What are the customs of the Lantern Festival, the rat expulsion, walking away from a hundred diseases and welcoming the purple nuns, respectively?

The Lantern Festival is a traditional Chinese festival and a family reunion. Do you know what are the customs of the Lantern Festival? Let's talk about the customs of the Lantern Festival.

The customs of the Lantern Festival vary slightly from place to place, but they are basically the same. But because young people nowadays are more concerned about taking a vacation for the festival, many traditional customs have been gradually forgotten, and some of the customs young people may not have heard of. The traditional Lantern Festival includes eating Yuanxiao, watching lanterns, walking away from all diseases, expelling rats, and welcoming Zigu. The first two eating Lanterns, Lantern Viewing I think most people know, is in the Lantern Festival day, families get together to eat Lanterns, meaning the reunion; and Lantern Viewing is the after-dinner recreation program, a variety of lanterns waiting for people to go to enjoy, and some lanterns on the lanterns hanging riddles, inviting people to guess the riddles. However, the latter three customs "walk hundred diseases, by the rat, welcome the purple aunt" for many people is unfamiliar to it.

One, walk a hundred disease

Walk a hundred disease is also known as "walk a hundred steps", "loose a hundred disease", "baked a hundred disease Ancient women seldom go out, only in the Lantern Festival this day, they can go out without constraints, "walk the bridge", "see the lights", "climb the mountain", "incense", in order to pray for the "100 steps", "100 diseases", "bake 100 diseases", "bake 100 diseases". incense", so as to pray for the coming year can get rid of disasters and diseases.

Second, by the rat

This activity is mainly for sericulture people say. After the 15th day of the first lunar month, the weather will gradually get warmer and the rats will start to come out and move around. Since in ancient times, people worshiped rats as the god of grains, and believed that killing rats would bring misfortune, but they were afraid that the rats would eat their own silkworms, so the silkworm breeders would feed the rats with rice porridge in the hope that the rats would stop hitting the silkworms' babies.

Three: Welcoming the Purple Nun

Legend has it that the Purple Nun was a girl with a tragic life who died of poverty on the 15th day of the first lunar month. People sympathized with Zigu, so in order to commemorate her, some places appeared the custom of "welcoming Zigu". On the night of the 15th day of the first lunar month, a life-size Zigu was made from straw. The women went to the toilets, pigsties and kitchens where Zigu had worked before to welcome her and comfort her. However, this custom has basically disappeared now, so it's not unusual for young people not to have heard of it.