"The dark dust goes with the horse, and the bright moon comes one by one"This verse depicts the last important festival of the Chinese New Year - the Lantern Festival. The Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is coming soon, which is also a small year in some areas of the north. The Lantern Festival is the first full moon night of the year, and the ancients called the night "Xiao", so the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is called the Lantern Festival.
As early as the Western Han Dynasty more than 2,000 years ago, the Lantern Festival has become a major festival. In the Tang Dynasty, lantern lanterns had become a legal thing, and the Lantern Festival gradually became a grand folk festival. After the Song Dynasty, the celebration of the Lantern Festival became more colorful, and the festival period was also extended, and the longest even reached ten days. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, the Lantern Festival was known as the three traditional festivals in China together with the Spring Festival and the Mid-Autumn Festival.
The Lantern Festival in 2024 is not ordinary, this year's Lantern Festival sees the "smallest full moon of the year", this year's February 25 in the Gregorian calendar at 22:58:45, the Moon will reach its apogee in orbit, and the distance between it and the Earth will be extended to 406,31151 km. This distance is 38440,000 kilometers, about 57%。Therefore, the apparent area of the Moon that we observed on that day would be relatively small, with an apparent diameter of only about 295 jiaofen, this phenomenon is very rare, and the next year's appearance time may be in 2086, so it can be said that this year's Lantern Festival is rare in 60 years.
The Lantern Festival has a history of more than 2,000 years in China, and in June 2008, the Lantern Festival was included in the "Second Batch of National Intangible Cultural Heritage List", which shows its important position in Chinese culture.
The Lantern Festival is not only the first full moon of the New Year, but also an important festival of our people, the first month of the fifteenth Lantern Festival on this day of taboos and customs are more, there is a folk saying: 5 genera to "hide the moon", remember to do 3 things to avoid 4 things, the Year of the Dragon is smooth! Let's find out in advance.
Lantern Festival, remember to "do 3 things".
1. Eat Lantern Festival.
Many people think that the Lantern Festival is a tangyuan, but in fact, this statement is not entirely correct. Lantern Festival is actually the name of the north, in the past, pay attention to the tradition of "not eating from time to time", and in the northern region due to the small production of glutinous rice, the Lantern Festival can only be used as a festival food for the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. Therefore, people named this food "Lantern Festival".
Although the materials and shapes of the Lantern Festival and the rice balls are the same, the method is not the same, the Lantern Festival is based on the filling, rolled in glutinous rice flour, its surface is dry and soft, and the soup after cooking is relatively turbid. In contrast, tangyuan is made by wrapping the filling with glutinous rice flour, the surface is smooth and sticky, and the soup after cooking is relatively clear.
But in fact, the meaning of the expression is the same, its round appearance, symbolizing reunion and happiness, expressing people's expectations for family happiness.
2. Flower lanterns.
The Lantern Festival lanterns originated in the Han Dynasty and prevailed in the Tang Dynasty. In order to promote Buddhism, Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty ordered the fifteenth night of the first lunar month to "burn lamps to show the Buddha" in the palace and temple. Since then, the custom of putting lanterns on the Lantern Festival has spread to the people from the original only held in the court, and gradually formed the tradition of viewing lanterns during the Lantern Festival.
As the old saying goes, "on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, every household is happy", in the process of appreciating the lanterns, it is also accompanied by an activity called "guessing lantern riddles", through guessing lantern riddles, people can exercise their thinking, increase their knowledge, and also feel the charm of traditional culture in entertainment.
3. Hide from the moon. The Lantern Festival is the first full moon of the first month, at the moment of the old moon and the new moon, at this time, some genera are easy to commit Tai Sui, in order to avoid Tai Sui, the Lantern Festival has the custom of "hiding the moon" on this day.
So, which of the Lantern Festival in 2024 will "hide from the moon"? There is a saying that the natal year is too old, and the natal year is actually the year in which the lunar calendar is in which it occurs once in 12 years, commonly known as the phase year. This year is 2024, which corresponds to the year of the dragon in Jiachen, so dragons need to hide from the moon. In addition, the zodiac signs that have a relationship of "punishment, harm, rush, and break" with the natal year zodiac should also avoid the moon, which are rabbits, dogs, oxen, sheep, and dogs.
The above relationship between "rushing, harming, punishing, and breaking" is an analysis based on the Five Elements Theory. The yang wood attribute of the rabbit and the moon is harmful, the dog is angry because the fire will be purging the mother's qi, so it rushes against each other, the cow is punished because of the gold and wood, and the sheep is broken because of the wood and the soil.
So, how to hide from the moon? "Dodge" is nothing more than dodging, and the full moon time of this year's Lantern Festival is 20:30 on February 24 of the Gregorian calendar, that is to say, in the evening of 8 o'clock to 9 o'clock this hour, try not to go out, to avoid quarrels with outsiders, as the saying goes, "Lantern Festival to hide from the moon, can not lie in bed", in this time period you can read a book,