Lantern Festival Theme Handbook

Seeing lanterns at the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first month is an indispensable traditional custom of the Chinese people. The following is about the Lantern Festival theme handbook, welcome to read!

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Introduction to the Lantern Festival

Every year, on the fifteenth day of the first month of the Lunar Calendar, the Spring Festival has just been over, and ushered in the traditional Chinese festival --- Lantern Festival.

The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar, and the ancient people called the night "night", so the first month of the fifteenth for the Lantern Festival. The 15th day of the first month is the first full moon of the year, but also the beginning of a new year, the night of the earth back to spring, people celebrate this, but also to celebrate the continuation of the New Year. The Lantern Festival is also known as the "on the Yuan Festival".

According to Chinese folk tradition, in this day on the night of the white moon, people want to point up ten thousand colored lanterns, to celebrate. Going out to enjoy the moon, burning lanterns and setting off flames, guessing riddles, *** eating Lantern Festival, family reunion, celebrating the festival together, a happy and harmonious.

Lantern Festival is also known as the Festival of Lights, Lantern Lights custom from the Han Dynasty, to the Tang Dynasty, more prosperous light-appreciation activities, the palace, hanging lights everywhere on the street, but also to establish a tall lamp wheel, lamps and lamps and trees, the great poet Lu Zhaolian in the Tang Dynasty, "fifteen nights to watch the lanterns," which describes the lanterns of the Lantern Festival in this way "to catch the Han suspected that the stars fall, according to the building seems to be hanging moon.

The Song dynasty's first Chinese opera, the "Lunar New Year", was held in Beijing.

The Song Dynasty paid more attention to the Lantern Festival, more lively lantern-appreciation activities, lantern-appreciation activities to be carried out for five days, the style of the lamp is also more abundant. The Ming Dynasty to 10 days, which is China's longest Lantern Festival. Qing Dynasty lantern appreciation activities, although only 3 days, but the lantern appreciation activities on a large scale, unprecedented, in addition to burning lights, but also fireworks to help.

"Guess the lantern riddle" is also called "playing lantern riddles", is the Lantern Festival after the addition of an activity, appeared in the Song Dynasty. In the Southern Song Dynasty, the capital Lin'an made riddles every Lantern Festival, and there were many people guessing riddles. In the beginning, the riddles were written on strips of paper and pasted on colorful lanterns for people to guess. Because the riddles can enlighten wisdom and interest, so the process of circulation by the popularity of all walks of life.

The folk custom of eating Lantern Festival Lantern. Lanterns are made of glutinous rice, either solid or with filling. Filling with bean paste, sugar, hawthorn, all kinds of fruit, etc., when eating boiled, fried, steamed, fried can be. At first, people called this food "floating rounds", and later called "soup dumplings" or "soup dumplings", these names "reunion

The Lantern Festival in some places, there is a "walk a hundred diseases" custom, also known as the "bake a hundred diseases" "scattered hundred diseases", the participants are mostly women, they walk in pairs or walk the wall, or cross the bridge, walk the countryside, and then the people who have been in the countryside for a long time, and the people who have been in the countryside for a long time. The purpose is to drive away illnesses and disasters.

With the passage of time, the Lantern Festival activities are more and more, many local festivals added to the dragon lanterns, lions, stilt walkers, rowing dry boat twisting rice-planting songs, playing the drums and other traditional folklore performances. This traditional festival, which has been passed down for more than 2,000 years, is not only prevalent on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, but is also celebrated year after year in overseas Chinese settlements.

Lantern Festival handbook content:

The Lantern Festival is a traditional festival in China, the Lantern Festival, the Dragon Lantern, the custom of lanterns, and the Dragon Lantern this activity there is a beautiful legend.

Once upon a time, the earth was in good weather, and the Queen Mother took advantage of the good weather to have a grand banquet. However, the Jade Emperor loved to drink, and when he drank, he got drunk. No, this day he was drunk again. After the banquet, he was busy writing the rain book, and he made a mistake in writing the rain book. Now the earth was in chaos. There were floods in some places, and droughts in others... A green dragon knows, quietly fly up to the sky, secretly changed the rain book. At this time, the Jade Emperor also realized that the rain book was written wrong, so he opened the rain book. He opened the rain book and saw that the rain book had been changed! The rain book seemed to have been changed by someone! He immediately sent someone to find out who had changed the rain book, and finally, he realized that it was Qinglong who had changed it. He was very angry, so he immediately sent the Prime Minister to the mortal world to hunt down the Green Dragon.

The prime minister came to the mortal world and tried all kinds of ways to kill the Green Dragon. After his death, the Green Dragon turned into a divine bird and cried every day outside the Hall of the Spiritual Nights. The Jade Emperor felt very guilty that he had to execute the Green Dragon who corrected his own mistake when he had written the wrong rain book, so the Jade Emperor asked the people to solemnly commemorate the Green Dragon, who had done so much for the benefit of the people.

From then on, every Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month, the people will use bamboo to tie into the dragon lanterns, and every house will be decorated with lanterns and carry the dragon lanterns to tour the streets and lanes to show their gratitude and remembrance of the green dragon. This custom has been passed down to the present.

Every year on the Lantern Festival, my mom and dad and I go to see the dragon lanterns, it is really very lively.