Introduction to the custom of the 28th twelfth lunar month.

1, on the 28th of the twelfth lunar month, make cakes and steam steamed buns with decals: the so-called decals are New Year pictures, Spring Festival couplets, window grilles and all kinds of hexagrams. Among them, the custom of pasting Spring Festival couplets originated from the ancient "Fu Tao". The ancients used peach wood as a wood to ward off evil spirits. The Book of Arts said, "Peach is the essence of five trees, so it also suppresses evil spirits." In the Five Dynasties, Meng Changya, the monarch of the post-Shu Dynasty, was good at literature. Every year, he made people write inscriptions for Fu Tao, which became the origin of Spring Festival couplets in later generations. The inscription on the Fu Tao "New Year's Qing Yu, Spring Festival Changchun" became the first "Spring Festival couplets" in China's recorded history. Later, with the appearance of papermaking, the custom of pasting Spring Festival couplets with red paper instead of mahogany appeared.

2. On the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month, put the dough on your face: Because hot work is traditionally prohibited from the first day to the fifth day of the first month, you should prepare the food for the New Year before the New Year. Dough doesn't go bad easily. You can eat it as soon as it is hot in the first month. In our Guangdong province, "twenty-eight years old, careless", and "careless" is not only to clean the house and the outside, but also to decorate it carefully. Some families will wash their bodies with grapefruit leaves in the evening, in order to wash away the bad luck and frustration of the year.

The 28th of the twelfth lunar month is the common name of the 28th of the twelfth lunar month in China, and it is also one of the traditional festivals of the Spring Festival in China. China folk songs on the 28th of the twelfth lunar month include "the 28th of the twelfth lunar month, mixing noodles" and "the 28th of the twelfth lunar month, steamed cakes and decorative flowers". China's folk tradition reached the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month. Whether it's mixing noodles or making buns, every household should start preparing the staple food for the New Year.

Customs vary from place to place. For example, in the border areas of Shandong, Hebei and Henan provinces, and in the border areas of Susong and Taihu Lake in Anhui Province, many people with surnames celebrate the New Year on the 28th of the twelfth lunar month.

5. Origin of festivals: For example, in the border areas of Shandong, Hebei and Henan provinces, there are folk books (available in county libraries such as Guantao and Daming). Because the Yuan army crossed the border, they cut the pork into pieces and cooked it in advance on the 27th of the twelfth lunar month, offered sacrifices to the gods in the early morning of the 28th, and then fled for refuge with their families. On the first day of the first month, I went back to my hometown to visit my neighbors (New Year's greetings on the first day), visited my relatives and friends on the second day (going back to my parents' home is part of it), offered sacrifices to the fallen soldiers and ancestors on the third day (ancestor worship), and continued to visit my relatives and friends on the fourth day (including going back to my parents' home).

At the junction of Susong and Taihu Lake in Anhui Province, there has always been a tradition of celebrating the New Year on the 28th of the twelfth lunar month. According to the local elders, New Year's Day was celebrated on the 28th of the twelfth lunar month because the ancestors of the local people were old landlords, and the hired servants had to go back to their hometown for the New Year before New Year's Eve, so there was no servant to serve the old landlord's house on the 30th night, so they arrived early on the first day of the New Year's Day, asked the servants to serve the New Year's Eve, and then sent them home at dawn. Due to the inconvenient transportation in ancient times, servants usually set out in the morning and arrived home at night.

Although there are no landlords now, in order to celebrate, the local people still keep the tradition of celebrating the New Year on the 28th of the twelfth lunar month, and of course on the 30th of the twelfth lunar month. Today, the 28th of the twelfth lunar month has gradually become a happy year for local people. The 28th of the twelfth lunar month is a festive year. Generally, uncles, aunts, cousins, daughters, sons-in-law, cousins and so on from other places get together for a reunion dinner. Dinner will be served at five or six in the morning on the 28th. I didn't sit down until dawn. New Year's Eve is a year of less reunion, and there is a family reunion.