What day is the 23rd day of the first lunar month in 2018? What festivals are there?
On the 23rd day of the first lunar month, many people have already returned to their daily work and life from the afterglow of the New Year's joy, but in some places in northwest my country, it is just the end of the Spring Festival, which is the widely popular Liaokan Festival in the local area. For more details about the 2018 Lunar New Year calendar, please visit the Fortune Teller website for consultation!What day is the 23rd day of the first lunar month in 2018 ?The twenty-third day of the first lunar month of the year 2018 (Lunar calendar)Saturday, March 10, 2018 (Gregorian calendar) 【Today’s lunar calendar is suitable】 Pray for blessings, get married, move, bring in wealth, move into a new house, set up a bed, build a stove, marry, recruit a son-in-law, take up a job, seek medical treatment, offer sacrifices, seek an heir, attend funerals, attend school, plant crops, and sign contracts [Taoism in the old almanac today] Construction, groundbreaking, returning home, traveling, property purchase, groundbreaking, damming, releasing water, opening warehouses, acupuncture, livestock, burial, opening the market, seeking wealth, auspicious gods to follow: Yue Dehe, Bu Jiang, Shi Yang, Tian Yi, Xu Shi, evil spirits to avoid: Di Ze, Gui Ji, Tu Fu, Wu Xu, Xue Ji, Xue Zhi, Yue Sha The 23rd day of the first lunar month is the Liaokan FestivalBurning walnuts is a traditional Spring Festival festival custom widely spread in Northwest China. There is a folk proverb that "On the 23rd day of the first lunar month, every household burns walnuts." Every year on the 23rd day of the first lunar month, every household piles firewood in front of the door. When night falls, the bonfires of thousands of households illuminate the northwest land, how magnificent and beautiful! "Liaogang" is the end of the Northwest Spring Festival and the closing time of the community fire. On this day, the people performing the community fire have to go to the temple where all the villagers worship, burn incense, kowtow, take off their costumes, and return all the community fire props to the community fire leader for sealing. From then on, they can do their own private affairs.On this day, in addition to cutting and piling firewood to prepare for "Liaokan", people also tear down the couplets and door gods posted on New Year's Eve, and cut two or four continuous paper figures with yellow paper and hang them under the door lintel. This kind of paper figure is called "Liaokan doll". When night falls, a pile of firewood and debris cleaned up from the yard that day are piled in front of every house, and then the "Liaokan doll" is inserted, and the torn couplets and door gods are thrown in, followed by incense sticks, firecrackers, salt grains, etc., and the firewood is lit, and they are burned together with the "Liaokan doll" with fire. At this time, flames flickered in front of every house, piles of torches lit up the courtyards and even the villages red, and the flames and the sounds of firecrackers intertwined with each other. People were jumping around on the fire, hoping to ward off disasters and misfortunes, burn away past misfortunes and bad luck, and spend the new year in a prosperous atmosphere. In some areas, people even carry smaller livestock or young animals and jump over the fire in the hope that the livestock will prosper. Finally, when the firewood is burned out, the host invites experienced old farmers to use shovels to gently lift up the remaining ashes with sparks and sprinkle them in the air. While watching, people judge what crops will be harvested this year based on which crop's flower the shape of the Mars resembles. For example, if the Mars is small and round, it means a good harvest of wheat; if the Mars is small and irregular, it means a good harvest of buckwheat; if the Mars is large and round, it means a good harvest of beans; if it is large and irregular, it means a good harvest of corn, and so on. This divination-like activity embodies the farmers' hope for a good harvest in autumn. When ashes were flying and sparks were falling everywhere, the children had to stomp them out one by one to prevent fire. When there was not a single spark left on the ground, the "burning fire" was declared over and the children could go home. For adults, burning the scalds means that all New Year taboos have been lifted, but at the same time they cannot be idle and have to start busy spring ploughing. When talking about the origin of the custom of "Liao Gan", we need to know what "Kan" is. "Malnut" is malnutrition, a disease that is common in children. In the past, when medical conditions were not very developed, farmers deified the disease, believing that it was caused by the "malnut demon", and thus there was a saying of "malnut dolls". The malnut doll was similar to the plague god, and it controlled the dolls' malnutrition. People cut a series of dolls out of paper, called "malnut dolls", symbolizing the disease demon, and burning them was regarded as "sending away malnutrition", thereby achieving the purpose of eliminating malnutrition or preventing dolls from suffering from malnutrition. It is worth noting that there is a worship of "Kan Niangniang" in Qingyang, Gansu. Like the Goddess of Childbirth, "Kan Niangniang" is a god who controls whether children in the world will get malnutrition. This is unique in the "Liaokan" culture in the northwest region. Some people also believe that burning a "malnut doll" made of paper is a way to pay tribute to the gods of nature. The "malnut doll" pays tribute to the gods on behalf of the children. Burning the "malnut doll" can prevent normal children from suffering from malnutrition. Later, "薳娃娃" was generalized to mean the god of plague, in charge of all plagues, and "薳" refers to all diseases, plagues and bad luck. The fact that Liaokan is called "Liaosaokan" in northern Ningxia and "Liaokan" is called "Liaobaibing" in northern Shaanxi is evidence of this. In the subsequent changes over the years, "Liaokan" has evolved from a superstitious color to a festival custom. Today, "Liaokan" embodies the Northwestern people's beautiful expectations for a prosperous life, and their beautiful vision of praying for each year to be better than the last, for life to be full of vitality, for good weather and a good harvest. |
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