The 25th day of the first month, commonly known as the "Cangcang Festival", also known as the "Tiancang Festival", is a folk festival to worship the god of Cangcang and pray for a good harvest. In the old days, this program was popular in many places in northern China. Different places have different customs, then there are firecrackers, to express people's desire for a good harvest, auspicious and happy life.
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The 25th day of the first month is commonly known as the Festival of Filling of Cangcang, and it is the birthday of Cangwang. This is a Han Chinese folk festival to symbolize the New Year's grain harvest. "Fill the warehouse festival" because "fill" and "day" harmonic is also known as the "day warehouse festival", the folk have the old days warehouse and the small day Cang of points. The twentieth day of the first month of the lunar calendar for the small sky warehouse, the twenty-fifth day of the first month for the old sky warehouse, is a traditional folk festival. Some say that Tiancang Festival is the day of sacrifice to the stars, some say it is for the sacrifice of the land or the sacrifice of the mill god. By filling the barn, it means filling the barn.
Meng Yuan Lao of the Song Dynasty in the Tokyo Dreaming Records said, "the 25th day of the first month, people's market sheep and swine meat, the guest to the bitter stay, after all, and go, the name of filling the warehouse." "Filling up the barn" means filling up the barn. Legend has it that there was a drought in the north for three consecutive years, with thousands of miles of bare ground and no harvest. However, the emperor did not care about people's lives, as usual, forced the imperial grain, resulting in years of famine, starving corpses everywhere, especially at the end of the year, the poor people have no way out. In this case, the barn official who watched over the grain for the emperor resolutely opened the barn to provide relief to the victims, and set fire to the barn and burned himself on the 25th day of the first month. The descendants in order to commemorate the barn official, every year this day early in the morning, with grass ash scattered into a round hoard-shaped grain silo, some also set on the lace, auspicious words, and in the hoard sprinkled with grains to symbolize the grain harvest, to express the people to fill the barn to save the barn official's deep feelings and deep meaning. These customs have disappeared, but fill the warehouse story has been passed down from generation to generation, reminding people from this day onwards to clear the warehouse sweep hoard, drying seeds, refurbishment of farm equipment, in preparation for spring plowing.
The 25th day of the first month of the lunar calendar for the fill warehouse. On this day, grain merchants and rice vendors offer sacrifices to the god of the warehouse. Farmers with firewood ash sprinkled circle on the ground, put all kinds of crop seeds, with tile cover, praying for wind and rain, full of grains. There is also the 20th of the first month for the custom of small fill warehouse.
Fill Cang Festival fill Cang Festival is divided into small fill Cang, big fill Cang two festivals. Small fill the warehouse for the first month of the twentieth, large fill the warehouse for the first month of the twenty-fifth. In many places, the festival is celebrated on the 23rd day of the first month, regardless of the size of the festival.
The day of the 25th of the first month dawn, every family in their own yard or threshing floor, with the sifted cooking ash, withdrawn from the shape of a grain hoard of varying sizes, and put some grains inside, symbolizing the abundance of grains. According to folklore, the twenty-fifth day of the first month to fill the warehouse, is to commemorate a kindly John Doe warehouse officer. The twenty-fifth day of the first month, commonly known as Fill the Barn Festival, which is a Han Chinese folk festival to symbolize the New Year's grain harvest.
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