Introduction: The twelfth day of the first lunar month is one of China’s traditional festivals. So what are the customs of this day? How did people celebrate? For more details about the 2018 Lunar New Year calendar, please visit the Fortune Teller website for consultation!What are the customs of the twelfth day of the first lunar month? How to pass?The twelfth day of the first lunar month is one of the traditional Chinese lunar festivals. Chinese folk activities on this day include hiding scissors, collecting old shoes, pinching mouse mouths, and setting up lantern sheds.Choosing lanterns and building lantern sheds starts from the twelfth day of the first lunar month. The nursery rhyme goes like this: "Eleven people are chattering, twelve people are setting up the lantern shed, thirteen people are lighting the lanterns, fourteen people are brightly lit, fifteen people are half full, sixteen people are putting out the lanterns." Hiding the Scissors After breakfast, the wives and girls in the village would hide the scissors they usually used in drawers or under mattresses, and they would also wrap the scissors with red ropes or red silk. According to the villagers of Xu Zhuang, neither adults nor children are allowed to use scissors on the Rat Festival. As long as the "clicking" sound of scissors is not heard, the "clicking" sound of mice eating food will not be heard in the house for the whole year. The daughters-in-law hid the scissors because they were afraid that the children would take them and play with them. On the twelfth night of the first lunar month, every household is accustomed to drinking millet flour or corn flour porridge, which means to " dazzle the mouse's eyes" so that the mouse can't see clearly. After dinner, people also fry peanuts, which means "frying the ears of deaf mice." At the same time, because peanuts and mouse eyes are very similar, eating peanuts is also called chewing mouse eyes, which means "making the mouse blind." In short, on the Rat Festival, the elders and villagers all think of various ways to deal with rats, which shows how unwelcome rats are! People on the Twelve Leaky Shit Day eat greasy food from New Year's Eve until this day, which makes their stomachs upset. Knocking on every corner in the morning "Beat, beat, beat every corner. Nine out of ten mice will be blind. The one that is left with eyes popped out will have a radish flower growing in its eye!" Before the sun rises on the morning of the twelfth day of the first lunar month, aunts and grandmas from every household in Xu Zhuang Village bring their children to chant while hitting places where mice might hide with wooden sticks, including the holes in earth pits, the mouse holes in the corners, the cracks in the bricks at the base of the wall, the cloth shoes under the wooden cabinet, the livestock shed, the woodshed, the toilet... every corner in the house will be hit. Summary: The above is [What are the customs of the twelfth day of the first lunar month? How to pass? 】, I hope the entire content can be helpful to everyone! |
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