Chapter 36 New Year's taboos
This semester has passed, and they have all had winter vacation, and the usually lonely village has become lively again. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 infoI like the New Year very much, because at this time, the family will not only buy all kinds of fish and meat, but also sell firecrackers when rushing to the market, Spring Festival couplets and the like, in short, it is fun and lively. In fact, there is nothing before Chinese New Year's Eve, every household is generally preparing New Year's goods, cleaning, one is to clean up all kinds of bad luck in the past at the end of the year, and the other is to welcome the New Year has a good luck, if anyone has anything bad at the beginning of the New Year, it is estimated that the whole year will not be good.
Naturally, our family is not idle, and I am an only child, so I help with everything in the family, and we call men laborers, which means that men should be able to endure hardships and work more. As for why the lanterns and firecrackers roar during the New Year, I don't have anything to say about the traditional customs of China, but I believe that from the first day of the first lunar month to the fifteenth day of the new year, there are many people who still don't understand the rules inside, and this should be talked about.
You can't use a broom on the first day of the first month, otherwise you will sweep away your luck and ruin your fortune. That's why cleaning is done before the year, and if you have to sweep the floor, you have to sweep it from the outside to the inside. To this day, many places still maintain a custom, sweeping before Chinese New Year's Eve, not leaving a broom on the first day of the new year, not taking out garbage, preparing a large bucket of wastewater, and not spilling it on the same day. In the New Year, you should not break the furniture, it is a sign of bankruptcy, you must quickly say "the year (broken) years are safe" or "the ground blossoms, wealth and glory".
On the second day of the Lunar New Year, the married daughter returns to her parents' house and asks her husband to accompany her, so it is commonly known as "Son-in-law Day". On this day, the daughter who returns to her parents' house must carry some gifts and red envelopes, also called New Year's money, to distribute to her mother's children, and have lunch at her parents' house, but must rush back to her mother-in-law's house before dinner. In the past, families would also choose this day to take a family photo.
The third day of the Lunar New Year, also known as Chikou Day, usually does not go out to pay New Year's greetings, and legend has it that it is easy to have quarrels with people on this day. However, this custom has long been outdated, because now people rarely reunite during the Spring Festival, and many people who do not go to their parents' house on the second day of the new year because they are busy will also go, and many places have diluted this statement.
The fourth day of the Lunar New Year is the day to worship the God of Wealth, in the past, the boss wanted to fire someone "squid", and he was not invited to worship God on this day, and the other party knew it and cleaned up and left. There is also a legend that the Lord of the Stove is going to check the household registration on this day, so it is not advisable to go far.
The fifth day of the first lunar month is commonly known as breaking the five, and it is necessary to "drive out the five poor", including "intellectual poverty, learning poverty, literary poverty, life poverty, and handover poverty". People get up at dawn, set off firecrackers, and clean up. Firecrackers are set off from the inside out, and you go out the door as you go. It is said that everything that is unlucky will be blasted out. On this day, the popular food custom is to eat dumplings, commonly known as "pinching the villain's mouth", and the cutting board should be chopped to make a dingdong sound, so that the neighbors can hear it, in order to show that the "villain" is chopping.
On the sixth day of the new year, the shop restaurant officially opened for business, and firecrackers were set off, no less than the situation on Chinese New Year's Eve. Legend has it that the most popular on this day is the boy who turns 12 years old that year, because 12 is twice as many as 6, which is called 66 Shun. On this day, every household has to throw out the garbage accumulated during the festival, which is called sending the poor ghosts.
The seventh day of the lunar month is the day of the people, that is, the birthday of the people. According to the "Book of Occupation", from the beginning of the first month, the order in which God created all things was "one chicken and two dogs, three pigs and four sheep, five oxen and six horses, seven people and eight grains", so the seventh day of the first month is the human day. On this day, Hong Kong citizens like to eat and the first porridge, the so-called and the first, is to hope that the scientific examination champion high school. Respect everyone on this day, not even the government can execute criminals on this day, and parents cannot teach their children on this day.
The eighth day of the first month is the day of the valley, the legend is the birthday of the millet, also called the Shunxing Festival, the legend is the day of the lower realm of the stars, the sky stars are the most complete, if the weather is sunny on this day, it indicates that this year is a bumper harvest of rice, and the sky is cloudy and the year is sorry.
