How much do you know about the custom of Spring Festival?

The Spring Festival is the biggest and most distinctive traditional folk festival in China, so with the development of the times, the custom of the Spring Festival plays a certain role in the contemporary era. The custom of Spring Festival still plays an irreplaceable role and significance in modern people's life: inheriting the cultural spirit, embodying family unity and praying for wealth and happiness; It conveys the cultural pursuit of contemporary people, feels the strong flavor of the year and opens a new chapter in the year.

Twenty-three of twelfth lunar month

Sacrificial stoves have a great influence among the people and spread widely. In the past, almost every kitchen had a kitchen god. People call this god "the Bodhisattva of Destiny" or "the chef is in charge of life". Legend has it that he was named "Commander of the Nine-Day East Chef" by the Jade Emperor, who was responsible for managing the stoves of various families and was regarded as the patron saint of the family. Kitchen shrines are mostly located in the north or east of the kitchen, with the idol of Kitchen God in the middle. Some people who don't have the niche of the Kitchen King even put the idol directly on the wall. Some gods only draw a kitchen god, while others have two men and women. The goddess is called "Grandma Chef".

According to folklore, on New Year's Eve, Kitchen God came to the world with other gods with the good and bad fortune that the family deserved. Kitchen God is considered to guide the gods in the sky. Other gods have ascended to heaven after the Chinese New Year, and only Kitchen God will stay in other people's kitchens for a long time. As the saying goes, "Men don't Yue Bai, women don't sacrifice to the kitchen". In some places, women don't sacrifice stoves. It is said that the kitchen god looks like a small white face and is afraid of women offering sacrifices to the kitchen stove, which is "suspected of men and women."

Twenty-four twelfth lunar month

Dust removal is a year-end cleaning. In order to welcome the Spring Festival, it is a traditional habit of China people to thoroughly clean the outside, front and back of the house. The north is called "sweeping the floor" and the south is called "dust removal". China had the custom of sweeping dust during the Yao and Shun period. This custom is popular because "dust" and "Chen" are homophonic, and the purpose of "sweeping dust" is to sweep away all bad luck. This has placed people's desire to create a new situation and the joy of resigning the old and welcoming the new.

the 29th of the twelfth lunar month

In the ancient mythology of China, it is said that there is a ghost world, in which there is a mountain, a big peach tree with a wide coverage and a golden rooster on the top. Whenever the golden rooster crows in the morning, the ghost who travels at night will rush back to the ghost domain. The Gate of Ghost Domain is located in the northeast of Peach Tree District. There are two gods standing by the door, named Shen Tu and Lei Yu. If a ghost does something unnatural at night, Shen Tu and Lei Yu will immediately find it, catch it, tie it up with a rope made of Miscanthus and give it to the tiger, so all ghosts in the world are afraid of Shen Tu and Lei Yu. Therefore, people carved them out of peach wood and put them at the door to ward off evil spirits and prevent harm. Later, people simply carved the names of Shen Tu and Lei Yu on the mahogany board, thinking that this could also ward off evil spirits. This kind of red board was later called "Fu Tao", the predecessor of Spring Festival couplets.

In order to pray, some places still keep the habit of sticking doors. In the folk, the door god is a symbol of justice and strength. The ancients thought that people with strange looks often had magical temperament and extraordinary skills, and Zhong Kui, a respected ghost catcher, was such a grotesque figure. Therefore, the folk door gods are always glaring and ferocious, holding all kinds of traditional weapons in their hands, ready to fight against ghosts who dare to come to the door. Because the doors of China's house are usually two opposite doors, the door gods are always paired. After the Tang Dynasty, besides peace, people also regarded Qin and Weichi Gong, two military commanders in the Tang Dynasty, as gatekeepers. According to legend, Emperor Taizong was ill and heard a ghost crying outside the door. He was restless all night, so he asked the two generals to take weapons to the door of the bystander, and there was no ghost harassment the next night. Later, Emperor Taizong had the images of these two generals painted and pasted on the door, and this custom began to spread widely among the people.

It is also common to post New Year pictures in urban and rural areas during the Spring Festival. Colorful New Year pictures add a lot of prosperous and happy holiday atmosphere to thousands of families. New Year pictures are an ancient folk art in China, which reflects people's simple customs and beliefs and places their hopes on the future.

