Accumulation and meaning of Lunar New Year (Full moon in January)

Lunar New Year (Full Moon in January) is one of the very important days according to the lunar calendar of the Asian people in general and the traditional festival day in China as well as the Chinese New Year in particular. The full moon festival starts from the middle of the night 14 (the night before the full moon) on the 15th (full moon day) until midnight 15 (full moon night) of the first lunar month. On this day, there was a place where even the concept of " Whole year is not equal to January full moon ". Is a holiday that can be considered important, in spirituality of each person. But have you ever known the occurrence of this Lunar New Year, please find out.

Myth 1: Legend of the swan

The old legend records the story of a swan that is like a swan in the sky, loved by the Jade Emperor. One day, swans flew from above the sky down to the lower level to play.

Unfortunately, a hunter saw and accidentally shot the swan. This goes to the Emperor Jade Emperor, who is very angry and instead of punishing the hunter, he orders to punish all creatures under the world. The Jade Emperor sent an army of celestial troops to the right on January 15 every year to burn down the ground, not for humans and living animals.

Fortunately, there are still gods in heaven who do not approve of Ngoc Hoang's method of making this punishment too harsh and heavy. They risked their lives, secretly went down to the world and gave them their livelihoods to escape. So on January 15 every year, the house hangs red lanterns and fireworks so that when Ngoc Hoang looks down and thinks that the houses and villages below have been set on fire. Thanks to that, new human beings and animals escape the destruction.

Since then, January 15 every year has been chosen by the people to celebrate the Lunar New Year and form a custom of hanging lanterns on this day. Everyone cooks, presents, reunites with family, celebrates a new year of peace and luck. Lanterns are also developed so many different types such as carp lanterns, dragon lamps, phoenixes, .

The legend 2. The filial female archetype Nguyen Tieu and the Eastern Han Dynasty sect of Eastern Han Dynasty.

Legend has it that Han Wu De has a charismatic name called Dong Phuong Soc, his honest and humorous personality. In the winter of the same year, snow fell for several days, Dong Phuong Soc came to dwell in the garden, suddenly found a profound tearful female bow who was about to jump into the well. Dong Phuong Soc rushed to stop and asked the situation clearly. It turns out, the lady named Nguyen Tieu, since she came to the palace, she has not met her relatives until now, every year when Spring comes again, she misses home, feels that she does not inform her parents, she should seek death. . Dong Phuong Soc was moved and promised that he will definitely find a way to reunite with her family.

One day, Dong Phuong Soc came to the palace and displayed a booth to see fortune-telling in the Truong An Citadel. Many people contend with the hexagram. Each person's hexagrams are "the full moon day of the month of the fire coming to the body ". In a moment, both Truong An city panicked, everyone scrambled to beg, seeking to eliminate the disaster. Dong Phuong Soc said:

" In the evening of the first full moon in January, the Fire God will send a red goddess to the mortal earth to examine. The goddess is the messenger of the will to burn the Chang'an city. I will copy the words given to everyone. , maybe that day came up with a solution ".

After saying that, throw a red business card on the ground and walk away. Everyone rushed to pick it up and bring it to the imperial palace to tell the Emperor. Han Wudang took a look, only to see above written:

" Truong An suffered from fire, fire cremated Emperor De, on the 15th day of the sky fire, blazing all night "

Vũ Đế frightened him and invited the Eastern Methodist to be ready to come. Dongfang pretended to think and said:

"I heard that Fire God loves to eat drifting cake, is Ms. Nguyen Tieu in the palace not the one who usually cooks for you ?"

"In the full moon in January, he asked Mrs. Nguyen Tieu to make a floating cake, his majesty lit incense to offer, and ordered the house in the city to be made with drifting cakes and offered fire gods at all. lights, fireworks, fire, like fire in the whole city, can do so through God, in addition, inform the people outside the city on the full moon night of January to see the flower, to spend the disaster to rescue ".

Han Wudang heard that he was happy and practiced the words of Dong Phuong Soc. By the day of the full moon in January, in Truong An citadel, there were flower lights, people were very excited. Nguyen Tieu's parents also took her sister to the city. When they saw on the lamp hanging in the bow, the words "Nguyen Tieu" shouted loudly: "Nguyen Tieu! Nguyen Tieu!" The Raw Lady heard and eventually reunited with her family.

The meaning of the full moon night in January

Full moon in January is considered an important holiday after the Lunar New Year, according to beliefs, religions and professions, the worship of each family is different, having families following Buddhism, they will Bai Buddha, yes The family offered to worship the Earth God or the soul of the clan . But the most common and mandatory thing in each family is to worship Gia Tien, expressing respect to grandparents, parents, thanks The above people have helped their families and children to be healthy and prosper in the year.

According to the old tools told that, the full moon in January was originally the New Year's Day. On the occasion of the first moonlit night of the year, the king opened a banquet at the royal garden, invited the Poinsettians to attend, at the party they would watch flowers, make poetry and sing praises of natural beauty and praise The king's grace has brought peace to the people of all nations.

Since then, the full-day meetings in January have been expanded, and meetings of poets have been held. The meeting not only stopped at the king's royal garden, but also expanded to more places, watching flowers watching the moon under the absence of a more comfortable king, poems, verses and symmetrical verses than.

Nguyen Tieu Tet becomes an elegant cultural activity with many wonderful meanings in the romantic and romantic setting: On this day, in addition to watching the moon, reading poetry, eating floating cakes, there are many activities. Other interesting things like fun, entertainment, lion dance .

In Vietnam, Buddhism was introduced into which Vietnamese customs and practices were linked to other countries, integrated but not dissolved, preserving Vietnamese culture and acquiring more backgrounds. New culture enters Vietnam, and January full moon is a concrete example. This is a holiday originating from China, our country was introduced into a New Year with its own Vietnamese identity, imbued with Dharma thoughts.

The Lunar New Year is the first full-moon day of the new year, this is an appropriate time for each of our families to pray for a happy, happy year, so this festival has a lot of interest and participation. of many Buddhists and all the people. The expression " Year-round no-feast Buddha " through the proverb speaks of the importance of the full moon in January in the minds of Vietnamese people.

Refer to the following articles:

1. Historical significance of the banh chung
2. Origin and customary meaning to celebrate the Tet holiday
3. Customary practices of New Year's Day of the countries