Spring Festival custom： 28th, stick grilles.

　　Hundred years is the first! Xinhua News Agency’s WeChat launched a new media report on the Spring Festival customs of "Little New Painting New Year", which will take you back to China’s traditional customs culture and experience the strong flavor of the year from the early years to the 15th day of the first month.

　　Today is the 28th of the twelfth lunar month. There is a saying in the year: "On the 28th of the twelfth lunar month, cakes and steamed buns are decorated with decals".

　　The so-called decals are the posting of New Year pictures, Spring Festival couplets, window grilles and various divine codes. Among them, the custom of pasting Spring Festival couplets originated from the ancient "Taofu". The ancients used peach wood as a wood to ward off evil spirits. The Canon of Art said, "Those who are peach trees are the essence of five trees, so those who are tired of evil spirits are also."

　　In the Five Dynasties, Meng Changya, the monarch of the post-Shu Dynasty, was good at literature. Every year, he ordered people to inscribe Taofu, which became the origin of Spring Festival couplets in later generations. The inscription on Taofu, "New Year’s Qing Yu, JiajieNo. Changchun", became the first "Spring Festival couplets" in recorded China history.

　　Later, with the advent of papermaking, the custom of posting Spring Festival couplets with red paper instead of mahogany appeared.

　　On the 26th and 27th of the twelfth lunar month, meat is prepared for the Chinese New Year. On the 28th, it’s time to prepare pasta. In the past, there was no modern and convenient baking powder. Ordinary flour was made a few days in advance, and it was easy to go bad. Only flour was not bad, so it was made on the 28th to prepare the staple food from the first day of the first month to the fifth day of the first month. At the same time, this is also because the old custom holds that "you can’t steam steamed buns with fire during the first day to the fifth day."