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

In addition to the Chinese people are familiar with the lanterns, riddles, dragon and lion dances, eating Lantern Festival and other customs, with China's neighbors in some Asian countries, the Lantern Festival also had a colorful.

1. Korea

Korea's 15th day of the first month is called "the first month of the day of the great hope", meaning "look full moon". And China is different, they do not eat on this day, but eat a mixture of glutinous rice, sorghum rice, red beans, yellow rice, black beans and other grains made of grains, eat a variety of nuts, peanuts, walnuts, pine nuts, chestnuts, ginkgo nuts, etc., it is said that you can make the teeth stronger, but also to prevent boils and other skin diseases. In addition, you have to drink "clear ear wine", praying that the New Year will not suffer from ear infections, and all year round to hear good news.

2. Malaysia

The Lantern Festival is one of the major traditional festivals of the Malaysian Chinese, and its custom of "throwing oranges and catching bananas" is lively, romantic and unique. On the night of the Lantern Festival, Chinese singles flock to the riverside or lakeside parks to throw bananas and oranges, and write down their contact numbers on the fruits in a bid to find a good marriage.

3. North Korea

North Korea's Lantern Festival is also known as the first month of the big full moon, or simply "big full moon", there is a step on the Copper Bridge, steal Fukudo (to the field to steal the mud), biting nuts, drink ear Ming wine, tug-of-war, lion dance, and other customary, but also to the moon's color and location of divination! agricultural affairs.

4. Japan

Japan calls the first month of the lunar calendar January, and January 15 is called Koshogatu, which is the opposite of the first month of the lunar calendar (New Year's Day), and there are a lot of folk activities in Japan on Koshogatu. It is customary to eat small bean porridge in the morning of Koshogatu. On the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar, the Chinese street in Japan is very lively. Such as Yokohama China Street will be held every year Lantern Festival Lantern Appreciation activities, some of the local Chinese overseas Chinese will go to get together to join in the fun. The lantern-viewing event starts in the evening, and the whole street is decorated with colorful lanterns.

In New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and other cities in the U.S., Chinese associations celebrate the Lantern Festival every year with colorful activities, including soup dumplings, lanterns, dragon and lion dances. There are also many Chinese who choose to go to temples to make wishes for good health and success in the new year. In Chinatown, the festive atmosphere is especially strong, with gongs and drums, firecrackers, and lion dancers taking to the streets and waving their blessings in front of the stores, praying for people's lives to be red-hot and their luck to get better and better.