Lunar calendar 3. 19

The Chinese New Year custom of Zhongshan people, like the Han customs in most parts of the Central Plains, essentially refers to celebrating the Spring Festival. Zuo Zhuan's five-year public saying: China's New Year is "La Worship". In the Western Jin Dynasty, Du Yu pre-noted: "In the year of wax, the name of God is finally sacrificed." It means a worship activity held after a year of farming to repay the gift of God. In ancient times, the Spring Festival was a festive day to congratulate the harvest. At the same time, it is also a sacrifice to heaven (here, it is a bodhisattva, not an ancestor). For example, "Three Years of Huan Gong in Gu Liang" said: "All grains are ripe, and there is another year." The word "Nian" in Oracle Bone Inscriptions and Jin Wenzhong is the image of a ripe ear of grain. However, in ancient China, the beginning time of a year was different. It was not until the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty (140-87 BC) that Luo Xiahong and Deng Ping created the taichu calendar Law, which clearly stipulated that the first day of the first month of the first month of the summer calendar was the beginning of a year. According to historical records, the first day of the first month is the "four beginnings", that is, "the beginning of the year, the beginning of the time, the beginning of the day and the beginning of the month". The first day of the first month is designated as the Summer New Year. After the Revolution of 1911 led by Dr. Sun Yat-sen overthrew the Qing Dynasty, it was announced that China would adopt the calendar year, with the Gregorian calendar 1 month 1 day as the New Year holiday and the first month of the summer calendar (commonly known as the lunar calendar or the old calendar) 1 day as the Spring Festival. However, due to the traditions of past dynasties, China people are used to calling the first day of the first month of the Gregorian calendar New Year's Day, while the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar is called "New Year", so celebrating the Spring Festival is also called China New Year.

Since ancient times, there have been ritual activities such as offering sacrifices, attending ceremonies, feasting, divination, welcoming the gods, celebrating the New Year and enjoying. While the Han people celebrate the New Year, their activities are even more grand. The ancients in Zhongshan followed suit. From ancient times to the present, Zhongshan people's custom of "celebrating the New Year" mainly includes the following aspects:

1, sweeping the house:

Sweeping the house is also called sweeping the dust. This custom has a long history, which is roughly similar to the custom of "sweeping houses" in the Han area of the Central Plains, and it is an essential custom on the eve of the Chinese New Year. "twenty-eight days a year to wash sloppy clothes (that is, twenty-eight days of the twelfth lunar month)" is the mantra of Zhongshan people before the Spring Festival. The essence of house cleaning is to send the old and welcome the new in the form of general cleaning. But in the past, Zhongshan people were very particular about cleaning their houses.

When cleaning the house at first, sweep the door first, then pick up a long broom or a chicken feather broom, bamboo sticks and other tools to sweep the lintel up and down, and then sweep it in from the outside to the inside, that is, sweep it from the hall to the kitchen and sweep it from the roof to the underground. Here's a saying: "Sweep in the good and sweep out the bad". Generally speaking, men clean rooms, while women at home are responsible for cleaning rooms, including cleaning doors and windows, lifting chairs, plates, cups, teapots, iron pots and so on. , without exception. In addition, all bedding, clothes for adults and children at home should be thoroughly cleaned until they are clean. This custom of cleaning, like other customs, is still mixed with feudal superstition. Therefore, before the traditional cleaning many years ago, it must be carried out "another day". Although in the past, people began to clean their houses at the end of the lunar calendar 1 1, they all needed to find an almanac and a general book to "choose a day". No matter whether they are rich or poor, the day of sweeping houses years ago should not be a day of "red mouth", "broken sun" or "unfavorable events", especially to avoid "Mars". Of course, it is best to be an auspicious day. In addition, in the past, Zhongshan people generally had the custom of worshipping Buddha (usually on the first and fifteenth day of the lunar calendar, Zhongshan people would burn incense to worship Buddha), so the first thing to do at the beginning of the morning cleaning was to "wash Buddha". Although the water used to wash the Buddha statue is not "holy water", it is impossible to use ordinary clear water. You should put a few "Luyou" leaves in the water to clean the Bodhisattva. It is said that this can "ward off evil spirits" and also shows that the owner of the house is "mentally alert". This kind of work is usually done by women at home.

