The hand of time is always gentle, quietly, has been back to work for 5 days. Presumably, the working state has been restored to almost the same, and the annual goods are estimated to be consumed. The Lantern Festival is approaching, are you still well prepared?
The twelfth day of the first month is the warm-up of the Lantern Festival. (Data map issued by the Central Broadcasting Network)
In the old days, there were nursery rhymes that sang: "Eleven shouts, twelve light sheds, thirteen people turn on the lights, fourteen lights are bright, fifteen and a half, sixteen people finish the lights." "Today is the twelfth day of the first month, and there are still three days before the fifteenth Lantern Festival of the first month. In the face of the final carnival during the New Year, be sure to be well prepared. The people take food as the sky, and the most important thing is, of course, the staple food in the festival.
Eating the Lantern on the fifteenth day of the first month is a conventional rule, but this Lantern is not very good to pack, and the materials are bought on the fifteenth day of the first month, I am afraid that there is a suspicion of "living without calculation". Therefore, most of the folk buy back raw materials such as glutinous rice flour, sesame seeds, and peanuts on the twelfth day of the first month. Of course, if you are afraid of trouble and have no confidence in your craft, it is also a good choice to buy ready-made ones directly.
In the past, on the twelfth day of the first month, we would begin to prepare materials for the Lantern Festival, and the larger towns and villages would gather skilled craftsmen and young adults to start building lantern sheds, pasty lanterns, and tie floats to make final preparations for the annual Lantern Festival. And the children will also use their imaginations, paste a small lantern out by themselves, and wait for the Lantern Festival to compete with their partners and show off.
In addition to warming up for the Lantern Festival, the twelfth day of the first month also has its own customs, such as in the northern region of the mainland, which still follows the rules of "roast cypress fire".
When collecting cypress branches, be careful not to cut down indiscriminately. (Data map issued by the Central Broadcasting Network)
"Roasted cypress fire", also known as "roasted Ballantine fire", is mostly held on the twelfth day of the first month, and some places have been moved to the sixteenth day of the first month. Because the cypress tree can be up to 100 years old, the roast cypress fire is also called "roasted 100-year-old fire", avoiding plague and driving away evil spirits, praying for a long life of 100 years. And children walking the streets and alleys to bake a hundred fires, they can not get sick for a year. In the old days, the folk proverb said: "Roast a hundred fires, do not produce a hundred diseases, and there will be no disaster and no harm in a year." ”
Whether it is the cypress fire that symbolizes "misfortune" or the flower lantern that symbolizes happiness and happiness, the colorful New Year customs all hide the simple yearning of the ancestors to seek good fortune and avoid evil, what do you know about the traditional customs of the twelfth day of the first month?
(Reporter Pang Miao, intern Dong Jiawei synthesis)