Brief introduction of Ningbo Lantern Festival custom

1, Ningbo people will hold a large lantern festival on the fifteenth day of the first month, also known as the Lantern Festival. On the night of the Lantern Festival, lanterns are decorated everywhere and brightly lit. Fan Lian, a native of Cixi in the Qing Dynasty, described the lively scene of the Ningbo Lantern Festival as follows: "The dragon and horse lanterns are tuned at night, and boats, gongs and drums are painted for the Lantern Festival". Ningbo children's street is very lively, with tea shops, restaurants and temples everywhere.

2. Usually, lanterns and sheds are made on the seventh day of the first month. It lasts for six days before and after the Lantern Festival, with tourists all over the city during the day and bright lights at night, which is spectacular. On the thirteenth night of the first month, it is called "Lantern Night", and every household should hang up the things that have been finished. On the fourteenth day of the first month, the Lantern Festival will be tested at night, and the Lantern Festival will be piloted. Every family should open the door, every room should be lit, and the empty room should also be lit. This is the so-called "fourteen nights, intermittent lights". The folk activities of Lantern Festival mainly include putting up lanterns, appreciating lanterns, holding lanterns, holding lanterns, solve riddles on the lanterns, setting off fireworks and eating dumplings. And set off fireworks and social fires. It didn't end until the Lantern Festival on the 18th day of the first month.