Chinese Traditional Festival - Lantern Festival?

The Lantern Festival

Shengcha Zi - Yuanxi - Song Ouyang Xiu

Last year on New Year's Eve, the lights in the flower market were as bright as the daytime,

The moon was in the willow tresses, and people were about to meet after dusk.

This year, on New Year's Eve, the moon and the lanterns are still the same,

I don't see last year's people, and the sleeves of my spring shirt are wet with tears.

I. Lantern Festival

The fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar, also known as the Shangyuan Festival, is the first full-moon night of the year. More than two thousand years ago, Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty officially designated the 15th day of the first month as the Lantern Festival.

Traditional customs

1, eating Lantern Festival

Formed in the Song Dynasty in the poem "Lantern Festival Cooking Floating Round Zi": "The stars are in the dark clouds, and the beads are floating in the turbid water".

2, Lantern Festival

began in the Western Han Dynasty "Ziji Tongjian" recorded that every night on the fifteenth day of the first month of the year, people of both sexes, regardless of noble and lowly, go to the street to revel in the sound of drums, the fire illuminated the earth as day. Therefore, the Lantern Festival is also called the "Festival of Lights".

3, rowing dry boat

First seen in the Han Dynasty, according to legend, the Queen Mother's birthday, the gods and goddesses together with a dry boat to celebrate her birthday, Zhang Guolao will be the boat borrowed down to the mortal world, with a dry boat to the new year, the human world since then, the wind and the rain, year after year of good harvests, there is a rowing dry boat custom.

4, dragon and lion dance

Prevalent in the Tang Dynasty, the dragon is the symbol of the Chinese nation, legend has it that the dragon can move the clouds and rain, disaster relief, since ancient times is the representative of good luck; the lion is also considered by our ancestors as auspicious beasts, which is with the Buddhism from the exotic regions of China.

5, walk a hundred diseases

Prevalent in the Ming and Qing dynasties, ancient women seeking blessings to avoid disasters, a folk activity, the 15th of the first lunar month, women meet to go out to walk, one of them holding incense in front of the walk, people feel that this can be a strong and healthy, known as the "walk a hundred diseases".