What is the origin of the Lantern Festival?

The Lantern Festival, the original meaning of "on the night of the Yuan Festival", because the first day of the first month of the 15th "on the Yuan Festival" is the main activity is to eat dumplings at night to enjoy the moon, and then the name of the festival evolved into "Lantern Festival". On the night of the Lantern Festival, the streets and alleys are decorated with lanterns, people enjoy the lanterns, guess the riddles, eat the Lantern Festival, from the New Year's Eve to continue the celebrations to another climax, and become the custom of generations.

The Lantern Festival in the early formation of the process, only called the first month of the fifteenth day, the first half of the month or the month of hope, sui later called the first night or the first night. In the early Tang Dynasty, under the influence of Taoism, also known as the first year, the end of the Tang Dynasty only occasionally called the Lantern Festival. But since the Song Dynasty, it is also called Lantern Festival. In the Qing Dynasty, it was called the Festival of Lights.

Yuanxiao Customs-Walking for a hundred diseases

"Walking for a hundred diseases", also known as touring for a hundred diseases, scattering a hundred diseases, baking a hundred diseases, walking bridge, etc., is a kind of elimination of disasters and pray for health activities. The night of the Lantern Festival, women meet to travel, traveling in pairs, see the bridge must be crossed, that can get rid of diseases and prolong life.

Walking the hundred diseases is a custom in the north since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, some in the 15th, but more in the 16th. On this day, women dressed in festive costumes, groups of people out of the house, walking bridge across the danger, climbed the city, touching the nail for a child, until midnight, to return.