Lantern Festival is the earliest festival in a year. There are customs such as eating glutinous rice balls, enjoying lanterns and solve riddles on the lanterns in China, but the customs of Lantern Festival vary from place to place. What are the customs related to the Lantern Festival in Guangxi? The following is the custom of Guangxi Lantern Festival compiled by Zhishi Xiaobian. Welcome to read it.
Guangxi Lantern Festival custom: Cooking dumplings and eating dumplings with oil
Eating dumplings with oil has become a common custom. In Shanglin, Jingxi and other places in Guangxi, there is also the custom of eating dumplings with oil (also called "frying piles" and "oil piles" in some places). The food is different, but the meaning is the same. Both kinds of food are small round balls, indicating reunion. The word "Tuan" of the original "oil ball" is not the word "Tuan" of this reunion, but the word "Yan", which means an action of poking the surface of the oil ball, but with the evolution of time and the integration of culture, it has evolved into the present "Tuan".
Lantern Festival
The custom of Lantern Festival is popular in ethnic minority areas in northwest and southwest Guangxi. People put out their own lanterns on the night of Lantern Festival and compete to see who can do it best and skillfully. People not only compete with each other for lights, but also compete with the moon for brilliance. All kinds of lights are hung on trees or placed on the ground to form colorful night scenes. These lights are usually inserted in grapefruit with evil spirits, or incense is used instead of fire, that is, countless incense sticks are inserted in grapefruit to form dots of light. When the lights or incense are naturally extinguished, it means that the 15-day Spring Festival has ended successfully and the new year has begun.
Dragon Dance
Dragon Dance is a popular folk entertainment activity among Yao and Han ethnic groups in Fuchuan, especially the Wuyuan Yao Village in Dongshan, which is a legacy of the worship of the Dragon King of Yao people. In addition to the dragon dance in the Spring Festival, dragon dances are also held at festivals, temples and festivals. The Yaojia Dragon Dance Festival is held from the second day to the fifteenth day of the first month of each year, which coincides with the Lantern Festival, so it is also called "Shangyuan Lantern Festival". On the Lantern Festival, people go from village to village. Generally, one village goes to more than 1 villages every year for one day, and it usually takes three years to call it a session. After three years, it will be repeated, one session after another, and it will continue. Dragon lantern ranks have grown, generally with 11, 13 or 15-section long dragons, 9 or 5-section short dragons, gold, yellow, white, green dragons and other styles. When holding the dance, the lantern and the dragon ball come first, and the golden dragon flies. After the dragon, there are colorful lanterns, such as the unicorn lantern symbolizing good luck, the carp lantern symbolizing auspicious prosperity and so on. On the morning of the New Year's Day, the Dragon Team first paid a New Year call to the villagers. On the second day of the lunar new year, gongs and drums were used to dance the dragon in the neighboring village, and the men, women and children in the neighboring village went out to meet the dragon in the suburbs, firecrackers rang and gongs and drums were loud, which was very lively. The performances include "Huanglong coming out of the cave", "Golden Dragon wrapped around a column",
"Carp playing in the water" and "Carp jumping over the dragon gate", etc. During the performance of dancing the dragon, especially "Shuanglong grabbing pearls" and "Shuanglong presenting treasures" are the most wonderful and spectacular scenes.
stealing youth
The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the Lantern Festival, also known as Shangyuan Festival, commonly known as the first half of the first month, and people take the fifteenth to twentieth day of the first month as the Lantern Festival. In the old days, before the Lantern Festival, every household made dumplings with glutinous rice flour. That night, every household cooked dumplings, and the whole family sat around the lamp to eat dumplings, which meant reunion.
On Bobai Day, families will kill chickens and burn "finished lanterns" to offer sacrifices to the gods and ancestors. That night, people went to the wild vegetable fields and picked several bags of other people's vegetables to go home, which was called "stealing green", indicating a good sign. In Shahe, Dungu and other places, in addition to stealing green, some people are still rolling on the ground where green hemp is planted, thinking that it can cure low back pain.
13 customs about Lantern Festival 1 Hanging a red light
Hanging a red light is a traditional custom of Lantern Festival, which is widely popular all over the country. The origin of hanging a red light custom is also related to Huang Chao in the famous "Huang Chao Uprising". This custom has been mentioned in a small series in previous articles, and you can check it out if you are interested.
2 Eat Yuanxiao
Every year, almost every household in the country eats Yuanxiao. Of course, people in some places don't eat Yuanxiao, some eat dumplings, and some eat other traditional foods.
