When is Grandpa Sun's birthday?

1. On June 19th of the lunar calendar, we have cake for lunch. Families with a large population bake pot cakes, families with a small population bake small pot cakes, and some bake oil cakes. Folklore is a sacrifice to the sun, also known as the birthday of the sun. The cake is round and symbolizes the sun.

This custom originated from myths and legends, the story of Erlang God driving mountains and pressing the sun. In ancient times, there were twelve suns in the sky In the hot sun, the seedlings are scorched and the land is cracked, making it difficult for people to survive. In order to save the Lebanese people, Erlang drove away the mountains with a whip and crushed the sun, killing eleven of them successively. The twelfth sun was hidden under a grasshopper. When the earthworm saw it, he cried, "There is a sun hidden under the grasshopper. The sun said," Don't be bad, earthworm, come out and bask in your beans and vegetables. " So the earthworm was silent. Therefore, there is only one sun in the sky. This is the reason why grasshoppers are not afraid of the sun and earthworms are afraid of the sun.

The day when Erlang God drives the mountains and presses the sun is June 19th of the lunar calendar. Therefore, every June 19, people have to sacrifice to the sun, thus forming the custom of celebrating the sun's birthday.

2. Folk festivals in Meizhou, Guangdong Province

March 19th of the lunar calendar is the birthday of the sun every year.

It is not that the birthday of the sun is actually a festival to commemorate the Ming Dynasty.

This day is the day of the Ming Dynasty's subjugation. In order to avoid the persecution of the Qing court, people taboo it as the birthday of the sun.

According to legend, Zhu Youjian, the Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, made great efforts to save the day.

In the seventeenth year of Chongzhen (1644), on March 19th,

Li Zicheng led the peasant uprising army into Beijing. Around noon, Emperor Chongzhen hanged himself on a locust tree in Jingshan Park.

Then Wu Sangui led the Manchu army into the customs, defeated the peasant rebels and the officers and men of the Ming Dynasty, occupied Daming Mountain, and established the Qing Dynasty.

The day when Emperor Chongzhen committed suicide became the day when the Ming Dynasty perished.

At that time, Li Er and (a scholar of Li Erzhong at that time, who was awarded editing by the Hanlin Academy and studied in the East Palace) in order to clear up the Qing Dynasty and regain sight, secretly brought Prince Zhu Ciliang back to his hometown Yinshan Lingguang Temple, cut his hair and changed his name to Tai Sui monk.

Later, the Qing Dynasty decided that the prince was old, and the descendants of the ancient temple built a "Prince Bodhisattva" to worship.

In the early Qing Dynasty, the anti-Qing struggle in the southeast coastal areas of Zhejiang and Fujian was extremely fierce, but the anti-Qing movement of Nanming Wang failed in the first year of Kangxi (1662).

Zheng Ming (the descendant of Zheng Chenggong) in Taiwan Province Province also surrendered to the Qing court in the 22nd year of Kangxi (1683).

Since then, secret association has become the main activity form of anti-Qing people: one is to actively develop gangs as the backbone, build Hong Men in Daxing (founded in 1674), unite different surnames as one family, and the congregation worships heaven as their father, earth as their mother, sun as their brother and moon as their sister-in-law, so as to jointly fight against Qing and regain their sight;

The popular saying is:' At noon on March 19th, the sun was shining, Zhu Guangfo was born, and every household lit up with a red light'. Zhu is the surname of the Ming Dynasty. "

There are still some Hakkas in Meizhou who worship the sun on that day.

3. The ancients thought that "to be neutral, the position of Heaven is awkward, and everything breeds". According to the Tang book. In the Tang Dynasty, Li Mi wrote to invite the first day of February to be the Zhonghe Festival, and hundreds of officials entered the agricultural book to show their business. According to Dezong, the ninth day of the first lunar month ("Jade Emperor's Birthday") and the new moons in February and March are collectively called "Sanling Festival". The Spring and Autumn Notes at the end of the Qing Dynasty said: "Zhonghe Festival was abolished today but not raised". However, according to legend, this is Sun's birthday, so there is a ceremony for Sun in the folk. It reflects the desire of people in ancient agricultural society to pray for prosperity.

On the first day of February, at sunrise, every family set up a table of incense in the courtyard (those who use the code of Sun Star King, those who don't use it) and burned incense at the source of Dongyang. Since the 1940 s, there have been few sun cakes on the market. Under normal circumstances, people no longer offer sacrifices to Sun Xingjun, and a few admirers only use brown sugar (brown sugar) pancakes as offerings.

In the early days, some people even recited the Sun Sutra during fasting. Before chanting, there are ceremonies such as chanting, inviting, clearing the mouth, purifying the body and opening the scriptures; After chanting, there are ceremonies such as praise, clean words, clean words and local words.

In the afternoon, offerings such as sun cakes or sugar cakes will be dispersed and distributed to children. At the same time, even the colorful hanging money posted during the Spring Festival was taken down and burned with Oracle Bone Inscriptions code, which is the so-called "Sun Qian".