What are the customs of Minnan Lantern Festival?

Lantern Festival is coming. As the saying goes, the customs of Minnan Lantern Festival have their own characteristics. What are the customs of Minnan Lantern Festival? Next, I would like to introduce the customs of the Lantern Festival in southern Fujian. Welcome to read it.

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In addition to offering sacrifices to gods, eating Yuanxiao and solve riddles on the lanterns, Minnan has its own unique Lantern Festival custom:

Minnan Lantern Festival custom 1, wearing lamp feet

On the Lantern Festival in some places in southern Fujian, such as Zhangpu, there is a custom called "wearing lamp feet", that is, on the Lantern Festival night, the newly-married bride and the young boy's kannika nimtragol in the village should wear red and green, dress up beautifully, be accompanied by their mother-in-law or other elderly women, hold mascots, say auspicious words and walk under the lamp shed of Dazu Temple to show off their charm. The purpose of this is to introduce the new daughter-in-law to ancestors and villagers. As for the kannika nimtragol who has given birth to a boy, it is also through the lampstand to comfort her ancestors.

Minnan Lantern Festival custom 2, please be double.

There is a custom of "inviting two people to the Lantern Festival in Jiuchun County", which is also called "Dairen". It is a small paper man who can stand upright, and its number should be the same as its own population. In the evening, when you are invited to double, you should put five-flavored bowls, wine bottles and wine glasses.

Housewives burn incense and pour wine first. Then, one by one, she picked up the "Body body double" and let it touch the edge of the five-flavor bowl and the wine glass. At the same time, she said: "Eating meat is urgent, eating wine and running around, eating the master's food and wine, and eliminating disasters for the master." Then send the "corpse body double" outside and burn it. People think that this can eliminate disasters in the new year and have a bright future.

Customs of Minnan Lantern Festival III. Brown girl

Every underage girl who worships the "brown girl" needs to prepare an inch-long little red shoe or a small dress in advance, and then go to the toilet to express her love. Wish: "Brown girl, the water is boundless (beautiful), teach Ruan Bi (weaving) and Ruan Fang. Teach Ruan Bi to hem and teach Ruan to make heels. Teach Ruan to give a big needle and make up a big rope. Pick hydrangea with a needle. Raise scissors, cut patterns, and cut them like people. "

After the sacrifice, burn the little red shoes or clothes and take back the offerings. It means begging for future wisdom.

Customs of Minnan Lantern Festival IV. Walking in the street

The main traditional art forms of "stepping on the street" in Quanzhou are the familiar "Gong Ball Dance" (colored ball dance), "breast beating dance", "burning woman", preaching, cage blowing, Nanyin oratorio, string pipe, ten-tone, five-tone, lion dance, dragon dance, pavilion car, high-legged opera, Taiwanese opera and so on.

Customs of Minnan Lantern Festival 5. Money encouragement

Traditional classical dance. The performers hold leather money drums and dance to the music rhythm. There are various forms, including money encouragement from colorful women and money encouragement from Liao people in Zhao Jun's Journey to the Fortress.

Minnan Lantern Festival custom 6, listening to incense

"Listening to incense" is generally a little girl or young woman, mainly predicting marriage, or wishing her husband to go out to work, beg in the sea, and make a lot of money in peace.

People who "listen to incense" first burn incense in their own halls to pray for guidance from the gods, then move to their destination in the direction allowed by divination, hide under the doors and windows of a family, listen to what others say in the room, and analyze the results of the problem. In the past, there was a saying in Quanzhou that "on the fifteenth day of the first month, you can listen to the sweet fairy dream". If you are not satisfied with the midnight snack, wait patiently until the Mid-Autumn Festival and have a chance to listen to it again.

The custom of Minnan Lantern Festival. Pretend to be a person

That is, pretending to be a character or funny image in ancient drama, commonly known as "pretending to be a person." The tour leader holds a scroll card and writes down the name of the performing unit (territory, village), followed by five-tone gongs and drums. The performances are well-known, such as Chen Sanwu Niang, Zheng Yuanhe, Pro-Big Wood, The Journey to the West, Legend of the White Snake, Strike the Iron, Riding a Donkey to Visit Family, Gongbeipo, The Journey to the West and so on.

