The lanterns hung by boys born in Guangdong, from the second day to the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, are a Lantern Festival in Yulin, and the Lantern Festival is a grand festival. Last year, a boy's family went to Shetou, ancestral hall and their own hall to hang lanterns. Let's share the lanterns hung by boys living in Guangdong.
The lantern hung by a boy living in Guangdong 1 is a folk custom of "carrying lanterns" to celebrate the boy's birth in Guangdong, which was officially written into the genealogy.
For a creator who cares about Guangdong local culture and is casual, it is always exciting to coincide with the Chinese New Year, because there are so many materials worth writing.
Selling laziness on the 30th, opening the new year on the second day of the New Year, wandering around and so on. Looking back on the Spring Festival, many people share the customs of Guangdong with you. Of course, so far, the customs in Guangdong will remain unchanged.
This time, it is said that "lighting a lamp" is a popular traditional folk custom in Guangdong during the Spring Festival.
Lighting is also called lighting, adding lights, raising lights, etc. The sound of "light" is similar to that of "ding", and ding is added when lighting (adding lights). This is a traditional folk custom that is officially written into the genealogy to celebrate the birth of men. It is grand and lively.
What needs special explanation is that "boy" is a hard rule that cannot be changed with the lighting custom. Tim Kou (with girls) does not light.
In Zhanjiang, newly added families began to prepare children's lanterns as early as the Spring Festival.
The first is "repairing the lamp"-booking lanterns. Usually, a craftsman is responsible for making lanterns in a small village, organizing the production according to the data and specifications needed by the villagers, and then delivering the lanterns before they are officially raised.
Secondly, seeing relatives-it is convenient to send new clothes to boys, which is an important part of the lighting custom.
Around the tenth day of the Lunar New Year, the custom of lighting in Zhanjiang continued one after another.
There is a general ceremony of putting out lanterns. Lanterns are hung behind ancestral temples or temporary sheds symbolizing temples, and lanterns and eggs are hung to light internal oil lamps. Finally, Daogong held a grand sacrifice ceremony with the family members who put lanterns in those years (the boy who put lanterns, his father and grandfather will also participate in it when he was alive).
With the completion of the Lantern Festival, men's names were officially written into the genealogy. On the one hand, it has the meaning of being recognized and accepted by the collective, and it also contains all kinds of beautiful meanings, such as peace, smoothness, intelligence and prospect. ...
The sign of "lighting" is that you have drunk "lighting wine".
On October 6th, 2008/kloc, villagers will invite Daogong Gay to preside over the ceremony of "tying lanterns" again, and then take down the "lantern eggs" symbolizing the prosperous population and the Millennium of the family-take them home for safekeeping, complete the burning of lanterns, and finally entertain relatives and friends to drink lantern wine.
In Meizhou, the lighting time varies from the ninth day of the first month to the eighteenth day of the first month, generally concentrated on the twelfth, thirteenth and fourteenth days of the first month.
One of the most important customs in Meizhou is to invite lanterns.
One or two days before the Lantern Festival, the newlyweds agreed to organize a team to invite (buy) lanterns, led by Ding Shou, the parents who gave birth to the first boy last year. Accompanied by the gongs and drums team and the dragon and lion dance team, firecrackers rang all the way, and the guns kept "inviting" lanterns.
Please go home and put the lanterns solemnly on the table of the Eight Immortals. On the day when lanterns are put on, "Ding Shou" will gather other families to invite lanterns and hang them under the roof beam of Gong Zu Hall, and hang lanterns symbolizing men. The number of lanterns depends on the man born in the previous year. Add five new men, add five lanterns, seven boys are seven lanterns, and so on.
Of course, "carrying lanterns" means simply carrying lanterns. In fact, the ceremony of carrying lanterns is the climax of the whole activity, grabbing white flowers before carrying lanterns; When lanterns are lit, firecrackers and fireworks will be set off, and dragon and lion dances will be held. ...
Take Zhanjiang and Meizhou as examples. Both of them are traditional folk customs of putting lanterns, but their "presentation" is quite different. However, no matter how different in form, their intentions are always the same. First of all, they want their children to be happy, safe and get ahead.
As for the wonderful and lively custom of "putting on lanterns" in Huizhou, Dongguan, Shanwei and other places in Guangdong, I look forward to your supplement.
How much do you know about the custom of hanging lanterns by boys in Guangdong and "putting lanterns" by Hakka?
Hakka culture is profound and dazzling. There is a little-known Hakka folk custom-"putting lanterns on". The custom of Hakka lighting is widely spread in all ethnic groups and regions. It takes "Tianding" as the center and carries out activities of worshipping and comforting ancestors in the form of "lanterns". Also known as "appreciating lanterns" and "holding lanterns".
The origin of "lighting"
In Hakka dialect, "Deng" is a homonym of the dialect "Ding", and it is also a symbol of light, hope, igniting a prairie fire and endless life. Hakka people came all the way from the land where they lived in the Central Plains, and finally settled at the intersection of Fujian, Guangdong and Jiangxi. Their unique life experiences have enabled Hakkas to form national unity, meet the survival needs of defending the enemy, and have produced the tradition of respecting ancestors and celebrating the "Heavenly Ding" with lanterns.
"Turn on the light" is Gardin.
