It takes a Lantern Festival to have a boy. It is gratifying to have a boy. From the second day to the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, many places have the custom of hanging lanterns, and the Lantern Festival is a grand festival. Last year, a boy's family went to Shetou, ancestral hall and their own hall to hang lanterns. The boys shared below will have a light feast.

Give birth to a boy with a light feast. There are three kinds of unfilial, and the last is the greatest. In some places, in order to ensure that the family can carry on the family line, they make a wish before the gods to have a boy and grow up smoothly. When a boy is born at home, it is necessary to make a wish, and the process of "wishing" has gradually formed the custom of "lighting". "There are three kinds of unfilial, and childless is big." In some places, there is a custom of "lighting lamps" to pray for "more parenting", which is very convenient.

For example, in Nansan Island of Zhanjiang (there are many places in Zhanjiang, with slight differences, and there are also some differences in different villages in Nansan Island), on the tenth day of the first month of each year, families with boys can have a "lighting ceremony" according to the situation (the age is uncertain, some children are several years old, and the oldest is even dozens of years old), but it is very unlucky if the lights go out in the process of giving birth to boys.

"If there are more people at home, we must turn on the light today." Today is Earth Day. Why put on the lights? How to light the lamp

Today is the 10th day of the first lunar month, which is the traditional "Earth Day", "Stone Day" and "Lantern Festival". What exactly is the Lantern Festival? As the saying goes, "there are more people in the family, and the lights are on today." What does this mean?

What is the meaning of the earth and the sun?

Numbers range from one to ten, nine is the pole of yang, ten is the tail of yin, yang is the sky, and yin is the ground, so the ninth day of the first month is the "sky" and the tenth day of the first month is the "ground". Earth Day is the birthday of the land and the birthday of the stone. The ancients believed that the basic elements that make up everything are wood, fire, earth, gold and water, among which spring wood, summer fire, autumn gold and winter water are the characteristics of the four seasons.

The earth was born in four seasons, and in orientation, it corresponds to the Huanglong in the sky, so the earth is the repository of all things. Therefore, the last month of each season belongs to the earth, that is, the four months of "Chen Xu Ugliness". Therefore, the original wood, fire and water are Tai Chi, and the same as "wood, fire and water" are soil, that is, the four images are soil.

So metals can be produced in the soil, metals can flow out of the water, and trees can grow. Trees can make fires, and at the same time, wood is soil after decay, and soil after gold rust is exhausted. When the fire burns out, water enters the soil. So the five elements all circulate in the soil. Of course, people are also composed of five elements, so they have to be buried to be safe and circulate.

So "Earth" is the birthplace of all things, and "Earth Day" is also "Earth Day" and "Stone Day". Therefore, it is a custom to "recognize the stone" every day. The so-called "recognizing the stone father" is to let the children recognize the stone as their father, because the stone is extremely hard and can protect the healthy growth of the children, which means that the children are as strong and long-lasting as the stone.

What is "lighting"?

The 10th day of the first month is also the Lantern Festival, which is an ancient custom dating back to the Han Dynasty. Generally, the Lantern Festival lasts for five days and is divided into three steps, namely, lighting, warming and lighting. From 10: 00 on the first day of the first month, it is also called "turning on the light". This kind of lighting is specially for children to pray for peace.

"Cenxi County Records" records that "every year on the tenth day of the first month, all families who have added households and were born before the tenth day of the first month of that year and have reached the full moon should hang lanterns on this day to celebrate". "Shang" means "hanging" and "Deng" means "Ding", so a boy at home is called "Tianding", which is homophonic with "Tiandeng".

It means that a boy was born at home the year before last, and the child was full moon before the tenth day of the first month. On the tenth day of the first month, we should "light up", that is, "add lights". If there is no full moon, it will be the tenth day of the first month of next year.

When lighting a lamp, it is usually the father of the child who carries firecrackers from his door and puts them on the roots of the community in the village, and then hangs lanterns with the boy's name on them in the light shed. "She" refers to the place where the landlord lives in the village.

