What performances are there in China to celebrate the Lantern Festival?

Lantern Festival is the last important festival in China Spring Festival custom. In ancient times, it was also called Shangyuan Festival, the first lunar month or Lantern Festival. It was on the 15th day of the first lunar month every year. The first full moon night of this year. In June 2008, the Lantern Festival was selected as the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage.

Let's talk about the popular activities of the Lantern Festival in detail.

1, flower viewing lamp

Lantern Festival is also called Lantern Festival. Lantern Festival is indispensable every year in all parts of the country.

2. Solve the riddle on the lantern

Solve riddles on the lanterns is also one of the classic folk activities of the Lantern Festival. Lantern riddles originated from court scholars in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. In order to show their talents and entertain themselves, they made. Literal riddle? They pushed the wine and recited poems and riddles again, which was very interesting. Riddles are inspiring and interesting, so they are welcomed by all walks of life and have been passed down to this day.

3. Eat? Lantern Festival?

Eat? Lantern Festival? Is to eat jiaozi, originated in the Song Dynasty, what was the earliest name? Floating Zi Yuan? Are you done? Lantern Festival? , businessmen also euphemistically called? Yuanbao? . Yuanxiao is filled with white sugar, rose, sesame, red bean paste, osmanthus fragrans, walnut kernel, nuts and jujube paste, and wrapped in glutinous rice flour into a round shape, which can be both meat and vegetarian with different flavors. It can be boiled, fried and steamed, which means happy reunion.

Step 4 set off fireworks

When colorful fireworks shoot into the sky, the night sky suddenly becomes dazzling, and the ground and the ground of the fire tree and silver flowers form a beautiful picture, which is one of the favorite programs for people to watch during the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month.

5. Dragon Dance Lantern

Also known as dragon dance. Its origin can be traced back to ancient times. Legend has it that as early as the Yellow Emperor, in a large-scale song and dance in the suburbs of Qing Dynasty, there was a leading bird image played by a man, and then a dance scene with six dragons interspersed with each other was arranged. The dragon dance recorded in writing is Zhang Heng's Xijing Fu in Han Dynasty. The author vividly described the dragon dance in the descriptions of hundreds of plays. The Chinese nation advocates dragons and regards them as auspicious symbols.

6. Lion dance is also an excellent folk art in China. Every Lantern Festival or assembly celebration, people come to the lion dance 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.

No matter what kind of celebration, people have been pursuing a beautiful vision of life for thousands of years, praying for good weather, peace and happiness.