What can be done in the Lantern Festival in 2022? What are the precautions for the Lantern Festival?
Lunar calendar: 15th day of the first month of the Gregorian calendar in 2022: Tuesday, February 15, 2022, rushing to the west.
Today's Gregorian calendar is appropriate.
Avoid everything today and don't spend it on big things.
Today's yellow calendar is taboo.
Avoid everything today and don't spend it on big things.
Judging from the 2022 Lantern Festival calendar, this day is a taboo, so everything is inappropriate.
What are the precautions for the Lantern Festival?
1, Lantern Festival, don't wear clothes, or you will be plagued by bad luck for a year.
2. You can't kill chickens and fish at home during the Lantern Festival, because it is an ominous sign to see blood on this day, which means that you are broke and sick.
According to legend, Lantern Festival is the birthday of Emperor Tiangong, and it should be mainly festive. A crying child will bring bad luck to the family.
You can't wear white and black clothes on Lantern Festival. These two colors are closely related to death. Seeing these two colors on the same day in Daqing will make the wearer feel overwhelmed.
The Lantern Festival can't damage tools or other equipment, which means that wealth will disappear in the coming year. Therefore, most businessmen will avoid large-scale machinery construction and operation on this day to avoid bad things. What are the customs of Lantern Festival?
First, eat Yuanxiao.
On the Lantern Festival, the north eats Yuanxiao and the south eats glutinous rice balls. In the Song Dynasty, a novel Lantern Festival food was popular among the people. This kind of food was originally called Zi Yuan, then Yuanxiao, and merchants also called it Yuanbao. Yuanxiao, or glutinous rice dumplings, is made of white sugar, rose, sesame, red bean paste, cinnamon bark, walnut kernel, nuts and jujube paste. And wrapped in glutinous rice flour into a circle, you can be vegetarian and have different flavors. It can be boiled, fried and steamed, which means happy reunion. Shaanxi jiaozi is not wrapped, but rolled in glutinous rice flour, or boiled or fried, warm and round.
Second, lanterns
Lantern Festival is a traditional festival custom, which began in the Western Han Dynasty and flourished in Sui and Tang Dynasties. After the Sui and Tang Dynasties, lantern style prevailed in all previous dynasties and spread to future generations. The fifteenth day of the first month is the climax of the annual Lantern Festival, so it is also called the Lantern Festival. Before the fifteenth day of the first month, the streets and alleys were covered with lanterns, flowers were everywhere and lights were swaying, which reached its climax on the fifteenth night of the first month. On the fifteenth night of the first month, red lights are hung high in the streets and alleys, including palace lanterns, animal lanterns, lanterns, bird lanterns and so on, to attract people to watch lanterns.
Third, play with dragon lanterns.
Playing dragon lanterns, also known as dragon lanterns or dragon dancing, can be traced back to ancient times. Legend has it that as early as the Yellow Emperor, in a large-scale song and dance in the suburbs of Qing Dynasty, there was a leading bird image played by a man, and then a dance scene with six dragons interspersed with each other was arranged. The dragon dance recorded in writing is Zhang Heng's Xijing Fu in Han Dynasty. The author vividly described the dragon dance in the descriptions of hundreds of plays. According to Sui Shu's music records, Huanglongbian, similar to the dragon dance performed in hundreds of plays during the reign of Yang Di, is also very wonderful. Dragon dance is popular in many places in China. The Chinese nation advocates dragons and regards them as auspicious symbols.
Fourth, send children's lights
Sending lanterns to children is also referred to as sending lanterns, that is, before the Lantern Festival, parents send lanterns to their newly-married daughters' homes or ordinary relatives and friends to their newly-married infertile homes to add auspiciousness, because the lanterns are homophonic with Ding. This custom exists in many places. In Xi city, Shaanxi province, lanterns are put on from the eighth to the fifteenth day of the first month. In the first year, a pair of palace lanterns and a pair of stained glass lamps were presented. I hope my daughter will be lucky after marriage and have children early. If the daughter is pregnant, in addition to the big palace lantern, one or two pairs of small lanterns should be sent to wish her a safe pregnancy.