Hide lights and hide fire on the twelfth day of the first lunar month
Because different festivals will have different Customs, so we need to understand clearly, so as not to make a taboo and affect some things.So now let’s go and see what kind of festival is on the twelfth day of the first lunar month, and what is the saying of hiding from lights and fires this year.After reading it, we will understand.
What is the festival on the twelfth day of the first lunar month
According to Chinese folklore, the twelfth day of the first lunar month is the day when the mouse marries a wife, and some say it is the birthday of the mouse, so people create various "programs" around the mouse, not only to express The common people’s hatred of mice also drives away the hard work of the fathers and villagers for a year.At this time, we can’t make the rats happy, otherwise the rats will become a disaster, so on the twelfth day of the first lunar month, pinch the mouths of the rats, collect scissors, and the most important thing is to collect old shoes, because this is also the twelfth day of the first lunar month.a custom.
Why do you hide the lights on the twelfth day of the first lunar month
Hiding lanterns is a traditional custom in China on the twelfth day of the first lunar month.In the first year when a new daughter-in-law is married, the natal family will hold a grand lantern-sending event for the bride’s family, commonly known as chasing lanterns.The grand scale of chasing lights and the quality of lights depend on the degree of wealth.Wealthy people give a pair of glass palace lanterns, some with nanmu frame and cement grinding, some with pearls, jade and gemstones, and some ordinary ones.In addition to the main lantern, there is also a small lantern, commonly known as "yindeng", which means to guide the newlywed daughter-in-law to give birth to a baby early; after the husband’s family accepts the chasing lantern, the newlywed wife will follow her mother’s family to her natal home to "hide the lantern".
Customs on the twelfth day of the first lunar month
On the twelfth day of the first lunar month, every household has to set up lamp sheds, make offerings, make Zhaitou, and set up firecrackers.The etiquette of "making zhaitou" is complicated.In the morning, you have to invite the gods to go home from the temple, sit on the lobby, and offer candy and incense; "Getting the love of God will bring good luck, and you will make a fortune in the coming year, and your wishes will come true, so you will do it grandly; "Make Zhaitou" usually put Zhaitou wine.From now on, people start preparing to celebrate the Lantern Festival, buying lanterns and building lantern sheds.There is a nursery rhyme that goes:"On the 11th, we shout and chatter, on the 12th, we set up a lamp shed, on the 13th, we turn on the lights, on the fourteenth, the lights are bright, on the fifteenth, we go for a month and a half, and at the sixteenth, we finish the lights." So the twelfth day of the first lunar month is also a very beautiful day.
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