Cenxi lighting custom

In Cenxi lighting custom, "Shang" means "Hang" in Cantonese, and "Deng" means "Ding", which continues the meaning of incense. "Lighting a lamp" is equivalent to telling others or ancestors that they have added a man and that a "lighting ceremony" will be held for them at home. Let's share the lighting custom of Cenxi.

Cenxi Lantern Festival, a unique custom in China, 1.

The custom of "putting lanterns" began in the Han Dynasty and is very popular in Guangdong and Guangxi. Today, this custom has continued in Cenxi, tengxian, Rongxian, Fuchuan, Guiping and other places in eastern Guangxi and some parts of Guangdong Province, especially the "Lantern Festival" held in Cenxi, Guangxi, which is the most grand and has the strongest atmosphere.

The origin of Lantern Festival

In Cantonese, "Shang" means "Xing" and "Deng" means "Ding", which continues the meaning of incense. Therefore, the birth of a boy is also called Tianding, which is homophonic for "adding lights", commonly known as "lighting". "Lighting a lamp" is equivalent to telling others or ancestors that they have added a man, continued the incense and made a fortune.

"Lighting" is also called the champion lamp. There are clouds covering the mid-autumn moon in Cenxi, and the rain sprinkles the champion lamp. Before the Qing Dynasty in China, only men could take the imperial examinations and win the first place, while girls could only stay in boudoir.

Therefore, for thousands of years, on the tenth day of the first month of the second year after the boy was born, his family would hold a "lighting ceremony" for him, praying that the boy would be happy all his life and come back to worship his ancestors after he passed the examination for fame. If a boy is born before the tenth day of the first month, the lights will not be hung until the tenth day of the first month of the following year. This is the so-called "putting old lights away".

This traditional folk festival is only held for boys, and it contains some feudal ideas. Cenxi people do have some preference for boys, and they all say that a woman without talent is virtue.

If children from poor families can't support two children to go to school at the same time, most of them are girls who drop out of school, and then they have to go to other places to work early to subsidize their families.

Among the first-born girls in Cenxi, some family members will ask for another boy. Some gave birth to three or five girls, and they kept giving birth until they gave birth to a boy. Women who can't have boys here are considered to be unlucky and blessed.

This is how we celebrate the Lantern Festival.

Lantern Festival lasts for six days, divided into turning on the lights, turning on the lights and turning off the lights.

At ten o'clock on the first day of the first month, "lighting" began.

Set off firecrackers from your doorstep and put them in the roots of your village. After the worship, hang lanterns in the light shed.

After seeing the lanterns, the elders responsible for writing genealogy will write the names of men on the lanterns into the genealogy.

People who put lanterns usually buy three lanterns to hang in the main hall, ancestral hall and main hall. Now most of them are simplified to two lamps, one hanging in the hall and the other hanging in the temple in the country.

Each lamp will be wrapped with two pebbles, indicating that there are successors who can carry on the family line.

In the past, lanterns were all made by hand. They made round, hexagonal or octagonal lanterns with colored paper and bamboo strips, and a small oil lamp hung inside.

There are ready-made goods on the market now. The most popular lanterns this year are lanterns, very beautiful! There is a wheel in the lamp, and the wheel is painted with various auspicious and festive color patterns such as landscapes, flowers, birds and figures.

From the tenth to the sixteenth of the first month, "warm lights".

You must go to Genshe to burn incense and oil sooner or later. On the one hand, you should ensure that lanterns will not go out day and night, on the other hand, you should add toast and incense to the table.

Now the lantern can be electrified. In the sixties and seventies when the material was poor, kerosene lamps were mostly used, and kerosene was added devoutly every morning and evening. Keep the oil lamp on until the sixteenth day of the first month.

It is important to keep the oil lamp on for six days. If an oil lamp goes out in these six days, it means that children will have a healthy disaster in the process of growing up and cannot grow up healthily and happily.

Therefore, parents will add kerosene in the morning and evening of these six days to keep the oil lamp on all the time, and pray for the blessing of the gods, owners and ancestors to bless the little boy's intelligence, health and happiness.

On the sixteenth day of the first month, the lights went out.

Kill the chicken and worship god. /kloc-on the morning of 0/6, I prayed to the gods, and took the lanterns home from the owner on the tenth day of the tenth lunar month, and the Lantern Festival ended successfully.

This is a national drinking day.

The wine on the lamp is everyone's wine, and every household with boys puts wine at the same time.

On this day, there were few pedestrians on the street, either already drinking or on their way to drink.

Many shops are closed, and most government agencies and units are "empty plans" except for people on duty. When they meet this day, they will only ask one sentence: where to drink? !

City people go to restaurants to eat, and rural people go to villages to drink. The whole family can't cope with going out to drink, so they rush to "catch up" and have a few drinks every day!

This year, we have a post-80s baby boom, with one child and two children, relatives, primary school, junior high school and senior high school students. Fortunately, our younger generation doesn't care so much. I started drinking with some friends on the eighth day today. We sat together and chatted, but we couldn't arrange it, so we had to celebrate on WeChat.

