What is the festival on the twelfth day of the first lunar month? What do you eat on the twelfth day of the new year?
When it comes to festivals, we will pay attention to some things, such as Speaking of behavior, or some diet, then what kind of festival is the twelfth day of the first lunar month in the lunar calendar, and what kind of cultural knowledge is there on this day, let’s go to find out together and then we will know.
The twelfth day of the first lunar month
The twelfth day of the first lunar month is also one of the traditional Chinese lunar festivals.The Chinese folk activities on this day include hiding scissors, collecting old shoes, pinching the mouth of mice, and building lamp sheds, etc.From now on, people start preparing to celebrate the Lantern Festival, buying lanterns and building lantern sheds.There is a nursery rhyme that says:"On the eleventh, people shout and chatter, on the twelfth they set up the lamp shed, on the thirteenth they turn on the lights, on the fourteenth they turn on the lights, on the fifteenth they line up for a month and a half, and on the sixteenth they finish the lights." But this day is not one of the twenty-four solar terms.
What are the customs on this day
Among the folk customs and cultures, there is a custom of roasting a cypress fire on the twelfth day of the first lunar month.At dusk, people light cypress branches in front of their houses, and the smoke is filled with a fragrance.The whole family sits around the fire, saying:Roasting cypress fire.Roasting cypress fire means "bad disaster" and can avoid plague.People burn all the old household items that are not used, and use the remaining cypress branches to carve "cypress locks", tie them with ropes, and hang them around the baby’s neck as a symbol of happiness.I wish for a long life.The homophony of "roasting a hundred fires" and "roasting a hundred ages of fire", children walk around the streets and alleys, roasting hundreds of fires, so that they will not suffer from all diseases and have no disasters and injuries throughout the year."Burn a bench and lead a twin" is a new sustenance and new expectation for people to warm up.
What to eat on New Year’s Eve
On the twelfth day of the first lunar month, every household has to make dumplings.When making dumplings, you should pinch it tightly, commonly known as pinching the mouse’s mouth, which means to make it happy and less.People will make dumplings into the shape of a mouse, with a mouth, ears, and a tail, and mung beans as eyes.People say that making dumplings is like "pinching a mouse’s mouth".If you pinch the mouse’s mouth to death, the mouse will not be able to bite., There will be no mice in the house for a year.In the evening, every family has to drink millet noodles or cornmeal porridge, which means "misty mouse eyes" so that mice can’t see clearly.After dinner, people also fry peanuts, which means "fried (noisy) deaf mouse ears", so be sure to pay more attention.
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