The folk also have a lot of customs and particulars for the tenth year of the new year, and the older generation pays attention to "1 hanging, 2 worshipping, 3 eating, 4 not doing", so what does this sentence mean? Let's take a look!
On the tenth day of the first month, people will hang lanterns, and the lanterns on this day are also called "Tian Ding lanterns", which is a saying from Fujian and Guangdong, because in their dialects, the pronunciation of "lamp" and "ding" is very similar, so "Tian Deng" represents "Tian Ding". In the past, it was a great celebration for a boy to be born in the village, and on the 10th day of the first lunar month, the elders would write the child's name on the lantern and hang it in the temple to pray for the child's safety. This practice also pinned on the expectations of the elders that the family would prosper.
In order to grab the "headlamp", some people prepare the lanterns early, and they don't sleep at night on the ninth day of the new year, so they wait for the bell to ring at 12 o'clock and immediately hang the lanterns. Hang lanterns and burn incense as a sign of respect. On the 10th day of the Lunar New Year, the temple was full of lanterns. The lanterns that people hang are usually made of bamboo, and the outside is pasted with colored paper, and lantern riddles are written on the colored paper for people to guess. Oil lamps will also be placed in the lanterns, and if the lamp oil runs out, people will also replenish them in time to prevent the lanterns from going out.
On the 10th day of the Lunar New Year, people hang lanterns and invite friends to eat and drink to celebrate the addition of new people to their families. This wine is also said, commonly known as lantern wine, also called popular wine. During the Lantern Drinking Period, women who are unable to have children or have not given birth to a boy will also steal the lanterns of the main family, hoping to bring back the good fortune of the main family. If the lanterns of the main house are stolen, the owner will not be angry, and will prepare the lanterns to hang up again so that others can continue to steal.
As the saying goes, worship the heavens on the ninth day of the first month, and worship the earth on the tenth day of the first month. According to the old district, the ninth day of the first month is the day of worshipping the Jade Emperor, and the tenth day of the first month is the day of worshipping the land lord. According to the name of the older generation, the tenth day of the first lunar month is also called "Earth Day", which is the birthday of the father-in-law of the land. On this day, people stop their work in the fields and worship at home. Offerings are placed on stone mills in the courtyard, incense is burned, and prayers are made in the hope that the gods will be blessed in the new year.
Poor families or ordinary people worship in their own courtyards, while officials or wealthy businessmen usually go to the land temple to worship. In the past, the land lord was in charge of the fortune and destiny of all the people on one side of the land, so in the hearts of the people, the status of the land lord was also very high. However, the temple of the land lord is not luxurious, and in some places, the land lord does not even have an ancestral hall, that is, a statue of the god of the land lord is placed under a small stone house on the side of the road. The reason why he did this was not because he looked down on the land lord, but because the land lord did not have a high status in the divine realm, if he prepared a particularly luxurious ancestral hall, it would be easy to cause other gods to be unhappy.
On the 10th day of the first month of the first month and the second day of the second month of February, people will prepare delicious food, wine and fruits to worship, in the hope that the land lord will bless their wealth and prosperity.
The ancients believed that everything has a spirit, even stones. On the 10th day of the first lunar month, people worship the stone god, hoping that he will bless his family with a safe year. On this day, in order to express their reverence for the stone god, people also stipulated that no stones should be moved on this day. People think that if you move a stone, you will disturb the stone god, and if the stone god is angry, there will be calamity in the house. On this day, people avoided the stones as much as possible, and did not even touch the utensils made of the stones.
The customs vary from place to place, but in some places, stones are prepared and hung on the door to pray for safety. People usually choose a hard, beautiful stone and hang it at the door with a red rope, and this custom is more prevalent in the northern countryside. In addition, in some areas of the north, people will also make stone buns, that is, cakes made into stone-like, people think that eating stone buns, you can be safe and sound for a year.
The tenth day of the first lunar month is also called the "Ten Knuckles", where did this saying come about? In Xinzhou, people like to eat noodles on the tenth day of the first month, women knead the noodles into long noodle fish, their hands are very skillful, they can rub ten noodle fish at once, so this day is also called "ten fingers".
In Mongolia, there is also the custom of eating noodles on the tenth day of the first month, but the locals will make the noodles into shells, a total of 12, representing a month. Put them on the cage drawer and steam them, and when the lid is lifted, the water in the shell of the dough will have more rain in the month. Although this method of judgment is inaccurate, this act conveys the desire for a good grain harvest.
As a kind of traditional snack, rice cake has a beautiful meaning of rising every year, although the way of making rice cakes in the north and south is different, but the auspicious meaning is the same. Rice cakes in the south are usually made of glutinous rice flour, while in the north more often use yellow rice noodles as raw materials.