3 Lantern Festival
The custom of Lantern Festival originated in the period of Emperor Han Ming, which was only popular in the court at first, and then slowly spread to the people. When I was a child, there was no so-called lantern viewing here. Perhaps this is related to the fact that lantern viewing needs a certain economic foundation and certain conditions. It has been happening every year in recent years, but it is estimated that it will not be seen this year.
4 solve riddles on the lanterns
solve riddles on the lanterns is an interesting link with lanterns. Now, in some places, there are solve riddles on the lanterns at the Lantern Festival every year.
5 Playing with Dragon Lantern
The custom of playing with Dragon Lantern means offering sacrifices to gods, exorcising evil spirits, celebrating happiness, eliminating disasters and reducing happiness, etc. At present, some areas have the custom of playing with Dragon Lantern Festival.
6 children's lanterns
Children's lanterns are an ancient traditional folk custom of the Lantern Festival, which is given by the parents for their married (newly married) daughters, implying the hope that their newly married daughters will have a small life as soon as possible. In some areas, children's lanterns are sent from the eighth day of the first month to the fifteenth day of the first month.
7 Walking on stilts
Walking on stilts is one of the hundred plays in ancient times, and it is also a distinctive program of the Lantern Festival in some areas.
8 lion dance
Lion dance originated in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. In some areas, there will be lion dance and lion lantern dance, which seems to have the same effect as playing dragon lanterns in some areas.
9 "Walking with all kinds of diseases"
"Walking with all kinds of diseases" is also called "Wandering with all kinds of diseases". In some places, people will walk together on the Lantern Festival and cross the bridge when they see it, thinking that this can achieve the effect of eliminating all kinds of diseases.
1 greeting Zigu
It sounds nice, but in fact, the so-called Zigu is actually the toilet aunt, the god of toilets. In ancient times, there was a saying that Zigu was greeted on the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.
11 Sacrifice Door Sacrifice Households
Sacrifice Door Sacrifice Households are divided into two types: sacrifice door and sacrifice house, that is, on the Lantern Festival, poplar branches are inserted into the door, and a pair of chopsticks are inserted into a bowl filled with bean porridge.
12 Rat-by-rat
Rat-by-rat is a Lantern Festival activity that started in Wei and Jin Dynasties. This Lantern Festival activity is very targeted, mainly aimed at people who raise silkworms, because mice often spoil large areas of silkworms, and after feeding them with rice porridge, they will not eat silkworms when they are full.
13 Stealing vegetables
If you understand "stealing vegetables" here as a game "stealing vegetables", it would be a big mistake. In fact, stealing vegetables here is real, and it appeared earlier. It is said that it existed in the Liao and Jin Dynasties, that is, on the Lantern Festival, people stole vegetables from other people's gardens, and the stolen people would not blame them. Is it similar to the game "stealing vegetables"? Maybe the game "stealing vegetables" is the inspiration from here.
safety precautions during the Lantern Festival 1. With the arrival of the Lantern Festival, there will be a peak of people gathering to drink in entertainment places and wine restaurants, and the illegal behavior of drunk driving is very serious to road traffic safety. The police reminded the majority of drivers: driving without drinking, drinking without driving.
2. During the Lantern Festival, most citizens choose to go out for parties and enjoy lanterns, and there is no one at home, which provides an opportunity for criminal law. Police tip: Before going out, be sure to check whether all windows and security doors in your home are locked, and pay special attention to whether the kitchen and bathroom are tight. Avoid storing large amounts of cash at home. Passbooks, ID cards and other documents should be stored separately.
3. During the Lantern Festival, various activities will reach the peak, and some merchants will use a lot of colored lights and combustible materials to decorate the atmosphere, burying many disaster-causing factors such as fires. Don't forget the fire control. If there is a fire during the festival, you should call 119 and 11 in time.
4. People should go in and out of places for entertainment in an orderly manner to avoid crowding and confusion, and pay attention to observing the situation at the event site and identifying warning signs, so as to be aware of it; Consciously understand the location of surrounding safe passages and entrances and exits, and never approach or touch danger warning signs; When local people are crowded, don't be curious to join in the fun to avoid crowding and trampling; Please follow the instructions and evacuate in an orderly manner in case of emergency.
5. Some citizens often gather in bars, ktv and other entertainment places to have a "carnival" of drinking. In order to prevent cases of drunken troubles and injuries, the general public, especially young people, must control drinking, handle disputes calmly, and must not fight so as not to cause serious consequences.
6. There are a large number of people in various cultural and entertainment places and public gathering places, which also provides "convenience" for thieves. The police reminded the public to take good care of their personal belongings when entertaining, and try to keep valuables at home or in stores to avoid losses.