What are the customs and features of the Tianjin Cangcang Festival?

The Cangcang Festival is a traditional Chinese festival, which is also known as the Birthday of Lord Cang. In order to have a good harvest in the coming year, many agricultural workers will pray for blessings on this day and make sacrifices to the Cangwang. So what are the customary features of Tianjin Cangcang Festival? The first thing you need to do is to get a good look at the newest and most important thing you need to do!

Tianjin: playing hoarding, tearing the hanging money, eat dry rice fish soup

Tianjin folk there is a legend about the festival of filling the warehouse, it is said that the time of the drought, the people do not have a lot of life, but the Royal still require the payment of food on time. The official who managed the warehouses at that time could not stand it, so he distributed the grain to the people, and in order to hide the truth, he burned the warehouses, and burned to death together with himself, so the people had this festival in order to honor the official.

Therefore, the old folk home, whenever the day of filling the warehouse, early in the morning, the older people with a dustpan or wooden shovel shovel sifted charcoal ash, firewood and grass ash, in front of the door with a wooden stick knocking, scattered into a round hoard-shaped phase of the grain silo, and some also inlaid with lace, auspicious words, as well as on the ladder of the grain hoard, and in the hoard sprinkled with grains to symbolize the grain abundance, grain full of hoards to express the people fill the warehouse to save the warehouse officer's Deep love and affection. In this way, the story of filling the warehouse has been passed down from generation to generation.

Hoarding

The twenty-fifth day of the first month is the authentic day of the festival. In the old days, city dwellers and farmers in suburban counties held different folk activities on this day. Citizens more in the first month of the twenty-fourth after dinner, with lime, chalk or ash carbon in the middle of the yard to draw a diameter of about 2 feet to 3 feet or so of the old copper money-style circle, money holes around the money were written on the gold and silver full of hoarding 4 words, some in the money holes written in the hoarding word. Toward the lower end of the circle outside the door, and then draw a ladder, and then the circle in the middle of a packet of rice, pressed with a brick, known as grain hoard or rice hoard. At the same time, in the residential house in the middle of the ground, also draw a set of the same, the circle put on the foreign money, some put copper, wrapped in paper cuts hanging money in the child, with a brick press, called money hoard, these activities are collectively known as playing hoard fill warehouse. On the following morning, the rice bags and wallets pressed into the hoard were taken out and placed under the corner of their own kangmats until they were taken out at night. Residents hit the money hoard when the copper package used to cut paper hanging money can not be new, but to use the Spring Festival pasted the old hanging money, more on the use of a large source of wealth, grains and other auspicious words hanging money, in order to symbolize good luck.

Passed down customs

Fill warehouse also known as playing hoarding. Tianjin Spring Festival has the custom of pasting hanging money on the windows and doors (i.e., a kind of red paper carving similar to the window pattern of things). Early in the morning on the 25th day of the first month, each family should be pasted on the windows and doors of the hanging money to uncover, with it wrapped in some grains and cereals on the first day of the small circle drawn, and then pressed on a brick to symbolize that the granary has been filled, and so save a daytime, and finally the hanging money to concentrate together and burned. Some will reveal the hanging money directly wrapped up, and wrapped inside some change, and then placed in the corner of the cabinet, under the bed and other infrequently encountered places, stored for a year's time, and so on the next year to fill the warehouse, and then replace it with a new reveal down the hanging money.

On this day, the family must sleep early, the night there is a noise must not be disturbed, said the mouse married. The women are not allowed to do needlework on this day.

Nowadays, every year to fill the warehouse festival, many farming families still have to retain the existence of folk customs, many are not particularly complete system, there will be some omissions. Many city dwellers have forgotten this festival, and many young people don't even know it exists.

Summary: Tianjin will eat steamed buns, playing hoarding these are traditional customs. In the day is not allowed to eat rice, can not boil fish soup, this day every family must get up early, women can not move needlework, these are local customs taboos.