During the Chinese New Year, fish can be seen on almost every table, and the fish not only represents the surplus of the year, but also the mascot to ward off evil spirits and avoid disasters. The fish is delicious, nutritious, and soft in taste, and is loved by everyone. In the Han Dynasty, painters would paint images of fish on the gates, and in the Tang Dynasty, cabinet doors. The doors of the chests are painted with fish to ward off evil spirits. With the development of social civilization, people know that there are no ghosts in this world, so many people do not know that fish are mascots.
Eating fish on the tenth day of the first lunar month means that there is a surplus of grain every year, in order to express the people's desire for abundant food and clothing. There is a lot more to say about eating fish. For example, if you eat fish without eating fish head and tail, it means that you want to have something left (fish) until next year. When it comes to placing the fish, there is also a direction. If there are elders or guests, point the head of the fish to them as a sign of respect; If there are literati, they should face them with fish belly, indicating that there is something in their stomachs, so as to praise the literati for their talents and full of articles; If there is someone who is good at martial arts, turn the fish away from him to praise him as a pillar of talent.
On the tenth day of the first month, you can't make cakes, which is also based on homophony. The homonym of the pancake is "falling sick", not pancake also means not falling sick, so people do not make pancakes on this day, for the folk people, the Spring Festival is the beginning of the year, everything pays attention to the beginning, so the people's regulations are a lot of exquisite, the purpose is to be auspicious.
Some people also believe that the reason why they don't eat pancakes on the tenth day of the first month is because of a folk tale. It is said that the pancakes eaten in the past are dead, and they are very hard after cooking, but they can be stored for a long time, which is convenient for people to take with them when they go far away. There was a woman in the village, she said that on the tenth day of the first month, the crust was dry, indicating that the earth was dry, and you want the land to be dry, can there still be a grain harvest? Therefore, people do not eat pancakes on the tenth day of the first month.
Does pancake cause drought? That's definitely not going to happen, it's just that the ancients were superstitious. Nowadays, people don't eat pancakes during the Chinese New Year, but not because of the drought, and the pasta during the Chinese New Year is mainly dumplings. Especially in the northern region, many families will have dumplings for several days in a row, you want to eat pasta every day, do you still want to eat pancakes on the tenth day of the new year? I definitely don't want to eat it, so I don't make pancakes on the tenth day of the new year.
There is a folk saying that "rats marry on the tenth day of the Lunar New Year", although people hate rats and will let them marry. Rats often move at night, so in order not to disturb the rats to get married, people will turn off the lights and go to bed early on the tenth day of the lunar month. Some people say that when the female mouse becomes a parent, she leaves here and goes to someone else's house, so letting it marry on this day also means sending the mouse away.
According to the old people, on this day, the rat god will come to the world, and if the rat marriage is destroyed, the rat god will let the rat army steal your family's food. The common people believe that rats are very vengeful animals, and if this day angers the rats, you don't want to have a stable life throughout the year, they will steal your food from time to time. No one wants to cause trouble, so don't disturb the rats on the tenth day of the new year.
In order not to anger the rat god, people will also fry beans on the tenth day of the lunar month, and the beans will make a crackling sound in the pot, as if they are fired, to express the celebration of the rat family. In other places, people pay attention to not eating peanuts, because the favorite food of mice is peanuts, and people do not eat peanuts on this day, and they don't want to disturb the rat god.
In ancient times, men and women needed to marry before getting married, and after setting this family, they would find an auspicious day for the zodiac to get married. Although the first month is an auspicious day, people are taboo to marry in the first month, so the tenth day of the first month is not fixed. Now people will not choose to set up a family in the first month, mainly because there are many family dating processes, and these days they are busy receiving people who come to the house to pay New Year's greetings, and they can't take care of it at all.
The tenth day of the first month is the birthday of the stone, and people do not move the stone on this day, and it should be noted that on this day they cannot interact with snakes, rats, tigers, pigs, and monkeys. Because these five animals usually deal with the earth stones, if you get along with them on this day, it is easy to collide with the stone god. This statement is very superstitious, and now young people do not pay attention to taboos, but young people still have to avoid touching stones on this day, after all, it is the New Year, and it should be noted that it is still necessary to pay attention.
After reading the explanation, did you learn a little bit of knowledge? The customs of the tenth day of the first lunar month are really interesting, and people can't help but admire the wisdom of their ancestors. Chinese New Year, the so-called New Year's flavor is actually these New Year's customs, and these customs are also to make our New Year auspicious, so let's just do it.