Lantern Festival pays tribute to traditional culture. How to celebrate the Lantern Festival abroad?

20 17 February 1 1 (15th day of the first lunar month) is the traditional Lantern Festival in China. Lantern Festival is called "Lantern Festival", and the word "Lantern Festival" vividly expresses the entertainment atmosphere of Lantern Festival. Lantern Festival carries new hopes for the New Year. People celebrate the Lantern Festival to express their expectations and wishes for a better life. The Lantern Festival celebrations in China are very exciting, but in some other countries in the world, how to celebrate the Lantern Festival? Let's have a look.

Japan: Flower Lantern in Zhonghua Street

In Japan, there are "Little January" and "Big January". Japan calls the solar calendar 1 the first month, and 1 the first month.

Compared with the first month of the lunar calendar, there are many folk activities in Japan, and the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month is unfamiliar to most Japanese. The first month of abortion is mainly to pray for wealth and so on. This day can let housewives who are busy during the "Matsunouchi" (65438+ 10/-7) have a rest temporarily, so abortion is also called "the first month of women".

Japan has the habit of eating adzuki bean porridge on the morning of the first day of the first lunar month, which is recorded in literary works such as Tosa Diary and Pillow Grass. On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Zhonghua Street in Japan is very lively. For example, the Lantern Festival is held every year in Zhonghua Street in Yokohama, and some local Chinese and overseas Chinese will join in the fun. The lantern viewing began in the evening, and the whole street was decorated with colorful colors. And Zhonghua Street has also changed the noisy atmosphere in the past, giving people a good feeling. There will also be some dragon and lion dances and traditional dance performances.

South Korea: Eat grains instead of Yuanxiao.

The fifteenth day of the first month in Korea is called "King Day of the First Month", which means "Looking at the Moon". Unlike China, Koreans don't eat Yuanxiao on this day, but eat mixed grains such as glutinous rice, sorghum rice, red beans, yellow rice and black beans, and eat all kinds of nuts, peanuts, walnuts, pine nuts, chestnuts and ginkgo. It is said that it can make teeth stronger and prevent skin diseases such as boils.

Besides, Koreans drink "Qing Er wine" to pray that they will not suffer from ear diseases in the new year. They hear good news all the year round.

In Gwangju, South Korea, people jump into the fire circle to ward off evil spirits and welcome the Lantern Festival.

Malaysia: A rite of passage was held.

In Malaysia, unmarried men and women gather by the river to throw oranges on the Lantern Festival, and write down their names and contact information on the oranges, hoping to meet partners who can join hands.

The first day of the first lunar month is also the day when Japanese adult ceremonies (men's blessing ceremony and women's dress ceremony) are held, so it is also an adult's day.

North Korea: The fifteenth day of the first month welcomes the moon.

In North Korea, Lantern Festival is called "the 15th day of the first month". On this day, every household will cook a "five-grain rice" made of rice, yellow rice, millet, beans and barley.

This kind of "five-grain rice" not only symbolizes "bumper harvests", but also symbolizes longevity, prosperity, health, productivity and peace "Five Blessingg comes together". In addition, every household has an indispensable dish on this day, that is, "nine kinds of dishes" made of nine kinds of dried vegetables, such as dried radish leaves, dried bracken, dried pepper leaves, dried platycodon grandiflorum, dried sweet potato vines and dried gourd.

What attracts people's interest most is the "welcoming the moon" at night. It is said that the first person to see the moon at the 15th National Congress will have a good thing in one year, and unmarried young men will marry a beautiful girl like a full moon this year. Married men see that this year will give birth to a healthy doll.

Southeast Asia: Lion Dance Parade Playing Nanyin

Many countries in Southeast Asia have a large proportion of Chinese, so the Chinese in these places have maintained the customs of southern China.

In the Lantern Festival, a traditional festival in China, the local customs of the Spring Festival developed through the integration with local culture while maintaining their respective traditions, forming a unique custom of the Spring Festival. A few years ago, the Fujian Guild Hall in Singapore began to hold a lively "stepping on the street" activity at the Lantern Festival, which will perform wonderful martial arts, lion dance and Nanyin.

Lantern Festival is one of the important traditional festivals of Chinese in Malaysia, and its custom of "throwing oranges to catch bananas" is lively, romantic and unique. At the mountain pass in Indonesian West Kalimantan province, the annual China traditional cultural activities are being held. Lantern Festival parade is an important part and climax of China New Year celebrations in Yamaguchi.

Singapore: Colorful Lantern Festival

There are many Chinese in Singapore, so the traditional customs of China are preserved in the way of celebrating the Lantern Festival. Every Lantern Festival, Chinatown is the place with the strongest atmosphere. There will be all kinds of lanterns here, and some lanterns will be hung in the air to form a beautiful picture.

During the Lantern Festival in Singapore, people can eat colorful Yuanxiao and buy plastic firecrackers to decorate it. Singapore is a place where Buddhism prevails. During the Lantern Festival, people will come to the temple to worship and pray for the arrival of the New Year.

Lantern Festival has irreplaceable emotional significance for China people. Celebrations such as eating Yuanxiao and solve riddles on the lanterns have become the cultural memory of China people. Traditional festivals such as Lantern Festival are not only the concentrated expression of excellent traditional culture, but also the carrier of cultural inheritance.

Under the impact of globalization and multiculturalism, we should pay special attention to the excavation and construction of traditional festival culture.

Traditional festivals are becoming a world cultural heritage. Inheriting traditional festivals means inheriting cultural heritage, and inheriting cultural heritage means maintaining the diversity of world cultural ecology. In this process, it is also necessary to promote cultural exchanges and mutual learning between China and foreign countries and support Chinese excellent traditional culture to go abroad.