The custom of Minnan Lantern Festival. Maluiguan

The children wore brand-new clothes, decorated the characters in the play, and took part in the parade on horseback. The pavilion adopts the ancient pavilion shed, which is also called "pavilion bed" because of its bed shape. There are two kinds of rectangular sheds on it, namely "coarse pavilion" and "fine pavilion". There are colored silks or scenery on the ground, and there are 1 to three children, dressed as characters in the play, sitting in the shed, with four people carrying the pavilion before and after. This is a "rough pavilion". "Brother Xi" is a girl in ancient costume, sitting on a porcelain drum, holding a pipa and "playing and singing". The image is simple and elegant.

Customs of Minnan Lantern Festival 9. Orion Array

There are dozens of members of Orion array, each wearing "hunting clothes" and holding various weapons (18 martial arts are complete). The leader, in uniform, rode his horse to open the way. There are still some people carrying animals and tiger skins, which are quite dignified. I also play various routines from time to time, which is very spectacular.

The Origin and Legend of Lantern Festival

Lantern Festival and Lantern Festival are the main traditional festivals in China. There are two theories about the origin of Lantern Festival:

First, the Lantern Festival existed in the Western Han Dynasty more than 2,000 years ago. Lantern Festival began in the period of Emperor Han Ming in the East. Ming Di advocates Buddhism. It is said that on the fifteenth day of the first month, the monks watched the Buddhist relics and lit lamps to worship Buddha, so they ordered to light lamps to worship Buddha in palaces and temples that night, so that all cremated people and ordinary people could hang lamps. Later, this Buddhist ceremonial festival gradually formed a grand folk festival. This festival has experienced the development process from the court to the people, and from the Central Plains to the whole country.

Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty ordered the 15th day of the first month to be designated as the Lantern Festival. During the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the sacrificial activities of "Taiyi God" were scheduled for the 15th day of the first month. Taiyi: the God who rules the universe. When Sima Qian created the taichu calendar Law, he had already identified the Lantern Festival as a major festival.

Secondly, the custom of burning lanterns in Lantern Festival originated from Taoism's "ternary theory"; The fifteenth day of the first month is Shangyuan Festival, the fifteenth day of July is Zhongyuan Festival, and the fifteenth day of October is Xiayuan Festival. The officials in charge of the upper, middle and lower elements are heaven, earth and man respectively. The celestial officials are happy and the Lantern Festival should be lit. The festivals and customs of Lantern Festival have been extended and expanded with the development of history. As far as the length of festivals is concerned, there is only one day in Han Dynasty, three days in Tang Dynasty and five days in Song Dynasty. In the Ming Dynasty, lights were lit from the eighth day of August until the seventeenth night of the first month, a total of ten days. Connected with the Spring Festival, it is a city during the day, full of excitement, and brightly lit at night, which is spectacular. Especially the exquisite and colorful lights make it the climax of entertainment activities during the Spring Festival. In the Qing Dynasty, there were more "hundred operas" such as dragon dancing, lion dancing, dry boating, walking on stilts and yangko dancing, but the festival period was shortened to four to five days.

It is understood that the formation of the Lantern Festival custom has a long process. According to general data and folklore, the fifteenth day of the first month was paid attention to in the Western Han Dynasty. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty's activity of offering sacrifices to "Taiyi" in Ganquan Palace on the moonlit night was regarded by later generations as the first sacrifice to God on the fifteenth day of the first month. However, the fifteenth day of the first month is indeed a folk festival after the Han and Wei Dynasties. The introduction of Buddhist culture in the Eastern Han Dynasty is of great significance to the formation of Lantern Festival customs.

Traditional nursery rhymes of Lantern Festival

First, "the fifteenth day of the first month"

The first month, the first month is the first month, and lanterns are hung on the fifteenth day of the first month.

Playing lion dance and dragon dance, round glutinous rice balls are placed in bowls.

You bit me, sweet life, good mood.

Second, Lantern Festival.

The square is really lively, filled with Yuanxiao raw materials.

You knead, I press, and everyone starts making Yuanxiao.

Let's have a game. What a wonderful Lantern Festival game.

Three. the Lantern Festival

Lantern Festival, full moon. Round, small, sticky and sweet.

Look at lanterns and walk on stilts. The streets and alleys are really lively.

The baby smiled at the moon, and another spring came.

Fourth, the "fifteenth Lantern Festival"

The full moon on the fifteenth is also a garden, and the sweet dumplings on the fifteenth are sweet.

The firecrackers sounded on the 15th, and the fireworks were lit to sing.

Fifteen lanterns are bright, holding candles and thinking.

5. "Happy Lantern Festival"

Yuanxiao is good, Yuanxiao is wonderful and delicious.

Enjoy the Lantern Festival in solve riddles on the lanterns.