What to eat on the twelfth day of the first lunar month? There are Tibetan scissors in folklore activities
Three meals a day are very important to everyone, but when it comes to festivals, the food may be different, because different festivals, we They will eat some specific festival foods, and they all have different meanings.Now let’s take a look at what we usually eat on the twelfth day of the first lunar month.
What to eat on the twelfth day of the Lunar New Year
On the twelfth day of the first lunar month, every household will make dumplings and eat 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 troublesome.People will make dumplings into the shape of a mouse, with a mouth, ears, and a tail, and use mung beans as eyes.People say that making dumplings is "squeezing the mouse’s mouth".If the mouse’s mouth is squeezed to death, the mouse will not be able to bite The things in the rotten house will not come out to harm people.
At night, every family will drink millet noodles or cornmeal porridge, which means "misty mouse eyes" so that mice can’t see clearly.After dinner, people also fried peanuts, which means "fried (noisy) ears of deaf mice"
What are the customs on the twelfth day of the first lunar month
Folk activities on the twelfth day of the first lunar month include hiding scissors, collecting old shoes, pinching the mouth of mice, and building lamp sheds.
This is closely related to rats, because China was a big agricultural country in the past, and the most fundamental property of the people was food, but rats are harmful species that steal food.Because of their sharp teeth and strong reproductive ability, rats have always been a problem It is an important problem that plagues farmers.Therefore, many sayings were created around the mouse in ancient times, and most of the folk activities on the twelfth day of the first lunar month were carried out around the mouse.
On the morning of the twelfth day of the first lunar month, women start the activity of "beating the corner", slapping all the places where mice may be hidden in the house, singing songs that hope that all mice born this year will be blind.
After breakfast, the women and girls should hide all the scissors at home, because the "click" sound made by the scissors opening and closing is like the sound of a mouse biting something.Hiding the scissors means that no mouse will be heard in the next year.The sound of something biting.
The reason for collecting old shoes is that mice like to build nests in worn-out shoes, so people gather and burn the old shoes that are not worn, which means that the rats will end the nest.
On this day, the family will make dumplings to eat, and the dumplings should be wrapped in the shape of a mouse.When kneading the dumplings, it means "pinching the mouse’s mouth".If you pinch the mouse’s mouth to death, there will be no mice in the house this year.
In addition, we will start to set up lantern sheds on this day.In fact, this is making related preparations for the festival.
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