At present, the earliest collection of New Year pictures in China is the woodcut New Year pictures of the Southern Song Dynasty, which show four ancient beauties: Wang Zhaojun, Zhao, Ban Ji and Lvzhu. The most popular picture is a "mouse getting married" New Year picture, which depicts an interesting scene in which a mouse marries his bride according to world customs.

Stick grilles window grilles not only set off the festive atmosphere, but also set up decorative, ornamental and practical functions. Paper-cutting is a popular folk art in China, which has been deeply loved by people for thousands of years. Because it is often pasted on the window, it is also called "window grilles". With its unique generalization and exaggeration, window grilles show auspicious things and good wishes incisively and vividly, and decorate festivals with colorful colors.

Stick the word "Fu" whenever we bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new year, every household should stick the word "Fu" on the door, hoping for good luck to enter the house. In many places, the word "Fu" is reversed, and the homonym of "Dao" and "Dao" is used to mean "Fu is here". Feng Jicai, chairman of the China Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood, said that the word "Fu" on the gate should not be pasted upside down. The word "Fu" on the gate means "Welcome to Fu" and "Accept Fu". The gate is the entrance and exit of the family and a solemn place. The word "fu" posted must be solemn and generous, so it must be posted correctly. It is top-heavy and disrespectful to pour the word "Fu" on the door, which violates the spirit of China's "Door Culture" and "Year Culture". Folklore emphasizes norms, which should be valued and observed, and should show the dignity and dignity of a culture.

New Year's Eve

In ancient times, this custom was very popular. Due to different local customs and habits, the forms of ancestor worship are also different. Some go to the wild to sweep graves, and some go to the ancestral temple to worship their ancestors. Most of them put their ancestral tablets in the main hall in turn at home to display their offerings, and then worshippers worship them in order of age. Han people worship their ancestors and make more fish tanks filled with high bowls, which means ringing bells. On New Year's Eve and New Year's Day, vegetarian cakes will be made, and on the last night, Lantern Festival will be held. Burn incense and kowtow every morning and evening and offer new tea.

During the Spring Festival, ancestral graves are usually on New Year's Eve. Go to the ancestral grave and invite the deceased relatives home for the New Year. Set off firecrackers on the grave, burn paper, and kowtow to the deceased relatives at home to "go home for the New Year". After sweeping the grave, you must walk home with your hands on your back. You must not fight, turn around or visit. Be sure to go home directly, which is also to bring home the blessings and wealth of your ancestors. When I got home, I burned incense and kowtowed in front of the ancestral tablet and said, "You are at home for the New Year!" "

Keeping New Year's Eve is one of the most important activities. The custom of observing the age has a long history, which was first seen in the local chronicles of the Western Jin Dynasty. This custom gradually became popular. At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, Emperor Taizong Li Shimin wrote a poem "Shousui": "Cold words winter snow, warm with spring breeze." To this day, people are used to celebrating the New Year's Eve. In ancient times, observing the age has two meanings: the old man's observing the age means "resigning from the old", which means cherishing time; Young people keep their age in order to prolong the life of their parents.

Throughout the ages, countless scholars have described the custom of "observing the age". In Hanshan Temple in Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province, there is a custom of "ringing the bell every year". At midnight on New Year's Eve, the bell rang 108 to eliminate the world 108 kinds of troubles. Zhang Ji, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, vividly described this point in his poem a night-mooring near maple bridge: "On a cold night, Jiang Feng was worried about sleeping while fishing. Hanshan Temple outside Gusu City, passenger ships are ringing at midnight. "

Heaven and earth table Heaven and earth table is a temporary offering table, specially designed for New Year's Eve, mainly used to receive gods. Generally, people who don't have a big Buddhist temple pay special attention to it, because there are very few offerings to the Buddha at ordinary times, and a large reward will be given to the Buddha at the end of the year. The content of Heaven and Earth Table is different from that of perennial Buddhist temples. Except for some hanging money, incense sticks, five sacrifices and big sacrifices, most of the idols worshipped are temporary, such as Percentage, which is a woodcut idol album. "Eighteen Buddhas and Gods in the Three Realms of Heaven and Earth", a complete book of color printing, and woodcut on rhubarb fringed paper; Fu Lushou Samsung photo, etc. Some of the above images will be incinerated after receiving the gods, such as "percentage", and some will not be incinerated until the evening shift or even the Lantern Festival. The position of the table is not uniform. For example, the room is spacious and can be put in the house. If there is no land at home, put it in the yard.

