What are the customs on the fifteenth day of the first month?

The custom of the fifteenth day of the first month:

1, eat "Yuanxiao" on the Lantern Festival.

Eating Yuanxiao on the fifteenth day of the first month is a long-standing custom in China. Yuanxiao is called "Tangyuan" with different ingredients.

At first, the seasonal snack of Lantern Festival was not Yuanxiao. In the Southern Dynasties, it was bean porridge or rice porridge boiled with meat and animal oil. In the Tang Dynasty, it was a kind of silkworm-shaped pasta and scones. It was not until the Song Dynasty that Yuanxiao made of glutinous rice flour and fructose appeared, but at that time it was not called Yuanxiao, but floating dumplings or glutinous rice balls.

Later, because this kind of food was specially eaten during the Lantern Festival, it was called Yuanxiao.

In fact, the difference between glutinous rice balls and Yuanxiao is only the size and stuffing! Southerners use glutinous rice to make longan-sized balls, which are called glutinous rice balls.

Northerners eat bigger jiaozi, and jiaozi with big stuffing is called Yuanxiao, and merchants also call it "Yuanbao", which also symbolizes prosperity.

But eating Yuanxiao represents the same meaning, representing reunion and beauty, and the days are getting more and more prosperous.

As the saying goes, harmony is more precious. Family harmony and family reunion are important factors of a complete family. Therefore, we must eat "Yuanxiao" with our families during the Lantern Festival.

2, Shangyuan prayed for blessings

Pray for blessings (worship God). January 15th is the Shangyuan Festival and the birthday of the Emperor of Heaven. According to the folk saying, this day is the public life of the Three Realms, and all families and temples hold grand ceremonies in the early hours of the morning to celebrate it. Sacrificial ceremonies are like celebrating life in heaven on the ninth day of the ninth lunar month. You need to read the Three Realms to pray for good luck.

3, Lantern Festival "send lanterns"

Lantern Festival is also called Lantern Festival, and lanterns are homophonic with lanterns. Therefore, greeting lanterns have the meaning of asking children to add more flowers. Spring Festival ballads include: 14 lanterns, 15 lanterns and 16 lanterns, which shows that playing lanterns has become an indispensable activity in the Lantern Festival.

After the Tang Dynasty, lanterns were not only varied and ever-changing, but also became a popular activity. Song Dynasty is the heyday of lanterns, which are shaped like glass balls and also made of five-color wax paper, bodhi leaves, sheepskin and tortoise shells. They are gorgeous and exquisite.

4. Dragon and lion dances on Lantern Festival

Dragon is an auspicious mythical animal and a totem and symbol of the nation. During the Lantern Festival, there are dragon lanterns all over the country.

The early dragon lanterns were about seven or eight feet long. Yarn is tied to a bamboo tube to make a dragon-shaped lantern. Light dozens of candles inside the faucet and dragon body, and then tie them to a wooden stick. A dozen strong men carried them away. During the performance, the dragon head chased the dragon ball and danced gracefully, commonly known as "making dragons".

5. Solve riddles on lanterns during Lantern Festival.

Besides lanterns, the most popular activity of Lantern Festival is solve riddles on the lanterns. Lantern riddle is to stick a riddle on a lamp so that people can guess the riddle while enjoying the lamp.

The answer focuses on the meaning of words, such as a word, a poem, an object or a name. Because riddles are difficult to guess, just as tigers are difficult to be shot, they are also called light tigers (also called Hu Wen).

Lantern riddles are China's original folk art. It is composed of cryptic sentences in the Spring and Autumn Period, and it was only called a riddle in the Han and Wei Dynasties (Dong Fangshuo was good at cryptic words in the reign of Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty, and once said cryptic words with Guo Sheren, who was favored by Emperor Wu, and won the trust of Emperor Wu).

After the Southern Song Dynasty, people wrote riddles on lanterns. On the Lantern Festival, people guess spring riddles. Some people quote the so-called shooting method of riddles, which is called shooting riddles. Since then, every Lantern Festival, solve riddles on the lanterns has been visited all over the country.

6, the Lantern Festival walks all diseases

Also known as "Wandering All Diseases", "Eliminating All Diseases" and "Walking on the Bridge", it is an activity to eliminate disasters and pray for blessings. On the Lantern Festival night, women meet and go out together. When they see the bridge, they will cross it, thinking that this can cure diseases and prolong life.

7, the Lantern Festival mouse meets mouse

The rat chasing festival is held on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

Silkworm farmers cook a big pot of sticky porridge on the fifteenth day of the first month, some cover it with a layer of meat, put the porridge in a bowl, put it on the ceiling, corner and mouth where mice haunt, and curse the mice for eating silkworm babies again. Legend has it that by doing so, this year's mice will not eat silkworm babies.

8. Yuanxiao welcomes her son-in-law

Eiko Valley, or worship Dong Shi Niang. Daughter-in-law is also called Qi (seventh) aunt, and in the north it is called toilet aunt and pit aunt. The ancient folk custom is to offer sacrifices to Ce Shen Zigu on the 15th day of the first month, and to offer sacrifices to dragon boats, silkworms and silkworms.

