The beginning of the lion lantern festival

The lion lantern festival begins as follows:

1, watch the lion dance and enjoy the plum blossom. This Lantern Festival is full of feelings! On the Lantern Festival, red lanterns were hung high at the entrance of Meiyuan in East Lake. Accompanied by the festive and lively sound of gongs and drums, the actors dressed in lion dances flashed their eyes and pranced on plum blossom piles, attracting tourists to applaud again and again.

2. The Lantern Festival, also known as Shangyuan Festival, Xiaoyuanyuan Festival, Yuanxi Festival or Lantern Festival, is the first important festival after the Spring Festival, one of the traditional festivals in China, and also the cultural circle of Chinese characters and overseas Chinese. The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar. The ancients called the night "night", so the fifteenth day of the first full moon in a year was called the Lantern Festival.

3. Traditional customs include going out to enjoy the moon, lighting lanterns and setting off flames, enjoying solve riddles on the lanterns, eating Yuanxiao and pulling rabbit lanterns. In addition, in many places, traditional folk performances, such as playing dragon lanterns, playing lions, walking on stilts, boating, yangko dancing and playing Taiping drums, have all joined the Lantern Festival. In June 2008, the Lantern Festival was selected as the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage.

On the fifteenth day of the first month, it is an ancient and unique custom to dance the dragon and lion for the Lantern Festival. Dragon dancing is the flavor of the year on this day. Lion dance is a legacy of our ancestors. Since primary school, we have been pulling the lion's tail and wrapping jiaozi with a little drummer.

In ancient times, the price of Yuanxiao was more expensive. A poem says: "Guests look at the Imperial Street with a hook curtain, and the treasures in the city come at once. There is no way to go before the curtain, and the money can't be returned. "