Contents of handwritten newspaper for Lantern Festival in the Year of Rabbit

The contents of the Lantern Festival in the Year of Rabbit are as follows:

1, 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 "Floating Zi Yuan", later called "Yuanxiao", and merchants also called it "Yuanbao".

There are white sugar, roses, sesame seeds, red bean paste, cinnamon bark, walnut kernel, nuts, jujube paste and so on in Yuanxiao. After the stuffing ball is formed, it is rolled into glutinous rice flour, and the glutinous rice flour is made from jiaozi and then wrapped in jiaozi, which is completely different. Yuanxiao can be meat or vegetarian, with different tastes. It can be boiled, fried and steamed, which means happy reunion.

2. Be careful with the lights.

The custom of setting off lanterns during the Lantern Festival developed into an unprecedented lantern market in the Tang Dynasty. Chang 'an, the capital at that time, was already a world city with a population of one million, and its society was rich. Under the personal initiative of the emperor, the Lantern Festival became more and more luxurious. After the middle Tang Dynasty, it has developed into a national carnival. Tang Xuanzong was in the prosperous era of Kaiyuan, and Chang 'an had a huge lantern market, with 50,000 lanterns of all kinds. The emperor ordered 20 giant lantern buildings with a height of 150 feet, resplendent and magnificent.

The Lantern Festival in Song Dynasty is superior to that in Tang Dynasty in scale and dreamy lighting, with more folk activities and stronger national characteristics. Since then, the Lantern Festival has continued to develop and the time of the Lantern Festival has become longer and longer. The Lantern Festival in Tang Dynasty is "the day before and after Shangyuan". In the Song Dynasty, two days were added after the sixteenth, and in the Ming Dynasty, it was extended from the eighth day to the eighteenth day to ten days.

3. Solve the riddle on the lantern.

Solve riddles on the lanterns, also called playing riddles, is a traditional activity of the Lantern Festival. Lantern riddles originated from riddles in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

Lantern riddles hung on lanterns for people to guess and shoot began in the Southern Song Dynasty. Zhou Mi's Old Wulin Stories in the Southern Song Dynasty. "Lamp" records: "When writing poems with silk lanterns, people are teased, obscure argots are hidden, and old Beijing slang teases pedestrians." On the Lantern Festival, the imperial city stays up all night, and the people enjoy the Lantern Festival in spring. The people are mixed, and poetry riddles bask in lights, reflect candles, and list the roads, which remains to be speculated, so it is called "riddles".