Customs of Shanghai Lantern Festival

Lantern Festival, also known as Shangyuan Festival, Xiaoyuanyi Festival, Yuanxi Festival or Lantern Festival, is one of the traditional festivals in China. The fifteenth day of the first month is the first full moon night in a year, so it is called the Lantern Festival. Let's introduce the customs of Shanghai Lantern Festival.

1. Eat dumplings

Like the customs in other places, Shanghainese also eat glutinous rice balls on the Lantern Festival.

Tangyuan is a special food of Lantern Festival, which is generally composed of glutinous rice skin and stuffing. It is nutritious, can nourish the spleen and stomach, invigorate qi and nourish blood, and enhance the body's ability to resist cold. Glutinous rice is sweet and warm, and is rich in protein, fat, sugar, calcium, phosphorus, iron, vitamin B and starch. It is a mild tonic, which can warm the spleen and stomach, tonify the middle qi, and has a certain astringent effect. It has a good therapeutic effect on deficiency-cold of spleen and stomach, diarrhea, frequent urination and spontaneous sweating. However, glutinous rice is sticky and difficult to digest. You should eat it after heating, and you should not eat too much at a time. In addition, people with damp heat and phlegm fire, or those with fever, yellow cough, constipation, abdominal distension and other symptoms should avoid eating glutinous rice.

Tips:

Just cooked jiaozi, the stuffing is hotter than the skin. It is recommended to stutter, which can not only avoid scalding the oral cavity and esophageal mucosa, but also facilitate digestion by chewing slowly.

Drinking some soup while eating glutinous rice balls can promote digestion and absorption.

In order to reduce the burden of gastrointestinal tract, it is best to exercise for more than 2 hours before going to bed after eating glutinous rice balls.

2. Flower viewing lamp

The custom of enjoying lanterns on the Lantern Festival rose in the Han Dynasty. According to legend, Liu Bi, nephew of Emperor Gaozu Liu Bang, introduced Yangzhou Lantern Festival culture to Songjiang, Shanghai, to entertain himself. Since then, this custom has become popular in Shanghai. During the Lantern Festival, there are endless streams of men, women and children everywhere, and colorful lanterns are everywhere.

Lantern Festival is one of the traditional customs of Lantern Festival. In Ala Shanghai, the "Yuyuan Garden Lantern Festival" has been included in the list of national intangible cultural heritage representative projects, and the annual Lantern Festival has left beautiful memories for Shanghai citizens and tourists from all over the world.

Tips:

The weather is still cold during the Lantern Festival. Please keep warm and take protective measures, wear a mask when going out and wash your hands when you get home.

Step 3 solve the riddle on the lantern

Solve riddles on the lanterns is also a characteristic folk custom of Lantern Festival, which is deeply loved by people. From a medical point of view, solve riddles on the lanterns is a brain-strengthening activity, which is conducive to delaying brain aging and preventing cognitive impairment.

Solve riddles on the lanterns during the Lantern Festival can not only enlighten wisdom and increase knowledge, but also entertain and educate, and set off the festive atmosphere.