In Hakka clan society, every boy has to hold a "lighting ceremony" all his life. People who put lanterns are of all ages. The boy who just gave birth to a child is called "Saint" and the older one is called "Saint". For various reasons, such a ceremony was not held. Therefore, the "Lantern Festival" is actually a celebration held by all ethnic groups for the newborn boys of that year.
It's time to "light up"
Every year, anyone named "Tianding" (that is, having a boy) must hang a new lantern (harmonious "Ding Xin") in the upper hall of the ancestral hall. The earliest "lighting" date is the ninth day of the first month, and the latest is the nineteenth day of the first month, but most of them are around the fifteenth day of the first month. "Lighting a lamp" means reporting to ancestors that a new person has been added to a family.
The form of "lighting"
When "putting out lanterns", we should hold "three sacrifices", drink alcohol to honor ancestors and the gods of heaven and earth, and also hold "putting out lanterns and wine" to invite relatives and friends to reunite and congratulate. This custom is more complicated, which evolved in Hakka areas. After putting lanterns, there will be "warm lanterns" in the middle (an activity in the process of "putting lanterns" cannot be called "warm lantern festival"). Finally, it is "respecting ancestors and thanking heaven and earth", which is very grand and warm, with the atmosphere of "one family adds more talents and the whole village celebrates".
The change of the custom of "lighting"
On the Lantern Festival next year, Hakkas who gave birth to their sons will put lights on their ancestral halls, that is, hang a beautiful lantern, and then invite the dignified old people in the village to hug the boy and formally write his name on the genealogy. The boy will officially become a member of this family, and then put down a banquet to entertain the men in the village to drink. With the progress of social civilization, many daughters are playing with lights now, and their daughters have entered the family tree.
The custom of Hakka lighting has a long history, some hundreds of years, some thousands of years. Now this custom has become more colorful, which deeply embodies the excellent cultural heritage consciousness of Hakka people.
Lights hung by boys living in Guangdong 3 What is the celebration of opening banquets in some places in Guangdong in the first month?
The birth of a child is a top priority for a family. Every family will celebrate the arrival of a new life in various ways. Generally speaking, there are four kinds: washing three days after birth; Full moon full of wine; Set up a hundred-day banquet for a hundred days; Let children seize the week at the age of one. However, in some towns and villages in Guangdong, there is another way to celebrate, which is to hold a lighting banquet in the first month of the lunar calendar the year after the child is born.
In Cantonese, "Ding" and "Deng" are homonyms, and adding a lamp is Jia Ding. In some places in Guangdong, families who have added men use "lanterns" to celebrate their happiness, celebrate their successors and pray for family prosperity. The whole process is divided into three steps: lighting, turning on the light and turning off the light.
When a boy is born at home, the elders will go to the paper shop to order paper lanterns. On the first day of the first month, these paper lanterns are hung at home, in our ancestral hall and in our village temple, and grandpa lights them. The paper lamp is octagonal, painted and pasted on the outside, with a small dish of oil hanging inside to light up and glow, and several small paper bags hanging below, which contain red dates, peanuts, oranges, arrows and other items with beautiful meanings. When hung in the ancestral hall, the boy's date of birth and name should also be recorded in the genealogy.
Then there is the lantern festival. From the second day of the first month to the fifteenth day of the first month, the host family sets a specific day and invites relatives and friends to drink lanterns and wine. There is also a village or a family to spend the Lantern Festival together. "Turning off lanterns" means taking all lanterns to the sky (that is, burning them) on the fifteenth day of the first month to pray for heaven.
One of the highlights is the opening ceremony. "Drinking Lantern Wine" is one of the indispensable Spring Festival activities in some places in Guangdong Province, and it is called "Welcoming Lantern". Relatives and friends will give "Deng Zi" a birthday bag or a "red robe" (red clothes), and the host will also give back a gift. "Lamp wine" is usually placed in the ancestral temple or restaurant in the village. As a food-oriented country, China will celebrate any happy event with six words after the ceremony: "Eat well and drink well."
There are nine kinds of traditional lamps and wines, which have a long meaning. The dishes are also very particular. Each of these nine dishes contains good wishes. For example, stewed pork hands are called brothers and sisters, and lotus seed soup is called lotus seed heart. How many dishes to choose depends mainly on the wishes of the host family. But no matter what dish you choose, there will definitely be a mushroom. Bud mushroom is also called seed mushroom, which means male in Cantonese.
In the first month, tourists often see signs of "every household is feasting" in some restaurants in Guangdong. After listening to the local explanation, I can't help but ask, what if it is a daughter? A friend of the author replied with a wry smile: then nothing needs to be done. My mother gave birth to our three sisters.
My parents finally adopted a son from Guangxi. He is not good to my parents, but everything in the family is still his, and the dividends in the village are all his. My friend went on to tell us that the old man in their village said that there was another person in the old society, and there was no lantern festival, which meant that he did not recognize his nationality, that he was a member of his own family, and that the ancestral temple would not give him pork.
After all, it is son preference! Haven't you heard that in the rural areas around Jiangsu and Zhejiang, as early as ten years ago, my daughter went on the family tree like my son. My friend is in his thirties. According to her age, it should have been more than 30 years ago. This kind of thing should not happen now. However, in the first month of each year, the feast of turning on the lights is still often seen. What do you think of this? Welcome to leave a message in the comment area and express your views.