Tomorrow is the first day of March 9, and it is also the fifth day of the first lunar month of the lunar calendar. In the agrarian society, after entering the Waxing Moon, the taste of the year is getting stronger and stronger. Every year on the eighth day of the first lunar month, people will drink a bowl of steaming porridge, but few people know what the fifth day of the first lunar month is a festival, as the saying goes: "Lawu eats five beans, confused forty-five", this sentence is the festival of the fifth day of the first lunar month.
What exactly is the festival on the fifth day of the first lunar month?
The Waxing Moon is the last month of the lunar year, and it is also the month to bid farewell to the old year and welcome the New Year, so people hope that in this month, all the bad things in the old year will be expelled and all the good things will be brought into the new year. For example, the fifth day of the first lunar month is the folk tradition of "Five Bean Day".
"Five beans" refers to the five kinds of beans of soybeans, mung beans, cowpeas, broad beans and peas, on the night before the fifth day of the first lunar month, people will find these five kinds of beans, soak them in water for a night, and when they get up the next morning, the women in the family will use millet or rice plus these five kinds of beans to boil porridge, known as "five bean porridge". "Five-bean porridge" is also the first meal on the fifth day of the first lunar month, saying that after eating five-bean porridge, there will be good luck in the coming year. There is a folk saying called: "Eat five beans to be confused", which means that people have worked hard for a year, saving money, but when it comes to the New Year, they must be willing to spend money, let themselves relax, and eat something that they usually can't eat. Due to the poor living standards in the past, people could not eat a meal of meat or white noodle steamed buns all year round.
Therefore, at the time of the New Year, we must forget all the unpleasantness of the year, and live a red hot year in a confused way, starting from the five-bean porridge on the fifth day of the first month of the Waxing Moon, until the twentieth day of the first month, that is, forty-five days, it is the real End of the Year. Therefore, there is a saying that "Lawu eats five beans, and is confused forty-five".
Origin of Five Bean Day
Legend has it that during the Song Dynasty, there was a poor scholar who grew up in poverty, lived in a broken temple, and struggled to survive by selling some poems. One day he went to the city to sell poetry, and he met a rich man's family who was selected for thousands of dollars, and the hydrangea fell into the arms of the student. However, the rich man looked like a poor student and did not agree to his daughter marrying him. But after the daughter read the poems of shusheng, she was impressed by his talent, so she eloped with Shusheng. The two married in the broken temple, but after marriage, the students were a little overwhelmed, and slowly they did not concentrate on reading, and they failed several examinations. So the wife told the scholar: "Husband and wife are 'Fuqi', blessed to share, there is suffering to taste together." In the future, before selling poetry, I will give it to you, and you can concentrate on reading. "This may be the origin of the wife's money, right?" After the wife manages the money, the students will eat a meal cooked with beans every day, and they will not be hungry. Later, I learned that in order not to affect her husband's study, my wife quietly opened a wasteland behind the broken temple and planted melons and beans. After the students learned about it, they burst into tears, and from then on, they began to study hard, and later became a high-ranking official in high school. After becoming an official, shusheng no longer ate five-bean rice and began to covet pleasure. On the fifth day of the first lunar month, the wife let the kitchen make a bowl of five-bean porridge and said to her husband: "Mung bean green, do guan Mo forget to break the temple; soybean yellow, do guan Mo forget to write articles; cowpea, do guan Mo forget melon vegetable soup; broad bean silkworm, do guan mo forget three more cold; pea pea, do official position Gao Zhi Mo short." After listening to his wife's words, he suddenly woke up, drank this bowl of five-bean porridge, and made a family rule, every year on the fifth day of the first lunar month, the family must eat "five-bean porridge". Later, it spread, and the people followed suit, so the fifth day of the first lunar month also became the "Five Bean Day", and there was a custom of drinking "five bean porridge".
This is the origin of the Five Bean Day, and that scholar is Ouyang Xiu, one of the "Eight Great Masters of the Tang and Song Dynasties". Of course, the original "five bean porridge" is the meaning of remembering bitterness and sweetness, and later it has become a saying that people indulge themselves in the New Year: "Lawu eats five beans, and is confused forty-five."
(Source: The editor of this public account)