农历正月十五是我国人民传统节日——“元宵节”。但地处粤西的化州县广大乡村却不是都把年宵节限于正月十五这一天,而是从农历正月初二开始至月底止,在这近一个月的时间里,每条村庄都自定一天作为自己的节日,群众也不把这一天称“元宵节”,而称为“年例节”。化州的年例节实际上是由元宵节演变过来的。县志上说:“年例”各树一帜,正月朔后, The lunar January fifteen is our people’s traditional festival - “Lantern Festival.” However, the vast majority of villages in Huazhou County of western Guangdong Province do not limit the festival to the fifteenth day of the lunar month, but from the second day of the first lunar month to the end of the first lunar month. In the past month, each village Own a day as their own festival, the masses do not call this day “Lantern Festival”, and known as the “Year”. Huazhou’s annual festival actually evolved from the Lantern Festival. County said: “Year” each tree, the new moon,