Traditional Culture of Lantern Festival on New Year's Eve

Analyzing the influence of festivals will enrich people's lives. Such days are of great significance to people's lives, and lanterns, drinking and eating oat noodles are important traditional cultures in life, and every festival deserves everyone's attention. Analyzing the holiday characteristics of the tenth day of New Year's Eve will certainly be beneficial to the arrival of the New Year.

On the tenth day of the tenth lunar month, Lantern Festival is a feast.

On the tenth day of the tenth lunar month, there is a custom of hanging lanterns and drinking lantern wine. Because lantern wine is called popular wine, it must be drunk. There are two kinds of hanging lantern wine and falling lantern wine, and there is no need for the owner to post an invitation notice. On the tenth day of the first lunar month, relatives, friends and neighbors will send gifts and red envelopes to congratulate them and drink together. On the 16th day of the first month, as usual, families with boys will put lanterns and set wine. During the Lantern Festival, some women who want to have children early will sneak into community temples and ancestral halls at night, steal some lanterns and take them home to pray for their children early. And people who hang lanterns hang more new lanterns for others to steal during the day. It's a custom.

Gardiner said good luck at home.

On the tenth day of the tenth lunar month, people also call lanterns Tianding lanterns, which means that there is good luck at home and children will come. The name of Tianding Lantern comes from Cantonese pronunciation, and adding lanterns means adding ding. In the past, in Zhu village, if a baby boy was born in the village, the whole family had to hang lanterns on the altar of the country until the tenth day of the first month. Concerned elders will also write the names of new people on lanterns. At that time, this practice was a major event that affected several generations. The elders in the village who record the genealogy will record the names of the newcomers and count them as birthright in the clan from now on.

Eat oatmeal and pray for good luck in the new year.

There is also the custom of eating oat noodles on this day, because this day is the day when mice get married. Eating oat noodles at this time means pleasing grandpa mouse and praying for good luck in the new year. On the tenth day of the first month, it is the Manchu Tianzang Festival. On this day, Manchu and Han people in the east of Inner Mongolia steamed sticky rice noodles in small bowls, while Manchu and Han people in the west steamed sticky rice noodles in small bowls. However, some Han people in central and western Inner Mongolia call the 10th day of the first month the mouse wedding day.