Why do old people say that a rat marries on the tenth day of the first month? What does it mean? What do you think?

The tenth day of the first month is the day of the earth, legend has it that this is the birthday of the stone, the main folk customs are:

Stone does not move: this day, where the mill, milling and other stone tools can not be moved, and even set up a sacrifice to enjoy the stone, fear of injury to the crops. Also known as the "stone does not move" "ten does not move". In some places, families burn incense to the stone to pay tribute. Lunch must eat bun cake, that eating cake within a year will be prosperous. There are also lifting the stone God's move. The first nine nights, people will be a jar frozen in a smooth stone, the tenth morning, the rope tied jar nose, by ten young men take turns carrying the jar away. The stone does not fall to the ground is a sign of the year's harvest

He rats married women: also known as the "rats married". Shanxi Pingyao County on the tenth day of the cake at the root of the wall, the name of the "He Mouse Marriage". Hunan Ningyuan 17th for the "mouse wedding" this day to avoid opening the cabinet, for fear of alarming rats. The night before, children will be candy, peanuts, etc. placed in a dark place, and will be pots and pans and other big things knocking and beating, for the rat "hyped up", the next morning, will be closed to the rat's hole, that from now on can be forever extinct. There are also 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

Rats marrying

Yu Fengnian paintings of rats is a long-standing popular custom in our country, the "rats marrying" New Year's Eve painting subject matter, to the thick ink prints of the rats, lined with red, green, yellow and purple and other heavy colors, the rats immersed in the joyful interest of life. The transfer of this human interest in the rat, so that do not have to rely on color to win the paper-cut "rat marrying" and other sophisticated form appears more evocative, thus making this thing that everyone hates to become very pleasing to the eye! These rat-shaped "beauty", first of all, the beauty of a very humane, without losing the rat's archetypal features, only a few strokes, so that it or crouch or stand, like a man like a monkey, manners can be charming