Fifteen years after the first month? In fact, the twenty-fifth day of the first month is also a very important traditional festival. The Warehouse Filling Festival, also known as the "Tim" Warehouse Festival, is said to be the birthday of the Cangwang King.
"Warehouse Filling Festival" is a Chinese folk festival that symbolizes the abundance of grains in the New Year. Filling the warehouse refers to the farmer adding grain to the warehouse hoard, which pins on people's good wishes for a bumper grain harvest in the coming year, and also has the meaning of blessing and longevity.
So what are the traditional customs of this day? Remember that 1 does not borrow, 2 should be added, and 3 should be eaten.
Traditional customs of the Warehouse Filling Festival
1. Sacrifice to the gods
An important custom of the Warehouse Filling Festival is to worship the gods. In order to commemorate the god of the warehouse, people have to perform a memorial ceremony every day.
Some use grass and wood ashes to hoard and add warehouses in the courtyard, and some burn incense and light lamps to the portrait of the god of the warehouse. Some are on the night of the Tiancang Festival, lighting lamps and burning incense to worship the god of the warehouse, and shouting loudly "Tiancang Grandpa fills the warehouse, and the grain yuanbao is filled in to our family", "Black boy, rush the car, the yuanbao grain rushes to the family", with the intention of praying for a good harvest and hoping for a prosperous life.
Second, fill in the warehouse
On the 25th of February, a grain hoard is drawn on the ground, where grain is placed and pressed with stones to symbolize the abundance of grain.
It is necessary to beat the ash cellar in the courtyard, use a dustpan to hold grass and wood ash, beat it evenly with a stick, and scatter a three-ring set or a five-ring circle on the ground, which means a granary or a grain hoard. To symbolize the harvest of grain, a small amount of grains should be placed in the center of the circle, which means that this year's grains are abundant, and there is no worry about eating and wearing.
February 25 is the Warehouse Filling Festival, which is the last important traditional festival of the new month. Therefore, there are also many taboos, and if you accidentally touch them, what are the taboos? Let's take a look.
1 Do not borrow: Do not borrow money
On this day of the warehouse filling festival, pay attention to the joy in and out. No family can borrow anything from other people's homes, and even if someone comes to borrow something, it must be refused, which has become an ancient custom in the folk.
No matter what you borrow, you must politely refuse, especially borrowing grain and water, and if you are not careful, you will borrow your own good luck.
2 To add: add grain, add oil
You will see that on this day, many elderly people will go to the supermarket to buy rice and oil. Although the people in the town do not hold ritual sacrifices, on this day they must go to the supermarket or grain and oil shop to buy some rice, noodles, oil, salt, and other necessities of life, as a metaphor for living reserves.
On this day, you need to fill the rice basin, basin and oil pot at home. "Add warehouse and add warehouse, life is smooth". The meaning is very beautiful, expecting a happy life, grain and grain full of warehouses, and every household celebrates a bumper harvest.
3 To eat: Eat traditional food
First, eat millet dried rice noodle soup
As the old saying goes: "Fill the warehouse, millet dry rice mixed noodle soup". In the early agricultural era, people did not have enough to eat and wear, and it was already a good thing to eat millet and drink mixed noodle soup.
Second, eat pasta
Eating pasta has the meaning of filling the warehouse with full stomach and fullness. On the twenty-fifth day of the first month, some eat pancakes, and some eat dumplings, which is called "filling the warehouse", and some eat zygotes, which is called "gaicang" as the saying goes. They all pray for a full stock of grain and a prosperous life.
Third, drink fish soup
In the Tianjin area, you must eat rice and boil fish soup, and eating fish is a metaphor for being rich for many years. People eat rice and fish soup on this day, symbolizing abundance.
Folklore has it that people can only drink fish soup tonight, and leave the fish for kittens to eat, which means that the cat catches the mouse and the granary is not bitten by the mouse. Isn't that fun?
Filling the warehouse is actually more of people's wishes for a better life. The stomach is the warehouse of man's food, full of food, enough to drink, enough strength, good spirit. After the "filling" and the first month, all work will be on the right track. The beginning of the year's hard work, let's work hard enough to usher in the harvest year together.
On the twenty-fifth day of the first month, remember that 1 does not borrow, 2 should be added, 3 should be eaten, blessed and rich, full of blessings.
But the customs of each place are also different, what other customs do you have there? Welcome everyone to talk together, do the right thing to add blessings and wealth.