2. Buy new clothes in the New Year:

As the saying goes, "the year is over." In the first half of the year before the Chinese New Year, Zhongshan people began to be busy buying new year's goods. In the old society, there were few rural shops in Zhongshan, and the supply of goods was not sufficient. Therefore, near the end of the year, rural people will go to farmers' markets and towns in Shi Qi to buy new year's goods, such as buying red lines, making paper treasures, cutting new clothes, eating vegetarian food, buying candy and cakes. In particular, the rice vat at home should be filled with "food", from which the so-called "constant fullness" is derived. The first sentence when people meet before the Spring Festival is "Is the Spring Festival over?" This is the most common mantra of Zhongshan people before the Spring Festival. Until today, every "polder day" (farmer's market) or major shopping malls before the Chinese New Year can see a sea of people. Imagine how nervous and important people in Zhongshan are for the Spring Festival. At the same time, this custom of buying new year's goods also brought prosperity to urban and rural shops. In Zhongshan, especially women are more nervous about buying new year's goods.

3. Cooking rice cakes and fried mashed potatoes:

During the Spring Festival in Zhongshan, there is a saying: "Everyone has me when trading stocks at night." The custom of "cooking rice cakes" is a characteristic custom of Zhongshan people during the Spring Festival. When foreigners first arrived in Zhongshan, they all laughed at Zhongshan people for "driving" when they saw those "ordinary hairy" rice cakes (glutinous rice cakes with colorful long hair and enzymes on the cake surface). However, despite people's jokes, Zhongshan people's custom of making cakes for the New Year has not changed since ancient times, and it has become a major event for Zhongshan people to celebrate the New Year. Similarly, making cakes should be done on auspicious days before the Spring Festival. After getting up, all housewives incense and worship with clean hands, and then start to work. They made glutinous rice into powder, mixed with yellow (red) syrup, kneaded it into a whole paste, and added condiments such as salted pork and salted egg yolk to a steamer with banana leaves and bamboo leaves at the bottom, and cooked it with slow fire for more than ten hours. After the rice cake is steamed, you should say a few auspicious words, respectfully put it in the hall, then put red dates, plums, a word "plum" and two oranges on it, and then open the rice cake after the New Year (that is, after the first day of the New Year). Its meanings include: "rice cake, rice cake, rising step by step" and "growing up quickly".

There is a habit here, that is, during the cooking of rice cakes, children at home can't say anything wrong or unlucky, but only say something good, otherwise they will cook half-baked "raw rice cakes", mainly due to the influence of feudal customs left over from history. Zhongshan people think that the quality of rice cakes is a symbol of good luck in the coming year, so children's speeches are also very important. As the saying goes, "children's voices are not for fun" is probably a saying.

In addition to making rice cakes, Zhongshan people also have a saying, "What do I have when people bury and fry?". The homonym of "Gao" means "high in years". However, "fried pile" (a kind of food fried with glutinous rice flour and peanuts) means the reunion of people with its round and full shape. In addition, because the fried pile is golden yellow, like a gold ingot, Zhongshan people said, "The fried pile is full of gold and silver." It can be seen that Zhongshan people used to pay more attention to the custom of bombing piles before the Chinese New Year. In addition, fried piles cost very little, which can take advantage of their kindness, so Zhongshan people have the custom of making cakes and fried piles during the New Year. In addition, there are customs such as frying "oil angle Zi" and frying "scattered eggs". After the Republic of China, eating customs such as making jiaozi and frying wonton in the Central Plains became popular in Zhongshan.

4, hanging swing spring keeper:

Hanging spring, commonly known as hanging peach symbol, is one of the traditional customs of Han nationality. Because Zhongshan people are mostly from the Central Plains clan living in the south, this traditional custom has followed. According to Wei Nanzi, written by Liu An in the Western Han Dynasty, "Peach symbols are made of two pieces of peach wood about seven or eight inches long and more than one inch wide, and auspicious characters are written on both sides of the gate to ward off ghosts and evil spirits" (there is a folklore story here, which is not mentioned here). The custom of hanging Fu Tao can be traced back to the Five Dynasties (907-960 AD), when some people began to write couplets on the Fu Tao board, which was called Spring Festival couplets. "Song Shi Shi Jia Xi Shu" records: Xin, the teacher of Meng Chang, a scholar in the later Shu Dynasty, wrote a poem on the tablet: "Happy New Year!" This is probably the earliest Spring Festival couplets in China. Spring Festival couplets are improvised or printed into couplets before Chinese New Year. Especially in rural areas, people with good culture and calligraphy are invited to help write Spring Festival couplets. Businessmen are used to buying them from fairs, literati and calligraphers. On the eve of the Spring Festival, they are often posted or hung on both sides of the gate, which is called Spring Festival couplets. Spring Festival couplets are mostly composed of auspicious words and words wishing a better life. From the couplets, people can see the work occupation of the host. This custom has been passed down to this day.

