Will we welcome the God of Wealth on the 25th day of the twelfth lunar month in 2019? The God of Wealth is the deity in charge of financial resources in our country's folk legends, and there are certain rules for welcoming the God of Wealth. The arrival of the twelfth month of the lunar calendar means that we are entering the coldest season of the year. Let’s learn more about it in Shuimoxiansheng.com’s special topic on the twelfth month of the lunar calendar in 2018.Will we welcome the God of Wealth on the 25th day of the twelfth lunar month in 2019?The God of Wealth is not welcomed on the 25th day of the twelfth lunar month. The God of Wealth only comes down to earth on the fifth day of the first lunar month every year, so the day to welcome the God of Wealth is the fifth day of the first lunar month. The traditional folk activities on the 25th day of the twelfth lunar month mainly include welcoming the Jade Emperor, lighting the fields for silkworms, the Thousand Lantern Festival, and driving away the chaotic old year. A Chinese proverb says: "On the 25th day of the twelfth lunar month, people grind the mill to make tofu." The twelfth lunar month is over and spring is back. People have gone through a long winter and are about to enter a new year. According to Chinese folk customs, the Spring Festival is a symbol of "the beginning of a new year". People feel very close to the New Year, and many different local New Year customs have been formed. Procedures such as pasting window flowers, pasting blessing characters, and hanging couplets all express people's wish for a prosperous new year.What should we pay attention to when welcoming the God of Wealth?1. To invite the God of Wealth to your home, you must choose an auspicious time in the morning when you want to place the God of Wealth.2. On the way to welcome the God of Wealth, you are not allowed to talk or laugh with passers-by. 3. To firmly support the bottom of the God of Wealth, the God of Wealth and the person who invites the god should face the same direction and not opposite each other. 4. You cannot hold the head of the God of Wealth directly with your hands. It is strictly forbidden to hold the head of the God of Wealth with your hands! 5. After the God of Wealth arrives at home, the first thing to do is to set off fireworks and firecrackers, then place a piece of red paper under the statue of the God of Wealth and light three incense sticks to ward off evil spirits from all directions. What are the customs on the 25th day of the twelfth lunar month?1. Make tofu <br /> On the 25th day of the twelfth lunar month, the Chinese character for tofu, “腐”, is homophonic with the Chinese character for happiness, so tofu represents praying for “happiness”. According to research, tofu was invented by Liu Anming, King of Huainan in the Western Han Dynasty. Zhu Xi of the Southern Song Dynasty wrote in his poem "Tofu": "When planting beans, the seedlings are sparse, my strength is exhausted and my heart is rotten. If I had known the Huainan technique earlier, I would have sat back and enjoyed the spring cloth." Interestingly, in some places there is a custom of eating tofu dregs before New Year's Eve.2. Welcoming the Jade Emperor <br /> In the old customs of China, the common people believed that after listening to the report of the Kitchen God, the Jade Emperor would personally descend to the mortal world on the 25th day of the twelfth lunar month to see what the common people were doing and decide the fortunes for the coming year. Therefore, every household would hang a scroll of the Jade Emperor’s arrival to offer sacrifices, hoping for good fortunes in the coming year, which was called "welcoming the Jade Emperor." Everyone should be very careful when speaking on this day, and try to speak well so that the Jade Emperor will be happy and have good luck in the coming year. 3. Lighting the Fields and Silkworms <br /> In the Jiangnan area of China, the 25th day of the twelfth lunar month is called "Lighting the Fields and Silkworms, Burning the Fields and Silkworms, Burning the Fields and Wealth". People will tie torches to long poles and stick them in the fields, using the flames to predict the new year. If the torches burn brightly, it indicates a good harvest in the coming year. |
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