What is the 16th day of the first month

The 16th day of the first month is usually the second day of the Lantern Festival, and this year's 16th day of the first month is February 6, 2023.

The sixteenth day of the first month is a very important traditional festival, which is both the "Day of Wealth" and the "Birthday of the God of the Door", as well as the "Day of Wear and Tear. " Legend has it that the sixteenth day of the first month is the day to send the god of pestilence, so the sixteenth day of the first month of the folk customs are also many.

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 of the heavy one, and then laughingly watched the others of the lanterns on fire, this is called touch the lamp. It is said that this year's lanterns can not be saved for next year and must be destroyed by touching the lanterns.

2, dancing torches and roasting fire

In many places in the countryside, every year on the sixteenth night of the first month of the dance torches, and in some places is the night of the seventeenth month. Adults and children roast the fire together, saying that roast fire, all diseases.

Nanjing sixteen to climb the city?

Climbing the city, no back pain, run, do not see the old. The night of the Lantern Festival night women get together to travel, traveling in pairs, see the bridge must be crossed, think that can get rid of disease and prolong life. The middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River evolved into "walking three bridges". Jiangnan rural areas, the water system is full of, walk a three bridge is not a problem. "On the sixteenth day of the first month, climb the city, walk away from all diseases, and step in peace." Nanjing Yuanxie's walk a hundred diseases by the bottom of the bridge stepped into the city head.