The elders in charge of writing genealogy in the village will write the name of the boy on the lantern into the genealogy after seeing the lantern. On the day of "lighting", we were the first to worship our ancestors, that is, to tell our ancestors that "more people have been added" to our family. And to hold a banquet to entertain the villagers, commonly known as "please light wine."

After putting lanterns, you should "warm the lanterns", that is, after the eleventh day of the first month, the elders should watch them in front of the lanterns in the morning and evening, and cheer and worship the lanterns to ensure that the lanterns will not go out day and night, indicating that the incense will continue. On the 16th day of the first month, lanterns are taken down and hung in ancestral halls or living rooms, which is called "falling lanterns".

This custom is to hope that children can be protected by their ancestors and landowners and grow up healthily. The reason why Earth Day lights up is because the land is the mother of all things and the place where all things are born. Therefore, "there are more children at home, and the lights are on every day" is an expectation for children.

There should be a Lantern Festival for boys. Yulin has fertile land and mild climate, which can be cultivated all year round, especially male workers working in the fields. So it's a big deal to have a boy and a new man in the countryside. Hanging lights on the tenth day of the month is particularly grand and lively. On February 9th last year, the reporter experienced a grand lantern hanging ceremony on the 10th day of the first month in Shuidiling Village, shatian town, Fumian District.

Last year, seven families in Lingcun got water supply. On the tenth day of this year, seven lanterns will be hung in the village, which is very lively. Several families who want to hang up the lights have been busy since early in the morning, so they have made all the preparations in advance. In the morning, the invited Hershey Lion Dance Team arrived one after another. When the lion dance team meets at the intersection, they will dance according to the rules, thus opening the curtain of the lantern hanging ceremony.

At 3 o'clock in the afternoon, it is auspicious to hang lanterns, and the lanterns of each household are sent to the head of the club and the ancestral hall under the escort of their ancestors. Along the way, lions danced, firecrackers exploded, gongs and drums roared, and the roads were crowded with people who came to watch, which was as lively as the Lantern Festival.

After the worship, the lanterns of each family were not hung in the head of the club and the ancestral hall, but were sent home and hung in the hall at home. Subsequently, the lion dance teams held a lion dance performance in the village. After the banquet, there was a dance and acrobatic party, which pushed the lantern hanging activity to another climax.

Besides Yulin, counties and cities under its jurisdiction also have the custom of hanging lanterns. On the 10th day of the first month every year, it is the Lantern Festival, a unique custom festival in Beiliu, Li Xia. According to the custom, if the newborn born in the previous year is a boy, the boy's family will hang lanterns on the tenth day of the first lunar month of the following year, commonly known as "hanging lanterns".

Therefore, every day on the tenth day of the first month, the family will hold a lantern festival and drink a wedding banquet. If it's a little boy who hasn't had a full moon on the tenth day of the first month, he won't be able to hang up the lights until the tenth day of the first month of next year. It's called hanging old lights. This kind of hanging wine is equivalent to the full moon wine in other places, but its characteristic is that no matter what day of the same year a boy is born, the lights will not be hung until the tenth day of the first month.

Lights in Lingnan folk have the meaning of "lighting" and "mending the sky": lighting lamps has the meaning of illuminating the future; The homonyms of "Deng" and "Ding" are the same or similar, and both mean to have a boy. In our Beiliu village, urban and rural customs call the 10th day of the first month "lighting" day, and the 16th day of the first month "turning off the lights" day. "On the 10 day, every child bought paper and hung lanterns to celebrate the ancestral temple. In ancient times, the Lantern Festival stole wealth, which made people have children under the bed.

Every year, the tenth day of the first month becomes the drinking day for everyone in Beiliu. On this festive day, even the poorest families will borrow money from relatives and friends and put it on two or three tables. Rich people have dozens or hundreds of tables. Relatives and friends all brought gifts to congratulate them, and the host gave a banquet to entertain them, which means please hang up the wine.

