Today is the first day of the first month is not a good day

It is a good day, the tenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar, one of the traditional Chinese folk festivals, known as the Stone Festival, for the stone god's birthday, called "stone mill day", "ten son day", "stone does not move "

This festival is one of the traditional Chinese festivals called Stone Festival.

This day is not allowed to move the stone and mill, mill, stone mortar and other stone tools, the common belief that otherwise it will hurt the crops. This day is also taboo to open the mountain and stone and stone cover the house, and incense to the stone worship, lunchtime offerings flapjacks custom.

In the first month of the ritual rat activities, also known as the "rat married daughter" "rat married". The specific date varies from place to place, some in the first month of the seventh, some in the first month of the 25th, many areas are the first ten.

Pingyao County, Shanxi, the tenth day of the cake will be placed at the root of the wall, the name is "congratulations on the rat marriage". Hunan Ningyuan to 17 days for the "mouse marriage" this day to avoid opening the cabinet, for fear of alarming the mouse. Shuo Tong area will also be in the water tank next to the point of a candle, for the rats to welcome the wedding party to light, do not find the wrong hole in their own.

The night before, children will be candy, peanuts, etc. placed in a dark place, and will be pots and pans, such as big things knocking big, for the rat Cui make-up, the next morning, will be the rat's hole closed, that from now on, the rat can be forever extinct. There are still areas in the rat to marry a woman day very early to go to bed, but also not to disturb the rats, it is said that you disturb it a day, it disturbed you a year.