What day is the twelfth day of the first lunar month and what are the customs?
Introduction: There is a nursery rhyme in our country that goes, "On the eleventh day, people are chattering; on the twelfth day, people are setting up the lantern shed; on the thirteenth day, people are lighting the lanterns; on the fourteenth day, the lanterns are at full brightness; on the fifteenth day, the moon is half full; on the sixteenth day, people are putting away the lanterns." It means that after the eleventh day of the first lunar month, people start preparing for the Lantern Festival from the twelfth day of the first lunar month. So what festival is on the twelfth day of the first lunar month? What are the traditional customs and activities? Next, please follow the editor to learn about it! In addition to the grand and festive celebrations of the Spring Festival, we also need to pay attention to some taboos regarding the Spring Festival. Next, let’s take a closer look at the Spring Festival special topic compiled by Mr. Shui Mo!Customs of the 12th day of the first lunar month: Selecting lanterns and setting up lantern shedsNow everyone has started working as normal, and the Lantern Festival will be here in a few days. So what customs are there on the twelfth day of the first lunar month? After the eleventh day of the first lunar month, people begin to prepare to celebrate the Lantern Festival, and start buying lanterns and setting up lantern sheds from the twelfth day of the first lunar month. The nursery rhyme goes like this: "On the eleventh day, people are chattering; on the twelfth day, people are setting up the lantern shed; on the thirteenth day, people are lighting the lanterns; on the fourteenth day, the lanterns are brightly lit; on the fifteenth day, the moon is half full; on the sixteenth day, people are putting away the lanterns." I don't know if the Shengfang Flower Fair is ready this year. Friends from Bazhou, don't forget to go to Shengfang on the fifteenth day!Customs of the 12th day of the first lunar month: Little mouse marries a wifeAccording to legend, the twelfth day of the first lunar month is the day when mice marry, and some say that this day is the mouse’s birthday. So people created all kinds of "programs" around mice, which not only expressed the people's hatred for mice, but also drove away the hard work of the folks for a year. Knock every corner in the morning "Hit, hit, hit the corners, nine out of ten mice will go blind, and the one 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 bring their children and chant while knocking with wooden sticks at places where mice might hide, including the holes in earth pits, the mouse holes in the corners, the brick cracks 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 must be knocked.The 12th custom of the first lunar month: Hiding scissorsAfter breakfast, the wives and girls in the village would hide the scissors they usually used in drawers or under mattresses, and 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.The 12th day of the first lunar month: Collecting old shoesAt the same time, children from every household carried baskets and went door to door collecting old shoes, and the villagers were also happy to give away the "evil" (shoes). Normally, villagers would not sell their worn-out old shoes as scrap, but would wait until the Rat Festival to give them to children who came to collect them. According to Mr. Han Dawei, a villager in Xu Zhuang Village, in addition to digging holes, mice are also accustomed to hiding in old shoes that people don’t wear to build nests and give birth to baby mice. The old shoes received from the children were piled up into the shape of a rat hole and burned, symbolizing the act of killing all the rats in the household.Customs of the 12th day of the first lunar month: pinching the mouse's mouthAt noon, we make dumplings at home. The dumplings are made into the shape of mice, with mouths, ears, and tails, and green beans are used as eyes. The dumplings look like mice, very realistic, and are like pieces of dough art. On this day, every household makes dumplings because making dumplings is like "pinching a mouse's mouth". If the mouse's mouth is pinched to death, the mouse will not be able to "crunch" and eat things, and there will be "no mice in the house for the whole year".The 12th day of the first lunar month: burning rat holesOn the twelfth day of the first lunar month, children would find a spacious place and pile up the old shoes they collected from each household into a "rat hole". Then burn it with fire.The 12th custom of the first lunar month: pecking rat ears and chewing rat eyesOn the twelfth night of the first lunar month, every household has the habit of drinking millet or cornmeal porridge, which is meant to "blind the mouse's eyes" so that the mouse cannot see clearly. After dinner, people also fry peanuts, which means "frying (noising) 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!Summary: The above article provides us with a detailed analysis of the traditional customs and activities on the twelfth day of the first lunar month. I hope everyone can learn about and experience the customs and culture of the Chinese New Year! After reading this article, there are more exciting content in the Spring Festival special topic, let’s take a look! |
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