The customs of Lantern Festival are

The customs of Lantern Festival include eating Yuanxiao, lanterns, solve riddles on the lanterns, lion dancing, boating and giving children lanterns. Let's have a look.

The custom of the lantern festival

1, eat Yuanxiao

Eating Yuanxiao on the fifteenth day of the first month, as a kind of food, has a long history in China. In the Song Dynasty, a novel Lantern Festival food was popular among the people. This kind of food was originally called "Floating Zi Yuan", later called "Yuanxiao", and merchants also called it "Yuanbao". Yuanxiao, or "Tangyuan", contains sugar, roses, sesame seeds, red bean paste, cinnamon bark, walnut kernel, nuts, jujube paste and so on. And wrapped in glutinous rice flour into a circle, you can be vegetarian and have different flavors. It can be boiled, fried and steamed, which means happy reunion.

2. lanterns

Lantern Festival is a traditional festival custom, which began in the Western Han Dynasty and flourished in Sui and Tang Dynasties. After the Sui and Tang Dynasties, lantern style prevailed in all previous dynasties and spread to future generations. The fifteenth day of the first month is the climax of the annual lantern fireworks. It means a bright future. Therefore, the Lantern Festival is also called "Lantern Festival". In the streets and alleys, red lanterns are hung high, including palace lanterns, animal lanterns, lanterns, lanterns, bird lanterns and so on, attracting people who watch the lanterns.

Step 3 solve the riddle on the lantern

On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, traditional folks hang lanterns and set off fireworks. Later, some busybodies wrote riddles on paper and posted them on colorful lanterns for people to guess. Because solve riddles on the lanterns can enlighten wisdom and cater to the festive atmosphere, many people responded. Later, solve riddles on the lanterns gradually became an indispensable program for the Lantern Festival. Lantern riddles add to the festive atmosphere, showing the intelligence and wisdom of ancient working people and their yearning for a better life.

4, lion dance

Lion dance is an excellent folk art in China. Whenever the Lantern Festival or the celebration of the General Assembly, people always come to the lion dance to entertain. This custom originated in the Three Kingdoms period and was popular in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, with a history of 1000 years. According to legend, it was first introduced from the western regions, and the lion was the mount of Manjusri Bodhisattva. As Buddhism was introduced into China, lion dance was also introduced into China. Lion dance in Lantern Festival symbolizes auspiciousness, thus placing people's good wishes for eliminating disasters and seeking good luck in lion dance activities.

Step 5 row a dry boat

Rowing a dry boat is said to commemorate Dayu's meritorious service in water control. Dry boat is not a real boat. It is made of two thin plates covered with colored cloth. People sit in the middle like sitting on a boat, then paddle hand in hand, dance while rowing and sing. Another man dressed as a boatman laughed at the audience with various antics. This is also a popular activity in many areas during the New Year in China.

6. Send a children's lamp

Short for "sending lanterns", it is also called "sending lanterns", that is, before the Lantern Festival, the bride's family sends lanterns to the newly married daughter's house, or ordinary relatives and friends give them to the newly married infertile family to add auspiciousness, because "lamp" is homophonic with "Ding". This custom exists in many places. During the eighth to fifteenth day of the first month, send lanterns, a pair of palace lanterns and a pair of painted glass lanterns in the first year, hoping that my daughter will be lucky after marriage and have a baby early; If the daughter is pregnant, in addition to the big palace lantern, she should also send one or two small lanterns to wish her a safe pregnancy.

Nowadays, with the development of the times, today's Lantern Festival is moving from family to society. No matter how the Lantern Festival, lanterns and fireworks change, the ancient traditional customs that the Lantern Festival continues remain unchanged. These elements of traditional culture are always the feelings that people keep giving up.