On the Lantern Festival, the ancient city of Xingcheng touched the lion.
The ancient city promotes the city, and there is a lantern festival every Lantern Festival. Streets and alleys are decorated with lights and colorful lights, and thousands of lights are blooming. People go out to enjoy the moon, enjoy lanterns and set off fireworks to celebrate the Lantern Festival.
Xingcheng Ancient City, namely Ningyuan, the famous "Ningyuan Victory" happened here, and this is the place where Yuan Chonghuan hit Nurhachi hard with red cannons. Daming and Manchu fought fiercely here several times, which can be described as "a Ningyuan city with half the history of Ming and Qing Dynasties".
Xingcheng Ancient City, one of the four best-preserved ancient cities in Ming Dynasty in China, continues an ancient custom-touching a lion on the 15th day of the first month. This lion is eight big stone lions at the foot of Zushi Square in Yan Hui Street, the ancient city. Speaking of touching lions, there is an interesting legend here.
According to legend, one of the stone lions, the founder of Shifang, gradually became spiritual because of "taking the essence of the sun and the moon and the aura of heaven and earth". During the day, it was a stone statue. At night, it was still alive and went to a nearby mill to steal tofu. One day, it was found and a piece of its mouth was knocked off.
A kind-hearted grandmother pities the stone lion and helps it touch the wound every day. After a while, her mouth healed. In order to repay her kindness, Shishi gave her a dream and told her that if there was any pain in her body, she would touch the same part of Shishi on the night of the fifteenth day of the first month, and the pain would be eliminated. Grandma did it, and it worked. From then on, the custom of touching lions on the fifteenth day of the first month was formed.
On the fifteenth day of the first month, the ancient city of Xingcheng held a lantern festival, full of colorful lanterns, which put on the festive costumes for the ancient city. People outside the city come to enjoy lanterns, and at the same time, they come to touch stone lions. The crowd was crowded and turbulent, and the scene was spectacular. At first, people were just lions sneaking around eating tofu. There were too many people coming later, so I touched all the lions one by one. There is even a saying, "Touch the lion's head, and you will not worry about food and clothing all your life;" Touch the lion's back, and you will be prosperous all your life; Touch the lion's teeth and take the treasure home. "People are laughing and laughing, and the festive atmosphere is very strong.
Nowadays, touching the lion on the fifteenth day of the first month has become a characteristic folk custom in Xingcheng. People touch the lion on this day, not only looking forward to eliminating disasters and diseases, but also praying for home and prosperity, the country's prosperity and people's peace.
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