What's the date of 202 1 Lantern Festival? What are the traditional activities?

What's the date of 202 1 Lantern Festival?

Gregorian calendar query:

2021Friday, February 26th, 15th of the first month.

Name of Month: Geng Yin

Phenology: plant germination

Moon phase: full moon

Zhilu: What are Wu's traditional activities?

Beijing 1

Although Beijing is the cultural center of our country, if you want to come to Beijing to feel the festive atmosphere and have a lively Lantern Festival, you are basically in the wrong place.

When you come to Beijing, you won't see Kongming's lanterns, solve riddles on the lanterns, lion dances and dragon dances, so you may enjoy the moon on the Lantern Festival.

2.henan province

There is a custom of praying for dolls in Heluo area (that is, the world centered on Luoyang).

Every Lantern Festival, people can see devout pilgrims prostrating themselves before sending their children to the queen and bringing back all kinds of lively and handsome clay dolls.

In fact, the custom of praying for dolls is that parents hope that newlyweds will have children early and their families will be prosperous. At the same time, it is also a kind of supervision and reminder to his son and daughter-in-law.

3. Shandong

Shandong Rongcheng Lantern Festival will pinch the zodiac. Zodiac is generally made of fine flour of soybeans. Each zodiac carries a lamp bowl, lights it, and lights it on a plate at midnight.

The bigger the snuff of the zodiac lamp, the more auspicious it means. Whoever lights the zodiac lamp for the longest time indicates that the new year will bring good luck, health and peace.

4. Shanxi

In Shanxi, Shaanxi and Mongolia, there will be a flourishing fire on the fifteenth day of the first month. In Daning, Jixian, Shanxi and Yan 'an, Shaanxi. In the area of Shanxi-Shaanxi Grand Canyon, on the fifteenth night of the first month, the countryside has the custom of burning a prosperous fire in its own yard.

The firewood in Wanghuo is made from local materials. Some areas burn pine branches, some areas burn bamboo branches, and some areas burn coal.

Old people say that the purpose of burning a prosperous fire is mainly to exorcise evil spirits and pray for blessings, and it also means to welcome God and receive blessings.

5. Shaanxi

The tradition of Xi in Shaanxi is to send lanterns. Because of the homophonic relationship between lanterns and Ding, before the Lantern Festival, the bride's family will send lanterns to her newly-married daughter's house, or ordinary relatives and friends will also give them to Ding's newly-married infertile house in order to increase her luck.

Send a pair of palace lanterns and a pair of glass lanterns in the first year of marriage; If the daughter is pregnant, in addition to the regular palace lanterns, she should also send one or two small lanterns to wish her a safe pregnancy.

6. Anhui

Fengyang county, an ancient city in Anhui province, has folk customs such as swinging, picking lanterns and throwing torches during the Lantern Festival. Even Fengyang folks have a saying that it doesn't hurt to swing on the Lantern Festival for a year.

In Fengyang rural areas, careful children will consciously collect and prepare some old brooms and brushes in advance to prepare for the Lantern Festival.

Children want to pick lanterns most. On this day, children will decorate the town with lanterns of different shapes at night.

7.jiangsu province

There are five customs in the Lantern Festival in Taizhou, Jiangsu Province, namely, eating Yuanxiao, celebrating Yuanxiao, solve riddles on the lanterns, setting off fireworks and sending good luck. Sending good luck is a unique custom in some towns and villages in Taizhou.

On the Lantern Festival, relatives and friends will send bridge stakes and Guanyin to the newly-married bride to wish your son an early birth.

8. Zhejiang

Wenzhou people have a special Lantern Festival, and there is a custom called beating big cats. Playing a big cat is playing a tiger, and two people put on elaborate tiger skins together and dress up as tigers.

Other villagers play many images of human beings and gods, such as the seven stars and seven shames, behind the tiger, walking and performing along a fixed route and wandering in nearby villages.

9.fujian

In some places in southern Fujian, there is a custom of wearing lamp feet during the Lantern Festival.

On the night of the Lantern Festival, the newly-married bride and the daughter-in-law who gave birth to a boy in the village should wear red and green and dress up beautifully.

Accompanied by her mother-in-law or other elderly women, she walked under the lamp shed of Dazu Ancestral Temple with a mascot in her hand and auspicious words in her mouth.

The purpose of this is to introduce the new daughter-in-law to ancestors and villagers.

Guangdong 10

To be sure, some parts of Guangdong have the custom of stealing youth (love) during the Lantern Festival.

If a young man likes a girl, he will steal some vegetables from her vegetable field. This is to steal the girl's favor and let her know that a young man cares about her.

The young man will take the stolen food home, tell his mother whose family it is, and her mother will cook a bowl of noodles for her son, expecting the matchmaker to go to the girl's house to propose marriage smoothly.