Today is both the birthday of the land and the festival of stone. Maybe now many young people feel strange, stone will still have a festival?
The reason why this day is used as a stone festival is probably because the stone is in harmony with "ten". In the past, all agricultural tools made of stone were avoided on this day.
For example, do not knock and carry stones, do not use stone grinding, stone milling. When the ancients posted the Spring Festival, they would also specially pick out one or two pictures to paste on stone tools.
Other timber agricultural tools can not enjoy this treatment, which shows how important the role of stone tools in people's lives is under the production conditions at that time.
In some places, there are even shrines dedicated to the god of grinding, grinding, and stone mortar.
From the Chinese New Year's Eve to the tenth day of the new year, these hard-working stone utensils are forbidden to be used, and they must rest well, and only after the tenth day of the first year do they begin to work.
Stones are the products of nature, whether it is as a land birthday or a stone festival, it reflects the ancients' reverence and gratitude for nature.
On this day, there is also the legend of "rat marrying daughter" (in some places it is the third day of the first year), rats are hated by everyone for stealing grain, usually they go out to hide in Tibet day and night, and immediately hear shouts and beatings when they cross the street.
However, on the tenth day of the new year, not only do they not need to hide, but they can also go out and make an appointment with confidence and boldness, because this day is the big day for them to marry their wives and daughters.
In some places, in order to let the mouse flower car pass smoothly, it is also deliberate to let the oil lamp shine on the place with holes in the corner of the wall.
The custom in some places is to use grain noodles to knead into dumplings and steam them, called "ten dumplings", and on the first ten nights, some dumplings are placed in the place where the rats meet the kissing procession and are eaten by them.
It is also incredible that the rats that everyone hates have such a courtesy day.
Probably because rats, although they have an obnoxious side, also have the characteristics of the spirit, otherwise why do everyone shout and fight and still coexist under the eyes of humans.
And its viability and reproduction ability, in the ancient period when production and life were backward, also represented people's yearning for population reproduction and family prosperity.
Rats, on the other hand, are animals that have appeared since the existence of humans, and the ancients had a reverence for everything in the world.
The ancients believed that heaven and earth had the virtue of good life, and people also had compassion, so they did not kill the disgusted rats and turned a net. #传统节日习俗 #
