Why do you want to hang the lanterns

Why do boys hang lamps

Why do boys hang lamps, China's vast territory, different places have different customs, whenever the New Year's Eve, all over the world will organize a variety of ceremonies to celebrate the holiday, which has many customs worth understanding, the next to take a look at why do boys hang lamps.

Why do you want to hang lamps 1

Hanging lamps, is a traditional grand festival in Beiliu, when the first ten days of the first month to come, the streets are full of lanterns, anyone to purchase. Generally on the lights of the family to buy back two to three lamps, on the lights of the family to buy two to three lamps, in the tenth day of zero hour, the colorful paper tied lanterns a point in the main public office, a point in the ancestral shrine, a point in the family's main house hall.

According to the custom, all the newborns born in the previous year, such as boys, the boy's family will be in the next year on the tenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar, hanging lanterns to celebrate, commonly known as "hanging lanterns.

So on the tenth day of the first month of the family will be on the lantern feast, drink wine hanging lanterns. If it is to the first ten days of the first month of the day is not full moon boy, we must wait until the first ten days of the first month of the next year to hang lamps, which is called hanging old lamps. This hanging lamp wine is equivalent to other places of the full moon wine, but it is characterized in the same year, no matter which month and day of the birth of the boys have to wait until the tenth day of the first month to hang lamps.

Lamps in Lingnan folk "bright" and "add Ding" meaning: lighting lamps have the meaning of brightening the future; and "lamps" and "Ding" harmonic same or similar. The same or similar harmonics of "lamp" and "ding" represent the birth of a boy. In our Beiliu Xiaoli, urban and rural customs of the first ten days of the first month called "headlights" day, the first sixteen days of the first month called "finish lights" day. "The tenth day, where the birth of a family to buy paper hanging lights ancestral shrine temple to celebrate. In ancient times, there is the first Yuan Festival to steal the lamps of rich families, set up a bed to order people to have children.

And this time, the city's large and small restaurants, all full. Some booked tables a month ago, less than a dozen tables, more than a hundred tables. Some hotels set up four rounds, 9 a.m. to open the table, 12 a.m. round, 3 p.m. to open the table again, 6 p.m. and another round. Anyone who has three aunts and six grandmothers, seven uncles and eight uncles, add a child, hanging lamps, congratulations, seal red envelopes, drink wine. City people to the various restaurants, rural people from village to village, lively, some say this is the Beiliu people under the "drinking day" (drinking day).

Beiliu Shangli and the distinction between Zhongli

Shangli: including Pingzheng, six Jing, Baima, Daren, Qingwan, Shiwu, Fuxin and Shapangdang the eight towns;

Next: opposite to Shangli, Beiliu north of the 10 towns of the narrower general term. It includes Beiliu urban area, and its Xinrong, Min'an, Minle, Shanwei, Xibark, Xinwei, Dali, Beiliu, Tangshan, and Qingshuikou;

Zhongli: It includes the four towns of Longsheng, Dapowai, Liumai, and Xinfeng.

Drinking Hanging Lantern wine, in addition to carrying the tradition, but also to chat with friends and relatives who have not been reunited for a long time, lively, and even the younger generation can also be discussed, is also not a pleasure!

Hanging Lantern Festival, we see the joy, but also see the inheritance of traditional folklore, but behind this, there is this group of people's hard work, they work hard, up early and late to do lanterns, so busy, in order not to delay the auspicious day of the people lit lamps.

The lanterns look simple, but the production process is tedious. The lanterns are made of bamboo and framed with festive characters or auspicious flowers and paper, Huagai. Don't underestimate such a lantern, from the broken gabions, tie lamp bone to paste the paper, all handmade, the entire production process requires hundreds of procedures to complete: cutting bamboo, sawing bamboo, broken gabions, de-greening, disinfection, marking scales, drying bamboo, paper-cutting, carving, coloring ......

The process of making over a number of precautions: such as selecting the bamboo to be Find a head and tail, long bamboo joints, moderate hardness, pest-free bamboo; broken gabions to remove bamboo green to prevent slippage, disinfection to prevent insects; tie the lamp bone before the design of the shape and size of the lamp; the lamp bone should be tied tightly, the rhythm should be tight, accurate size; paste framing to be from the inside to the outside, from the top to the bottom, layer after layer, etc.

Many people have a good understanding of the process of making the lamp, but it is not easy to find the best way to make the lamp, so it's not a problem for them to do so.

