What's the deal with the Upper Lantern Festival?

The Lantern Festival is a traditional Hakka festival. According to the Cenxi City Records, the newborn is a boy (Tendin), after the full moon, on the tenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar of the following year, to celebrate the lantern (harmonic "Tendin"), commonly known as "on the lamp", meaning that Tendin rich. At 00:00 on the tenth day of the first day, the colorful paper lanterns hanging on the beams of the house hall and the lamp shed in the community. On this day, relatives and friends bring gifts to congratulate, the host family hosted a banquet, which is called please lamp wine.

In Cenxi, the "Lantern Festival" has developed into a grand traditional festival today. This in the first ten days of the first month of the same day, the city's people basically to have boys "on the lamp" relatives and friends of the home to drink wine custom in the country is unique.

Whenever the Lantern Festival comes on the tenth day of the first month, there are three major wonders in Cenxi City. The first spectacle is that the streets are full of lanterns for people to purchase. Generally on the lamp family to buy back two lamps, one hung in the hall, one hung in the home village belongs to the temple. Each lamp should be wrapped in two pebbles, said the successor, can be passed on to the next generation. The second wonder is the city's large and small restaurants, all full. Some booked a month before the table, less than a dozen tables, more than a hundred tables. Some hotels set up four rounds, 9 a.m. table, 12 a.m. round, 3 p.m. table, 6 p.m. and another round. The third wonder is that the public have a wedding wine to drink. Anyone who has three aunts and six grandmothers, seven uncles and eight uncles, add a child, on the lamp, congratulations, seal the red envelope, drink wine. City people to all the restaurants, rural people go from village to village. Some people say that this is the "drinking day" (drinking day) of all Cenxi people.

There is on the lamp on the lamp, the sixteenth day of the first month for the lamp day, in the first ten days of the first month did not drink on the lamp wine relatives and friends to the sixteen on the lamp day to make up for the day to drink