In Cantonese, "Ding" and "Deng" are homonyms, and adding a lamp is Jia Ding. In some places in Guangdong, families who have added men use "lanterns" to celebrate their happiness, celebrate their successors and pray for family prosperity. The whole process is divided into three steps: lighting, turning on the light and turning off the light.
Relatives and friends will give "Deng Zi" a birthday bag or a "red robe" (red clothes), and the host will also give back a gift. "Lamp wine" is usually placed in the ancestral temple or restaurant in the village. As a food-oriented country, China will celebrate any happy event in the same way after the ceremony. "Everyone eats and drinks well." Other introductions of "drinking light wine"
According to Guangdong folklore experts, "drinking wine with lamps" is the most intact one in Shunde. In the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, Shunde's "drinking lanterns and wine" began to be popular among the people, and it was held from the sixth day of the first month to the Lantern Festival every year. In the past year, families with children began to hang lights on the sixth day of the first lunar month.
Hang one at home, one for the "social worker" (land temple) and one for the general ancestral hall, the second ancestral hall (sub-ancestral hall) and the third ancestral hall (sub-ancestral hall). The rich hang big lanterns with cellophane paste, while the poor only hang tree lanterns. There is a piece of red paper on the lantern with the name of the new boy and the words "which grandson" written on it. In ancient times, "Deng" and "Ding" were homophonic, so as soon as the lamp was hung, it represented a new person entering the home. ?