What is the custom of Spring Festival in Yangzhou?

In Yangzhou, after the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, the streets and alleys are filled with the smell of New Year. No matter years ago or years later, many of them are exquisite.

dust off on the seventeenth day of the twelfth lunar month

"If you have money but no money, celebrate the New Year cleanly", and thoroughly clean your home. There is a proverb among the people that "the seventeenth and eighteenth, the more you sweep, the more you get." Dust off the furniture, clean the quilt, and welcome the New Year with a clean and tidy look. The moral is to get rid of the dust of the year, that is, to get rid of the unlucky, evil and unlucky things of the past year, and hope that the new year will be healthier and more prosperous.

Sending stoves on the 24th of the twelfth lunar month

"Officials, three people and four people" is an old tradition of Yangzhou people. Legend has it that on the night of the 24th of the twelfth lunar month, the Kitchen God will go to the Heavenly Palace to report to the Jade Emperor about human affairs. Therefore, every household should see off the kitchen god this evening, which is called "sending the kitchen stove". ?

There are also folk regulations that men don't offer sacrifices to the moon and women don't give stoves. Because women often have to cook at home, and it is inevitable that they will complain a little, so they will throw the shovel into the pot. Such a sound will alarm the kitchen god and make the kitchen god unhappy. Therefore, the stoves are all delivered by men.

there are several things necessary to send a stove.

First, the cooking rice is cooked with glutinous rice and embedded with red dates, lotus seeds and candied fruit, which is somewhat similar to the eight-treasure rice sold in supermarkets, and can not be processed separately until 3 nights after cooking; Second, put horses made of paper or reeds on a plate, and sprinkle some grass and beans under it to represent the mount of Kitchen God. There is also a malt cake, which is eaten by the kitchen god and stuck to his teeth. Before the jade emperor, he faltered and could not speak. ?

steaming on the 25th day of the twelfth lunar month

There is a folk saying in Yangzhou: Twenty-three and twenty-four are sent to the kitchen god, and twenty-five and twenty-six are busy with steaming. It is a big event for old Yangzhou people to steam in the New Year, and steamed buns in the New Year can't be called buns, but snacks. The pastry skin is made of flour by fermentation, which is called dead noodles before fermentation and live noodles after fermentation.

In the past years, materials were scarce, and dim sum was a family's New Year's ration, so it was huge and things were much more important. Nowadays, with the quick-frozen steamed stuffed bun, it is meaningful for every household to eat steamed stuffed bun during the Chinese New Year.

Year of Resignation on the 28th of the twelfth lunar month

There is a concept of resigning the old year and welcoming the new one, which means to make a satisfactory summary of the past year, thank the gods from all walks of life for their blessing, and hope that this year will be safe and smooth. Naturally, the whole family will have a reunion dinner in the evening, which is also grand and second only to the New Year's Eve dinner.

On New Year's Eve

During the day of New Year's Eve, every household should put couplets on all the doors to welcome the arrival of the New Year. Sticking the word "Fu" in the Spring Festival is a long-standing folk custom. The word "Fu" refers to good fortune and good fortune, which places people's longing for a happy life and wishes for a bright future.

Yangzhou people pay attention to those dishes for the reunion dinner: water celery means Passepartout's vermicelli, which means a long stream of water; Peas, pronounced by Yangzhou people as Andou, mean safe and sound; There are also vegetables and tofu, which means refreshing; Burning chowder Yangzhou is called family portrait; Braised bream is definitely indispensable, but you can't eat it until the first day of the first month, which means "more than one year."

On New Year's Eve, after dinner, people should keep watch, adults and children put on new clothes, and elders begin to give lucky money to their younger generation. On the 3 th night, the elders should put cloud cakes, apples and oranges on everyone's bedside for getting up on the first morning of the new year to eat. Eating cloud cakes means "high and cool" and eating apples means "safe", but eating oranges has a unique meaning in Yangzhou.

Because in Yangzhou dialect, luck is called "local gas" and luck is called "walking", and the word "orange" is homophonic with the word "bureau" of local gas, so oranges are given to people.

At this time, adults will close the door and let the small children at home grab the latch behind the door and climb up. Because the old-fashioned door is made of wood, there are several bars from top to bottom behind the door, and there is a latch switch in the middle. This custom is to climb the door head. Old people say that small people can grow up by climbing the door at night, climb fast and grow fast, and climb high and grow high.

In families with many children, children also play games with each other, which not only exercises the body, but also increases the festive atmosphere of the festival.

first day, wear new clothes

On the morning of the Spring Festival, when the doors are open, firecrackers are set off first, which is called "opening firecrackers". After the sound of firecrackers, the ground is full of broken red, which is called "full house red" Yangzhou calls sleeping on the first day of school "Yuanbaojue". The day before, he often stayed up and should sleep. On the first day of the first month of the first month, you have to wear new clothes from head to toe and from the inside out.

On the morning of the first day of junior high school, people usually eat glutinous rice balls, tremella soup, lotus seed soup, etc. Women don't cook this meal, which is also a comfort to women's hard work over the past year. There are many ways to make dumplings in Yangzhou. There is a kind of "Sixi Tangyuan", which is people's favorite on the morning of New Year's Day.

This kind of dumpling is made of four kinds of stuffing: vegetables, bean paste, sesame sugar and minced meat, which means "all the best" and "family reunion". You can't eat all the dumplings in the bowl, so you have to leave even numbers for luck. On New Year's Day, you don't cook new meals at noon, but you take out the leftovers from 3 nights and heat them up before eating. This is called "Chen in the next year"

On the first day of the first day, you have to say "picked up the gold ingot".

It is said that the first day of the first month is broom's birthday, so you can't use a broom on this day, otherwise it will sweep away luck and ruin money, and attract "broom stars", which will lead to bad luck. If you have to sweep the floor, you must sweep it from the outside to the inside. On this day, you can't throw water on the garbage, for fear of breaking the money.