What are the customs of Lantern Festival?

1. Eating Yuanxiao: Also called eating jiaozi, Yuanxiao means jiaozi. Their practices are different in ingredients and flavors, but they all represent reunion and beauty, and the days are getting more and more prosperous. Therefore, we must eat Yuanxiao with our families during the Lantern Festival.

2. Appreciating lanterns: Appreciating lanterns is a traditional festival custom of the Lantern Festival. Ancient urban and rural areas were decorated with colorful lights and unprecedented pomp. Lantern Festival is an opportunity to make friends, and unmarried men and women can also find their other half by the way.

3. solve riddles on the lanterns: Lantern riddle is a word game originated from Lantern Festival, also called Lantern Tiger. Putting riddles on lanterns for people to guess and shoot, the answers are mostly based on the meaning of words, and there are 24 kinds of riddles such as roller blinds, swings and phoenix-seeking, which form the unique folk culture of the Lantern Festival.

Extended data:

Eating Yuanxiao means reunion and peace. Most of them are eaten during the Lantern Festival, and some of them are eaten as snacks. There are many kinds of fillings in general, among which black sesame stuffing is the most common. In addition to the general kind, there are all kinds of glutinous rice balls.

There are different opinions about the formation of the Lantern Festival custom, but it was roughly formed in the Han Dynasty. During the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the Han Dynasty offered sacrifices to a god named Taiyi. It is said that "Taiyi" was a very prominent god at that time, ranking above the five emperors and owing to the Han emperor, so it was enshrined in the prosperous times.