Every day in the first lunar month has legends and exquisiteness, especially every day before the fifteenth day of the first month, almost every day has corresponding legends and annual customs.
The New Year is exquisite and taboo, because only in this way does it seem to be full of New Year's flavor, and it also tells children the origin of New Year customs and New Year's taste, so that the New Year's flavor culture can be passed down from generation to generation, otherwise the New Year will become a holiday and people will be tasteless.
The twelfth day of the first month is an important time node before the fifteenth day of the first month, because it is about to usher in another round of climax of the Lunar New Year - the Lantern Festival, so the annual customs and exquisiteness of the twelfth day of the first month are still many.
According to legend, the twelfth day of the first month is the "Rat Day", because rats are particularly hated and infected animals, stealing food and destroying property, so people will try their best to eliminate rat infestation on the twelfth day of the first month, also in order to pray that the family's property will not be lost.
Remember the twelfth day of the first month "eat 3 things"
1. Eat mud soup: Some of the soup is made of flour, and some are made of cornmeal boiled porridge, because everyone thinks that drinking mud on the twelfth day of the first month can paste the mouth of the rat so that it cannot open its mouth and cannot destroy the property.
2. Eat dumplings: The twelve bags of dumplings in the first month are slightly different from the usual dumpling shape, mainly to pinch the dumplings into the shape of a mouse, so that the ears of the dumplings are pointed like a mouse's mouth, and pinch a few times to make the mouse open its mouth, this day also eats the dumplings that are pinched out like this, and there is also the meaning of eliminating the harmful essence of the mouse.
3. Eat fried beans: the twelfth day of the first month to take out the beans at home and fry, the fried beans will make a crackling sound, so that the meaning makes the rats unable to live in peace, so that the ears are deaf and cannot hear, because the eyes of the rats are not easy to use, all rely on the nose and ears, the ears of the rats are fried deaf, and it cannot come out to harm people.
Remember the twelfth day of the first month "Do 4 things"
1. Set up a lantern shed to test the lights: After the eleventh day of the first month, people began to prepare to celebrate the Lantern Festival, starting from the twelfth day of the first month to buy lanterns and build a lamp shed. The nursery rhyme is sung like this: "Eleven shouts, twelve light sheds, thirteen people turn on the lights, fourteen lights are bright, fifteen and a half, sixteen people finish the lights." According to the traditional customs, there are people living in the house to hang red lanterns, and the new children in the twelfth month of the first month must light a small lamp for him, which also means to add ding and mouth, which is a particularly worthy of celebration, so on the twelfth day of the first month, children at home should not forget to light small lanterns.
2. Immovable scissors: The sound of scissors is a clicking sound, this sound is similar to the sound of rats grinding teeth, so the twelfth of the first month is to hide the scissors, so that there is no sign of rats and property without loss of meaning, the twelfth of the first month of the scissors is best wrapped in red cloth or tied with red thread, because red is the festive color of the New Year.
3. Throw old shoes: the heel "evil" harmonic sound, the twelfth day of the first month is the day of lighting up and adding ding, the meaning of old shoes and broken shoes is not good, so on this day there are old shoes and broken shoes at home must be disposed of as soon as possible, so as not to stay at home and make mistakes.
4. Roasting fire: Folk known as "fire burning luck", the twelfth day of the first month with cypress branches to burn the fire, has the meaning of "roasting a hundred diseases", but now rarely see the people who roast the fire, but the twelfth month of the family stir-fry cooking when the fire is burning the wangwang, there is also the meaning of the more prosperous the days are getting.
New Year is to have a happy and happy, New Year customs and legends because interesting and interesting, will make us look full of New Year's flavor, so "eat 3 things to do 4 things" or to tell children, let them feel the traditional New Year customs and culture.