When is the Lantern Festival in 2022?

Lead: Lantern Festival is a traditional festival with a long history in China. Lantern Festival has experienced a development process from the court to the people, and from the Central Plains to the whole country. So when is the Lantern Festival in 2022? Will there be extremely cold weather in the Lantern Festival in 2022? Let's take a look at Bian Xiao.

When is the Lantern Festival in 2022?

Lantern Festival, also known as Shangyuan Festival, falls on the15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar every year.

The Lantern Festival in 2022 is on February 15, 2022, which is the first day of the Year of the Tiger, Tuesday. Because the Lantern Festival is not a legal holiday, there will be no holiday in 2022.

Will there be extremely cold weather in the Lantern Festival in 2022?

Judging from meteorological monitoring, China has formed La Nina state. 165438+1early October, it is predicted that there will be a weak to moderate La Nina event in 65438+February, which means that there will be a staged cooling from165438+1October to 65438+February, but the temperature in most areas is still normal. Experts predict that from June to February in 1 year, the cold air will obviously become stronger, and there may be staged extreme cold wave weather, and the Lantern Festival happens in February. But don't worry, the possibility of a large-scale freezing rain and snow disaster similar to previous years is still relatively small.

At present, we must first do a good job in the growth of winter crops, especially winter wheat, and we must seize the management before winter to promote the growth and development of wheat and ensure safe wintering. Whether the extremely cold weather has any influence on wheat, judging from the growth of winter wheat, it will not have much influence on the growth of winter wheat this year (as long as it is well managed before winter), but the wheat with weak growth and late sowing will be affected by some freezing damage. In short, the management must not take it lightly.

To sum up, the probability of extremely cold weather this winter is very high, but the probability of large-scale occurrence is very small, but in any case, the impact of extremely cold weather must exist. Everyone must do a good job in agricultural production management, including not only planting, but also animal husbandry and vegetable facility planting. Strengthen management to ensure that the harm caused by extremely cold weather is minimized.

Introduction of Lantern Festival!

Lantern Festival is a traditional festival with a long history in China. Lantern Festival viewing began in the period of Emperor Han Ming in the East. Emperor Han Ming advocated Buddhism. It is said that on the fifteenth day of the first month, the monks watched the Buddhist relics and lit lamps to worship the Buddha, so they ordered to light lamps in palaces and temples that night, so that the gentry and ordinary people could hang them. Later, this Buddhist ceremonial festival gradually formed a grand folk festival.

Lantern Festival has experienced a development process from the court to the people, and from the Central Plains to the whole country. In the Han dynasty, people held torches in rural fields to drive away insects and wild animals, hoping to reduce pests and pray for a bumper harvest. To this day, people in some areas in southwest China still use reeds or branches as torches on the 15th day of the first month, and hold high in groups to dance in fields or grain drying fields. Since the Sui, Tang and Song Dynasties, it has reached its peak, and tens of thousands of people have participated in singing and dancing, from fainting to death.

What are the customs of Lantern Festival?

1, eat dumplings

Eating "glutinous rice balls" is an important custom of the Lantern Festival. Tangyuan, also known as "Tangtuan" and "Yuanxiao". The custom of eating glutinous rice balls began in the Song Dynasty, when glutinous rice balls were called "floating dumplings", also known as "glutinous rice balls", "lactose dumplings", "soup balls" and "glutinous rice balls", and merchants called them "gold ingots". At the beginning of the Song and Yuan Dynasties, glutinous rice balls had become the festival food of the Lantern Festival, so people also called them "Yuanxiao".

Today it's called Yuanxiao in the north and Tangyuan in the south. According to the theory of stuffing, Yuanxiao can be divided into two types: stuffing and stuffing, salty, sweet, meat and vegetarian. According to the production methods, there are many kinds, such as hand rubbing, Yuanxiao mechanism, bamboo plaque roll and so on. According to different milling, there are glutinous rice flour and sorghum rice flour.

2. Solve the riddle on the lantern

Playing with lanterns is an important item in the Lantern Festival. Lantern riddle is a word game originated from Lantern Festival, also called Lantern Tiger. Putting riddles on lanterns for people to guess and shoot, the answers are mainly word meanings, and there are 24 kinds of riddles such as roller blinds, swings and phoenix-seeking, which form a unique folk culture. The biggest Lantern Festival in China is/kloc-0 "Nine Cities Lantern Festival" held in Nanjing in 979. There are tens of thousands of riddles, and more than 20 thousand people participated in three days.

3. Flower viewing lamp

During the Yong Ping period of Han Dynasty (AD 58-75), when Ming Taizu advocated Buddhism, it coincided with Cai _ returning to Buddhism from India, saying that it was the fifteenth day of the first month in India, and monks gathered to pay tribute to the relics, which was an auspicious day to participate in Buddhism. In order to carry forward Buddhism, Emperor Han Ming ordered "burning lamps to show Buddha" in the palace temple on the 15th night of the first month. Since then, the custom of putting lights on the Lantern Festival has spread from being held only in the court to the people. That is, on the fifteenth day of the first month, both the gentry and the people hang up lights, and the urban and rural areas are brightly lit all night.

Step 4 walk on stilts

Walking on stilts is a popular folk performance. Stilts originally belonged to one of the hundred ancient operas in China, which appeared as early as the Spring and Autumn Period. In China, stilts first appeared in Liezi Fu Shuo: "Those who had orchids in the Song Dynasty used their skills to dry the Song and Yuan Dynasties. Summoned in the Song and Yuan Dynasties to see their skills. There are two branches twice as long as its body, belonging to its shin, which go hand in hand, making the seven swords overlap and jump. The five swords were always in the air, and Yuan Jun was frightened and gave them gold and silk. " As can be seen from the article, stilts have been popular as early as 500 BC.

It is said that this form of walking on stilts was originally developed by ancient people in order to collect wild fruits from trees for food and tie two long sticks to their legs.

5, lion dance

Lion dance is an excellent folk art in China. Whenever the Lantern Festival or the celebration of the General Assembly, people always come to the lion dance to entertain. This custom originated in the Three Kingdoms period and was popular in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. It has a history of 1000 years. According to legend, it was first introduced from the western regions, and the lion was the mount of Manjusri Bodhisattva. As Buddhism was introduced into China, lion dance was also introduced into China. The lion is a tribute brought back with the peacock after Emperor Wu of Han sent Zhang Qian to the Western Regions. However, the skill of lion dance originated from Xiliang's "masked play". Some people think that lion dance originated from the army in the fifth century and was later introduced to the people.