What are the customs and activities on the sixteenth day of the first month?

Custom activities on the 16th day of the first month: running various diseases, dancing flags and flowers, visiting temple fairs, walking larks and climbing the city head.

1, run all diseases

There is a legendary story and traditional habit of "running all kinds of diseases on the 16th day of the first month" in the central region. Dachuan walks in the same way as Bailing, but with different names. That is to say, on the 16th day of the first month, after breakfast, basically every household was holding a lock at the gate, and the whole family went out to "run around".

According to everyone, after the trip on the 16th day of the first month, all the "diseases" will be eliminated during the warm and pleasant short-distance holiday trip, all the "relics" are on the road and all the "relics" are in the wild. People who are disease-free and disaster-free will be better and healthier physically and mentally; Those who are sick and have disasters are just "left behind", and they turn around when they are killed!

2. Dancing flag flowers

The preparations for the national flag flower dance must be carried out several days in advance. Pick up the cypress trees on the slope of the grave and sweep them, find the waste pot and pound it with mortar, choose the street foundation to plant frozen soil and repair the mortar. It's hard to do these things. In addition, wheat straw, sawdust, flagpoles, iron ropes for tying sheep and iron drums with good eyesight should be prepared.

Step 3 visit the temple fair

According to local legend in Penglai, the 16th lunar month is Poseidon's birthday, which is celebrated by local people as a traditional festival. Everyone rushed from all directions to the Tianhou Palace in Penglai Pavilion to burn incense, ask for a sign and donate incense money. Incense candles were very rich.

The local people competed to organize troupes and yangko teams, presented plays to Empress Dowager Cixi in the ancient theater and city square directly opposite the Tianhou Palace, and presented vulgar drama performances and yangko.

Step 4 walk the lark

It is very popular in southwest Shandong. The taste of the year is far away, and early spring is coming. When the plowman is in the busy farming season, it is also the time for women who have been dormant for a winter to go for a spring outing and exercise. "Remove the lintel, the cleverness is inside." In Jining area, earlier, they went to Confucius Temple, Mencius Temple and Zeng Temple to burn incense and pray. Mothers want their children to be successful, smart and capable.

Step 5 climb to the top of the city

Based on the unique folk activities prevailing in Nanjing in the Ming Dynasty, the name "Climbing the head of the city, stepping on peace and walking away from all diseases" became popular. Around the 1960s, due to the destruction of the ancient city walls, this folk culture almost declined.

Nowadays, with the restoration and opening up of Taicheng, Stone Town, Zhonghua Gate, Zhongshan Gate and Hanzhong Gate, this theme activity can be continued. What we can see now is that the people walking on the ancient city wall are mainly some old people in their seventies and eighties. Many people struggled to hold the wall, climbed it, and then walked down on it.