Can I go to someone else's house in the next year?
Off-year, you can go to other people's homes or travel far. There are no feng shui taboos. You need to spend the New Year's Eve in your own home, and you can eat it in other people's homes in the next year. Off-year doesn't mean real Chinese New Year. Off-year days vary from place to place, and so do folk activities.
What are the taboos of off-year life?
Taboo 1. Women don't sacrifice stoves.
There is a folk custom that "men don't go to Yue Bai, and women don't sacrifice stoves", and there was a custom in king of people a few years ago. Therefore, women can't do it, only men can.
Taboo 2, avoid giving alms to flowers.
The Spring Festival is coming, and everyone will start steaming steamed buns. Remember, you can't give steamed buns to others, you must sacrifice to heaven and ancestors first.
Taboo three, avoid eating too much stove candy.
Cooking candy is delicious, but children don't know how to control it. Eating blindly is harmful to their health.
Taboo four, avoid killing sheep
This is related to the region. For example, in some parts of Hubei, it is forbidden to slaughter sheep in off-year years.
Taboo five, avoid garlic
In some areas of Henan, it is said that garlic will be smashed in small years, and the family will be ruined.
Taboo six, avoid rice.
Taiwan Province Province should avoid rice milling in its early years. It is said that there will be a danger of knocking down Fengshen, which may bring typhoon disaster to the coming year.
What's so particular about off-year
(1) scanning year
Sweeping the year is to sweep the dust, in fact, it is to engage in household environmental sanitation. Southerners take the 24th of the twelfth lunar month as a small year, which is called "blowing dust". Northerners take the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month as a small year, which is called "sweeping houses". On this day, every household gets up at dawn, cleans houses and windows, washes clothes, washes pots and pans, and carries out a clean and thorough cleaning. A few days ago, every family cleaned the house, which meant not to let the kitchen god take the soil away. At that time, it was a religious ceremony for ancestors to drive away epidemic ghosts and pray for well-being After "dust" and "Chen" are homophonic, so sweeping dust means sweeping away old things, which means both the old dirt in the courtyard and the unhappiness encountered in the old year.
(2) offering sacrifices to stoves
Offering sacrifices to the stove refers to sending sacrifices to the kitchen god, so off-year is also called offering sacrifices to the stove festival. According to the Records of Local Customs written by Zhou Chu, a celebrity in the Jin Dynasty, "Sacrificing the kitchen god on the 24th night of the twelfth lunar month means going to heaven the next day, and being one year old, so one day is sacrificed first." Fan Chengda's poem "Sacrificing a Kitchen Stove" in the Song Dynasty: "According to legend, on the 24th of the twelfth lunar month, the kitchen owner talks to the sky ... and sends you to Tianmen to get drunk. If it takes too long, you won't go back to the clouds and beg for points in the city."
(3) Paste the grid
The new year means that everyone should start preparing for the new year and get ready for the new year. Buy or cut window grilles, and use red paper to symbolize happiness. According to legend, Kitchen God was originally a civilian, Zhang Sheng. After marriage, he spent all his time drinking, losing everything and begging in the streets. One day, he begged at his ex-wife Guo Dingxiang's house, ashamed and burned to death under the stove. When the Jade Emperor knew about it, he thought that Zhang Sheng would change his mind, and it wouldn't be bad in the end. Because he died at the bottom of the pot, he was named the kitchen god. Every year, he went to heaven on the 23rd and 24th of the twelfth lunar month and returned to the bottom of the stove on the New Year's Eve.
The moral of off-year
The 23rd and 24th of February in Lunar Calendar/KLOC-0 is the traditional day of offering sacrifices to stoves in China, which is also called off-year. The common people think that the Kitchen God must be respected, because the Kitchen God reports to heaven every year, so people have off-year festivals to pray for peace and wealth.