What festival is Lantern Festival?

Eating Yuanxiao on the fifteenth day of the first month is a long-standing custom in China. Yuanxiao is called "Tangyuan". Its ingredients and taste are different, but the meaning of eating Yuanxiao is the same. Represents reunion and beauty, and the days are getting more and more prosperous. As the saying goes, harmony is more precious. Family harmony and family reunion are important factors of a complete family. Therefore, we must eat "Yuanxiao" with our families during the Lantern Festival.

"Send lanterns" means "send lanterns to children"

2. "Send lanterns"

"Sending lanterns" is short for "sending lanterns", and its essential meaning is sending lanterns to children. That is, before the Lantern Festival, the bride's family sends lanterns to the newly-married daughter's family, or ordinary relatives and friends send them to the newly-married infertile family. In order to increase good luck, because "lamp" is homophonic with "Ding". Expressing the hope that her daughter will be lucky after marriage and have a son as soon as possible; If the daughter is pregnant, in addition to the big palace lantern, she should also send one or two small lanterns to wish her a safe pregnancy.

Playing dragon lantern

Play with dragon lanterns

The dragon is the totem of China, and the Chinese nation advocates the dragon and regards it as a symbol of good luck. On the fifteenth day of the first month, the festive atmosphere of singing and dancing spread in many places.

"Lion Dance" symbolizes good luck.

4. lion dance

Lion dance, also known as "lion dance", "lion dance lantern" and "lion dance", is often performed in festivals and festive activities. Lions are regarded as auspicious animals in China, symbolizing good luck and good luck. Therefore, in the lion dance activities, people are entrusted with the good wishes of eliminating disasters and seeking good luck.

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

5. Solve the riddle on the lantern

Every Lantern Festival, playing riddles is everywhere. I hope this year is festive and safe. Because riddles are enlightening and interesting, they are welcomed by all walks of life in the process of communication. During the Tang and Song Dynasties, various acrobatic skills began to appear in the lantern market. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, besides riddles and hundreds of operas, there were also opera performances.

walk on stilts

walk on stilts

Stilts clubs are generally organized by the masses spontaneously in series. On the 11th and 12th day of the first month, people began to take to the streets, which means to tell people that many folk flowers will be hung up this year. On the fifteenth day of the first month, I officially went to the streets until the end of the 18th National Congress.

Lantern Festival "Watching Lights"

Pay attention to the lights

Watching lanterns is a traditional folk activity of the Han people's Lantern Festival. During the Yong Ping period of Han Dynasty (AD 58-75), when Ming Chengzu advocated Buddhism, it happened that Cai Cheng returned from India to seek Buddhism, saying that it was the fifteenth day of the first month of Mohato, India, and the monks gathered to pay tribute to the relics, which was an auspicious day to participate in Buddhism. In order to promote Buddhism, Emperor Hanming ordered "burning lamps to show Buddha" in palaces and temples on the fifteenth night of the first month. Since then, the custom of putting lights on the Lantern Festival has spread from being held only in the court to the Han people. That is, on the fifteenth day of the first month, both the gentry and the people hang up lights, and the urban and rural areas are brightly lit all night.

"Away from all diseases" is a forgotten custom of Lantern Festival.

8. Stay away from all diseases

"Walk through all the diseases" is also called swimming through all the diseases, dispelling all the diseases, baking all the diseases, crossing the bridge and so on. 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.

Yingzi Drum is a traditional folk activity of Han nationality.

9. Eiko Valley

Zigu is also called Gucci, and in the north she is called toilet aunt and pit aunt. The ancient folk custom is to offer sacrifices to Ce Shen Zigu on the 15th day of the first month, and to offer sacrifices to silkworm and mulberry, which shows many things. On the night of welcoming the daughter-in-law, people tie the portrait of the daughter-in-law with straw and cloth, and greet her in the toilet with pigsty at night. It truly reflects the thoughts and feelings of kind, loyal and sympathetic working people.

On the fifteenth day of the first month, "chasing mice"

10. A mouse.

The rat chasing festival is held on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. Silkworm farmers cook a big pot of sticky porridge on the fifteenth day of the first month, some cover it with a layer of meat, put the porridge in a bowl, put it on the ceiling, corner and mouth where mice haunt, and curse the mice for eating silkworm babies again. Legend has it that by doing so, this year's mice will not eat silkworm babies.