The 15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar is the Lantern Festival, what are some of the customs of this festival?

There are a lot of activities on the Lantern Festival, such as eating Lanterns, making lanterns, guessing riddles, playing dragon lanterns and so on. The Lantern Festival, also known as Shangyuan Festival, Xiaozhengyue, Yuanxi or Lantern Festival, is the first important festival after the Spring Festival, and is one of the traditional festivals in China and also in the areas of the Chinese character cultural circle and overseas Chinese.

1, eat Yuanxiao

As a food, ? Yuanxiao? has been in China for a long time. During the Song Dynasty, people popularized a novel food to eat during the Lantern Festival. This food was originally known as ? floating Yuanzi? and later became known as ? Yuan Yu? and merchants were also known as ? Yuanbao? On the fifteenth day of the first month, you can eat Yuanxiao, which is soup dumplings, filled with rose, sesame, bean paste, yellow cinnamon, walnuts, dried fruits, and jujubes, and wrapped in glutinous rice flour into a round shape, with a variety of flavors. It can be boiled, fried and steamed. It has a happy reunion.

2, Haunted Lantern

The fifteenth day of the lunar calendar is ? Yuanlan Festival? This festival has folk lights, lanterns and lanterns. It is also known as the Lantern Festival. On the night of the 15th day of the first lunar month, in the streets and alleys, red lights are hanging high, including palace lanterns, animal head lanterns, lanterns, flower lanterns and bird lanterns, which attract people to see the lights. In Taiyuan, Taigu County is famous for its lamps. Taigu lamps are famous for their many varieties, exquisite craftsmanship and beautiful shapes.

3,Guessing Lantern Riddles

Guessing Lantern Riddles is a unique form of traditional Chinese folk entertainment with a strong ethnic flavor. It is a special activity of the Lantern Festival and has been handed down since ancient times. On the fifteenth day of the lunar calendar, traditional people hang lanterns and set off fireworks. Later, some kind people wrote riddles on slips of paper and put the slips on colored lanterns for people to guess.

4. Juggling Dragon Lanterns

Also known as dragon dance and dragon dance. Its origin can be traced back to ancient times. Dragon lanterns come from people's worship of dragons in ancient times, which has a history of more than 2,000 years. In ancient times, people used the dragon dance to pray for the dragon's blessing for good weather and good harvest.

The custom of dragon dance was developed by overseas Chinese. Whenever there are traditional Chinese festivals and major celebrations, they perform lion dances and dragon lanterns, showing a strong oriental spirit.

5. Lion Dance

Lion and dragon dance is also an activity often performed to celebrate festivals in ancient China, which has been passed down for thousands of years. To this day, whenever there is a major traditional festival in China, folk will spontaneously come to the dragon dance.