On the ninth day of the Lunar New Year, the folk custom is the birthday of the Jade Emperor, and a grand festival is held. Many believers in Hsinchu, Taiwan, go to the Tiangong Altar, which has a history of more than 200 years to worship the Jade Emperor, to congratulate Tiangong on his birthday and pray for good weather, peace and health in the new year.
The tenth day of the first month is the birthday of the stone, and on this day, all stone tools such as grinding and grinding cannot be moved, and even the stone must be sacrificed. In Yuncheng, Shandong and other places, there is a saying that the stone god is lifted. On the ninth night of the first lunar month, people freeze a clay pot on a large smooth stone, and on the tenth morning of the first lunar month, the nose of the clay pot is tied with a rope, and ten young men take turns to carry it, and if the stone does not fall to the ground, it indicates a good harvest of the year.
The eleventh day of the first lunar month is the "son-in-law's day", which is the day when the father-in-law feasts on the son-in-law. In addition to eating a day on the tenth day of the new year, there is still a lot of leftover food left over from the celebration of the "Tiangong's birthday" on the ninth day of the new year, so the mother's family does not have to break the bank, and uses these leftover delicacies to entertain the son-in-law and daughter, and the folk song is called "Eleventh Please Son-in-law".
After the 11th day of the first lunar month, people began to prepare to celebrate the Lantern Festival, starting from the 12th day of the first lunar month, they began to buy lanterns and build lantern sheds. The nursery rhyme is sung like this: "Eleven chirps, twelve build a lantern shed, thirteen people turn on the lights, fourteen lights are bright, fifteen and a half moons, sixteen people finish the lights." The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the "Lantern Festival", it is the first full moon night of the year, and it is also the night of the earth's rejuvenation, also known as the "Shangyuan Festival". The custom of lighting lanterns during the Lantern Festival originated in the Han Dynasty, and it was indispensable to eat Lantern Festival and glutinous rice balls on this day. The sixteenth night of the first lunar month is a children's festival, all the children take out their lanterns and hit others, and then laugh and watch other people's lanterns catch fire, this is called "touching the lantern". It is important to note that this year's lanterns cannot be kept until next year, and must be destroyed by "touching the lanterns".
In fact, lighting lanterns is our orthodox national culture, but I see that many people will also put Kong Ming lanterns at this time. One thing I have to pay attention to here is that everyone has seen the candlelight leading the way before, and I don't advocate putting Kong Ming lanterns. There is nothing more than one reason why everyone puts the Kong Ming lantern, that is, to pray for blessings, and generally write their wishes on the lamp, and there is a candle in it that can be lit. Speaking of Kong Ming lantern, everyone knows that it was invented by Zhuge Liang, many people think that Zhuge Liang was besieged in Pingyang and finally used a floating paper lantern to send a distress message to escape, and some say that Kong Ming Lantern was a woman who fought with her husband in Fujian in the fifth generation, which was made into this kind of lantern as a military liaison signal, but it looked like Zhuge Liang's hat, hence the name.
In fact, the original purpose of Kong Minglan's invention was to guide the souls of the soldiers who died in the frontier and return the souls to the Central Plains. In the Central Plains, there will be a fixed "guide" to put the lamp, the lamp is not everyone can put it, the lamp is floating in the sky, the soul is chasing in the ground, and if it is an ownerless lonely lamp (generally the surname and birth date of the lonely soul are led in the book), then there will be all the lonely souls and wild ghosts along the road to chase, and the place where they pass is a village or traffic artery, it is very easy to have an accident. If you are fierce, write your own or family name and other information on it to pray for blessings, then what you pray for will not be a blessing, and your soul is not complete, where will the blessing come from? What's even more fierce, you are playing with a string and a lamp like a kite, and you are playing with your head. Furthermore, even if it is not so exaggerated, from a modern perspective, can you know where the Hung Ming lantern will eventually go out? What kind of trouble or even fire will it bring to the local area?
Honestly spend the New Year at home and take advantage of this time to spend more time with your family, I believe it won't be long before I go out. In the past few days of the Chinese New Year, it is almost impossible to be idle, visiting relatives and friends during the day, and eating and dining at night. Adults have adults to eat, we also have ******** to eat, no, I and the big head in my cousin's house dinner a little late, and finally even the last train back also missed, my cousin's house is still some distance from our village, because there is a big head is not convenient to live here, my cousin drove the small van he just bought to drive us back, but I didn't expect to almost have an accident on the road!