Beijing folk custom: There are many things in the twelfth month
Beijing folk custSince the beginning of the month of the month, there have been literati writing Spring Festival couplets on the eaves of the city to earn some money for the Spring Festival.After the memorial, the new spring couplet gradually adhered to, thousands of families, a new.Some people use zhu's paper, some use red paper, only the inner court and the king of the clan are used in the white paper, set with the red edge blue, not the family room is not to be used.
Lunar put MeiShu up in a big belly with utensils, five feet underground, fire, let to slightly warm, plum blossom returned to gradually put white, paper basket, to the city to sell, and can be so small peach, prunus japonica thunb, winter jasmine.The prosperous district, the support of the hut, sell the picture.Women and children rushed to buy, to be happy.
On the first day of the twelfth month, the congee in the street market.They are selling walnuts, persimmon cakes, dates, chestnut, dried rhombosome, and they are called to sell.Second, the fat pheasant, guandong fish, wild cat, wild ducks, preserved meat, tiffin, the tree cover, the Buddha flower, a thousand pieces of light, the building.After the 10th sell paintings, keeper, money, tinsel, unitary KeZi yellow, pin money falls, horse eye burn, glass mirror, window.......Money shop silver exchange pressure gold and silver - small plum flower haitang yuan treasure.After 20 days, they sell sugar melon, sugar cake, rice cake and sugar.Bad grass beans, the supply of what to use on the 23rd.There is also a kiln maker, copper silver for porcelain bowls, a candlestick of the capital city of Beijing;The bottle gourd, the children's books to save money;The wok, the kitchen mouth is used for help.After the 25th day, sesame straw, pine tree branch, and cangma are used for the use of "simmering".The prices of the last month are more expensive than usual, so there is a proverb about the three points of the land and water.When the old people arrived, they would always try to persuade their children to spend their money carefully, so there was an old saying that "twenty seven, eight, four".
On the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, the family cooks porridge.All of them prepared rice and beans on the first day, and made the figures with the fruit carving.The three cooks porridge, the whole family gathers food, feed the neighbor, is laba porridge.Laba rice porridge, is to use yellow rice, white rice and polished glutinous rice, millet, water caltrop kernel, peel chestnuts, red cowpea, jujube paste, such as water, external use dyed red peach kernel, almond, melon seeds, peanuts, hazel, pine nuts and white sugar, red pond, saxaul grapes, to be touched.Do not use lotus seed, lentils, the seed of Job’s tears, hang yuan, use the taste.Every seven days, he washed away the fruit and washed the utensils, and he ran the whole night until the morning.Apart from the sacrifice of the ancestors for the Buddha, it is not allowed to pass the noon.Use red jujube, walnuts to make lion, children and so on, to see clever.
On the day of the laba, the ice cellar of the yuhe river and the water storage of the river, the ice storage of the ice, the ice storage of the ice, the opening and transportation of the ice, and the summer sunrise.
At the end of the twenty-third day, there was a kitchen, a courtyard, and a lantern.The food is served with a soup of rice, sweet melon and sugar.The man robai, I wish to keep the word of good.Women in the inner room, sweep the stove, and clean mud, and burn incense.
Every December, within the period of 19, 20, 21 and 22, the Chinese government will choose the auspicious period, seal the seal, give the world and all the public holidays.Since then, liyuan opera house has chosen a day, eight classes and a New Year's day to bless the play.School children, after the "seal" the master also let the holiday, the "school year".
On the New Year's eve, it is said to be "the age of confusion"."Twenty-seven, guilty, twenty-eight, dishwashing."
As the year ends, the medicine that is left over will be thrown out of the door and burned together. This is called "throw a hundred sickness".
In the furnace, pine, cypress, southern green, auspicious Dan, famous: "simmering."
On the first day of the New Year's eve, called "xiao New Year's eve", the family hosted a banquet, and the people visited and called, "don't be a year old".Incense is outdoors, called "incense", usually three days.