In the past, the older generation would buy children's clothes as gifts. Now we are all lazy, mainly demanding the quality of clothes. We were worried that the clothes we bought would not suit each other's wishes, so we all gave them red envelopes.

Cenxi currently has a population of 950,000 (20 15), which means that nearly one million people drink at the same time on this day. Such a large-scale "National Drinking Day" can simply apply for Guinness World Records!

In other cities, it is necessary to plan a Lantern Festival to gather popularity. Cenxi doesn't need planning at all, and people spontaneously celebrate the Lantern Festival, which is the coolest and most attractive Lantern Festival.

The custom of Yuanxiao in Cenxi 2 There is no hurry this year's Yuanxiao-the folk custom of Yuanxiao in Cenxi is quietly changing.

The Lantern Festival in Cenxi is the ninth and tenth day of the first month, which is a unique traditional folk festival in Guangxi and even the whole country. The origin and grand occasion of the Lantern Festival are recorded in detail in numerous literary and historical materials in Cenxi, so I won't repeat them here. What I want to say today is that this year's Lantern Festival has changed a lot compared with the past.

In the past, the Lantern Festival was known as the "drinking day of the whole city". On the tenth day of the ninth lunar month, every household goes to relatives and friends' houses with lanterns and wine to drink congratulations. Sometimes as many as seven or eight, too busy to attend to. In two days, we will catch up with seven games and eight games, and we will be happy with each other!

However, after drinking wine, it is physically and mentally exhausted and miserable. Tired.

As a result, in today's developed network information, some people finally began to complain about drinking in the circle of friends before the Lantern Festival.

Talented Cenxi people connect the tiring' Deng Jiu' with various towns and villages, which has local characteristics. It's interesting that some people talk about human feelings!

Netizens have quite a jingle with the characteristics of Cenxi, and how many people have spoken their minds. In fact, Cenxi people are changing this tradition with actions. Many people say that this year's lights and wine can't catch up! They go to one house on the ninth day and another house on the tenth day. They will never go to every house as they used to. As for those who have already reported drinking, human feelings will definitely arrive-now the WeChat red envelope is very simple!

Another change has taken place. Some people who have lights and drinks no longer give drinks to everyone they know as before, just for the sake of excitement. This year, their ordinary friends stopped drinking except their closest relatives. This is not to look down on anyone who is indifferent (there was such a misunderstanding in the past), but to consider that lantern wine is all kinds of wine, which will embarrass the other party and make the other party catch up. It is really for the sake of the other party.

These quietly changing human relations have not affected the excitement of feasting and the affection and friendship. On the contrary, through these changes, we have seen a richer, more civilized and more advanced lifestyle of Cenxi people. We should praise the people in our hometown!

Cenxi Lantern Festival custom 3 The origin of Cenxi Lantern Festival

Put on the lamp-in fact, this lamp is also called the champion lamp. It is not that Cenxi people prefer boys to girls, but that before the Qing Dynasty in China, only men could take the imperial examinations and get titles, while women could only stay in boudoir. Therefore, for thousands of years, everyone who gave birth to a little boy in Cenxi will focus on lanterns on the tenth day of the first month of the following year, and relatives and friends will get together to celebrate, congratulate the little boy on his intelligence, health and happiness, and come back to worship his ancestors after being admitted to fame. Therefore, this custom has been passed down to this day.

The lantern man wants to buy three lanterns. On the tenth day of the first lunar month, they will put a lantern tied with colored paper in the owner's office, one in the ancestral hall and one in the main hall at home. At present, all lanterns in the main hall can be electrified, and the power will not be unplugged until sixteen, so sixteen is called to turn off the lights. In the sixties and seventies, there was a shortage of materials. Kerosene lamps were used in the main hall, the owner of the club and the ancestral hall, and kerosene was added devoutly every morning and evening.

Keep the oil lamp on until 16. It is very important to keep the oil lamp burning for six days. If an oil lamp goes out in these six days, it means that the child will fall into a health disaster and cannot grow up healthily and happily. Therefore, in these six days, parents will add kerosene in the morning and evening, keep the oil lamp on all the time, and pray for the blessing of the gods, the country and the ancestors to bless the little boy's smart, healthy and happy growth.

Because there are always relatives, friends and boys born in a year, the tenth day of the first month has become the national drinking day in Cenxi. On this festive day, even the poorest families will borrow money from relatives and friends and put it on two or three tables. Rich people have dozens or hundreds of tables. Relatives and friends all brought gifts to congratulate them, and the host family gave a banquet to entertain them, which meant to invite lights and wine. Some people go drinking on the twelfth and sixteenth of the first month. On the twelfth day, it was also called "He Deng", and on the sixteenth day, it was also called "De Deng". These two Catholic families also want to kill chickens and worship God.

Nowadays, most people in the county are rural. If there are children on lanterns, let parents hold banquets at home to entertain relatives and friends in their hometown, and entertain relatives, friends and classmates near the city in restaurants and restaurants in the city. /kloc-on the morning of 0/6, I prayed to the gods, and took the lanterns home from the owner on the tenth day of the tenth lunar month, and the Lantern Festival ended successfully.