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Tiancang Festival is a unique festival in Shanxi. The specific date of Tim Cang Festival is the 25th day of the first lunar month every year. Adding a warehouse means that farmers add food to the warehouse. It is on the basis of the original grain output that we want to increase the harvest and increase production, which has pinned people's good wishes for a bumper harvest in the coming year. Different places in Shanxi celebrate Lantern Festival in different ways. Some places symbolically add grain to the granary on the day of Tim Cang Festival, and some places eat spring cakes and pancakes on the day of Tim Cang Festival, and put cakes into the granary, which is called filling and adding warehouses. Some places make "rain lanterns" on the festival of jiacang. These lanterns are made of cereal flour, and twelve are as big as a small bowl. There is a lamp at the top of each lamp and a small gap at the edge of the lamp. Each gap represents a month in the four seasons of the year. After the lamp was steamed, it proved that there was the most soda in the lamp in the months when the pot was boiled. Then, according to the month when crops need rain most, what will be harvested this year is inferred as the basis for planting this year.

The ancient folk custom is to pray for the New Year on the 25th day of the first lunar month. "Ji Sheng at the Age of Beijing", "Reading for five days in the first month is a festival." During the festival, people either eat enough to show that the barn is full, or enclose it with ashes and put some grain in it to show that the barn is full, or sacrifice to the god of barn cages to pray for a bumper harvest of grain all year round. The size of the complement section. Small positions cover positions on the 20th day of the first lunar month, also called "Xiaotian positions" and "small positions". The stuffing is at twenty-five. "Jiexiu County Records": "On the 20th, it was called" Xiaotian Cang ". Cook yellow rice cakes and burn lamps to worship Buddha. " "Big Comrade": "On the 20th, I added a small position"; I bought rice noodles, firewood and other things for' big warehouse' on 25th. "

As the saying goes, the 25th day of the first lunar month is the birthday of Cang Shen (Guan Cang), and all industries and people related to granaries should offer sacrifices, and there is a custom of filling granaries and beating them up. Records of Gu 'an County, Hebei Province record: "On the 25th day of the first month, people thought it was' Guan Cang's birthday', and paved the courtyard with firewood ash as a figure, or a square or a circle, and placed bamboo in it to shake it, which was called' ascending hoarding' and' filling the warehouse'." The prototype of Cangshen is Cangxing, and Tian Wenzhi, Book of Jin, said:' Tiancang Six Stars are in the south of the building and hidden in the valley. "Later, Cang Shen was personified, attached to historical figures, such as Han Xin, and attached to Cang Shen. Chronicle of Yanjing's Old Customs in Qing Dynasty. Cang said, "According to legend, Cang God is Han Xin, the founding father of the Western Han Dynasty, commonly known as the Lord of the Han Dynasty. Its idol is a handsome young man, wearing a dragon robe and a king's helmet, with a graceful image. "

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On the 25th day of the first lunar month, according to the custom, rice flour or soft rice flour is kneaded into several lamps, which are in the shape of granaries, granaries and various livestock and poultry, with cooked red dates and beans wrapped inside, and the wick is made of fine rice stalks wrapped with cotton. Fill the lamp with oil at night, put the barn lamp in the grain storage place, put the cow lamp on the cowshed windowsill, put the chicken lamp on the kang, put the dog lamp on the door, put the cat lamp in the corner, etc. , and then light up one by one. Uncle Guan Cang's lamp is five inches high, wearing a hat with red tassels, a dustpan in his left hand, a bucket in his right hand, riding a horse and carrying several pockets. Put the lamp in the bowl and float in the water tank. When you release it, you should read: "Grandpa Guan Cang drinks horses and carries money and food (or pockmarked seeds and black beans). Pockmarked fry oil and black beans feed cattle. " In order to pray for good weather and good harvests.

Manchu families pay attention to cooking sticky sorghum rice, put it in the warehouse, weave a pony with straw sticks, and insert it in the rice basin, indicating that the horse is carrying food home, having plenty of food and clothing, and adding three new meals in succession. Some people also use sorghum stalks to make two hoes and put them in their rice.

An old song in Shanxi: "After the New Year, 22, fill the barn with rice and flour as a lamp. Take a broom, sweep the east wall, and pick up the year of insects. " It's about the folk custom of filling the position.

