The smell of Wuhan is back. What are the customs in Wuhan for the New Year?

Speaking of the Chinese New Year custom of Wuhan people, we should start from the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month. The posture of Chinese New Year begins from this day. On this day, every household? Blow up dust? ,? Dust? With what? Chen? Homophonic, meaning to go to the old and welcome the new.

On the 24th of the twelfth lunar month, it happens to be a small year. There are many things to pay attention to. As the saying goes? Three people, four ministers, 25? It means twenty-three emperors, twenty-five ministers of the prince and twenty-four people.

Northerners generally celebrate the Lunar New Year on the 23rd, while southerners, including old Wuhan people, celebrate the Lunar New Year on the 24th. Moreover, as an important historical town, northerners mainly focus on heavy industry and heavy industry, and with the commercial geographical location of the thoroughfare of nine provinces, many northerners intermarry here, forming a great fusion of folk culture between the north and the south of Wuhan. Therefore, for many people in Wuhan, today and tomorrow are off-year.

In the north, this day is highly valued. On this day of off-year, the prince who offered sacrifices to the kitchen called the kitchen. The protagonist is jiaozi, melon and other sweets. Go out to have sex and come in. Jiaozi and Melon just let Kitchen God ride to the sky at once. The wind melon hopes that the kitchen god is sweet and only says good things.

December 30th of the lunar calendar, commonly known as? New year's day? This is the most important festival in Wuhan. On this day, the whole family got together and had a sumptuous reunion dinner. Generally speaking, what do you need on New Year's Eve? Sanquan? (Whole chicken, whole fish and whole duck) Three highs? (fish cake, meat pie, sheep cake)? Thirty thousand? (fish balls, meatballs, lotus root balls), etc. Dinner time is usually before dark, sometimes in the evening. Before eating, people hang firecrackers outside the door (whipping is now forbidden), and then close the door to prepare for dinner.

There is a circle around the dining table. Those old-school families should worship their ancestors first, put some bowls and chopsticks on them, and invite their ancestors to sit down. After the sacrificial ceremony, dinner was served. Fish cannot be eaten, in order to pray for a bumper harvest every year. The family ate and talked and laughed happily. At the dawn of the first month, you can go out with the door half open (the money paper is left at the door). Go out to pay New Year greetings.

Wuhan also attaches importance to New Year greetings. Grandparents and uncles who worship their father on the first day; The next day, I paid homage to the grandparents and uncles of the matriarchal family (in Huangpi, my nephew was old enough to sit on the wine table the next day); On the third day, I worshipped my wife's father-in-law; Visiting relatives and friends on the fourth day; On the fifth day, it was the birthday of the God of Wealth, and the shops resumed business to welcome the God of Wealth (quite a few businessmen went to Guiyuan Temple to burn their heads and incense, praying that the wealth of the New Year would roll in). What is it called to take out the garbage accumulated on the first day on the sixth day? Send the poor? .