Whenever festivals come, people will have friends and relatives, eat delicious food and get drunk before going home. The folk custom of the bunker filling festival pays attention to the joy of entering and the dislike of leaving. On this day, food should be added to the store, water should be added to the tank, and some coal should be put at the door to curb the house, so as to achieve a smooth and prosperous year. The activities of the warehouse filling festival include carrying and filling warehouses, lighting sacrifices to gods, and paying homage to warehouse officials.
The origin of the festival:
Origin 1:
According to legend, there was a drought in the north for three consecutive years. Thousands of miles away, the grain is not collected, but the royal family still collects imperial grain regardless of the lives of the people. Therefore, there is hunger everywhere after years of famine, especially at the end of the year, the poor are desperate and countless people freeze to death and starve to death. At this time, Cang Gong, who displayed the imperial grain, was guarding this pile of grain, and it was really unbearable to watch the villagers starve to death one by one. He decided to take the initiative to open the imperial warehouse to help the victims, so that people robbed the imperial grain and saved a victim. But he couldn't make friends with the royal family, so he set fire to the warehouse on the 25th day of the first month and set himself on fire. In order to commemorate this nameless warehouse palace, later generations filled the warehouses inside and outside the courtyard with fine charcoal ash or firewood ash on this day to show their nostalgia for the warehouse officials.
According to relevant historical records:
On the 25th day of the first month, the day is full, the noodle soup is steamed for dinner, and fine ash is scattered inside and outside the door, which is called hoarding. Divide a little grain in the cellar and cover it with precious tiles, which is called filling the warehouse.
So in the old society, the houses in the north only listened to "click!" Every morning, after they stand in position. Ta！ "There is a voice. However, we can see that the elderly shovel the screened charcoal ash and firewood ash with dustpan or wooden shovel, beat them with wooden sticks in front of the door and scatter them into a round granary. Some of them are decorated with lace, auspicious words, and grain storage ladders. Sprinkling grain in the granary symbolizes the bumper harvest of grains, expressing people's deep affection for filling the granary and saving the granary officials. In this way, the story of the replacement has been passed down from generation to generation.
Origin 2:
It is said that the supplementary festival is related to The goddess patching the sky.
According to legend, the ancient volcano erupted, the mighty flood, the beast giant eagle rushed to feed the refugees, and the people were in dire straits. At this time, Nu Wa, known as the ancestor of mankind, collected five-color stones and smelted them day and night. After 7749 days of smelting, the broken sky was finally restored on the 25th of the first month. Nu Wa also cut off the four legs of the giant turtle to support the sky in all directions, and killed the beast, the giant eagle, and put the flood back, making the people live and work in peace and contentment. To commemorate Nu Wa, people eat pancakes on the 25th day of the first month, tie them up with red silk thread and throw them on the roof, which is called "mending the sky".
Su Shi once wrote a poem: "A cake fills the sky", so the 25th day of the first month is also called "Tianchuan Festival" and "Tiancang Festival".