On the night of welcoming the daughter-in-law, people tie the portrait of the daughter-in-law with straw and cloth, and greet her in the toilet with pigsty at night. It truly reflects the thoughts and feelings of kind, loyal and sympathetic working people.

9. Walking on stilts during Lantern Festival

Stilts clubs are generally organized by the masses spontaneously in series. On the 11th and 12th day of the first month, people began to take to the streets, which means to tell people that many folk flowers will be hung up this year. On the fifteenth day of the first month, I officially went to the streets until the end of the 18th National Congress.

10, Lantern Festival Sacrifice Portal

There were "seven sacrifices" in ancient times, which were two of them. The method of sacrifice is to insert poplar branches above the door, insert a pair of chopsticks in a bowl filled with bean porridge, or put wine and meat directly in front of the door.

In addition, there are many other interesting customs, such as listening to incense, drilling lamp feet (there are two sayings of blind date and begging), begging for turtles, begging for flowers, taking photos in the moonlight, taking photos in wells, staying up late, having sex in the Lantern Festival and so on.

In short, the fifteenth day of the first lunar month and the Lantern Festival are also called Shangyuan Festival, Spring Festival Lantern Festival, Small Lantern Festival and Lantern Festival. Lantern Festival is the first important festival after the Spring Festival. Because China has a vast territory and a long history, the customs of Lantern Festival vary from place to place in China.

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The origin of the festival:

The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the Lantern Festival, also known as Shangyuan Festival, Lantern Festival and Lantern Festival. The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar. The ancients called the night "Xiao", so they called the fifteenth day of the first month the Lantern Festival.

The fifteenth day of the first month is the night of the first full moon in a year and the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty. On the night of Spring Festival, people celebrate this festival and the continuation of the Spring Festival. ?

Sima Qian founded the taichu calendar, which listed the Lantern Festival as a major festival. Since the Sui, Tang and Song Dynasties, it has been in full swing. "Sui Shu Music Record" Day: "Every first month, all nations come to the DPRK and live outside the Duanmen Gate, which lasts for eight miles until the 15th." Tens of thousands of people participated in singing and dancing, from faint to dark.

With the changes of society and times, the custom of Lantern Festival has changed greatly, but it is still a traditional folk festival in China.

Lantern Festival is a traditional festival in China, and it takes a long time to form the custom of Lantern Festival. According to general data and folklore, the fifteenth day of the first month was paid attention to in the Western Han Dynasty. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sacrificed "Taiyi" in Ganquan Palace on the moonlit night, which was regarded by later generations as the forerunner of offering sacrifices to the gods on the fifteenth day of the first month.

The introduction of Buddhist culture in the Eastern Han Dynasty is of great significance to the formation of Lantern Festival customs.

Yuanxiao originally meant "the night of Shangyuan Festival", because the main activities of Shangyuan Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month were to eat glutinous rice balls and enjoy the moon at night, and later the name of this festival evolved into "Lantern Festival".

On the night of Lantern Festival, the streets are decorated with lanterns and colorful decorations, and people enjoy lanterns, solve riddles on the lanterns and eat Lantern Festival, which pushes the celebration activities that began on New Year's Eve to another climax and becomes a custom handed down from generation to generation.

Yuanxiao was only called the fifteenth day of the first month, the first half of the first month or the full moon when the early festivals were formed, and it was called Yuanxiao or Yuanxiao after Sui. Influenced by Taoism in the early Tang Dynasty, it was also called Shangyuan, but it was only in the late Tang Dynasty that it was occasionally called Yuanxiao. But since the Song Dynasty, it has also been called Dengxi.

In the Qing dynasty, it was also called the Lantern Festival. In foreign countries, Lantern Festival is also called Lantern Festival.

The Cultural Value of Lantern Festival;

The traditional festival customs in China have adapted to the comprehensive needs of the broad masses of people in China in material, spiritual, ethical and aesthetic aspects. In terms of material life, traditional festivals in China have many unique foods in different festivals.

On the Lantern Festival, the whole family eats glutinous rice balls together. "Tangyuan" sounds similar to "reunion", symbolizing reunion and harmony.

The cultural value of Lantern Festival lies in that it is a national carnival, in which everyone participates and enjoys it. Because of the opening of the ancient Lantern Festival, the crowds are woven, and men and women meet, which is easy to produce love. For thousands of years, two of a kind's love story staged on the Lantern Festival is endless.

The main activity of Lantern Festival is mass entertainment, but its social and cultural significance is not just entertainment. There are many religious activities on the fifteenth day of the first month, so pray for the blessing of the gods.

Lantern Festival is also a good time to find children. In Song Dynasty, Chen's Book of the Year, Volume 12, Stealing Lights, explained why people stole lights at the Lantern Festival at that time and said, "A cloud, whoever steals lights, is a good omen for men." The homonym of "light" here is "Ding", which is male. In this way, stealing a lamp symbolizes the birth of a son, and stealing a lamp is to pray for the child to continue.

In the same way, watching lanterns also means looking for children. Therefore, it is reasonable for ancient women to go out to watch lights for this reason.

Festival culture has no national boundaries, such as Spring Festival and Lantern Festival. The enthusiasm, boldness and publicity of hundreds of millions of people can be compared with the carnival in Brazil, Germany and other countries.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Lantern Festival