Lingshi Lantern Festival - Red Hot on the 15th day of the first month

Lingshi County Lantern Festival - the 15th day of the first lunar month is red-hot

Editor's Introduction: The 15th day of the first lunar month is the biggest entertainment festival during the New Year's holidays. It is called the Festival of Lights because all the people open their lanterns. It is also known as the Lantern Festival because every family eats Lantern Festival.　　

The city's lantern displays are colorful and spectacular, and are generally divided into two types: traditional craft lanterns and modern craft lanterns.

Traditional craft lanterns are mostly made of paper and yarn. Exquisite is a class of horse lanterns. Turning picture, mostly for the Eight Immortals across the sea, the Tang Monk scriptures, the Three Kingdoms, Water Margin heroes and other stories, are taken from the content of the play. People who are old enough to see them tend to linger. Lively is made with a variety of fireworks fireworks. Such as pig eight quit urinating, hen laying eggs, monkeys climbing the pole, the heavenly maiden scattering flowers, fire burning Lianying, cannon hit Liancheng and so on. Lighting even after ringing with explosions, colorful, dynamic and realistic, the most attractive children love to see appreciation. The most common lights are grains, six animals, vegetables, fruits, flowers, birds, animals, fish and insects, and other shapes, more questions riddles, for people to guess. This kind of lamp symbolizes the five grains, six animals prosperous, political and human harmony, the country and the people in peace.

Modern craft lamp is the use of new materials, production of a variety of luxury, bold colored lights, with novelty, technology and other sense of the times, the most young men and women loved. In recent years, many counties in the prevalence of decorative flowers and trees, that is, the trees along the road color dressed up as a harvest season pear tree, with various colors of light bulbs made of fruit, electricity a pass, green leaves, fruitful, looks very realistic.

Shanxi is rich in coal, known as the coal country. Lantern Festival, each organization should be in front of the base of the fire. One for lighting, two for warmth, three for prosperity. Wang fire features, and all have their own interests.

The first five days of the red fire. Rural rice-planting songs, social fire teams to focus on the county or important towns for the performance. During the day, more in the square, the teams take turns on the field, with the nature of the competition. The form of dragon lanterns, lions, stilts, lifting the cabinet, dry boat, caravan, donkey, big-headed dolls and so on. At night to perform along the street, see the fire on the dance. The performance team to make stunts, drums and music. The onlookers applauded constantly.

New Year's Day 16, folk are accustomed to travel, known as "to the hundred diseases", women are particularly strong. Legend has it that "the sixteenth day of the first month of spring, the year-round not sick".