Is the 2018 Lantern Festival a good time? What are the customs on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month?
The Lantern Festival is one of China's traditional cultural festivals. It has a long history and cultural heritage in China and has important meanings to people. So is the 2018 Lantern Festival a good date? Let’s find out together. For more details about the 2018 Lunar New Year calendar, please visit the Fortune Teller website for consultation!Is the 2018 Lantern Festival a good time?The 15th day of the first lunar month of the year 2018 (Friday, March 2, 2018 )Getting married, breaking ground, traveling, taking up a post, collecting money, hiding treasures, seeking a son, seeking an heir, governing the way [Taboo today] Raising beams and erecting pillars, offering sacrifices, praying for blessings, planting, digging canals, releasing water, building, building houses, building bridges, building embankments, opening warehouses, removing medical care, opening markets, establishing tickets, accepting livestock, breaking ground, drilling, burials, moving into new homes, and incense offerings. Auspicious gods: Sui Dehe, Baoguang, Huo Yao, Xiangri, God of Wealth, God of Happiness: Southeast, God of Fortune: Due West, God of Wealth: Due South What are the customs on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month?Eat YuanxiaoYuanxiao is eaten on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. As a food, "Yuanxiao" has a long history in China. In the Song Dynasty, a novel food for the Lantern Festival became popular among the Han people. This kind of food was first called "Fuyuanzi" and later called "Yuanxiao". Businessmen also called it "Yuanbao".Yuanxiao, also known as "tangyuan", is filled with sugar, rose, sesame, bean paste, osmanthus, walnut kernels, nuts, jujube paste, etc. It is wrapped in glutinous rice flour into a round shape. It can be meat or vegetarian, with different flavors. It can be cooked in soup, fried, or steamed, symbolizing reunion and happiness. The glutinous rice balls in Shaanxi are not wrapped but "rolled" in glutinous rice flour and then boiled or fried. They are hot and round. Enjoy the LanternsWatching lanterns is an ancient folk culture of the Han nationality, and activities are usually held during the Lantern Festival. It literally means watching lanterns, but in Xingning City, Meizhou City, Guangdong Province and surrounding areas, watching lanterns is a festival. In Chinese: 赏灯, in Hakka: 翔丁, every family has a slightly different way of 赏灯, based on what their ancestors left behind.Families with the same surname usually celebrate the festival on the same day, but families with different surnames may also celebrate on the same day. In Xingning, a weir house represents a large family. The lantern viewing starts from the 9th to the 17th day of the first lunar month, with the largest number of families gathering on the 12th, 13th and 14th days. Guess lantern riddles"Guessing lantern riddles" is also called "playing lantern riddles". It is a unique form of entertainment in China with rich national style. It is a special activity of the Lantern Festival that has been passed down since ancient times. On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, every household hangs up colorful lanterns and sets off fireworks. Later, some people wrote riddles on pieces of paper and posted them on the colorful lanterns for people to guess. Because riddles can enlighten the wisdom and cater to the festive atmosphere, many people responded to them, and guessing riddles gradually became an indispensable program of the Lantern Festival.Get rid of all diseasesWalking away all diseases is a traditional folk culture of the Han nationality in northern China since the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Some people do it on the 15th day, but most of them do it on the 16th day. On this day, women dressed in festive attire, went out of their homes in groups, walked across dangerous bridges, climbed up city walls, and touched nails to pray for children, and did not return until midnight. Women in Dezhou climbed up the South City Gate and walked to the Dasi Pavilion. There is a saying: "Climb the city gate and you won't have back pain." Women in Huangxian (now Longkou City) must cross the Crescent Bridge in Xiguan to avoid getting sick. On this day, men, women, old and young in rural Ju County go for a walk outdoors, which is called "walking to lose age". It is said that walking once a year can keep one young and ageless.Welcome ZiguWelcoming Zigu is a traditional folk activity of the Han nationality. Zi Gu is a kind, poor girl in Han folk legends. On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Zi Gu died of poverty. The people sympathized with her and missed her, and in some places the custom of "welcoming Zi Gu on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month" emerged.Every night on this day, people make a life-size portrait of Zi Gu out of straw and cloth. The women stood by the toilet, pigpen and kitchen where Zi Gu often worked to welcome her. They held her hands, spoke kind words to her and comforted her with tears, just like they would their own sister. The scene was very vivid and truly reflected the ancient Han working people's thoughts and feelings of kindness, loyalty and sympathy for the weak. Lion DanceOn the 15th day of the first lunar month, the Lantern Festival, there is a custom of lion dancing all over the country. So, when did this custom start? During the reign of Emperor Zhang of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Dayuezhi Kingdom in the Western Regions presented a fierce beast to the Han Dynasty as a tribute. The beast had a head as big as a sieve, a mouth as big as a basin, eyes like silver bells, and a body covered with golden hair.This beast is extremely ferocious. When locked in an iron cage, it often opens its bloody mouth and makes frightening noises. The envoy who came to pay tribute said: "This is a ferocious beast unique to the Dayuezhi Kingdom. Because it has golden hair, it is called the golden-haired lion. Because it is very ferocious, it is called the king of beasts." Rat chaserThis activity began in the Wei and Jin Dynasties. This is mainly said to people who raise silkworms. Because mice often eat large numbers of silkworms at night, people heard that if you feed mice with rice porridge on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, they will stop eating silkworms. Therefore, these families would cook a big pot of sticky porridge on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. Some would even cover it with a layer of meat. They would put the porridge in bowls and place them on the ceilings and corners where mice were active. They would mutter something while putting the porridge in their mouths, cursing the mice that they would not have a good death if they ate silkworms again.Walking on stiltsStilt walking is a popular mass performance among the people. Stilt walking is a type of acrobatics in ancient my country and appeared as early as the Spring and Autumn Period. The earliest introduction of stilts in my country is in the Liezi Shuo Fu chapter: "In Song there was a man named Lan Zi, who used his skills to compete with Song Yuan. Song Yuan summoned him and showed him his skills.He used two branches as long as his body and attached them to his legs. He ran and swung seven swords one after another and jumped around. Five of the swords were always in the air. Yuanjun was greatly surprised and immediately rewarded him with gold and silk. "From the text, we can know that stilts were popular as early as 500 years BC. Performers not only walked with long wood tied to their feet, but also jumped and danced with swords. There are three types of stilts: high stilts, medium stilts and running stilts. The tallest ones are more than ten feet high. |
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