The symbolism of the 15th day of the first month of the year to wish prosperity throughout the year without disaster

The fifteenth day of the first month is one of the most important traditional festivals in China, in which we will get together as a family, eat Lanterns, watch lanterns, guess riddles, fireworks, etc. Some regions have also developed the custom of dragon lanterns and stilt walkers. Some areas also derived from the custom of swimming dragon lanterns, stilt walking. Among the ornamental lanterns there are many forms, there is a kind of lamp called genus lamp.

What is the genus lamp

The 15th day of the first month of the custom of ornamental lanterns, which the genus lamp is a special face lamp, Dalian Zhuanghe, Liaoning Province, unique folklore. It is made of colorful bean dough handmade into twelve zodiac signs, these signs of the lamp is glued to a square cardboard, next to the position left to pinch a petal like a noodle bowl, used to put a small red candle. In previous years, there were also mass-produced lanterns made of plaster, glass and jade. This custom was also listed as a non-heritage item in Dalian in 2007.

Meaning of the Genus Lamp

There are two meanings of the Genus Lamp, namely the Genus and the Lamp, and the Genus Lamp is to pray for blessings or to remember the ancestors. Genus, is in the home point, called the genus lamp, Zhuanghe some villages people talk about the soil tongue, tube genus called Xue'er (harmonic). And the lamp is divided into two kinds: moon lamp and grave (grave) lamp, moon lamp is in the house or yard point, grave (grave) lamp is in the grave (grave) place. The first month of the fifteenth point genus children 1996 edition of "Zhuanghe County Records": the first month of the fifteenth lunar calendar for the Lantern Festival in this festival, with bean flour or other clay production of the whole family's population of the genus and the December lamps, on top of the wick or small candles, so the evening of the day lit, called the? Points belonging to? to wish for prosperity throughout the year without disaster.

Phase lights into the Zhuanghe special industry

Zhuanghe's phase lights as a non-heritage culture on CCTV, which also brought greater commercial value for the Zhuanghe's phase lights, so that more people know about this traditional custom. It is understood that the genus lamp to be sold as a commodity in the reform and opening up only after the emergence of the previous no one to sell the genus lamp, the genus lamp are their own home to do, or ask the village handyman to do. Reform and opening up hand, some economic minded people began to think of the genus lamp into a commodity, began to let those folk artists to do the genus, and then some people to buy to the market to sell. Today, the genus lamp in Zhuanghe has become a special industry, but because most of the people who really do the genus lamp is old, and young people can not sink to learn this craft, so I hope that more people can pay attention to this culture, to be able to inherit the craft.