What are the customs of each region at the Lantern Festival? [Hebei Province] Yongping Province Lantern Festival, sick women gathered under the kiln, called "Tao Moxibustion". Children staggered to th

What are the customs of each region at the Lantern Festival? [Hebei Province] Yongping Province Lantern Festival, sick women gathered under the kiln, called "Tao Moxibustion". Children staggered to the bridge, called "Duo Bai'er". Some people also cut paper into nine paper ropes and tie knots in order to divine the blame, known as the "Knot Sheep Intestine". And twelve face calendars to store oil into the pot to steam, to face the calendars of the amount of water to foretell the month's rain or shine. Jinghai County on the Yuan Festival to large steamed bread for the festival. Qingyun County Lantern Festival men asked the five ancestors to teach boxing stick, women asked Zigu divination of blame. Shandong Province] Zichuan County Lantern Festival in Zichuan County, near the water more people put river lamps. In Ningyang County, lanterns are sent to ancestral graves at the Lantern Festival. Boxing rural Lantern Festival has the custom of lighting. Boys carrying lamps, around the jujube tree six times, read "Duoluo Duoluo, flowering jujube" six times, you can make the jujube tree harvest. In Ju County, men, women and children go trekking in the wilderness on the sixteenth day of the first month, known as "walking the old look," and it is said that walking once a year will keep you young and youthful. Xiangcheng County [Henan Province] Lantern Festival to eat wonton soup, known as "reunion tea", the mother's family to pick up married daughters to go home for the holidays, shut down the county Lantern Festival lamps, young and old people who are sick, all to fire moxibustion stone turtle. If there is a local bridge over the river, they will cross it. If there is no bridge, the bridge is built on wooden planks several feet high, known as the "Walking Disease". [Shaanxi Province] Fengxiang County in the Lantern Festival feast daughters, son-in-law, known as the "eat fifteen". And send lamps, send oil, called "add oil". [Jiangsu Province] Wujin County on the first day of the yuan tied reed into a ten-foot torch, inserted in the field, said "shine field wealth", used to predict the early scribble. Fire color white for water, red for drought. In Yixing, children wore ghost masks and jumped by bending their feet and vibrating their shoulders, which was called "jumping ghosts". [Zhejiang Province] Hangzhou folk on the fifteenth day of the first month for the first yuan of the heavenly officials to give blessings, more vegetarian recitation of scripture, prostrate to the Wushan worship. Haining County Lantern Festival is best known for its delicate chrysanthemum lanterns. Shangyu County less than the Lantern Festival night to the counter-support bullying on the platform to compete in martial arts. Jiande County people have a new bride, in the Lantern Festival set up wine offering bed. [jiangxi province] xinjian county people in the Lantern Festival tomb sweeping bamboo for lights. Wanan County townships in the Lantern Festival rituals on the Yuan Shenzhou. [Hubei Province] Yunmeng County (now Jianghan), the old farmers in the Lantern Festival night with a torch in favor of the field, called "shine Jedi silkworms. The children welcome the gods with field drums to divine the year's events. In Wuchang, the "Dragon" is held for three days in a row. The men, women and children of the village follow the dragon lanterns to the neighboring villages for a banquet, called "dragon for wine". [Hunan Province] Changde Shangyuan families to pepper for the soup, adding leeks to watch the fruit of the guests, known as the "soup". Xintian County tour after the dragon lanterns, the dragon lanterns will be put to the torch, known as the "send disaster. [Sichuan Province] Sichuan Lantern Festival has a "four steal" custom: "a steal dumplings two steal green, three steal eaves light four steal red." In addition to stealing the green is to strengthen the body, the rest of the custom of seeking children. Kaixian County has the custom of "scolding". At the Lantern Festival, people carry benches to the outdoor, the usual grievances, all scolded out, the person who is scolded shall not be scolded back. [Fujian Province] Quanzhou lanterns are unique, there are incense lamps, paper folded lotus lamps, silk lanterns, eight knot lamps and so on. Shaowu County Lantern Festival night within the territory of the temple around the welcome incense, known as "net street". In southern Fujian, there are two villages on the Lantern Festival, children throw stones for each other as a custom of the play. It is said that if you do not throw the stone, the village must have a plague. [Guangdong Province] Xin'an County people in the last year to give birth to a man, are celebrated on the night of the Lantern Festival lights. Nanxiong lanterns, parents take the dragon lanterns on the dragon beard line to the child tie, said to protect children from disease. And take the dragon lanterns within the residual candle shine under the bed, it is said to be able to give birth to your son. Wenchang County, the people of the Lantern Festival night to steal the green, steal in order to be scolded as an auspicious omen, steal not in order not to be scolded as an