"On the twenty-eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, making cakes and steamed buns with applique flowers"
Today is the 28th of the twelfth lunar month, and there are rich traditional customs and activities in many places!
01. Make rice cakes
New Year cakes are made for the Spring Festival and are called "rice cakes" because "cake" and "high" are homophonic. Eating rice cakes during the New Year contains the best wishes of "a happy new year".
Eating rice cakes during the New Year is one of the customs of the Chinese people. People eat rice cakes early in the morning on the first day of the Spring Festival, which means "higher in the year".
02. Hair the face
The twenty-eighth day of the twelfth lunar month means making dough to prepare steamed buns. It also means "fa". It is for preparing the staple food from the first to the fifth day of the first lunar month, and it is also a taboo during the Spring Festival. Because steaming is a homophone for arguing, stir-frying is a homophone for noisy, fried is a homophone for deep-fried, and roasting is a homophony for falling, which are considered unlucky by the common people, so steaming, stir-frying, deep-frying, roasting and other cooking are basically not done after New Year's Eve.
People like to knead steamed buns into various shapes. In order to get good luck on the Spring Festival table, they all try their best to shape them. For example, walnuts represent harmony and beauty, persimmons represent everything goes well, fish noodles represent good luck, and jujube cakes It represents climbing higher step by step.
03.Decal flowers
On the twenty-eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, people also pay attention to "applique flowers", that is, putting up New Year pictures and window grilles. A piece of red paper, a pair of scissors, flying up and down, the shreds of paper falling like dots of red flowers, once the window grilles are pasted, the booming joy comes uninvited, and the flavor of the New Year becomes stronger. The window grilles carry the joy and happiness Auspiciousness flows in the heart of every Chinese person.
04. Clean up the mess
The twenty-eighth day to wash away sloppiness refers to doing good personal hygiene, taking a shower, washing your hair, and changing clothes. You must keep yourself and your home clean and tidy, which symbolizes washing away all the unsatisfactory and bad luck of the past year. Make room for good luck in the new year, and add blessings, wealth, and good fortune.
New Year's Eve is getting closer!
What are you going to do on the 28th of the twelfth lunar month?