In addition to hanging spring, there is also the custom of putting up doors. There is such a record in the Chronicle of the Age of Jingchu written by Liang Zonggu in the Southern Dynasties: "On the first day of the first month, Er Shen was painted, with doors attached to the left and right, leaving Shen Tu on the left and Lei Yu on the right, commonly known as the door god." It is said that the custom of door-keeper has a history of more than two thousand years. When door gods became popular, they were used to exorcise ghosts and used to coexist with hanging peach symbols. Therefore, when Zhong Kui 18 years old, the door gods put Zhong Kui's ghost painting and the words "Shen Tu" and "Lei Yu" on the wall. Until now, we can still see some areas and towns, especially the mountainous areas where Hakkas live, and we can also see "Shen Tu" and "Lei Yu". According to legend, since the Song Dynasty, people called Guan Guan Yu the Emperor of the Three Kingdoms, so they painted him as an adult door god and pasted him on the door. Some skilled people also paint or cut and paste some festive New Year pictures themselves, so that the door gods can paste New Year pictures instead. This custom coexists with hanging spring pictures. Door stickers are usually posted after dinner on New Year's Eve, and some are posted in the early morning of New Year's Day. Before sticking the door gods, the host should burn incense and set off firecrackers, and say a few auspicious words in front of the ancestors' main cards, and then respectfully stick them at the door. In ancient times, people liked to use "thinking in images", such as "Fu", "Lu" and "Shou". Most of them use images such as bats, square holes and peaches to express auspicious ideas. Some people even put the word "fu" upside down as a door god. This custom of putting the word "Fu" upside down is to take its homophonic meaning of "Fu Dao" or "Dao Fu".

5, Shousui group burning firecrackers:

On December 30th of the lunar calendar, this day is called New Year's Eve, also known as New Year's Eve. On the afternoon of New Year's Eve, whether it is a man who lives in a foreign country or has married and moved out (a married woman usually follows her husband's family) or an unmarried woman who goes out to work, the family usually goes to the ancestral home with New Year's gifts and other family reunion dinners. After the reunion dinner is done, it is generally to worship the ancestors first, that is, to worship the ancestors first and then eat the reunion dinner. When Zhongshan people have a reunion dinner, the main dishes are poultry such as pigs, chickens and ducks, as well as fish balls, meatballs and seaweed. Most of them are nine courses. People in Zhongshan are used to calling it "the nine hurdles", which means "a long time", "family reunion" and "making a fortune in the New Year". After dinner, the whole family get together, eat melons and fruits, talk about family affairs or play various games. Children will go to the front and back of the house to set off fireworks or light lanterns, and chase and play with each other until late at night (some people even stay up all night). At midnight (that is, at 12 pm), every household will set off fireworks to bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new year.

Here, in addition to the meaning of family reunion, there are also meanings such as sending the old and welcoming the new, wishing the elders a long and healthy life, a bumper harvest in the new year, and prosperity of people and animals. As the saying goes, "Let the Lord of winter live (that is, the solstice of winter) and let the old lady live." There is such a passage in Mu Ping County Records: "The year-end is except, ... the children call it Changchun's longevity, and they stay up all night, which is called longevity."

Another custom in Zhongshan is that after the reunion dinner on New Year's Eve, the elders will give dividends to the younger generation, especially to the grandchildren and other younger generations. In ancient times, when square-hole coins were used, the elders would make red threads and hang them around the necks or waists of junior students at home, or put them under children's pillows. It is said that this can ward off evil spirits, so it is also called lucky money. After liberation, due to the different coins used in this custom, after the feudal superstition was broken, these lucky money were wrapped in red paper or gifts, put in children's bags or given to grandchildren so that children could buy stationery toys or snacks, fireworks and firecrackers. But on the whole, it still means praying, that is, hoping that the younger generation will grow up quickly and healthily in the new year.

