During the Lantern Festival, many Hakka areas will "light up". In Hakka dialect, "lamp" and "Ding" are homophonous, and they are symbols of light, hope and endless life. Therefore, "going to the lamp" is to take "Tim Ding" as the center, in the form of "lamp" and carry out ancestral worship and ancestral consolation activities, borrowing "lamp" to celebrate "Tim Ding", also known as "viewing the lamp" and "raising the lamp".
The boy who has just been born is called "Sheng Xin Ding", and the older one who does not have a "rising lamp" for various reasons is called "Sheng Lao Ding". Therefore, "going to the lamp" is actually a celebration held by all surnames and ethnic groups for the new boy of that year, one person raises a lamp, and through a grand and warm ceremony, he "reports" to the ancestors that a certain family member has added a new Ding, and the name of the new Ding is officially written into the family tree, and there is an atmosphere of "one family Tim Ding, the whole village celebrates".
The earliest date of "lighting" is the ninth day of the first month of the first month, the latest is the nineteenth day of the first month, and most of them are one or two days before and after the fifteenth day of the first month. With the progress of social civilization, many people who give birth to daughters will also "light up", and daughters will also enter the family tree.
Graphic Editor / Liu Xiaofang Review / Liu Yingmei, Liu Siyan