What are the traditional customs of Quanzhou Lantern Festival? The origin and custom of Lantern Festival.

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". Yuanxiao, or "Tangyuan", contains sugar, roses, sesame seeds, red bean paste, cinnamon bark, walnut kernel, nuts, jujube paste and so on. And wrapped in glutinous rice flour into a circle, you can be vegetarian and have different flavors.

2. lanterns. Lantern Festival is a traditional festival custom, which began in the Western Han Dynasty and flourished in Sui and Tang Dynasties. After the Sui and Tang Dynasties, lantern style prevailed in all previous dynasties and spread to future generations. The fifteenth day of the first month is the climax of the annual lantern fireworks.

Origin: It takes a long time to form the custom of night sacrifice. According to general data and folklore, the fifteenth day of the first month was paid attention to in the Western Han Dynasty. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty's activity of "worshipping Taiyi" in Ganquan Palace on the fifteenth day of the first month was regarded by later generations as the precursor of offering sacrifices to gods on the fifteenth day of the first month (Historical Records Le Shu: "Han people often went to Taiyi Ganquan in the new temple in the first month, and finally arrived in the Ming Dynasty"). The introduction of Buddhist culture in the Eastern Han Dynasty is of great significance to the formation of Lantern Festival customs.