What are the customs of Shangyuan Festival?

The customs of Shangyuan Festival include watching lanterns, eating dumplings, solve riddles on the lanterns, setting off fireworks, Youlong lanterns, lion dancing, walking on stilts, boating, yangko and playing Taiping drums. Among them, the Lantern Festival is a traditional festival custom, which began in the Western Han Dynasty and flourished in the Sui and Tang Dynasties. Before the fifteenth day of the first month, people hung lanterns all over the streets, with flowers and flashing lights everywhere, which reached its climax on the fifteenth night of the first month. On the fifteenth night of the first month, red lights are hung high in the streets and alleys, including palace lanterns, animal lanterns, lanterns, bird lanterns and so on, to attract people to watch lanterns.

Eating jiaozi: jiaozi, jiaozi, also known as Yuanxiao, is a long-standing custom in China. It is wrapped in sugar, roses, sesame seeds, red bean paste, yellow cinnamon, walnut kernels, nuts and jujube paste, and then wrapped in glutinous rice flour, which means a happy reunion and a prosperous life.

Solve riddles on the lanterns: solve riddles on the lanterns, also known as playing riddles, is a unique traditional folk entertainment form with rich national style in China. On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, traditional folks hang lanterns and set off fireworks. Later, some busybodies wrote riddles on paper and posted them on colorful lanterns for people to guess. Lantern riddles add to the festive atmosphere, showing the intelligence and wisdom of ancient working people and their yearning for a better life.

Youlong Lantern: Youlong Lantern, also known as Dragon Dance or Dragon Dance, is found in the written Dragon Dance, which is Zhang Heng's Xijing Fu in the Han Dynasty. The author vividly described the dragon dance in the descriptions of hundreds of plays. When Yang Di was in the Sui Dynasty, Huanglongbian was also wonderful, similar to the dragon dance performance in hundreds of plays. Dragon dancing is very popular in many places in China. China worships dragons, and thinks that dragons are auspicious symbols.