What are the distinctive customs and habits in Yulin?

Hang the lights! This custom in Yulin has been circulating for hundreds of years and is enduring.

Hanging lanterns refers to people who were born with men years ago (40 days before the Spring Festival). In the first month, they will entertain relatives and friends who come to congratulate them, commonly known as "hanging lantern wine". According to historical records, "Lantern Festival in the first month is the first time that people add lights to temples and offer sacrifices with pickled wine. Say: turn on the light, or hang the light. "

In Guangdong and Guangxi, there has always been the custom of drinking "hanging lantern wine", but in my hometown, hanging lanterns on the tenth day of the tenth lunar month is a relatively grand festival. On this day, families with boys hung lanterns on the heads of clubs, ancestral temples and temples last year. Lanterns used to be water lanterns with kerosene, but later they were changed into lanterns tied with colored paper, which were mainly hung in the heads of clubs and ancestral halls. You can't extinguish it. It won't be burned until the sixteenth day of the first month. On the day of hanging lanterns, the host will hold a big banquet to entertain relatives and friends, so it is called hanging lantern wine.