What are the origins and customs of Lantern Festival?

The first month is the first month. The ancients called the night "night", and the fifteenth day was the first full moon night in a year, so the fifteenth day of the first month was called the Lantern Festival. Also known as "Shangyuan Festival". According to the folk tradition in China, at the beginning of reunion, the moon is high in the sky in spring returns on the night of the festival, and people on the ground look at lanterns and solve riddles on lanterns, which is a reunion for the Lantern Festival.

The origin of Lantern Festival

Lantern Festival originated in the Han Dynasty, and it is said that it was set up to commemorate the "Ping Road" in the Han Dynasty. After the death of Emperor Liu Ying, Lv Hou usurped the political power, and the Lushi family took control of politics. After Lv Hou's death, zhou bo and Chen wiped out Lv Hou's army and established himself as the emperor of China.

Because the day to pacify the bamboo deer is the fifteenth day of the first month, every night on the fifteenth day of the first month, Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty goes out of the palace to pay tribute. The15th day of the first month is designated as the Lantern Festival. During the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the sacrifice of "Taiyi God" was on the first month 15. Sima Qian listed the Lantern Festival as an important festival in the Taihang calendar.

Yuanxiao is made of solid or brewed glutinous rice. Filled with red bean paste, sugar, hawthorn, various fruit raw materials and so on. You can cook, stir-fry, steam and fry when eating. At first, people called this kind of food "floating jiaozi", and later called it "Tangyuan" or "Tangyuan". The two names "Reunion" are similar to each other. This nostalgic lover is pinning her good wishes for her future life.