The tenth day of the first lunar month is the 10th day of the Lunar New Year, and is also known as the "Stone Festival" in the folk.
The origin of the Stone Festival: This is inextricably linked to the worship of mountains and stones by human beings in primitive societies. In primitive society, smelting technology was not developed, and there were no axes, machetes and other sharp weapons, and people wanted to cut wood or hunt and grind stones out of "sharp corners" as weapons.
Therefore, at that time, stones were the things that people relied on for survival, and because "ten" and "stone" were homophonous, people in order to express their worship and gratitude for "mountain stones", they set the tenth day of the first lunar month as "stone festival". On the tenth day of the first lunar month, the old tradition pays attention to "eating 2 things and avoiding 2 things" to ask for a good color head for the New Year!
Eat 2 foods on the 10th day of the first month
1. Eat noodles
Yóu noodles are flour processed from quinoa and are a coarse grain.
Why eat noodles? Because the noodles are milled with stones, the tenth day of the first lunar month is the "Stone Festival", and eating the noodles is considered to be the expression of drinking water and thinking about the source.
There are many ways to make noodles, such as: noodle rolls, noodle nests, fish and fish, dumplings, fried noodles, etc. In Shanxi, Hebei and other places, there is a custom of eating "fish and fish with noodles" on the tenth day of the first lunar month, because the words "莜" and "fish" are consonant "there are fish", which means more than one year. On the tenth day of the first lunar month, the family sat together, laughing and laughing, the adults in the family put the noodles and dough, and then kneaded into thin strips, and then cut into small doses with a knife, and the children also began to get busy, rubbing the agent into a long strip with both ends and a drum in the middle, which Shanxi people called rubbing "fish and fish".
The kneaded noodles can be eaten boiled or fried. Eating noodles on the tenth day of the first lunar month is not only a regulation of the spring festival fat diet, but also a hope for people's rich life of "more than one year".
In addition, in Inner Mongolia and other places, it is important to use steamed "noodle rolls" to predict the amount of rain in the New Year. The noodle rolls are placed in a pot, and during the heating process, the hot air rises to the lid of the pot, condenses into water droplets and drips downwards. After the noodles are rolled out of the pot, people will judge which month of the year has more rain and which month has less rain according to the amount of water in the "roll", so as to know when planting the land. Although this method of prediction has no scientific basis, in the primitive society of "relying on the sky to eat", it has also brought people a lot of expectations for a good harvest.
2. Eat fried soybeans
Stir-frying soybeans refers to the use of a pot to fry soybeans, a custom related to the folklore of "rats marry relatives".
According to folklore, rats are harmful animals and are unlucky, so they should be married on the tenth day of the first lunar month to ensure a safe and auspicious year.
There is a folk proverb: You disturb it for a day, it disturbs you for a year. In ancient times, in order not to disturb the rats to marry, on the night of the tenth day of the first month of the first month, people blew out candles early, did not make a sound, and ate fried soybeans in the dark. The sound of roasting soybeans is like setting off firecrackers, and people use this way to congratulate rats on their marriage and curry favor with them so that they will not harm the crops in the coming year.
2 things that should not be done on the tenth day of the first month of the first month
1, should not move the stone
In ancient times, people lived in caves and used stone tools, and in order to express their gratitude for the stones, the tenth day of the first lunar month was set as the "Stone Festival", also known as "Stone Immovable". Moving stones, pushing stones, pounding stones, etc. on this day is not auspicious.
2, should not stay up late
The folklore of "rats marrying women" is popular on the mainland. The ancients believed that rats were afraid of light and sharp noises, so it was not appropriate to stay up late on the tenth day of the first month of the first month, and to go to bed early to provide convenience for rats to marry their daughters, hoping that rats could remember people's goodness, do not go to the scourge crops, and wait until autumn to have a good harvest!
epilogue
Although most of the customs and taboos handed down by the elderly have no scientific basis, these "old exquisites" increase the festive atmosphere and are also a manifestation of people's yearning for a better life in ancient times.
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