What are the customs of the 11th lunar month?

The custom of the eleventh day of the first month is to hang lanterns, eat roasted zygotes and offer sacrifices to social gods.

Among them, hanging lanterns is to pray for happiness and add more sugar, and all regions in Guangdong have the custom of celebrating adding more sugar. On the 10th and 11th day of the first lunar month, rice will be delivered door to door in Chaoshan area. In Hakka areas, people hold lanterns to entertain villagers, while Zhucun, a famous cultural village in Guangzhou, hangs lanterns to pray for newcomers.

Although the customs of He Tianding vary from place to place, they are full of good wishes and expectations from every household for the couple. According to custom, all villagers who added new children and grandchildren to their homes last year should hang lanterns on the altar of the clan. Eating zygote on this day is a custom handed down from ancient times to the present. If eating zygote on this day represents a perfect life in the future, the ancients thought that ten was a perfect number.

Matters needing attention on the eleventh day of the first month

Sacrificing to social gods on this day is something people must do, so it is also called Lantern Festival. The gods of this day need to be respected, equivalent to the land father. However, the Zhuang people are rich and have more attributes as social gods, such as being in charge of one side of water, local creatures, and even marriage, childbirth and good health. , is the protector of a place.

Once, Lantern Festival was regarded as a feudal activity, but now it is regarded as the representative of Zhuang cultural heritage. Because it contains a lot of cultural information, such as faith, economy, national customs, language and even national art. It means that life is harmonious and beautiful, and there is a new beginning, so the four days before the Lantern Festival are used to worship the old times.