Indonesian Hakka people celebrate "Tianchuan Day" on the 20th of the first lunar month to commemorate Nuwa's mending the sky and eating rice cakes without starting work
Today is the twentieth day of the first lunar month, which is a traditional festival unique to Hakka people everywhere - Tianchuan Day (thiên chhôn ngit), and of course Hakka people in Indonesia are no exception. This is not only a small New Year for the Hakka people, men and women will put down their weaving and plowing work and have a good rest for a day. Sing folk songs together and eat sweet rice cakes to celebrate, and the New Year is not counted until after this day.
According to legend, this day is the day when Empress Nuwa completed her great success in refining stones to mend the sky, and every household has to "mend the sky". The thrifty Hakka people will always save the remaining sweet rice cakes (rice cakes) during the New Year, which represent the five-color stones that Nuwa mended the sky, and save them for Tianchuanri frying to worship the heavens and ancestors, which means "the rice cakes mend the sky and make money". big money".
On the one hand, the Hakkas are grateful to the Nuwa Empress for refining the colorful stones to mend the sky and save the common people from all disasters; on the other hand, they let nature recuperate. , agricultural harvest and peace and prosperity.
In the past, people paid as much attention to Tianchuanri as the Lantern Festival, but with the progress of the times, Tianchuanri has gradually been ignored, and most of the younger generation now know nothing about the origin of Tianchuanri and the custom of mending Tianchuan. known. If it is not passed on and preserved in time, it may really be forgotten after a long time.
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