Customs and habits of Lantern Festival

The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the biggest traditional folk festival after the Spring Festival-Lantern Festival. Lantern Festival has a long history, as early as two thousand years ago. During the reign of Emperor Wen of Han Dynasty, the fifteenth day of the first month was designated as the Lantern Festival. During the Lantern Festival, there are various folk festivals and customs. Do you think it's weird?

1, eat yuanxiao and tangyuan

Eating Yuanxiao and Tangyuan on Lantern Festival is a traditional dietary custom. Although Yuanxiao and Tangyuan are very different in practice and taste, they both mean "reunion and beauty" and have no difference in meaning. And in the way of eating, you can cook and fry. In the past, every household had to make their own Yuanxiao or Tangyuan. Nowadays, there are fewer and fewer handmade dumplings and dumplings, and there are many kinds of dumplings in supermarkets, so people have a lot of choices.

2. Flower viewing lamp

Lantern Festival is a traditional festival custom of Lantern Festival, which began in the Western Han Dynasty and flourished in Sui and Tang Dynasties. In ancient times, cities and villages were hung with lanterns and colorful decorations, which was unprecedented. Lantern Festival is an opportunity to make friends, and unmarried men and women can also find their other half by the way. In ancient times, lanterns were related to gods. Therefore, lanterns have also been given the symbolic meaning of exorcism and praying for Xu Guangming. To this day, it is still one of the customs to enjoy lanterns on the Lantern Festival.

3. Like the Lantern Festival, solve riddles on the lanterns in solve riddles on the lanterns is a traditional custom of the Lantern Festival. People hang lanterns on the Lantern Festival, and some people write riddles on small pieces of paper and stick them on lanterns for tourists to guess. This is quite in tune with the festive atmosphere, and there are many respondents. Therefore, solve riddles on the lanterns has become one of the indispensable customs of the Lantern Festival, and it is also a unique holiday entertainment activity in China.

4, fireworks "Dongfeng night flowers thousands of trees, but also blown down, stars like rain." This sentence by Xin Qiji is about the splendid fireworks of the Lantern Festival. Setting off fireworks is an ancient folk activity in China. Developed on the basis of gunpowder. At first, it was a pastime for nobles to compete for hegemony and luxury. In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, fireworks production technology made new progress and gradually became a holiday gift. Fireworks will be set off every Lantern Festival and other major events.

5. Dragon dancing, also known as playing with dragon lanterns and dragon dancing, has a history of more than 2,000 years. We in China have been advocating dragons since ancient times and regard them as auspicious symbols. In the eyes of the ancients, dragons have the ability to call the wind and call the rain, which is of great significance to the good weather, production and life, so the festival custom of dancing dragons in the Lantern Festival has gradually formed.

Lantern Festival is a national carnival, in which the whole people participate and enjoy themselves. Lantern Festival, lanterns, riddles, fireworks, these cultural elements, from ancient times to now, are the feelings and beauty that people can't give up. May our traditional culture last forever and be handed down from generation to generation.