1, commonly known as "Twelve Light Sheds", because the Lantern Festival is coming, at this time, the village steward or village head will start planning, gather the skilled craftsmen or young people in the village and start making various preparations before the Lantern Festival.

In ancient times, the productivity and medical level were relatively low, so people used some traditional methods to drive away diseases. So some places bake cypress fires on the twelfth day of the first month. The specific process is that after dinner, everyone lights the cypress branches collected at home, and the smoke is filled with a fragrance. The family sits around the fire, which means that "disaster" can avoid plague and exorcise evil spirits.

Before the rat festival in the countryside, I remember my mother once had such a custom. On the morning of the twelfth day of the first month, she photographed all the places in the house where mice might be hidden, and sang a song, hoping that all the mice born this year would be blind.

After breakfast, you should hide all the scissors, because the "click" sound of scissors sounds like the sound of a mouse biting. Hiding the scissors means that you won't hear the mouse bite for the next year.

4, Bao jiaozi For China, which is dominated by agriculture, food must be the top priority, while China is a big agricultural country, so people cherish their own food. So on the twelfth day of the first month, jiaozi will be eaten at home, and jiaozi will dress up as a mouse. Pinch jiaozi is "pinch the mouse's mouth", pinch the mouse's mouth to death. There won't be any mice at home this year.

Celebrating Sunday is a folk custom. Men are added to the family, lanterns are hung on the tenth day of the first month, and friends and relatives are invited to hold banquets on the eleventh day of the first month. In addition to expressing congratulations, the custom of setting the clock at twelve o'clock in the first month also expresses the family's recognition of the newborn male. Every male must order it once, either in the year of birth or at how old he is, according to the custom, to wake up the lion to congratulate him.

Because before the Lantern Festival, on the twelfth day of the first month, lanterns and shed lights should be hung in advance to celebrate the reunion. Because "lantern" and "ding" are homophonic, it means that people will import and prosper.