Why can't southerners be young?

It's going to be a small year soon. I'm from the north and my husband is from the south. Both are small years in the twelfth lunar month. The son is puzzled. Why is there a difference between North and South in the short term? When is off-year authentic? Then tell me.

According to historical records, before the Qing Dynasty, China celebrated the Lunar New Year on the 24th of the twelfth lunar month, which can be found in some related records. At the beginning of the week, the minister and general of the Western Jin Dynasty once wrote a book called Local Customs Records, which recorded that on the 24th night of the twelfth lunar month, the kitchen stove was sacrificed to heaven the next day. He was one year old, so he sacrificed the kitchen stove for one day first.

In Dream of China in Tokyo, Meng Yuanlao, a writer in the Northern Song Dynasty, recorded such a passage: "On the 24th of the year, a stove was attached to the stove, and distiller's grains were smeared on the door of the stove, which was called" drunken life ". The "New Year's Eve" mentioned here is off-year, which is what the ancients called off-year. From this day on, people will prepare for the new year, clean up and prepare new year's goods. Of course, on this day, they will never forget to sacrifice the stove.

Sacrificial stoves are commonly known as "giving gifts to God" among the people. It is said that on this day, kitchen gods, traditional gods and folk gods will return to heaven to report their work to the jade emperor, especially kitchen gods will tell the jade emperor about the good and evil on earth. People are worried that they will speak ill of themselves and wear little shoes, so they will worship the kitchen god on this day.

Since China's folk traditions are all celebrated in the twelfth lunar month, why did they change in the Qing Dynasty? As we all know, the Qing Dynasty was founded by Manchu people, and the Manchu people in the palace would hold a ceremony to worship heaven on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, which was called "Tang Zi's worship to heaven".

"Worship the Heaven" is separated from the kitchen stove by one day. It's too much trouble and fatigue for two days, and it will cost a lot of money. Therefore, after the emperor sacrificed to heaven, he simply sacrificed to the kitchen god and became one.

The emperor has offered sacrifices to the stove, and of course, the ministers of civil and military affairs have to follow suit, so the off-year becomes the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month. However, ordinary people cannot be equal to emperors and officials. People will be one day late for the kitchen sacrifice on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, so there is a saying that "officials, three people and four people".

Later, there was no official or ordinary opinion. However, because the north is the political center, the custom of celebrating the 23rd lunar month and offering sacrifices to stoves continues, while the custom of celebrating the 24th lunar month still exists in the south far from the political center.

From this point of view, from the source, celebrating the 24th lunar month is the most authentic. In fact, there are many sayings about off-year holidays. For example, Nanjing and northern Anhui call the Lantern Festival a off-year holiday, which is said to commemorate Zhu Yunwen, the second emperor of the Ming Dynasty. In Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai, the 24th of the twelfth lunar month and the day before New Year's Eve are all called off-year holidays. In Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan in the southwest and some northern Hui areas, New Year's Eve is regarded as a small holiday. In the past, boathouses celebrated off-year holidays on the 25th day of the twelfth lunar month.

In a word, China's traditional culture is rich and colorful, with different styles and customs.