What does it mean to hide lights on the 12th day of the first lunar month? What is the festival on the 12th day of the first lunar month?
Our country’s culture is extensive and profound, and has a long history, so it has A lot of folk culture.Hiding the lights is also a kind of folk custom in our country, but each place has a different view on hiding the lights, so now let’s find out what the specific meaning of hiding the lights is, and what kind of attention is there.
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 lamp, a small lantern is added, 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 lamp, the newlywed wife will follow her mother’s family to her mother’s house to "hide the lamp".
Customs and culture 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, the gods should be invited home from the temple, and they should sit on the lobby and offer candy 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; "making Zhaitou" usually puts 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 thirteenth we turn on the lights, on the fourteenth we turn on the lights, on the fifteenth we line up for half a month, and on the sixteenth we finish the lights." So the twelfth day of the first lunar month is also a very beautiful day.
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.
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