Grandparents across the country their hometown's Lantern Festival customs.

Eating Lantern Festival, guessing riddles, stilt walkers, lion dance, etc.

Eating Lantern Festival

New Year's Eve to eat Lantern Festival, "Lantern Festival" as a food, in our country also has a long history. Song Dynasty, the folk that is popular a Lantern Festival to eat the novelty of food. This food, the earliest called "floating yuanzi" later called "Lantern", the businessman also beautifully called "Yuanbao". Lanterns that is, "dumplings" with sugar, rose, sesame, bean paste, yellow cinnamon, walnuts, nuts, jujube paste, etc. for the filling, wrapped in glutinous rice flour into a round shape, can be meat or vegetarian, with a variety of flavors. It can be boiled in soup, deep-fried or steamed, and has the meaning of reunion. Shaanxi dumplings are not wrapped, but in the glutinous rice flour "rolled" into, or boiled Division or deep-fried, hot, hot, reunion.

Guess the riddles

Guess the riddles, also known as lantern riddles, is China's unique national style of a traditional form of folkloric recreational activities, is from ancient times began to circulate the Lantern Festival activities. On the 15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar, the traditional folk are to hang up colored lanterns, fireworks, and then there are good people to write riddles on paper strips, pasted on the colorful lanterns for people to guess. Because riddles can enlighten wisdom and cater to the festive atmosphere, so the response of many people, and then riddles gradually become an indispensable program of the Lantern Festival. The riddles add to the festive atmosphere and show the ingenuity of the ancient working people and their desire for a better life.

Stilts

The stilts are a kind of popular skill show. The performer not only walks on long wooden feet, but also jumps and dances with a sword. The stilts are divided into three kinds: high stilts, medium stilts and running stilts, and the highest one is more than ten feet high. It is said that this form of stilts, the original is the ancient people in order to collect the wild fruits on the tree for food, to their legs tied to two long stick and the development of a stilt activity.

Lion Dance

Lion Dance is China's excellent folk art, every Lantern Festival or gathering celebrations, folk lion dance to cheer. This custom originated in the Three Kingdoms period, began to popularize the North and South Dynasties, has been more than a thousand years of history.