CCTV News: January 22 is the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month. The traditional Chinese New Year, as the saying goes, "After the Little New Year, it is the New Year", the flavor of the New Year is getting stronger and stronger, and every household has begun to buy New Year's goods, and traditional customs in various places are gradually becoming lively.
Earing the twelfth lunar month, in Ping County, Ankang Town, the northern foot of Daba Mountains and the southernmost tip of Shaanxi, every local household began to kill New Year pigs, eat soup and cook bacon, preparing for the Lunar New Year, and the New Year atmosphere gradually became stronger.
To thank relatives and friends for their help, I will make a soup meal to entertain everyone on the day of killing the New Year pig. In southern Shaanxi, there was a custom of "peeling in winter with winter wind and retention". Nowadays, food supply is abundant, and "Winter Styrofoam pickling" has become a flavor. After killing the New Year pig, the locals, except for leaving enough fresh meat for the New Year, all the rest is marinated and smoked into bacon and enjoy it slowly all year round.
Twenty-three, sacrifice to the kitchen official. In Dongqinyang Village, Qinyang, Henan, every New Year, local villagers use traditional handicrafts to make sweet-mouthed sacrificial stoves, hoping that the Kitchen God can "go to heaven to speak good things and keep peace in the lower realm."
The hot stove-sacrificing taste has a crispy skin on the outside, soft and glutinous inside, sweet and delicious. In Dongqinyang Village, the stove-sacrificial sacrificial fireworks were only made for 5 days during the New Year. This year, more than 2,000 were made. People not only ate them themselves, but also booked to send them to relatives and friends from other places to share the sweet New Year atmosphere of their hometown.
The Little New Year is busy with the New Year. In Hejing County, Bazhou, Xinjiang, Mongolian herders in the local Bayinbrook Town are brewing traditional milk wine that is indispensable for the Spring Festival.
In Bayinbrook, we also have to fry five livestock cakes during the Spring Festival. The fermented noodles are made into horses, cows, camels, sheep, and goats, and fry them into golden yellow, which is called "five livestock". This is also the New Year custom inherited by local herders. We celebrate the bumper harvest and look forward to the prosperity of the five livestock in the coming year.
