What is the date of the sixteenth day of the first month Customs and taboos of the sixteenth day of the first month

What is the 16th day of the first month

The 16th night of the first month of the lunar calendar, one of the traditional Chinese lunar festivals. A day full of unlimited fun and cheerful. "On the 16th night of the first month of the lunar calendar, we fry sesame flowers, carry fences, dance with torches, tease and scold people, and send oxen to the stake, and the young and old are happy and joyful." I don't know how many years this ballad has been passed down in our area. So when someone said, when I was a child, what I looked forward to most was the New Year, because not only did I have good clothes to wear and good food to eat, but I also didn't need to do housework. On the first day of the New Year, both adults and children are not free, because the first day of the New Year has a lot of scruples, especially talking and doing the most can not be casual. And the sixteenth day of the first month is really our children's world, is the day of the adults to play as they wish.

Customs and taboos of the sixteenth day of the first month

Customs

1, touch the lamp

The sixteenth night of the first month is the children's festival, the children took out their own lanterns against the others, and then looked at the others with a smile on the lantern fire, which is called a touch of the lamp. Speaking of this year's lanterns can not be left to next year, must be destroyed in the way of touching the lamp.

Now such a custom still exists in a few places, because of the limitations of the conditions, the children have been more and more unable to find the fun of the children in the past.

2, dancing torches and roasting fire

In many places in the countryside, the night of the sixteenth day of the first month of the year to dance torches, and in some places is the night of the seventeenth day of the first month. Adults and children roast fire together, said roast fire, all diseases.

Taboo

1, in the north, especially in Hebei, the sixteenth day of the first month for the "wear and tear day", avoid opening the warehouse, otherwise the warehouse will be stored in the wear and tear, the main year of famine.

2, not wipe the black face

Oroqen, Daur ethnic group on the sixteenth day of the first month for the "black ash day", people compete with each other to wipe the black face, or else, that year will be unlucky. But the son, daughter-in-law taboo and father wipe each other, brother and sister-in-law also taboo wipe each other. Young people to the elderly wipe black face, must first sulfur head, and then wipe.

3, taboo lamps daughter-in-law oil exhaustion

Hubei area, is the night of the day, the stove lamp accounted for the year, the lamp is out and there is leftover oil in the marigold, the Lord of the rain water, lamps out of oil exhaustion, the Lord of the year drought.

4, avoid washing

White people in the old New Year, the first day of the first month to sixteen, the whole family do not wash their faces, do not sweep the floor, do not comb their hair, or else, thought it would be a loss of wealth.

The sixteenth day of the first month to receive the God of Fortune

Receiving the God of Fortune is generally the fourth and fifth days of the first month, the sixteenth day of the first month is no longer a day to receive the God of Fortune.

Receiving the God of Fortune is an ancient traditional Chinese folk holiday custom. Because Chinese folklore says that the fifth day of the first month is the birthday of the God of Fortune, so after the first day of the year, the next most important activity is to receive the God of Fortune, the night before the birthday of the God of Fortune, the family organized a banquet for the God of Fortune to celebrate the birthday.

The fourth day of the first month (also said the fifth day of the first month) to pick up the God of Fortune's origin, the God of Fortune or the God of Fortune of the Five Roads: Legend has it that there are five brothers, the first word of the seal are "obvious", so it is known as the "God of Fortune of the Five Apparent". In his lifetime, he robbed the rich to help the poor, and after his death, he still punishes the evil and promotes the good, blessing the poor people. There is a temple to the God of Wealth outside the Andingmen Gate in Beijing.

The "God of Wealth", the God of Wealth and Poverty, also known as the "God of Wealth and Fortune": his painted image is often associated with the "Fortune", "Luk", "Longevity" and "Fortune", "Luk" and "Longevity". ", "life" three stars and the god of happiness listed together, together for the blessing, fortune, life, happiness and wealth. Star of fortune face white hair long, holding a treasure bowl, "fortune into the treasure" four words from this. General family Spring Festival must hang this picture in the main hall, praying for wealth and good fortune. On the fifth day of the first month to receive the God of Fortune, the origin of the custom of the Star of Fortune and the Tang Dynasty Chang'an richest Wang Yuanbao.

On the fourth day of the first month of the lunar calendar, the stores opened their markets, and early in the morning, gongs and firecrackers, livestock and sweet wine (shēng lǐ) were displayed to welcome the God of Wealth. The Qing dynasty's Gu Tieqing (qingjialu) quoted a bamboo poem by Cai Yun, which depicted the situation of Suzhou people welcoming the God of Fortune on the fifth day of the first month: "Five days of wealth and five days of searching for a year's wish for a moment's reward; Beware of welcoming the God of Fortune early elsewhere, and rush to embrace the head of the road the next night". "Holding the head of the road" is also known as "welcoming the God of Wealth". Believe in Guan Di Shengjun businessmen, on the fifth day of the first month of the Guan Gong sacrificial lice, firecrackers, burn gold paper worship, Guan Sheng Di Shengjun blessing a year of good fortune.