What are the traditional customs of the Lantern Festival

Lantern Festival customs are: lanterns, stilt walkers, eating Lantern.

1, the lanterns

The lanterns, circulated in Qingyuan City, Guangdong Province, Yingde City, the traditional folk dance, Guangdong Province, one of the second batch of intangible cultural heritage. The Lantern Festival is a traditional Lantern Festival customs, began in the Western Han Dynasty, flourished in the Sui and Tang dynasties. After the Sui and Tang dynasties, the wind of lanterns prevailed and was inherited and passed on to later generations.

2, stilts

Stilts, is one of the traditional folk activities of the Han people, stilts, commonly known as bondage firewood feet, also known as "stilts", "on stilts", "ZaGaoZhi foot! "," walk high leg ", is a mass skill show prevalent in China's northern folk, more than in some folk festivals by the dancers feet tied to tease, Wu stilts emphasize personal skills and tricks, have formed a distinctive regional style and national colors.

3, eating Lantern Festival

Eating Lantern Festival, is an ancient Chinese traditional holiday customs, meaning reunion, peace and security. More in the Lantern Festival to eat, but also when the snacks to eat, generally a variety of fillings, including black sesame filling is the most common, in addition to the general types of Lanterns, there are also wine wine small round seeds and other types.

Introduction of the history of the Lantern Festival

The Lantern Festival, also known as the Shangyuan Festival, the small first month, Yuanxi or Lantern Festival, the time for the first month of the first five days of the lunar calendar each year. The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar, the ancients called "night" for "night", the first month of the fifteenth is the first full moon in a year, so the first month of the fifteenth for the "Lantern Festival". According to Taoism's "Three Elements", the 15th day of the first month is also known as the "Festival of the Upper Elements". The Lantern Festival has been celebrated since ancient times.

The formation of the Lantern Festival has a long process, rooted in the ancient folk custom of turning on the lights to pray for blessings. According to general information and folklore legends, the first day of the first month of the fifteenth in the Western Han Dynasty has been attached importance, but the first day of the first month of the fifteenth Lantern Festival is really as a national folk festival is in the Han Wei after. The rise of the custom of lighting lanterns on the fifteenth day of the first month is also related to the eastward spread of Buddhism, the Tang Dynasty, Buddhism flourished.