What are the customs of the Lantern Festival in the north?

1, Lantern Festival customs of Beijing

The most lively festival in old Beijing is not the Spring Festival, but the Lantern Festival. The annual Shangyuan Lantern Festival, dragon and lion dances, Old Beijing hawking, and other traditional programs of the Lantern Festival that are full of Old Beijing's folklore are one of the main reasons why Old Beijingers look forward to this festival. The traditional Old Beijing Lantern Festival events are mainly composed of 3 parts: Flower Festival, Lantern Festival, and Eating Lanterns.

2, Lantern Festival Customs of Hebei Province

Hebei's more unique Lantern Festival customs include the pulling of flowers in Jingfu, which is an ancient artistic wonder. Zanhuang County Lantern Festival Customs - "pulling the threshing floor", pulling the threshing floor is a kind of dance that expresses the labor life, the main activity is in the Lantern Festival, it is accompanied by percussion. There are drums, gongs, cymbals and water cymbals.

Yongpingfu Lantern Festival, sick women gathered under the kiln, called "Tao Moxibustion". Children staggered degree bridge, called the "degree of the hundred Er". Some people also cut paper into nine paper ropes, hand knots to divine the blame, called "knot sheep's intestines".

3, Lantern Festival customs of Shanxi Province

Hanging lanterns, is the people of Shanxi to celebrate the Lantern Festival must be 'a form. Whenever the Lantern Festival comes, every family hangs a variety of lights, from fourteen to sixteen, every night.

Fireworks, for the people of Shanxi Lantern Festival, the most joyful activities, Lantern Festival night in the square will be fireworks activities, when the whole family went out into the street, to see the beautiful fireworks. Literary street, known as folk culture makeup parade. From fourteen to sixteen, three consecutive days in various counties and districts are organized in various cultural performances to the city.

4, Lantern Festival customs of Shandong Province

To carry out juggling activities is an important part of the Lantern Festival. There are various forms of juggling, such as lion dance, dragon lantern dance, stilt walker, dry boat, flower stick, rice-planting song, donkey drive, and everything in between, with opera as the main content.

Qufu city around the village to play dragon lanterns, the dragon lanterns of each village to perform in the Kongfu. Kongfu play dragon lantern place in the second door in front of the hall, usually not allowed to enter the Kongfu, this time also allows outsiders to enter to see the play dragon lantern. When playing dragon lanterns, the Confucius House of the pawn and "flower gun households" in the side of the fireworks.

5, Lantern Festival customs of Henan Province

Changxing Henan people's most unique custom, is the night of the Lantern Festival, families have to be in front of the ancestors' graves, with bamboo scotch and red paper tied on the lantern, light the candles in between and let it burn out. Lantern Festival general custom is to enjoy lanterns, lantern riddles, eat dumplings, lion dance, even Henan people, it is rare to see the custom of lighting lanterns in front of the ancestors' graves.