auspicious omen. [Yunnan Province] Yunlong County in the Lantern Festival before the welcome three Chong God, along the street shed sacrifice. Mile State one day after the Lantern Festival burning incense in the bridge, throwing stones in the water, and then take the water to wash your eyes, it is said that you can go to the disease. (Taiwan Province) Taiwan Lantern Festival in the former Qing Dynasty, by Gao Gong Gan's "Taiwan Province Records" (1696) to get a rough impression: the Lantern Festival, the first ten put lights, more than fifteen nights is stopped, hanging lanterns outside the door. Don't have a free body line music and good song several generations for the team, the production of lamps such as flying cover shape, a person holding the lead roaming, silk and bamboo in order to miscellaneous music; so-called "haunted umbrella". There are more costumes Zhaojun, Brahma, Longma's genus, to the people have auspicious things for the song celebration of the song, Syriac slang, not the music; the master of more than thick for the reward. God's shrine, all Yan monks and Taoist set up Jiaojiao praying for peace; Jiao after, to welcome the gods. After welcoming, set up wine in the temple, the community set to drink; called "food supply". For a few days, the fireworks, fireworks and trees, in the band. There is also a kind of rich family, hold the rat cannon to angle the victory or defeat, Yan burn clothes and shoes, people also care and enjoy. This account, roughly similar to the festival customs and the Central Plains. But by the time Hu Jianwei repair "Penghu Chronicle" (1759), can be seen in Taiwan's local characteristics gradually formed: each temple lights, men and women outing, called watching the lights. Temple tied with flowers and figures, men and women who seek heirs, praying for cups in front of the god, and ask for a flower or "sub doll" a, home offerings, such as sleepy add a child to the next year when the Lantern Festival, another do fresh flowers, figures to reward Yan. This is the night of men and women traveling to steal objects as a good omen. Uncharacterized women, must steal others onions and vegetables. Proverbs: Steal onions, marry a good man; steal vegetables, marry a good son-in-law. An unmatched man steals an old stone from the wall of his house. Proverb: Steal the old stone, get a good woman. And the woman stole someone else to feed the pig basin, was cursed, then the omen of male birth, the anniversary of the auspicious clouds. Stealing customs on the night of the Lantern Festival, in Suzuki Kiyoichiro's "Taiwan's old habits of the crown wedding funeral festival in the year of action" (1934) are still the same customs. However, according to Suzuki, the stolen vegetables are not taken home, but must be left where they are. Women who want to have children steal bamboo hedges from people's houses as a good omen, because the word "bamboo hedge" harmonizes with the Taiwanese word for "child". Another New Year's Eve child-begging custom is to "pass through the lamps", and it is said that a woman who wants to beg for a child can expect to have a boy if she passes through the lamps. On the 15th day of the first month, there is also the custom of "listening to incense". The way to listen to the incense is to burn incense and toss an oracle in front of the god. After asking for instructions on the direction of travel, one eavesdrops on other people's conversations on the way and then throws an oracle in front of the god to divine the luck or misfortune of the year based on what one has heard. Sacrificing to Master Xuan Tan is also a custom unique to Taiwan's Lantern Festival. It is also known as "Xuan Tan Master" or "Han Shan Master". Legend has it that Zhao Gongming, a military official in the Shang Dynasty, became rich because he was good at financial management and was worshipped as the God of Wealth. The statue of Master Xuan Tan is tied to a bamboo pole and carried by four bare-chested men. It is said that Master Xuantan is afraid of the cold, so the people throw firecrackers to keep him away from the cold. It is believed that the more firecrackers are blown up, the more prosperous the year's fortune will be. Therefore, wherever the palanquin is, it often becomes the target of firecrackers, and the medium carrying the palanquin is also blown to pieces. Similar to the "Fried Xuan Tan Master" and the scale of the more grand, is famous for salt water bee cannon. It is said that in the early years of the Guangxu era, when the plague was rampant in the Yanshui area, the residents invited the God of Guan to go on a tour to expel the evil plague, and in order to help the God of Guan's momentum, firecrackers and fireworks were set off along the way, and it was not expected that the plague would really be eliminated here. From then on, every year when the God of Guan went on a parade, the local people would set off firecrackers to thank the God. If someone wants to return the wish to the God of Guan, will also prepare a huge cannon city, which is filled with tens of thousands of bee cannons. And so the palanquin to go in front of the immediate ignition, in an instant, tens of thousands of branches of the bee cannon such as 10,000 arrows, swoosh to the crowd shot, smoke filled, only to see sparks and cannons everywhere, the crowd screamed and avoided. It is this kind of bee cannons that