What is the meaning of the custom of hiding scissors?

The custom of hiding the scissors is a symbol of abundance of grains and wealth.

On the twelfth day of the first month of the lunar calendar, usually from the morning, the daughter-in-law of each family girls must usually use the scissors hidden in the chest of drawers, under the quilt, and also with a red rope bracelet or red silk to the scissors bundled up.

Because this day is also the day of the rat to get married, so the rat festival this day adults and children can not use the clippers, if you can not hear the clippers of the "click," the sound of the home for a year can not be heard "click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click," the rat on the sound of goods. Daughter-in-law girls will be clippers hidden, is afraid of children to get clippers to play. This is also known as the custom of hiding scissors.

Traditional customs of the twelfth day of the first month:

1, Roast Fire Festival.

Roasted cypress fire means "defeat", can avoid the plague and drive away evil spirits, people will not use the old household goods, all burned, burned after the remaining cypress branches carved into "cypress locks", tied with a rope, hung around the neck of the baby, in order to live a long life. Harmonized "roast hundred fire" "roast hundred years of fire", the children run from street to street, roast a hundred fire, do not have a hundred diseases, a year without disaster.

2, point Ding day.

Dot Ding Day is mainly a Hakka custom, because the Hakka call, the lamp is Ding, in addition to congratulations and congratulations on the symbolism, but also expresses the clan's recognition of the newly born male.

All male children have to be point once Ding, can be in the year of birth point Ding, can also be a few years older before pointing Ding. It is customary for the lionesses to come to congratulate the host family, who will be greeted by two firecrackers and take out candies, mandarin oranges and lai see to thank the lionesses.

3, dumplings.

At noon, the family will make dumplings, and the dumplings will be pinched to look like rats, with mouths, ears, tails, and mung beans for eyes, and the dumplings will be pinched to look like rats, which are very realistic and a piece of plastic art.

This day, the reason why every family packs dumplings, because the dumplings is "pinching the mouth of the mouse", the mouse mouth to pinch, the mouse can not "click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click" high things, "a year at home without a mouse! "The first is to make the mouse's mouth shut.