What are the customs of celebrating the Spring Festival in Tianjin?
Prepare for the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month years ago
Laba Festival on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month is called Laba II in Tianjin. On Laba Festival, Tianjin people not only drink Laba porridge, but also soak Laba garlic. Eating jiaozi in the Spring Festival is called a fragrance! From this day on, the New Year atmosphere in Jincheng has gradually become prominent.
Twenty-three of twelfth lunar month
Twenty-three honeydew melons are sticky This day is a "off-year" and a day of being king of the people. It used to be dark, and every household set off firecrackers, saluted the kitchen god, and then took the kitchen god off the wall and burned it. Then the children will scramble to grab the honeydew melon.
Twenty-four twelfth lunar month
On the 24th, every household will do a general cleaning, cleaning houses and courtyards, scrubbing pots and pans, unpacking and washing bedding, and cleaning every corner to welcome the New Year. Cleaning the house means "bad luck" and "bad luck" at home.
All of them swept out of the house, pinning the prayers of Tianjin people to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new.
Twenty-five twelfth lunar month
On the 25th of the twelfth lunar month, we started to stir-fry meatballs and tofu as usual. The homonym of "tofu" is "Du Fu", which means good luck.
twelfth month of the lunar year
That is, from this day on, the theme of eating will appear, until the 28th of the twelfth lunar month, when people prepare the New Year's Eve dinner and new year's dishes. Families began to buy meat. Hand-chopped meatballs, braised pork, eight bowls of children and classic dishes that Tianjin people must eat during the New Year must be prepared in advance.
December 27th.
"Killing a rooster" means "good luck". On this day, families are busy catching up with big parties and buying big new year's goods.
the 28th of the twelfth lunar month
Tianjin people pay attention to "you can't steam steamed buns with fire from the first day to the fifth day." To this end, it has become a new custom for Tianjin people to bring a box of "pasta spree" home. Near the age of 30, red gift bags can be seen everywhere in the streets and lanes of Tianjin, on carts and cars. All kinds of pasta with various patterns and auspicious meanings are steamed in the pot, which saves much trouble.
the 29th of the twelfth lunar month
Daoyou is to sacrifice money to the gods, Spring Festival couplets and so on. People in Tianjin have the custom of hanging money. Among them, hanging money is a pattern cut with colored paper or red paper, and Tianjin people stick it on the window glass or horizontal edge. In Tianjin, there can be no Spring Festival couplets on the gate for the New Year, but every household will definitely hang money.
New Year's Eve in China
Stay up for 30 nights: Tianjin people stay up for a sense of security, and they have to wrap vegetarian stuffing in jiaozi, which is wrapped in yellow paper to symbolize "a clean year". 12 midnight, jiaozi cooked a pot and everyone gave each other red envelopes. This is called "resignation" to celebrate the arrival of the new year.
The first day of the lunar new year
On the first day of the New Year, Tianjin people are used to eating their first vegetarian meal, jiaozi. It symbolizes the cleanliness and smoothness of life in the new year. Sometimes a mascot, such as nuts, is put in the jiaozi. People believe that whoever eats this kind of jiaozi will have good luck in the new year.
On the first day of visiting relatives and friends, commonly known as New Year greetings, Tianjin people pay attention to sending a whole basin of pruned wintersweet, begonia and winter jasmine.
Chinese New Year
Tianjin people call their son-in-law "uncle". It is a custom for a daughter who got married in the second day of junior high school to take her husband and son back to her mother's house. She calls it "Uncle's Day". On the morning of Children's Day, the streets and alleys of Tianjin are crowded. Grandfathers are all dressed up, taking their wives and children, carrying big bags and small bags, and going to the elderly for the New Year. The scene is spectacular! Eat noodles on this day, pay attention to the whole dish code, that is, cucumber, spinach, beans, bean sprouts and other cellar dishes.
New Year's Eve
People in Tianjin have a recipe for the Spring Festival, which says: on the first day, jiaozi is served, on the second day, everything is rummaged, and on the fourth day, pancakes are rolled with eggs. In the old Tianjin diet custom, you must eat zygotes on the third day of the first month and worship the god of wealth.
"The zygote turns home", because "turn" and "earn" are homophonic, indicating that the financial resources are rolling.
New Year's Eve
On the fifth day of the first month, Tianjin people call it "Breaking Five". On this day, I can't go to other people's homes to pay New Year's greetings. Every family will pack jiaozi, pinch your mouth. When cutting vegetables, the chopping board should be jingling, which means "villain" in cutting vegetables.
The fifteenth day of the first month
On this day, besides eating Yuanxiao, Tianjin people also celebrate the Lantern Festival, eating rice and cooking fish. If we catch up with beginning of spring, we will eat spring cakes, which means "biting spring".
On this bright night, people light thousands of lanterns to celebrate. Going out to enjoy the moon, lighting and setting fires, enjoying lantern riddles, eating Yuanxiao, family reunion and celebrating festivals are all enjoyment.
Sixteenth day of the first month
On this day, women in Tianjin "walk all diseases" and "walk the bridge", which means that they will not get sick in the new year. This is a custom that has continued since ancient times and is popular in Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei.
February 2(nd)
On the second day of the second lunar month, it is called Dragon Head Lifting Festival. On this day, Tianjin people will eat braised pork, cut it into small squares, fry it to golden brown with low fire, mix it with sesame sauce and garlic paste, add fried eggs with leeks and fried bean sprouts with vinegar, eat it with pancakes, and then drink a bowl of mung bean porridge (Tianjin people call it "caulking").