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What festival is the fifteenth day of the first month?

1, 15th day of the first lunar month: Lantern Festival, also known as Shangyuan Festival, Xiaoyuanyuan Festival, Yuanxi Festival or Lantern Festival, is the last important festival of the Spring Festival in China.

2. Lantern Festival is one of the traditional festivals in China, Chinese character cultural circle and overseas Chinese. The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar. The ancients called "night", so the fifteenth day of the first full moon in a year is called Lantern Festival.

On the night of Lantern Festival, all the streets and alleys are covered with lanterns. People light 10000 lanterns, take their relatives and friends out to enjoy the lanterns, visit the flower market, set off fireworks, sing and dance to celebrate the Lantern Festival.

First, the custom of the fifteenth day of the first month:

1, eat "Yuanxiao" on the Lantern Festival.

Eating Yuanxiao on the fifteenth day of the first month is a long-standing custom in China. Yuanxiao is called "Tangyuan" with different ingredients.

At first, the seasonal snack of Lantern Festival was not Yuanxiao. In the Southern Dynasties, it was bean porridge or rice porridge boiled with meat and animal oil. In the Tang Dynasty, it was a kind of silkworm-shaped pasta and scones. It was not until the Song Dynasty that Yuanxiao made of glutinous rice flour and fructose appeared, but at that time it was not called Yuanxiao, but floating dumplings or glutinous rice balls.

2. Dragon and lion dances on Lantern Festival

Dragon is an auspicious mythical animal and a totem and symbol of the nation. During the Lantern Festival, there are dragon lanterns all over the country.

The early dragon lanterns were about seven or eight feet long. Yarn is tied to a bamboo tube to make a dragon-shaped lantern. Light dozens of candles inside the faucet and dragon body, and then tie them to a wooden stick. A dozen strong men carried them away. During the performance, the dragon head chased the dragon ball and danced gracefully, commonly known as "making dragons".