Eating New Year's Eve is the most lively and enjoyable time for every household in the Spring Festival. On New Year's Eve, a table is full of rich New Year's dishes, and the family get together, sit around the table and have a reunion dinner. The sense of accomplishment in my heart is beyond words. There are many kinds of New Year's Eve dinners, including jiaozi, wonton, long noodles and Yuanxiao. , and each has its own emphasis. Northerners are used to eating jiaozi during the Spring Festival (the custom of eating jiaozi was handed down from the Han Dynasty).

There are new and old years to receive God, but the time to receive God is not uniform. Some people begin to hold ceremonies as soon as the child arrives, some people begin to receive the gods at midnight when the child is "right", and some people wait until the child is "right". After the sacrifice, the immortals from all walks of life returned to the Heavenly Palace, ignoring worldly affairs, and after New Year's Eve, that is, when the New Year came, they came to the human world for deliberation. The ceremony of receiving gods was held at the table of heaven and earth, presided over by the oldest person in the family. Because the immortals live in different directions in heaven, the lower bound naturally comes in different directions. As for who to meet and where to come from, we should check the "constitution book" in advance, lead the whole family to hold incense in the yard, and follow their instructions to meet the gods. After kowtowing according to the position, stand still until the incense is exhausted, and then kowtow. Finally, take down the fragrant roots, idols and ingots, put them into the money and grain pots already prepared in the yard, and burn them with pine branches and sesame stalks. When the gods were closed, firecrackers exploded and the atmosphere was extremely strong.

After stepping on God, sesame stalks are spread from the street gate to the door of the house, and people walk on them and make a noise, which is called "stepping on the age" or "stepping on God". Because "broken" and "treasure" are homophonic, it means that the new year begins to exorcise evil spirits.

In the old society, since the financial door was opened at midnight during the Spring Festival, people have sent the God of Wealth. The god of wealth shouted outside the door with a piece of paper in his hand, "Here comes the man who sent the god of wealth!" " At this time, the owner of the house welcomed the arrival of the god of wealth and gave the reward to the bearer. Say something auspicious when sending the God of Wealth, such as "Gold and silver treasures are rolling in" and "There are a pair of golden lions on the left and a pair of golden phoenix on the right". In addition, some people dressed in red robes, gauze hats, beards on their mouths, yellow cloth bags on their backs, dressed as the god of wealth, followed by several drummers, who distributed statues of the god of wealth from door to door in order to ask for money. Every time I go to someone's door, I will sing a bunch of auspicious words, such as "the left compartment is full of gold and silver, and the right compartment is full of treasure", until the owner happily takes over the statue of the god of wealth and gives them some money. These talents thank each other and fight harder later. In the sound of gongs and drums, turn to others.

After the New Year's Eve, the elders at home should give their children lucky money and wish the younger generation a safe New Year. Lucky money, also known as "winning money" and "lucky money". The "money" of the earliest lucky money is not the currency circulating in the market, but the auspicious items or evil spirits specially cast into coins, which are amulets worn by children. Because "sneaky" and "old" are homophonic, so lucky money has the meaning of "disgusting sneaky".

Since the Song Dynasty, people have regarded coins in real circulation as lucky money, which was widely popular in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, the elders strung copper coins with red lines after the New Year's Eve dinner and gave them directly to the younger generation, or put them at the foot of the bed or beside the pillow after the younger generation slept. When using paper money, parents like to choose new paper money with connected numbers, which indicates that future generations will "get rich again and again" and "get promoted again and again". There are also banknotes wrapped in red paper. This kind of lucky money is called "Geely Red Packet".

The first day of the lunar new year

Setting off firecrackers means that when the new year comes, the first thing for every household to open the door is to set off firecrackers and use firecrackers to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new.

Drinking Tu Su wine and Tu Su wine is a kind of medicinal liquor. In the ancient custom, the whole family drank Tu Su wine on January Day to eliminate unhealthy tendencies. Most people drink alcohol, always starting from the elderly; But drinking Tu Su wine is just the opposite, starting with the smallest. Perhaps young people grow up day by day, drinking first to congratulate them, and old people drinking late to retain them. Su Zhe, a writer in the Song Dynasty, wrote in "In addition to Japan": "At the end of each year, I don't know that I have been drinking Tu Su for more than 70 years", which is a custom. In ancient times, this unique drinking order often caused people to have various emotions, so it left a deep impression on people.

