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

Customs of the 15th day of the first month are as follows:

One, Lantern Appreciation

The Lantern Festival is also known as the "Festival of Lights", the most important activity on this day is to appreciate the lanterns, lantern appreciation is also called Lantern Festival, started in the Western Han Dynasty, flourished in Sui and Tang dynasties. Started in the Western Han Dynasty, flourished in the Sui and Tang dynasties. In ancient times, people would make beautiful and unique lanterns and hang them in front of their homes on the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar. On this day, people would display various kinds of lanterns on the streets after dark, and people would go out to the streets to see the lanterns and feel the lively atmosphere.

Second, guessing lantern riddles

While enjoying the lanterns, people will also organize lantern riddles in order to increase the fun. People usually write riddles on small slips of paper and hang them underneath various lanterns, so that people viewing the lanterns will gather together and guess what the riddle is, and those who guess correctly will usually have some small prizes. The riddle-guessing activity allowed for increased interaction between people, a more lively atmosphere, and demonstrated the learning and wisdom of ancient people.

Three, walk a hundred diseases

Northern people in the first month of the fifteenth night, are out of the house, go outside to walk around, or walk across a bridge. It is an activity of praying for blessings and eliminating disasters. This day, people generally travel in pairs, see the bridge must be over, until late at night and then go home. This activity is called "walk a hundred diseases" or "swim a hundred diseases".

Four, lion dance

Every Lantern Festival, many southern regions will be held in the lion dance. Lion dance is a traditional Chinese folk art, every various festivals or gatherings and celebrations, people will ask the lion dance performers to perform to cheer. "Lion Dance" began in the Wei and Jin dynasties, flourished in the Tang Dynasty, in the Guangdong area is widely spread, lion dance in Guangzhou, commonly known as the "dance of the waking lion", every festivals and celebrations, the Spring Festival race, the opening of the celebration, will be banging the gongs and drums, lion dance to help the fun. This folk custom of welcoming good luck, a long time ago, never fails.

Five, send children lamp

Send "children lamp" referred to as "send lamp" or send lanterns "and so on, before the Lantern Festival, the mother's family to send lanterns to the new Married daughter's home, or general friends and relatives to the newly married sterile home, in order to add Ding auspicious omen, because the "lights" and "Ding" harmonized. I hope that in the new year, "prosperity", "full of children and grandchildren".