Origin of tail teeth:
December 16th of the lunar calendar is the last sacrificial activity in a year, commonly known as "Tail Teeth". There is an ancient poem saying, "One person pays a glass of wine a year, and every family thanks the earth with cigarettes." This is the scene of the tail teeth written by the old poet. The "glass of wine" in Part One refers to the allusion of Song Taizu's "a glass of wine to relieve soldiers", and the owner wants to dismiss that person; The second couplet is the tail tooth season, and every household is offering sacrifices to the landlord.
After the folks worshipped the birthday of the earth god on the second day of February, the host gave a banquet to entertain the guys. 1February 16, businessmen will prepare rich sacrifices to thank the earth god for his care over the past year, while employees will get something as a reward after worship.
In the early days, ordinary merchants or factories used the meal of "eating tail teeth" to imply that employees or workers should be fired. However, people in the old society were kind. If it weren't for the guys, it wouldn't work, or the owner's management was not good. You don't just fire a guy, and the way to fire him is not to send a notice of dismissal or severance pay, but to hint at a tail-tooth banquet and tell employees that he has been fired.
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Regional and cultural differences of coccygeal segment;
1, the tail teeth of people in Taiwan Province Province:
People in Taiwan Province Province have "tail teeth", which is somewhat similar to the year-end party in Chinese mainland. On the second and sixteenth day of every month in Taiwan Province Province, there is a custom to worship the land god (bless the god of justice), offering various offerings on the table, so that the land god can "offer his teeth", which is called "teeth".
There is a folk saying that "the second day of February (the birthday of the earth god) respects the ground", and the last day of the year, that is, the sixteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, is called "the tail tooth". On this day, people's families will prepare sacrifices to the land gods, and the whole family will get together to eat "tail teeth" and "moist cakes" (called "pancakes" in Xiamen, similar to the common "spring cakes" in Chinese mainland) so as to make their families rich and moist in the coming year.
2. Tail teeth of Fujian people:
Putian folk custom "Tail Tooth Festival", with a large scale, has always been called off-year.
Putian people pay attention to the "Tail Tooth Festival". Incense, paper and candles are essential for sacrifice, and fruits, meat and pasta on the table must be complete. Businessmen pay special attention to it. It is by adhering to the good faith spirit of Lao Miya that Pushang has made his career. Many big bosses want to have a dental banquet with their employees, saying that "as long as they have a dental banquet together, they will definitely continue to unite and struggle together next year".
When "making teeth", fruits and dining tables should be placed in front of the door, such as fried rice noodles, fried noodles, sweet meatballs, chickens, ducks and pigs, shrimps and so on. Some people say that there should be no fish, because there is a saying that "decline is like a fish".
Some families prefer to keep it simple and only use dry goods, such as apples, pears, bananas, tea wine, meat buns, biscuits and other cakes as sacrifices. Then they began to burn incense, pay tribute to silver, silver paper and so on.
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