Traditional Festival Archives - Lantern Festival

The Lantern Festival.

Customs of the festival - eating Lantern Festival.

Eating Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first month, the Song Dynasty, when Mingzhou (now Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province) rose to eat a novelty food. This food was first called floating Yuanzi, later called the Lantern Festival, the businessman also beautifully named the day Yuanbao. Lanterns with sugar, rose, sesame, bean paste, yellow cinnamon, walnuts, nuts, jujube paste, etc. for the filling, wrapped in glutinous rice flour into a round, meat or vegetarian, different flavors. It can be boiled in soup, deep-fried and steamed, and has the meaning of reunion. Shaanxi's dumplings are not wrapped, but rolled in glutinous rice flour, or boiled Division or deep-fried, hot, hot, reunion.

Festive customs - guessing riddles.

Guessing lantern riddles, also known as playing lantern riddles, is China's unique rich ethnic style of a form of folk entertainment activities of the Han Chinese people, from ancient times has begun to circulate the Lantern Festival activities. On the 15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar, the folk have to hang up colorful lanterns, fireworks, and then there are good people to write riddles on the paper strips, pasted on the colorful lanterns for people to guess. Because riddles can enlighten wisdom and cater to the festive atmosphere, so the response of many people, and then riddles gradually become an indispensable program of the Lantern Festival. Lantern riddles add to the festive atmosphere and show the ingenuity of the ancient Han Chinese working people and their desire for a better life.

The festival custom - haunted lanterns.

The Lantern Festival is the Lantern Festival traditional holiday customs, began in the Western Han Dynasty, flourished in the Sui and Tang dynasties. After the Sui and Tang dynasties, the wind of lanterns prevailed, and inherited in later generations.

The festival custom - play dragon lantern.

Juggling dragon lanterns is also known as dragon dance, also called dragon lantern dance. It is a unique traditional folk entertainment in China. Juggling dragon lanterns in the Han Dynasty in China folk has been quite common. Tang and Song dynasties "social fire" "dance team" performance, "play dragon lantern" has been a common form of performance. Juggling dragon lantern performance, there are "single dragon play Zhu" and "double dragon play Zhu" two kinds. Juggling dragon lanterns originated from people's superstitious belief in dragons, which has a history of more than 2,000 years in ancient times, when people prayed for the blessing of dragons with dragon dances, in order to seek favorable weather conditions and good harvests.

Festive customs - stilt walking.

A folk acrobatics stilt-walking is also known as "stepping on high performers dressed up as characters from plays or legends, stepping on a wooden stick with a stepping device, walking and performing. Stilt-walking is highly skilled, lively and varied, and is very popular among the masses.

The festival custom - walking away from a hundred diseases.

Ming and Qing dynasties, Beijing and other places on the fifteenth day of the first month, the women's night about all go out to walk, a person holding incense in front of the guide, and must go to the bridge, said that can be fitness, but the spread of the disease known as the "walk a hundred illnesses", also known as the "tour of a hundred illnesses, a hundred illnesses," and so on, is a kind of elimination of disasters and pray for the health of the activities. activities.

Festive customs - the rat.

The rat is a traditional folk activities during the Lantern Festival, began in the Wei and Jin dynasties. It was mainly said to people who raised silkworms. Because mice often eat silkworms in the night in large pieces, people say that on the 15th day of the first month with rice porridge to feed the mice, it can not eat silkworms.