Does Xiao Nian include jiaozi?

Jiaozi is shaped like an ingot. During the Spring Festival, people eat the sound of jiaozi getting rich, and jiaozi has stuffing, which is convenient for people to put all kinds of auspicious things into stuffing and place their hopes on the new year.

Off-year is the beginning of the Spring Festival. From the beginning of the year, we entered the preparatory stage of the Spring Festival, cleaning, cutting window grilles, pasting Spring Festival couplets, welcoming relatives who have returned home from afar, and celebrating the Spring Festival with a reunion. Courtyard, ready to welcome distant relatives and have a reunion year. In the north, on New Year's Eve, the most important activity is to buy jiaozi with the whole family.

When wrapping jiaozi, people often wrap coins, sugar, peanuts and dates into stuffing. If you eat these things, you will be blessed.

Off-year custom

1, paste the portrait of Kitchen God

In fact, the most important activity on the day of off-year is not only to provide honeydew melons and cakes, but also to replace the portrait of Kitchen God. The old portrait of the kitchen god has been torn down, and every household must "please" come back with a new portrait of the kitchen god.

Step 2 eat honeydew melon

On the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, "offering sacrifices to the kitchen stove" is undoubtedly the most important ceremony, and there is even a saying of "sticking honeydew melon", which means sticking honeydew melon to the mouth of the kitchen god. This habit stems from the long-standing ritual of offering sacrifices to stoves.

In the folk, the folk always think that every family has a "kitchen god" who falls from the sky and is responsible for supervising the good and bad things done in a year. Until the 23rd day of the lunar calendar, they need to return to the Heavenly Palace to report to the Jade Emperor. Sacrificing a kitchen stove is a ceremony to send the kitchen god to heaven.

Step 3 cut the window grilles

There are many kinds of folk activities in the off-year, mostly preparing for the New Year, and cutting and pasting window grilles is one of them.

Step 4 make rice cakes

On the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, people commonly call it "off-year", and people in Wuxuan and Guiping in Guangxi have the custom of making rice cakes. The rice cake is made of glutinous rice flour as the main material, peanuts, sesame seeds and sugar as the ingredients, put into a mold to make it round, and then steamed at high temperature, with a unique flavor and the meaning of "round and round".

5, clean

"Dust" and "Chen" are homophonic, so the purpose of sweeping dust is to get rid of the old and welcome the new, and remove the ominous. Broom sweeps up and down the wall, scrubs tables and chairs, and washes the floor. Every household should be thoroughly cleaned, leaving no dead ends, so that the windows are bright and clean.