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The annual Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month, the streets and alleys are hung with all kinds of red lanterns, we eat the Lantern Festival in a reunion, and the lively flower lanterns are lively. People gathered together for the Lantern Festival.
Before the joy of the Lantern Festival went down, it ushered in the sixteenth day of the first month. As the saying goes, "the first month is the year", so the sixteenth day of the first month is still a year, so is there a custom on the sixteenth day of the first month? What are the customs? Let's take a look.
On the sixteenth day of the first month, there are customs such as running away from a hundred diseases, cursing people, frying twist flowers, sending cattle stakes, and dancing torches. Ward off diseases and disasters, pray for blessings, peace and happiness, and physical fitness, let's take a closer look.
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1. Run a hundred diseases
In the Central Plains, there is a custom of running away from hundreds of diseases on the sixteenth day of the first month. There are also areas called "walking larks" and "walking hundreds of diseases". Spring has passed, which means that the cold winter has passed and spring has come. Look outside, the grass and trees are beginning to sprout, everything is revived, the weather is warming, and the breath of spring is coming.
People often say, "Take a walk after a meal and live to ninety-nine." On the sixteenth day of the first month, people finished breakfast, the door was locked, and the whole family went out for a walk and a run. This walk and run, all the pain and obscurity in the body are all thrown away. It means that this whole year will be free from illness and obscurity.
Customs and names vary from region to region. Some places are called "running a hundred diseases", some places are called "walking larks", and many places have other names and customs. You don't have to struggle.
So on the sixteenth day of the first month, people will go out for a walk and run. Get rid of all the pain and obscurity in your body. It means that the whole year will be safe and happy, and good health.
2. Swearing
In many places, there is a custom of swearing on the sixteenth day of the first month, and swearing is the meaning of being scolded. Are you curious, how can there be such a custom? What does that mean?
Listening to the old man, the sixteenth day of the first month is scolded by people, which is the most auspicious, and the more fiercely they are scolded, the more auspicious they are. Being scolded by someone means that the obscurity is scolded away.
On this day, mischievous little children will have fun. Go to the street, looking for scolding at the door, and some will deliberately provoke others, hoping to be scolded by others, and the more fierce the scolding, the better. The usual practice is a three-step process: knocking on windows, kicking doors, and setting off firecrackers. Don't you say, this trilogy really works.
3. Fried twist flowers
The twist flower mentioned here is not the kind of twist flower in Tianjin, it is the corn kernels fried in an iron pot. Do you feel very similar to the popcorn we usually eat?
Listen to the old people in the countryside, when the corn bursts, it will blow up the eyes of the rats, and the blind rats will no longer harm the crops, so the more the corn is fried, the better the harvest of the crops this year.
For the old times, people who were mainly farmers were most concerned about the problem of grain production, and the more grain production, the better people's lives. It contains people's hope for the elimination of rats and the scourge of disasters and the good hope of a bumper harvest of grains.
4. Send cattle stakes
On the sixteenth day of the first month, there is a custom of sending cattle stakes, and some areas are also called "stealing cattle stakes".
In the old society, there was a bit of a patriarchal mentality, and it was felt that it was impossible to have no boys in the family, at least one boy, and the more boys, the better.
Some families have two or three girls in a row and want to have a boy, so there is a custom of "sending cattle stakes". People think it is very magical, as long as it is sent to the cattle stake, it will be fulfilled.
Eight men were asked to send the stakes, and these eight people made an appointment during the day, and at night they went to the invited person's house for dinner, and when it was late at night, these eight people would sneak up on the stakes. Stolen items include bricks, bowls, shoes, etc. The stolen family should have three characteristics, there are many boys in the family, the right, the people are good, the things should be wrapped in red paper, handed to the youngest of them to hold, this is called holding the pile.
Therefore, people think that sending cattle stakes can have many children and many blessings. In the old society, people preferred sons to daughters, and felt that having sons had more face; on the other hand, in the past, they were mainly farming, and there were more sons in the family, so they could help work, after all, boys worked with strength.
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5. Dancing torches
In some places, there is a custom of dancing torches on the sixteenth day of the first month. On the sixteenth night of the first month, people will light torches made of straw, and children will take torches and swim in the field and play. Finally, small torches will be put together to break the torches. The more intense the fire, the better the harvest this year.
In the era of farming, the most important thing was the grain harvest. People want to live a life of abundance and peace and happiness.
brief summary
Although the fifteenth day of the first month has passed, the year is basically over. But there are still many customs on the sixteenth day of the first month. In addition to the above, there are also customs such as carrying a fence, visiting temple fairs, and sending plague gods.
In general, the customs and activities of the sixteenth day of the first month are rich and colorful. It embodies people's good wishes for disaster relief and blessings, hoping for abundant grain, peace and happiness.