How to celebrate the Lantern Festival in Lu'an City? What are the customs?

Liu'an Lantern Festival customs:

Liu'an area of the Lantern Festival, the public used to early but not late. Early in the morning that burn incense, light candles, firecrackers, eat Lantern Festival. Chinese food dishes, family reunion. In the evening, the lanterns are lighted all night long. The streets and villages play with lanterns and sing opera.

Lunar New Year's Day, there are "fried fleas" custom, that is, melon seeds, peanuts, corn in the pot stir-fried, said to make the home to maintain hygiene, the field crops do not have insect pests. Countryside teenagers often gather, will be dry broomstick lit and thrown into the air, said "put the torch", "play fireball".

There are often good people in the countryside, early in the morning of the Lantern Festival, to the nearby temples to grab "red". Red is a child born in the previous year, this year's Lantern Festival to the temple, to send a mother statue of the "red head".

Legend has it that the "red" on the delivery of the Queen Mother, sent to whose family, even if the long marriage infertile women, will have children. Every year on this day there will be groups of people, to the temple to grab "red".

Snatched the "red son", a group of people beat a gong and drums, sent to the hope of having a child's family. The hosts have to organize a banquet to entertain them. If you have a child later, but also in the second year of the Lantern Festival, buy a piece of red cloth to the temple to return the "red".

Other Lantern Festival customs around Lu'an City:

Jinzhai: Hundreds of lamps

Hundreds of lamps, which can best be described as Jinzhai people's sense of humor. On the night of the fifteenth day of the first month, some people in Jinzhai go to some lonely graves to light a lamp, these graves are often no offspring of the dead, or although there are offspring, but the offspring are too far away from the graves, there is no way to come to "on the lamp".

The intention of the people who go to the "lamp" is to console the dead underground: don't be too sorry, those of us who come to the "lamp" are your (the dead underground) descendants ah!

Huoqiu: steamed buns

Run a hundred diseases

This day, every household, red lanterns hanging high, also known as the "Festival of Lights", is the Spring Festival is another celebration of the climax. All over the world, hanging lanterns, dancing lions, rowing dry boats, picking flowers, playing flower drums, singing the big head and monk theater, lively and extraordinary.

Nanxiang Hongji, Yao Li area, every year on the 15th, there is a grand temple fair, and there is also a "grab red" custom. Xixiang Shidian area, farmers steamed steamed buns at noon, and "fight the wind", heralded the harvest, Yang field with the wind; evening dishes, fried peanuts, melon seeds after dinner.

The sixteenth day of the first month, is an auspicious day to visit friends and relatives, known as "run a hundred diseases". Women visit each other until the end of the first month.

Huoshan: Eating Tail Seat, Lion Dance and Dry Boat Dance

On the fifteenth day of the first month, the whole family gets together to eat Lantern Festival, in addition to eating Tail Seat, the thirty night to eat pig's head, fifteen night to eat pig's tail. Lantern Festival early firecrackers, burning incense and candles, the evening all-night light, lights everywhere, as the saying goes: "thirty night fire, fifteen night lights."

Some places also have the custom of sending lamps to the graves of their relatives. Larger market towns are to organize play lights. Lion and dragon dances and dry boat dances.

There is a local saying that "after the first half of the first month, everyone is looking for something to do". But this is just a theory, in fact, some of the facade three days of the year still do business (not open the door).

After the fifteenth New Year's Eve, there is still a constant stream of visitors, "with a sickle in hand to cut the wheat, and a New Year's Eve visitor in the house", as long as the first meeting in the first half of the year, it is still called New Year's Eve.

Shucheng: eat rice dumplings, back to his mother's home

Ti well water to eat rice dumplings, in this reunion day, the eldest son of the family to get up and carry the first bucket of water, meaning that when the door to the household, must be managed to eat and drink.

The dumplings and eggs boiled, eat can not say dumplings, to say Yuanbao; eating dumplings can not use scissors, but directly with the hand to unravel the twine; eggs are called golden eggs.

Pick up the girl back to her mother's home. According to local custom, married daughters are not allowed to go home for the New Year, but only on the fifteenth day of the month.

Eating soup dumplings and setting off fireworks. At night, when it gets dark, every lamp in the house should be lit, which is to let all kinds of "evil gods and ghosts" make way. Then we eat the dumplings, and according to custom, each person should eat 10 of them. At the time of eating dumplings, the beginning of firecrackers, fireworks.