Beijing's New Year customs and New Year's Eve are full of old principles

Every family has many things to do in the twelfth lunar month

Since the twelfth lunar month, literati and literati have written Spring Festival couplets under the eaves of the city shops in an attempt to earn some money for the New Year. After offering sacrifices to the stove, the new Spring Festival couplets gradually hung, giving thousands of households a completely new look. Some people used red paper in their homes, and some used red paper. Only the inner court and the royal family princes used white paper as usual, inlaid with red and blue edges. Those who were not members of the royal family were not allowed to use it.

In the twelfth lunar month, the plum blossoms will be bundled and placed in an appliance with a small mouth and placed about five feet underground. The fire will be lit to keep the ground slightly warm. The plum blossoms will gradually turn white, cage them with paper, and sell them in the market. This can be done for Xiaotao, Yuli, and Yingchun. In prosperous areas, mat sheds are built and paintings are sold. Women and children rushed to buy for pleasure.

On the first day of the twelfth lunar month, sellers of porridge and fruits lined up in the market on the street. There are also people who sell walnuts, persimmon cakes, dates, chestnuts, and dried water chestnut rice. They carry baskets on their shoulders and store them and sell them. Next are fat pheasants, Kanto fish, wild cats, wild ducks, pickled bacon, iron queer, sanjia fruit covers, big Buddha flowers, Douguang Qianzhang, and Louzizhuang Yuanbao. After the tenth day of the lunar new day, they sold Wei paintings, door gods, hanging coins, gold and silver foils, yellow coins, gold and silver coins, Ma Zi burned paper, glass mirrors, and window eyes. After the 20th, they sell sugar melons, sugar cakes, glutinous rice cake, and Guandong sugar. The rice straw and beans are supplied to the gods when they are delivered to the stove on the 23rd. There are also sellers of kiln utensils who exchange copper and silver for porcelain bowls, which is the capital's incense burner candlestick; children use them to save money; pots and tiles are used at the mouth of the stove to aid cooking. After the 25th, sesame straw, pine and cypress branches, and South atractylodes rhizome are sold for "simmering New Year" purposes. The prices of everything in the twelfth lunar month are more expensive than usual, which is why there is the proverb that "water and soil are more expensive in the twelfth lunar month." When the elderly arrive at this time, they always advise their younger generations to spend money carefully, so there is a proverb,"278, just take the best."

On the 8th of the twelfth lunar month, Wang Hou's wax is served, and every family cooks fruit porridge. Rice and beans were prepared the day before, and hundreds of fruit carvings were used to create figures to create fancy shapes. The porridge is cooked in the third of the night, and the whole family gathers to eat it and feeds it to neighbors. It is Laba porridge. Laba porridge is made of yellow rice, white rice, glutinous rice, millet, water chestnut rice, chestnuts, red cowpeas, peeled jujube paste, etc., cooked in water, and externally dyed red peach kernels, almonds, melon seeds, peanuts, hazelnut, pine nuts and white sugar, Hongtang, Suosuo grapes, for spot dyeing. Never use lotus seeds, lentils, coix seeds, or hanging yuan, as they will hurt the taste. Every seven days after waxing, the fruits are peeled and washed, and the utensils are cooked all night long. By dawn, the porridge is cooked. In addition to offering sacrifices to ancestors and Buddhas, it is not allowed to give gifts to relatives and friends after noon. Red dates, walnuts, etc. are also used to make lions, children and other types to show ingenuity.

On the Laba day, an ice cellar was built in the Yuhe River, and water was transported through the river to be stored in the inner kiln. The ice storage pool was built in the Taiye Pond and the snow storage pool and the ice kiln were opened to transport it. It was very convenient for use in summer.

At the end of the watch on the 23rd, every family worshiped the stove, erected poles in the courtyard, and hung sky lanterns. The sacrifices were made with soup stove rice, sugar melons and sugar cakes, and the gods were fed with fragrant grains and stir-fried beans and water bowls. The man bowed and wished him words of suppressing evil and promoting good. In the inner room, the women cleaned the stove, painted it with clean mud, and lit incense and bowed silently.

Every December, within the 19th, 20th, 21st, and 22th days, the Imperial Tianjian will choose an auspicious time, seal it as usual, announce it to the world, and all implement public holidays. After that, the Liyuan Theater chose a day to close the stage, and the eight classes performed together. On New Year's Day next year, the show was blessed to start. Children who go to school are also given a holiday after being "sealed" by the private teachers, which is called the "school year".

The 25th to New Year's Eve is said to be a "chaotic New Year's Day". "Twenty-seven, wash away guilt. Twenty-eight, wash away sloppiness."

At the end of the year, throwing away the medicine left over from a year outside the door, and putting together the collected prescriptions and burning them. This is called "throwing away hundreds of diseases."

Burn pine branches, cypress leaves, south atractylodes rhizome, and auspicious pills in the furnace. The name is "Simmer Year".

The day before New Year's Eve is called "Little New Year's Eve". There is a banquet at home, and people visit and call it "Other Year". Burning incense outdoors, called "Tianxiang", usually takes three days.

New Year's Eve is full of old people

On New Year's Eve, people go out to visit relatives and friends in official robes, which is called "farewell to the New Year." Family members bowed to their elders, also called: "Farewell to the New Year". Newlywed couples must go to their father-in-law's home to bid farewell, otherwise it will be disrespectful.

