What is the custom of Shanxi Lantern Festival?

The customs of the Lantern Festival in Shanxi include running dry boats, lighting fires, hanging lanterns, setting off fireworks and eating Yuanxiao.

Shanxi dry boat is one of the folk performing arts forms of Shanxi Lantern Festival. On holidays, this kind of folk dance is popular all over Shanxi, and it is a kind of folk dance that simulates boating in the water.

It is said that the activity of "making a splash" began in Qin and Han Dynasties, developed in Tang Dynasty and became popular in Song Dynasty. Historically, this "lively activity" is said to have 7 1 programs.

Hanging lanterns is an essential form for Shanxi people to celebrate the Lantern Festival. When the Lantern Festival comes, every household hangs all kinds of lights. 14 to 16, open every night. From a distance, the buildings are covered with colorful lanterns, which makes the whole city resplendent and magnificent, and all units are scrambling to make all kinds of lanterns.

Setting off fireworks is the most gratifying activity of Shanxi Lantern Festival. On the night of Lantern Festival, fireworks will be set off in the square, and the whole family will go to the streets to watch the fireworks.

Every family will celebrate the Lantern Festival by themselves. Yuanxiao, called "floating Zi Yuan" in ancient times, is a kind of folk snack that appeals to both refined and popular tastes, sweet but not greasy, and is popular all over the country.

The origin of Lantern Festival

Lantern Festival began in the Western Han Dynasty more than 2,000 years ago. Lantern Festival viewing began in the period of Emperor Han Ming in the East. Ming Di advocates Buddhism. According to legend, in Buddhism, on the fifteenth day of the first month, monks watched the relics and lit lanterns to worship the Buddha, which made the gentry and ordinary people hang lanterns and gradually formed a grand folk festival. Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty designated the 15th day of the first month as the Lantern Festival.