It is said that broom's birthday is on the first day of the first month. You can't use a broom on this day, otherwise it will sweep away luck, ruin money, and bring "broom stars" and bring bad luck. If you must sweep the floor, you must sweep it from the outside to the inside. Don't throw water on the garbage on this day, for fear of breaking the money. Today, this custom is still maintained in many places. Don't put a broom or take out the garbage on New Year's Eve. Prepare a large barrel of waste water and don't sprinkle it that day.

On the first day of the new year, people get up early, put on new clothes, dress up neatly, and then visit relatives and friends to wish each other a happy New Year. There are various ways to pay New Year's greetings, some are householders leading several people from house to house, some are colleagues inviting several people to pay New Year's greetings; Others get together to congratulate each other. This is called "group worship". When paying New Year greetings during the Spring Festival, the younger generation should first pay New Year greetings to their elders and wish them health and longevity. The elders can distribute the lucky money prepared in advance to the younger generation.

The second day of the first lunar month.

The married daughter came back on the second day of the first month to pay New Year greetings, and the married daughter returned to her family with her husband and children. The gift may not be so heavy, but "courtesy is light and affection is heavy" expresses the girl's thoughts for the villagers. When the girl goes home, if there is a nephew at home, menstruation has to pay again. Although she gave the lucky money on the first day, it has a different meaning this time. This custom is called "eating midnight snack" by Chaoshan people. As the name implies, it's just lunch, and the daughter must get back to her husband's house before dinner.

Sacrifice to the God of Wealth (North) In the north, the God of Wealth is sacrificed on the second day of the first month. On this day, both commercial shops and ordinary families will hold activities to worship the god of wealth. Families offer sacrifices to the God of Wealth on New Year's Eve. In fact, they burn the rough printed matter they bought. I want to eat wonton at noon this day, commonly known as "Yuanbao soup". Fish and mutton were used as sacrifices. On this day, big businesses in old Beijing held large-scale sacrificial activities, offering sacrifices with "five sacrifices", that is, whole pig, whole sheep, whole chicken, whole duck and red live carp, hoping to make a fortune in the new year.

On the third day of the first month

The early years were Tianqing Festival, a court festival in the Song Dynasty. In the first year of Song Zhenzong Dazhong Xiangfu, because of the legend that there was a heavenly book, Zhenzong issued an imperial edict, which designated the third day of the first month as Tianqing Festival, and officials waited for five days off. Later it was called Xiao Nian Chao, just like Xiao Nian Chao.

Sticking "Red Mouth" In the south of China, it is necessary to stick "Red Mouth" (forbidden mouth) on the morning of New Year's Eve, thinking that this day is prone to quarrels and is not suitable for New Year's greetings. The so-called "red mouth" is usually made of red paper with a length of about 25 cm and a width of about 3 cm, on which auspicious words such as safe entry and exit are written, pasted above the front and back doors, and the other is placed on the garbage to pick it out and throw it away. These rubbish are all piled up on the second day of the first day, so we must clean them up and throw them out together until the third day, otherwise it will be equivalent to the outflow of gold and silver at home.

"Send the Year" is usually held at night to send the gods and ancestors back to heaven.

The fifth day of the first month

Sacrifice to the God of Wealth (South) Southerners sacrifice to the God of Wealth on the fifth day of the first month. According to folklore, the God of Wealth is the Five Gods. The so-called five roads refer to the east, west, north and south, which means that you can get money when you go out of five doors. Every new year, people open doors and windows, burn incense, set off firecrackers and fireworks to welcome the god of wealth at 0: 00 on the fifth day of the first month. After receiving the god of wealth, everyone still has to eat road wine, often until dawn. Everyone is full of hope of getting rich. May the god of wealth bring home gold and silver treasures in the new year and make a fortune. According to the custom, the sooner you pick up the road, the better. The first one you receive is the true god, which is particularly effective, so it is called "grabbing the road". In some places, the fourth day of January is really "grabbing the road" and it has become a custom.

