What are the traditional customs of Lantern Festival?

Eating Yuanxiao on the fifteenth day of the first month is a long-standing custom in China. Yuanxiao is called "Tangyuan", with different ingredients and tastes, but eating Yuanxiao represents the same meaning: it represents reunion and beauty, and the days are getting more and more prosperous. As the saying goes, "harmony is precious", which shows how important family harmony and family reunion are to a complete family. Therefore, we must eat "Yuanxiao" with our families during the Lantern Festival. ?

Decorate with lanterns and ribbons

Since the Lantern Festival custom was formed, it has been a great event for thousands of years to enjoy lanterns on the fifteenth day of the first month. That night, countless people played and watched the lights. Everyone stayed up all night, having a good time and being very lively.

Solve riddles; solve lantern riddles; guess riddles on hanging lanterns

"Lantern riddle", also known as "playing riddles", is a Lantern Festival activity added after the Southern Song Dynasty. Lantern riddles first developed from lantern riddles, which were hung on lanterns for people to guess and shoot, and began in the Southern Song Dynasty. Because riddles are enlightening and interesting, they are welcomed by all walks of life.

Play with dragon lanterns

Playing dragon lanterns, also known as dragon lanterns or dragon dancing. Its origin can be traced back to ancient times. Legend has it that as early as the Yellow Emperor, in a large-scale song and dance called "Qingjiao", there was an image of a leading bird played by a man, and then a dance scene with six dragons interspersed with each other was arranged.

walk on stilts

Walking on stilts is a popular folk performance. Stilts originally belonged to one of hundreds of ancient dramas in China, which appeared as early as the Spring and Autumn Period.

lion dance

"Lion Dance", also known as "Lion Dance" and "Harmony Music", is usually performed by three people: one acts as the lion's head, the other acts as the lion's body and hind feet, and the other acts as the lion's head. There are also folk and military dances. The dance of literature and art shows the gentleness of the lion, with movements such as shaking hair and rolling. Wushi shows the ferocity of the lion, including prancing, pushing high and rolling colored balls.

Walking sickness

It has been a custom in the north since the Ming and Qing Dynasties to get rid of all diseases. Also known as walking away from all diseases, dispersing all diseases, roasting all diseases, walking across the bridge, etc. It is an activity to eliminate disasters and pray for blessings. On the Lantern Festival night, women meet and go out together. When they see the bridge, they will cross it, thinking that this can cure diseases and prolong life.

Mouse chase

This activity is mainly aimed at sericulture families. Because rats often eat silkworms in large areas at night. It is said that the mouse can be fed rice porridge on the fifteenth day of the first month, so that it can not eat silkworms. As a result, these people cooked a large pot of sticky porridge on the fifteenth day of the first month, and some even covered it with a layer of meat. They put porridge in a bowl and put it on the ceiling, corner and mouth where mice haunt, cursing that mice will not die a natural death if they eat silkworm babies again.

Sacrifice the door and family

There were "seven sacrifices" in ancient times, which were two of them. The method of sacrifice is to insert poplar branches above the door, insert a pair of chopsticks in a bowl filled with bean porridge, or put wine and meat directly in front of the door.

Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first lunar month, also known as Lantern Festival, Shangyuan Festival, Xiao Yuan Festival, Yuanxi Festival or Lantern Festival, is the first important festival after the Spring Festival, and it is also one of the traditional festivals of Chinese and overseas Chinese in the Chinese character cultural circle. 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. In the ancient customs of China, Shangyuan Festival (Lantern Festival), Zhongyuan Festival (Orchid Festival) and Xiayuan Festival (Water Joint) are collectively called Sanyuan Festival. Lantern Festival began in the Qin Dynasty more than 2,000 years ago. Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty ordered the fifteenth day of the first month to be designated as the Lantern Festival. During the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the sacrificial activities of "Taiyi God" were scheduled for the 15th day of the first month (Taiyi: the God in charge of everything in the universe). When Sima Qian created the taichu calendar Law, he had already identified the Lantern Festival as a major festival.

Origin of the festival: According to legend, Emperor Wendi of the Han Dynasty (179- 157) celebrated the cycle to suppress the rebellion of competing deer on the 15th day of the first month. Every night, he will go out to play and have fun with people. In ancient times, night was the same as night, and the first month was also called January. Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty designated the fifteenth day of the first month as the Lantern Festival, and this night was called Yuanxiao.

Related poems:

Emperor Yangdi Yang Di? At dusk in January, lanterns are built in the thoroughfare, and the South Tower rises at night.

Tang Suwei said? 《? The fifteenth day of the first month "

Tang Cui liquid? last night

Don Lou Zhao Lin? Watch the lights for fifteen nights

Hu? Light on the fifteenth night of the first month.

Tang Li Shangyin can't wait to see the lights in Beijing on the fifteenth day of the first month.

Classic story:

Yuanxiao girl

Dong Fangshuo, the favorite of Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty, is funny and kind. One winter, I went to the imperial garden to enjoy plums, and I met a maid-in-waiting who wanted to jump into a well and commit suicide. After the rescue, Shuo asked why. It turned out that the maid-in-waiting named Yuanxiao missed her relatives for a long time after entering the palace, so she thought of suicide. Dong Fangshuo expressed sympathy and promised to help. Dong Fangshuo set up a stall for divination, and everyone invited someone to do it. As a result, "the 16th day of the first month burned us", which caused great panic in Chang 'an. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty asked Dong Fangshuo for advice, saying, "Chang 'an was robbed, and the palace was set on fire for 15 days, and the midnight snack was flaming red. "Explain: On the fifteenth night of the first month, every family hangs lanterns to eat Yuanxiao, and people outside the city go to the city to see lanterns, just like the fire in the city hides from the Jade Emperor. That night, Yuanxiao's parents went to the city to see the lights. With the help of Dong Fangshuo, the family was finally reunited.

Acacia shadow play

According to legend, Li Furen, the Emperor of the Han Dynasty, missed her very much after her death, so a maid-in-waiting put on her clothes and danced in the moonlight. The emperor saw the shadow of the maid-in-waiting and relieved his thoughts. Later generations wrote a poem: "Zhang Deng plays a new song, Gu Ying lingers and is realistic, walks steadily around the lotus, and sees Li Furen live before the account." It is the allusion of Emperor Wu's longing for his beloved princess and the original source of shadow play.