Old Ji'nan's Spring Festival custom: Twenty-three sweep the house and bathe twenty-seven steamed bun.
source: Chen Juhui Wang Lewen />
what kind of Spring Festival customs do you have in old Ji'nan? Sweep the house and bathe: "twenty-three days, one day, one day." After the small year, it entered the "busy year" stage. Cleaning activities such as sweeping houses, washing clothes, hairdressing and bathing is the first thing that every household should do. After sweeping the house, wash the bed clothes and so on. It is impossible for everyone with a large population to have new clothes and clothes, and dye them with a bag of dyes specially dyed with clothes.
steamed steamed bun, fried years, braised pickles, crisp pot: the most busy time of the whole family is the most busy life of the whole family, of which steamed bun steamed bun is the most time-consuming and tired. In addition to steaming big round steamed bun, it also steamed some jujube rolls, Zao Shan, bean bread, yellow rice nest (rice cake) and big steamed bun. Fried New Year's products are also a job for every household. The main products of the year are lotus root boxes, mung bean balls, hemp leaves, pine meat and hairtail. It is a salty delicious dish for the old and young of the Jinan people to stew the salted vegetables with the skin of the pimple. The root of the lotus root, which is left in the turnips of the skin water and the fried lotus root box, is cut into small diced, and then stir fried into the stewed peanut kernel, the soya bean and the large material. In addition, the crisp pot is also a more common holiday food, the raw materials are wide, cabbage, radish, kelp, peanut kernels, chicken and duck fish can be entered, meat and fish are free, rich and frugal, can also be adjusted according to the proportion of soy sauce sugar and vinegar, adjust the different flavors.
invite family hall: on the day of thirty, family members will go home to reunite. Some families will also return their lost ancestors and relatives home for the new year. In the afternoon of thirty, we must set up the table for the incense burner, and others will hang the "family hall axle". Families with ancestral tablets should take down the wooden enclosures carved on the tablet with the base, and set them up according to their seniority. The tin - made wax cutter (Candlestick) inserted red red beef wax (a long time candle). The supply, whether it was chicken or fish meat or dessert food, had to put some colored strips of paper and put some green, red spinach leaves. Make a beautiful embroidered table and wrap it around the chair. Those families that have no family axis and no memorial tablets usually use a yellow paper to fold one on the steamed bun with chopsticks. At dusk, the male elders in the family hold a ship plate with a fragrant stove yellow paper, carrying their family to the crossroads or front of the door to the southwestern direction of the ship plate, burning paper and calling the name of the relatives to lead the late relatives home for the new year.
New Year's Eve: at night, the firecrackers on the street come and go. After returning home, the family began to eat new year's Eve dinner. It's hard to see anything that's hard to eat at night, so that night, kids can relax and eat enough.
dumplings: after the new year's Eve, most of the children ran to the streets and set off firecrackers. The adults in the family began to make dumplings (Jinan people called Bao Baozi). There are two kinds of stuffed dumplings and meat stuffing. Plain stuffing is usually carrot noodle chopped tofu. The meat is the pork of Chinese cabbage. After a cover curtain, the dumplings should be covered with yellow paper, and then pressed with three sticks. The old man will not be dragged away by the rats. This dumpling must be vegetarian in the early morning. The old man said that eating vegetarian dumplings could make the year clean.
sacrifices to heaven and earth, ancestor worship: the midnight of the midnight is also thirty of the year, the family, the family, the family to give a offering of the fragrant table before the worship of heaven and earth, and then burn incense worship all the gods; finally to the ancestral memorial tablet in front of the ancestors in succession to the ancestors to kowtow to the ancestors.
to pay New Year's greetings to the elders: after the worship ceremony, the elders of the family sit on the chairs on both sides of the table to receive the new year's call, and distribute red packets. When the younger generation kowtow, they will be addressing the name of the table.
age: old Ji'nan has a custom, usually the children should sleep and sleep, the exquisite old people and the strong family housewife, then round the stove drinking tea and chatting melon seeds to talk to the five. With the sound of firecrackers coming from the lower five, the new year is coming.