What are the customs on the 15th day of the first month

The customs of the 15th day of the first lunar month are eating soup dumplings, watching lanterns, dancing dragons and guessing lantern riddles.

The Lantern Festival, also known as Shangyuan Festival, Xiaozhengmu, Yuanxi or Lantern Festival, is celebrated on the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar every year. The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar, and the ancients called the night the Lantern Festival. The 15th day of the first month is the first full-moon night of the year, so it is called the 15th day of the first month as the Lantern Festival.

China is a vast country with a long history, so the customs of the Lantern Festival are not the same throughout the country, among which eating Lantern Festival, Lantern Festival, Dragon Dance, Lion Dance and so on are several important folk customs of the Lantern Festival. The Lantern Festival is a traditional Chinese festival, so it is celebrated all over the country, and the customs in most regions are similar, but each region still has its own characteristics.

Customs of the Lantern Festival in different regions:

1, Shandong Province

Shandong Province, Zibo City, Zichuan District of the Lantern Festival in Zichuan District, the waterfront home more than the river lamps, Tai'an City, Ningyang County of the Lantern Festival to send the lamps to the graves of their ancestors, Binzhou City, Boxing County, the Lantern Festival, there is a custom to light the lamp.

2, Henan Province

Xiangcheng County, Henan Province, the Lantern Festival to eat wonton soup, known as reunion tea, the mother's family to pick up married daughters to go home for the holidays, the county Lantern Festival lights, old and young people who are sick, all with fire moxibustion stone turtle. Local river bridge, the rate of crossing the bridge. If there is no bridge, the planks built several zhang high footbridge, known as walk a hundred diseases.

3, Jiangsu Province

Jiangsu Province, Wujin County on the first day of the yuan tied reed into a ten feet of the torch, inserted in the field, said the light of Tianzai, used to predict the early scribble. Fire color white for water, red for drought. Yixing on the first day of the Yuan, children wearing ghost masks, flexed feet and shoulders and jump, known as jumping ghosts.