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Chinese new year folk-custom two----Small Spring Festival!!

800 views. 2010-2-8 10:22 |

Small Spring Festival is the day in December 23 of Chinese Lunar Calendar. There are two traditional activities in Small Spring Festival. The first one is cleaning the house. The second one is eating kitchen candy.
Cleaning house indicates sweeping all bad things at the end of the year. Eating kitchen candy is about a fable. In fable a numen lives in the kitchen of evry house. The kitchen is his office. He is going to have his bussiness trip and report to god in December 23 of Chinese Lunar Calendar. People want him to speak sweet to god, so they eat a kind of candy named kitchen candy indicate speak sweet. In ancientry the candy were used to sacrifice kitchen numen. It evolves eating candy afterward.
Nowaday the Small Spring Festival is not popular in the city.

Post comment Comment (2 replies)

Reply minyingtao 2010-2-8 12:03
I like candy
Reply zgqq2050 2010-2-8 13:44
It is first time to kown in english translation.
perfect!

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