When is the year 20 16? What will you eat in the next year? What is the custom of off-year

Year and date 20 16: North: February 6th 5438+0, South: February 2nd (Gregorian calendar).

Off-year custom: eat stove candy

Danian's partner Xiaonian once turned into a tortoise and presented Uncle Luo to Dayu. The mysterious "Luo Shu" pattern on the back is also the origin of the Book of Changes, which is called the first of China's ten thousand classics. The Yijing Kungua, "The terrain is rich and the gentleman is virtuous", is the embodiment of off-year. Every year after New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve will return to its residence-Beidou Palace, and save auspicious energy until New Year's Eve (the 29th or 30th of the twelfth lunar month). On the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, it will send off the Lunar New Year to the world first to see who needs the supplement of auspicious energy and inform the situation. Off-year loves to eat stove candy, so people can "say good things in the sky" for off-year and kitchen god, thus forming the folk custom of China people eating stove candy in off-year.

Off-year custom: cutting and pasting window grilles

In all the preparatory work, window cutting and stick grilles are the most popular folk activities. There are all kinds of animal and plant stories here, such as plum blossoms of magpies, peach willows of swallows, peony of peacocks, rolling hydrangeas of lions, playing pearls of three sheep (Yang), playing pearls of two dragons, Toona sinensis of deer cranes (Liuhe Tongchun), longevity of five bats (Fu), moon-gazing of rhinoceros, Nianyu of Lotus (Lian) (the rest) and swimming of Yuanyang.

Off-year custom: the king of man

Off-year is also a day of folk sacrifice. According to folklore, every year on the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, Kitchen God will tell the Jade Emperor about the good and evil of this family and let the Jade Emperor reward and punish them. Therefore, when sending stoves, people put candy, water, beans and grass on the console table in front of the kitchen god statue; Among them, the last three are the mounts of the kitchen god ascending to heaven. When offering sacrifices to the stove, you should melt the Guandong sugar with fire and put it on the mouth of the kitchen god. In this way, he can't speak ill of the jade emperor There is a folk custom that "men don't Yue Bai, women don't offer sacrifices to stoves", so the owner of offering sacrifices to stoves is limited to men. [3] In addition, on New Year's Eve, the Kitchen God will bring the gods to the world for the New Year, and there will be ceremonies of "receiving the kitchen" and "receiving the gods" on that day. Every family burns sedan chairs and horses, sprinkles three glasses of wine, and sends away the kitchen god, so it's their turn to worship their ancestors.

Off-year custom: take a bath

Adults and children should take a bath and have their hair cut. There is a folk saying that "if you have money, you can cut your hair to celebrate the New Year". Luliang area pays attention to washing feet on the 27th of the twelfth lunar month. Mother-in-law and your son washed their feet with boiling water tonight. Adults should also help a girl who is not sensible to scrub her feet clean, leaving no dirt. There is a folk saying that on the 27th of the twelfth lunar month, your mother-in-law washes your feet. As the saying goes, if you don't wash your feet, pus will harm water for seven months.