What do you mean by "turn on the light"

"Turn on the light" and "Turn on the light in the first month"

According to historical records, "Lantern Festival in the first month is the first time that people add lights to temples and offer sacrifices with pickled wine. Say: turn on the light, or hang the light. "

It is a custom in Jiangnan and Lingnan that most families with boys (namely Tianding) turn on the lights on auspicious days from the second day of the first lunar month to the fifteenth day of the first lunar month (in some areas).

On the day of turning on the light, first go to the paper shop to buy lanterns, usually four lanterns: one hangs in front of the ancestor's coffin; One hangs in the ancestral hall; One hangs in front of the official god of the zhaimen; The other hangs on the altar of the country. At the same time, we have to paste couplets.

On the day when the lights are turned on, Tianding's family will set up several sumptuous dishes to reward God's ancestor worship and entertain clan folks.

In the ancestral halls in the south of the Yangtze River, or in the Tanghe Temple in front of the ancestral hall, there is also the custom of offering lanterns to worship ancestors and issuing lanterns.