Many people choose to quit this industry because it is too troublesome to do handmade, hard work or other reasons, so there are fewer and fewer lanterns being made now. As a result, every lantern nowadays is rare and precious.

Why hang lanterns for a boy2

The custom of "hanging lanterns" is one of its colorful folklore. Before and after the Lantern Festival in the first month of each year, where the clan has "add Ding" (i.e., born with a boy), must be in the ancestral ancestral hall, the ancestors of the spirit of the card in front of the hanging of a new lantern (harmonic "new Ding"), as a way to convey to the ancestors to add a new Ding's happy news, also known as the "hanging lantern". The first is to hang a new lantern in front of the ancestor's spirit tablet, thus conveying the news of a new child to the ancestor, which is also called "hanging lantern" or "hanging lantern".

The Origin of "Hanging Lanterns"

In Hakka, "lantern" is a homonym of the dialect "ding", and it is also the name of "light", "hope", "light", "light", "light", and "light". The Hakka symbolizes light, hope, a prairie fire, and continuity of life. The Hakka people from the Central Plains all the way through the thorns and thistles, and finally settled in the present Fujian, Guangdong and Gan three areas of the convergence of the region, its unique life experience, so that the Hakka people formed a unity of the community, *** together with the enemy's survival needs, which gave rise to the Hakka people to honor their ancestors to commemorate the grace of the tradition of borrowing the "lights" to celebrate the "ding ding". ". However, the "hanging lamp" is not related to girls!

Hanging lanterns to hang the lanterns on the family ancestral home and their own houses on the beams of the hall to celebrate the addition, so as the name suggests "hanging lanterns", can also be called "ascending lanterns". After hanging the lamp, the new name can be officially included in the family tree.

I think the custom of hanging lanterns is a solidification of the sense of blood, the annual custom of hanging lanterns, the pursuit of life is the endless life, it is the celebration of life, the continuation of life celebration, but also the gratitude for life, the fear of life, the blessing of a better life.

How to "hang the lantern"?

First, the preliminary preparatory work: the village deliberative group to discuss the agenda of the hanging of the lamp, do a good job in the division of labor, choose to preside over the master of ceremonies and other aspects of the personnel responsible for the village's drums and lions to rehearse a little bit ahead of time, the hanging of the lamp family to prepare in advance to offer ancestors of the three sacrifices, wine, firecrackers, incense and candles, especially to pick a good lantern.

The second is the ancestor of the lamp: early in the morning of the day, the village added a new family in the previous year, all in the ancestral public housing to focus on the three sacrificial animals, wine and gifts. Presided over by the family elders, together with burning incense and candles to worship ancestors, the lanterns will be raised to the ancestral public housing on the hall of the "Ding Zi Liang" on. The newcomers are carried by the elders to the ancestral tablets bowing and bowing to honor the incense.

During this time, the lanterns are accompanied by gongs, drums and lion dances, and firecrackers, making it a very lively event. Ancestral house on the lamp after the completion of the return to their own houses should also be sacrificed to the ancestors rose lanterns, but also in some areas only on a lantern. The process of ascending lanterns sometimes lasts until the afternoon of the day.

Third, celebratory activities: that evening, the various lanterns of the family set up banquets, an addition to the family, in all directions, friends and relatives have come to congratulate, **** Jihui, to the addition to the family to express good wishes. During the banquet, there will be quizzes, fireworks, lion dances and other programs.

The production of "hanging lamp" has a symbol of good luck and good meaning. "Hanging lanterns" fine workmanship, is the Bobai folk a kind of elegant and popular **** appreciation of practical crafts, but also the people of New Year's Eve, to do the wedding essential supplies. Today we come together to feel the traditional production techniques of lanterns.

The new period of ' "hanging lights" custom should also be with the times. With the progress and development of human society, the degree of civilization continues to improve, the vast majority of the world has long achieved gender equality. Women in the country, society, the family plays a completely no less important role than or even beyond the man, so the idea of patriarchy, male superiority has long been thrown into the pile of history.

Nowadays, men are ding, daughters are also ding; men and women are their own, should be treated equally. Therefore, on the lamp custom should be adjusted accordingly, should not fall into the male and female gender stereotypes. Equality between men and women on the lantern is only a form of equality, the real equality should start from the concept of fertility to adhere to the equality of men and women, and then in the cultivation, education and other aspects can be treated equally. The equality of the concept of reproduction will also help to improve or eliminate some of the negative social phenomena brought about by the unilateral pursuit of male children in society.

