What to do on Lantern Festival?

What you can do during the Lantern Festival is as follows:

1, eat dumplings. It is a traditional custom to eat glutinous rice balls on the fifteenth day of the first month. "Tangyuan" is filled with white sugar, rose, sesame, red bean paste, cinnamon, walnut kernel, nuts, jujube paste and so on. And wrapped in glutinous rice flour into a circle, you can be vegetarian and have different flavors. Tangyuan can be boiled, fried and steamed, which means reunion and happiness, and is entrusted with the thoughts of distant relatives.

2. Enjoy the lanterns and solve the riddles on the lanterns. Lantern Festival is also called Lantern Festival. During the reign of Emperor Han Ming in the East, Buddhism was introduced into China. In order to show respect for Buddhism, the court called on the people to put on lights on the night of the Lantern Festival. In the Tang Dynasty, not only the people would burn lanterns to celebrate, but even the emperor would go out to enjoy the lanterns, and even "let thousands of ladies-in-waiting enjoy the lanterns". To this day, the custom of watching lanterns still exists.

3. Lion dance. Lion dance is a folk art in China. Every Lantern Festival, people will dance lions for entertainment. This custom originated in the Three Kingdoms period and was popular in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. It has a history of 1000 years.