What are the customs and practices on the 16th day of the first lunar month in 2019?
On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, people watch lanterns. So what are the customs on the sixteenth day of the first lunar month? The editor will introduce it to you. If you want to know more about the first month of the lunar calendar in 2019, please pay attention to our Shui Mo Xiansheng website!What are the customs on the 16th day of the first lunar month?1. Running Away from All Diseases In the Central Plains region, there is a legend and traditional custom of "running away from all diseases on the 16th day of the first lunar month". The form is roughly the same as walking with larks, but the name is different. That is to say, on the 16th day of the first lunar month, after breakfast, almost every household would lock their doors, and the whole family would go out to "run away all diseases". People say that after a trip on the 16th day of the first lunar month, all diseases will be "left behind" on the road and in the wild during the comfortable and enjoyable short-distance tour, so that all diseases will disappear; those who are healthy will get better and healthier; those who are sick and have disasters will just get rid of them, turn misfortune into good fortune, and have good luck! 2. Sending cattle stakes on the 16th day of the first lunar month is an old custom. Eight men are required, including a young man. In the evening, they would first go to the invited family's house for dinner, and then when most people were asleep, they would go to steal cattle posts. The stolen items included bricks, bowls, shoes, etc. After stealing the stuff, he wrapped it in red paper and gave it to the youngest of the group, who he called Baozhuangzi. Then we went to the host's house together. The young man holding the stake would hold the stolen items and climb onto the owner's bed to sleep for a while. Finally, he would urinate on the bed and then respectfully hand the stake to the owner for safekeeping. Everyone must keep their mouths shut about this matter, otherwise it will not work. When the owner of the house gives birth to a boy, they must go to the family whose items were stolen to announce the good news. When the child is one year old, the family that stole the stake must return the stolen amount to the family whose property was stolen, returning ten or a hundred times what was stolen. 3. Visit the temple fair . According to the old legend in Penglai, the 16th day of the lunar calendar is the birthday of the sea goddess, Queen Tian, and local people celebrate it as a festival. At that time, people from all directions rushed to the Tianhou Palace in Penglai Pavilion to burn incense, worship, draw lots, make wishes, and donate money. The incense was very popular. Local people organized opera troupes and yangko teams to perform for the goddess in the theater and square opposite the Tianhou Temple, and performed folk dramas and yangko. After paying homage to the goddess, people often watch operas and yangko dances in front of the Tianhou Palace with their relatives and friends, visit Penglai Pavilion and its nearby scenic spots, and buy their favorite small commodities in the square below the pavilion until they are satisfied. This custom has been passed down to this day. There will be huge crowds of people and it will be very lively and bustling, so it is called a "temple fair". 4. Walking larks are very popular in the southwest of Shandong Province. The New Year atmosphere is gone and early spring is coming. Farmers are in the busy farming season and it is time for women and children who have been cooped up at home all winter to go out for an outing and keep fit. "When you step out of the house, you will be smart and clever." In Jining area, in the early years, mothers often went to the Confucius Temple, Mencius Temple, and Zeng Temple to burn incense and make wishes. Mothers wished their children to become successful and clever. But this was in the past. Now these scenic spots charge a fee, and people have switched to climbing mountains to enjoy the scenery. Walking on Bailing Mountain is actually walking on Bailing Mountain. Some people even visit relatives and friends and communicate with each other on this day. 5. Climbing the city walls is a unique folk activity in Nanjing that originated in the Ming Dynasty. There is a popular saying that “climbing the city walls, stepping on peace, and walking away all diseases.” Around the 1960s, this folk custom almost disappeared due to the destruction of the city walls and other reasons. Now, as sections of the city walls such as Taicheng, Shitoucheng, Zhonghuamen, Zhongshanmen and Hanzhongmen have been restored and opened to the public, this activity has continued. What we can see now is that those who climb up the city wall are mainly elderly people in their seventies and eighties. Many of them climb up with the help of the wall with great effort, and then just walk on it for a while before going down. 6. The Rat’s Daughter’s Wedding The folk legend of “The Rat’s Daughter’s Wedding” is very popular in China. However, the date of "Rat's Wedding" varies from place to place. In some places in the suburbs of Shanghai, it is said that the mouse's daughter gets married on the 16th day of the first lunar month. On this night, every household fries sesame candy, which is the wedding candy prepared for the mouse's wedding. New Year pictures and paper-cuts of "The Mouse's Daughter's Wedding" and "The Mouse's Wedding" are regarded as "auspicious symbols" by the Chinese people and are pasted on walls and windows during the New Year and other festivals. |
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