What are the traditional customs on the twelfth day of the first month?

On the twelfth day of the first month, there are customs such as setting up a lantern shed, celebrating the Year of the Rat, wrapping jiaozi, hiding scissors and collecting old shoes. ?

1, light shed:

Folk commonly known as the "Twelve Light Sheds". As the Lantern Festival approaches, the stewards will gather skilled craftsmen and young adults to prepare lanterns from the twelfth day of the first month to make various preparations for the Lantern Festival. ?

2. Rat Festival:

You can't use scissors on mouse day. As long as you can't hear the "click" sound of scissors, you can't hear the "click, click" sound of mice eating for a year at home. ?

3. Bao Jiaozi:

On the twelfth day of the first month, every household will wrap jiaozi, commonly known as squeezing the mouse's mouth, which means to make it happy and less harmful. People will make jiaozi look like a mouse, with mouth, ears and tail, and use mung beans as eyes. People say that Bao jiaozi is "squeezing the mouse's mouth". If you squeeze the mouse's mouth to death, it won't bite, and there won't be any mice at home for a year. ?

4. Hide scissors:

After breakfast, all the daughters-in-law and girls in the village should hide their commonly used scissors in drawers and under mattresses, and tie them up with red ropes or HongLing.

According to the villagers in Xuzhuang, no one can use scissors on Mouse Festival. As long as you can't hear the click of scissors, you can't hear the click of mice eating at home for a year. Daughters-in-law and girls hide scissors for fear that children will play with them. ?

5. Collect old shoes:

Children from every household carry baskets to collect old shoes from door to door, and villagers are willing to send out evil (shoes). Usually, people in the village don't sell worn-out old shoes as waste, but wait for the children who come to collect old shoes on Mouse Day. ?