Nowadays, most people in cities come from the countryside. If there are children on lanterns, let parents hold banquets at home to entertain relatives and friends in their hometown, and entertain relatives, friends and classmates near the city in restaurants and restaurants in the city. /kloc-on the morning of 0/6, I went to worship the gods and brought home the lanterns on the owner of the club on 10, and the Lantern Festival ended successfully.

In Beiliu, "hanging lanterns" has developed into a grand traditional festival today. Whenever the tenth day of the first month comes, the streets are full of lanterns for anyone to buy. Most people go to Sanduang District to buy two lanterns, one for hanging in the main room and the other for hanging in their own temple in the countryside. Each lamp should be wrapped with two pebbles, indicating that there are successors who can carry on the family line. All the hotels in this city are full.

Some booked wine tables a month ago, ranging from a dozen tables to hundreds. Some hotels have four rounds, with tables at 9: 00 am, 12: 00 pm, 3: 00 pm and 6: 00 pm. Everyone has three aunts, six grandmothers, seven uncles and eight uncles, all of whom have husbands and hung up the lights. Congratulations, red envelopes and a wedding banquet. City people go to restaurants, while rural people go from village to village. Some people say that this is a "drinking day" for all northerners.

There should be a Lantern Festival for boys. 3 What areas have the custom of lighting lanterns for the New Year?

This custom exists in Lingnan areas such as Henan, Huizhou, Hakka and Chaoshan.

Light a lamp under the stove. Since 13, the Lantern Festival has been put on in advance, and bamboo lanterns have been arranged in every alley and bridge. The custom of lighting lanterns on the Lantern Festival originated from the ternary theory of Taoism. The fifteenth day of the first month is Shangyuan Festival, the fifteenth day of July is Zhongyuan Festival, and the fifteenth day of October is Xiayuan Festival.

In Chaoshan and other Lingnan areas, every household should light a lamp from the 11th to 18th of the first month, especially the Lantern Festival. If there was a boy at home after the Lantern Festival last year, lanterns would be hung on the lampstand of the ancestral hall of the clan in the township to announce the aggravation in the township and accept the congratulations of the villagers.

Guangzhou is used to turning on the lights for bedside women on the twelfth day of the first month, praying for the healthy and safe growth of children. On the thirteenth day of the first month, light a kitchen lamp until midnight snack.

Because China has been in an agricultural society for a long time, the male labor force of the family is very important to the prosperity of the family, and having a boy is a happy event for the whole family. In ancient times, there was a saying that the boy Jia Ding, Ding and Deng were homophonic in many dialects. Therefore, the custom of midnight snack lighting and chandelier also has good wishes.

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Traditional customs of the Spring Festival:

1, paste Spring Festival couplets: Spring Festival couplets are posted every Spring Festival to increase the festive atmosphere of the festival, also called Spring Festival couplets. Traditional spring stickers are handwritten with a brush, but there are also spring stickers printed by machines. There are many kinds of Spring Festival couplets, including street couplets and door couplets, but not every Spring Festival couplets has a horizontal batch.

2, cut window grilles, paste door couplets: Before the Chinese New Year holiday, some festive and auspicious window grilles will be cut.

3. Hanging New Year's pictures: New Year's pictures are a kind of Chinese paintings, which began with the ancient door god paintings. One of the Han folk arts, is also one of the common folk handicrafts. During the Guangxu period of Qing Dynasty, it was officially called New Year Pictures, which was a unique painting school of Han nationality in China and an art form loved by rural people in China. Mostly used for posting in the New Year, decorating the environment, with the meaning of wishing the New Year auspicious and festive, hence the name.

4. Dragon dance: Dragon dance is a traditional dance that originated in China. In ancient times, dragon and lion dances were one of the programs of large festivals in a year. With Chinese emigrating to other parts of the world, dragon dance culture has spread all over China, Taiwan Province Province, Hongkong, Southeast Asia, Europe, America, Australia and New Zealand, and has become a symbol of China culture.