The Spring Festival is the most anticipated festival of the year, and it is hard to wait for the Spring Festival, but time always flies so fast, and in a blink of an eye, tomorrow is the eighth day of the new year, and everyone has to return to work. However, according to the old tradition, the real New Year will not be until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, so we can continue to enjoy the rest of the festival.
The eighth day of the first month of each year is often the day of restarting, but many people do not know that the eighth day of the first month is also an important festival, because this day is called "Gu Day" and "Shunxing Festival" in the folk, the so-called "Gu Day", that is, the birthday of the grain, according to legend, Nuwa made six animals and people from the first day to the seventh day of the first month, and created the grain on the eighth day, which is actually the respect and love of the ancients for the grain, after all, the people take food as the sky.
According to the ancients, the stars have an inevitable relationship with people's fortunes, everyone will have a "passing year illumination stars" every year, this year's fortune is completely controlled by the stars, and on the eighth day of the first month of each year, the stars will gather in the lower realm, called the "stars in the lower realm", so this day to sacrifice to the stars, also called the "Shunxing Festival".
Since the eighth day of the Lunar New Year is two important days, then the folk traditional customs can naturally not be less, keep in mind that "1 to put, 2 not empty, 3 to eat", meaning a bumper harvest of grains, the new year of wealth rolling.
1. Pray for the release of life
Spring Festival as the "first of a hundred festivals" has always been an extremely important festival, so from ancient times to the present there are many taboos, such as from Chinese New Year's Eve to the seventh day of the first year there are customs that cannot kill, because the Spring Festival is a festive festival, everything must pay attention to its happiness, and get along with animals should also be harmonious.
On the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, not only can you not kill life, but you also need to release life, because the ancients believed that life release is a great merit that will have a certain impact on people's fortune, health, and lifespan. In addition to the great merits, there are other meanings of release, such as releasing fish in the hope that they will have more than enough every year, releasing birds in the hope that they will not harm crops too much, and releasing turtles to imply longevity.
2 can't be empty
The eighth day of the first lunar month is the "valley day", so this day pays attention to the rice jar at home can not be empty, and the rice jar must be full, which means that the new year will have abundant food and clothing, and the five grains will be abundant. In addition to the rice tank can not be empty, if there is a water tank at home, it can not be empty for a year, because according to the ancients, "water produces wealth, wealth is like water", plus the "eight" and "hair" on the eighth day of the Lunar New Year are homophonic, so people hope that the new year can be rich and rich.
In addition to the above, in fact, the eighth day of the Lunar New Year also pays attention to "not empty", because everyone is going to start work on this day, and colleagues miss it very much if they haven't seen it for a few days.
In addition, it is best to put a few red envelopes and candies in your pocket, the amount of red envelopes can not be very large, in case you meet an acquaintance's child to tell you a happy New Year, then as an elder also needs to be interesting, whether it is a red envelope or candy, so that it is not embarrassing.
3要吃
In some areas of the mainland, there is a custom of eating rice balls on the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, because this day is the "Shunxing Festival", which is the day when the stars gather together, and the round rice balls are like stars, and they are also like the stars gathering. In addition, the tangyuan also has a deeper meaning in the traditional culture, the tangyuan means reunion, after eating the tangyuan, maybe the family will go their separate ways to continue to struggle, looking forward to the new year the family can continue to reunite.
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