It has been recorded in the Song Dynasty that "Hua Lu in Tokyo Dream" "On the 25th day of the first month, cattle and sheep competed for the day in other cities. If a guest works hard, he will leave. This is called filling. " In the Qing Dynasty, Pan Rongbi's "Jingdi Shengsui" was celebrated. On the 25th day of the first month of each year, the whole family had a big dinner. If a guest comes, he will stay and leave drunk. Commonly known as filling positions, wishing to fill positions is a good sign.

The festival of filling is divided into two festivals: small filling and big filling. Small positions will be filled on the 20th of the first month, and large positions will be filled on the 25th of the first month. Nowadays, many places, big or small, celebrate the Lantern Festival on the 23rd day of the first month.

On the Lantern Festival, folk customs should play ash pits in the courtyard or on the spot. Fill plant ash with a dustpan, beat it evenly with a stick, and spread three or five rings on the ground to indicate a granary or grain depot. People who pay attention will also draw patterns such as rakes, brooms and even fans next to the ash cellar. The small full-day ash cellar symbolizes the bumper harvest of summer grain, and a little summer grain should be put in the center of the circle; The ash cellar on the big irrigation day symbolizes the harvest of autumn grain, which is placed in the circle. Then cover the grain with bricks and stones, which is called pressing the warehouse. Then firecrackers are lit and explode in the circle, making the grain abundant.

During the festival, there are many activities to fill positions among the people, which are closely related to eating habits. In northern Shanxi, people are used to steaming oat noodle nests, which are shaped like grain hoards. Using buckwheat noodles as pills and putting them in the hollow of the oat noodle nest is called stuffing. In the southeast of Shanxi, millet flour is made into balls and put in the granary. Jinzhong area also uses grain flour as a group to fill positions. Luliang area likes to eat cakes. Wenshui county takes a part of the wall soil smoked by lights in the granary, which is called filling the warehouse. In the south of Shanxi, pancakes should be spread thin, wrapped in plates and rolled up to eat. If the people marry a new wife, the new wife will personally put the pancakes in the granary.

On the supplementary festival, folk customs pay attention to being happy to enter and hate to leave. Add vegetables to the store, add water to the tank, put some coal at the door, and save the house. According to the old custom, it is taboo for farmers to sell grain on this day. Grain shops like to buy food on this day. On that day, the grain store will hold a banquet to warmly receive people who come to sell grain. Some farmers are forced by life and have to sell food on this day, and they can earn a good meal anyway. Until now, some elderly city residents are still used to buying rice and noodles during the Lantern Festival.

On the Cangtian Festival, most areas in the province will light lamps at night to worship the Cangshen. Lights should be put on all places related to diet. Commonly known as "lighting incense, every family food Man Cang." Luliang area is the most typical. According to the number of families, everyone belongs to the zodiac, and the flour is kneaded into the corresponding lantern with the core of life. Then pinch two dogs, a chicken, a fish, a population plate, a barn official, a small handleless wine cup, a hip flask, silver money, a silver ingot, a donkey carrying charcoal and so on. At night, oil these lamps and light them. The core of life is the lamp on the kang at home, the dog at the gate, the chicken in the yard, the fish floating tank, the donkey in the barn, the barn official hanging in the skylight, and the rest at home. When placing the surface lamp, you should also shout out the corresponding auspicious and rich words, such as "Cang Guan delivers food"! "Chickens lay more eggs" and so on.

On the night of irrigation festival, people in northern Shanxi are used to carrying lanterns and looking for "irrigation insects" (that is, various resurrected small insect ants) everywhere in the yard. The more they find, the better the omen.

In some counties and cities in Linfen area, it is also said that this day is the day when mice get married. Don't light a lamp at night, it's called mousetrap.

On the festival of mending the sky, Linxian and other places burn firewood at the door to express their grief for the first dead. Lingchuan and other places should use all kinds of rice to pay homage outside the door and send their ancestors with common names. In some villages in southern Shanxi, colored paper was cut and pasted on doors, and colored paper gourds were cut and pasted on hats. Call this day the alchemy day of Taishang Laojun, which can cure all diseases and be safe all year round.

On the filling day, Hongtong County and other places are used to inviting their son-in-law to eat pancakes.