people love and fear that attracts tens of thousands of people into Yanshui Town every year, making it a famous Lantern Festival activity in Southern Taiwan. As the saying goes, "Bee cannons in the south, sky lanterns in the north", there is a custom of releasing sky lanterns on the Lantern Festival in the Pingxi and Tenshi areas of Taipei County. Sky lanterns are also known as Kongming lanterns, which were invented by Zhu Geliang to serve as a credit. Another said that the appearance of the lantern and the portrait of Kong Ming's hat is very similar, thus the name. The sky lantern is to use the principle of rising heat to make the whole lantern float up to the sky. Though Pingxi and Tenshi are located in remote mountainous areas, the custom of releasing sky lanterns has attracted a large number of tourists in recent years after being reported by the media. Many temples in Taiwan also celebrate the Lantern Festival by holding "turtle begging" activities. The so-called "Begging Turtle" is a turtle made of glutinous rice or flour prepared by the temple authorities and placed in front of the temple. On the day of the Lantern Festival, believers can toss an oracle to beg for the turtle, so that their families can "eat peace". The family who begged for a turtle must return a bigger turtle to the temple next year at the Lantern Festival. So the turtle gets bigger and bigger every year, even weighing hundreds of pounds. As for those who begged for a turtle the year before and have not yet returned the wish this year, the temple will publish their names on the wall, as the saying goes, "the turtle climbs up the wall". The person in question often becomes the object of ridicule. In contrast to "begging for turtles," Hakka settlements have a custom of "racing to meet a new friend" on the Lantern Festival. This custom is prevalent in the Dongshi area of Taichung County. Every year during the Lantern Festival, the newcomers in the temple's corner head make a considerable amount of new ding cuai and give it to each family. In addition, a huge rice cake is made and placed in the square in front of the temple. The Hakka people in the Miaoli area don't eat the Lantern Festival, but instead make vegetable buns, which resemble a bamboo piggy bank, and are therefore also called "piggy bank meets". The method of making the buns is to use glutinous rice to make the buns' skins, and fill them with fillings such as shredded radish, scallions, mushrooms, shrimp, and stringy meat. After wrapping, a line is pinched on the surface and steamed. On the night of the Lantern Festival, children will also go to the nearby Bogong Temple in groups, carrying lanterns and a plate of piggy banks to "excise and not including chicken". When they arrived at the temple, they put up offerings and prayed with incense: "Uncle Uncle, today, the first half of the first month of the dark asr, we come to burn gold and honor you with piggy banks. I want to catch big castrated chickens and big pigs to feed you. The pig and the castrated chicken are very big, and we will honor you in the New Year". After burning the gold paper, you will climb up the tree of Pak Kung and break off a big branch, which is called "castrated chicken". Then they go to the ploughed field near the Bogong Temple and find a big piece of earth with a straw stalk attached to it to serve as a "big pig". Each family grabbed their own "castrated chicken" and "big pig" and went back along the same road in groups. Along the way, the one who caught the "castrated chicken" will learn the chicken "cluck, cluck, cluck", and the one who caught the big pig will call "not including food and drink, not including food and drink", and the other people will follow the call, and in this way, will take turns to call home, and then will call home. They take turns to call home, and then put the soil in the pigsty and the branches in the chicken coop, and that's the end of the process. This is called "excise not including chicken" and "excise not including pig". In addition, Hakka villages are also prevalent in the Shangyuan Festival "throwing cannon city" activities. Cannon City is in the square erected a height can be freely adjusted bamboo pole, the upper end of a square barrel, surrounded by drilled holes, built a small string of continuous cannon. Participants throw lit firecrackers at the Cannon City, and if the firecrackers in the barrel are ignited, they win and receive a prize from the organizer. In 1980, the Tourism Bureau of the Ministry of Transportation and Communications (MOTC) commissioned various county and city governments to organize various ethnic activities to coincide with the anniversary of the founding of the Republic of China (R.O.C.), and there were thousands of such activities in total. Some of the larger-scale events include the Taipei Lantern Festival at the CKS Memorial Hall, the Hakka Folk Culture Exhibition at Longtan Township in Taoyuan, the Folk Art Festival and Monument Tours at Lugang in Changhua, the Lantern Festival and Salt Water Bee Cannon at the Chiayi Park Park Zi Matching Heavenly Palace, and the Spring Cow Robbing at the Tucheng Mother of God Temple in Tainan. Many folkloric arts, ding-tao performances, and children's orchestras have also come out to show off their talents. It can be said to be a reproduction of the ancient "Hundred Opera Competition".