On New Year's Eve, from the courtyard to the gate, sesame stalks must be sprinkled outside all walks. This is called "stepping on the New Year".

On New Year's Eve, the first day of marriage at night, precious torches outside the door compete with each other and firecrackers compete with each other. There were clusters of palanades, and chariots and horses rattled. All officials came to the court to congratulate New Year's Day. At this time, the sound of firecrackers was like waves and thunder, spreading throughout the government and the public, not stopping all night long. It is also mixed with the sound of rattles, the sound of selling melon seeds to relieve boredom, the sound of selling glutinous rice and white wine ice cups, the sound of selling osmanthus head oil, and the sound of selling fine powder of mixed vegetables, and the sound of firecrackers. It is really nice to hear. "The home of the local people has a new dress, dress it strictly, and sacrifice to the gods and ancestors; after burning germanium and silk, we worship the whole family, offer pepper plates, pour cypress wine, close steamed cakes, and sip powder soup. Go out to welcome the celebration, visit the medicine window, visit the shadow window, and celebrate the festival." If you meet relatives and friends on the road, you will bow and then say: "Happy New Year." "As for the entertainment, tea is made with carved flowers and fruits, and ten brocade hot pot is served together. The soup is supplemented with goose oil, pork head, river rice cake, and yellow millet; the wine dishes are pickled chicken bacon, fermented heron phoenix fish, wild chicken feet, deer and rabbit breast; the fruits are pine hazel lotus qing, peach apricot melon kernel, chestnut jujube branch round, hawthorn cake, green branch grapes, white zigang pomegranate, autumn pear, apple fruit, lion orange phoenix orange slices of red bayberry. Mixed with the sea and the mountains, the home confused with the market. Even if you are not close to each other, you will have to drink three cups of Fengjie wine. If you are so passionate, why not get drunk?" As the saying goes,"On the new festival of worship, it is better to sit in one family than to go to thousands of families. The four horses are noisy and happy all day long. It can really be said to be a temporary victory."

The New Year's meal is made with gold, silver and rice. It is planted with pine and cypress branches, and decorated with money, dates, chestnuts, longans, fragrant branches, and broken five before it can be removed. It is called "New Year's Rice ") Take the larger pine and cypress branches, insert them in a bottle, and decorate them with ancient coins, ingots, pomegranate flowers, etc. to make the" cash cow ".

Thread the thread with colorful ropes, weave it into a dragon shape, and place it at the foot of the bed. It is called "lucky money". What the elders give to children is also called "New Year's money", and the "sticker" used to withdraw money from the money store is called "ticket". Every new year, all wealthy families exchange silver for money will be written with colored notes, which is a "red ticket". Take the meaning of beauty and auspicious.

Anyone who sells flowers calls the smoked flowers Tanghua. "Every New Year, give gifts to each other. The peony is bright, the kumquat hangs yellow, the house is fragrant, and the fragrance is warm. The three spring treatments are all in one place."So people also call it" Tanghua ".

Hanging a thousand is to use auspicious words to carve them on red paper. The length of the ruler has a ruler and stick them in front of the door to shine with the peach talisman. There are eight immortals on it, which are hung in front of the Buddha. More households with thousands of people use it, and fewer families use it. The yellow paper is three inches long and the red paper is more than an inch long. It is a "small hanging thousand" and is used in shops.

Every New Year's Eve, a long table is placed in the atrium to provide a total of 100 per cent. Percent is the entire sacred map of the heavens. Before "100%", the decoration was made on a layer of honey supply, which was called "full supply". The gifts are made with the Eight Immortals, pomegranate, ingot, etc., which is called the "Buddha Buddha Flower". When the god is received, Baifen will be burned and burned until the Lantern Festival. This is what people often call the "Heaven and Earth Table."

Walking into the first month of every household

On the first day of the first lunar month, I get up at the fifth watch, burn incense and set off paper cannons. On this day, they visited each other and ran back and forth for several days without asking whether they were noble or humble. The name was "Celebrating the New Year". The things you eat, such as: Baiji Boxes, are packed with persimmons, lychees, longans, chestnuts, ripe dates, etc.

On the first day of the lunar month, the gods and ancestors were sacrificed, paper-cutting continued to more than ten feet, and they were placed in front of the ancestors. It was called "Qianzhang" and burned.

On the first day of the month, New Year greetings come to the door, shout to accept the post, throw in a business card, and leave in a hurry. Most of them do not need to meet with their host in person.

The first day to the fifth day of the first month is commonly known as "breaking the fifth day". According to the old habit, you had to eat "water dumplings" for five days, which was called "boiled cakes" in the north. Nowadays, some people only eat for three or two days, and some eat every other day, but there is nothing that doesn't eat. This is true from princes 'mansions to small households in streets and alleys, and even for guests.

The lights of the first month have always been concentrated in the "six departments" in the front door, called "six departments", and the lights of the "Ministry of Industry" are most praised. Ice lanterns, birds and beasts, and all the things in the world, are made very skillfully.

Dengshi was once concentrated in the east and west four archways, but later moved to Langfang Headlines.

Every year from New Year's Day to the 16th of the New Year's Day, Liulichang has department stores, with lanterns and glazed tiles, thousands of hanging sheds, jade shafts and toothpicks, thousands of door connections, books filling buildings, and Baowan Town Street. There is also "Qin Lou Chu Guan is partial to singing and singing, and the tourists are female on treasure horses and cars." It is also a scene of the Old Beijing New Year Festival.