorating it carefully, but some families will also boil water with grapefruit leaves to wash themselves in the evening, which means Wash away a year's bad luck and troubles.

3. The 28th day of the twelfth lunar month refers to the common name of the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month and is one of the traditional Chinese Spring Festival festivals. Chinese folk songs on the twenty-eighth day of the twelfth lunar month include "On the twenty-eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, make dough" and "On the twenty-eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, make cakes and steamed buns with applique flowers." Chinese folk customs and traditions: On the twenty-eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, whether making noodles or steamed buns, every household will start preparing staple foods for the New Year.

4. Customs vary from place to place. For example, in the areas at the junction of Shandong, Hebei, and Henan provinces, and at the junction of Susong and Taihu Lake in Anhui Province, many families with this surname celebrate the New Year on the 28th of the twelfth lunar month. .

5. The origin of the festival: For example, the area at the junction of Shandong, Hebei and Henan provinces is recorded in folklore books. Because the Yuan army was passing through the border, the pork was cut into large pieces and cooked on the 27th of the twelfth lunar month in advance. On the early morning of the 28th, they worshiped the gods and offered sacrifices, and then the whole family fled. On the first day of the first lunar month, people return to their hometowns to visit each other, on the second day of the lunar month they visit relatives and friends, on the third day of the lunar month they pay homage to dead soldiers and ancestors, and on the fourth day of the lunar month they continue to visit relatives and friends.

6. The tradition of celebrating the New Year on the 28th of the twelfth lunar month has been spread in places such as Susong and Taihu Lake in Anhui Province. I heard from the local older generation that the reason for celebrating the New Year on the 28th of the twelfth lunar month is because the locals’ ancestors were old landlords, and the servants they hired had to go back to their homes to celebrate the New Year before New Year’s Eve, so the old landlord’s family went to their homes on the 30th night. There were no servants left to serve, so the New Year celebrations were brought forward to the 28th, and the servants were asked to wait for the New Year's dinner, and then send the servants home after dawn with wages and supplies. Because transportation was inconvenient in ancient times, servants would leave in the morning and usually arrive home in the evening.

7. Although there are no landlords now, in order to celebrate, the locals still retain the tradition of celebrating the New Year on the 28th of the twelfth lunar month. Of course, they also celebrate the new year on the 30th of the twelfth lunar month. Nowadays, celebrating the New Year on the 28th of the twelfth lunar month has gradually become the year of reunion for local people. The New Year celebrated on the 28th of the twelfth lunar month is the year of reunion. Usually uncles, aunts, cousins, daughters, sons-in-law, cousins, cousins-in-law, etc. from other places gather together to have a reunion dinner. Dinner is served at 5 or 6 o'clock in the morning on the 28th. They didn't get off the table until dawn. New Year's Eve is a small reunion year with family members reunited.