What is in the twelfth lunar month? What should we pay attention to in the twelfth lunar month?

1, the twelfth lunar month is the end of the year, which is in the cold winter. The slight cold or severe cold in the twenty-four solar terms is in the twelfth lunar month, and the coldest March 9 and April 9 of another year are also in the twelfth lunar month, so it is called "cold winter". Folk proverb: "The seventh day of the twelfth lunar month, Bala, freezes the bones" refers to the cold of the twelfth lunar month. In the twelfth lunar month, the farm work has been finished, and most of the time it is covered with snow and ice. People welcome the New Year with a happy mood. In the twelfth lunar month, our people have many customs.

2. Lunar calendar 65438+February 8th: Laba. The eighth day of the twelfth lunar month is "Laba Festival", also called "Laba Festival". Besides offering sacrifices, the main custom of Laba Festival is to eat Laba porridge. Laba porridge has at least eight kinds of accessories. First, the cooked Laba porridge is offered to the gods, and then it is practical for the whole family. In some places, it takes eight days to cook Laba porridge. Some places have the custom of pickling Laba garlic on Laba Festival.

3. Lunar calendar 65438+February 23rd: offering sacrifices to stoves (commonly known as off-year). Sacrificing the stove is to sacrifice the kitchen god, so that the stove can burn all the time and ensure food safety. To prepare food, meat, tea, wine and other sacrifices for the kitchen god, as well as candles. In some places, you have to bake round cakes yourself, which is slightly different from place to place. There is a custom of offering sacrifices to stoves all over the country.

4. Lunar calendar 65438+February 24th: Sweep the house. On this day, a comprehensive cleaning began, called "sweeping the year" and "dust removal". It originated from a religious ceremony of ancient people to drive away the epidemic, and then gradually evolved into a year-end cleaning. According to "Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals", China had the custom of sweeping dust during the Spring Festival in the Yao and Shun era. According to the folk saying, because of the homonym of "dust" and "Chen", sweeping dust in the Spring Festival means "getting rid of the old and not being new", and its original intention is to sweep away all "unlucky" and "unlucky".

5. Lunar calendar 65438+February 28-29: steamed buns. This custom exists in most parts of the north, but it may not exist in some places in the south. In some places, steamed rice cakes are used, that is, before New Year's Eve and during the Spring Festival (usually before the first month 15), and steamed buns are not used in the first month, which means that the coming year is a good start.

6. Lunar calendar 65438+February 30th: New Year's Eve. New Year's Eve, also called New Year's Eve, is the most solemn day. Usually, the whole family will have a reunion dinner together. New Year's Eve is the last day of the year. People often stay up late, which is called keeping the age. On New Year's Eve, we should not only clean the house and the outside, but also paste door gods, Spring Festival couplets, New Year pictures and lanterns. People attach great importance to New Year's Eve. At the end of the year, the whole family will have a big dinner, set off firecrackers, celebrate the New Year and look forward to a better and happier life in the coming year.