What activities are there for the Lantern Festival?

The activities of the Lantern Festival include lanterns, solve riddles on the lanterns, lion dancing, eating Yuanxiao and playing with dragon lanterns. Lantern Festival: People have the custom of hanging lanterns, lighting lanterns and watching lanterns, so it is also called Lantern Festival.

Before the fifteenth day of the first month, the streets were covered with lanterns, flowers and lights, which reached a climax on the fifteenth night of the first month. Solve riddles on the lanterns: solve riddles on the lanterns, also known as playing riddles, is a unique form of Han folk cultural activities with national style in China. It is a characteristic activity of the Lantern Festival that has been circulated since ancient times. Eat Yuanxiao. Eating Yuanxiao on the fifteenth day of the first month, as a kind of food, has a long history in China. In the Song Dynasty, a novel Lantern Festival food was popular among the people. This kind of food was originally called Zi Yuan, then Yuanxiao, and merchants also called it Yuanbao. Yuanxiao, or sweet dumplings, is made of white sugar, rose, sesame, red bean paste, cinnamon bark, walnut kernel, nuts and jujube paste, wrapped in glutinous rice flour into a round shape, which can be vegetarian and has different flavors. It can be boiled, fried and steamed, which means happy reunion. Shaanxi jiaozi is not wrapped, but rolled with glutinous rice flour, or boiled or fried, warm and round.