Everyone has heard of Vulcan Zhurong! He is a figure from our Chinese mythological age. Among our traditional festivals, there is also a festival dedicated to the god of fire, that is the Vulcan Festival. Have you never heard of it? It is said that sending the God of Fire every year can ensure that there will be no fires throughout the year. So which ethnic group’s festival is the Fire God Festival?
The seventh day of the first lunar month is the Vulcan Festival. The God of Fire is the god of fire in Han nationality legends. His names are Zhurong and Huilu, and he is also known as the Lord of Fire Dexing. There is a custom in western Shandong, Heze, Jining and other places in southern Shandong to send fire gods during the Vulcan Festival. On this day, every family ties firewood handles with firecrackers inside and a Vulcan tablet on them. At night, the younger generations gather at the head of the village, hold firewood high and line up in a long queue. After lighting it, they run towards the southwest to deliver the "God of Fire" to the fields or mountains. With the glow of the fire and the sound of firecrackers, it looks like a swimming dragon from a distance, and the scene is quite spectacular. It is said that sending a gift to the God of Fire will ensure that there will be no fires throughout the year.
On the day of the Fire God Festival, a Han folk custom, a daughter-in-law who has been married for less than three years has to go back to her parents' home to "hide from the fire." Superstition holds that it is not good for the new daughter-in-law to stay in her husband's house on the Vulcan Day. In some places, eating dumplings for dinner on the Vulcan Festival is called pinching the mouse's mouth. It is said that rats get married on this night, and pinching the rat's mouth will prevent it from reproducing offspring.
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