It is reported that some Hakka areas have now achieved equality between men and women on the lamp, the daughter's name can also be recorded in the genealogy, which should be a good phenomenon of social progress.

"Drinking wine with lanterns" to celebrate the birth of a child

"Drinking wine with lanterns" is a celebration of the birth of a child (the birth of a boy) of the feast, originated in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, and is now the most intact in Shunde, where it has been preserved. It has been preserved in Shunde.

"Lamp" and "ding" are homophonic, turn on the lamp, hanging lamps have the meaning of passing on to the next generation. In the past, Shunde families that had a new child in the year would hold a ceremony of "adding lanterns".

The baby's father will buy an octagonal paper lantern and hang it in the center of the village shrine or temple to pray for the child's growth and to ask for the protection of the ancestors.

The lamps start hanging out on the sixth day of the first month of the lunar calendar, with one hanging at home, one at the "She Gong" (land temple), and one at each of the general ancestral hall, the second ancestral hall (sub ancestral hall), and the third ancestral hall (branch ancestral hall)....... Once the lanterns are hung, it means that the newcomers have entered the clan.

Lantern paper depicting flowers and red, pasted with colorful paper cutouts with auspicious patterns, inside hanging a small dish full of peanut oil, lit all day long, symbolizing the lamp boy's vitality.

Wine and Cheer

It used to be that on the eleventh day of the first month, people who had added to their families took out ginger and eggs to worship the "Taigong", and the "Taigong" paid for all the men in the descendants to feast and share pork and eggs. The "Taigong" will pay for all the male children and grandchildren to have a feast, share the pork, share the ginger and eggs, and give a big "Li Shi" (red envelope) to the new Ding, to show congratulations.

In Shunde, each village has a different time, usually from the sixth day of the Lunar New Year to the Lantern Festival this time "drinking lantern wine". A few days before, the village will first issue a notice calling on villagers to buy tickets and book seats for the lantern festival.

Each seat costs about four hundred dollars

On the night of the Lantern Festival, many villages and ancestral halls in Shunde will be full of people, and some villages have as many as a few thousand people. Now, "drinking lantern wine" has become the biggest collective activity in some villages in Shunde.

Ronggui horse in the first Ping society lantern will have tried to set up more than five hundred and thirty, four or five thousand people to participate

7:00 pm, with the cracking of firecrackers, dozens of cooks aunts will be celebrating the lantern party first dish served on each table, "drinking lantern wine" activities will officially begin.

The banquet was filled with friends and family, and it was a joyous occasion.

Although the banquet did not have any expensive delicacies, the style and naming of the dishes emphasized the theme of celebrating the birth of a child. "Fortune Luo Han Zhai", "Fortune Flower Drum Great Good City", "Fortune Fruit and Nut" ------ dishes are full of good wishes for life.

Ronggui Ma Zhong Shi Ping She Lantern Society's menu

To more than 2,000 people's wine banquet, for example, thirteen dishes of ingredients, it takes two days to do the preparations, the placement of 400 pounds of roasted pork, 203 Guihua fish, 210 chickens, 220 pounds of ribs, 300 pounds of rice, more than 2,000 barbecue pork buns and hundreds of pounds of vegetables, and so on.

So such occasions are a good time for Shunde chefs to show off their skills. In order to make everyone happy with the food, the banquets also often have famous Shundean chefs at the helm.

"Competition to throw lamps" for good luck

As the highlight of the event, "drinking lamps" is also characterized by a "lamp throwing" activity. "Fung Sang Shui Rise" and so on, and then by the townspeople bidding.

Each cast a light, are to the sound of firecrackers to start, the sound of firecrackers to end. The hosts walk in the middle of the banquet with a microphone and call for people to bid on the lamps.

The general starting price of the lamp is 3888 yuan, and the lamp throwers to cast this lamp with auspicious numbers such as 6888 yuan, 8888 yuan 12888 or 13888 these numbers.

The first open light is often the most competitive, everyone wants to compete for the opportunity to "dominate". And like the business is booming, the wealth of prosperity, the good intentions of the people are also chasing the object, often cast the highest price.

In recent years, Shunde people's lives are booming, "drinking wine" this folk activity is also more and more popular, to participate in the lantern bidding more and more people. Wealthy bidders are not only for a good intention, more is to take this opportunity to thank the folks, return to society