Sending the poor on the fifth day of the first month is a characteristic custom in ancient China, which means offering sacrifices to poor ghosts (poor gods). The pauper, also known as "pauper", is said to be the son of Zhuan Xu. He is weak and short, and likes to wear rags and drink porridge. In some places, it is forbidden to go out on the fifth day of the fifth month. Fresh meat should be roasted in a pot and beans should be fried crackling, thinking that this can break the poor and make money. In addition, in the old New Year's Eve or the fifth day of the first month, people had to eat very full, commonly known as "filling the poor pit". The popular custom of sending poor people actually reflects the traditional psychology of China people who generally want to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, send away the poverty and hardships of the past and welcome a better life in the new year.

During the Spring Festival, shops of all sizes closed together from the first day of the lunar new year, but they opened on the fifth day of the first month. People think that the fifth day of the first month is the holy day of the god of wealth, and that choosing this day to open the market will definitely bring wealth.

The seventh day of the first month

The seventh day of the first month is Human Day. Some people began to observe daily customs in the Han dynasty, and they began to pay attention to it after the Wei and Jin Dynasties.

On this day, people will eat spring pancake rolls "box lunch" (a kind of cooked food) and spread pancakes in the yard to smoke the sky.

Eating Qibao soup is a soup made of seven kinds of vegetables. Eating it in people's days can bring good omen. It is said that it can dispel evil and cure diseases. Different places have different products, different fruits and vegetables and different meanings. Mustard, cabbage, leek, spring vegetables, celery, garlic and thick-petalled vegetables used in Chaoshan, Guangdong; Hakka people use celery, garlic, onion, coriander and leek to match fish. Spinach, celery, onion, garlic, leek, mustard tuber, shepherd's purse and Chinese cabbage are used in Taiwan Province Province and Fujian Province. Among them, celery and onion represent wisdom, garlic represents calculation, and mustard makes people live longer.

Vulcan was sent to Shandong Peninsula. On the seventh day of the first month, children chose a stick about 2 meters long and tied it with wheat straw, which was called Vulcan. At dusk, one end of Vulcan is lit at home, and the children run away from home with the other end of Vulcan until it burns out. This activity means to send Vulcan out of the house, and there will be no fire in the house within one year, which is very safe.

The eighth day of the first month

Shunxing Shunxing is also called offering sacrifices to stars. On the eighth night of the first month, people go to the temple to burn incense and worship the star king (that is, Shunxing). After the stars in the sky come out, all families will hold sacrificial ceremonies for Shunxing. When offering sacrifices to heaven, put a "golden lamp" (yellow snuff) on the desk, stove, threshold and pot. And lit it, called "snuff", meaning to avoid evil. After the sacrifice of the stars, the whole family got together for the Lantern Festival.

Pray for release There is a "release" activity on the eighth day of the first month, which is to take some fish and birds raised at home outside and release them into the wild. In the Ming Dynasty, Dong Liu recorded in The Scenery of the Imperial Capital: "On the eighth day of the first month, birds, fish and shrimp in pots, snails and mussels were released in Shixing Lane. Luo tang qian, monks speak Sanskrit, thousands of people are opposite, and feathers are flying in the air. Evil falls on the house, but when they move, they leave. Things like water are thrown into the bamboo shoots and bait of Jinshui River in the imperial city. " The release on the eighth day not only embodies the ancient people's moral concept of respecting all things in nature and living in harmony with nature, but also expresses people's good wishes for the prosperity of all kinds of creatures in the world at the beginning of the new year.

Early September

The ninth day of the first month is heaven. According to legend, this day is the birthday of the jade emperor, the tallest god in the sky, commonly known as "born in heaven". Heaven is the Jade Emperor, and Taoism calls it the "Yuan God", which is the highest god who dominates the universe. He is the supreme god who commands all the gods in the three realms and all the spirits on the earth, and represents the supreme "heaven". The main customs of this day are offering sacrifices to the jade emperor, Taoist temple and fasting to heaven. In some places, when the sun is shining, women will prepare incense sticks and fast food, and put them in the open air at the entrance of the courtyard lane to pray for God's blessing.

The tenth day of the first month

Ten, homophonic "stone", so the tenth day is the birthday of stone. On this day, stone tools such as grinding and grinding can't be moved, and even for fear of hurting crops, stones will be sacrificed. This custom is also called "stone does not move" and "ten does not move". In Henan, on this day, every family burns incense and pays tribute on stones, and must eat steamed stuffed buns for lunch, thinking that they will be rich within one year after eating cakes. In Yuncheng, Shandong and other places, there is a move to lift the stone god. At the beginning of Kuya, people frozen a crock on a smooth stone. On the morning of the tenth day, the jar nose was tied with rope, and 10 boys took turns to carry the crock. If the stone does not fall to the ground, it indicates a bumper harvest that year.

