Lantern Festival is the festival of which ethnic group

Which ethnic group's festival is the Lantern Festival

The Lantern Festival is a festival of the Tibetans and some Han Chinese in Guangxi. Tibetan lantern festival is also known as ghee lantern festival, the festival for the first month of the Tibetan calendar 15. On this night, Barkhor Street in Lhasa is surrounded by colorful ghee shaped flowers, figures, birds and animals. People in the plastic flowers under the carnival dance, sleepless all night. Sometimes, to continue for several days to end, this is the most lively, the most joyful festival in Lhasa.

Which day is the Lantern Festival

The Lantern Festival is a traditional Chinese festival. The festival takes place on the night of the eighth day of the fourth month of the lunar calendar. On this night, every family should light lanterns in front of the door. There are many kinds and shapes of lanterns, with calligraphy, paintings and riddles on them, which are colorful and beautiful. The origin of each place is different.

The origin of the Lantern Festival

In fact, the origin of the "Lantern Festival" than the Han emperor sacrificed Tai a may be even earlier. In the Yin and Shang Dynasties, the folk have fire sacrificial society activities, "society" is the original meaning of the ritual soil, is the sacrifice of the earth god. So the folk on the 15th of the first month to organize "social fire".

The social fire, fire sacrifice to the community is also called. Later, the form of fire sacrifice gradually changed to lantern sacrifice, which has the custom of the first month of the fifteenth lantern.

In short, the "lantern festival" custom has a long history, which is also mixed with some religious content. Legend has it that Kui Xing was full of scripture, but repeatedly failed to pass the exams, so he jumped into the river to commit suicide, and then was saved by the river ao, and became Kui Xing God. It is said that in the history of Tianshui, there were many civil officials who worshiped and believed in Kui Xing. The image of Kuixing in the social fire is Kuiface, riding an arowana. Holding a pen in his right hand and an ink stone in his left hand, he walks as if he were dancing with a limp. Along the way, the audience all bow their hands in obeisance. Kui Xing dipped his pen in water and flung it around. Local people believe that where there are drops of water on the forehead, the family has a high school reader.

In addition, Gansu villagers also pay special attention to the "chu Lingguan", "kneeling Qingguan". The four great spiritual officials walk in front of the team, followed by young children, shouting to go east and scurry west home to drive away the evil spirits and epidemic. After the spiritual officials, the spring officials came. The parents took out good cigarettes and good wine to entertain, and the spring officials lit incense on the desk, and said some words of praise off the top of their mouths, and then went away.

After these ancient ceremonies, all the men, women, and children of the village flock to the fire pit and play until dawn, when they gradually return home.

Tibetan Lantern Festival

The 15th day of the first month of the Tibetan calendar is the Tibetan Lantern Festival. On this night, Barkhor Street in Lhasa is surrounded by colorful ghee shaped flowers, patterns and figures, birds and animals. People have flocked to Barkhor Street to play. Monks and folk artists from various monasteries with locally produced ghee and color, produced a beautiful and colorful ghee flower plate and a variety of postures for the heavenly maiden, coupled with a fine lamp frame, exquisite. People also use ghee flowers to reproduce a variety of mythological stories and their characters, flowers and birds and scenery, some of them into the screen piece, like a three-dimensional serial map. Elegant patterns, colorful lanterns attracted thousands of viewers. People in the plastic flowers, dancing, sleepless nights. Sometimes it lasts for several days before it ends, which is the most lively and joyful festival in Lhasa.

Date of the festival: the fifteenth day of the first month of the Tibetan calendar (not far from the lunar Lantern Festival)

Location of the event: Lhasa, mainly in the Barkhor Street, as well as the Da Zhao Temple, Xiao Zhao Temple and other monasteries.

Ghee

Every year on the 15th day of the first month of the Tibetan calendar, in order to celebrate Sakyamuni's victory in the debate with the other sects, in the Tibetan monasteries are held in the art of oil sculpture exhibition, that is, the colorful ghee pinched into the image of the gods and goddesses, figures, flowers, trees, birds and animals, and lighting ghee lamps for blessing. Tibetans call "Gandan Angqu", for the traditional religious festivals.

Ghee Lantern Festival, the Tibetan language, called "Meiduo but Jie", during which the monastery will also be organized by the jumping God and other singing and dancing activities. Jumping God dressed in embroidered robes, face masks, in the Tibetan horn, suona, cowhide drums and gongs and drums under the accompaniment, dancing and singing, to show the celebration.

The first month of the Tibetan calendar on the fifteenth day, during the day, people to pray to the temple, the night in Lhasa Bajiao Street held ghee lanterns, full of street set up a variety of flower racks, above the display of colorful gods and goddesses, characters, birds and animals and flowers and trees and other images. After the lanterns lit, like the stars landing, twinkling, a brilliant. The Dalai Lama and the main officials routinely go out to watch the lanterns. Wonderful landscape, multi-colored lanterns, attracting thousands of good men and women and countless tourists, people wandering in the sea of lights in the crowd, all night long. In the lanterns there are puppet shows and other entertainment activities, more so that young people and children excited, forget to come back.

Ghee is a special form of sculpture. Legend has it that ghee flower originated in Tibet. In 641 AD, Princess Wencheng went to Tibet and Tibetan King Songtsen Gampo marriage, brought to the Sakyamuni Buddha statue, in the Showa Temple for worship. This statue of Buddha originally did not have a crown, ZongKaBa after the success of Buddhism, in the head of the statue offered a lotus-shaped "protection of the sign", the body offered a "shawl", but also offered a bunch of "ghee flower ", this is the origin of ghee flowers. Tal monastery is the birthplace of ZongKaBa, soon ghee flower is spread to here, and in Tal monastery to promote and development, in the Ming WanLi years this kind of oil molding technology to Tal monastery, in the local artists under the long-term development of a very high artistic attainments. Tibetan religious masses have to the monastery dedication ghee custom, generally only point Buddha lamp and monks eat. And every Tibetan year before the first month of the 15th, they will be pure white ghee to the Thar temple, the temple in the monks in which they rubbed into the various colors of mineral dyes made of embryonic material for shaping, and then in the cold room in the frame shaping. In order to prevent the production of ghee due to body temperature melting affect the shape, they will from time to time stuff their hands into the bone-chilling snow to cool down.