What is the origin of off-year? Is there a holiday in the 20 16 primary school?

Answer: Off-year is more than just a holiday. Due to local customs, festivals called off-year are different. In the early years, the main folk activities of the Han nationality included posting Spring Festival couplets, sweeping dust and offering sacrifices to stoves. In most parts of northern China, the festival of offering sacrifices to stoves on the 23rd or 24th of the twelfth lunar month is called off-year.

In many areas, the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first month is called off-year and the solstice in winter is also called off-year. Off-year also means that people begin to prepare for new year's goods and have a clean and good year, indicating that the new year should have a new atmosphere and expressing the good wishes of the working people of the Han nationality to bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new year.

Off-year is a day for people to sacrifice their stoves. The folk song "Twenty-three, Melon Stick" refers to the sacrificial stove on the 23rd or 24th of the twelfth lunar month every year. There is a saying that "officials, three people, four boatmen and five", that is, on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, the government held a sacrifice to the kitchen, on the 24th, the general public, and on the 25th, the boat was built.

Off-year is the beginning and foreshadowing of the whole Spring Festival celebration, and there are two main activities: sweeping the New Year and offering sacrifices to stoves. In addition, there is the custom of eating stove candy. In some places, we also eat fire, sugar cakes, oil cakes and tofu soup.

The 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month is a traditional festival of the Han nationality, also known as "New Year's Eve", "New Year's Day" and "New Year's Eve". On this night, every household will hold a ceremony of "offering sacrifices to the kitchen god" to send the kitchen god to heaven. The kitchen god is one of the five major sacrifices in Shang and Zhou Dynasties. It was first held in summer, and later it was held in La Worship. In ancient times, there was a saying that "Emperor Yan died with fire as the stove". It is said that the date of offering sacrifices to stoves in ancient times is "official sacrifice three, people sacrifice four, turtle sacrifice five and turtle sacrifice six".

The Qing emperor began to offer sacrifices to the gods in Kunning Palace on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month. In order to save money, the emperor also offered sacrifices to the kitchen god. Later, the royal family and Baylor followed suit and sacrificed stoves on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month. Since then, officials and people have had different off-year lives. Han people have the tradition of "three officials, three people, four boats and five people", that is to say, the official's off-year is the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, the people's home is the 24th of the twelfth lunar month, and the houseboat is the 25th of the twelfth lunar month.

Before the Southern Song Dynasty, the north was the political center, which was greatly influenced by bureaucracy, so the off-year was mostly the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month. On the contrary, the south is far from the political center, and the off-year is the 24th of the twelfth lunar month. Residents along the lake and the sea retain the tradition of boating, and the next year is set on the 25th of the twelfth lunar month.

Nanjing urban area is a special area, which is due to the tyranny of Judy after she usurped the throne in the Ming Dynasty. At that time, people held the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first month of Yongle, and they all missed the leniency of the Zhu Yunwen era. Therefore, in Nanjing, Lantern Festival becomes a small year. Yunnan-Guizhou-Sichuan area in the southwest and some northern Hui areas regard the first day of the first month as New Year's Eve, and New Year's Eve becomes New Year's Eve.