Do you want to worship your ancestors during the Lantern Festival?

Lantern Festival is to worship ancestors.

On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Shangyuan Festival, according to the custom, people make sacrifices at home or in ancestral halls, burn incense and kowtow, and pray for blessing. Therefore, "Shangyuan Festival" is an important festival to worship ghosts and gods.

Eating Lantern Festival may have started in the Song Dynasty, but it was called "floating Zi Yuan" at that time, and it was renamed "Yuanxiao" in the Ming Dynasty. Every family makes and cooks Yuanxiao. In ancient times, this was a good omen for the first year. Eating glutinous rice balls symbolizes family happiness. After the Lantern Festival is done, you should respect your ancestors first, and then have your family. Eating means happiness and beauty.

Introduction of Lantern Festival:

Lantern Festival is one of the traditional festivals in China, Chinese character cultural circle and overseas Chinese. Lantern Festival mainly includes a series of traditional folk activities, such as watching lanterns, eating glutinous rice balls, solve riddles on the lanterns and setting off fireworks.

In addition, traditional folk performances such as Youlong lanterns, lion dancing, walking on stilts, boating, yangko and playing Taiping drums have been added to the Lantern Festival in many places. In June 2008, the Lantern Festival was selected as the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage.