Tiantai people celebrate Lantern Festival on the 14th day of the first month. How much do you know about ancient customs?

According to the custom of Tiantai people, today is the Lantern Festival.

The traditional customs of Lantern Festival include: going out to enjoy the moon, lighting lanterns and setting off fireworks, enjoying riddles, eating Yuanxiao, pulling rabbit lanterns and so on. In addition, in many places, traditional folk performances, such as playing dragon lanterns, playing lions, walking on stilts, boating, yangko dancing and playing Taiping drums, have all joined the Lantern Festival.

Eating Yuanxiao, also called eating jiaozi, is a very delicious food, with different ingredients and tastes, but its meaning is the same no matter where it is, and the meaning of jiaozi is "reunion", so the whole family is round and round, so no matter how busy, no matter where it is, we must eat Yuanxiao.

Watching lanterns is a traditional festival custom of Lantern Festival. In ancient times, cities and villages were decorated with lanterns everywhere, which was unprecedented. At that time, both the royal family and the common people could break away from convention and have fun. Lantern Festival lanterns are just an opportunity to make friends. Unmarried men and women can also find someone for themselves.