6, the first New Year dividend is:

"Xiangshan County Records" contains: "Happy New Year's Day, burning firecrackers, no sweeping the floor". According to the old custom in China, the first day of the first lunar month is called the first day of the first lunar month. This morning, before dawn (exactly, it was the end of the New Year's Eve), firecrackers exploded in the urban and rural areas, the lion drums kept ringing, the doors of every household were covered with red firecrackers, and the Spring Festival couplets (New Year pictures) hung at the door were also covered with red light. This is really a good start and good luck.

After drinking morning tea, people from all walks of life in cities and rural areas went out one after another, wearing red and green clothes, combing their hair, walking around the streets with gifts in their hands, and visiting their elders or relatives and friends. It is impossible to find out when this custom originated. According to "Wanping County Records", "On the first day of the first month, on the fifth drum day, hundreds of officials went to the DPRK to celebrate, and the people also offered incense burning, ancestor worship and elder worship, and exchanged answers with their in-laws, saying' Happy New Year'. I'm afraid the custom of visiting the New Year in Zhongshan also stems from this. According to legend, since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it is a custom for Zhongshan to worship the ancestors of heaven and earth and the previous generation on the first day of the first month, and then to worship the elders in the family. Then, everyone in the family, from big to small, should give gifts and congratulations to the elders and gifts to the children (usually married people give dividends to unmarried young people and children). Between peers, just hold hands and congratulate each other. After each family member pays a New Year call, male officials will go out to visit their elders or relatives and friends. During the New Year greetings, if you meet the children of friends and relatives, including unmarried boys and girls, you have the habit of exchanging interests. When you meet an acquaintance in the street, you should say a few words of congratulations, such as "Congratulations on making a fortune", "Happy New Year", "Dragon and Horse Spirit" and "Add Ding to make a fortune".

In terms of diet, on the first day of the new year, the general public mainly eats vegetarian food. The reason is that there are too many delicious dishes in the reunion dinner on New Year's Eve, and it is easy to "prop up" indigestion or eat too much, so there are many habits of fasting on New Year's Day. According to some elders and religious believers, the fast on the first day of the Lunar New Year originated from Buddhist fast customs. In addition, sweeping the floor is not allowed on the first day of the new year; Don't cut sharp tools with a knife, but be careful to break plates and cups. If you accidentally knock them down, you should say a few auspicious words, such as "flowers bloom everywhere, prosperity" and "good luck", and then quickly clean up the debris. If there are guests present, you should say auspicious words, such as "I'm sorry" and "the flowers are blooming with wealth", so as to feel at ease.

In Shatian District of Zhongshan, especially Tanzhou, the birthplace of Zhongshan folk songs, there is also a little-known custom, "Singing around Longchuan Street on New Year's Day." For example, there is a local proverb that says, "On the first day of the first lunar month, lions play drums, dragon boats jingle, cross the road, and hundreds of descendants are full ...". In the early morning of the first day of the lunar new year, in Tanzhou, you will see some local people holding a bamboo or wooden stick to support a faucet or a whole wooden dragon carved with mahogany or miscellaneous wood, about one and a half feet long and about ten centimeters thick, with a dragon boat drum, gongs and cymbals hanging around their necks to connect it; On the other hand, a folk artist is holding a banner couplet with the words "Congratulations on making a fortune", "Dragon boat to send a child" and "Hundred children and a thousand grandchildren", dancing the wooden dragon in his hand and singing the dragon boat while walking. Whenever he arrives at the newly-married portal or the home of the rich, he will knock at the door, especially singing folk songs loudly, and the dragon boat drums are particularly lively. Generally speaking, in the past, singing dragon boats on the first day of New Year's Day was mainly about singing the theme of "a hundred children and grandchildren, giving birth to your son early", which means "giving a son" to the newlyweds. This custom is similar to the "Panlong Song" of the She nationality. In the history, the custom of the Han nationality is mainly "Kirin to send children", and the "Panlong Song" of the She nationality also means to send children. When singing dragon boat in Tanzhou, it is usually based on emotion or sigh, but the New Year's Day is based on cheerful melody. Therefore, in the past, most people in Tanzhou welcomed singing dragon boats on the first day of the New Year's Day, and singers sang them. This custom is still popular in Sheng Qun area of Tanzhou, but its content has changed.

