Lantern Festival Customs

If the Spring Festival is a lively and festive show, then the Lantern Festival is undoubtedly the grand finale of the show. In this lively and extraordinary day, there is the Song Dynasty Ouyang Xiu "moon on the willow tops, after dusk," the romantic feelings, but also the Tang Dynasty poet Su flavor "fire trees and silver flowers, star bridge iron locks open," the lively scene. Therefore, there are many customs passed down, the following I carefully organized five customs, take a look at it. "Taiyi God", "Ziji Tongjian" in the record: on the Yuan burning lamps, or cloud to the Han ancestral temple Taiyi from dusk to day story. Folk also believe that the Shangyuan Festival is a day of blessings from the heavenly officials, so the 15th day of the first month of the need to burn lamps dedicated to the heavenly officials praying for good fortune. In addition, according to folklore, the first and fifteenth are days of worship, need to "burn incense offerings" to pay tribute to ancestors, such as the Lantern Festival boiled first to honor the ancestors, burn incense and kowtow, pray for blessings, and then the family reunion, *** enjoy the family.

Customs 2: eating the Lantern Festival

The first fifteenth day of the first month to eat the Lantern Festival is an important folk custom, the Lantern Festival was first known as the "floating Yuanzi", in ancient times, "Yuan" means the first month of the year, and "Yuan" means the first month of the year, and "Yuan" means the first month of the year. In ancient times, "yuan" means the first month of the new year, and "yuan" and round resonance, that is, for the reunion, so eat the Lantern Festival is a good omen to eat into the stomach. People in the north like to eat "fried dumplings", and people in the south like to eat "boiled dumplings", no matter the dumplings or dumplings, are full of family reunion, family happiness and good meaning. The Lantern Festival, a beautiful day, a bowl of sweet and soft Lantern is essential.

Custom 3: Walking the bridge to touch the nails

In ancient times, the Lantern Festival on the day of the court will lift the curfew time. Usually in the way of etiquette, the door does not come out of the two doors of the women can also go out to see the lights to play. At this time, the women in the girl's room are all dressed up beautifully, wearing beads and emeralds, wearing colorful clothes, in groups of three or five hand-held lanterns, with a graceful step, strolling on the river bridge, which creates the opportunity to "meet" the man of your dreams. In the TV series "The Story of the Palace of Daming", Princess Taiping met her destiny Xue Shao on the Lantern Festival, which is the ancient "Valentine's Day".

For women who have not yet left the court on this day will "walk the bridge" to meet the man of their dreams, and married women will also go out to "walk the bridge". Their purpose is not to seek a spouse but to "seek a son", walk the bridge also pay attention to "touch the nail", "nail" through the "Ding", according to legend, touch the bridge to the "Ding". "

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Custom #4: Sending Children's Lanterns

The Lantern Festival is not only to enjoy the lanterns but also to send lanterns, because the pronunciation of "lantern" and "ding" is similar, so lanterns are often used in ancient times as a means of seeking children. In ancient times, lanterns were often used as a means of asking for children. "Send children lamps" is a special folk activity, that is, before the Lantern Festival, the bride's family will be colorful official lamps sent to the newly married daughter, some friends and relatives will also give lanterns to the newlyweds who have not yet given birth to the family, in order to express the good fortune, the early birth of a son of the good significance. If you are pregnant, the bride's family will also send a pair of small lanterns, in order to wish children, safe pregnancy, and each pair of lamps should be matched with a good candle, pay attention to send a pair of not send a single.

Custom Five: Social Fire

Social Fire comes from the agricultural era, where "She" is the god of the land, and "Fire" represents the god of fire, which was initially used to worship the god of agriculture. Rituals. In ancient times, working people would gather around the fire on the 15th day of the first month to worship the gods and pray for blessings in the form of singing and dancing, in the hope that the coming year would bring good weather and peace to the people.

With the development of society, "social fire" has now slowly become a kind of folk entertainment and carnival activities at the Lantern Festival, such as stilt walking, dragon and lion dances, and face painting, etc. In the northern part of the country, especially in the northern part of the country, when the Lantern Festival comes to an end, there are a lot of people who are not familiar with it. Especially in the northern region, to the annual Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month of the year, each village has a lively social fire performance, festive and joyful, but also means that the coming year everyone's days are red hot.

The Lantern Festival has a long history, in this grand traditional festival, all over the world will organize some celebrations, some folk traditions, although there is no scientific basis, but for these traditions and culture, people are more through this way, to express the festivities of the festival and good wishes, the hope for a better life, the Lantern Festival is here, I wish you all a reunion, happiness and peace.