1. Steamed flower cakes
Every time after the twentieth day of the twelfth lunar month, people are busy steaming the flower cakes for the New Year. The main raw materials used in steamed flower cakes are flour and dried dates, and the flour must be ground from fresh wheat harvested that year. The cake of this flower cake is homophonic with "Gao", and it is higher from layer to layer, which means that the days are booming and sweet, and life is getting higher and higher every year. The higher the flower cake, the more auspicious it is.
2, offering sacrifices to stoves
Folk offering sacrifices to stoves originated from the ancient custom of worshipping fire. "Interpretation of Name": "Kitchen. Make it, create food. " The kitchen god's duty is to take charge of the kitchen fire and manage the diet. Later, it was expanded to investigate the good and evil in the world, so as to reduce good and evil.
3. Spring Festival couplets
Every Spring Festival, no matter in urban or rural areas, every household should choose beautiful red Spring Festival couplets and stick them on the doors to bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new year, so as to increase the festive atmosphere. Another source of Spring Festival couplets is spring stickers. The ancients posted the word "Yichun" more and more in beginning of spring, and then it gradually developed into Spring Festival couplets, expressing the good wishes of the working people in China to ward off evil spirits and disasters and welcome good fortune.
Extended materials
In rural areas or small counties, you can often see some Spring Festival couplets written on special color paper: the original Spring Festival couplets were inscribed on mahogany boards and later rewritten on paper. The color of mahogany is red, which means auspiciousness and avoiding evil, so most Spring Festival couplets are written in red paper.
However, yellow paper was used in temples, and the old man in the family passed away. Generally, the younger generation did not put up red couplets for three years from that year, but kept them in white, green and Huang San colors. In the first year, white paper was used, green paper was used in the second year, yellow paper was used in the third year, and red paper was restored after the mourning period expired in the fourth year. Therefore, the white, green and Huang San couplets were commonly called "filial piety couplets" or "filial piety couplets".
In some places, yellow couplets are posted in the first year, blue couplets are posted in the second year and green couplets are posted in the third year. Some places simply don't post couplets for three years to express their grief, so it is necessary to post couplets during the Spring Festival.
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