On the first 13 day of the first month, we lit the kitchen lights and set lanterns to celebrate the Spring Festival.

In the first month, all the years came. According to folklore, lights are lit on the 13th day of the first month, and lights are turned off on the 18th day of the first month. There is a saying that "thirteen or four immortals look at lanterns, fifteen or six people look at lanterns, and seventeen or eight ghosts look at lanterns".

Nephew plays lanterns. As usual, let's talk about customs.

On the thirteenth day of the first month, lanterns are put on, which is the birthday of the lamp holder. On this day, people will light a lamp under the kitchen stove, which is called "kitchen lamp". Every household will offer incense lamps (old oil lamps) in front of the Kitchen God tonight. This custom began in the Southern Song Dynasty. According to documents, in the third year of Li Zongchun's reign in the Southern Song Dynasty (A.D. 1243), there was a folk custom of "Please advance the Lantern Festival, and since the 13th, bamboo lanterns have been hung in every lane", and there was a move of "putting lanterns on the jiaozi and putting noodles down", that is, eating jiaozi on the 13th of the first month and eating noodles on the 18th of the first month.

Tie lanterns, the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month usually starts from the lantern shed on the twelfth day of the first month, and the Lantern Festival on the thirteenth. In the New Year's Eve ballad in Beijing, there is a song that says, "Eleven crows, twelve lanterns, thirteen people turn on the lights, and fourteen lights are on ..."

In other words, the thirteenth day of the first month is "lighting"; 14 is "light test"; Fifteenth is "positive light"; 17, lights out. From the 13th day of the first month, people began to put lanterns and tie colored lanterns!

Eat dumplings, "put lanterns off lanterns, and celebrate the New Year on the fifteenth day of the first month." In the old customs, it is said that Thirteen should not go out, and there is another saying that Yang Gong should avoid it. As we don't go out, it happens that the whole family eats glutinous rice balls in the evening, which means "the circle is full" In fact, the children's hearts have already flown to the street, which is not important. After three steaks and two swallows, they pushed bowls and rushed to the street in droves to see the lanterns.

There is a custom of offering sacrifices to Master Guan in the rural areas of Guanzhong. On the thirteenth day of the first month of each year, it is necessary to offer sacrifices to Guan Gong. There is also a kind of tribute called "Jia Cai" which is used to worship Guan Gong. That is, the large and full soybeans are arranged in a row, and all kinds of colorful beans, melon seeds and peach kernels are embedded with bamboo sticks, which are layered on the shapes of several plates, and finally form exquisite pavilions, which is the unique folk handicraft "adding plates" in Guanzhong.

Be a "holy bug", "but I haven't been out of the house for fifteen years." On the thirteenth day of the first month, there is a custom of making "sacred insects" in rural areas all over the country. On this day, three or five women in the village get together to make noodles, cut, carve and cook together as the last "busyness" of the Spring Festival to welcome the Lantern Festival. As the saying goes, "a new wife doesn't have to boast, just look at the thirteen ambassadors." Some areas in the south have the custom of making Baba on the 13th day of the first month. One by one lifelike "sacred insects" are cooked under the skillful hands of these hoes, and they are sacred, sacred, harmonious and feast of sacred insects, which is a beautiful scene of bumper crops, good weather and good grades.

When I was in Chaozhou, it was the 13th day of the first lunar month, which is said to be the birthday of the Dragon King. On this day, fishermen will hold various activities to worship the sea, hoping for a good New Year and a good harvest. The ceremony was grand, the incense table was set, the sacrifices were set, people burned incense and made paper, bowed to the sea one after another, firecrackers rang and fireworks were bright, placing people's beautiful expectations for the new year!