7. Sacrifice the god of wealth on the second day of the Lunar New Year:

The second day of the lunar new year is usually called the opening of the year. In Sichuan, Zhejiang, Fujian and other places, it is also called "sending the year" and "opening the year". In ancient times, during the Spring Festival, early in the morning, male officials and their sons or grandchildren would sweep the floor from the yard at the door, and then sweep the floor from the door to the house. After the cleaning, firecrackers are set off, incense sticks are lit to worship the ancestors of heaven and earth and the altar, and the gods are prayed for blessing, good weather, abundant crops, full house for children and grandchildren, and so on. Mainly worship the god of wealth (the legendary god in charge of wealth) and pray for a wide range of financial resources in the coming year. In the past, shops and restaurants used to worship before the opening of the market on the second day of the New Year's Day, which was customarily called "opening teeth" and cooked nine kinds of dishes, commonly known as "nine baskets", to show the meaning of "opening the door" and "making a lot of money"

This day is just the opposite of the first day of the new year. On the first day of the new year, you can't sweep the floor and cut sharp tools with a knife, but on the second day of the new year, all the families are fighting. Kill the duck and clean it up After the New Year greeting ceremony, every family member congratulated each other. The married man took his wife to pay a New Year greeting to his parents-in-law and didn't go home until after dinner. Unmarried people use this festival to celebrate the New Year at lovers' homes or friends' homes. The lion dance team and the dragon dance team are beating gongs and drums in the street to perform green picking and make new year's money.

8. On the third day of the third year, Sammy poured water and prayed to God:

In the old customs of the Han nationality, the third day of the third lunar month is commonly known as "jackal day" (an ancient animal with a short and fat tail, a long nose and ears like cattail fans, commonly known as pigs). In the Chronicle of Jingchu written by Liang Zongba in the Southern Dynasties, it was recorded that ... pigs were not killed for three days ... ". The ancients thought that the first day of the first month was the first year, and the first seven days of the first year were more important, and there were many taboos. In ancient times, people usually lacked meat, and pigs were the main meat of the Han people. Therefore, it is very important to raise pigs in rural areas. In the Central Plains, the third day of New Year's Eve is "tapir day" and "tapir" is another name for pigs. Therefore, on the third day of the Lunar New Year, when people get up early in the morning, they should first look at the weather to determine the prosperity, disasters and difficulties of the pig industry. Zhongshan people call this day "Red Mouth", which means people will bark like pigs on the third day. In the past, Zhongshan people were superstitious about divination. Some Taoist priests predicted that quarreling with neighbors on the third day of the first month was unlucky and it was easy to make "official mistakes". In addition, farmers must raise pigs and pray for God's blessing. Therefore, on the third morning, housewives opened the door, spilled rice, murmured prayers and wishes, and then went back to the back room to pray for God and worship Buddha in the hall to avoid quarrels, official mistakes and not to go out to pay New Year greetings. After liberation, this so-called vulgar custom has gradually changed, but there are still rural elders who follow this custom and accuse the younger generation of not paying New Year greetings on the third day of junior high school. In addition, some people in Zhongshan call New Year's Day "Che Gong Birthday", so they often go to Che Gong Temple to worship on New Year's Day, and turn windmills and ask for divination in the temple.

9, the seventh day, stir-fried powder and worship:

Han Dong Fang Shuo's "The gauntlet" once said: "After eight years old, a chicken, a dog, a pig, a sheep, a cow, a horse, a man and a valley. Sunny days are the main thing, and yin is a disaster. " However, there is a passage in Sui's Homesick Population: "beginning of spring is only seven days old and has been away from home for two years. People return to the geese and think before they spend. " According to historical books and old people, the ancient "Man's Day" was also an early divination activity in ancient times. After the Han and Wei Dynasties, it gradually developed into a sacrificial ceremony and a social fire activity. In ancient Zhongshan, every family first worshipped the gods to pray for the prosperity of people and animals. Then seven kinds of vegetables or seven kinds of fruits are used to make soup, which is called "Qibao soup" and "Qibaozhai". Most people don't cook and eat vegetarian food on this day, but more often they cook porridge and fried noodles. After dinner, they went out to participate in various social fire fighting activities and didn't come back until evening.