Eleventh day of the first month

The eleventh day of the first month is the "son-in-law's day", which is the day when the father-in-law fetes his son-in-law. On the ninth day, there was a lot of food left over from the celebration, except for one day on the tenth day, so I hoped that people would last for a long time and my parents wouldn't have to spend any more money on the Spring Festival, so I used these leftovers to entertain my son-in-law and daughter. The folk song is called Eleven Son-in-law.

The twelfth day of the first month

From this day on, people began to prepare to celebrate the Lantern Festival, buy lanterns and set up light sheds. There is a nursery rhyme that says, "Eleven people clamor, twelve people build a light shed, thirteen people turn on the lights, fourteen lights are on, fifteen lines and a half months, and sixteen people finish the lights."

The fifteenth day of the first month

Lantern Festival Lantern Festival, also known as Lantern Festival, festivals and customs activities also extend and expand with the development of history. As far as the length of festivals is concerned, there is only one day in Han Dynasty, three days in Tang Dynasty and five days in Song Dynasty. In the Ming Dynasty, lights were lit from the eighth day of August until the seventeenth night of the first month, which lasted for ten days: during the day, it was a city, which was very lively; It's spectacular to light the lights at night. Especially the exquisite and colorful lights make it the climax of entertainment activities during the New Year.

Food custom supplies

Laba porridge Laba porridge is not only sweet and delicious, but also can smooth the stomach, promote fluid production and quench thirst, so it is quite popular among people. Drinking Laba porridge has a history of 1000 years in China. At the end of one year, when the crops have been harvested and dried, people go to the wild to hunt animals and offer sacrifices to their ancestors in order to pray for a long life and avoid disasters. This is the so-called "La Worship". In the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month was officially designated as "Laba Festival". It is said that Sakyamuni, the founder of Buddhism, realized enlightenment on the eighth day of December, so Laba is also a Buddhist festival, called "Buddhist Enlightenment Festival". On the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, there is a custom of drinking Laba porridge all over China.

Eating rice cakes in the Spring Festival, "It is better to take one year than one year and pray for one year." It means that every year goes well. The types of rice cakes are: white rice cakes and yellow rice cakes in the north; There are water mill rice cakes in Jiangnan; There is glutinous rice in the southwest; There are red turtle cakes in Taiwan Province province. "Gao" has been called in Han dialect, which was popular in Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties.

Jiaozi has a tradition of eating jiaozi on New Year's Eve, but the custom of eating jiaozi varies from place to place. In some northern areas, there is also the custom of eating jiaozi every morning from the first day to the fifth day. Eating jiaozi is a unique way for people to express their good luck and good luck when they bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new year. Jiaozi is shaped like an ingot, wrapping jiaozi means wrapping good luck, and eating jiaozi means having a good life. Jiaozi on the dining table symbolizes the meaning of "getting rich in the New Year, and the ingots are rolling in". When wrapping jiaozi, someone also wrapped a few coins sterilized by boiling water, saying that whoever ate first would make more money.

Yuanxiao is called "Tangyuan" in the south. In Jiangsu, Shanghai and other places, people are used to eating glutinous rice balls on the morning of New Year's Day. Lantern Festival is called "Shangyuan Festival" by Taoism. According to the story of Yi Tu's true (girl's) ring in Yuan Dynasty and "Three Jade Posts", the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon died easily. On the fourteenth day of the first month, a teenager suddenly asked for an audience, claiming to be the messenger of Chang 'e, and said, "Madam knows you are thinking, and there is no way to go down. Tomorrow is the full moon. You should use rice flour as a pill, put it in the northwest of the room, call your wife's name, and you can go down in three nights. " You obeyed the law, and Chang 'e really came. It can be seen that eating Lantern Festival means "reunion is like the moon".

In the Ming Dynasty, Lantern Festival was very common in Beijing, and the practice was no different from today. During the reign of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty, the "Babao Lantern Festival" and the Ma Siyuan Lantern Festival prevailed in the ruling and opposition parties. In the early years of the Republic of China, Yuan Shikai ordered that it was forbidden to shout Yuanxiao, because it had the same pronunciation as "Yuan Xiao".