Since 1988, a group of intellectuals in Zhongshan have taken the lead in launching large-scale social welfare activities to carry forward Dr. Sun Yat-sen's legacy, the spirit of "universal love" and the contents of "all for me, all for all", "giving charity" and "helping the poor", which have been held on the seventh day of each year, turning the sacrificial activities in the seventh day of the past into large-scale charitable social activities. The traditional folk activity of "giving away a day" has injected the concept and vitality of fraternity, charity and promoting excellent national culture into Zhongshan, and has become a new folk cultural activity in Zhongshan. Now, on the seventh day of the seventh year every year, Zhongshan people hold large-scale social welfare activities, which are called charity walks. "Raising scratches (itching) on Zhongshan people's feet" has become a new mantra of Zhongshan people.

10, Lantern Festival Lantern Festival:

According to the records of the past dynasties in Xiangshan County, the city has a large population and many passages. Historically, the Lantern Festival is commonly known as Shangyuan, Yuanye and Yuanxi, and it is said that it originated from Taoism. Song and Wu's "Dream" says: "The fifteenth day of the first month is the day when God bless the people." There is a custom of watching lanterns in history, so it is also called "Lantern Festival". "Xiangshan County Records" records: "Lantern Festival Lantern Festival story game thoroughfare, dancers beat drums in three quarters, singers beat drums in seven quarters, spring night team songs sang to each other, singing lights and singing cranes". On the night of the Yuan Dynasty, Zhang Deng offered a reward to solve riddles on the lanterns. In ancient times, on the fifteenth day of Zhongshan Festival, many women went to the temple to worship the gods, especially in Shi Qi (now the city). Most people flocked to Sanyuan Temple in the west of the city to celebrate the birthday of Emperor Shang Yuan. According to historical records, since ancient times, there has been a custom of decorating the Lantern Festival in China. From Zhongshan to the fifteenth night of the first month, every household decorated lanterns and lit candles in front of the door, and children carried lanterns to play in the streets. In addition, various ancestral temples gathered a group of approvers, hung riddles and put on a "shooting tiger" dragon gate array. Therefore, the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month, also known as Lantern Festival, Shangyuan Festival and Yuanxi Festival, is one of the most solemn festivals in ancient times, and the custom of watching lanterns has been passed down to this day.

On the Lantern Festival, people usually eat rice cakes and glutinous rice balls with the whole family, which is a common custom all over the country. It is a common custom for a family to get together and live happily, while lovers go out hand in hand to bask in the moonlight, so some people call the Lantern Festival "China Valentine's Day". On the night of the fifteenth day of the first month, lights are decorated in front of every household to attract neighbors; Scholars write riddles and poems on lanterns and let tourists guess riddles or couplets. This is called "playing tiger". Major martial arts schools show their martial arts by dancing dragons and lions. Large families are also performing ground colors (equivalent to the folk art "dry boat" in the Central Plains) and performances in the open space at the entrance of the ancestral hall. During the Qing Dynasty, in some areas of Zhongshan, such as Xiaolan and other places, some non-governmental organizations also organized Lantern Festival parades with folk stories and allusions as the theme, which was called the Lantern Festival. Young men and women hold lanterns and sing together, commonly known as singing lantern songs. Therefore, the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month is also called the Lantern Festival. This folk social fire activity didn't end until the evening of the 16th day of the first month, and it was called scattered lanterns.

1 1, turn on and off the lights in the first month:

"Xiangshan County Records" records: "The Lantern Festival in the first month is to add people to hang lanterns in the temple and save them with wine first." Say: turn on the light, or hang the light. When the weather is clear, it will light lanterns. "In fact, the Lantern Festival is the 15th day of the first month, which is the Lantern Festival. However, in the past, it was the custom in Zhongshan that within one month from the second day of the first lunar month, most families who gave birth to boys (that is, Tianding) would turn on the lights on auspicious days of the ecliptic. On the day of turning on the light, go to the paper shop to customize lanterns, usually four: one is hung in front of the ancestors' spirits; One hangs in the ancestral hall; One hangs in front of the official temple of the house; The other is hung on the altar of the country. On the day when the lights are turned on, Tianding's family must provide rich meals to worship the gods, or hold several banquets for the guests at the same time. In the ancestral halls of all ethnic groups or the grain halls in front of them, there is also the custom of offering lanterns to worship ancestors. Since there is no light, there is light. Lantern Festival is usually held on February 2nd, which is the birthday of the native land. It is also held in front of Tomb-Sweeping Day on March 3rd of the lunar calendar. Similarly, on the Lantern Festival, several rich dishes should be prepared to repay God's ancestor worship and entertain clan folks.